______You won't stop for anything...

Wandering through the agitated arena's corridors, absent-mindedly looking into space, Banks seems like coming from a totally different universe. Like somebody got bored and decided it'd be an interesting experiment to put a frozen soul in the middle of Hell. In the middle of a burning place where everybody's emotions ran wildly to collide with each others in an explosive collision.

Everybody's but hers.

Throughout the years she became the one who inhilated any ounce of good inside with her own two hands, aware she'll never climb to the top with a kind and caring nature, to the point she now can't feel a damn thing. It's like emotions are hidden so deep she only overhears the echo of those hitting her ribs cage.

Overall it serves her cause well: no strings attached come in the way as an obstacle to get rid of. Only people are obstacles to get rid of and eventually it appeared clear to Sasha that she isn't even viewing them as human beings anymore, with actual feelings or loved ones to protect.

Once she steps foot in the ring, they're just silhouettes standing between her and what she wanted to obtain so bad her entire life: the title. In hope to achieve her goal, she pushes everyone away because one could remind her of that person she desperately needed to erase from her memory.

Though certain things can't change and some people are simply bound to creep in your life, no matter how hard you try to get rid of them. Kevin Owens is one of these persons, always around to put a surprising yet sincere curve to the side of her killer lips: she always took a strange liking in his dark humour and very personal sarcasm.

As the red disaster walks around without any purpose, her point of the night being efficiently made, she comes accross a scene she's never tired of glimpsing. Kevin quarrelling and messing around with Rich, attempting in asking the questions he's meant to while Owens keeps on being the pain in the ass he's known for.

❝ Milhouse, go learn to be relevant and then you can come back bothering me, okay ? Oh no wait, I can think of even better! Just simply disappear, you'll do us a huge favour. To me, to the Universe and to this microphone you keep spitting on. ❞ Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Kevin Owens show.

Kevin's mastered the art of trash talking, both in and outside of the square circle, and as tensions rise backstage it only increases his natural ability in coming accross as hateful as conceivable. Though this tense climax is perfectly to the Boss liking, Owens couldn't think of worse weather.

One of his best buds has been critically injured few weeks ago after suffering a surprised attack on the parking lot and then fired by text, he plunged himself in sorrow and mental tortures.

But again what do you expect will happen when you take to a man the only thing he ever had ?

Rumours are trending backstage, saying the key player got himself back in an hospital bed after he attempted in drinking the pain away, alone inside of a sinistre appartment.

Vengeful thoughts invades Owens' mind but fear consumes him even more. He's rightfully frightened to see what he had worked for during fourteen years disappear in a blink of an eye.

When Kevin sends Rich away, Banks takes her eyes off the hilarious exchange and keeps on wandering around in the maze the corridors' seem to transform into. The place reveals to be as quiet as a cimentery, every mouth prevented from talking, everybody running around out of apprehension and nerves. Your head may get chopped off at any moment, so you better keep your guard up on every waking second.

❝ Now it makes sense why she was so "enthusiast" all the time.❞ Owens shouts at Banks, replacing himself on a crate, laying on his back before imitating Lynch's entrance by putting his arms in the air and shaking his head from top to bottom.

❝ It's fine Kevin: I'm the spark in your boring life, I got it by now.❞ Sasha responds to his terrible impersonation, a touch of humour slightly recognizable in her tone.

❝ I've just spoke to Rich, even that stupid Reigns' catchphrase and his ridiculous mean faces would put a smile on my face.❞ Escaped through the Canadian's mouth, seemingfully annoyed, closely followed-up by a deep sigh as he adopts a sitting position on the crate.

❝ You don't even know how to smile.❞ Banks makes a point in reminding to him, as he pretty much only smirks at his own insulting jokes.

❝ You know what I believe ? I should pop-up powerbomb him straight to the skies, see if SuperStrong Superman can fly or if he miserably crashes down. I choose option two.❞ Validating the statement she's just made, Owens and his grumpy habits take once more the best of him as he's rambling about his well-documented disdain for Roman.

At least that's one thing that certainly didn't change between the two.

❝ You should be happy, somebody else got the job done for you.❞ Banks explains, recalling how rough the punishment he's got inflicted on has been, earlier in the night.

❝ I thought you wanted to vomit at Seth's two-toned hair view. Inside of your mouth. Which is, by the way, very gross.❞ Owens playfully makes a comment before mimicking the way she demonstrated to him, all this time ago, how it is indeed possible to throw up in the inside.

❝ Okay, I may went off my way to witness Rollins' mental breakdown. Pathetic, but entertaining for sure.❞ Banks lets the venomous words out, accompanied with a vicious laugh as her brain printed the miserable face of his, completely losing his mind on stage.

As she predictated it, this time and all the times before, Owens do not react well to her nasty remarks about Rollins. Sasha can't honestly wrap her mind around this since he's not even friend with the guy, though he endlessly repeats "when a man's on the floor in agony, you just don't kick him in the ribs to put him even lower, because sometimes that lower point is his grave."

❝ You know he's not in his right m-.❞ Owens starts mumbling before getting roughly interrupted by the proud heartless one, vivid irritation building up inside.

❝ Listen, I know your thick skull can't quite process the facts, but the person you knew back then is dead, deal with it!❞ She finally snaps at him before exiting from the area he first came in to rest after his gruelling match.

❝ Oh and you've meant two empty spots.❞ Somewhere on her way out she randomly stops, turning her back to Kevin as she coldly corrects him, recalling the text he sent her explaining there was now one empty spot for the Wrestlemania's mainevent.

❝ I've said I wanted the title and I'll get it. Even if it means I'm the only person standing in this damn roster.❞ She made the choice to burn down her past to validate her future and embrace glory, holding so tight to her darken dream her fingers start bleeding.

So it doesn't make any difference if those bruises are hers or theirs. She's craving for success, fame and ultimately to be crowned champion.

As Sasha loses herself in her torturous thoughts, she can't seem to hear Owens' footsteps, preventing her to walk away from this conversation yet one more time by grabbing her arm so quickly it catches Sasha off guard.

❝ You two have history and I understand that, but you can't keep holding a grudge against him all your life. In the end, it'll only eat you alive.❞ Kevin whispers gently, leaning to Sasha's ears level.

The conversation sounds like it's been put under some sort of a delay: Banks' lips are firmly locked in an emotionless expression, as if none of his words made it through her brain.

❝ Just watch.❞ She ultimately retords, diving her determinated stare inside of Kevin's soft green eyes, understanding it's not the day he'll convince her to back down on the war going on between the two.

He lets go of her, nodding in a disapproval way to significate they'll have to talk about their irky situation, sooner or later.

Though never will be much appreciated in Banks' point of view.

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E L E N A ;

Yes, Owens will be in this story. Yes, he's a big part of it and will play a key role in Sasha's development. Though they're absolutely not friends.

+What are your thoughts on the way he's portrayed thus far ?

+He made allusion to a "history" between Banks & Rollins, any thoughts on that ?

+Do you think Sasha in and out of the ring is the same heartless goddess ?

+What are your guess on Kevin/Sasha bond ?

Hope you liked it my loves! xx