Slightly OT; Something that just occurred to me about Season Two...

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

Spoiler space, just to be on the safe side.

A Slayer's Haiku

Chosen 

One

Take

Heed

<<>>

If

You

Seek

Your

True

Soulmate

<<>>

Seek

The

Red

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



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