Disclaimer:- I do not own BtVS nor its characters that privilege belongs to Joss and Co. Riley Grey however is my own creation.
Set in and around the end of S7 - AU.
Prologue.
Fate has a funny way of playing with you sometimes, just when you think all hope is lost and the rising sun is going to play host to your final breath - fate just happens to intervene. I've been living for far too many years, I have lost count of how long I have actually walked amongst the mortals of this world deep within the shadows and sometimes right beside them in the light but a battle is drawing near and no matter how hard I want to run my fate is leading me toward this place. Destiny is calling.
But before we get to that there's something you need to know about me, I'm a not exactly your everyday hero in fact I wouldn't even say I was a hero; I fight Demons, Vampires and other things that go bump in the night but I'm not a hero. My tombstone reads 'Riley Grey' and lists my years of life but I've lived far longer than those mere eighteen years, turned into a creature of the night and blessed with my soul for reasons unbeknownst to me; add to that my ability to walk in the sunlight and you might begin to ask yourself just what type of vampire am I. In truth I don't have the answer, I only know that I'm supposed to keep the balance between the darkness and the light and that my fate has thrown me into the final battle and a certain town that contains a hell mouth.