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Janet Montgomery remembered when she started to film her two part guest appearance on Merlin the British TV show.  Her agent telling her that the American show ‘Made in Jersey’ was going to be picked up.  She remembered how happy she was to get that starring role and to have this guest spot on a British show.  Her agent then told her something that made her pause “I’ve heard a rumour about Merlin and please don’t take up Katie’s challenge”

The Katie was Katie McGrath, an Irish actress that was similar in height and build.  As she drove to the set that day she wondered what Katie’s challenge was.  She spent weeks on the set because she had to film a series five episode as well and on the last day of filming she found out what Katie’s challenge was.

“A Georgian era catfight” was Katie’s challenge “and no one has had the guts to take me on in it”

Janet remembered the look on Katie’s face that no one had the guts to do this yet and she wasn’t expected to either.  Something about Katie McGrath at that moment set a fire inside her body to find out which was actually the better woman.  It was the first time she had that feeling in her life.  She had heard about it but standing shoulder to shoulder with Katie McGrath was the first time she felt the urge to fight another woman.

She fought back the urge to say yes lets do this now and took a deep breath.  That deep breath was something that stuck with her as when Katie heard that the next thing she knew Katie was right in front of her.  Katie obviously knew she was about to say no and wanted to make a show of it now and she had to take back control as the cast was behind her.

“I hate flying and being hurt, how about a rain check Katie, unless this is all show”

“Rain check is good, hopefully you come to cash that check though”

“Oh I plan on cashing it, don’t you worry your pretty little Irish eyes… I plan on cashing it”

“Little English lass I look forward to you cashing this”

She remembered they stood there looking at each other for what felt like an eternity.  Plus what Katie insisted on to accept a rain check as something valid.  She had to curtsy in front of Katie.  Now she was on her way back to the Merlin set and she wanted to settle this once and for all with Katie McGrath and after the cancellation of the show she starred in, the first thought she had was that ‘Georgian Catfight’ 

She learned how brutal those fights were, two women fight topless in front of a crowd and the fight ends when one can no longer continue. 

The closer they got to the set of Merlin the more nervous she got, the more she wondered if she could beat Katie.  No of course she could Katie was full of hot air and she was about to prove it.

“I hope your not going there to take on Katie’s challenge”  Her driver said to her

“Pardon me, you know about Katie’s challenge.”

“I should say I do, I had to bring a doctor up here last year.  An actress was challenged by Katie and said yes.  A Miranda Raison and when I got here she was beaten up pretty badly but Katie, well the only marks on her was blood on her fists and mouth.  The blood on Katie’s mouth wasn’t hers, it was Miranda’s.  Do you know what the most disturbing part was though?”

“No what was the worst part?”

“There was blood on Miranda’s chest except where it said ‘Katie’s work’  I looked over at that sweet Irish girl who I thought and still think the world of and she was apologizing to me that I had to see that.  She was sorry about what she did and said once her blood got boiled during the fight she saw someone else and it wasn’t Miranda…She looked around and started to cry about how far she went.”

“Did she say who she wished it was?  Who she saw?”

“No,  all I heard was rain check… something about a rain check”

Now she was nervous again and wondered if this was the right decision.  Before she could think anymore she was there, at the set of Merlin.  She took a deep breath and made her way towards where they had readings of the script.  The car left and she stopped and took another deep breath and remembered something that also pissed her off ‘Janet Montgomery is the British Ashley Greene’  That thought caused her to keep moving and before she could think of Katie beating her again there was Katie McGrath.

“Cashing in that rain check are you?”  Katie McGrath stood there twenty feet away, both women were bundled up in warm clothing, there hair blowing in the wind. 

From the time Michelle Ryan told her to start this challenge Katie never had that motivation to truly fight someone until she met Janet Montgomery.  Looking at Janet she knew that was incorrect she had the motivation to fight but the moment she was face to face with Janet.  There eyes met all she wanted was to fight and maim her, she wanted to seat on Janet’s stomach and keep punching Janet in the face until the face was gone

She truly thought the moment Janet said rain check was so encouraging.  She wanted to get into that pit and fight Janet then and there at first she believed there would be a fight. She saw it in Janet’s eyes though no one else saw it she did, she looked in Janet’s eyes and could tell Janet wanted it as much as she did.  When she heard ‘Irish’ all she could think was as if she was back in Georgian times and this English bitch needed a beating Then she heard about the American show and her hopes of fighting and destroying Janet Montgomery became a nightmare.

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She thought about her so much, thought about what a fight would have been like.  Even in her fantasies sometime she lost and she’d wake up and hit a punching bag until she couldn’t raise her arms.  20 feet away from each other she could see that same fire in Janet’s eyes.  There was no backing down, there was no more rain checks.  No talking amongst the men about what would happen if the two had fought.  No now there would only be talk about what did happen.

“Yes Katie, did you think that I’d leave that in the air never to be cashed”

Neither woman moved forward nor backward they just stared at each other.  Even with there hair blowing in front of there face and all around in the wind they looked straight ahead.  Katie remembered having her co-star Angel Coulby at her flat in London and had a picture of Janet up on her computer.  It was a picture of Janet from her guest appearance on the League  “My bodies just as good as that”  Then she brought up a picture of Janet in her bra and panties from the Human Target

“Katie she looks stronger then you, I mean look at her abs”  In one of her most embarrassing moments she stood up and ripped off her shirt and kept screaming my bodies better.  Look at my body, better tits and that’s just a stomach that’s for… It was so embarrassing to rip off her shirt in front of Angel the way she did.  Angel hugged her and assured her that her body was just as good as Janet’s.  The one thing she couldn’t explain to Angel was why she wanted the fight with Janet so much.  How she could hate a woman so much that she only met once.

“I was starting to think you’d stay hidden in America but here you are”

“Here I am” 

She destroyed another woman thinking it was me

I hurt that poor woman wishing it was her

At that moment the same thought was running through both women’s minds.  No matter what she does I’m going to beat her

“So if you’re going to do this lets get you two away from each other so you can get ready for the challenge”  It was the star of Merlin Bradley James  who put his arm around a woman he had shared scenes with in Janet Montgomery brought her to his dressing room.

Colin Morgan brought Katie to her dressing room where her friend and co-star Angel Coulby was waiting for her so they could talk.  “This is what you wanted right?”

“So much, Colin get the message to everyone that this is taking place in the pit”   Colin Morgan left and she looked at her friend “I want it, she wants it… When its over I hope I’ll end up just like I did last time but looking at her out there… She will be tougher to beat”

“Your face is to pretty I wish you didn’t have to do this”

“I know sweetie” Katie looked in the mirror and knew that her beautiful face wasn’t going to be as beautiful soon but she had to soldier on.  She wouldn’t back down now or ever to Janet

“Seriously Janet, no one would have thought less of you if you didn’t come back for this”

“Even when I was filming that show I had dreams of this Bradley.  Her face was always there for me, I want this and so does she.  That fight she had…”

“It was brutal, they got the entire crew and cast which was finale so it was at its peak.  Katie hit the first punch and Miranda hit a punch.  The two locked up and Katie overpowered her with ease and just destroyed her.  She concentrated a lot on Miranda’s stomach and so much more… She made me promise to not say more then that but Janet I’ll say this; it shocked us how strong Katie is”

Janet walked out from the back in her jeans and bra, the tank top in her hands.  “I’m strong as well.”

“I can see that but Janet… Katie’s rule is you show up to the fight in a undershirt such as that and a long skirt… no bra or knickers.  Georgian rules with a caveat of a shirt”

“It’s Katies challenge, I’ll get ready”

She looked in the mirror and knew the next time she looked in a mirror and wondered what that reflection would look like in 24 hours.

Angel Coulby stood in the middle of the large forest area where all her castmates and crewmembers stood behind the circle of trees.  “Janet Montgomery is back from the United States and wants to take up Katies challenge.”  This got boos from the pro Katie crowd “Even though Katie’s rule is for current guest stars she allowed a rain check and Janet is cashing it.  The rules are the same as they were in the Georgian era, these two ladies fight until one quits or can not continue.  No draw, no breaks just two women finding out which is the tougher of the two”

The pit itself was a roughly dug pit in the shape of a square, it was 12 feet deep and it had a plexiglass around the fighting area.  The dirt bottom stayed and once a day it was checked to make sure there were no rocks.  There were lights on the upper edges of the plexiglass so there would be no worries of vision problems in the darkness which was good for the fans and fighters

Janet Montgomery walked into the fighting area and Bradley James took her jacket.  An very fit woman with smallish breasts but she looked very strong and the cold air caused her nipples to show through the tank top. Janet climbed down the ladder into the well dug pit

Katie then showed up and Colin took her jacket.  Katie’s body seemed to be the equal to Janet’s she just had the larger of the breasts.  Katie played to her friends in the crowd getting them riled up.  She hugged Angel then climbed down the pit

She kept her head down and stared evilly at Janet.  That was the look that intimidated many from not having the fight at all but Janet was staring at her the exact same.  It wasn’t as intimidating because she didn’t have the emerald green eyes.

“Last chance for one of you to say there is no need for a fight and to be friends”

“Not a chance”
“Its to late for her now”

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Angel didn’t know which said what because the malice in each’s voice made her run away as she didn’t want to see the fight begin.  They stayed on opposite ends and took deep breaths and made a first step that to them seemed to cause the earth to rumble.  That difficult first step was all the difficulty vanishing though as they ran into the other.

There bodies’ colliding they started punching each other with abandon.  The punches were mostly hitting the other woman’s back and sides.  Afterwards both women would admit it wasn’t how they thought a fight between them would start.  But actually seeing each other and knowing they had to fight all that changed.  Janet got her right arm behind Katie’s neck.

Katie responded putting her own right arm behind Janet’s neck.  They got there left arms behind the other womans back and squeezed each other tightly.  They were three avenues in this battle right now. One; to squeeze the other… Two; they wanted that contact to show there was no fear of what the other brought to the fight the Third part was to throw the other woman down.

Janet could feel Katie’s arm tighten around her neck, the power she was told about wasn’t a lie it was the truth.  That power was causing her neck incredible pain but she wouldn’t allow herself to be thrown down or pushed from the center of this fighting pit.

Katie never felt strength like Janet’s in her life.  She knew that Janet looked strong but thought it was all effects and lighting but there was legitimate strength there as her breath was fading.  She tried to throw Janet to her left but couldn’t budge her then had to fight off Janet’s effort

They started going around in circles trying to win the battle when Janet got her right leg behind Katie’s and slammed her down to the dirt floor.  Katie was embarrassed but as Janet’s grip loosened she knew Janet was going for punches so she hit Janet with a knee to the ribs.   She then reached up and grabbed Janet’s hair and twisted her body and flipped Janet onto her back.

Janet rolled away from Katie and got up to her feet and pressed her back against the plexi glass.  She wanted to reset, to get some form of control if that was at all possible.  Leaning against the plexiglass the glass itself started to illuminate in three different colors.  She jumped away from the glass shocked at the color display and jumped right into a punch by Katie McGrath which put her down

That got the crowd watching above to start cheering loudly and Katie McGrath who hit that punch as she was going forward kept going forward as if she punched through Janet’s face.  She started to slap the plexiglass causing multiple colors to illuminate; she was playing right into the crowd causing them to cheer more

Janet was still on the ground on all fours and brought her hand up to her mouth.  It was the first time in her life she was punched in the face.  There wasn’t any blood but she could feel a bruise forming and she lost control for a moment and jumped at Katie.  Both her arms up in the air she didn’t know what she was doing but hoped it be something cool.

Katie saw it coming though and stepped away from it and when Janet turned to face Katie she was hit with another punch.  This one sent her back against the wall and when she bounced off, Katie ducked down and hit a backbody drop.

Katie reached down and grabbed Janet by the hair and yanked Janet’s head up so she could look up at her.  There was a fire in her green eyes as she stared down at this brazen English woman who dared to challenge her.  She wanted to force Janet to say she quit by making eye contact but Janet met her stare and then did something to disturb the green eyes.

Grabbing a handful of dirt she threw it upwards getting some in Katie’s eyes.  McGrath backed away trying to rub her eyes and Janet smiled then rose up driving her shoulder just below Katie’s breast and pushing her back into the plexiglass.  She heard the loud gasp escape from that damn Irish woman’s lungs.  She stepped back and balled up her fist and hit a hard cross that connected flush with Katie’s cheek.

Between her eyes being blurry from having sand tossed into them and that punch.  Katie started to fall but got the back of her hair grabbed and she was pulled back towards Janet and turned around only to be hit by another punch.  This one sent her back against the plexiglass and split her lip open.  She slid down the plexiglass down to her ass.

Janet took a couple deep breaths then started walking around the fighting area.  Waving her arms about drumming up the support for what she had just did to Katie McGrath she looked up and saw Angel Coulby who was just asking why

Angel Coulby looked down and with the two episodes of Merlin that Janet Montgomery had filmed they became friends.  She was crying watching her best friend Katie McGrath slumped down on her ass after taking a punch “Did you know those two truly are friends and enemies.  They talked three times a week, once friendly then they were screaming at each other the second and the third was always a mix.  One minute Katie’s all about how great of a person Janet is then a day later she tells me all she wants to do is beat her English face in.  Janet called me one time just to tell me she wishes that the three of us could go for a night out in the states… then a few nights later she called me and told me that the next time she sees Katie she will slam her face through a window.  Its two extremes with them,  I just wish they’d be friends because I knew all along that if they fought it would be something that… I have to go because, I’ll try and come back.” She sulked away once again

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Janet had done the same as Katie did after securing a knockdown she played to the crowd.  This fight was as much about giving those cast and crew a show as it was finding out which was the better and tougher woman.  “English whore, you should feel happy you have done more then the last Weak English bitch who thought she could fight me.”

“Irish whore, you’ve hit me twice and I hit you twice and only one of us is bleeding.  It’s the little girl with the soft Irish skin.”

Katie got her hands up in front of her face “I’ll show you soft, that’s the problem with you English you don’t know what soft is until you are asking the American’s for help”

Janet got her small fists up covering her attractive well defined face and the two circled acting like professional fighters for a moment.  They exchanged jabs, Katie first then janet’s.  Both women had a crazy look in there eyes and exchanged jabs again.  Janet hit Katie first but that was followed by Katie hitting Janet.

The people who got to know Janet and who knew Katie made comments on how it looked like both snapped.  When they saw the eyes of the women it was as if something primal in each had been initiated.  Maybe it was the setting, maybe it was each other but there was something savage in there eyes.

Katie tried to kick Janet in the ribs but the skirt didn’t allow her to really lift her leg so when she realized how difficult it would be she put her foot back down.  She ended up getting hit with a hard right hand that split her lip up even moreso. As she felt the blood come down her chin she jumped forward surprising Janet.

Janet wasn’t ready for Katie to just jump at her with reckless abandon.  The last punch must have really rocked Katie but now Katie had grabbed two handfuls of hair and was able to start twisting her around and around in circles before into a corner.
Katie looked down at Janet and slightly lifted up her skirt before kicking Janet in the chest once then a second.  The second kick however came with a unexpected surprise for Katie McGrath as Janet kicked both her legs out hitting Katie behind the legs and tripping her up.

Katie landed hard on her back and sat up only to have Janet Montgomery jumping on top of her.  Grabbing at Katie’s  hair she slammed her down flat to the ground but Katie reached and grabbed Janet’s hair and rolled her over and slammed Janet’s head to the ground.  She felt one of Janet’s hands leave her hair and thought she was already giving up. 

Janet dug her nails into Katie’s temple and scratched downward.  Katie jerked  her head upwards and clinched her jaw refusing to be the first woman to scream.  When her head did go up though Janet took the moment to yank Katie and turn her over onto her side and hit a short punch then was about to scratch Katie again when Katie’s knee came up between her legs.

Janet gasped and tightened her face, eyes closed teeth clinched burrow dropped.  Anything to stop from screaming at that agonizing pain and then she let loose a scream and for a short brief period of time Katie McGrath felt true bliss.  The sound of Janet Montgomery scream was happiness to Katie unfortunately the smile Katie had only lasted a moment as Janet’s knee shot upwards getting Katie in the pubic region.

Now Katie McGrath let out her first scream of the fight.  She and Janet both got there knees up to there tits and when there feet touched the both pushed away

They got on there knees and took some deep breaths.  Katie had a scratch mark from her left temple down to her chin as well as a split lip that was causing a trickle of blood to roll down.  She looked over at Janet with a large four fingered scratch running across her chest and started to wonder why they were here… She got along with Janet so well, they laughed and giggled the entire time they were together on the set.

Janet looked over at Katie, she knew now why she was trepidatious when she was getting closer to the set.  It wasn’t what Katie did to another woman in a fight.  It wasn’t about this being her first fight.  It was that she and Katie were friends and as she looked over at her friend who she thought was one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen.  They were inseperable and along with Angel formed what Janet was thinking was a lifelong friendship.  Then someone reminded Katie of the challenge and if Janet would be given the opportunity

Katie remembered not wanting to challenge Janet at first, they had turned to be friends.  Yet when they got closer to the pit it all started changing for her.  Same height, we’re both slender builds I think I have a bigger bust but that won’t matter much in a fist fight.  God I don’t want to hurt her pretty face but she’s English she deserves it a little and we’ll still be friends after she knows not to mess with the Irish.  It was the first time she had those feelings, feelings that there was an English woman with English Blood.  She had Irish blood, one of them had to be superior and it was her Katie McGrath.

Katie’s DNA under her fingernails blood on her fist she both loved and hated it.  Weeks after she and Katie had that face to face showdown they both had calmed down.  Katie was hoping her show would go great and neither was being kept awake with nightmares of the other.  They were laughing again then Katie said “Imagine if we fough…” Then both were back in front of the pit again, not in separate countries being friends catching up.  All Janet wanted was to show Katie McGrath that of the two of them it was her English blood that would end superior to Katies Irish blood

“Janet”

“Katie”

There break was soon over and this part of fights usually someone asks the other if they want to quit.  Both women stared at each other the entire time they took that little break thinking about how much they adore the other, how much they want to tear the other apart.  Were they friends, were they mortal enemies were they somehow both thanks to there citizenship.

They jumped up to there feet and went after each other, both hitting punches.  Katies punch caught Janet in the same spot she caught her earlier.  A cut started on her cheek, and she stepped back.  Her very beautiful face was cut, her sharp facial features were damaged.  She looked at Katie and forgot about it and went forward again. 

They didn’t trade punches this time but grabbed at each others hair and wrestled in a circle when Katie started to power Janet back.  Janet had strong legs and quick hips and turned just before she was powered into the plexiglass and slammed her friend/enemy into the plexiglass at such force it shined a solid color of red.

The impact caused Katie to let go of Janet’s hair and gasp.  Janet let one hand go from Katie’s hair and hit her twice in the face, she then went for the third but Katie got her arm up and blocked the punch then hit her own punch then grabbed Janet’s hair and turned her around into the plexiglass. 

She stepped back getting a firm footing then pushed with all her might slamming Janet Montgomery into the plexiglass and getting that solid color. 

The people watching above were sort of in shock Bradley James looked down “I honestly thought Janet would have a strength advantage in this fight”

“Katie just wants it more I think, in fact I  bet she ends it here” Katie’s good friend and rumoured boyfriend Colin Morgan said.

“Ill take the bet, I think Katie finds a way to beat her but not yet”