There are Stranger Things in Heaven and Earth.
In Brief: A Buffy the Vampire Slyer spin-off of sorts. Aliyah Whitehead was a normal girl until that fateful day, after that her world was tuned upside down.
Authors Note: Aliyah (pronounced aleea) means "to ascend" in Hebrew.
Rising Dark (Season premier)
Preface:
Aliyah was sitting in the back of the car as her parents drove through the wet country roads; she had been racing raindrops down the window, but now it was raining so hard it was almost impossible to distinguish one drop from the next.
Something rushed out in front of the car her father swerved to avoid it, but it was to late, the car hit the man and careered off the road into a ditch. The last thing Aliyah saw was his face; it was deformed and his teeth, they were fangs. Then she slipped into blissful unconsciousness.
Aliyah awoke with a start, gasping for breath. What a horrible nightmare. She thought, at least it was just a dream. Then she looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings, she was in hospital.
"You're awake." A voice came from the other side of the room, it took her a second to place it.
"Granny!" she cried and flung her arms around the wispy old woman. "What happened? Why am I hear? Where's mom, and dad?" She blurted out all at once.
"Calm down darling, I'll tell you all in good time. You were in a car crash." Aliyah watched the older woman's face fall, as though she didn't want to, or know how to say the next part. "I'm afraid, I have some bad news. Your, mom died in the car crash, she was dead by the time the firemen managed to get her out, blood loss, I've been told."
She just looked up stunned. "What about dad?" She asked her voice quiet and dry of all emotion.
"When they pulled him out he was screaming about daemons, and monsters attacking your mom and killing her." She took a deep breath. "I'm so sorry, but that's not the end of it. His legs, they were badly damaged by the dash board, they don't think he'll be able to walk again."
"No." Aliyah whispered into the pillow, "no," she curled herself into a ball, "no, no, no, no." her Gran stayed there stroking her light brown hair, whilst she sobbed into the pillow.
Outside the room, Nathaniel Whitehead sat in the wheelchair, the nurse stood behind him silently, unobtrusively, waiting for him to come to a decision. He leaned forward in the chair, resting his hand against the glass of the window pain, he watched his mother talking to Aliyah, then as he saw his daughter curl up into a tight ball on the bed he couldn't take it any longer. Bowing his head he wept, wept for his loss, and his daughters. He just shook his head, he couldn't he wasn't ready, not yet. The nurse silently pushed him back to his room.
Within the month both father and daughter got out of hospital. They went to stay with Nathaniel's mother for a time. Then after several moths her dad came to a decision.