Sounds like a plan to me.

[Yeah, desperation is the order of the day. The special, served with a side of anger-blatantly-born-out-of-fear, and garnished with fists clenched so tight they're shaking.]

I trained - I was taught to fight monsters. Monsters, not people! I couldn't even kill a damn vampire when I had the chance, she looked human, and something... I just... I froze -

[It isn't that he's deliberately cutting himself off there, his voice just gave out, having sounded more and more strangled as he spoke.]