Chapter Author's Notes: I do not own anything Buffy, it all belongs to Joss. This story just came to me one day, so I decided to start writing it. Here is what you need to know, this story is set is an alternate-universe about one year after the end of Season 7. What makes this an alternate universe fanfic is that there is a child among the Scoobies and Buffy and the others were able to save Sunnydale from collapsing. This child was born at the beginning of Season 5. More will be explained in future chapters. Please take the time to reply and let me know if anyone is interested in reading more. Prologue
Oz never expected to have to return to Sunnydale. But after 4 years of traveling the world helping other young werewolves learn to control the beast within, he had no choice but to return. Especially not when a seer in Scotland told him that there was a little girl in Sunnydale who needed his help.
He knew that in returning, there was the chance of him running into some of his old friends. Possibly even a Scooby but that thought didn't scare him as much as he had expected. The one person that he was terrified of running into was Willow. He knew that everything was his fault and he couldn't blame her for moving on but he also knew that it would kill him to see her with someone else. He often caught himself wondering if she was still with Tara or had she found someone new.
"I have to concentrate on finding this little girl." He told himself as he looked up at the full moon. "She must be in wolf form now." Oz knew that it was likely that he would have to change into his own werewolf form once he's found her. But he hoped that he would enough control over his own wolf to not attack anyone and to prevent the little girl from doing the same.
As he continued to walk down Main Street, his nose suddenly caught the scent of something. But he was unable to positively identify the scent as one of another werewolf because there was something missing from the scent. But something inside of Oz told him to follow the scent, not knowing exactly where or to whom it would lead him.
Oz began walking faster as the scent grew stronger; it led him to a store. He looked up at the sign, it read 'The Magic Box'. It was then that he heard a scream. As he looked into the store window, he saw a young girl running to hide in the far corner of the store, as a man jumped onto a table near the girl. Oz began sniffing the air around him. The werewolf-like scent was coming from the store, but it wasn't the only thing that Oz was able to conclude. The man in the store wasn't a man at all, it was a vampire.