Karly smoked a cigarette as they waited for the elevator to the penthouse of the uptown building. Mike eyeballed his stepsister, heavily tattooed, clearly disaffected, wearing clothes that seemed a bit too revealing and maybe a bit too small, a reflection of the life she led without concern. She tended bar herself, in a joint downtown much sleazier than his bar and she also occasionally danced, in the exotic way, for extra money. He imagined that any guy would see her as hot, but he just found her really annoying. Tonight though, she was a cash ticket. Karly had been in dozens of fight during their overlapping lives, and she was as tough as they come. He had never seen her lose a fight, even once fighting a guy and twice fighting two girls at the same time. She was mean, and she could take a punch with the best of them. He hadn't seen it, but knew that she had gotten jumped once while she was in the dressing room of a strip club by some guy in the audience's girlfriend, and buck naked still took the chick to task and kicked the crap out of her.
They got off the elevator in a small foyer, and the door to the apartment opened and the man of the couple was there, neatly dressed holding a scotch. "Hello, you must be Karly. I'm Travis. Would you like a drink?"
She smiled and took a drag off her cigarette. "Yeah, tequila with a beer chaser would be awesome."
He chuckled and invited them in. He gestured to a hallway to the right. Nina is down there. Walk all the way to the end and the hallway dead ends into the room we're going to use for this tonight."
Mike and Karly walked down the hall to find a large room, empty of all furniture except for two chairs, one of which is in one corner that Nina was sitting in (they both just learned the woman's name with Travis's mention of her) and the other empty, across from her.
Nina was smoking a cigarette, her legs crossed wearing a loosely tied robe. Her face was heavily made up and her hair was down over her shoulders. She gestured to the other chair. "You can have a seat over there."
Travis walked in with Karly's drink and her beer chaser, which she only sipped and then gave the rest to Mike.
Travis waved to Nina to stand up and come towards him as he stood in front of the two guests. Nina was at least 5'10, four inches taller than Karly. She was stunning.
"So," Travis began. "We wanted this to be a 'real' fight. Would that be okay?"
Karly snorted, "sure, suit yourselves."
"Great," Travis continued. "And, we were wondering if you might be willing to do this, well naked?"
"Buster, I'm a stripper. I got no problem being naked in front of people, but you're gonna need to pay me for it."
"How much?" Travis asked.
"How about ten grand." said Karly.
"Ten grand?" Nina blurted out, "What are you, a goddess?"
"Hey fuck you honey. I'm here for your husband's fancy, and maybe yours, I don't have a care in the world what you think you're worth, but I'm gonna get money out of this."
Nina rolled her eyes. "It's gonna be great beating the shit out of you, you tattooed, plastic barbie doll. You gonna be embarrassed losing in front of your boyfriend?"
Karly started laughing, so did Mike. "Oh sweetheart," she said, "This ain't my boyfriend, this is my stepbrother."
"You don't care about being naked in front of your stepbrother?" asked Nina, again, surprised.
"Honey, did you not hear me say I'm a stripper? I don't give a fuck who sees my pussy and my tits. I'm not a prude, and it seems like you aren't either if you're willing to strip down in front of us."
Nina smiled. "I guess not. So, this is going to be a naked, no rules thrashing. Three rounds? First two five minutes and the last goes until we're done?"
Karly shrugged. "Okay, never heard of rounds in a 'real' fight, but it's your house and your money."
Nina and Travis walked over to the chair she had been sitting in and she removed the robe and the bra and underwear she had on underneath. Karly was naked in seconds as well.
Karly put out her cigarette and smiled at Mike. She then whispered, "Gonna be the easiest money I've ever made." Mike nodded and sat down.
Travis quietly said, "Fight"
The two women moved quickly towards each other.
Nina snapped a long leg out towards Karly, who caught it and slammed her fist into the brunette's thigh. She quickly swept Nina's planted leg, and drove her to the floor on her back, where she leapt on top of her and began to pound her face and occasionally her tits. Nina, despite being pummeled, bucked with enough strength to unseat Karly and scramble to her feet, her nose bloodied. She could take a punch, Mike observed. She came at Karly fast, throwing two punches that connected before Karly hit her with three of her own and Nina crashed her body into the blonde and drove her back into the wall. Nina punched Karly in the gut only to get gut-punched herself several times until she was forced to stumble backwards clutching her belly. Karly stepped into her and hit with rights and lefts several times until she spun and then Karly kicked her in the office, forcing her to fall into Travis's lap.
Travis raised his eyebrows as Karly grabbed Nina's thick mane of dark hair and yanked her head back, dragging her into he center of the room. "You done?" the blonde asked.
Nina laughed maniacally. "Not even close." she spat.
Karly smashed her face with a forearm and let her fall to the floor. She then straddled her again, and the brunette grabbed her tits with her sharp nails and dug in, but Karly grimaced and started punching Nina again when Travis yelled, "Time"
Karly shrugged and got off the other woman.
As she walked over to Mike, he watched Nina struggle to her feet and stumble over to Travis, as he gave her water and some ice.
"Need anything?" Mike asked.
"Maybe another cigarette?" Karly quipped. "This bitch is pretty much what I expected so far... which is not much..." she said.
