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The price of disobedience... - OneInTheChamber - 08-23-2016
August 23, 2016
Las Vegas, Nevada
St. Rose Dominican Hospital – Intensive Care Unit
A little after 6 pm
The scene opens as the camera zooms through the entrance of St Rose Dominican Hospital. The camera scurries through the bustling hallways of the busy hospital. The camera pans through several doorways as if it was looking for something. And sudden as it reaches the 4th floor of the hospital it stops at the entrance of the Intensive Care Unit. The camera slowly pans around the semicircular shaped area and stops as it spots Chris Chambers laying in a hospital bed. He is intubated and has a ventilator breathing for him. Beside his beside sits Samantha, the bartender from the night before, and his childhood friend. She is fiddling with a cellphone texting back and forth with someone.
Jenny: Im on the next flight from Charlotte b there ASAP Sam: k im here. He n ICU praying 4 safe travels Jenny: keep me updated and ill msg as soon as I can Sam: k b careful ttys |
The camera zooms in on the face of Chris Chambers. His eyelids begin to flutter as if he was dreaming or having a nightmare. The camera fades into black.
Inside Chris Chambers Head
As the scene opens back up, Chris Chambers is seen standing looking up at an enormous glistening pearl gates. The line is pretty long but Chris looks at the gate in awe. The gates are as tall as the sight can see, each etching on it glistening from the radiating sun behind it. Each gate has its own line, but they all funnel into one last gate, standing there is Saint Peter, who is flipping through the pages of a great book laid before him on a lectern. Chris stands and waits his turn patiently and finally he steps up to the entrance and is greeted from the Saint before he even looks up at Chambers.
Saint Peter: Christopher Chambers, you are here much too early my friend. As per the great book, you are to not enter into the holiest of holies. You have time and time again shown that even though your heart is true and you are earnest in your quest to serve our God, your nature of Adam time and time again pulls you back and keeps you from completing the tasks that God has laid before you. The door you see over there in the corner, follow the steps downstairs until you reach the gate there. You know where it leads and you know where you are going. You reap what you sow Chris, and this is your reward for constant disobedience.
Chris turns with a look of anguish and fear on his face. He begins a slow trudge towards the darkened doorway in the corner. As Chris makes his way towards the entrance, two apparitions appear before Chris in the shape of his parents. The reach out and touch Chris one on each shoulder. Chris stands in astonishment and the ghosts speak to Chris in a shared whisper.
Apparitions: Son, don’t do it, you don’t belong there, we have entreated the Lord our God for one last moment with you son. You need to go back to the world and do what you were called to do. God has given you this one last chance to redeem yourself and become the disciple maker that He has called you to be. Stop running from the unknown and stop falling back into old habits. You are going to do great things in the XWF, and win or lose, you will still be making the change for the better there. So hold your head up, we are so proud of the man you have become, just keep pushing forward and pressing in. The road is narrow, and the path is hard, but we promise you the reward is worth it in the end.
Chris: Mom, Dad, I don’t know what to say. It has been so hard without you guys the last few years. I will not let you guys down. I love you guys so much, and I will do my best!
The apparitions hug Chris and Chris smiles as they start towards the gate that Chris was going in. Chris runs and stands at the door in confusion. He points towards the pearly gates, but his parents keep walking towards the darkened door. Chris shouts in defiance.
Chris: This is the wrong door! You two belong over there, go towards the light!
Apparitions: This is the cost of your second chance son, we must go take your place so that you can have one last chance to get it right. This is our last gift to you my son… now go!
A sharp wind blows and Saint Peter looks up from his book with a smile as he snaps his fingers, Chris is whisked away rapidly on a cloud. The cloud torpedoes from the sky and toward the Earth. The cloud bursts through the roof of the hospital and slams into the body of the still Chris Chambers. His eyes bud open and he looks around the room in a panic. A nurse and doctor come running in and try to calm Chambers as they begin to remove the ventilator. Chris coughs and gags and struggles as they begin to remove all the machinery in the room. Chris sits up and Samantha looks like she has seen a ghost. She rapidly begins texting away.
Samantha: HES OK?!? DONT KNOW WTF IS GOING ON BUT HES UP!!!! Jenny: Boarding now, be there in few hours, keep me posted. PRAISE GOD! Samantha: K! HALLELUJAH |
As the doctor and nurse finally get everything removed and monitor the changes in Chris, he reaches over towards a table and grabs a sip of water and tries to clear his throat. His voice is now raspy from the tubes that were down his throat. Samantha still looks panicked but Chris speaks to her.
Chris: Samantha, thank you for watching over me. Tell my sister that I am ok, but I have got work to do, and I do not belong in this place so will you please start getting my paperwork done and get this ball rolling, I have a fight with Dillinger I need to be getting to. He is sitting back sandbagging, holding his tongue, and I got news for him, this Chris Chambers isn’t backing down and will not be holding anything back. So you sit there in silence all you want pal, I got a lot to say and not much time to say it in. So come Saturday night, boy, you better have your ducks in a row Mister Intercontinental Champion, because title or not, I don’t care who stands in my way now, the days of people talking behind closed doors and running their mouth are done, because you can call me Showers, you can call me whatever you please, but the fact of the matter is God placed me in the XWF for a reason, and I’ll be damned if someone named “Dilly” thinks they are going to stay in my way. What a joke of a career, and you are a champion here. I’m really starting to laugh at the hierarchy of the XWF and how the “top echelon” and “champs” are these people who sit in the corner and feed of the bottom of the XWF, but are too scared to actually face someone who actually has talent when they are standing in front of them. Dillinger, you are the next notch on my belt I promise you that, even with me laying in the hospital bed here recovering from the attack of a sore loser, you are not prepared for what you will be facing Saturday.
Samantha: Wow, ok… you need to chill out for a minute. Miracle or not, you had the living hell beat out of you. I mean look over at the x-rays on the wall there. Samantha points to them. You have 4 broken ribs, they thought it might have punctured a lung, you have a broken collar bone and one of your orbitals is fractured. Not to mention the internal bleeding. You need rest. So I’m demanding you lay back and rest or I’ll make the doctor give you rest mister!
Chris: Samantha, you are truly a godsend. I will rest for now, but come hell or high water, I will be in that ring Saturday, and I’m going to give Dillinger the beating of his career. He better be glad that he isn’t putting his title on the line, because I would be holding the belt come the final bell. See, what Dillinger doesn’t understand is that I just saw what my complacency got me. No more, nobody can fathom the cost of what it took to get me to this point, and nobody will truly understand the sacrifices that were made for me, but it’s time for me to be serious not only about my relationship with Christ and making true disciples, but with my career and my focus. Yeah, I’ll eventually fulfill my goal of becoming X-Treme champion, but now my goal is so much higher. Never has my focus been so clear, so Dillinger, you do your worst buddy, because if you thought you saw the best of me when I was making Bourbon tap, or the worst of me when I lost to Madison, you are in for a rude awakening, because Chris Chamber is here to stay. Anyway, Samantha will you hand me that other pillow and see if you can find me a bible please? I have some reading to do and I will try to get some rest.
Samantha pulls a pillow from a cupboard and places it behind his head. She opens a drawer and finds a bible pushed back in the back corner of the drawer. She dusts it off and hands it to Chris, and he starts flipping from the beginning and stops at one of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, Amos. He starts reading down the passages and stops and closes his eyes.
Chris: Did you know the name Amos means “Burden Bearer”? I feel like that is my call for the XWF. It is my burden to carry the weight of the XWF on my shoulders to bring them into the light, to bring them into the new dawn. This is the next chapter in the story of Chris Chambers. So say your prayers and mind your Ps and Qs because I’m on the warpath toward my destiny to become the face of the XWF and hold many titles in my career here. Dillinger … get everything in order because after Saturday, your life is going to be changed forever pal.
Chris starts to get sleepy and lays his bible over to the side. He starts to doze off again. Samantha pulls the covers over him and kisses him on the forehead. Chris reaches up and hugs her neck and then he says a quick prayer before he closes his eyes to sleep.
Chris: Dear Lord, I am so grateful for you being a God of second chances. I promise to not let you down this time. I know that I am only flesh and bones and I could never understand your plans for me, but I pray that you allow me to die daily little more each day until the old me is gone and I am filled with your spirit, your sight, your way of thinking, and your actions. Thank you for saving me and allowing me to breathe yet another day. Amen.
Chris dozes off as the camera pans around to see Samantha sitting back just taking in the presence of Chris, a smile is on her face and she wipes away a few tears. She watches as Chris falls asleep and camera fades to black.