Training kick to the head

Anyone could tell that there was something wrong with Adrian Kytes, even if they had only basic knowledge about her. For one she was training hard in the official AFW building instead of hiding out in her semi-private gym and for another thing, there wasn't even a hint at a smile on her face as she worked over the heavy bag like it owed her money.

Oh, and she'd shattered one of the large mirrors with a dumbbell and chased everyone else out, leaving her to pound away alone and in silence until her knuckles started to bleed while broken glass lay scattered around.

The announcement of the Elimination chamber match and everything preceding that had hit her a lot harder than anyone else. She had her ego systematically picked apart, attacked her friends and even the person she thought would be on her side no matter what she did, Rebecca, had pulled her away while everyone else just walked off, dismissing the cosplayer as a joke. Vile thoughts clouded her mind, visions of her opponents started to appear on the bag as she kept punching and weaving around.

After that big hectic confrontation out in the ring, leading to the announcement of the elimination chamber, Heather was walking through the hallways, her heart pounding a bit. The elimination chamber was quite the brutal match type. She's only heard of how it used to lessen people's careers, none of the wrestlers being the same again after leaving it. It was quite the daunting idea, but she was preparing herself for it as much as she could.

She would see quite a few people leaving the gym area, causing her to tilt her head in wonder. She thought she had heard a crash sound earlier, but she had been far away enough to not really make out where it was coming from.

She would step into the gym, slowly opening the doors and looking around. Immediately her vision would be drawn to Adrian who was there punching away at the heavy bag viciously.She would see the broken glass on the floor causing her to step up to the girl, coming a few steps away from her, noticing her bloody knuckles. She would cross her arms, a slightly worried look unavoidably appearing on her face. She's never really talked to Adrian before, but they used to have the same 'cause' part of the same group, and she knew she was a good friend of Cecilia's.

"Hey. You keep doing that and you won't have any skin left on those." She would say to her, hoping to get her attention.

Adrian hadn't noticed Heather's entrance, despite her footsteps being one of the few noises left in the room, just focused on burning all her energy into beating the sand out of the bag, the cosplayer flinching upright when she spoke up. "Huh!?" She let out as she whirled around to see who it was, fists raised as though she was about to punch them for daring to be within a 50 foot radius, but she sort of relaxed when she saw who it was. "Oh...hey..." she said, hands slowly and painfully uncurling by her side. "What's up... Heather is it? We never really talked much when we were like, still doing the Avenger thing."

Heather would get her hands up a bit as Adrian quickly turned to her with her fists raised. She thought she was about to take a swing at her, but fortunately the girl was relaxing herself as she saw her. Hearing her words, Heather would nod her head letting out a little sigh. "Yeah, It's Heather. And you're Adrian right?..Yeah the only time we talked was when you were showing that ridiculous slideshow." Heather would say, trying to joke around a little to lighten up the mood, not only Adrian's but her own as she couldn't get her minds off the match.

"You worked up about the match too?" Heather would say, glancing down at the broken glass a bit, and then up to her knuckles.

Adrian's miserable scowl wasn't helped by Heather's attempt at making light of her previous antics, mumbling something like "It wasn't ridiculous..." as she turned around to find a med kit in her bag. Get some bandages for her hands and something while avoiding eye contact.

"Kinda..." she sighed, the match itself was weighing heavilly on her, despite being one to approach the rules as a very loose guideline, she still liked having them around to break. Lawless environments where everyone could do what she could really put her at a disadvantage as much as she didn't like to admit it. "It's gonna suck isn't it?"

"Ah..n-no sorry I was just trying to..eh..Forget it." Heather would say, shaking her head. She felt bad that Adrian took what she said in the way she did, wanting to say something before the girl would continue on. Heather would take a deep breath, sighing and nodding her head.

"Yeah..From as much as I her at least. Can't say I've ever been in anything like it..Though..I mean I imagine it can't be all that different from the cell..though..." Heather would let out, thinking about the steel grating that would be the 'outside'. There was no padding in that match, and everything around them could be used as a weapon. "I'm...honestly surprised someone like Natalia suggested such a match. Never pictured her as a girl that would mind getting brutal..in that type of way.." Heather would say, shrugging her shoulders before she would stare at Adrian.

"Also, since we never talked, just wanted to thank you..for taking me in that team that you and Cecilia were making. I appreciated that."

Adrian's scowl worsened when Natalia came up, her hand painfully balling into a fist on instinct, just imagining her smug face failing to hold in a giggle at her expense. "She's probably hoping for the rest of us to do all the work so she can come in last, win, then say something about winning the most grueling match ever when she wasn't even in half of it." She grumbled before pulling a roll of bandages out of her bag. "Could you help me out here?" the cosplayer asked, trying to soften up as she turned to heather with her bloodied hands. "It's hard enough to put stuff on your hands when they don't feel like they're gonna blow when you move them." she half joked.

What Heather said though, about how she and Cecilia kind of took in Heather, kind of made the cosplayer blush. "It's okay, we didn't really do anything. I mean... except abuse the fuck out of Cec's credit card, or was that just me?"

Heather would watch Adrian's reaction as she talked about Natalia. It was obvious that Adrian didn't hold Natalia in the greatest regards either, which would cause Heather to cross her arms as the girl spoke, nodding her head. "You know, That wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm sure everyone will love her for it too won't they.." Heather would say, a little hint of anger in her words as well before Adrian would get a roll of bandages out of her bag, asking for help with her bloodied hands.

"Ah-Sure, no problem." Heather would say, taking the roll of bandages, going to bandage up the girl's bloody knuckles as she did before she would hear Adrian's words, seeing her slight blush. "Doesn't matter really. Was a time when I really needed people, and you, her, bonnie, Rebecca, they were all there. Even if it was for everyone's own reasons, it was great." She would say before she would laugh a little at the girl's words abut her card. "Hah! Totally. That was just nuts her place and everything."

"She's a total bitch, can't believe I was friends with her once..." Adrian exclaimed, to be honest: she did miss just hanging out with Natalia, who despite appearences was just as goofy as the cosplayer. At least when she was friendly, but like with the cosplayer the Dream could be real viscious at times. She gathered that Heather had seen the bad side of her too. At least that way she could guarantee that if they were the final 3, she'd at least have some help.

"Yeah, it was pretty great, wasn't it?" She said, lightening up as the two reminisced. "I kinda miss being part of that sort of big thing. You know, like a group of people who you could hang out with, watch each others back. Be real close and stuff. Although it's a shame we never got to do that much stuff and well..." she said looking around. "Well we kinda got the gym to ourselves really, so that kinda counts."

"Heh..yeah" Heather would let out, hugging her arms to herself a bit more with her arms crossed as she would blush just slightly. Both encounters with Natalia had had the same sort of things going on during the match, and just thinking about it embarrassed Heather quite a bit, she hated it. Though she would quickly shake it off as she bandaged up the girl's knuckles.

"It definitely was." Heather would respond, nodding her head at her words, her thoughts from earlier about Natalia fading away as she would smile from what Adrian was saying. At her next words, Heather would look around, looking to the sparring ring. "Well..I've never had the chance to face you in the ring, not even a spar. I've done it with Cecilia but...What do you say? A little preparation for the chamber?