Prompt 192: Ficlet

[angelus2hot]

Title: The Call Of Vengeance
Author: angelus2hot
Rating: PG
Word Count: 317
Prompt: 192(Holtz)
Characters/Pairing: Holtz




As he stared down at the baby in his arms, he knew he wasn't a good man. What he did now for vengeance sake wasn't the actions of a good man but one who wanted revenge above all else. Being a good man didn't matter to him any longer. He had left that part of himself beside the graves of his wife and baby son. It killed him that his little girl didn't have a grave or anything to mark that while she had been on this earth, she had made her daddy's life a joy.

He had lost everyone he'd ever cared about because the monsters had to make sure that he paid for hunting them and he had paid, dearly. Finding their lifeless bodies was more than enough punishment but that hadn't been enough for them; they had wanted to destroy him. They'd left his daughter alive, in a manner of speaking; she was turned into a vampire. It had left him with only one horrific choice, one that no parent should ever have to make.

Technically, she wasn't his daughter anymore, he knew that but she still called him father with his daughter's voice, still clung to him with his daughter's arms. She was all he had left in the world but it wasn't her. The day he tossed his daughter into the sunlight and stared unfeelingly as she burst into flame, he'd lost his soul.

And now vengeance was all he cared for, all that mattered. It was the first thing that called to him in the morning and the last thing that whispered to him at night.

For one split second he stared at the monster that had destroyed his life and then turned with the vampire's baby still in his arms and jumped into the portal. His revenge wasn't complete by a long shot but at least it was a start.

Comments

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

So sad. But so true. Great parallel with Connor and Holtz's little girl too.

[angelus2hot]

Thank you very much!

[cmk418]

Very nice. This calls to mind the disturbing contradiction that is Holtz - we want to hate him for what he's done to Angel, but at the same time, we can see that he's entirely justified in his actions. Well done!

[angelus2hot]

Thank you so very much!

[pamsblau.livejournal.com]

This was sad but i loved it!

[angelus2hot]

Thank you very much!

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment, I really appreciate it :)

[louise39.livejournal.com]

The cycle of evil and vengeance keeps going.

[angelus2hot]

It really does.

Thanks for reading!

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I think you did a great job of getting into Holtz's head.

[angelus2hot]

Thank you, hon!

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I really appreciate it :)

[undrheavenskies.livejournal.com]

This was great! The scene with Holtz killing the vampire that was his daughter is still one of the most disturbing scenes for me!!

[angelus2hot]

Thank you!

That scene disturbs me as well. I just watched it a couple of days ago and it's still makes me cringe.

[undrheavenskies.livejournal.com]

I'm rewatching Angel at the moment (just started season 5) and I've notice ALOT of disturbing things related to children: Holtz and his kid, the demon possessed child from s1, the 'bomb' being inside the one kid... there are several instances!! It's strange when you think about it...

[angelus2hot]

It really is strange and very disturbing. I have a hard time watching anything with children that isn't happy and for some reason the show seems to like disturbing things with children