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Violet wasn’t lying. Ever since Violet and Jane lost the Women’s Tag Team Championship, she has been very critical of her tag team partner. Especially after Stone lost to Shou Rong a few weeks ago on Octane. But now, a win over a former Women’s World champion was sure to end Violet’s doubts over Jane’s capabilities as a wrestler. Maybe they’ll finally have a proper tag team match after these past few weeks of turmoil. Jane certainly hoped for that, since her bond with Violet had grown pretty strongly since they started training together, peaking with their championship win. Getting back on track is all that Jane wants right now.

Violet looks at Jane, not being able to hide the stunned look in her face. Violet has no shame in talking down to Jane, but Jane has never reacted. That little quip is the most surprising thing that Violet has heard today. It’s almost like Jane took a page out of her partner’s book. Jane did do it intentionally, trying to make Violet understand the effect of what he has been saying, but it wasn’t a deeply premeditated act or anything.

Violet stared back at Jane, with a puzzled expression. She was pretty mad. Violet had been talking down on Jane for weeks, but Stone stepping up to her was, in Violet’s opinion, out of the realm of possibility. Evans stood there, speechless, just looking back at Stone. Stone, rationally, didn’t think her comment was that big of a deal. She was just stating a fact. But Violet hasn’t been thinking rationally for a while. Evans tried to find words for a bit, while purposely looking away from Jane. She looked Stone right in the eyes with a smug expression, before letting out a small smirk.

Now Jane was the one with an angry look on her face. Rightfully so, though. Stone had those exact thoughts many times throughout recent weeks, but she kept them bottled up this whole time. Jane cares about her tag team partner more than Violet cares about her, and due to that, she was trying to avoid confrontations. But this was just too much. Jane couldn’t stand there and let Violet talk without consequences for much longer, and the people should be thankful for that. Evans didn’t physically react. She gave her tag team partner a deathly stare, without saying anything. Violet let out a chuckle. Somehow. Jane didn’t think this was a very funny situation, but Evans was quietly laughing. Violet is very good at getting into someone’s head and intimidating them, and this was an attempt to do exactly that. Jane wasn’t very intimidated, and just…confused. Finally, Violet stopped laughing and went back to her previous, more serious facial expression.

Even while offering this fair opportunity to settle things, Violet was very cocky. Evans can’t hide her huge ego behind her words, but maybe she wasn’t even trying to. Regardless, Jane wasn’t going to be intimidated by her after all this. Stone is tired of messing around. All she wants is her tag partner, and friend, back.

Jane accepted the match, it was practically a no-brainer in her mind, but she expressed some doubts to herself about all this. No matter the outcome, will they be able to function after going up against each other in the ring? One can hope so, but only time will tell.