A/N: writing one shots is hard. For me, at least.

imo, writing premises of situations is much, much easier than writing them out.

makes for practice though. I guess.

Genre - Drama (?)

Jesse - F2nd / Second Female / Red Jesse

ENTRY XX - April 7

Poisoning raw food's easy. All you have to do is mix the food with poison, and that's it. But if you want to mask the taste of the poison, then you'd probably have to do that while making the poison itself. Y'know, alter the taste and stuff.

But that's all just theory. No one's really tried to poison food before (which is weird)- that's what Ivor told me, anyway.

I've spent the last few weeks trying to change the taste of poison. I think I've got it now.

Key words being "I think." I don't know if the taste's been masked. I mean, the poison's got no smell, it's really easy to mask the smells of potions. (That, or I've just spent way too much time around potions, and now I can't smell a single thing.)

So... I'm going to try it on myself.

I've got Potions of Regeneration with me, just in case it does work, so I think I should be fine. Right?

It's not like the others would let me do it if I told them, so..

Wish me luck.

Jesse left her door ajar, just in case things went wrong. She looked back at the Potion of Regeneration in her inventory, then the few others on her table. She picked up the poisoned loaf of bread from the plate on her table, and examined it.

It looked like any other loaf of bread- there was barely anything unusual about it at all.

She held it up-

It's just poison. Everything should be fine.

-and took a bite.

..And then immediately regretted it.

The poison spread fast, faster than poison is normally supposed to, and her vision quickly filled with red. She stumbled to the floor, clutching her stomach in pain as the sound of her health depleting rang in her ears. She coughed violently, blood escaping her lips and landing on the floor. She followed soon after.

With her side on the floor, a quarter of her health down and a hand free, she immediately searched through her inventory, grabbing the potion as quickly as possible.

Now it was a matter of opening it.

She cursed in her head as she struggled to get the cork free. Her hands were shaking violently, her coughing fit wouldn't stop, and she couldn't see anything but red.

Most of her health was gone when she heard someone run into the room and call her name. She couldn't really tell who because of the sound of her depleting health, but the large build and green clothes gave her enough to guess. Someone else lifted her up as Axel grabbed the potion. He argued with the other person briefly before effortlessly pulling the cork off, quickly bringing the potion to her lips to let her drink it.

She drank the potion, not caring for the taste of her blood mixing with the drink. She shuddered as she felt some of it spill from the bottle and trail down her neck, all the while the sound of depleting health never leaving her ears.

Soon, a wave of relief washed over her, followed closely by drowsiness.

Be it death or sleep, it didn't matter to her. At this point, it was more than welcome.

Axel dropped the bottle when Jesse finished drinking, her eyes sliding shut. Lukas immediately felt for her neck, sighing in relief upon feeling her pulse. It was small, but it was there. "She's alive." He hung his head, holding her close enough for it to be considered cradling her, "Oh my god, she's alive... she's alive.."

Axel relaxed, dragging his hand down his face. He looked around her room, then down at the floor. There were some puddles of blood scattered in the small area, especially on the loaf of bread that was turned on its side. He shuddered.

"What do think she was doing?" He asked as he got up, checking his clothes to see if any blood got on his clothes. Thankfully, there wasn't any.

Lukas rubbed his eyes, "I honestly.." He looked up and shrugged, "I've no idea." He turned his head to the long table, which was littered with brewing stands, blueprints and notebooks (a lot of which were open).

"Check her journal," he said as he picked Jesse up, "there might be something there."

Axel made a face as he looked at the mess on Jesse's table. "Which one's her journal?!"

"It's the blue one."

It didn't take him too long to find the blue journal, which was at the top of a small pile of papers (it was also the only blue notebook there, as the rest were either green or red). "Found it." He picked it up and turned to Lukas, who was looking down at Jesse, scratching his head. The blond turned to him as he opened the journal, flipping to the most recent entry, which was bookmarked with a ribbon.

Lukas stood on his tiptoes as he moved beside Axel, trying to read the journal. The first few mentions of poison, and he immediately understood the whole situation. "Oh, dammit.." He ran a hand through his hair as he stepped back. "Dammit, Jesse.."

Axel didn't say anything as he closed the journal, simply biting his lip and blinking. "I mean," Lukas continued, "I.. I guess it isn't so surprising, but.."

The taller of the two frowned as he stared at the blood stained floor. "We should probably clean this up."

"What about Jesse?"

"Uhh.." He very nearly said 'you can do that,' but then realized that the two weren't actually a thing. "Olivia or Petra can help."

Lukas didn't say anything for a while, then nodded. "Yeah.. yeah, sure."

A/N: on one hand, f2 is a massive idiot. On the other, poison's not supposed to kill.

Anyway. Should there be a part 2? aftermath? Someone confronting her about it? Who should confront her?

oh, questions.