Disclaimer: I'm just a poor student playing with other people's toys, neither Buffy the Vampire Slayer nor the Mentalist belongs to me.

Prologue: Once Upon A Time

She left it all to have a normal life. How that went you ask? Well...

She ended up falling in love and marrying a man who claimed to be a psychic. Not very normal, is it? How many women, or people do you know who are married to a psychic? Not many, she could tell.

The upside, that of course depended on how you looked at it, was that he wasn't a real deal. Psychic you see. He just pretended to be to get the money and fame. In reality he was just a normal man who noticed all the little details.

But despite of his flaws, he was her Prince Charming in his three-piece suit. He married her and got his promised half of the kingdom... In the real life that was an adorable curly-haired angel of a daughter who became his world along with her mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Charming and their lovely daughter moved to a big beach house because Mrs. Charming loved the beach, and the ocean, and the salty winds that blew around there. The house was paid with the money he had made and the inheritance she had gotten from her grandfather.

Or at least that was what she had told him. Because it would have been a bad idea to tell that it was her reward for saving the world that many times.

"From what?" He would question her.

"From the demons and other various evil beings, naturally. You see, there's this prophesy-" She would begin to explain.

"You're kidding, right?" He would ask incredulously.

She would deny and try to assure him that she hadn't lost her mind. Yes, she could see how that would end.

He would call the men in white jackets to come and get his wife. To help her, obviously.

"There was all this stress and, you know?" He would tell those men. He was afraid she was a little delusional.

"Honey, it will be okay. Katie and I will call every day and visit." He would tell her as the men would take her away from her husband and daughter.

"They will help you. You will be back to us before you notice." He'd promise.

So as far as Mr. Charming was aware, Mrs. Charming had inherited it from her lately deceased grandfather, may he rest in peace.

For some time they lived in their gorgeous beach house and their family was happy. There was even talk about getting a second child. And a dog, because little Katie loved doggies. No dark clouds could be seen anywhere.

Unfortunately for them, their story wasn't there with those rare "they lived happily ever after" stories.

Mr. and Mrs. Charming's happily ever after started to crumble the day he went and made somebody angry. Somebody that he should have had sense to leave alone. As if that hadn't been enough a persistent old enemy of hers had started tracking her down. There came the day a friend of hers called to tell he had acquired the information of her location and was in the town. This enemy of hers was cat-like. He loved to play with his pray. She was quite sure he knew that she was aware of the game and knew he was on her heels. Now was time to decide what she would do.

For a day she pondered and weighted different alternatives. Then she resolved it, this had made her realize that in reality there was only one choice she could make. Desperate times asked for desperate measures and apparently it was time to test her husband's faith in her.

There wasn't much time left, she could feel her enemy drawing near. She had to tell him as soon as he returned home, there was no time left to waste.

It was very unlucky for her that something delayed her husband that day. Even unluckier was that her nemesis was tired of waiting and had opted to make his move on that particularly unlucky day.

A/N: Push the button and tell me what you think.