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Date Posted: 01:32:21 11/23/00 Thu
Author: Barry Odessy and Christmas Joy
Subject: Let's Take a Vacation (Part One of an Unnamed Storyline)

{Author's Note: This is the first of three installments in the latest saga of Barry Odessy and Christmas Joy. The Authors hope you read all three parts, as they are all interwoven. And reading only the first part of a three part arc is like walking around with your jeans around your knees. Why not just do it all? Thanks.}

The dimness of the room added to it's elegance, as two tall glasses filled halfway with wine sat infront of two nicely prepared plates, a fork planted against one of the golden trim plates closet to a single candle that provided most the lgiht for the room, but with further observation one could tell that this indeed was not a run of the mill restaurant, if not for the missing customers then for the fact that the location was somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand feet in the air. On one side of the table was Joy, not eating much and with her head turned out the window watching as the clouds zoomed by. Across from her, Barry Odessy, her loyal companion and boyfriend, Barry had probably noticed Joy's non-existant appetite but didn't say anything knowing that she was a woman in crisis and tough situations, in and out of the ring.

Barry had noticed, and he had indeed chosen not to say anything. But the silence was too much for him after a while, and he grabbed her hand, and stroked it softly. "Chrissy, what's wrong?"

"In control of my life, that's been my whole point of wanting to be in this business lately, wanting to be in control and lately I don't feel that I am, or at least not total, I can't lie...the fact that so many people have been so uncaring about my attempts to make things right are really wearing thin on my patience, and then this thing with Stacey, when I was out there issuing out a punishment to her ...I felt...I felt alive again, I felt in control and as wrong as I may have been it felt good."

"Maybe you aren't in total control. But nobody ever is. That's part of being human, being able to live with other people. But as for Stacey, she had it coming to her. Don't feel bad for that."

"Maybe she did, but there's better ways to do business. Lately I feel horrible about some of the thigs I've done. I preach about justice and doing what's right but then I come out and basically act no better than the people I'm trying to stop."

"Sometimes the only way to get people to stop doing something is to do it right back to them. But if you really think it's you, maybe we should try to get you to see a psychiatrist? Of course I really don't think there's anything wrong with you, except stress. I think you need a vacation."

Joy pauses a moment, then smiles warmly to Barry. "Hmm. A vacation in Thailand sounds nice."

"You got it," Barry says, smiling at her, still holding her hand.

"I still think there's some other things I need to do, but I gotta admit it sounds nice."

"Don't worry about those other things. They'll still be here when we get back. Let's go back to our hotel and pack. Hmm?"

Joy laughs at Barry's enthusiasm of taking a vacation. "I don't know if I can do that in the middle of a feud. No matter how stupid and useless most the problems are it's good business I take care of them." Joy looks down at her glass "I guess I'm still a bit immature, and maybe I still need to know when to be stopped."

"I still think those other guys can handle it, but if staying until that business is resolved is really that important to you, we'll wait."

"Thanks, so what do you think about everything that's gone on? You're normally so reserved when it comes to things, doesn't anything ever get under your skin?"

Barry pauses for a moment, thinking. "I try to stay out of business that isn't personal to me. Nothing much bothers me." Barry grins. "Except certain people with entirely too much work ethic."

"It's what keeps most people going, I don't want to sound too boring but sometimes it's all you have to help you keep a hold of reality," she replies.

"Sometimes..." he says, quietly.

Joy folds her arms under herself, balancing out her weight, "I suppose your story is better than most though. You've a history that you made, not one that's already ready already if I can use that term. Even though I love him dearly I have to live with the fact that my father is respected in this sport and I've a level of dignity and grace that I gotta follow through on."

"But Chrissy... Who's telling you that? I've never once heard anyone compare you two. I think it's all in your head. No one expects you to live up to a standard that isn't there. It isn't fair of you to beat yourself up, trying to push your expectations higher and higher, when you've already accomplished so much in less than two years. You weren't hired because you were Gralinski's baby girl, you were hired because you had the credientials that they needed."

"I might as well beat up on myself! It seems everone else can do it. Carmen, and that... that renegade wrestler Stacey Jordan! I swear if she even looks at me the wrong way again I'll make her curse the very day she signed her name to a GWA contract!"

Barry can't help but laugh, in spite of her ferocity. "Yep. You definitely need a vacation."

"A vacation is what I plan to issue to her and Mr. Cane... But I should just have them fight each other and kill two birds with one stone. But the best thing I think we can do is just sit back and wait. I'm doing what work I can but with Ms. Hino's purchase of SWA it puts my 'dual citizenship' in effect."

Barry rolls his eyes at the mention of the SWA. "That great place, hmm? Why would anyone want to waste their time trying to salvage that dump?"

"I can tell you didn't once feel that way." Joy smirks. "I guess it's my home, maybe that work ethic you were talking about," she laughs. "But if I go back you know what that means?"

"I'll have to find a new way to make a living?"

Joy raises her eyebrow then flicks a pea at Barry. "Excuse me Mr. Odessy but the way I figure is... I own you," she laughs again. "So when I say do, you get it done, right?"

Barry smirks. "Hey, I said I love you, and that I'll protect you. That doesn't mean I'll go back to SWA."
"Well jeez!" Joy sticks her tongue out at Barry.

"What's that for?" he laughs.

"The way I figure I own you Mr. Odessy, and with that said, you follow me like a loyal subject." Joy winks over at Barry as she makes this statement then down at her hand, quickly she looks back up at Barry "So Barry, umm how did your other girlfriends handle you being on the road so much?"

"I didn't have time for real relationships, until now. Just a whole lotta one or two night stands. It's what fit in my schedule. Good thing that I didn't find anyone worthwhile, huh?" Barry smiles at her.

"So no, girlfriends, you uhh use a lot of Vaseline those days?" she laughs again.

"I just said I didn't have any relationships. I had my share of tail," he says, frankly, a little sour though.

Joy just sits there, looking at him for a while not being able to mount a comeback. Soon she stands up and makes her way to the cockpit, and returns a short while later. She then walks silently over to Barry, and sits in his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"We're going back to the offices. To take care of my business. Then..."

She doesn't finish in words, but instead plants a strong kiss on his lips. The scene fades as the engine jets sound and the plane begins to turn, heading back to their destination, and their destiny.

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