I used to watch Michaela play. She loved dominos, setting up elaborate designs so that one would hit the other, going upstairs, down slopes. It was so fun watching her work and figuring out how things measured out on her own. I cannot tell you how proud I was of watching her use her awareness to figure out the next placement.
But thinking about it now and looking in the mirror, fills me with disgust. Because I was playing the same game for Zeus, he would set up people like dominoes and I would knock them down. Now, watching him with Klaus Way, he’s letting Klaus and his circus think that I’m being set up as a domino to them. It’s a thing that’s just meant to be knocked down and laid to the side. That I can just be discarded after everything I’ve gone through to get here. I’ve knocked down every domino Zeus’s put in my way. I helped him consolidate his power. I survived on Deathrow putting Jiro in an early grave to earn my ticket back to civilization. I won the Invasion Briefcase to help aid in keeping the OSW Championship from the hands of the Uprising. I had my back broken by Tombstone saving his wife from a Black Wedding. I came back from that bullshit to beat the tar out of George Cade. Just to get to this point.
Klaus, you think you’ve set me up to run the gauntlet because I’m your domino to knock down? You look back on what I’ve done, every step in the hellish journey to my daughter. Just so she could know her father loves her. Go back and listen to every word I’ve said until this point and you and your little Circus ask yourselves, “Am I your domino to push over or are you the dominoes that have been set up for me”?
Because at the end of it all it took the majority of the Uprising to take my Championship from me. It took fifteen of Zeus’s elite guards, and Ares to send my ass to Death Row. Look at me, my works, and judge me by them. Then look at you and your servant’s camp you call a Circus. Every one of you is just a domino that I have to tip over. Ajax is a boulder I need to break under his weight, one domino down. Damien Solous, I can put him to sleep, a merciful nap from the day-to-day you make him subject himself to. Domino two, down, and out. Leaving me you, Klaus, a man who leads by fear and torture. Now, it’s in that moment you will have the choice… let me see my daughter or I could burn everything you’ve fucking built down to the goddamn ground and take her with me. The final fucking domino in life long series of fuck You’s that I’ve overcome. Because Nobody knows, all it takes is One Shot, One Kill, and you’ll never be able to rebuild what I will take from you.