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IMPORTANT: When you see 'oooo' for the first time it means it goes to the past, and when you see if again it goes back to the present. And it does this a lot.

Author's Note: I'm sorry I didn't update recently, but now I updated so read it now, and maybe soon there will be a new chapter, cause I'm planning to get the rest of this story posted, and hopefully soon, because I started this and finished this over a year ago, and I'm still typing it up! And hopefully by the end of next week I'll get the sequel finished on paper! YAH!

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Victoria looked around trying to figure something out. But upon defeat she spoke and broke the silence that had formed. "So... what's a slayer?"

I chuckled as Hedrick explained. "Into each generation a slayer is born, one girl in all the world to stop the spread of vampires.

"So basically they search and kill. Are vampires afraid of her then?" Hedrick shook his head, and Victoria continued. "Are you Danny?"

For a while I just thought and thought and I simply answered. "No."

"Why?"

"Because Tor, I know slayers kill hundreds of vampires, but I've never seen one around here, and plus when I'm here in my home, why would they come in and slay me for doing nothing. I've heard they're brutal, but why that?"

"Your kind is worse." Hedrick shoot back at me in defense of his sister. I nodded my head in agreement. "I have several questions for you, so you mind answering them?" Hedrick asked me.

I didn't know what else he wanted to know, or what else there was that I shouldn't tell. So meekly I told him it would be all right. And with that I anticipated the questions.

"Well one thing I have never heard of a child turned. Who sired you?"

I breathed in as memories raced into my mind. "Drusilla sired me, she sired my father as well. I didn't want to, I wanted to live that's all. The two of them killed my family. And after that Drusilla found me and drained my blood. At the very last drop she told me to choose between being with my family or my father. Unknowingly I picked my father and in the morning I was no longer a human."

"How long ago was that?"

"I was seven then, I still feel like I am, I guess in ways I am thirty-one, but in my mind I am seven, a mere child. So I guess then it had happened twenty-four years ago." It was that long ago, it seemed to have only happen yesterday. I knew it was that long ago, but my appearance made it seem like I had only been sired days ago.

After several moments I thought the questions were done, but that was also when Hedrick noticed something strange. "You're wearing a cross... what are you?"

Hedrick's voice was filled with terror and I looked at Victoria with pity and hope. "You know what I am, a vampire, I thought we already went through this. As for the cross, it was my brother's; I took it from him when I came back to my home. I guess I never felt it after finding Tori. When I put it on for the first time it burned into my flesh and it hurt like bloody hell. But now, I don't notice it."

I fingered the cross and chain. Then I felt for the warm, cross-shaped scar underneath it. And I waited for the final questions.

"Why do you stay and help Victoria?" The easiest question and I answered it truthfully, I did for forgiveness, but mainly because she was family and I loved her.

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But the last question startled me and I didn't know how to answer because I did not know what it was. It was a question that I had tried to figure out many times going to sleep at night. I would try and figure it out for hours, but never have I found an answer. And never will I.

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"Why didn't you lose your soul?"

My frozen heart turned to ice. My nerves were stunned. And my brain had an immediate shut down. And when Victoria tried to get my out of it, she couldn't. And finally she just waited and waited.

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I did come back, but I never gave him the answer, because no one gave it to me. The weeks passed and Victoria and Hedrick's wedding came and went. It was magnificent. And afterwards Victoria left my home and moved in with her husband a few houses down.

Years passed me by and soon a new little girl was roaming my rooms. Ruthie was Victoria's daughter, and they looked identical at that age. She was over constantly, she loved me, and I her. And soon she and her younger sister Johanna became my new Victoria's.

I had found my life with Victoria and her family. It was all I had, but it didn't matter at that time. Because what I had, I learned to love.

When I think back, what I had was something that I would never of had if I wan't turned. If that night hadn't happened that long, long time ago no one would be as they were. When Victoria would have grown up she would have been almost exactly like Elizabeth. Although if that night had never happened Nathan would have had a chance to live life to its fullest. He did not deserve to die that young, but neither did I. I would have given up nearly anything to have Nathan come back, but then everything would not have happened if he did.

Life had been nearly perfect, but like everything perfect it is not long lived. It crumbled into horror went World War II started and came to our doorstep. Hedrick had been Jewish, and now his religion put his family in danger. And with Nazi soldier outside our home they had no choice but to make a dangerous attempt to leave the city, but the problem was that they didn't want to leave me. But in the end they had no choice.

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