Title: The Prodigal Daughter

Subject: Kindred the Embraced/Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cross Over

Rated: R

Couples: Willow/Julian, Cash/Sasha, Lillie/Julian, Caitlyn/Julian

Spoilers: All Of Buffy and Anything from Kindred is fair game. Takes Place just after Series Finale of Buffy and "Cabin in the Woods", on Kindred. Slightly AU. Willow was adopted.

Summary: No one was able to defeat the First Evil, accept Willow. Once she does this she learns that her friend's only pretended to welcome her back inorder to use her magic in the final battle. After the fight, Willow begins to have dreams about her real parents, so betrayed and heartbroken, she sets out on a journey to find her family and uncover the truth about her dreams.

Willow couldn't believe how much had happened in the past few weeks. She had been lied to and abandoned by her friend's,

people who meant more to her than anything. She'd never forget the look on Buffy's face or the coldness in her voice when she'd

told Willow to leave and not come back. It had to be a joke right? No. It was very real. Everyone had been quite vocal about how they blaimed Willow for the hell they'd all gone through at the hands of the First Evil.

They looked at her and saw all the power she had, and realized that she was more of a threat than many of their enemies. Of course that didn't stop them from using that power everytime something they couldn't handle came up. They didn't even acknowledge that her adoptive parent had died in the battle. The worse part was realizing that Xander had lied to her at the lowest point in her life. When he'd talked her out of destoying the World, and held her in his arms, a small part of her actually wanted to live. If for no other reason that to make sure that he never had to experience the kind of pain that Tara's death had caused Willow. After many tears and pleading, on her part, Willow had walked away from the people she called family forever.

Willow who'd been gazing out of her plane's window, shook off the unpleasant memeories and studied the book in front of her. She called it her dream journal. Every since the battle with the First, Willow had been having strange dreams. The creatures in her dreams were vampires, she knew that. But they were unlike any she had ever seen. They seemed more civlized if such a thing was even possible. They had this beautiful darkness that spoke to her. When she watched them interact in her dreams, Willow felt this longing to be with them that went all the way down to her very soul. It was like something inside her had been a sleep for centuries, and now it wanted out. They made her feel like she was coming home.

No sooner had she finished this thought, that a woman spoke to her from the next seat. "It's time to come home my darling Willow. Where you belong."

Willow jumped and stared at the strange woman. "Um, Who are you and how'd you know my name." The woman had huge green eyes and long blood red hair. Blood Red? Willow smirked she'd spent way too much time on the hellmouth.

The beautiful woman laughed lightly, and said with the same smirk that Willow herself just displayed, "I know your name dear because I gave it to you. As for who I am, well..your father called be Jamine, but you can call me mom!"

Willow blinked in shock and the woman was suddenly gone, leaving the trembling witch alone again.

"Yep, definatley too much time on the hellmouth."