AU. Buffy Summers, daughter of long lived sorcerer Hank Summers, is called as the newest in the line of Slayers. But her calling is twisted as she finds herself torn between her father’s designs on her new powers, a revengeful Watcher, and the unlikely affections of a creature her new nature demands she kill…

Instead of targeting her friends, Angelus makes his move directly on Buffy, leaving her for broken in the arms of an unlikely hero...