Title: Confessional
Author:Lore
Rating: Gen
Summary: After Grave
"Forgive me father, for I have sinned."
The priest couldn't move. He tried to pull back in the confessional but there was no
chance to get away from the monster that had taken place across of him. Part of him prayed
that by keeping the monster busy he could save the lives of the rest of his parishioners.
"It has been over a 120 years since my last confession."
The demon pulled it's head back, hitting the board behind him. His face changing into
it's human facade.
"I'm sorry father. I didn't mean to scare you... I just ..."
The demon just sat there, tears fell from it's half-closed eyes.
"Sorry, so sorry. Oh god, are there words for saying how sorry I am. How much I
regret. How much I hate what I am."
The priest still couldn't utter more than a gasp.
"I killed... I hurt, I destroyed.... And all I can say is I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, take my guts for garters, not that it would mean anything. Why should my apologies count now anyway. I didn't feel sorry when I ... when I did what I did. So what does my remorse mean now?"
Tears fell from the demon's eyes, painfilled as they were. His voice was muffled in sobs.
"And I can't even say if I feel more sorry for myself, for my pain, than for what
my victims went through. How's that for self deluding egotism?
I should be in pain, in hell, for what I did to them. But I'm not ... so what to do about
it?
Sure I could walk in the sun, swallow a bottle of holy water, put a stake through my
heart... but what use would that have. It would just end it. Just finish me.
Here lies Spike's ashes; and a right wanker he was.
That ain't me father."
The monster wiped his tears with his sleeve and straightened his shirt. His wet hair
clung to his face. The priest kept expecting him to attack now, now that he'd finished his
game, but the demon just left. Harming none.
And as he did, the priest made the sign of the cross.