Lynx: A Callie Torres Story

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Callie made sure she was available for her wife's meeting with Epic Games. She was right by Jada's side the entire meeting. And she couldn't be more proud of her. She started from nowhere when they first met, and was now one of the most watched streamers. Callie also couldn't believe how fast she had blown up.

After the meeting ended, she closed her binder of documents from Epic as well as other companies. They had meetings all day tomorrow with potential sponsors, stuff was starting to show up at their door for Jada to review and choose who she'd want to partner with. They had meetings with RedBull, JBL, computer component and peripheral company Corsair, peripheral company Roccat, Logitech, Sony, Govee, Microsoft, and a few more they hadn't had a chance to look at.

The couple heard Jackie barking followed by a knock on the front door meaning something else had arrived. Callie had the pleasure of carrying in a lot of stuff that had been shipped to her wife. They were sure that there was so much more they wouldn't receive. That was an advantage of living on a private drive, was that delivery services had to get special access to actually deliver the package.

Now that FNCS was over, with Jada placing 10th on North America west servers, it was business time in terms of Jada's icon skin. Jada had been playing with another Icon Series creator Chica who offered to come with her wife and help them through the process. Epic had sent Jada a few ideas with a wolf worked into the designs because of her Twitch name.

Now Jada and the creative team at Epic would be working together over the next month and a half to finalize the design. They would be sending a team with a real life outfit of the skin for Jada to model in towards the middle of November. On top of that, another team would be coming in a few weeks to film the documentary that will be released with the skin, Stories from the Battle Bus.

They were going to be having meetings next week regarding the MarbleWolfe brand, Jada's streaming alias. Jada had also been accepted into the Oni Studio's creator program, SypherPK's content creation business. Jada and Ali had gotten close through playing Fortnite together, so her and Callie would be making a trip to Texas soon to meet with his team.

Ali and Maria's icon skins were Jada's favorite of the ones released so far. She wanted to do something cool that was reactive like Ali's, but also support the LGBTQ community like Maria's. And incorporate her wolf into it somehow.

Jada even really liked the reactive parts of their skins, as well as Ninja's. The more eliminations a player recorded through a match, the style of the skin would begin to change to reflect the number of eliminations.

Jada was surprised when Callie sat down beside her. "You look like you're doing a lot of thinking," she stated.

She nodded. "I can't stop thinking about the skin," she exclaimed. "I have so many ideas for what I would want it to look like."

Callie wrapped an arm around her. "I am so proud of you. You made it."

"I never even thought about being in a video game," Jada added. "It feels so unreal right now." She then turned to Callie and threw her arms around her in a hug. "Thank you Calliope."

"Why are you thanking me?" Callie questioned. "You built this all by yourself."

"Calliope, thank you for coming into my life. If we wouldn't have gotten together, I doubt I would've had the time to stream like I can now because of you. You took care of me both physically and financially, and you let me try this out."

"I'm so fucking proud of you Jada," Callie said again. "And I want to be with you on everything with your brand."

"It's our brand," Jada corrected. "This wouldn't of been possible without you." She leaned over and kissed Callie. "Thank you."

"Are we going to hire a team?" Callie asked. "Because all this is already too much for the two of us."

"I want to," Jada agreed. "Maybe we should create our own company like Ali. We have the funding for it. My revenue from Twitch and Youtube would be enough to cover a lot of the startup expenses. We're going to have to hire people, pay the people, get insurance and benefits for them," she stopped. "I have no idea how to be a business owner."

"If my dad is still planning to visit soon, he can help us out. The man runs his own business."

Jada smiled at her wife. "I would love to run a company with you."

Callie returned the smile. "I would love to as well. Although I have no knowledge about business, my background is all medical."

"We'll figure it out Cals. I would love to do something like that and help others get to where I'm at."

"I could even step down so I can be around to help more."

"You are going to be the CEO of this brand," Jada said. "And I am not letting you step down. You're the chief of orthopedics! You have a medical invention that's being used all across the country to help people. I want you right up there with me but you still have a good career ahead of you as a surgeon."

"What if I would rather work with you than be a surgeon anymore?" Callie asked.

"Only if you're completely sure that you want to do it. It's all just talk now baby. We can talk about this again if we end up going through with some of these ideas."

Callie nodded. "I also like the sound of being CEO. That sounds fun."

"I wish Maria and Alyssa were coming sooner," Jada added. "Because I wouldn't mind having them on board with this either.

"Me too. But I think you should get going through these boxes so we have somewhat of an idea of what's going to happen tomorrow."

Jada leaned over and kissed her wife before getting up to open the first box.