After Donna beat up Connie, none of the other women in the neighborhood stepped up to challenge her for her "Queen of the Hood" title, especially after the way Connie spit up blood just before she hit the grass to end the fight.
The blood was a result of a cut Connie received on the inside of her mouth, compliments of Donna's fists, but to the circle of onlookers, it appeared Connie bled as a result of Donna busting up her ribs. Connie wasn't going to tell anyone the truth. She wanted no more of Donna, and if everyone thought she Donna had damaged her ribs, no one would think any less of her is she didn't challenge Donna to a rematch. Donna wasn't going to tell anyone the truth, either. If there were any potential challenges from the other women, they were quickly squelched by the brutality with which their new "Queen" had disposed of her rival. And that was fine with Donna, because it meant she wasn't going to be challenged to fight again anytime soon.
Or so she thought.
Unbeknownst to my 5'6" tall, barefoot battling beauty, one of Connie's friends happened to work for the same company that Donna did, and she quickly spread word around Donna's office about the fight, adding that Donna now thought she was hot shit, and with the right provocation, she would fight again.
Donna, in an effort to hide her recent pugulistic activity from her co-workers, used a week of vacation time to allow her cuts and bruises to heel. So, by the time she returned to the office the following Monday, the office was buzzing with the news of Donna's fight.
Donna could tell something was up. People were treating her the same, but they were ill at ease when they were around her. They were unsure as to whether or not she wanted to talk about it, so they respected her privacey, but at the same time, she could feel something was definately in the air. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see people whispering about her. When she entered the breakroom for coffee, conversation all but halted. She was starting to get pissed off, and by mid-morning, she was ready to stand up and ask out loud, to no one in particular, what the fuck was going on.
And that's when her boss, Steve, called her into his office.
Now, Steve, he wasn't just her boss. Years before Donna and I met, Steve was her lover, and to say they were great together was putting it mildly. They were both strong-willed individuals, which resulted in an intense sexual friction between them. However, as great as the sex between them was, that same friction often spilled over into other aspects of their relationship, which resulted in several break-ups. It was during one of these break-ups that Steve met his current wife, Linda. Steve banged Linda, got her pregnant, and in an effort to do the right thing--which wasn't something Steve did often--Steve married her. Donna was furious, to say the least. At the time, she confronted Linda about "stealing her man", but Linda was pregnant and couldnt fight. She did, however, promise Donna that on the day her baby was born, she would get out of her maternity bed and come looking for her. Donna, in return, promised Linda she would not be hard to fight. However, six months after that scorching verbal confrontation, Donna met me, and we started dated and eventually, we were married. It didn't bother me that I got her on the rebound. Such a beautful woman with a volatile personality and a history of fighting was more woman than I ever dreamed of. For her part, Donna compensated for her true love being betrothed to another by her reasoning that Steve had betrayed her, and that She knew I would be true to her, and she was right.
And so, Donna sat in Steve's office, legs crossed, her leg moving up and down to beat the band. She was tense and pissed, and she wanted answers, and by the wry smile on his face, She knew he had them. After several moments of silence, Donna finally spoke.. More like, snapped, actually...
"What's going on, Steve?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing, kitten....Is something bothering you?"
"Don't call me that...You lost the right to call me that when you married that whore!"
"She's not a whore, Donna...She's my Wife" Donna was not about to explode....Confident he had her worked up to where he wanted her, he continued.
"Why didn't you tell me you were going to fight again?...You know how much it always turned me on to watch you fight."
"How do you know about that??"
"One of your neighbors works here...Her husband videotaped the fight...and gave me a copy"
"Who???...Who was it!"
"Sorry, hon...I promised her anonymity in exchange for the video"
"You're a fucking asshole, Steve, you know that?...I want that tape, and I want to know who gave it to you!"
"You surprise me, Donna...You told me once a long time ago you weren't going to fight again, and yet, here you are, brawling in public"
"She started it...for two years she pushed me!"
"And yet, here you are, ready to fight again....That is why you want to know who it was...so you can fight her, right?"
"Why, Steve?...Why are you doing this to me...You've been my boss for five years now, and we've never--"
"That's right...we've never...And that's not like us....We've been avoiding each other and I've been watching a magnificient woman, both in an out of bed, wilt away in the arms of a man she feels is safe....You don't want to hook up with me?, fine...but you were...you are...a natural born fighter...and you Love to Fight...you know you do!..."
"You want to see me fight, Steve?...Tell me who she is, and be outside in the parking lot at quitting time!...And after I'm thru with her, I just might kick Your ass too, for fucking with me like this!"
"Donna...I'm doing this for you....I'm doing this so you can get your very natural freak on, and make some serious money at the same time....I want to help you undo your restraints, and do what comes natural to you.....and make $1,000 dollars in the process"
"What the fuck are you talking about about?"
"The reason I called you in here...the real reason...is that I'm not the only manager in the company who loves a good catfight...There are others...and every once in a while, we get together, and pay two women to fight it out for us, in our very private circle of onlookers...And I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong...there's no nudity...no lingerie...no bikini's or swinsuits or leotards, or anything like that....We only ask our women to show up wearing their everyday casual outdoor clothes....and simply...fight!"
"For a thousand dollars?
"That's the purse, but, of course, to insure the utmost in competition, it's winner take all"
"Of course it is"
"Donna...sweetheart...I made a mistake with Linda....And it cost me you...It cost me Us....I know I can never have that again...but...I still know you better than any man...and I still have feelings for you, and it kills me to see you like a bird, walking with clipped wings, instead of flying, as you should be....You know I'm right....But dispite feeling this way, i've said nothing...Until I saw you...the real you...emerge again....Do this...Donna....Do it for me....Let me see you fight again...But, more importantly...Do it for yourself...."
As pissed as she was...as much as she wanted to slap his face for manipulating her...She knew he was right....She still had feelings for him...and the taste of Connie's blood had awakened something that lay dormant inside of her....She could not believe how she was feeling, but she could not help feeling it....She could not believe what she was about to say, but she said it anyway....
"Who do you have in mind?"