A/N: My first attempt at a Buffy xover... A crossover with 'The Dark Knight'

- I kind of got this idea stuck in my head a while after watching the movie...


She could only stare at the television screen.

She had seen the news,

She had read the papers,

She had even met him, for a second, once.

Her slayer-senses told her that this man, this thing was not a demon. He felt less demon than many other people she'd met.

Though with his painted face, scars – and most of all his… personality? One could definitely mistake him for one.

Worst of all – he frightened her.

And she couldn't help but think that Ethan Rayne was probably dying from happiness right now.

Buffy Summers turned and left the room. She needed the team – she needed research.

Not of the usual kind – but on how to kill (or stop) a madman rigged with bombs in a remotely legal way (though she didn't think that'd be so much of an issue) without him taking more than a city block (and hopefully without taking a slayer) – down with him.

The whole thing with him being human was not even considered anymore.

He was a monster. A monster clown (or 'Joker', whatever).

She'd always hated clowns.