"Perhaps one of the Crane brothers? Niles or Fraser?"

Niles. I want interaction between Daphne and Kennedy. :D

Glad to read that Zoe will be back. What really surprised me though was to see Kendra alive and well, interesting idea, I hope it's not her last appearance (I know, I know, Wesley, Rona, Faith/Willow, now Kendra... I should start my own series, but even the story I had started writing, (1) my brain is stuck and (2) I've lost it when my notebook got berserk)

Anyway. Very good story, the ending is a bit incredible, but after all we know this is fiction, eh? I loved it. I hope to read more about Zoe, maybe even spin off to her own series. Good job!

Going to #12 now, thanks again!

Thanks...did I mention Niles and Fraser? If I did I've totally forgotten about it.

Unfortunately I get the feeling I'm not going to write any of the spin-off stories I thought I was going to write. At the moment I'm writing more one-shots that series, plus I want to try and complete a couple of Grim Up North 2 stories.. Plus I sorta have an original fiction work in the pipe line which isn't going to be posted on TTH.

Glad you liked, although I get the feeling this one wasn't one of your real favs (whatever, can't win them all!).

The end, well that was taken very much from the film and oddly quite logical.

Cheers,
D.

Thing is, New York might've let her go free but the Council won't. Rogue Slayers are dangerous, especially when they are genuinely rogue.

Yes but...

If the Council got her I wouldn't be able to use that character again and I have plans for Zoe.

Cheers,
D.

Great as always.

Shades of Charlies Bronson at the end.

Raf

But of course!

Cheers,
D.

Congratulations for such a cool tale dude =).
Poor Zoe, she will never be a whole person again, too bad.
And yeah, Viv's and Kenn reaction was veeery funny, I think they really should think about hiring a counselor, to help the girls about dealing with their lives.
See ya!!.

PS.: Why not both of them?. I can imagine them shrinking Buffy issues away xD.

Perhaps one of the Crane brothers? Niles or Fraser?

Cheers,
D.

First Kendra and now Zoe; both given a new life, but Zoe cannot give up. She has time to think through her actions and be more careful.
I wondering if the people who killed Zoe's mother and sister, were doing it to join an exclusive club. Each entrant has to do anything extreme and record it.
The painted symbols don't mean anything, they were lifted from a library book. The coincidence is Zoe finds the book in an old fashioned library that still uses cards that are inserted on the inside of the cover.
My take on the killers and the reason.

Yep thats a good idea which I'll lock away for later use.

Cheers,
D.

A great story with an edge to it that really flashed me back to the DW movies. Well done.

Thank-you very much,

Cheers,
D.

Detective stories? don't sweat it. Its basically a chase with lots of exposition. Which is one of the few times it is bearable to watch on tv. I like detectivating myself.

I just don't feel comfortable. Now the fic I'm writing now has Faith being chased through the African bush by loads of local troops, now that's fun! And I type faster.

Cheers,
D.

A sequel idea I'd love to see you do - follow-up on the lead of the lighter. If Zoe's *really* smart, she'll start looking into a seer or a witch in LA to find out who killed her family for her.

Actually that's given me an idea...y'know Amy is still out there somewhere? Amy and Zoe could make an interesting mix.

Cheers,
D.

The only question I have is why Kendra - a *KNOWN* slayer to the Council - didn't report Zoe to the Council and have them take care of disappearing her (with Zoe's consent, after strong encouragement and discussion of the situation. As I recall, Zoe still doesn't know that she's a Slayer - but Kendra does!)

Zoe knows she's a slayer, she's friends with Kennedy. Its just that she's not a full-time slayer.

I see the New Council (as run by Giles) as an organisation that will support young slayers but won't even suggest that a slayer becomes full time until after her 18th birthday or has finished School. The council isn't in to forcing slayers to work for them. After all there's enough girls and women out there who are full time slayers to keep a lid on things.

Kendra wasn't a full time slayer, she liked being a cop, but she also like to go out and slay. Night shift being a good reason to be out at night.

Cheers,
D.

Poor Zoe. Once that step is taken, it is very easy to repeat it. I also fera that W&H might get their hooks into her. And the Slayers are not going to be happy with her either. She'd better not step out of line. The cops might leave her alone, but I doubt the Council want a murderous Slayer out there.

Thanks for writing

Indeed poor Zoe, if I get the opportunity I'll try to write something that finishes her story one way or another.

Cheers,
D.

I'm surprised slayers don't come into contact with the police/military etc a lot more in this verse. Any verse where so many exist at the same time. Also, wouldn't other groups manage to recruit at least 1 or 2? Does the new council really get 100% of them?
Maybe Zoe can recruit Justine and they can form a team of vigilantes.

The thought that organisations might actively try to recruit slayers wasn't something I thought about very much until I wrote this fic. It's also something I'm going to address in later fics, even as I type I've got an idea for addition slayer involvement...a Speznatz (Sp?) slayer to counter Ranger Faith maybe, also I'm toying with having a couple of slayers jion the US Army and ending up in the 613th.

Cheers,
D.

LA? Wolfram and Hart territory? They're going to be very interested in a Slayer who doesn't mind killing humans!

Yep and in the Fita-verse W&H still have their offices in LA!

Cheers,
D.

Zoe not thinking about, but she is the last member of her family.
I can only hope she survives and receives help. The situation that has developed, shows the short comings of the council. The council should suspect that a slayer killed one mugger.

I thought Kendra went to another reality? Which one is your story set?

Kim Greylek may have a future in some of your other stories.

Kendra might have started out in a reality similar to this one but not quite. Or it could be the same one but where people made different choices.

There tricky these alternate realities.

But damned handy if you want to bring back someone who's dead.

Cheers,
D.

I think Zoe is another Dark Slayer and perhaps it is Faith that should have a discussion with her and not the ADA or the SVU team.

Faith is probably doing something super secret...or maybe she finishing school. Either way I'm afraid she's not available...need more slayers in the military I think.

Cheers,
D.

> Zoe walked over to the first mugger and put a single round through his forehead.

Not with a .22 pistol she didn't. The only way a .22 pocket pistol bullet will penetrate a human forehead is if she pushed it through by hand using super strength. Guns are not magic wands, and the ammunition used by a .22 pocket pistol is the sort you hunt rabbits with. It can kill a human if you hit them somewhere vulnerable like the heart or temple, but it will bounce off of human bones like ribs or skulls.

A .22 is not really any quieter than any other gun. Movie assassins use special low velocity ammunition with silencers, neither of which Zoe is using (as shown by the crack sound of the gunshot as the bullet breaks the sound barrier and the fact the pistol fits in her coat pocket). It's worth noting that in real life, someone using a movie assassin setup on their .22 pistol will have to re-cock the gun after every shot, since subsonic ammunition doesn't generate enough gas pressure to operate the gun's action.

Technical errors aside, it's a pretty neat crossover. Paul Kersey was dangerous as hell WITHOUT superhuman strength and reflexes.

Edited to reply:

I dug up a size chart for ammunition for you. The cartridge used by a standard .22 pocket pistol is #1 on the pistol portion of the chart, typically used for target practice due to the low recoil and cheap price. The cartridge used by Mr. Kersey in his revolver was either #3 or #10 (I lean towards #3, his gun was never terribly impressive). The original PPK (made in 1931) used #3, while the .22 converted PPK used #1 on the rifle list (typically used for hunting rabbits). For comparison, the 7.62mm round you mentioned is #32 in the rifle section. #16 in the rifle section is what an M-16 fires, and is basically a .22 long rifle with a bigger powder charge.

As you can probably imagine, a .22 is not impressive in performance. Real life assassins using movie assassin guns would probably have to shoot their target in the temple, through the eye or through the heart to get a kill with one. Anywhere else would hurt but probably not kill a human adult. The .32 revolver Kersey used is considerably more capable of killing a human than a .22, but even with Kersey's .32 I'd be wary of shooting someone in the forehead and expecting them to die from it.

http://pinkhandguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bulletcalibercomparison.jpg

I was thinking she was using something like a Walther PPK converted for .22 rounds (I know this gun exists). In the film Kersey used what looked like a .32 cal revolver, not the most powerful hand gun in the world!

To be honest I've not much expirance with small calibre weapons, about the smallest thing I've ever fired was a 7.62mm Nato round.

Cheers,
D.

Interesting, but someone else has told me that .22 'hot loads' will kill most people at close range (and this is what we have). In future I'm sticking to military rounds and shotguns, no agruments about those.

Cheers again,
D.