Title: Knight Life
Author: Luna
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Archive: Luna’s Night Moves, Tainted Fiction, and Full Moon Romper Room…anyone else please, just ask.
Fandom: Ring of Honor/TNA/Wrestling
Rating: NC-17 (What else would you expect from me?)
Type: Fantasy
Pairings: Too many to list…just read to find out who’s with who.
Disclaimer: I have not now nor have I ever been associated with Ring of Honor or TNA. All the characters that you recognize belong to Ring of Honor, TNA, or themselves with the exception of the ones I’ve created. Nothing is being gained from this except a need to pass the time.
Summary: They’re tired of being lonely wandering from town to town and living for centuries in the company of their chosen brethren. Now they’re going to do something about it. Will fate play kindly with them or will they be left in misery?
Author’s Note: This is going to be slightly AU. Please people, if that bothers you do us both a favor and STOP READING NOW!!!
Anything else: Many thanks need to go to my loving sister who held my hand as I worked out the kinks in this idea. My other sister, the one god forgot to give me at birth, much love goes out to her for her most excellent beta work and all the time she spends holding my hand. You girls ROCK!!!!
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“Mum, I’m hungry,” a petulant voice whined along with the animated movie. “Oh Rolly, you just ate,” the voice continued to mimic the movie. “I know but I could eat a whole elephant.”
“Jesus, Mya, don’t you watch anything other than cartoons,” Laney asked as she walked into the living room brushing her blonde hair.
The young woman sitting cross-legged in front of the television didn’t bother looking away from the screen as she gave the other girl the one finger salute.
Katrina poked her red head into the room, “You should know better than to tease Mya about her movies.”
“You coming or going,” a tall brunette asked the redhead.
Kat moved to the side to allow the other girl into the room, “Neither, I’m acting as the door and hoping to get a good seat when the bloodshed starts.”
Martina rolled her blue eyes as she stepped by Katrina. “What’s it about now,” she asked wearily.
“Oh you know, the usual. Laney is complaining about Mya’s choice of viewing material,” Kat answered a slight smile on her face.
“Doesn’t she realize by now that it’s liable to get her hurt,” Marti questioned tapping Mya on the shoulder. When the younger girl didn’t even react she dropped the bag of animal crackers into her lap. “Mya, don’t sit so close,” she scolded her sister.
Mya didn’t bother answering. She scooted back a couple of feet. Her strange hazel eyes never left the television as she opened the bag clutched in her hands.
“How do you get her to listen to you when she doesn’t listen to us,” Laney asked as she watched the exchange.
Finally Mya turned to look at one of her roommates. “Look at her! Would you try and argue with her?”
“Keep it up shit head,” Martina threatened from her seat on the couch.
Mya waved her sister off. She’d heard it all before and knew she still had plenty of room to play with before the older girl really got pissed off and carried through with her threat. “I’m missing my movie,” Mya hissed trying to get the girls to shut up so she could watch her cartoon in peace.
“Mya you have seen this movie at least one hundred times, and we’ve got it on DVD! You can watch that any time,” Marti snapped.
“But you guys said that you weren’t going to be here, remember,” Mya retorted a scowl marring her pretty face.
“Correction,” Paige reminded the other girl as she stepped into the room. “You said you were going with us the next time we went out.”
Mya’s blue green hazel eyes widened comically. “You mean that was tonight,” she sputtered.
“Yep, so shut the fucking movie off, and get dressed so we can get going already,” the raven-haired girl responded. “Some time tonight Mya,” she barked.
“I hate you guys,” Mya muttered as she sealed the bag of cookies. She rolled to her feet glaring at the four grinning faces staring back at her. “You guys fucking suck,” she said a bit more loudly as she started for the door.
“You know you love us,” Katrina said batting her turquoise eyes at the younger girl.
“And for the record,” Martina remarked stopping her sister before she left the room. “I do not suck.” She grinned at the youngest Williams girl’s frosty expression.
“Oh and please spare us the tee shirt and jeans routine,” Laney said as Mya reached the door. The others were nodding their agreement.
The multicolored hair girl whirled around hazel eyes narrowed on the blonde. “Why the hell not? It’s what you’re wearing,” she questioned angrily, gesturing to the girl’s tight fitting well worn blue jeans and royal blue baby doll t-shirt that proclaimed Laney was 99% evil.
“You wanna know what the difference between you and me is,” Laney asked coyly.
Mya crossed her arms over her chest rolling her eyes. “Why don’t you enlighten me,” she said sarcastically.
“I make this look good,” she replied smiling impishly.
“Fuck you guys…twice,” she snarled whirling around to go change.
“No thanks,” Paige answered. “Not my type but maybe we can find you someone willing to fill that role.”
Instead of answering the young woman stormed down the long hallway to her bedroom. She entered her personal sanctuary immediately soothed by the dark colors and whimsical nature of the room. The others had laughed when they had gotten a good look at it, but she didn’t care.
The walls started at a medium blue about waist high gradually becoming darker as they reached the ceiling. The ceiling itself was decorated with hundreds upon hundreds of glow in the dark stars. The walls themselves held a couple of shelves, which housed her collection of stuffed animals that she had been unwilling to throw out.
Sitting diagonally across from the door, was her bed, which was sporting a black and white dragon motif at the moment. Over the bed was a homemade canopy. The gauzy material hanging on either side of the bed gave the room an almost fairytale feeling.
Mya sat on the edge of the bed her fingers loosely intertwined, her thoughts on the girls that she called family. They were an unlikely combination of souls that had somehow managed to find each other. They meant so much to her that if for any reason she were to lose them she would feel like a limb had been amputated.
Martina had been right there with her when they had walked out on their parents with Marti just barely being a legal adult. Mya had gone with her knowing that things would be tough but anything had to be better than listening to her parents fight all the time and being dragged into the middle of them all.
Her sister had been so strong during that time. She had what amounted to a sixteen year old child to take care of while learning how to take care of herself. Things hadn’t been easy. Martina had worked two jobs to keep a roof over their heads and still managed to give the young girl the life she should have had to begin with.
Though Martina had never said anything Mya had been aware that somewhere along the way her sister had given up on the dream of going to college to make sure she had everything that they had been denied in their parents’ house. So when she graduated high school it became her mission to make sure that they both went to college. They could share a room. They had done so while they were living at their parents’ place and they didn’t have to live in the best neighborhoods because the rent was just too much for that.
They had struggled for three and a half years to get through school. If the two hadn’t been close before this the trials they had endured made them stronger and more assured in their belief in each other. After they had graduated, Martina as a nurse, and Mya as a CPA, they had decided a change of scenery was needed.
They hit the windy city young and eager, but so far from naïve that they bore no resemblance to the young women they really were. It hadn’t taken them long to realize that even as close as they were they needed friends outside of each other. That was how they had met the others.
Paige had been the first to come into their lives brightening it with her I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude. She had reminded the girls that they were young women not old hags. She had taken to the sisters like a fish to water. Showing them some of the sights along with taking them to some of the hotter nightspots, it had cemented the bond between the three girls. After that it wasn’t uncommon for the then blonde young woman to be found at their place even if they weren’t home.
The young woman had her secrets though; of that much the girls had been sure. She didn’t talk about her past. Neither Mya nor Martina was going to press for answers especially when they were equally reluctant to talk about their own past. They left it knowing that when, or if, the girl wanted to talk they would be there.
Katrina, or Kat for short, had entered the picture after that. She brought with her a maturity that seemed to balance out Paige’s exuberance. The redhead managed to mother without smothering the three girls. She laughed easily and that was what had drawn Martina and Mya to her.
In their lives there had been very little laughter. With the help of Kat they were slowly learning to do so again. Katrina was an open and loving person and made no bones about the fact that she had made many mistakes in her life. She claimed that they were character building experiences that had hurt like hell at the time she had gone through them.
The young women got the impression that at some point she had lost a child but Kat never mentioned it directly. So the girls were left to wonder. They didn’t want to pry into what was so obviously a painful memory. After all everyone was entitled to their secrets the girls thought.
For a short time the four young women were inseparable. They did almost everything together with the exceptions of showers and bathroom visits. If they weren’t at Martina and Mya’s place they were usually found at Katrina’s. The girls got along exceptionally well considering how much time they spent in each others company.
Laney had been the last to come into their little family. The shy blonde had been sitting on the steps crying her eyes out as Mya happened upon her. The youngest Williams girl hadn’t been hard hearted enough to keep walking. Without another thought Mya had sat down beside the young woman wrapping a comforting arm around her shoulders.
She had listened as the blonde told her about the eviction notice that had come out of nowhere. Laney had been distraught because checks that she had been writing to cover her rent had bounced, repeatedly. It had come to light that her roommate, a young man that she hadn’t known very well and had left a couple of months before, had been forging her signature and passing off bad checks all over town. With nowhere to go and no family to call the young woman was going to be out on the streets by the end of the week.
Making a snap decision Mya called her sister to let the others know that she was going to be bringing someone home with her. It was one of the few times in her young life that the girl made the choice to listen to that little voice. It hadn’t yet steered her wrong and she doubted that it ever would.
Dragging Laney along the pair had made it back to the apartment and the three anxious women waiting there. They had taken one look at the young woman and jumped into action. One of the first things the five of them decided was to find a place large enough to house all of them yet not be too far from any one of their jobs.
Laney had been a welcome addition to their little fold. She seemed so shy and quiet; it was only after you had gotten to know her that she really opened up. The little blonde had been funny, witty and just what they needed in their impromptu family. It wasn’t the normal family, Mya was aware of that but they were her family, the only family she would ever claim.
A knock on the door jerked the young girl back to the present. She lifted her multicolored head to stare into the loving blue eyes of her sister. “Hey, you do know that we weren’t serious don’t you,” Martina asked softly.
Mya sent her older sister a wan smile. “I know. I just got lost in thought,” she responded.
“Honey, if you don’t wanna go out, we’ll understand,” Marti informed her in that same quiet tone.
“I want to go. I just forgot that it was tonight.” She sighed tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. “It’s just that I always feel like the odd man out when I go out with you guys,” she held up a hand when her sister opened her mouth. “It’s not your fault honey. I could be more open and actually dance with someone outside of you four.”
Martina laid her hand over her sister’s squeezing it briefly before letting Mya go towards her closet.
“Hey are we going or what,” Paige asked poking her head around the doorframe. “You’re not even dressed!”
“Just give me a minute will ya,” Mya shot back from the depths of her closet.
“You better have something decent clutched in those grubby little fingers or I’ll be forced to alter your look,” the raven-haired young woman announced.
“You’re gonna give me nightmares,” Marti returned.
Mya stepped out of her closet a pair of black leather pants and a red fishnet shirt in her hands. She had even gone so far as to pull out the black satin and lace bra and matching panties. She figured if she looked good maybe it would transfer into making her feel that way too.
Ten minutes later the five girls were ready for their night on the town. Their spirits were high as they laughed and talked about relieving some of the stress from the week. Paige had heard about this new club and that was where they were headed. The local papers had heralded it as a raving success. Knight Flamye was now the place to be seen and with Paige’s connections they were already in the club even if they hadn’t arrived yet.
There was change in the air and if any of the girls had felt it they gave no indication. To the outside world they were five young women looking to have a good time. Fate is a fickle and often cruel mistress. She does, as she will without rhyme or reason. That night would indelibly be etched in their minds as the moment when their lives had changed forever.