#was CONSIDERING tcm au shenanigans but i'm also just so enamoured with dbd au them

[janeromeroshow]

@johnnysslaughter : ❛ what are you doing out here by yourself? ❜ ( various question sentence starters )

She stiffens at the sudden sound, tensing, the image of someone caught doing something they really shouldn't ( exacerbated by the sudden jolt back away from the steadily chugging generator in front of her ). It's a moment before the familiarity of his voice eases her and she pivots on her heel.

" It's just you, " Relief seeps into her tone, dropped guard clear by the way her shoulders dip. If there's one thing Johnny has proved again and again, it's that he has absolutely no interest in doing her any harm, something that had taken a while to fully settle in her paranoid, adrenaline-fueled brain. It was probably a horrible idea to grow complacent when those around him saw her as prey but despite it all he had a way of disarming her, making her feel safe when she really shouldn't.

Don't let your guard down. It was something she'd told herself at length when he'd first laid on the charm, a mantra she'd tried constantly to repeat. And yet here she was, feeling like a schoolgirl with a crush.

... Which leads to her feeling a little guilty about the makeshift mine which was now sitting tucked away on top of the machinery. If he's here, then it means someone in his family is going to be the unwitting victim of the trick she'd just picked up from Jill.

Crossing the clearing with a few steps, she stops before him with a sheepish look.

" The others wanted to split up. " An eye-roll makes it clear just what she thinks of that plan " I told them it was a stupid idea, but they didn't wanna listen, and - well, you get the idea. " Even with her frustration evident - a quirk of her stubbornness - she gives him a small smile. At least her peers' stupid idea meant she didn't have to sneak off.

" Oh - don't touch that, by the way, " she suddenly says, a glance back to the generator. The source of the mild guilt.

#ic. #johnnysslaughter #v. main ( dead by daylight ) #was CONSIDERING tcm au shenanigans but i'm also just so enamoured with dbd au them