Save me, Please!

Prologue

Sunnydale, California

April 5th 1999:

This new life, power was exhilarating! Buffy flexed her fingers and chuckled; was this what Angel felt? What the others felt? Standing, Buffy looked around, on her left was a beautiful black haired girl with large doe brown eyes. She looked innocent enough, barley eighteen but Buffy knew better. She could fill the violence and demon from her. She also felt a bit of a connection but it was almost inferior to herself.

"Hello my childe. I am Celeste, your Sire." Buffy tilted her head to the side and chuckled bitterly. This woman had no idea who she was. A Slayer turned vampire. The knowledge of a master vampire without being one. She felt it in her, the knowledge from reading the books when she was with Merrick, the knowledge she had gotten from the master when he bit her. No one knew the reason for her reaction after killing the Master. No one realized that a small link had been fleshed between then when he bit her – hell she would not be surprised if the Master had gotten memories from her fighting Lothos or others. Even her youth before being a Slayer. Maybe he had not but it was similar to a sire and childe link. She had not gotten all his knowledge or memories when he died and it had hurt like the death of a sire. Maybe this was why Celeste did not have the same feeling. In one since she already had a Sire, in another she was a turned Slayer she did not need one.

"Really? How long have I been out...sire?" Buffy asked, almost coyly. She added sire as a after thought and almost jokingly. Celeste smiled from her spot in the underground crypt she had taken as her own. She could fell the evil, the bloodlust in this one. In her three hundred and thirty years she hadn't felt this from her childer. This one may even out match the great Angelus in the Aurelius line – her own line. She had been one of the Masters favorites, one of Darla's favorite sisters – in the sired since. When The Master and the order had died two years ago she had come as fast as she could. When she felt Angelus lose that soul she had stayed away, staying in San Francisco instead. Now she felt it safe to come and seek revenge – to kill the Angelic vampire and the Slayer.

"It has been almost three days my dear Aurelia," Celeste replied. Buffy raised a eyebrow at the new name. She liked it but could she go by it? Did she really want to? The Master would like it, of this she was sure and now that she was soulless and vampire herself she felt just a bit of guilt for his death. She hoped he did not hold it against her now, now that she was like he had wanted had she not drowned before he came back, has she not fought his thrall and killed him two years ago. Nodding she agreed, she would be Aurelia now. Buffy was gone as far as she was concerned, though to keep it like that she would need to kill the little red headed witch.

"Aurelia?" she whispered the question. Celeste smiled and chuckled.

"All vampires from the Master's line change their name. My own was once Joan but I was turned in 1686 by the Master who posed as my priest. Come childe we should find someone to feast on. You must be hungry." Buffy, now Aurelia smiled, a smile that Celeste thought was eerily similar to something she'd seen on Darla when they traveled together. Looking the blonde over she now realized what she saw in the girl she had found in the Cemetery the night before, she looked a bit like a younger Darla. More innocent as well, a young women of her own era but from the back it would have been a easy mistake. Even from a distance it could have been mistaken for her sister vampire.

"I see. Your right Celeste I am hungry but first..." Aurelia trailed off before she shot forward. Celeste blinked at how fast her Childe was and before she knew it she felt the sharp end of a stake in her back. She looked at Aurelia in shock. Why?

"Aurelia?" she questioned. Aurelia looked at her in pity and smirked. Her green eyes twinkling.

"Sorry sire, but I don't need you. You should think twice about Siring the Slayer," she said and Celeste's eyes widened and she burst into dust. She winced as she felt her small link to Celeste sever but it was no where near the pain she had felt after killing the Master and what she figured a normal vampire would feel. Chuckling Aurelia tucked Mr. Pointy back in her leather jackets sleeve and she thought about how this had happened. After a rough night of patrolling she had been on her way home when she was hit from behind. She never thought her downfall as the Slayer would come from behind. It was her own fault – she had been busy fussing over the fact Faith was working for the Mayor and the newest Apocalypse. Looking around Aurelia began to move to the exit, all to happy to get the hell out of the underground lair. The night air was just what she needed, fresh and clean. Well as clean as it could be considering the pollution of the world today. Sunnydale compared to other places probably wasn't that bad.

"Time for some fun," Aurelia said, smirking. The Hellmouth was in for a big surprise - first though she had to begin her game.

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A/N: So, a new story. I am on a Buffy/Angel Plot bunny kick but before long I will be updating some of my more popular stories. I always though Buffy as a vampire was a great plot. There is a few but not many were she is evil but keeps her soul - which I think is over done. I also always thought Buffy and Darla were similar, not like oh my god you should be sisters, but as in traits that are alike and besides no one really knows how different Darla was as a human. I don't think we can take to much stock on resurrected Darla because she has been a evil demon for four hundred or so years before becoming human again. Anyways I just thought if Buffy was evil those that knew Darla - especially Angel might recognize a similarity between the two. I am rambling now and probably starting to confuse everyone but the fact remains my evil Buffy might remind you of Darla a bit - not overly so but a little.

Oh and one more thing. This takes place after Angel pretends to be Angelus but not long after. Oh and Dawn is around.