Disclaimer: BTVS does not belong to me. Don't sue, I have no money, lol.
Summary: After Buffy runs away (after killing Angel), a stranger appears out
of nowhere to help the gang with their vamp. problems.
She sticks around after Buffy gets back, and in season six, things start
getting strange.
Pairings: S/B, W/T, X,A

Ok people, This is the first chapter BTVS story I actually plan to
finish, lol. Set in Season six, spoilers up until 'Gone'.
Willow & Tara never broke up.
Assume that Willow knows how to control her cravings for power and
never had to swear off magic.
While I don't own the BTVS characters, Ceres and her clan are totally mine.
Hope you like the story.
I don't plan on uploading the next chapter until I get 5 reviews, lol.
Actually, I still have to write it..
But, if you guys don't like it, I won't finnish it. SO let me know what you
think, okies? ;)
Enough of that.. onto the story!
~CrimsonCat~

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She came to us about a week after Buffy had run away.
We were a mess when she found us.
Worried about our Slayer and trying to keep the vampire population down.

Xander, Oz, Cordillia and I were in the grave yard attacking vamps when
two of them jumped out at us.
We could barely handle one vampire, so two was definitely out of our league.
So, there we are trying not to get ourselves killed, when an angel appeared.
Or, at least she looked like an angel to me at the time.
Keep in mind though, I was being choked by a fairly strong undead fiend.

But anyway, She leapt down from one of the crypts, ripping the vampire
away from me.
She had both of them dusted in under thirty seconds.
The way Buffy would have done it.

The four of us, we just stared at her in shock.

"I'm Ceres."

Simple as that.
A name, and a friendly smile.

She had long, dark brown hair, and copper color eyes.
I remember the way her dark, tanned skin sparkled in the moonlight.
And I almost expected ivory wings to appear behind her.

We accepted her into our group, and she became our muscle.
She appeared to be as strong as Buffy was.
Just as agile, just as quick..
And to make the deal even better, she was a advanced magic user.
I called her a witch once, but she said she preferred the term 'sorceress'.
Giles was the least willing to accept her, but he did eventually.
And when Buffy finally came back, she accepted her too.

Granted, there was some tension, but the two of them got along wonderfully
after a few weeks.
Some demon killing or another brought them together.
Who said the buggers weren't good for anything?
She became Buffy's 'patrol-Buddy' and everything.

So, she enrolled in the high school, and was there through everything.
Angel's return, Faith's appearance, Faith's sudden side-switching, the
whole 'mayor-assention-thing', Angel leaving, grad, the initiative
phase, Dawn's appearance, Joyce's death, the battle with Glory..
She was there for all of it.
And out of all of us, she was the one who accepted Spike easiest after
he got that chip.

She was there when Buffy died.

The two had become sisters almost, and it was as hard on her as it was
on the rest of us.
And like Spike, she blamed herself for our Slayer's death.
The two of them became obsessed with protecting Dawn, the last Summers
they could save.

We didn't tell her about the spell to bring Buffy back.
Although her magical power would have made things a lot easier, for she
was much more advanced than I, we didn't tell her.
She, like Giles and Spike, never would have let us go through with it.
So, we didn't tell her.
She found out about the same time Spike did.

Her and Buffy have taken up their patrolling together again thing.
And when the rest of us are busy, she keeps track of where Dawn is,
and keeps the kid out of trouble.

To this day, I still expect to find wings when I look at her.