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Itās the laugh that apparently startles Samās otherwise impeccable stance.Ā Not his own laugh,Ā nonono,Ā but the clownās :Ā he laughs something powerful and rough,Ā a roar with an undertone of rust.Ā The Joker,Ā observant man that he is,Ā has picked up all the possible reactions to that barking sound of his ;Ā out of them all,Ā from the quaking little old ladies to grown ass men shitting themselves,Ā Samuel Winchester looks the least freaked out.Ā Thatās not boring,Ā thatās new.Ā And heās a big guy,Ā too :Ā poor startled Sammy proved himself a neat puncher,Ā splitting the Jokerās upper lip and giving him a taste of a relatively copious trickle of his own blood darkening trickly the red gash of paint over his mouth.Ā Samās knuckles are red,Ā too,Ā either smeared with blood or clown makeup.Ā But the Joker,Ā hyena-like,Ā laughs it off.Ā And poor Sammy begins to freak out a little bit !Ā He sees it in the way his broad shoulders shrink a bit,Ā and the light hits the pooling bark-brown of his eyes a bit differently,Ā and his slightly wrinkling cheek when he sucks nervously the inner walls of his mouth.Ā Ā
The Joker sees it,Ā and stops laughing all together,Ā as if the joke was never really that funny anyway.Ā Ā āĀ Ah-ah-ahĀ āĀ Ā he drawls on each sound disapprovingly,Ā like a disappointed parent.Ā Sam keeps him at armās length with an old machete that lost most of its sharpness,Ā but likely still does a wonderful job at cracking bones and tearing muscles,Ā the clown bets.Ā Ā āĀ Sammysammysammy ... Sammy.Ā āĀ Jokerās steps stretch like a pantherās around the other ;Ā feral and delighted as a panther would be around its freshly hunted meal.Ā Ā
Ā āĀ Letās not,Ā uh,Ā fuck this up.Ā Look,Ā I like you.Ā Big knifeĀ - maybe a bit too big,Ā but I appreciate the sentiment -Ā and a good grip.Ā Wannabe heroes these days donāt even know where to stick it ...Ā the,Ā huh,Ā the knife I mean.Ā ā
A steely,Ā nasal chuckle escapes him.Ā Ā
āĀ We both know youāre not a hero,Ā yeah,Ā Sammy?Ā Iāve got a dog nose for rotten bastards and breakable things.Ā I smell the worms.Ā More,Ā ah,Ā street rat,Ā are ya?Ā ā