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It was workout time again for Erin Quinn. The woman was on a mission to become the strongest middleweight at LAW. Her current strategy at attaining that goal was to work out with the strongest woman she knew, Kathrine Hart. "Whew! You really know how to push yourself." The redhead complimented her friend as the pair headed to the locker room after a particularly hard day. She already knew she was going to be sore in the morning. "No pain no gain though." Erin said, trying to justify to herself the fact that she would probably be sore just walking tomorrow.

"Lemme just change real quick. Don't run off without me." Erin said as she rushed ahead of her friend. Even when it came to the small things the redhead was competitive. She didn't even want to let Kat get ready before her and have to wait for her to finish. Erin entered the locker room and went straight for her locker, opening the door and letting her bag and clothes pour out onto the floor before trying to gather everything back together so she could change.
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"Heheh, you gotta push yourself if you wanna realize your potential, right?" Kat answered and smiled when Erin commented. It had been another hard day of training in the gym for Kat. This time, she had the pleasure of being joined by perhaps her best friend in the wrestling promotion and one of the few that knew that Kat looked like without her mask on, one of LAW's premiere middleweights: Erin Quinn. Kat panted a bit as Erin picked up the conversation and subsequently took off. The heavyweight blonde chuckled as Erin ran on ahead into the locker room.

"Haha. Erin, it's not a race!" She'd protest in a casual tone. As Quinn emptied her belongings out inside the locker room, Kat looked to the wall in the hallway just outside of it. There were a few of the regular notices: gym hours, matches planned next week, ads posted by other LAW women seeking sparring partners of opponents. But one thing stood out to Katherine and caught her eye after a moment. She'd slowly reach forward and tear a flier off the wall before ambling towards the ladies' locker room whilst reading it. After entering, Kat would let her gym back droop off her arm while beckoning her red headed friend.

"Hey, Erin check this out. Looks like a tournament. It's a little hardcore for my tastes, but...I think I actually wanna enter." She'd explain while approaching Erin and looking down at the flier in her hands.
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"Haha that's loser talk!" Erin called out to her friend from inside the locker room. She wasn't sure Kat would take the bait but it was always fun for Erin to egg her friend on. Out of the two the heavyweight was usually the more levelheaded but that couldn't always be the case, or so Erin thought. The redhead quickly lifted her plain white tank top over her head and threw it to the side before scrambling around for a bright green shirt, an object she would have thought would be easier to spot. As soon as she grabbed her shirt she saw Kat round the corner with a piece of paper in her hand.

"Huh? A tournament?" Erin asked before taking a step forward and grabbing the paper from Kat's hand. As far as she was concerned if the other wrestler was thinking about entering then Erin HAD to enter too. "Looks like it's some sort of new years thing...Knockouts only? Heh sounds like my kind of fight." Erin said before looking up at Kat with a grin. "Gonna enter so I can kick your ass?" The redhead immediately started to tease.
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Katherine would roll her eyes after Erin snatched the piece of paper. She'd toss her back aside and begin taking off her white tee shirt, revealing purple and black athletic wear in the form of a sports bra underneath. She'd answer her friend while turning towards her locker and beginning to undo the lock so that she could fetch her belongings and her change of clothes.

"Yeah, a tournament. I've seen my fair share. You'd figure they'd advertise with more than just fliers." She said, exercising the same reasoning and level headedness that Miss Quinn had come to know her for. Upon hearing Erin throw down the gauntlet in the form of goading her into entering, Katherine would turn around towards Erin and raise an eyebrow. The blonde heavyweight would place a hand on her hip and lean towards her friend. With a renewed vigor, Kat would answer a level of gusto that made it seem like she hadn't been tired at all from their workout.

"Oh? You know I don't need a tourney to give me an excuse to lay you out." Kat would finish up her statement by sticking her tongue out at Erin and reaching for the flier that her friend had snatched from her, attempting to snatch it back.

"Looks like signing up is pretty easy. We can do it, online. Have you ever even knocked anyone out, before? Or competed in a Last Woman's Standing Match? You sure you thought this through?" Hart would then ask, teasing her friend while raising an eyebrow and poking Erin's nose with her finger
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Erin finally grabbed her shirt and slid it over her quickly. Accidentally having her head end up by the sleeve the redhead flailed for a moment before fixing the problem. "Ooooh? Does the small kitten wanna pretend to be a big tiger?" Erin teased before just starting to laugh. Her smile quickly vanished though as the flier was snatched right from her hands. "Hey! I wasn't done!" Erin pouted, failing to see her hypocrisy . All she could think about now was the tournament. It was the perfect opportunity to try and get her name out there. All she had to do was sign up online.

After Kat's last jab Erin didn't think she even had a choice anymore. She had to show the blonde that she was capable of knocking out any number of opponents. She would even take more than one at a time if she needed to. "I've knocked PLENTY of people out." Erin began to brag. "Just not...well not in matches." She admitted. "More in...well bar fights." The redhead explained, her voice getting quieter and quieter as she began to feel a bit self conscious.

A smile soon returned to Erin's face though. "And I've gotten hit in the head plenty too." The Irish brawler happily admitted. She tilted her head and knocked on the top of her head lightly as if to demonstrate how hard it was.
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Kat stood up straight and looked into Erin's eyes expectantly when the red head declared that she had, in fact, knocked out plenty of people. Kat was understandable curious. She paid no mind to the fact that Erin had put her head through the hole in her shirt meant for her sleeve. Hanging out with Erin, she knew this wasn't the first time that would happen and it certainly wouldn't be the last.

When Quinn went on to explain that the only people she had knocked out were people she found herself in bar fights and then bonked herself on the head to demonstrate her toughness, Kat placed both hands on her own math to stifle a laugh. She'd begin to grab hold of Erin's shirt and begin to fix her up so that she was wearing it properly. While she did that, the "Super Kitty" would comment: "You know, you were right the other night at the bar. You really are the most graceful wrestler I know."

After fixing Erin up, Kat would continue collecting her things before trying to rush them. "Come on! There's only 8 slots, so we should hurry. If we sign up soon, maybe we'll get a good look at what our competition's like." Katherine would then flash a competitive smile at Quinn, the same one that she was known to wear on her face in the ring. "And if we sign up together, it should improve our chances of facing each other, yeah?"
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"Nnng hey! I got it." Erin complained as Kat helped her fix her shirt. Finally her head emerged in the right place and Erin would shake her head to 'fix' her messy hair. "I'll show ya who's graceful when we're facing each other." Erin grumbled. Of course she knew she'd just be showing people that it was Kat, but she couldn't let her friend slight her and get off easy. "I'mma give you the BIGGEST bonk and knock you right out." Erin declared as a smile returned to her face.

"Oh shit!" The redhead exclaimed. "I hope we were the first to catch that flier!" She continued. With 8 spots availability was an actual concern. "Well c'mon! Let's go!" Erin yelled. She would grab Kat by the sleeve and start trying to drag her friend out of the locker room. She even made it a few feet before realizing she forgot her stuff and that neither of the two women were fully changed. The redhead soon sheepishly made her way back to where she was a few moments ago.
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After voicing her hopes for taking Erin on in the KO Tourney, Kat was happy to hear that Erin felt the same type of excitement at the thought of the two of them facing off. Hart had just grabbed a few of her belongings and thrown on a zip hoodie before Erin tugged her by the sleeve and began pulling her towards the exit.

"Wha! Erin! Erin our stuff!" Katherine protested as she was pulled a couple of steps before standing her ground. "I'm excited, too. And I'm sure we'll make it in time. But if you make me leave here without my pants, I'll give you a head bonking that you won't forget." Kat said with a chuckle. The two would dress themselves proper and collect their bags and items before heading out with the intention of registering and making a statement, both in the tourney and in LAW in general.