Tag: Jessie/Jack Between Match One & Two kon_el_superboy

After the match, Jessie finally stirred and Jack helped his brother to the back. Jack was focussed on Jessie and so the pain of a fourth loss against zero wins was delayed. Patrick came into the locker room and comforted the battered Jessie. He felt badly for them. But this just convinced him even more that these brothers need his help.

Patrick had seen a lot of good things in the ring. They were just careless and had not developed any strategy before the match it seemed. Despite being close brothers, they did not seem to work together enough.

Jessie sat on the bench and Patrick and Jack gave him comforting platitudes but Jessie wasn't interested. He said, "Doesn't matter. I don't feel badly at all. What's done is done. Meanwhile, we have another match in a week. And another one after that, too. We have to go back into that ring, in front of a lot of those same people and face two more tag teams, all the while listening to them chant "jobbers" to our faces. So what does it matter that we lost? We are jobbers, it's what we do."

Patrick and Jack sat silently thinking about that while Jessie hobbled to the shower to soak his pain under hot water.

*****

For the next week, Jessie and Jack trained hard. Jessie wanted to quit but he found he was having fun. The other boys were helpful and pleasant. Even Corwin was talking to him, which he had not for the first three days.

They learned several moves and practiced their maneuvers. Corwin and Drew were the leaders of the mini-camp; they were the experts on tag wrestling. Elton and Patrick taught Jessie and Jack wrestling and holds, but that was less important for them in the short-run.

Jessie had apologized to Jack for getting pinned. Jessie had been pinned in the first two matches; Jack was pinned in the third and now Jessie again. Jack told his brother not to apologize, because Jack knew that it was his mistake that had cost them the match. Jessie had not argued with Jack because, deep down, he secretly agreed with him. But Jessie loved his brother too much to ever tell him that.

Alan and Greg were tough. They promised to look ahead to Keegan and Ross. They were closer to their size and weren't muscle boys. They were more like Tommy Hilfiger or Abercrombie and Fitch models. In fact, Keegan and Ross were part of a clique in school called the "Tommy Boys," good looking, rich prettyboys whose main objective was to party.

It would be a better match, Jessie and Jack agreed. Neither talked about winning any more. It just made the losses more painful.