... at a photography seminar. He had introduced himself as Peter Thornton, a recent transplant to California from the East Coast. He was few years older than I was and quite charming. We spent several weeks together before I realized that he was not the man i thought he was. By then, he had completed his business and left town, leaving me pregnant with you. I tried to find him but he had disappeared without a trace.
About a month later, I met the real Peter Thornton, who actually went by the name of Pete. He was an agent that worked for DXS. He had spent the last few years tracking the man I knew as Peter. He wouldn't tell me much about his impostor, only that he had been an assassin and had recently been killed, He suggested that I leave the area just in case anyone else connected me to "Peter" and so I moved south to LA where I met Hank.
Some years later, an associate of the real Pete Thornton, a Mr. MacGyver, contacted me. It seems the impostor was still alive and he wanted to know if I had seen him. I hadn't and to this day still haven't. I did learn your father's name. It's Murdoc.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner.
Love,
Mom
- - -
Two sisters sat on their late mother's bed.
Dawn looked at her sister in shock. "An assassin?"
Buffy shrugged, she had found her mother's letter a week earlier and had come to terms with it.
"Yep."
"So, are you, like, going to try to find him?"
"Nope."
"Then why show me Mom's letter? It was addressed to you, not me."
"There have been too many secrets in this house." Buffy hugged her sister. "I don't want there to be any more."
