I really liked these fics, especially "Pie" (I love crossfaction) and "Candy canes" (the idea of Spy sharpening a candy with his tongue until it can be used to kill is so perfectly TF2-esque!), but this last line doesn't convince me at all. the rest of the team don't remember how the first spy died, only demo is closest to knowing The story is already a tragedy, the story of two lovers who were torn apart by a horrible death. That little extra "oh, and the dead guy was <i>also</i> forgotten by his lover and friends!" sounds like overkill to me. It's like telling the story of the Littlest Cancer Patient and adding "also, his baby sister died in a plane accident." Besides, how would they even forget about him? Even if they didn't care about him at all (and we know that Demo <i>loved</i> him), it's too unbelievable that they just forgot. Did the Administrator brainwash them when she introduced the new Spy? That seems so unnecessary. Tl;dr: I really like the idea of Demo being in love with a previous Spy who died in terrible circumstances and got replaced, but I think that the memory loss overdoes it.