Next Time You Bleed
Prologue
By: Kamikazee E-Mail: neo_kamikazee@hotmail.com Disclaimer: Dawn Summers and all things related to Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the mastermind of Joss Whedon. X-Men Evolution is also (surprise, surprise) not mine. Fandom: BtVS/X-Men Evolution Summary: Could the keys powers be a genetic mutation? Dawn runs away after the events of the season 5 finale and finds herself in Bayville. Spoilers: Up to the season 5 finale for BtVS. For X-Men Evolution: Day of Reckoning 2 (the season 2 finale) Pairing: Dawn/? Distribution: Fanfiction.net, Twisting the Hellmouth. Anyone else just please e-mail me a link. Author's Notes: Okay, I have no real idea where I'm going to go with this, but I'm stuck with my other fics, so here it comes. Notes 2: Title comes from the song 'Hangnail' by Nickelback. Rating: PG
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I'm not normal.
I don't see how I ever could perceive myself as normal. What I am is not what most people are. Of course, that's not a hard thing to achieve. How many people do you know whose blood opens portals?
That's right. The key is not just a one-time thing. Whenever I bleed, I can open a portal to a different place. It doesn't necessary have to be a different dimension. You see, the more distance between the locations, the more blood needed.
I feel empty here. Like I'm not connected to anything, or anyone, else. Just me, alone with my grief. Now that Buffy's not here, there's really nothing for me to hold on to, nothing to keep me here.
Sure, the others try. Willow, Xander, Giles, Tara and even Spike are trying to help me. But it's hard for them to assist me when they're working through their own grief anyway. I'm really just a hindrance to them, something extra that they have to take care of.
I guess that helped me to finally decide on a course of action. They don't need me here; in fact, things would be much easier for them if I had never come along. So, I figure, that I'll solve at least some of their problems by disappearing.
No, I am not going to kill myself. I made a promise to Buffy and myself that night that I would live. Besides, that would probably cause more problems that it would solve. Bleeding is not a good thing where I'm concerned.
So, I'll get myself out of the hair of the people who are left here in Sunnydale. Let them worry about the Hellmouth and their grief, they won't have to worry about me anymore.
I don't know where I'll go. At this point I don't really care. I've got enough money in my wallet to last me a couple of weeks and a bus ticket out of hell. What more could a girl ask for? Maybe her sister and mother to be alive. But, that's not going to happen anytime soon, so I might as well settle for this.
As I get on the run down bus, the sun is just rising over the horizon. Dawn. I suppose that's ironic but I just don't care enough to find it amusing. Lots of things in my life seem to be ironic right now. Like, how three years ago, Buffy was doing the same thing I'm doing now. Running away after being responsible for sending someone you love to hell.
There's one big difference, though, I realize as we pass the leaving sign. 'You are now leaving Sunnydale. Come back soon!' I don't plan on coming back. If you can get out of here alive, you don't come back. Or, at least, I won't.
All I have to say is, I'm sorry Buffy. I can't take care of them; I'm not strong enough. It's better this way. But, I'm going to live, if nothing else than to make you proud. I'll try to be brave, and maybe one day, I'll be strong enough to accept what you did for me.
'Dawn listen to me. Listen. I love you. I'll always love you. But this is the work I have to do. Tell Giles I... I figured it out. And I'm okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now -- you have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn. The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.'
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Okay, well, it's kind of short. But it is just a prologue. Should I continue?
Kamikazee
By: Kamikazee E-Mail: neo_kamikazee@hotmail.com Disclaimer: Dawn Summers and all things related to Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the mastermind of Joss Whedon. X-Men Evolution is also (surprise, surprise) not mine. Fandom: BtVS/X-Men Evolution Summary: Could the keys powers be a genetic mutation? Dawn runs away after the events of the season 5 finale and finds herself in Bayville. Spoilers: Up to the season 5 finale for BtVS. For X-Men Evolution: Day of Reckoning 2 (the season 2 finale) Pairing: Dawn/? Distribution: Fanfiction.net, Twisting the Hellmouth. Anyone else just please e-mail me a link. Author's Notes: Okay, I have no real idea where I'm going to go with this, but I'm stuck with my other fics, so here it comes. Notes 2: Title comes from the song 'Hangnail' by Nickelback. Rating: PG
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I'm not normal.
I don't see how I ever could perceive myself as normal. What I am is not what most people are. Of course, that's not a hard thing to achieve. How many people do you know whose blood opens portals?
That's right. The key is not just a one-time thing. Whenever I bleed, I can open a portal to a different place. It doesn't necessary have to be a different dimension. You see, the more distance between the locations, the more blood needed.
I feel empty here. Like I'm not connected to anything, or anyone, else. Just me, alone with my grief. Now that Buffy's not here, there's really nothing for me to hold on to, nothing to keep me here.
Sure, the others try. Willow, Xander, Giles, Tara and even Spike are trying to help me. But it's hard for them to assist me when they're working through their own grief anyway. I'm really just a hindrance to them, something extra that they have to take care of.
I guess that helped me to finally decide on a course of action. They don't need me here; in fact, things would be much easier for them if I had never come along. So, I figure, that I'll solve at least some of their problems by disappearing.
No, I am not going to kill myself. I made a promise to Buffy and myself that night that I would live. Besides, that would probably cause more problems that it would solve. Bleeding is not a good thing where I'm concerned.
So, I'll get myself out of the hair of the people who are left here in Sunnydale. Let them worry about the Hellmouth and their grief, they won't have to worry about me anymore.
I don't know where I'll go. At this point I don't really care. I've got enough money in my wallet to last me a couple of weeks and a bus ticket out of hell. What more could a girl ask for? Maybe her sister and mother to be alive. But, that's not going to happen anytime soon, so I might as well settle for this.
As I get on the run down bus, the sun is just rising over the horizon. Dawn. I suppose that's ironic but I just don't care enough to find it amusing. Lots of things in my life seem to be ironic right now. Like, how three years ago, Buffy was doing the same thing I'm doing now. Running away after being responsible for sending someone you love to hell.
There's one big difference, though, I realize as we pass the leaving sign. 'You are now leaving Sunnydale. Come back soon!' I don't plan on coming back. If you can get out of here alive, you don't come back. Or, at least, I won't.
All I have to say is, I'm sorry Buffy. I can't take care of them; I'm not strong enough. It's better this way. But, I'm going to live, if nothing else than to make you proud. I'll try to be brave, and maybe one day, I'll be strong enough to accept what you did for me.
'Dawn listen to me. Listen. I love you. I'll always love you. But this is the work I have to do. Tell Giles I... I figured it out. And I'm okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now -- you have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn. The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.'
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Okay, well, it's kind of short. But it is just a prologue. Should I continue?
Kamikazee