A/N: Uh, I don't actually know why I wrote this. No offense intended to deer hunters or anyone who hunts, Matt just finds the entire thing beyond his comfort zone. I doubt the humans regularly kill large game.


Matt had only walked into Nicole's studio intending to ask her to jam with him and some of the others. Instead, he found her sitting on the floor next to a freshly killed deer with a book and a skinning knife in her hand.

"… what is this?" he asked cautiously.

She didn't look up at him, too focused on the dead animal before her. "Trying to skin it."

He stared.

"… and, uh, why are you trying to skin it?"

She turned a page in the book, peering at it carefully for directions of some sort. "I think it's a useful skill one should learn. Don't worry, I was very humane with the deer and it's already field dressed. Oh, I'm supposed to hang it."

He blinked twice. Then he shook his head and turned straight around to walk out. I don't even.