"Thought I wouldn't work it out, didn't you?" Angel asked.
"No actually…I thought you would have worked it out sooner," Justice informed Angel.
"So what really happened to your family? You eat them?" Angel asked hostilely. Justice looked at Angel with hate. She replied to his comment by hitting him hard on his nose. Angel's nose began bleeding. He grabbed Justice by the throat.
"Oh come on Angel," Justice said just managing to catch a little breath.
"If I am what you think I am, then why did the cross not burn me? Why couldn't you sense I wasn't human? And why can you feel blood pulsing around my neck?" Justice continued. Angel thought for a moment and let go of Justice. She fell to the ground gasping for breath.
"So what are you?" Angel demanded.
"I'll tell you, but be warned, it's a long story," Justice answered.
"I ain't getting any older," Angel said. Justice began;
"Ok, first a little Biology lesson. There are millions, maybe billions of different species of creature on this planet…nature makes them breed within their own species, but that doesn't mean two different species can't breed. A good example would be the horse and the donkey, humans bred them…"
"Wait, are you saying you're an ass?" Angel interrupted. Justice didn't look amused but she continued;
"And they produced offspring. But the offspring were born infertile…"
"Not really seeing your point here," Angel interrupted Justice again.
"My point is that when it comes to biology, nature makes the rules and can change them whenever it needs to.
Now contrary to popular belief humans were here before demons…well vampires anyway."
"That's not true," Angel cut in.
"Think about it Angel…how could a creature whose whole existence is based on drinking human blood, be here before the human?" Justice questioned Angel. Angel knew she made sense.
"Go on," Angel said curiously.
"Nature made humans to help balance things out…problem was, they could think…highly dangerous. They upset the balance, badly. So nature thought; uh-oh, better do something about this...so it made vampires. Pure vampires, not like the ones today. They were stronger, faster than and just as clever as humans…one catch; to live they needed to drink human blood. This kind of put humans down a step on the food chain. As usual things didn't go according to plan; a small number of vampires bred with humans, and produced hybrids…like you.
By this time humans had gone against nature again and created the slayer…so full bred vampires were pretty much made extinct. The hybrids however, slipped through the net for a while because of their human appearance. Like the horse and the donkey's offspring they were unable to breed. The balance was becoming upset again, so nature changed the rules…it turned the hybrids blood into a disease. If a vampire exchanged blood with a human, that human would catch the disease and become a vampire. Once again balance was restored."
"So where do you fit into all of this?" Angel asked.
"A full vampire and a human had a child. This child was different. The DNA structure mutated allowing it to breed…so it did, with a human. And that child had a child with a human, and so did that child…I'm the result so far. The vampire in me is very watered down which is why I don't fear the cross, holy water, sunlight and I don't have the blood lust…In fact I have most of your strengths and few of your weaknesses. I was born with a soul, I age, though more slowly than humans, and eventually…I die like one to."
"So you're not a slayer?" Angel asked deeply imbedded in Justice's story.
"Well actually, that's another long story, but ironically I am a slayer. Giles found references to a particular book which is supposed to hold a lot of prophecies and information about me. He worked out a few dates and realised that I must have been called when Willow cast that spell…so he came looking for me. When he found me, Buffy thought I should come give you a hand. She sent me, not just any slayer because when you think about it, I'm possibly the most powerful being in this dimension. Does wonders for the old ego.
But Buffy wasn't the only reason I came. I need your help. The book that's all about moi, it went missing years ago…I need to find it if I'm ever going to fully understand who I am and where I came from."
"What's this book called?" Angel inquired.
"The book of Thurious," Justice informed him.
"I know a guy, might take a while…but if it still exists, I'll track it down," Angel said.
"Thank you," Justice answered sincerely.
"So how do you know all this if you don't have the book?" Angel was puzzled.
"My father, the vampire one. He had the book; it was passed down to him. It was stolen from him, right after he had translated the first chapter." The conversation appeared to have ended so Angel stood up and began to walk towards the door. Justice interrupted his exit.
"Angel…you know the worst thing about this little history lesson…" Justice began to speak yet again.
"What?" Angel asked.
"When nature saw humans disrespecting the balance, you know what it did? It took all the negative aspects of human nature, like greed and destruction…It took them, made them a hundred times more intense and gave them flesh."
"Demons," Angel said with certainty.
"Yep. And I don't about you, but it makes me wonder…if something that evil could stem from a human…why do I fight to protect them?"
"So why do you?" Angel asked.
"I can play it anyway I want Angel…but at the end of the day I'm part of the mission…so I can do one of two things…I can ignore it, wait for vampires to find out who I am and come at me one by one until one of them gets lucky…or…I can fight the good fight." Angel and Justice paused for a moment and looked at each other. Angel was still trying to understand and except everything he had just learned from Justice. Justice broke the silence;
"Here endith the lesson," she finished.
