Sorry to do two in a row again, but if anyone was going to kill Blake, it was me. But is he really dead? Perhaps some perceptive reader might realize a way out that was mentioned in the first ficlet serial of Simon & Blake. Hmmm…

(And if anyone even thinks of just having Simon resurrect him, I’m… well… there’s really nothing I can do, but I won’t be pleased.)

Oh, and before anyone mentions that Simon seems to have gotten a power jump here, my intention is that Simon’s basically just tapped into the “dark side.” He’s relented control of the magics that flow thru his body and merely become a conduit for wild magical forces. Not the kind of thing an experienced magician would let happen, but Simon is young and under a bit of stress here.

“Damn,â€? Blake gasped, as life slipped out of his shell.
That makes me think that we haven’t heard the last of Blake.

Oh, I know! Simon could revive him with his tears! ‘Cause true love never dies! : )
Very surprising twist. And now Simon gets to go Dark Phoenix!? I wonder what Willow will say about that… : )

The government could make Blake into a robotic police officer who fights crime in the near future. I don’t think that has been done yet.

Blake turns into a glowy-blue ghost who explains that when he told Simon that Azrael killed his father, it was true, “from a certain point of view”?

I’m just very sad with the possibility of Blake’s death, even though it doesn’t seem he’ll stay dead.
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Or, maybe death doesn’t mean “unable to participate” . . .