Hello, fellow pro wrestling fans! Welcome to my latest fic, "Ready For It?" (yes, the title is taken from the Taylor Swift album of the same name). This story falls within the universe as established by my previous WWE fic, "Steal the Show," and everything that happened in that story is "canon" in this one.

If you haven't read "Steal the Show," here's a very rudimentary overview. My OC, who is also the OC in this story, is Hannah McMahon, and (obviously) she's the youngest of the McMahon children. She works in the talent relations department, and she'd been determined to stay away from having any roles on TV until Vince convinced her to be the "mastermind" behind The Shield. It's a Dean Ambrose/OC fic, but Hannah has a complicated past/present with CM Punk that makes things... tense.

If you want to go read that fic before continuing on with this one, you certainly can - but it's not necessary to do so. Nothing that happens in this story is affected by that one, and this story isn't a "sequel." "Steal the Show" is simply a different part of Hannah's life/experiences than "Ready for It?"

As for those of you who have read "Steal the Show," you're well aware that it's unfinished. As of right now, I'm not saying that I'll never finish it - but it's most certainly on indefinite hiatus. And, at risk of upsetting a lot of you, I'll reveal this: it was never my intention to have "Steal the Show" wrap up with Jon and Hannah as a 100% established couple (I'll let you all make your own inferences as to why they don't work out). Furthermore, if I'm being perfectly honest, in my head I've actually shipped Hannah with Seth basically ever since The Shield broke up, which is probably why it's been so difficult for me to finish "Steal the Show."

As I've said before, Hannah is a character near and dear to my heart, and over the years I've developed quite a lot of headcanons about her. "Ready For It?" grew out of those headcanons. And with everything happening now between WWE/Bullet Club, I couldn't deny writing this any longer.

So again: Welcome! I hope all of you, whether you've read "Steal the Show" or not, enjoy this new fic, and thank you for your continued support.

- Katie