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Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.- Gwendoline Christie
My father once told me that true love can break even the strongest of walls around a person's heart if you fight hard enough for that person. At the time, I didn't understand what he was telling me, it was as if he had known that I would meet someone who has been through so much suffering that they would close themselves off to the point of not feeling emotions like love, fear, joy and pain like my father once did. I guess I should introduce myself seeing as I'm starting to get ahead of myself. My name is Danielle Halliwell-Gold, daughter of renowned witch Anna Halliwell and Robert Gold also known as the Dark One Rumplestiltskin.
I'm also the cousin of the Charmed Ones; Piper, Phoebe and Paige Halliwell who are the daughters of my late aunt Patricia who died before my sister Sarah and I were born. So in case you haven't gotten it yet, I'm a witch or a magic-user depending on who you ask. I'm also a Slayer or Slayer of the Vampires if you want to be a bit technical with the term. I was Called after my twentieth birthday thanks to a spell cast by one of my best friends, Willow Rosenberg who activated all Potential Slayers in the world including young women like myself who are Potential Slayers and were never Called earlier in their lives and it even though this happened fifteen years old and under dire circumstances, I've never regretted becoming a Slayer even after starting a career as a professional wrestler for the WWE a few months after the final battle against the First Evil.
If it hadn't been for Willow and my other best friend, Buffy Summers, I never would have recovered from the effects that the final battle against the First Evil that had nearly destroyed me inside and out and I would have never met the man who would become my lover, soul-mate and life-long partner in the fight against the supernatural and those who would threaten humanity. His name is Lucifer Morningstar, former Lord of Hell and the Devil himself. Now I know what you might be thinking, THE Devil? The same entity who is said to hate humanity, is considered to be the source of all evil in the world, knows nothing of love, friendship and family and a former archangel known as Samael? You would be correct in all but one aspect of Lucifer's story and that's the story that I'm going to tell you. A story of redemption, finding love, friendship and finding the strength to move on from the past.
Now how do I begin this story? Oh, yes. I will begin this story with the phrase once upon a time ...