Capítulo 10: Chapter 10
Diana approached with a soft smile "It's okay, it won't hurt, just make you answer the truth."
Xander grinned at her "You really are beautiful. I know… it just requires truth from people, not worried about it, had not planned to lie."
Diana smiled at him as she placed the lasso around him. "What is your name?"
"Xander." Was his reply, watching everyone just as closely as they were watching him. Superman was the most interesting in his quietness far in the back corner, but Xander had no illusions that he was hearing every beat of every heart.
A slight frown of confusion flashed over Diana's face and Batman saw it but said nothing. "What is your full name?" Diane asked.
Xander made a funny face but answered "Alexander LaVelle Harris."
"How do you know details about us?"
Xander paused for a moment trying to figure out how to explain, then he started to talk. "Comic books, I have always loved them, and DC was my favorite publisher. So I read most of them, and all of you were in the ones I read, the Justice League, Superman, Batman the Dark Knight. It was a way to hide from reality, so I read. Even in high school and after I still kept up with what was going on, or at least tried to."
There had been no hesitation at all as he talked and everyone in the room paled a little at the ramifications.
Diana just nodded, trying to keep the questions pertinent to the situation. "Did you know we were real when you agreed to come here."
A snort of laughter. "No, hell I just thought Zatanna's parents had a twisted sense of humor. Why would I ever think that comic book characters were real? Well.. outside that Halloween experience."
Batman's caught that detail, but filed it away to be addressed later. Diana kept asking the questions they had agreed upon. "Why did you agree to come here?"
A pause and a sigh, and for the first time Xander looked away from them. "I had lost everything, my friends, family, self respect. The people I was with had become so twisted that I no longer knew them. I don't know how to not help in that fight, so I stayed, but it was becoming harder and harder, so when Zatanna offered me a chance somewhere else I jumped, figuring I had nothing to lose. And I have always wanted to help, I know I am not a warrior, but Slayers need friends, a support team.. and I thought maybe I could help them not become like Buffy." Not once during his spiel had he paused or looked forced and at the end he looked up with a wry self-defeated smile. "So I am here to see what a washed up one-eyed carpenter can do… though never occurred to me it would be in a world that has real super heroes."
"Do you mean harm to any of us?"
"Hell no… look the Slayers are young girls, who have powers most girls can only dream of, all I can hope to do is maybe teach them how to use these powers in a way to help people and not hurt…. I just thought maybe here I could …" He paused for the first time as if fighting something eternally. "Maybe I could be someone who could make a difference here, teach them might does not always make right…not something to be babysat here. It was an opportunity to leave and start over. I took it." He shook his head.
Diana liked this man, she was not really sure why, but there was something about him that just rang solid and true. "Have you ever killed?"
A snort of laughter "Yes… lots of vampires, a few demons, cyborgs… stuff like that."
Everyone in the room focused on him. Diana spoke "Have you ever killed a human."
Xander was quiet for a long moment; Diana frowned looking at the lasso and about to say something when he spoke. "Not knowingly or on purpose."
That was not good enough for Batman and he suspected Xander was hiding something. He jerked his head sharply at Diana. "So you have killed humans before?"
A soft sigh issued from Xander. "A summoning I did went wrong, and some people were killed as a result of it, with out my knowledge or even ability to prevent. Any other humans that have died did so without my conscious knowledge of it."
A soft silence filled the room. Diana hesitated "Would you kill an innocent?"
A bitter smile crossed Xanders' face. "You won't like the answer, but it is yes, given grave enough consequences, ones like I have seen… I would. I would carry the grief always but I would."
Batman's control almost broke. "See he is not to be trusted, he should not be here!" Biting out each word, seeing the agreement on Superman's face, but frustrated when he looked at Diana.
She shrugged at Batman and Superman, "That is the answer of a warrior, no matter how much you might regret it, some times the cost of winning is the death of an innocent, and sometimes the price of not letting that death happen would be too high." She looked back at Xander. "The innocent you are thinking of you, you did not cause the death?"
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