-1White Lies
Dawn Summers stared at the video footage taken from an exterior bank camera in Washington State, the unmistakable appearance of a Besantik Demon appeared from the right side of the screen, disappearing a second later as it moved beyond the camera's wide angle view.
Then a distinctly human form appeared in the frame, stopping long enough to raise and aim, a single barrel, pump action shotgun, fire once and continue running the same direction the half human, half spider headed.
It was all over in less than four seconds.
The sound of her best friend, Vi Winters clearing her throat caught her attention "So what's so important about this, just another hunter taking on the things that go bump in the night" she said as she rocked back and forth in the high back computer chair.
Dawn ignored her as she turned back the digital video, then played it forward at half speed, and finally freezing the video as the human stopped completely and began to raise the shotgun.
A few key strokes later, the printer next to the computer lurched to life, printing out a hazy image of the scene.
Dawn then cropped the mans head, enlargement it and then ran it through several digital filters, to clear up the hazy image, the face of the individual slowly developed enough to be somewhat recognizable.
Dawn began to print this one off as well, then reached for the office phone, punching only one button, it rang once before the other end picked up.
"Hey, Miriam, I'm sending a facial profile over, I need a full search" she said "Yup, every data-base you can get access too" she paused again, nodding slightly "Thanks".
Hanging up the phone, she turned and spotted Vi, holding the second photo "So, you gonna level with me?" she asked, still sitting in the chair "I mean we did just cut a mandatory course on mating habits of some kind of demon to do this, and we both know Willow's gonna be pretty pissed".
Dawn held out her hand, saying nothing as she did so, which Vi filled with the photo "Vi, this is going to be a bombshell for the upper council, this picture" she said "The video…it's".
Vi sat forward "Relax Dawn, take your time" she said gently.
Dawn finally looked up into the eyes of her closest friend, and designated Slayer "This is Hank Summers, mine and Buffy's father".