#- but it's vague enough it could be any. altho it is directly inspired by our talking >:3

[janeromeroshow]

@johnnysslaughter : " it's not fake blood. it's human. " ( prompts from CSI )

She's frozen, wide-eyed, caught in headlights ( or, if she'd had more sense, the scope of a hunting rifle ) . The sight in front of her is nothing short of grisly but she can't move, can't look away, eyes instead landing on his face in an attempt to avoid the sheer amount of blood - and there's so much blood. It doesn't work - there's a smear across his cheek and jaw that has her choking back bile. Finally, she gets her body working enough to speak.

" Funny joke. " It's clipped, short, and she's not laughing, but there's no way in hell that what he's saying is anything other than that - a joke - right? No way that even if it was true ( which is isn't - can't be - surely ) he'd be so nonchalant about it. She stumbles over her words, " Johnny, tell me you're joking - you're joking, aren't you? "

Because if it's fake - if she ignores all the warning signs and the fact that there is absolutely no context in which that would make any modicum of sense - she can deal with that. She can deal with fake blood. What she can't deal with is the steadily creeping and acrid metallic stench, the evidence pointing to the fact that this is real.