WM #11 Crossing Lines

Write about crossing the line. Talk about going beyond what even you would deem as acceptable behaviour.


I think it’s easy to cross a line when you’re what I am, when you do what I do. It hasn’t happened very often but occasionally I run into a human who’s as bad as any demon I’ve ever seen. I don’t watch the news because it’s full of stories about people who are just evil. I’m supposed to fight the forces of evil.

So where do I draw the line? It’s got to be drawn somewhere. I guess for different people it’s in different places. I draw my line at human. I don’t kill them. Even when I think they deserve it and trust me, there are a lot of them that I think deserve it.

I’ve been tempted. Once, I almost succeeded. If it weren’t for the fact that Faith is a slayer, I’m pretty sure she would have died. I stuck that knife her gut and I twisted. I had every intention of killing her. Not only was I going to kill her, I was going to feed her to Angel. At the time…at the time I wasn’t even thinking. I just needed to save Angel. Faith was the way to do it and when that failed, I took her place. Afterwards, I realized it should have been me all along. Faith is a person. At the time she was in league with the demons but humans are redeemable. Anything with a soul is redeemable and for a little while, I forgot that.

My lines have been redrawn since then, more firmly etched because I have to set an example for lots of mini slayers everywhere. If I had it to do all over again, the same situation but with the opportunity for a different outcome; it’d be me all along.

Humans are redeemable but there are certain things individuals can’t come back from. For me, killing a human would be one of them.