Another Halliwell

by LuckyFreak

The Charmed Ones find out that their aunt has died, leaving them the guardians of a sixteen year old girl. She isn't a witch, what is she? A Charmed/ Buffy Crossover.

1. Slayer Halliwell

Another Halliwell

Chapter 1

Slayer Halliwell

Disclaimer:  I don't own anything but Sarah Bennet, I wish I did, but these characters and places are owned by people far superior than me.

Summary:  The Halliwells find out their aunt they never knew they had has died, leaving them in custody of her sixteen year old daughter.  How will they react to a non magical presense in the house?  She isn't a witch, what is she?    A Charmed/ Buffy Crossover.   (Willow will be making an appearance later.)

Author's Note:  I love reviews, please review.  When I first posted this, I came back four hours later, and had four reviews, I then sat down and wrote and posted the next chapter, I didn't care that it was two in the morning, so if you want this response, review a lot.  Thanks.

Fiction Here:

Piper had just gotten home from the club, and was sorting through the mail when a letter caught her eye.  'Who would be writing us from Social Services?  Paige doesn't work there any more.'  Her curiosity peaked, she opened the letter, sat down, and read:

'Dear Ms. Halliwell;

            Your aunt Matilda Bennet has recently died, leaving her daughter, Sarah Halliwell orphaned.  As you and your sister are her only remaining relatives, we ask that you take custody of her as soon as possible.  Please contact us as soon as you are able.  Thank you.

                                                            Sincerely,

                                                            George Foreman'

"Leo!"  Piper called out, and just as she turned around, she saw the swirl of bright whitish blue lights that signaled her husband's entrance to the house.  "Leo, look at this!"  she brandished the letter in his face, waving it around wildly. He snatched it out of her hand and quickly scanned it. 

"Do you know who she is?"  Piper asked her husband, wondering if his duties as a whitelighter extended to that branch of the family.

"No, they're relatives of your father's, not your mother's.  They aren't magical at all.  So Sarah should be a mortal."  Leo explained.

  She called out "Paige!"  and suddenly there was another burst of the whitish blue lights that accompanied whitelighter orbing.  When the half whitelighter had fully materialized Piper said, "Go get Phoebe, we have a situation which I'll explain when everyone gets here."  Paige didn't wait, and took off in another swirl of bright lights.  She reappered about ten minutes later, accompanied by Phoebe, the middle Charmed One. 

They both sat on the couch as Piper began to explain what had occurred to them.  "Apparantly, we have an aunt we never knew about, and she has just recently died, leaving her daughter Sarah orphaned, as we are her only living relatives, she has to come live with us."

There was a stunned silence for quite a while as they both absorbed the information.  "So, what do we need to do?"  Phoebe asked.

"The letter says we need to call them, and arrange for her to come here.  I'll take care of that if you need to get back to work Phoebes.  And, uh, Paige, can you demagic the house?  You know, clean up anything that's magical and put it in the attic?  We'll put a locking spell on the door that only one of us or Leo could open.  And could you also make up the air mattress in the  basement for her?  She will need somewhere to sleep,  and I don't think the couch is the ideal place, what with all the demons and such."  Both of the other sisters nodded their consent to Piper's plan.  "Alright, scoot!"  Piper said, and both of them started towards their separate tasks.  Piper turned to Leo and said, "You, are going to  come with me when I go and pick her up."  She picked up the phone and dialed the number on the letter.  A few minutes later, she was done with her conversation and hung up.  "Alright.  Mr. Foreman says we can come and pick her up around four."  She grabbed her purse, jacket, and keys as she headed for the door.  Leo followed suit. 

The drive to the Social Worker's office was long, as it was in Oakland.  The silence was slightly stifling, but not overwhelmingly so.  Once they were at the office, Piper pulled into a parking space, set the brake, and turned off the ignition.  She didn't however, get out of the car.  "Piper, honey, what's the matter?"  Leo asked concerned.

"I just don't know if I can deal with a cousin in the house, especially one who just lost her only parent.  That happened to me, but at least I had Grams, Prue, and Phoebe.  Sarah doesn't have anybody she knows, she's never met us.  I just don't know what I'll do, what I'll say."  She looked near tears as she revealed this to her husband.

"Piper, you are a good person, and a good witch, and you will be a great mother when our baby comes.  You can always find a way to make things work, that's what you are best at.  I believe that if we just take things one step at a time, all our answers will come in due time.  Now come on, we need to pick up your cousin."  He patted her on the knee as he leaned over and kissed her on the forehead.  She sighed and opened the door.  They held hands as they approached the door.  A few hours, loads of paperwork, and few awkward introductions later, they were headed back to the Manor, with one more person in the Jeep.

"So, uh, Sarah, what kind of music do you like to listen to?"  Piper asked, trying hard to break the incredibly awkward silence.

"I like alternative, rock, but none of that new heavy metal stuff with screaming, punk rock, and music from musicals."  The teenager replied, looking out the window wistfully. 

"Really, I own a club that often has lots of alternative bands that come and play, what one is your favorite?"  Piper pressed on, trying to find a way to get the teen to open up to her.

"Weezer."  Was Sarah's one word reply. 

Piper sighed mentally, this was obviously going to take a bit of work. 

"That's great, I actually have them lined up to do a concert at the club next month.  Would you be interested in coming and hearing them?"  Piper asked, hoping the thought of meeting her favorite band would bring Sarah out of her shell.

"It's a club, I can't get in legally."  Sarah replied, and returned to staring out the window.

"I own the club, I can get you in as long as you don't drink alcohol, and I don't take you in the front."  Piper replied, "So you interested?"

"Sure."  Sarah stated, still staring out the window.

After that, Piper gave up trying to coax any communication out of the teenager in the back.  When they were getting close to home, she tossed her cell phone to Leo and said, "Call them, and let them know we're almost home."  She asked as she passed a car, just getting ready to get off the highway.  Leo did as she asked, and put the cell phone back in her bag. 

Twenty minutes later, Piper's Jeep pulled up in front of the Manor.  All three of them hopped out.  Sarah was a sixteen year old with long brown hair, fairly short in stature, and strong cheek bones.  She looked like Piper and Phoebe's father.  But she didn't dress like her cousins.  Instead of the flashy, and revealing clothing that the Halliwell sisters liked  to wear, Sarah was dressed in a baggy pair of jeans, combat boots, a loose dark colored tee shirt, and a black hooded sweatshirt.  The only thing she carried was a large army surplus duffle bag stuffed full of her stuff, obviously quite heavy, that she carried with one hand, belaying a strength beyond what was visible.  Piper opened the door to the foyer and called inside.  "Paige, Phoebe?  We're home."  Just then, Paige and Phoebe appeared on the stairs, obviously having come from the attic.  Phoebe spoke first. 

"Hi there, I'm Phoebe."

"Sarah."  Was all that Sarah said.

Paige in turn introduced herself. 

"Where am I staying?"  Sarah asked Piper.

"Uh, until we come up with something better, we've set up an air mattress in the  basement.  So, um, there until we figure something else out."  She explained.  "See, we only have three bedrooms, and as it is, our baby will be sleeping in a closet." Piper began babbling.  "Uh, basement is through the kitchen, first door on the left." 
Sarah didn't reply, just headed down to the basement to unpack her stuff.

Once she was out of the room, Phoebe glared at Piper. "Why is she so stoic?"  she demanded of her elder sister.

"Why should I know?  She just lost her mother, and now she has to live with four complete strangers, in a completely different town, and start a completely new school.  Gee, why wouldn't I want to talk if I was in the same position?"  Piper retorted sarcastically. 

Paige jumped in, "Guys, we don't need this right now.  I'm sure Phoebe has to go back to work."  She looked to Phoebe who nodded and dashed out the door.  "And, I have to meet a friend of mine to talk about some stuff.  I won't be home until later."  She  too left.

Piper sighed, audibly this time, and looked to her husband who appeared to be staring at the ceiling.  "Oh, no, not now.  You can't go now."  She pleaded.

"Sorry, they say its an emergency, and you really don't want to know what has  to happen for them to call it an emergency."  He finished talking, went over to her, gave her a quick kiss, and then orbed out. 

Piper wasn't sure if she should go downstairs and try to talk to Sarah again, or if she should just leave well enough alone.  Throwing caution to the wind, she went downstairs. 
Once she got to the bottom, she knocked on the railing.  "Can I come in?" She asked politely.

"Sure."  Sarah responded, not looking up from what she was doing, it appered to be unpacking her clothes and laying them in neat piles next to her air mattress. 

"Do you need any help unpacking?"  Piper asked, searching desperately for something to do. 

"No thanks, I'm almost done."  Sarah finished unpacking clothes, from the bottom of her bag she pulled a portable CD player, a large CD wallet, and a thick book.  Her duffle didn't appear to be empty, but she folded the top over, and layed it down next to the piles of clothes.  Once she was done unpacking, she sat down on the   mattress, unlaced her boots, and pulled them off.

While she was watching Sarah unpack, Piper had sat down on the stairs, not saying anything, just watching.  When Sarah looked up after neatly placing her boots next to a pair of Airwalks, she saw her cousin staring at her.  "Now what?"  She asked.

"I'm not sure."  Piper admitted.  "I've never had to deal with anything like this before.  I'm not sure I'll do it right."

"Your doing fine now."  Sarah replied.

"So, uh, are you hungry, I could whip something up for you if you were."  Piper asked. 

"I could eat."  Sarah responded, standing up and extending her hand to Piper to help her up as well.  "You forget, I'm a teenager, I can always eat or sleep."

"Ah, yes."  Piper said, "Its been a while since I was a teenager though, so I guess I'm bound to forget things.  Come on, I'll make you something to eat.  I'm suddenly famished as well."

They both headed up the stairs, and Piper looked in  the refridgerator while Sarah sat down at the table.  "Lets see, I could make pizza, or chicken, pasta, or hamburgers.  What sounds good to you?"

"Maybe some pasta.  Do you need any help?"  Sarah offered.

"You could make a salad, and set the table.  I can get the rest."  Piper replied, taking the noodles out of the pantry and headed to the stove to get a pot that hadn't been used at one time or another to make a potion, boy was that hard to do.  She put water in the pan, and started boiling the water.  It was taking longer to heat up than she wanted, so she looked to where Sarah was, and found that her back was turned, quickly she gestured with her hands and caused the molecules of water to speed up, and in the process heat up faster.  When the water came to a boil, she put the noodles in, and started making the sauce; from scratch.  Sarah had been looking in the cabinets for the pasta sauce so she could help Piper with it, and had been unsuccessful.

"Piper, where's your pasta sauce?" she asked, frustrated.

"I make my own.  I was a chef before I opened the club."  Piper replied as she chopped tomatoes and garlic. 

"Oh."  Sarah was shocked, but you couldn't tell that by looking at her, she seemed just as inflappable as before.   Sarah sat at the table while Piper was finishing dinner, as she was putting it in dishes, and platters, Phoebe and Paige came in through the back door.  And it appeared that Leo had come in the front, although that wasn't actually the case. 

"Food's done."  Piper announced as they all sat down to eat.  Sarah tore into the food with a passion, it appeared that she hadn't eaten much that day. 

Once dinner was done, Phoebe and Paige offered to do the dishes since Piper and Sarah had made dinner.  Leo gave Piper a look that said, 'We need to talk, alone.'  And he went out into the conservatory.

"So, Sarah, what are you planning to do tonight?"  Piper asked her cousin.

"I thought I'd listen to some music and read my book.  Why?"  Sarah asked in return.

"Just wondering."  When Sarah had gone downstairs, Piper joined Leo in the Conservatory.  "What did the Elders have to say?"

"She's not a witch."  Leo said.

"Okay, not a witch, is she mortal, or what?"  Piper was confused.

"No, she's not mortal, nor is she demon.  They can't figure out what she is, but she's not evil.  That much I  can tell you."  Leo looked frustrated that even the Elders didn't know what the newest addition to the Halliwell household was. 

"Okay, we'll just play things by ear, and if it comes up, it'll come up."  Piper looked worried, she didn't want anything to happen to her unborn baby.

Sarah climbed down the stairs to her area.  You really couldn't call it a room, it really was more of an area.  She stretched out on her  mattress, pulling her CD player and CD wallet over to her.  Putting on her headphones, she selected her Everclear CD and popped it in, pressing play.  As she returned her CD wallet to the floor, she picked up the large  book that Piper had seen her remove from her bag, it was a collection of Poe's greatest works.  Opening it to a bookmark, she began to read.

A few hours later, Piper climbed down the stairs to the basement, she saw her cousin on the  mattress emersed in a thick book.  She knocked on the railing again, hoping that she could hear over her  CD.  Evidently, Sarah could, as she set the book aside, and turned off her CD player.  She sat up and looked directly at Piper, but didn't say anything.

"I uh, just wanted to say goodnight.  Phoebe and Paige went to the club, but, I'm feeling tired, so I'm going to go to bed.  If you need anything, don't hesitate to wake me up.  My room is the one at the end of the hall, to the left as you climb the stairs.  Goodnight."  Piper said, she still wasn't sure what she was supposed to do in situations like this.

"Good night."  Sarah replied, after Piper had returned upstairs, she went back to her book and read until about nine thirty.  That was when she put her book away, grabbed a jacket, and out of the bottom of her duffle, a wooden stake, and a short dagger, both of which she tucked into her belt at the small of her back, her jacket covering them.  Finding a window that was unlocked, she opened it, and climbed out.  She left, and didn't return until around three thirty.  Sarah had hoped that nobody would notice, since she was in the basement and all, unfortunately, this wasn't the case.  Leo had seen her sneak out, but he didn't say anything. 

The next morning came far too early for Sarah's taste, but she got up at her normal six thirty anyways.  After she grabbed some clothes, and went up stairs to shower, she found that nobody was awake yet, so she took her time in the shower.  She climbed out of the shower, and toweled off.  Sarah quickly pulled on the clean clothes that she had brought up with her, her jeans, and a dark blue tee shirt, she didn't have shoes on, but she did put on clean socks.  Quickly, and efficiently, she pulled her hair back in a single braid, and put a rubber band around the bottom of the braid, which was nearly at the middle of her back.  After dressing, she went downstairs and started coffee and scrambled eggs.  The smell of cooking food woke the other members of the household, and they all trudged downstairs separately.  Piper and Leo arrived in the kitchen first.  Piper saw the eggs, toast and coffee, and said; "You didn't have to make breakfast."  She then dug in ravenously, nearly as her husband was.  "Why are you up so early?"  Piper asked as she swallowed her mouthful.

"I always get up at six thirty, can't do anything about it.  So, I've showered, and made breakfast, hope it's alright."  Sarah replied as she dished out eggs for the two remaining sisters who were now making an apperance. 

"Sure, it's fine, but you don't have to do this every morning."  Piper answered.  Sarah fixed herself a plate, and sat down.  They all finished their meal in silence, and Piper finally broke the silence when she said.  "So, Sarah, give me a half hour to shower and change, and I'll drive you to school, get you registered."  Sarah nodded in response as she started the dishes.  "No, you don't.  Phoebe, Leo and Paige will take care of those."  Sarah just nodded again, and headed to the basement.  Piper hurried up the stairs to shower and change. 

She emerged half an hour later and scampered down the stairs to get Sarah; who was sitting at the kitchen table; a spiral notebook, a pen, and a pencil on the table in front of her.  "Ready?  Let's go."  Leading the way out to her Jeep, Piper drove to the highschool that she, Prue, and Phoebe had all attended.  They entered the main office and got her registered, Piper left, and the pricipal requested to speak with Sarah by herself. 

Sarah had never liked authority figures, her mother really didn't try to lord anything over her, she was more like a best friend rather than a mother.  She felt the same thing coming from Piper, so instinctively she trusted and liked Piper.  Sarah was sitting in one of the  chairs facing the principal's desk, waiting for him to speak.  When he finally did, he said almost exactly what she had expected him to say.  "Your records say that you were involved in several altercations between students, and others on your campus.  I'm letting you know now that that will not be tolerated at my school.  You step out of line, and I'll put you in your place.  Is that understood?"  The principal barked at her.

Sarah had long since learned not to speak to the principal unless it's absolutely necessary, so she just nodded her head, grabbed her schedule, and headed off to her classes. 

The day passed without incident, and at three thirty, Piper pulled up outside the school to pick Sarah up.  She climbed into the car, and was silent the entire way home. 

Once they were at home, Sarah went into the kitchen, and made herself a snack and started her homework.  Out of nowhere, Paige appeared, followed by a big honking ugly guy who was throwing energy balls.  Sarah was startled, but not much.  Paige screamed for Piper who came in, and tried to blow up the demon.  It didn't work, she then tried to freeze it, it didn't work.  The demon now noticed her, and lashed out, throwing her into the wall.  "Hey, ugly!  Leave her alone and focus on me!"  Sarah cat called to the demon, hoping to get it's attention away from Piper.  It worked, the demon turned towards Sarah who had jumped up from the table, grabbed a kitchen knife, and was standing in a fighting stance.  The demon decided to forgoe any energy balls, instead trying to rip the girl apart with his bare hands.  He lunged forward, trying to grab her, instead he ended up with her foot in his face.  She had kicked him!  The demon didn't understand this, he didn't sense any magical powers in her!  She was just a mortal!  How could a mortal fight back like she was?  That was the thought going through his head as Sarah started raining down blows, driving the demon to his knees before stabbing the knife through his eye and into his brain, killing him.  To be sure, she snapped his neck with a thrust of her foot.  Sarah then turned and saw her cousins and Leo all standing in the doorway staring wild eyed at her. 

After they had all calmed down a little bit, they were all sitting in the living room explaining things.  "I'm what's called a whitelighter, sort of a guardian angel for witches and future whitelighters." Leo explained, then passed the bullet on to Piper who began her own explanation.

"We're the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches ever.  I have the power of chronostasis, or freezing time, and I can speed molecules up, effectively blowing things up." 

Phoebe interrupted her and said, "I have the power of premonition, I get visions, of the past or present when I touch things or people.  I also can levitate."

Paige then jumped in with her own complicated story. "I'm only their half sister, my father was their mother's whitelighter, so I'm half whitelighter, half witch, so I get the orbing, and healing from the whitelighter side, and the power of telekinesis from the witch."

Piper then cautiously broached the subject of what Sarah was.  "So, exactly who are you that you can do what you did to that demon?"

Sarah was silent for a bit, and then responded quietly.  "I'm a Slayer."

"Slayer?  Slayer of what?"  Phoebe asked, confused slightly.

"Vampires, and the occasional demon."  Was her terse reply before she returned to staring at the floor.

"So, how do you do what you do?"  Paige asked, she wasn't skeptical of the existence of Vampires after what she had experienced earlier.

"I'm stronger, faster, heal faster, get prophetic dreams, that sort of thing."  Sarah looked unhappy.  "Can I go now?" 

"Wait a minute, that's why you snuck out last night?" Leo asked.

"Yeah, had to patrol."

"She snuck out and you didn't tell me?!"  Piper was kinda unhappy.

"Sorry."

The four adults stayed upstairs, shouting and yelling at each other, trying to place blame in places it didn't need to be.  They didn't notice that Sarah had left, presumably to patrol, or to retreat to her basement.  Suddenly, Piper noticed that Sarah had left, and she stopped them all, and went searching for her, they all followed her to the basement, where the window was open, but there was no Sarah.  It was obvious what had happened. 

The next morning Leo woke up, rolled over, and found that his wife wasn't in bed with him.  He got dressed, and padded downstairs where he found her sitting at the kitchen table.  "Piper, honey, how long have you  been up?" He asked, sitting down next to her, placing his hand comfortingly on her back, rubbing it up and down slowly and gently.

"Never went to sleep."  She said, drinking some of her tea out of the mug that she held between her hands.  Piper tucked her knees up to her chest before saying anything else.  "She hasn't come home yet." 

"Do you think we should call Darryl?"  Leo asked, worrying for the newest additon to the household.

"I'll give her a little bit more, I'd guess she'll come home when she thinks we've all gone to work.  So, when Phoebe and Paige have left, I want you to take my car and go to the club, I'll call you when she gets here, alright?"  Piper asked her husband, finally looking away from the backdoor where she had been staring for this entire interchange.

"What ever you want,"  Leo leaned over and kissed the top of her head, "I'm going to go and shower.  Want to join me?"  He asked seductively.

"Thanks, but I don't think so right now."  She turned her head towards him, and kissed him briefly, "Now scoot."

As Leo left to go upstairs, Phoebe came downstairs, already dressed for work.  "I've got to go, I'm going to be late."  She said as she grabbed a bagel and a cup of coffee.  "What time did Sarah get home?"  Phoebe asked as she was almost out the door. 

"She hasn't yet.  Go, get to work, I'll call you when she does."  With that, Phoebe left the house headed towards the Bay Mirror.

Piper remained as she was, sitting on the couch in the conservatory, twenty minutes later, Paige came downstairs.  "I'm off to the apothecary, we're almost out of some supplies.  I'll be home later.  Call me when Sarah gets up.  Alright?"  She didn't wait for an answer as she left in a hurry.

Piper looked shocked that neither of her sisters actually had stopped to be worried about Sarah, maybe it was just the maternal instincts that were rising up in her.  She came out of her self imposed reverie when Leo appeared in the doorway.  "I'll take your car, go to the club, and then I have to go up there.  Call me when she gets home and you're done taking her head off."  Leo left after kissing her briefly but passionately.

Sarah had been sitting on the roof of a neighboring house since sunrise.  She was watching the Halliwell Manor, watching the people who were supposed to be her family leave, and go about their lives.  All except for Piper.  She noticed that Leo had taken the Jeep, while nobody else had gotten in with him.  Piper had been staying behind, hoping that Sarah would return, thinking the house empty, and she could talk with her.  Sarah was amazed at how well Piper knew her, even only knowing her for two days.  Oh well, she didn't mind talking to Piper anyways, or even Leo, but she just got a weird tingle from her Slayer senses about the other two.  She couldn't identify it, but it kept her on edge.  Her mind made up, she jumped down from the roof, startling the neighbors who had been in their backyard gardening.  She leapt the fence, and entered the basement window of the Halliwell Manor.  Sarah hadn't had any intention of running away, but she didn't want to deal with her so called 'family' at the time either.  She made her way up the stairs, and into the kitchen. 

Piper had noticed her come out of the basement, but, since she was in the conservatory, Sarah couldn't see her; so she decided to wait and see what Sarah did. 

"You can come out Piper, I know you're there."  Sarah called into the conservatory as she poured herself a glass of orange juice and a bowl of cereal. 

Piper emerged from around the corner, looking slightly sheepish.  "How did you know I was there?  Some slayer sense or something?"  She asked, more for conversational value, rather than any actual information.

"I didn't see you leave the house with either of your sisters, or with Leo.  But that was a good idea, having him take your car away.  I also could sense that I wasn't alone in the house."  Sarah replied around mouthfuls of cereal, gesturing for Piper to join her at the table.  She swallowed her cereal, and said to Piper who was now sitting across from her.  "I wasn't planning on running; I just didn't want to talk to Phoebe or Paige this morning.  Didn't want them getting all weird or wigging out or something."

Piper sat still, noticing that Sarah hadn't mentioned that she didn't want to talk to her this morning.  Maybe she was making headway with the girl.  "I stayed,  because I was worried about you.  I don't want to judge you, I don't want you to be threatened by me, I want to be your friend."

"I know."

"My sisters are good people too, they wouldn't judge or anything.  Hell, Phoebe married the Source of all Evil and almost had his evil spawn!  And we didn't hate her for it.  We helped her through it after she had to help vanquish Cole."

"I know, but I get a weird feeling in my Slayer senses whenever I'm around them.  Makes me jumpy, worried."

"Could be that both of them were evil in past lives, it could be because you don't know them very well."

"Maybe.  I just don't trust them."

" I want you to feel that you can come to me with anything, if you need to talk, need a shoulder to cry on, anything.  I was once the middle sister, and the peace maker, so I'm good at it." 

"Thanks." 

There was a very pregnant pause before Sarah said, "I need to get to school.  I'm going to be late."

" Oh, I've got that covered. Leo!" She called towards the ceiling.

Just then, Leo orbed in, he saw Sarah and said, "Hi."

"We need to get her to school or else she'll be late, come on hop to."  Leo grabbed Sarah and Piper's hands before orbing off again.

They rematerialized behind the gym of Sarah's school.  "thanks for the lift.  I'll see you after school."  Was the last thing they heard her say before she entered the school, sprinting towards her locker, then her classes. 

The day seemed to crawl forward, but finally it was over, and Sarah walked home. 

There was a normal dinner, but Phoebe and Paige were conspicuously absent, Sarah retired to her basement to do some homework before leaving on patrol around nine.  "I'm going on patrol, probably be home around threeish.  Don't wait up, and don't leave the door unlocked or open, I've got a window fixed." She called to Piper and Leo as she left the manor, carrying a bag with several different types of weapons in it with her.

Patrol was fairly standard.  Stake a few vamps, kill the odd demon.  But towards the end of her normal route, Sarah came across a red headed girl being attacked by a group of vampires.  She dropped her bag and pulled out both her large crossbow, and her hand held one, intending to drop a few of the vamps before she even got close.  Bringing the large crossbow up to her shoulder, aiming at the vampire nearest the girl, she squeezed the trigger, and pegged the vampire right in the heart, he exploded with a scream.  His sudden dematerialization left the girl off balance, and she fell.

Sarah quickly reloaded, and squeezed off several more shots before dropping her crossbows by her bag and hurling herself headlong into the fray.  It only took her a matter of minutes to dispatch the remaining vampires.  Leaning over the girl who was laying on the ground, Sarah saw she was still alive, but only just.  Sarah bent down, and scooped the inert form off the ground, sprinted for her weapons bag, quickly shouldering that, she ran for the manor, intending for Leo to heal the girl.  Forgoing her usual entrance of the basement window, she kicked the back door in. "Leo!  Piper!  We've got problems!"  She called upstairs, and was greeted by a swirl of whitish blue lights as she lay the prone figure on the couch.   Leo had orbed downstairs with Piper.  "Leo, heal her."  Sarah pleaded with the whitelighter who hurried over, and laid his healing hands over the girl. 

"What happened?"  Piper asked Sarah who was looking worridly at Leo.

"A group of vamps attacked her towards the end of my patrol, around fifteen or so.  I got off around 6 shots with my crossbow before I had to go hand to hand.  Unfortunately, she was down, and unconscious when I got there."

Leo was just finishing healing the girl, who started to wake up. "Who are you?"  She asked Leo.  "Where am I? What happened to the vampires?"

"I found you, killed the vamps, and brought you here for Leo to heal you."  Sarah stepped forward, providing the necessary information before pressing for her own information.  "Who are you, and why do you know that they were vampires?"

"If you're Sarah Bennet, I have the answer for you.  I'm Willow Rosenburg, I'm your new Watcher."

Sarah fainted.