Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 18:59:56 GMT -5
Cancer is such an ugly disease
It's crueller than the others I believe. No other is more relentless, more brutal. It is undeniably a widow maker, a creator or orphans. Leaving even the strongest man at the mercy of its clutches. Forcing a once powerful man to fall to his knees and pray to a God he doesn't even believe exists all in an attempt to grant him only one more day with the chosen target.
no other disease is as much a ticking time bomb within our body. Genetically sitting there waiting for the strain of coding to ignite it into multiplying and wreaking havoc within our very cells.
It is just as much part of our destiny as our choosing to pursue a life on any career path.
I have carried with me the death of my mother like a millstone around my neck. Part of me wondering what I could have done. If maybe we had found another doctor, more doctors, different treatments.
But truth be told there was nothing I could do. Nothing but watch while some demon claim my mother’s life and then quickly move on to claim it's next victim.
But it’s because of this that I am as strong now. It’s because of everything that I have had to go through in my life that I simply make my armour that much stronger.
Unfortunately, that armour is useless against those I care about. In reality I was happy when Emma decided to call off our match at Versus because I think I might have taken it to easy on her. Been reluctant to give her everything under the fear of hurting her. I know that insults her abilities a little and considering that I trained her, insulting myself however, If I can help it, I will avoid facing those I care about if it’s possible. In this circumstance facing Avery is not something I can avoid forever. He has just as much right to face me again for this title. He’s earned this opportunity.
Avery has really come into his own even in the short time I have come to know him and consider him not only a tag partner, a mate but a brother. And anyone who does have the luxury of knowing me knows that I treat my family very differently. I hold them at a different kind of prestige than any others. In fact there are a few others that have slowly started to work their way up to that level but we wont’ get into that right now because I would be going off topic. I am already accused of being a ‘pompous wind bag’ as it is, no need to add to that evaulation right?
So back to the start of this.. Cancer being ugly.
There seems to be a Cancer starting in NGW as of late and although usually I sit back and let things happen when they don’t involve me but this time I cannot. This time someone I am starting to care about was hurt and targeted therefore, it is time for Levi to take off his silent spectator hat and become the Leviathan that he has bragged about being.
The monster that rises out from the depths of the sea to crush all those boats that try to cross into waters that are not for them.
The time is coming for me to show everyone why it is that I am someone to be feared.
***
Flashback
~1 years and 6 months ago~
“It’s worse than we originally thought...” The doctor's words cut me like a knife to my heart. WE had been hoping for a simply solution. Something that could easily be targeted and destroyed by some radiation.
My mother though, ever the tower of strength and grace, not a muscle moved on her face to show any emotion. Her blonde hair, pulled up neatly, her make-up perfectly done. Her clothes were the vision of perfection with not a single wrinkle. She always made sure that she looked the very best in public despite her nights of coming home smelling like the food she cooked, covered in pastry flour. She was like two different people sometimes.
She nods.
“The cancer has spread to your lymph nodes and at this point we can just do our best to make you comfortable Mrs. Daughterty. I’m sorry that we can’t do more.” He rises and hands my mother a card and a pamphlet.
“That's some information for you. There’s a really great palliative care facility...”
My mother waves her hand. “My family will be taking care of me, but thank you Dr. Simon. I appreciate all that you’ve done.”
Dr. Simon is gone leaving us all to stare at my mother. My sister seems oblivious to the diagnosis, typing away on her phone to tell her god-awful friends about the events and garner some sympathy as if she was the one dying. My father reaches for my mother’s hand and to my surprise she actually allows it. Despite the fact that they hadn’t shared a bedroom since Emma was born, there was some love and affection between them.
“Don’t worry dear...” she says, looking at my father straight in the eyes. “It won't be long until your tart of a girlfriend can move in and you’ll be rid of me.”
I sigh as she stands, leaving my father to stutter on his words. She looks at me.
“Levi, escort your mother to her car if you would?”
Immediately I stand to offer my arm and we walk slowly out. Once we’re out of earshot of my Father and Emma she clings to me a little tighter, showing just how tiring staying strong was for her.
“LJ... It’s going to be up to you to take care of Emmie when I'm gone. I don't’ want you to ever let her get caught in the same trap that I did. Don’t let your father marry her off for money.”
I feel lost. Emmaline hadn’t listened to me since she’d decided to stop coming to Granda’s gym over a year ago.
“I’m disappointed in how she’s acting but you have to help change that. She won’t listen to me but I know that you could. You could change this all around for her. She’s so much better than this princess lifestyle.”
I clear my throat. “I know she is. She’s talented too, in so many areas she could do a variety of things but she prefers to play the spoiled socialite. I don't know what to do Mum.”
She stops me at the sliding doors and reaches up to put a hand on the side of my face. “Yes you do. You have to be tough on her. She might hate you LJ but eventually, she’s going to see that it was for the best. I promise. I don’t want you to worry about me. My fate is kinda inevitable. Just... try and help her.”
She pats me a little firmly and then takes my arm again. “Now get this old woman to the car would you, I’m not getting any younger.”
I laughed. She did too. And after that moment I don’t think I recall her really laughing again. Thankfully her death had been quick and peaceful.
Cancer is still an ugly disease and it will take those you care about most right out from under you if you’re not perceptive about it. The Cancer starting in NGW was not going to last under my watch.
I was not going to see another thing I loved destroyed by the selfish destruction of an easily eradicated parasite.,. That is... if it was caught early enough and prevented from doing any real damage.
***
~Present day~
Her eyes water over as she practically attacks me in a crushing hug, her arms going around my neck as she murmurs through her sobs. I suppose she had been expecting me to have a different reaction. To have different feelings toward these dreams she’d had.
“Lis... they’re just dreams. I promise you, nothing is going to happen to you on my watch. I promise I’m going to be there for you. I’ll be right back stage during your match and I’ll be watching.”
She sighs into my shoulder, her sobs slowing down and I rub her back, holding her closely. She’d been through so much. Her mother, the bullying on social media and now these nightmares. I was determined to protect her through anything, even if being frightened of a dream was a little silly, fears were never rational.
“Thank you LJ...” she says. She leans back, wiping her eyes with her hands.
“Go and wash your face and cool off a little. In fact why don’t you have a nice shower and then come on back out. We’ll watch a movie.”
She smirks. “You’re going to do your promo aren’t you?”
I shake my head. “You have grown to know me all too well firefly. You are right. Still, take your time to let out the remainder of your tears nad then as I said, we will enjoy the evening.”
She leans in to kiss me and then moves off my lap to disappear into the hall way leading to my bedroom and the bathroom. I take a minute before setting up my phone to film myself
:::ON CAMERA:::
Avery, Brother. We both knew that this day was going to come. We’ve talked about this a few times in the last month or so since we’ve become partners that despite our close bond. Despite how quickly we’ve gotten a friendship and how we’d do anything for each other that eventually we were going to end up on opposite corners of that ring. And we agreed then that no matter what we said, no matter how hard we took each other out, no matter who came out the winner we were not going to let that affect what we have.
I don’t make friends easy. I have a hard time with words when they come to more personal nature. I’ve seen you grow so much both here and over in VWS. I have seen you come into your own. I’ve seen you stand up and brush off the losses both in your personal life and your professional life and show just what you are made of. I am proud of it all.
However, it’s still not as strong as I am. You know I would never bring up your personal losses and compare it to mine. I am not like others in this company, no what I mean is that I have trained long and hard to hold this title. I have been nothing but determined and narrowly sighted on it and how much it means to me to be able to hold not one, but two titles in this company in my short time here. I have pride in what I have been able to accomplish and it proves only that everything I have said is true. That I do everything I say I will do, however you have proven that you can do anything you can put your mind to as well.
It’s for that reason that should you be able to keep me down for a three count, you know that I’m going to be the first person to congratulate you and I mean it. I won’t challenge you for it as long as you hold it because I don't have anything else to prove. I will do what everyone else does and earn my way back up the rankings and if you should lose it, then I will challenge him or her.
I am nothing but true to what I say and for as much confidence and arrogance I have I know that there is always going to be a chance that I’m the one having to walk away empty handed. As much as I want you to win Avery, I want you to lose as well.
All I know is that Saturday, it’s going to be a matter of us showing each other just who the better fighter is on that night. May the best man win.
Brother.
:::OFF CAMERA:::
Lisbeth returns and I see that she’s decided to change her attire. Somehow I think she has something else on her mind.
It's crueller than the others I believe. No other is more relentless, more brutal. It is undeniably a widow maker, a creator or orphans. Leaving even the strongest man at the mercy of its clutches. Forcing a once powerful man to fall to his knees and pray to a God he doesn't even believe exists all in an attempt to grant him only one more day with the chosen target.
no other disease is as much a ticking time bomb within our body. Genetically sitting there waiting for the strain of coding to ignite it into multiplying and wreaking havoc within our very cells.
It is just as much part of our destiny as our choosing to pursue a life on any career path.
I have carried with me the death of my mother like a millstone around my neck. Part of me wondering what I could have done. If maybe we had found another doctor, more doctors, different treatments.
But truth be told there was nothing I could do. Nothing but watch while some demon claim my mother’s life and then quickly move on to claim it's next victim.
But it’s because of this that I am as strong now. It’s because of everything that I have had to go through in my life that I simply make my armour that much stronger.
Unfortunately, that armour is useless against those I care about. In reality I was happy when Emma decided to call off our match at Versus because I think I might have taken it to easy on her. Been reluctant to give her everything under the fear of hurting her. I know that insults her abilities a little and considering that I trained her, insulting myself however, If I can help it, I will avoid facing those I care about if it’s possible. In this circumstance facing Avery is not something I can avoid forever. He has just as much right to face me again for this title. He’s earned this opportunity.
Avery has really come into his own even in the short time I have come to know him and consider him not only a tag partner, a mate but a brother. And anyone who does have the luxury of knowing me knows that I treat my family very differently. I hold them at a different kind of prestige than any others. In fact there are a few others that have slowly started to work their way up to that level but we wont’ get into that right now because I would be going off topic. I am already accused of being a ‘pompous wind bag’ as it is, no need to add to that evaulation right?
So back to the start of this.. Cancer being ugly.
There seems to be a Cancer starting in NGW as of late and although usually I sit back and let things happen when they don’t involve me but this time I cannot. This time someone I am starting to care about was hurt and targeted therefore, it is time for Levi to take off his silent spectator hat and become the Leviathan that he has bragged about being.
The monster that rises out from the depths of the sea to crush all those boats that try to cross into waters that are not for them.
The time is coming for me to show everyone why it is that I am someone to be feared.
***
Flashback
~1 years and 6 months ago~
“It’s worse than we originally thought...” The doctor's words cut me like a knife to my heart. WE had been hoping for a simply solution. Something that could easily be targeted and destroyed by some radiation.
My mother though, ever the tower of strength and grace, not a muscle moved on her face to show any emotion. Her blonde hair, pulled up neatly, her make-up perfectly done. Her clothes were the vision of perfection with not a single wrinkle. She always made sure that she looked the very best in public despite her nights of coming home smelling like the food she cooked, covered in pastry flour. She was like two different people sometimes.
She nods.
“The cancer has spread to your lymph nodes and at this point we can just do our best to make you comfortable Mrs. Daughterty. I’m sorry that we can’t do more.” He rises and hands my mother a card and a pamphlet.
“That's some information for you. There’s a really great palliative care facility...”
My mother waves her hand. “My family will be taking care of me, but thank you Dr. Simon. I appreciate all that you’ve done.”
Dr. Simon is gone leaving us all to stare at my mother. My sister seems oblivious to the diagnosis, typing away on her phone to tell her god-awful friends about the events and garner some sympathy as if she was the one dying. My father reaches for my mother’s hand and to my surprise she actually allows it. Despite the fact that they hadn’t shared a bedroom since Emma was born, there was some love and affection between them.
“Don’t worry dear...” she says, looking at my father straight in the eyes. “It won't be long until your tart of a girlfriend can move in and you’ll be rid of me.”
I sigh as she stands, leaving my father to stutter on his words. She looks at me.
“Levi, escort your mother to her car if you would?”
Immediately I stand to offer my arm and we walk slowly out. Once we’re out of earshot of my Father and Emma she clings to me a little tighter, showing just how tiring staying strong was for her.
“LJ... It’s going to be up to you to take care of Emmie when I'm gone. I don't’ want you to ever let her get caught in the same trap that I did. Don’t let your father marry her off for money.”
I feel lost. Emmaline hadn’t listened to me since she’d decided to stop coming to Granda’s gym over a year ago.
“I’m disappointed in how she’s acting but you have to help change that. She won’t listen to me but I know that you could. You could change this all around for her. She’s so much better than this princess lifestyle.”
I clear my throat. “I know she is. She’s talented too, in so many areas she could do a variety of things but she prefers to play the spoiled socialite. I don't know what to do Mum.”
She stops me at the sliding doors and reaches up to put a hand on the side of my face. “Yes you do. You have to be tough on her. She might hate you LJ but eventually, she’s going to see that it was for the best. I promise. I don’t want you to worry about me. My fate is kinda inevitable. Just... try and help her.”
She pats me a little firmly and then takes my arm again. “Now get this old woman to the car would you, I’m not getting any younger.”
I laughed. She did too. And after that moment I don’t think I recall her really laughing again. Thankfully her death had been quick and peaceful.
Cancer is still an ugly disease and it will take those you care about most right out from under you if you’re not perceptive about it. The Cancer starting in NGW was not going to last under my watch.
I was not going to see another thing I loved destroyed by the selfish destruction of an easily eradicated parasite.,. That is... if it was caught early enough and prevented from doing any real damage.
***
~Present day~
Her eyes water over as she practically attacks me in a crushing hug, her arms going around my neck as she murmurs through her sobs. I suppose she had been expecting me to have a different reaction. To have different feelings toward these dreams she’d had.
“Lis... they’re just dreams. I promise you, nothing is going to happen to you on my watch. I promise I’m going to be there for you. I’ll be right back stage during your match and I’ll be watching.”
She sighs into my shoulder, her sobs slowing down and I rub her back, holding her closely. She’d been through so much. Her mother, the bullying on social media and now these nightmares. I was determined to protect her through anything, even if being frightened of a dream was a little silly, fears were never rational.
“Thank you LJ...” she says. She leans back, wiping her eyes with her hands.
“Go and wash your face and cool off a little. In fact why don’t you have a nice shower and then come on back out. We’ll watch a movie.”
She smirks. “You’re going to do your promo aren’t you?”
I shake my head. “You have grown to know me all too well firefly. You are right. Still, take your time to let out the remainder of your tears nad then as I said, we will enjoy the evening.”
She leans in to kiss me and then moves off my lap to disappear into the hall way leading to my bedroom and the bathroom. I take a minute before setting up my phone to film myself
:::ON CAMERA:::
Avery, Brother. We both knew that this day was going to come. We’ve talked about this a few times in the last month or so since we’ve become partners that despite our close bond. Despite how quickly we’ve gotten a friendship and how we’d do anything for each other that eventually we were going to end up on opposite corners of that ring. And we agreed then that no matter what we said, no matter how hard we took each other out, no matter who came out the winner we were not going to let that affect what we have.
I don’t make friends easy. I have a hard time with words when they come to more personal nature. I’ve seen you grow so much both here and over in VWS. I have seen you come into your own. I’ve seen you stand up and brush off the losses both in your personal life and your professional life and show just what you are made of. I am proud of it all.
However, it’s still not as strong as I am. You know I would never bring up your personal losses and compare it to mine. I am not like others in this company, no what I mean is that I have trained long and hard to hold this title. I have been nothing but determined and narrowly sighted on it and how much it means to me to be able to hold not one, but two titles in this company in my short time here. I have pride in what I have been able to accomplish and it proves only that everything I have said is true. That I do everything I say I will do, however you have proven that you can do anything you can put your mind to as well.
It’s for that reason that should you be able to keep me down for a three count, you know that I’m going to be the first person to congratulate you and I mean it. I won’t challenge you for it as long as you hold it because I don't have anything else to prove. I will do what everyone else does and earn my way back up the rankings and if you should lose it, then I will challenge him or her.
I am nothing but true to what I say and for as much confidence and arrogance I have I know that there is always going to be a chance that I’m the one having to walk away empty handed. As much as I want you to win Avery, I want you to lose as well.
All I know is that Saturday, it’s going to be a matter of us showing each other just who the better fighter is on that night. May the best man win.
Brother.
:::OFF CAMERA:::
Lisbeth returns and I see that she’s decided to change her attire. Somehow I think she has something else on her mind.