Posted by Danny Argus on September 9, 2004, 1:01 am

[We’ll recognize Gabriel Argus right away, as the sometimes-wrestler and always-younger brother of Fats, wearing the same blue shorts and wife beater we last saw him in. In fact only about two minutes have passed since the last time we saw him. Andy Brown is by his side as they walk down the sidewalk toward Andy’s Salamanca Apartment. Sirens sound out going toward the old man’s house cause them to quickly glance at each other before breaking into a full sprint toward Andy’s apartment.] Danny’s thought process is simple sometimes so simple it’s complicated to understand how anyone can just keep their head cleared, and keep their mind trouble free. Right now his mind was cluttered, with all of two things. Destiny, and Wrestling. We’ll start with the first and foremost. He’s in love. What else could he say? When Danny was with Kat, he felt sorry for her. It’s why he never left her sooner. She made her life a poorly written soap opera, and it kept people on the pity line. But with Destiny, it was completely different. He couldn’t feel bad for her, she didn’t allow for it. She was confident, self-assured, and independent. She didn’t need Danny to stay with her, she just wanted him to. Other than that they were more than compatible, they shared a sense of humor, neither of them are stupid, both attracted to each other it was perfect. So why is he having a hard time asking her to come live with him she practically does now, she stays with him most every night, but her stuff is still at her apartment maybe he was afraid that in her fear of losing independence, she would reject his offer, and maybe even end things with him that would kill him it would end everything he dreams of. He wants to marry her. . [Gabriel and Andy nearly throw themselves through the front door of Andy’s apartment. Gabriel latches the door behind them and looks out the front window as if someone should be arriving to kill them. Andy quickly walked to the kitchen/living room table (it was basically all one room) and turned on a police scanner.] . The other issue in Danny’s mind is wrestling. For a long time wrestling was what Danny loved, but he’s replaced that with Destiny and wouldn’t change it for the world. He still wants to wrestle, he still wants to be the best, but something is missing. Maybe it’s the competition. It seems backstage that the roster shows up just long enough to put on a show and then heads home. The bare minimum is put into it, and the bare minimum took from it. Danny couldn’t take that all or nothing, really. But if you put your world into the federation, and someone who shows up five minutes before his match wins the IWA Championship, what’s the point in trying anymore? Nobody was trying anymore the people who talk down about their opponents repeat the same things about everyone, just change the names. It was getting pitiful really, the same old crap every week, and he needed a change. He must provoke a change a big change. .. Andy: I can’t believe the old ####ER HAD A HEART ATTACK! Gabriel: KEEP your ####ing voice down turn out that light man, if anyone saw us we’re ####ed big time! They’ll say we killed him! [Gabriel paces across the cheap and stained linoleum floor, running his hands through his hair and breathing. Andy sits at the table with his face in his hands.] Andy: I can’t go to jail man! I just cant! Gabriel: SHUTUP, I’m trying to think for #### sake! Nobody is going to jail, but keep your voice down and pull the shades. I don’t want people to see or hear us . What can Danny “Fats” Argus, The Undercard Success, do to make a change? He doesn’t even know. But, he’s determined it will be soon, and it will be big. It has to be. .. [The warmth of her body and the feel of her body pushing against his own with slow rhythmic breathing are all he’s concerned with. She is his everything right now. Danny never thought he would rely on a person to keep him level headed and alive, in a way. But that is how he feels now. The dark room allows little to be seen other than a blanket over the lower halves of Danny and Destiny. Danny is laying on his back, his right arm draped around Destiny who is laying with her head on his right pectoral, her arm over him.] [With his left hand he brushes a strand of auburn hair from her face. She exhales calmly, deep in a slumber. He wants to ask her he wants to tell her now, that he would love for her to spend her life with him, for them to spend their lives together and what’s to stop him, really ] [Fear of waking her? Fear of rejection maybe? The fear that it will not be the picture perfect moment for the closet-romantic? As much as he wants to not admit it, he’d like to give her the perfect romantic lives He wants to own a Fortune 500 company and not have to go to work, just worry about which Jet to take to which home overlooking the countryside or beach. She’d never work, never be in danger. Their kids would grow up to be spoiled brats, who in a fight situation, could throw their wallet at a kid and be expelled for giving a concussion with it.] [He’s afraid he can’t give her what she deserves, the life she deserves, the things she deserves ] [He’s afraid, that she deserves more than him.]