Post by khaos on Jul 1, 2011 17:36:06 GMT -4
The scene opens inside of a plush two hundred and fifty dollar and hour psychologist’s office in downtown Toronto. The man known as Khaos is cockily sprawled out on a leather chase dressed in carpenter style jean shorts, combat boots and a Winter Classic Detroit Redwings sweater. Across from sits a well groomed middle-aged Asian man in a five thousand dollar suit and no nonsense look on his face.
Doctor: Mr. Coolidge my name is Dr. Yang…
Khaos: Please call me Khaos.
Doctor: I prefer Mr. Coolidge; I mean that is your name correct?
Khaos: That is the name on my birth certificate, but I prefer Khaos.
Doctor: Why do you prefer a stage name like Khaos over your given name?
Khaos: The name Christian James Coolidge was given to me by a man I never met and a women that caused me nothing but pain. Khaos is the name that I have given myself, which means all the good and all the bad that comes with it is because of things that I’ve done.
Doctor: I see
The doctor jots down some quick notes.
Doctor: Do you know why you’re here Mr. Khaos?
Khaos: Not really, and please just Khaos.
Doctor: Alright, Khaos the APW management would like us to talk for a little while because they are worried about you. You have been dealing with a lot the past several weeks and there are some concerns for your well being.
The heavyweight grappler sits up quickly causing the doctor to flinch.
Khaos: Don’t worry Doc I’m not going to hurt you as long as you cut the crap. I am here because of what I did to Johnny Rebel last Thursday night and probably what I did to Biggs six weeks before that. President Jeff and his clowns aren’t concerned about my well being, they’re concerned about the well being of all their precious Mega Stars.
Doctor: Well if they’re concerned about the well being of all of their precious Mega Stars, doesn’t that mean they’re concerned about you as well?
Khaos: Doc do yourself a favor and don’t try and play mind games with a sociopath, because you’ll find that when you think you’re playing Monopoly you’re really playing Risk.
Doctor: Should I take that as some kind of threat?
Khaos: No you should take that as fair warning that I’m fucked up and inside of my brain is a pretty scary place to be.
Doctor: Mr. Khaos trust me I spent many years working with the criminally insane before going into private practice. So I seriously doubt that the inside of your head is any more frightening than the inside of any of those poor people.
Khaos: Suit yourself Doc.
Khaos lies back on the couch placing his hands behind his head. He stares at the ceiling and actually looks calm.
Doctor: So you believe that APW management is more concerned about the well being of others than they are your well being?
Khaos: I don’t think they give a damn about any of our well beings. If they really cared they would offer us real health insurance and a few more days off. I mean I had to fly back and forth to the states three times while we were touring Australia. That’s a seventeen hour flight each way and I had matches to work on both ends.
Doctor: That sounds like a pretty rough schedule, but if President Jeff didn’t care about your well being why would he ask me to meet with you today?
Khaos: Well it’s probably one of two things. He either is afraid of losing money because I keep putting some of his better wrestlers on the shelf or he’s afraid I’m going to go psycho and kill my whole family like that one guy a couple of years ago. Anyway you look at it both of those are real damn bad for business.
Doctor: So you think that APW only cares about you because you can make them money?
Khaos: Exactly.
Doctor: Don’t you think that’s a little paranoid.
The big man once again sits up and looks into the eyes of the doctor.
Khaos: No paranoid is thinking that the government is using spy satellites to watch my every move. Knowing that all APW management cares about is making money is just a part of my life, but hell everyone I ever thought gave a damn about me was just using me for something.
Doctor: Is that why you broke up with your girlfriend?
Khaos: No, I left Delores because she was cheated on me repeatedly with god only knows how many people. She even went as far as to have an abortion and lie to me about being pregnant because she claimed that the baby wasn’t mine.
Doctor: Do you think it was your baby?
Khaos: How the hell am I supposed to know? I would have taken the bitch on Maury but she already aborted the little bastard.
Doctor: So how was…what was her name?
Khaos: Delores.
Doctor: Yes, Delores. How was Delores using you?
Khaos: Early on I think she was just trying to thank me for the whole Philadelphia Phreddy thing, but in the end I think she stuck around for the money.
Doctor: So you think she was thanking you for killing a man?
Khaos: No she was thanking me for saving her from a two bit pimp that wanted her to be his bottom bitch.
Doctor: I think I understand. So what was Gary Kowolski using for before he passed?
Red faced in anger Khaos reaches out and grabs the Doctor by his tie and begins to choke him.
Khaos: WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT?
The Natural Born Killer relaxes his grip on the blue faced doctors tie to allow him to speak.
Doctor: You said that everyone in your life uses you. I figured that Gary couldn’t have been any different
Khaos sits back once again visibly relaxed.
Khaos: I see what you’re trying to do Doc, very clever. Gary was different; he was just a sweet old guy that forgot more about wrestling than most people will ever know. The only thing he wanted from me was to watch me succeed.
Doctor: So even though Gary never wanted anything from you but to see you succeed you don’t think it’s possible that someone else might want the same thing.
Khaos: I said I see what you’re doing Doc, but I guess it’s possible. What is not possible is a member of APW management wants anything other than me making them money.
Doctor: Why is that?
Khaos: One of the very first things the old timers will teach you about the wrestling business is never trust the promoter.
Doctor: That would be President Jeff?
Khaos: Yeah that would be Jeff. You see promoters are only really concerned with making money. If you’re making money for them they are going to be lovey dovey but as soon as you get hurt or stop drawing they’re going to put you out to pasture.
Doctor: That’s a pretty negative outlook on your boss isn’t it?
Khaos: I guess it’s negative, but professional wrestling is a lot different than damn near any other business.
Doctor: I am starting to see that. I want to ask you about something else now.
Khaos: Shoot.
Doctor: Why did you attack Johnny Rebel?
Khaos: Well here we go.
Doctor: What?
Khaos: Here you go trying to psychoanalyze me to figure out whether or not I’m going to hurt another one of President Jeff’s precious commodities.
Doctor: No Khaos we are going to talk about what happened and why it happened, so you don’t end up hurting yourself. So why did you attack Johnny Rebel last Thursday night?
Khaos: I attacked that piece of trash because he attacked me the week before.
Doctor: I didn’t know about him attacking you.
Khaos: Yeah he comes out on stage with a cardboard cut out of my ex and starts talking shit about and me, making light of my past and shit like that.
Doctor: So he verbally attacked you and you felt the need to physically attack him?
Khaos: You know that old saying about sticks and stone?
Doctor: Of course.
Khaos: Well its bullshit. Words can hurt, but sticks and stones tend to hurt a little bit more. When someone hurts me I think its good practice to hurt them worse so they’ll think really hard about hurting you again.
Doctor: That’s an interesting view of things. Did you learn that in prison?
Khaos: No I learned that one way back in the trailer park days. I was probably about six and my cousin John lived down the street and he used to pick on me a lot. He liked to “wrestle” with me and I always ended up bruised and crying. One day I finally got sick of it and reared back and kicked him as hard as I possibly could in the balls. It dropped him like a bad habit and his poor little jewels swelled up like a watermelon for a week, but he never fucked with me again.
Doctor: So it’s safe to say that violence came to you naturally at a pretty young age?
Khaos: Violence didn’t come to me naturally but I was around it from a very young age. When most people think of Decatur, Illinois they think of corn and small town living, but my Decatur was a much darker place. I grew up in a shithole trailer park; My mom was pretty heavy into drugs until finally DCFS took me away from her when I was like ten. I still can still all of the asshole “boyfriends” she had parading in and out of her bedroom. I remember the ones that used to beat the shit out of her and I remember that sick feeling seeing it used to give me in my stomach.
Doctor: What was the feeling like?
Khaos: It was like somebody lit a fire in my gut. I felt angry, angrier than I have ever felt. It was the same feeling that I felt the night I ended up in juvi and it was the same feeling I felt the night that lead to me going to prison.
Doctor: So you were locked up before your last time in prison?
Khaos: I’ve been locked up a few times for drunk and disorderly and the like, but yeah I spent the better part of six years in juvi or mental institutions when I was a kid and then six more years in prison as an adult.
Doctor: Why where you locked up as a kid.
Khaos: This bully named Curtis Waynewright tried to steal my bike and just like with my cousin when I was eight I was sick and tired of taking his shit, so I snapped. I beat him so badly that he was in coma for three weeks and he still talks with a lisp. I was locked up for it and they didn’t allow me out until my eighteenth birthday because I showed no remorse for the beating.
Doctor: Are you sorry for what you did?
Khaos: I’m sorry that when I’m sitting around with a bunch of people telling stories about their high school years all I have is tales of padded cells, but I’m not sorry for beating Curtis. He was nothing but a bully and deserved everything that I gave him and probably more.
Doctor: How about Frederick Kohl, are you sorry for what you did to him?
Khaos: I’m sorry for what I put his mother through, but I couldn’t give two shits about a piece of garbage like Philadelphia Phreddy. That loser was just like the garbage boyfriends that used to beat my mom and kept her hooked on drugs. The world is a million times better without him.
Doctor: Do you regret anything you’ve done in your life?
Khaos: Sure I have regrets.
Doctor: Like what?
Khaos: I regret not figuring out Delores’ bullshit sooner. I regret that Gary died before getting a chance to see me with APW gold around my waist. I regret that I didn’t beat Biggs back at Mayhem.
Doctor: So you regret things like losing a wrestling match, but you don’t regret beating a man to death with your bare hands.
Khaos: Trust me doc there is nothing trivial about losing a wrestling match when you’re in the wrestling business. Not only that the life I took wasn’t worth the air that it was breathing. Philadelphia Phreddy was a two bit drug dealing pimp. Now if I had a few too many to drink one night and killed a van full of orphans I might have some regret, but not for killing a pimp.
Doctor: You don’t think the life of a pimp is worth living?
Khaos: Not that pimp.
Doctor: Did you know that Malcolm X was a pimp before becoming one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.
Khaos: I bet he wasn’t a rapist.
Doctor: Frederick Kohl was a pimp, but I didn’t see anything in the case file about him being a rapist.
Khaos: That’s because I never told anyone.
Doctor: You sure you aren’t just making it up to make yourself feel better.
Khaos: I’m sure. I promised Delores that I would never mention it to anyone because she was so embarrassed. She testified at my trial that he has assaulted her but she didn’t mention the rape.
Doctor: Don’t you think that might have helped you case and kept you out of prison.
Khaos: I didn’t care.
Doctor: So the psychopath has a heart.
Khaos: I’m a sociopath.
Doctor: Oh my mistake. To be honest Mr. Khaos I am not sure that you’re a psycho or sociopath. I think you are a guy that has spent his entire life locked inside of one cage or another. That has made you prone to violent outbursts when pushed much like an animal. No one has ever taken the time to teach you the filters that society instills in us all, which isn’t surprising given the number of years you’ve spent locked up.
Khaos: So is that what’s wrong with me Doc?
Doctor: I’m not sure there is anything truly wrong with you. That’s why I’m clearing you to compete at Test For The Best.
]Khaos stands and extends his hand.
Khaos: Thanks Doc. I won’t disappoint you.
Doctor: Please sit back down, I’m not finished.
He sits back down on the leather chaise pouting.
Doctor: In exchange for your clearance I will require you to attend weekly counseling appointments can you agree to those terms?
Khaos: I don’t have much of a choice do I?
Doctor: You don’t have any choice and since APW has already prepaid for two hours of my service we’ll go ahead and start today.
Khaos: I can hardly contain my enthusiasm.
Doctor: That makes two of us.
Khaos: Where shall we start?
Doctor: I think I want to know more about your violent nature. Do you think it’s alright to hurt people just to be hurting them?
Khaos: Hell no. I have never hurt a person that didn’t have it coming for some reason or another.
Doctor: What about when you broke Biggs’ arm?
Khaos: That was an accident, but it turned out that he probably deserved it. Biggs is an egomaniac and kind of a douche bag. I would probably snap his arm again if he was standing right here with us.
Doctor: Don’t you think that’s a little bit anti-social.
Khaos: Well now here is where you and I will probably have some disagreements Doc. You see you and I have a different frame of reference on this subject because we come from very different societies. Your society is the one taught in private schools and the top universities where manners matter, while my society is that of prison and professional wrestling. In your society breaking someone’s arm is frowned upon heavily, while in my world it’s a part of survival. Trust me if Biggs was in this room with us he would probably be trying to break my arm or leg just like I was trying to break his.
Doctor: You live in a very strange world Mr. Khaos.
Khaos: Yeah I think we’ve established that.
Doctor: I hate to beat a dead horse, but if you only attack people that deserve it why did you attack Johnny Rebel.
Khaos: I told you I attacked him because he attacked me first.
Doctor: I think that’s bullshit.
Khaos: Fine I attacked him because he made fun of the time I spent in prison. I just wanted to show him what it’s really like to be in prison. He should be happy that I stopped after cutting him, because if we were inside I would have taken his man cherry.
Doctor: Taken his man cherry? You mean you would have raped him?
Khaos: Sex isn’t always about sex in prison Doc. Sometimes it’s about it’s all about showing who is dominant.
Doctor: That’s really disturbing.
Khaos: That is life behind bars Doc. You said that you spent time working with the criminally insane you should know this shit.
Doctor: The hospital environment is much different than prisons.
Khaos: Well prison is a pretty fucked up place Doc. It has a way of making you more of an animal than a man. That is why I like to say that I am nature’s perfect predator, but really that’s the case with all men. The only difference between me and your normal guy on the street is I guess I don’t have the programming society gives people. I’m not afraid to finish the job and choke the life out of someone if he fucks with me and mine.
Doctor: You honestly believe that?
Khaos: Doc it doesn’t matter if I believe it. It only matters if everyone else believes it and I think my record does a good job of backing it up.
Doctor: Do you realize how full of shit you sound right now? You are sitting over there spouting off catch phrases like your giving some sort of interview. That isn’t going to fly in here with me so you might as well cut the crap now or I’ll call Jeff and tell him that you aren’t mentally fit to wrestle. Do you understand?
Khaos: Yeah I understand.
Doctor: Good. Now do you honestly believe that you are more capable of killing another man that your typical human being?
Khaos: Hell yes I believe it and I’ve proved it time and again. I beat a kid until he was in a comma for taking my bike when I was twelve. I killed a mother fucker with my bare hands for raping a girl that I liked. I spent six months in the prison infirmary when my cellmate damn near shanked me in the kidney, but I made damn sure that that son of bitch was in the bed beside me.
Doctor: So the real reason you attacked Johnny Rebel is that he questioned your street cred?
Khaos: Something like that.
Doctor: Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?
Khaos: What is so ridiculous about hurting someone that hurts you? People do it all the damn time.
Doctor: Yes people do things like that all of the time, but it usually involves spitting in someone’s food or keying someone’s car. Rarely does getting revenge work as an excuse to carve up someone’s forehead like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Khaos: Doc in my world if someone calls you a bitch you better be prepared to prove that you ain’t a bitch.
Doctor: Don’t take this the wrong way but choking out a guy and slicing him open with a screwdriver is sort of a bitch move.
Khaos: Bringing out a cardboard cutout of my ex-girlfriend and airing my dirty laundry all over cable TV isn’t a bitch move?
Doctor: Maybe it is, but why do you have to be a bitch right back? Why don’t you just kick his ass in the middle of the ring like a man?
Khaos: Doc when someone comes at you hard you have to go back at them even harder.
Doctor: That sounds like a cop out to me. What’s the real reason you didn’t just beat him one on one in the center of the ring, like a man.
Khaos begins to rock back and forth uncomfortably.
Khaos: Why should I play fair when he isn’t going to play fair?
Doctor: That’s just another cop out Khaos. Why aren’t you just going to allow your wrestling to do the talking? Why aren’t you going to beat his ass in the middle of the ring in front of a few thousand people fair and square? Tell me the real reason Khaos. Come on tell me.
Khaos: BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN!!!!!!!!!
Tears begin to flow down the big mans face.
Khaos: There I said it are you happy? Ever since Gary passed I’m so unsure of myself. I sit down to think about strategy for a match and I just start to cry. I miss him so much and I’m not sure what to do now that he’s gone. I hired a new manager thinking that he would be able to help me out, but all he cares about is helping me make more and more money. I don’t give a fuck about money; I just want my friend back.
Dr. Yang hands his patient a tissue.
Doctor: Do you feel better now that you’ve said it?
Khaos: A little bit.
Natures Perfect Predator blows his nose and wipes away the tears.
Doctor: Khaos you do not have to go through this world alone. You are going to be miserable until you find some friends that you can confide in once in a while. However until you take the time to make some friends I want you to know that I’m here for you.
Khaos: Great I’m so fucked up that I have to pay for friends.
Doctor: A lot of people think that the fact I’m being paid makes me more trustworthy.
Khaos: Maybe, but that doesn’t make me any less pitiful.
Doctor: You’re not pitiful Khaos. I enjoy my little talks with my patients and to be completely honest I wouldn’t even charge for these appointments if I didn’t have to pay my ex-wife alimony.
Khaos: Don’t bullshit a bullshitter Doc. I can tell by your fancy ass office, expensive clothes and BMW in the parking garage that you like the money.
Doctor: Actually I drive a Mercedes.
Khaos: Well that makes all the difference in the world doesn’t it?
Doctor: Sure it does. My Mercedes cost more than a BMW would.
The two men share a quick laugh.
Doctor: You know I think I like you Khaos.
Khaos: I kind of like you too Doc.
Doctor: Well I’m glad that’s settled, but I need to make one thing clear to you if I’m going to keep seeing you.
Khaos: What’s that?
Doctor: If you ever lay a hand on me again I will have your ass thrown back into prison so fast your head will spin.
Khaos: I’m cool with that.
Doctor: I hope so because I’m not fucking around. Make an appointment for next week with my secretary on the way out and good luck at Test For The Best.
Khaos: Thanks Doc.
Khaos stands and offers the Doctor his hand. The two men shake and the big walks out the door. He stops and has a quick chat with the cute brunette receptionist making an appointment for the next Tuesday. Walking out of the small office and into the corridor he is greated by his partner in crime Cameraman Dan with a handheld aimed in his direction.
Dan: So how did it go?
Khaos: I still get to wrestle at Test For The Best, so I guess it went ok.
Dan: How many times did he ask you how you do you feel?
Khaos: I don’t know I wasn’t counting. Do you have that thing ready?
Dan: Yeah it’s ready.
Khaos: Then turn it on.
Dan: Action!
Khaos: Johnny Rebel I am going to apologize to you now, because I am going to be in a bad mood come Test For The Best. You see when I sliced open your face last week at Overdrive it was nothing personal, the way that a father spanking his son is nothing personal. I was teaching you a lesson in manners the way that they are taught to you in prison, well without the rape. Now that you know at least a few manners we can get back to the business at hand.
When you and I first met a few weeks ago I will openly admit that your little act through me off my game and you think it makes me weak. I think that that just shows what a sad son of a bitch you really are, and that just makes kicking your ass so much easier. You walk through life thinking you are better than everyone else and maybe for your first couple of months in APW you were better than everyone you faced. Hell I will admit that for one night you were even better than me, but Gary used to like to say that the sun shines on every dog’s ass one day. Well in this case it was shining on a horse’s ass, but the principal still holds true.
Johnny you are an egomaniacal piece of garbage and it was a fucking joy cutting you open. Just thinking about watching you bleed gets my juices flowing. Knowing that when I had my arm wrapped around your scrawny little neck that I could have ended you right there and then, well let’s just say it gets me through my days. Hell I’ll even go as far as saying that watching them wheel your ass out of the arena on a stretcher makes the hours I have to spend is a shrink’s office well worth it. I guess what I am trying to say is given the opportunity I would choke you out and cut you open again and again and again. Does that make me such a bad guy? Of course it does and frankly I don’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut, because I am the Natural Born Killer.
I guess this brings me to my great reveal. The thing that I figured out sitting on a fancy couch with Dr. Yang asking my stupid fucking questions, Johnny Rebel I don’t know if I can beat you fair and square inside of the ring. I will happily admit that at this point in our careers you are the better professional wrestler. You have nearly twenty years experience compared to my just nine months. You have held titles with every company you have ever worked for before now and this is my first major company. I hate to say it but you are a legend in this business and I’m just a low life ex-con trying to make a name for himself. No one in the locker room, on the internet or watching at home believes I can beat you in a wrestling match. I wager that if you asked the odds makers out in Vegas they would probably have you as at least a 10-1 favorite. Wow I am really starting to wonder if I should even show up to Test For The Best. I mean it is obvious I am just going to get embarrassed in the first round. Maybe I should go online and post a rumor that I’m not going to show up for the pay per view or any other show until APW books me against talent I can actually beat in a wrestling match.
Fuck that! Johnny Rebel you might be the better wrestler in our match, but I’m not coming all the way to Nova Scotia to lose. I have a real simple game plan that is going to take me all the way to a title shot. I am not planning to wrestle a single match against you or anyone else. No I am planning on arriving in Halifax to fight and I don’t think there is a single person on Overdrive or Asylum that can beat me in a fight. I may not be able to beat you fair and square in the center of the ring Johnny but I will bite, scratch, eye gouge, low blow and use my little screwdriver friend until you have no choice but to lay down to die. We may have all grown up being told that it doesn’t matter if you win or lose its how you play the game, but in my world you either win or kill someone trying.
Make sure your life insurance is paid up Johnny and I’ll see you in Halifax.
The scene fades to black.
Doctor: Mr. Coolidge my name is Dr. Yang…
Khaos: Please call me Khaos.
Doctor: I prefer Mr. Coolidge; I mean that is your name correct?
Khaos: That is the name on my birth certificate, but I prefer Khaos.
Doctor: Why do you prefer a stage name like Khaos over your given name?
Khaos: The name Christian James Coolidge was given to me by a man I never met and a women that caused me nothing but pain. Khaos is the name that I have given myself, which means all the good and all the bad that comes with it is because of things that I’ve done.
Doctor: I see
The doctor jots down some quick notes.
Doctor: Do you know why you’re here Mr. Khaos?
Khaos: Not really, and please just Khaos.
Doctor: Alright, Khaos the APW management would like us to talk for a little while because they are worried about you. You have been dealing with a lot the past several weeks and there are some concerns for your well being.
The heavyweight grappler sits up quickly causing the doctor to flinch.
Khaos: Don’t worry Doc I’m not going to hurt you as long as you cut the crap. I am here because of what I did to Johnny Rebel last Thursday night and probably what I did to Biggs six weeks before that. President Jeff and his clowns aren’t concerned about my well being, they’re concerned about the well being of all their precious Mega Stars.
Doctor: Well if they’re concerned about the well being of all of their precious Mega Stars, doesn’t that mean they’re concerned about you as well?
Khaos: Doc do yourself a favor and don’t try and play mind games with a sociopath, because you’ll find that when you think you’re playing Monopoly you’re really playing Risk.
Doctor: Should I take that as some kind of threat?
Khaos: No you should take that as fair warning that I’m fucked up and inside of my brain is a pretty scary place to be.
Doctor: Mr. Khaos trust me I spent many years working with the criminally insane before going into private practice. So I seriously doubt that the inside of your head is any more frightening than the inside of any of those poor people.
Khaos: Suit yourself Doc.
Khaos lies back on the couch placing his hands behind his head. He stares at the ceiling and actually looks calm.
Doctor: So you believe that APW management is more concerned about the well being of others than they are your well being?
Khaos: I don’t think they give a damn about any of our well beings. If they really cared they would offer us real health insurance and a few more days off. I mean I had to fly back and forth to the states three times while we were touring Australia. That’s a seventeen hour flight each way and I had matches to work on both ends.
Doctor: That sounds like a pretty rough schedule, but if President Jeff didn’t care about your well being why would he ask me to meet with you today?
Khaos: Well it’s probably one of two things. He either is afraid of losing money because I keep putting some of his better wrestlers on the shelf or he’s afraid I’m going to go psycho and kill my whole family like that one guy a couple of years ago. Anyway you look at it both of those are real damn bad for business.
Doctor: So you think that APW only cares about you because you can make them money?
Khaos: Exactly.
Doctor: Don’t you think that’s a little paranoid.
The big man once again sits up and looks into the eyes of the doctor.
Khaos: No paranoid is thinking that the government is using spy satellites to watch my every move. Knowing that all APW management cares about is making money is just a part of my life, but hell everyone I ever thought gave a damn about me was just using me for something.
Doctor: Is that why you broke up with your girlfriend?
Khaos: No, I left Delores because she was cheated on me repeatedly with god only knows how many people. She even went as far as to have an abortion and lie to me about being pregnant because she claimed that the baby wasn’t mine.
Doctor: Do you think it was your baby?
Khaos: How the hell am I supposed to know? I would have taken the bitch on Maury but she already aborted the little bastard.
Doctor: So how was…what was her name?
Khaos: Delores.
Doctor: Yes, Delores. How was Delores using you?
Khaos: Early on I think she was just trying to thank me for the whole Philadelphia Phreddy thing, but in the end I think she stuck around for the money.
Doctor: So you think she was thanking you for killing a man?
Khaos: No she was thanking me for saving her from a two bit pimp that wanted her to be his bottom bitch.
Doctor: I think I understand. So what was Gary Kowolski using for before he passed?
Red faced in anger Khaos reaches out and grabs the Doctor by his tie and begins to choke him.
Khaos: WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT?
The Natural Born Killer relaxes his grip on the blue faced doctors tie to allow him to speak.
Doctor: You said that everyone in your life uses you. I figured that Gary couldn’t have been any different
Khaos sits back once again visibly relaxed.
Khaos: I see what you’re trying to do Doc, very clever. Gary was different; he was just a sweet old guy that forgot more about wrestling than most people will ever know. The only thing he wanted from me was to watch me succeed.
Doctor: So even though Gary never wanted anything from you but to see you succeed you don’t think it’s possible that someone else might want the same thing.
Khaos: I said I see what you’re doing Doc, but I guess it’s possible. What is not possible is a member of APW management wants anything other than me making them money.
Doctor: Why is that?
Khaos: One of the very first things the old timers will teach you about the wrestling business is never trust the promoter.
Doctor: That would be President Jeff?
Khaos: Yeah that would be Jeff. You see promoters are only really concerned with making money. If you’re making money for them they are going to be lovey dovey but as soon as you get hurt or stop drawing they’re going to put you out to pasture.
Doctor: That’s a pretty negative outlook on your boss isn’t it?
Khaos: I guess it’s negative, but professional wrestling is a lot different than damn near any other business.
Doctor: I am starting to see that. I want to ask you about something else now.
Khaos: Shoot.
Doctor: Why did you attack Johnny Rebel?
Khaos: Well here we go.
Doctor: What?
Khaos: Here you go trying to psychoanalyze me to figure out whether or not I’m going to hurt another one of President Jeff’s precious commodities.
Doctor: No Khaos we are going to talk about what happened and why it happened, so you don’t end up hurting yourself. So why did you attack Johnny Rebel last Thursday night?
Khaos: I attacked that piece of trash because he attacked me the week before.
Doctor: I didn’t know about him attacking you.
Khaos: Yeah he comes out on stage with a cardboard cut out of my ex and starts talking shit about and me, making light of my past and shit like that.
Doctor: So he verbally attacked you and you felt the need to physically attack him?
Khaos: You know that old saying about sticks and stone?
Doctor: Of course.
Khaos: Well its bullshit. Words can hurt, but sticks and stones tend to hurt a little bit more. When someone hurts me I think its good practice to hurt them worse so they’ll think really hard about hurting you again.
Doctor: That’s an interesting view of things. Did you learn that in prison?
Khaos: No I learned that one way back in the trailer park days. I was probably about six and my cousin John lived down the street and he used to pick on me a lot. He liked to “wrestle” with me and I always ended up bruised and crying. One day I finally got sick of it and reared back and kicked him as hard as I possibly could in the balls. It dropped him like a bad habit and his poor little jewels swelled up like a watermelon for a week, but he never fucked with me again.
Doctor: So it’s safe to say that violence came to you naturally at a pretty young age?
Khaos: Violence didn’t come to me naturally but I was around it from a very young age. When most people think of Decatur, Illinois they think of corn and small town living, but my Decatur was a much darker place. I grew up in a shithole trailer park; My mom was pretty heavy into drugs until finally DCFS took me away from her when I was like ten. I still can still all of the asshole “boyfriends” she had parading in and out of her bedroom. I remember the ones that used to beat the shit out of her and I remember that sick feeling seeing it used to give me in my stomach.
Doctor: What was the feeling like?
Khaos: It was like somebody lit a fire in my gut. I felt angry, angrier than I have ever felt. It was the same feeling that I felt the night I ended up in juvi and it was the same feeling I felt the night that lead to me going to prison.
Doctor: So you were locked up before your last time in prison?
Khaos: I’ve been locked up a few times for drunk and disorderly and the like, but yeah I spent the better part of six years in juvi or mental institutions when I was a kid and then six more years in prison as an adult.
Doctor: Why where you locked up as a kid.
Khaos: This bully named Curtis Waynewright tried to steal my bike and just like with my cousin when I was eight I was sick and tired of taking his shit, so I snapped. I beat him so badly that he was in coma for three weeks and he still talks with a lisp. I was locked up for it and they didn’t allow me out until my eighteenth birthday because I showed no remorse for the beating.
Doctor: Are you sorry for what you did?
Khaos: I’m sorry that when I’m sitting around with a bunch of people telling stories about their high school years all I have is tales of padded cells, but I’m not sorry for beating Curtis. He was nothing but a bully and deserved everything that I gave him and probably more.
Doctor: How about Frederick Kohl, are you sorry for what you did to him?
Khaos: I’m sorry for what I put his mother through, but I couldn’t give two shits about a piece of garbage like Philadelphia Phreddy. That loser was just like the garbage boyfriends that used to beat my mom and kept her hooked on drugs. The world is a million times better without him.
Doctor: Do you regret anything you’ve done in your life?
Khaos: Sure I have regrets.
Doctor: Like what?
Khaos: I regret not figuring out Delores’ bullshit sooner. I regret that Gary died before getting a chance to see me with APW gold around my waist. I regret that I didn’t beat Biggs back at Mayhem.
Doctor: So you regret things like losing a wrestling match, but you don’t regret beating a man to death with your bare hands.
Khaos: Trust me doc there is nothing trivial about losing a wrestling match when you’re in the wrestling business. Not only that the life I took wasn’t worth the air that it was breathing. Philadelphia Phreddy was a two bit drug dealing pimp. Now if I had a few too many to drink one night and killed a van full of orphans I might have some regret, but not for killing a pimp.
Doctor: You don’t think the life of a pimp is worth living?
Khaos: Not that pimp.
Doctor: Did you know that Malcolm X was a pimp before becoming one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.
Khaos: I bet he wasn’t a rapist.
Doctor: Frederick Kohl was a pimp, but I didn’t see anything in the case file about him being a rapist.
Khaos: That’s because I never told anyone.
Doctor: You sure you aren’t just making it up to make yourself feel better.
Khaos: I’m sure. I promised Delores that I would never mention it to anyone because she was so embarrassed. She testified at my trial that he has assaulted her but she didn’t mention the rape.
Doctor: Don’t you think that might have helped you case and kept you out of prison.
Khaos: I didn’t care.
Doctor: So the psychopath has a heart.
Khaos: I’m a sociopath.
Doctor: Oh my mistake. To be honest Mr. Khaos I am not sure that you’re a psycho or sociopath. I think you are a guy that has spent his entire life locked inside of one cage or another. That has made you prone to violent outbursts when pushed much like an animal. No one has ever taken the time to teach you the filters that society instills in us all, which isn’t surprising given the number of years you’ve spent locked up.
Khaos: So is that what’s wrong with me Doc?
Doctor: I’m not sure there is anything truly wrong with you. That’s why I’m clearing you to compete at Test For The Best.
]Khaos stands and extends his hand.
Khaos: Thanks Doc. I won’t disappoint you.
Doctor: Please sit back down, I’m not finished.
He sits back down on the leather chaise pouting.
Doctor: In exchange for your clearance I will require you to attend weekly counseling appointments can you agree to those terms?
Khaos: I don’t have much of a choice do I?
Doctor: You don’t have any choice and since APW has already prepaid for two hours of my service we’ll go ahead and start today.
Khaos: I can hardly contain my enthusiasm.
Doctor: That makes two of us.
Khaos: Where shall we start?
Doctor: I think I want to know more about your violent nature. Do you think it’s alright to hurt people just to be hurting them?
Khaos: Hell no. I have never hurt a person that didn’t have it coming for some reason or another.
Doctor: What about when you broke Biggs’ arm?
Khaos: That was an accident, but it turned out that he probably deserved it. Biggs is an egomaniac and kind of a douche bag. I would probably snap his arm again if he was standing right here with us.
Doctor: Don’t you think that’s a little bit anti-social.
Khaos: Well now here is where you and I will probably have some disagreements Doc. You see you and I have a different frame of reference on this subject because we come from very different societies. Your society is the one taught in private schools and the top universities where manners matter, while my society is that of prison and professional wrestling. In your society breaking someone’s arm is frowned upon heavily, while in my world it’s a part of survival. Trust me if Biggs was in this room with us he would probably be trying to break my arm or leg just like I was trying to break his.
Doctor: You live in a very strange world Mr. Khaos.
Khaos: Yeah I think we’ve established that.
Doctor: I hate to beat a dead horse, but if you only attack people that deserve it why did you attack Johnny Rebel.
Khaos: I told you I attacked him because he attacked me first.
Doctor: I think that’s bullshit.
Khaos: Fine I attacked him because he made fun of the time I spent in prison. I just wanted to show him what it’s really like to be in prison. He should be happy that I stopped after cutting him, because if we were inside I would have taken his man cherry.
Doctor: Taken his man cherry? You mean you would have raped him?
Khaos: Sex isn’t always about sex in prison Doc. Sometimes it’s about it’s all about showing who is dominant.
Doctor: That’s really disturbing.
Khaos: That is life behind bars Doc. You said that you spent time working with the criminally insane you should know this shit.
Doctor: The hospital environment is much different than prisons.
Khaos: Well prison is a pretty fucked up place Doc. It has a way of making you more of an animal than a man. That is why I like to say that I am nature’s perfect predator, but really that’s the case with all men. The only difference between me and your normal guy on the street is I guess I don’t have the programming society gives people. I’m not afraid to finish the job and choke the life out of someone if he fucks with me and mine.
Doctor: You honestly believe that?
Khaos: Doc it doesn’t matter if I believe it. It only matters if everyone else believes it and I think my record does a good job of backing it up.
Doctor: Do you realize how full of shit you sound right now? You are sitting over there spouting off catch phrases like your giving some sort of interview. That isn’t going to fly in here with me so you might as well cut the crap now or I’ll call Jeff and tell him that you aren’t mentally fit to wrestle. Do you understand?
Khaos: Yeah I understand.
Doctor: Good. Now do you honestly believe that you are more capable of killing another man that your typical human being?
Khaos: Hell yes I believe it and I’ve proved it time and again. I beat a kid until he was in a comma for taking my bike when I was twelve. I killed a mother fucker with my bare hands for raping a girl that I liked. I spent six months in the prison infirmary when my cellmate damn near shanked me in the kidney, but I made damn sure that that son of bitch was in the bed beside me.
Doctor: So the real reason you attacked Johnny Rebel is that he questioned your street cred?
Khaos: Something like that.
Doctor: Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?
Khaos: What is so ridiculous about hurting someone that hurts you? People do it all the damn time.
Doctor: Yes people do things like that all of the time, but it usually involves spitting in someone’s food or keying someone’s car. Rarely does getting revenge work as an excuse to carve up someone’s forehead like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Khaos: Doc in my world if someone calls you a bitch you better be prepared to prove that you ain’t a bitch.
Doctor: Don’t take this the wrong way but choking out a guy and slicing him open with a screwdriver is sort of a bitch move.
Khaos: Bringing out a cardboard cutout of my ex-girlfriend and airing my dirty laundry all over cable TV isn’t a bitch move?
Doctor: Maybe it is, but why do you have to be a bitch right back? Why don’t you just kick his ass in the middle of the ring like a man?
Khaos: Doc when someone comes at you hard you have to go back at them even harder.
Doctor: That sounds like a cop out to me. What’s the real reason you didn’t just beat him one on one in the center of the ring, like a man.
Khaos begins to rock back and forth uncomfortably.
Khaos: Why should I play fair when he isn’t going to play fair?
Doctor: That’s just another cop out Khaos. Why aren’t you just going to allow your wrestling to do the talking? Why aren’t you going to beat his ass in the middle of the ring in front of a few thousand people fair and square? Tell me the real reason Khaos. Come on tell me.
Khaos: BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN!!!!!!!!!
Tears begin to flow down the big mans face.
Khaos: There I said it are you happy? Ever since Gary passed I’m so unsure of myself. I sit down to think about strategy for a match and I just start to cry. I miss him so much and I’m not sure what to do now that he’s gone. I hired a new manager thinking that he would be able to help me out, but all he cares about is helping me make more and more money. I don’t give a fuck about money; I just want my friend back.
Dr. Yang hands his patient a tissue.
Doctor: Do you feel better now that you’ve said it?
Khaos: A little bit.
Natures Perfect Predator blows his nose and wipes away the tears.
Doctor: Khaos you do not have to go through this world alone. You are going to be miserable until you find some friends that you can confide in once in a while. However until you take the time to make some friends I want you to know that I’m here for you.
Khaos: Great I’m so fucked up that I have to pay for friends.
Doctor: A lot of people think that the fact I’m being paid makes me more trustworthy.
Khaos: Maybe, but that doesn’t make me any less pitiful.
Doctor: You’re not pitiful Khaos. I enjoy my little talks with my patients and to be completely honest I wouldn’t even charge for these appointments if I didn’t have to pay my ex-wife alimony.
Khaos: Don’t bullshit a bullshitter Doc. I can tell by your fancy ass office, expensive clothes and BMW in the parking garage that you like the money.
Doctor: Actually I drive a Mercedes.
Khaos: Well that makes all the difference in the world doesn’t it?
Doctor: Sure it does. My Mercedes cost more than a BMW would.
The two men share a quick laugh.
Doctor: You know I think I like you Khaos.
Khaos: I kind of like you too Doc.
Doctor: Well I’m glad that’s settled, but I need to make one thing clear to you if I’m going to keep seeing you.
Khaos: What’s that?
Doctor: If you ever lay a hand on me again I will have your ass thrown back into prison so fast your head will spin.
Khaos: I’m cool with that.
Doctor: I hope so because I’m not fucking around. Make an appointment for next week with my secretary on the way out and good luck at Test For The Best.
Khaos: Thanks Doc.
Khaos stands and offers the Doctor his hand. The two men shake and the big walks out the door. He stops and has a quick chat with the cute brunette receptionist making an appointment for the next Tuesday. Walking out of the small office and into the corridor he is greated by his partner in crime Cameraman Dan with a handheld aimed in his direction.
Dan: So how did it go?
Khaos: I still get to wrestle at Test For The Best, so I guess it went ok.
Dan: How many times did he ask you how you do you feel?
Khaos: I don’t know I wasn’t counting. Do you have that thing ready?
Dan: Yeah it’s ready.
Khaos: Then turn it on.
Dan: Action!
Khaos: Johnny Rebel I am going to apologize to you now, because I am going to be in a bad mood come Test For The Best. You see when I sliced open your face last week at Overdrive it was nothing personal, the way that a father spanking his son is nothing personal. I was teaching you a lesson in manners the way that they are taught to you in prison, well without the rape. Now that you know at least a few manners we can get back to the business at hand.
When you and I first met a few weeks ago I will openly admit that your little act through me off my game and you think it makes me weak. I think that that just shows what a sad son of a bitch you really are, and that just makes kicking your ass so much easier. You walk through life thinking you are better than everyone else and maybe for your first couple of months in APW you were better than everyone you faced. Hell I will admit that for one night you were even better than me, but Gary used to like to say that the sun shines on every dog’s ass one day. Well in this case it was shining on a horse’s ass, but the principal still holds true.
Johnny you are an egomaniacal piece of garbage and it was a fucking joy cutting you open. Just thinking about watching you bleed gets my juices flowing. Knowing that when I had my arm wrapped around your scrawny little neck that I could have ended you right there and then, well let’s just say it gets me through my days. Hell I’ll even go as far as saying that watching them wheel your ass out of the arena on a stretcher makes the hours I have to spend is a shrink’s office well worth it. I guess what I am trying to say is given the opportunity I would choke you out and cut you open again and again and again. Does that make me such a bad guy? Of course it does and frankly I don’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut, because I am the Natural Born Killer.
I guess this brings me to my great reveal. The thing that I figured out sitting on a fancy couch with Dr. Yang asking my stupid fucking questions, Johnny Rebel I don’t know if I can beat you fair and square inside of the ring. I will happily admit that at this point in our careers you are the better professional wrestler. You have nearly twenty years experience compared to my just nine months. You have held titles with every company you have ever worked for before now and this is my first major company. I hate to say it but you are a legend in this business and I’m just a low life ex-con trying to make a name for himself. No one in the locker room, on the internet or watching at home believes I can beat you in a wrestling match. I wager that if you asked the odds makers out in Vegas they would probably have you as at least a 10-1 favorite. Wow I am really starting to wonder if I should even show up to Test For The Best. I mean it is obvious I am just going to get embarrassed in the first round. Maybe I should go online and post a rumor that I’m not going to show up for the pay per view or any other show until APW books me against talent I can actually beat in a wrestling match.
Fuck that! Johnny Rebel you might be the better wrestler in our match, but I’m not coming all the way to Nova Scotia to lose. I have a real simple game plan that is going to take me all the way to a title shot. I am not planning to wrestle a single match against you or anyone else. No I am planning on arriving in Halifax to fight and I don’t think there is a single person on Overdrive or Asylum that can beat me in a fight. I may not be able to beat you fair and square in the center of the ring Johnny but I will bite, scratch, eye gouge, low blow and use my little screwdriver friend until you have no choice but to lay down to die. We may have all grown up being told that it doesn’t matter if you win or lose its how you play the game, but in my world you either win or kill someone trying.
Make sure your life insurance is paid up Johnny and I’ll see you in Halifax.
The scene fades to black.
