For Good or Bad, The Memories Remain.

Chapter 36

Disclaimer- I don't own Buffy, I just use her in my writing, just for fun, never for profit "Because that's wrong!"

Spoilers- mid 4th season then everything takes a left turn off the charted path

Rating- May get to R eventually

Duncan sat grumbling into his coffee, the newspaper laying in front of him on the table unread. He gazed out into space, the thoughts flowing fast and unbidden into his head. He saw her body lying broken on the rocks, her throat ripped to tatters. She had tried to tell him about the monsters in the village. He told her she was mistaken; there were no monsters in the village. He was wrong. He remembers the story told to him by her father. A vicious woman came into town, grabbed his daughter and staked her out in the middle of town square as bait to bring in the monsters. Evidently there were more than the women expected. Before the killing spree was over, half the village lay dead. As the woman left, she told the survivors that she would return to destroy any monsters that escaped, as well as any villager caught harboring them in any way. A gruesome story to be sure but there was one major problem; there were no bodies of the 'monsters', just dead villagers. He never forgot what he was told next. The bloodthirsty little bitch proclaimed to the village elders "Do not oppose me. To do so will be to aid my enemies. I am Death's Angel. I will not be stopped!" That was many years ago but now with the info that the "Angel of Death" has resurfaced; he can fulfill his promise from ages ago when he buried Jessica. One hitch: he couldn't involve Dawson, especially since Dawson had made him promise. He had to track down her location, and then the "Angel of Death will meet her fate!