You know you've been watching CSI too much...

[kerravonsen]

When you start musing, as you go to sleep, how they would investigate your own death.

"She was found dead, sitting in this chair." Brass said.

Sarah's camera flashed. The corpse's eyes were shut, the body corpulent, her long brown hair in braids. A book lay half-open in her lap.

"Who called it in?"

"Her biblestudy group -- they were meeting here once a week."

...

"She died of a heart attack."

"Natural causes, then? Someone that fat had to be a heart-attack risk."

"No sign of hardening of the arteries." The coroner gestured at her feet. "Look at this."

"Ouch, that looks like an in-grown toenail."

"That isn't all. I did some X-rays and it appears that she had plantar fasciitis."

"And that is?"

"A tightening of the plantar fasciia -- the tendon at the bottom of the foot. It rubs against the bone and makes it very painful to walk."

"That would explain the cane, then."

...

Meanwhile, back at the house...

"Hey, Warwick, check this out," said Sarah, pointing at the aparatus by the bed. "Is that an oxygen mask?"

Warwick traced the face mask, hose, water container, and a beige box with a few buttons on it. "If that's an oxygen mask, where's the oxygen?"


Heh, morbid much?

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hm. Morbid, perhaps, but I think it makes the start of a good story. :)

[kerravonsen]

Thanks! But it ain't got no ending -- unless you can think of a motive for someone to murder, er, Mary-Sue-Avonsen? Because, like, if it were natural causes, there wouldn't be a story.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Sometimes on CSI they investigate suspicious circumstances that seem to be murders, but turn out to be natural causes or accidents. Though in this case it looks like natural causes, so you'd need it to be something else. Er... maybe Mary-Sue-Avonsen's co-worker wants her job? Maybe somebody in her Bible study thinks she has theologically dangerous ideas that will corrupt people? I know! It's an angry fanfic writer, who didn't like one of her NetFic Reviews!

[kerravonsen]

Though in this case it looks like natural causes, so you'd need it to be something else.

yes, well, I was thinking maybe the tox screen would come up with sedative in her bloodstream, they then think it's suicide, and then they find it isn't a high enough level to be fatal, but which contributed to the -- bah, I don't know enough medicine. I can't do this.

It's an angry fanfic writer, who didn't like one of her NetFic Reviews!

Or, even more likely, it was the worshipper of a BNF whom she'd given a bad review of, who concluded I was just bad-mouthing said BNF because said BNF also wrote slash?

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

On CSI, it doesn't have to be about medicine. Sometimes the medical part is very simple, but it's the motive or something about the subcultural context that's obscure.

Or, even more likely, it was the worshipper of a BNF...

Yes! ROFL.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Surely Mary Sues are never corpulent? :)

[kerravonsen]

True. "The Death of Miss Self-Insertion Character."

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

I would really hope that professionals would know a CPAP machine when they saw it. :)

I don't even watch CSI and I liked it. :)

[kerravonsen]

I would really hope that professionals would know a CPAP machine when they saw it.

Why should they? They aren't medical professionals, they're crime scene investigators.

I don't even watch CSI and I liked it.

Thanks! 8-)