that’s where my heart used to be

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

ID: a set of screenshots from the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ep 2.07, ‘Lie To Me’. Buffy and Giles are standing over her former friend Ford’s grave at night in an otherwise deserted cemetery.