A Slayer's Haiku
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One
Take
Heed
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If
You
Seek
Your
True
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Seek
The
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Haired
Friend
Anyway, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but with all this talk about whether Willow wil recover from having killed a human being, I found myself thinking of one little detail from a second season episode that always bothered me.
In the episode "Lie To Me", Billy 'Ford' Fordham, a friend of Buffy's from Hemery High, betrays Buffy to Spike(Ah, the good ol' days, when no one thought of Spike as a potential love interest!), in exchange for being Turned. Buffy escapes, taking the vamp-worshiping cultists with her, and locking Ford. in the warehouse with Spike. She says something about returning tomorrow to clear out the body.
Bottom line, she knew what Spike would do to Ford, and didn't even shed a tear. She and Giles spoke about forgiveness, Buffy justifying why she would never forgive Ford for his betrayal.
Buffy didn't shoot Ford. She didn't knife him, stab him, or do anything resembling physical harm to him. But she essentially signed his death warrant, by locking him in the same room as an irate Spike. Does that make her a murderer? Or was that seen as vengence? If you answer the latter, does that mean that perhaps she might find it easier to forgive Willow her own moment of madness?
Just a thought.
Kirayoshi
"Warrior, take heed--
When you battle with demons,
Aim not at their hearts."
--Andrew Vacchs