CONNOR AND DAWN.

*Sorry guys I couldn't decide what to call this story.

*Based on the TV series Angel and Buffy the Vampire slayer. All character belong to Joss Wheaton. I own nothing. Except for Dawns abusive Ex. I make nothing off of this Duh blah blah blah. You get the picture I think so lets start our story.

*this is after the last episode of Angel.

Summary: Dawn had a fight with her ex boyfriend and decided to leave town when he starts to threaten her. Thinking Angel might let her stay with him while she goes to Stanford university She drives the entire way to California so that she can ask him. But instead She meets his son Connor first and she tells him how she has no place to stay. Connor being the sweet boy that he is allows her to move in with him. No conditions or anything like that. He agrees to let her have the bed and he takes the couch. But what happens when a guy from Sunnydale shows up and starts harassing Dawn? Can Connor get rid of him and save her before things get out of hand ?

Prologue: "Get out of my way Tommy! " Dawn demanded as he stood between her and the door. "your not leaving me Dawn. You'll never make it without me!" Tommy shouted. "well then get out of my way and lets find out." Dawn said angrily. He got out of her path mainly because he was afraid she would tell that big blonde guy that sometimes came around to visit her and her sister. That guy freaked him out. And he had the weirdest name. what kind of person called themselves Spike. He knew that wasn't the guys real name.

Dawn ran out the door to her car before she lost her chance completely. She shoved her single suitcase in the backseat pulled out her keys and got in the car. As soon as she saw him coming for her she started it and drove off as he started running after the car. She knew exactly where she was going. She had been excepted to Stanford last fall for this term and instead of going home and facing the music she drove to California. With no goodbyes. She knew Spike was probably with Angel. Last thing she'd heard from him was about the big Apocalypse battle. She'd have to make sure Spike never found out about Tommy. Or what he had done. Spike would pick up his old habit long enough to torture the idiot and then she'd feel bad cause Tommy would end up dead. And It would be all her fault. No thank you! So telling someone about it was out of the question since Angel would do the exact same thing. She decided to check out the college first. Get her books and other things she would need before she bothered Angel and Spike for room and board.

Part one: Crush times two..

Dawn walked into the library and immediately caught the eyes of a boy staring at her with interest. Mild interest probably. He was really cute though Dawn thought. Probably like Tommy though. All the cute ones are jerks. He winked at her and she rolled her eyes. She was not walking into to this trap again. She went over to the librarian who was suppose to have her book. "Dawn summers." Dawn said. "I'm sorry you need to talk to the student body president for your schedule. But he's right over there he'll know where its at. He really loves organizing my things and I can never find them again without his help." the old lady droned on. But Dawn wasn't paying attention anymore because the student body president was the cute guy who had winked at her earlier. "excuse me" Dawn said to the librarian. She went to find the boy again and spotted him at a table starring intently at a page in a book. She stood there waiting for him to finish. She didn't want to disturb him and have him lash out at her like Tommy did. He smelled her standing there and wandered what she was doing. He looked up and smiled at her. A smile that nearly turned her knees to jelly. Oh she'd better be careful around him she could really fall for him. "is everything okay? Do you want to sit down?" He asked.

She took the chair next to his. "Hi I'm Connor Reilly ." Connor said. "I'm Dawn Summers. I was told you'd have my school stuff." she said thinking the librarian must be crazy. "oh ok." Connor said giving her another smile and began digging into his bag for a big folder stuffed with papers. He opened it up and looked through it until he found her name. "I don't have you books or anything those will be at the office if you've ordered them. Unless you already picked them up. But here is your schedule." he said handing it over and for the split seconds their hands touched there was a spark. Almost electric. She could tell that by the way he was looking at her that he had felt it too. "that was weird." Dawn said. "yeah." Connor agreed not nearly ready to let her leave his site. He felt something between them. And so did she. He'd seen it in her eyes. Why was she fighting it? "uhm.. Thanks I have to go. I need to find the office to get my books and then I need to find an apartment." she said having decided that she wouldn't bother Spike and Angel with her presence. For all she knew they would snap on her too. She got up and Connor did to. "I'll go with you. You know so you don't get lost." He said gathering his stuff and pushing it in his bag zipping it up and started leading the way to the office. "Thank you for helping me. I know you were busy and I shouldn't have bothered you." Dawn apologized. Connor gave her a strange look. "your kidding right? I look for reasons daily to get out of studying. Don't get me wrong I love it here but I like to annoy my dad too. I love watching him fly off the handle when I tell him I'm failing a class and then tell him I'm just kidding. Course I've got nothing on Spike in the annoying department." Connor laughed and stopped because Dawn had. "Spike. As in Bleach blonde Vampire Spike?" She asked then closed her mouth. Oh my god he's going to think I'm crazy. But he only took her aside. "how do you know about Spike. Have you met him? Are you from Sunnydale?" Connor asked. "yeah. I'm from Sunnydale. But don't tell Spike I'm here. Please he'll tell Angel and Angel will badger me for answers." she begged him. "Hey its okay. I don't see Spike that often. Him and my dad do odd jobs together all the time." Connor said. "your dad?" Dawn asked. "yeah Angel's my dad. don't worry I wont say anything. I promise." Connor said so sweetly that she was tempted to believe him. They continued toward the office with Dawn telling him about his dads old girlfriend Buffy. Connor waited in the hall while Dawn asked the office for her books. They told her there were no books being held for her and that she must have forgotten to pay for them. She knew then that Tommy had stolen her book money instead of delivering it like he promised. She went into the hall expecting to find it empty. Instead she saw that Connor was waiting for her. "you didn't have to wait for me. I'm glad you did though. I don't know what to do I forgot to order my books." she lied.

"I'm sorry . Here let me see your schedule for a minute." Connor requested. She handed it to him wanting to cry because she couldn't pay for any of the books. She saw his smile. "you have all of my classes except for one." Connor told her. "beside I'm sure dad or Spike will lend you the money for that one book. Heck they'd probably pay your whole tuition if you'd let them." Connor smirked knowing every word was true. He remembered hearing about Dawn from Spike. Or Bit as he called her. Connor sensed a helplessness about her that he just couldn't figure out. She seemed Timid,shy,unconfident,maybe even depressed. Not at all like the "Bit" Spike always talked about. Dawn wasn't sure what he wanted her to say to that so she kept her mouth shut. "hey I know this is really kind of forward and I don't want to seem pushy or anything…. But you said you needed a place to stay. I've got an apartment and I'd sleep better knowing you had a safe place to stay. So I'll give you an option you can go To my dads since he has plenty of room there and would welcome you with open arms. Or you could move in with me and Dad and Spike wouldn't need to find out right away. Of course you cant hide from them forever you know. Vampires and all that. They can smell you and track you down. It sucks sometimes." he said smiling again. She under no circumstances wanted Spike or Angel to know she was here yet. At least not until all the bruises healed and they couldn't figure anything out. "I'll stay with you please. And thank you." Dawn said which made Connor laugh. Dawn thought it was nice that Connor laughed so much. Maybe he wouldn't turn out to be like Tommy after all.

Part two: Secrets and lies.

*warnings: Cussing. Sorry Connor is Very Mad. / Connor finds out about Dawns ex by reading Dawns Diary. Bad Connor. Lol. It was easier to have him find out like this than to have her just come out and admit it.

*Connor is the Narrator in this one.

* And for those of you who may be worried. No I have never been in an abusive relationship or anything like that. I just thought it would help bring Dawn and Connor closer and make their love stronger. Okay on with the Story.

Part two: secrets and lies.

Iwas stunned. No stunned wasn't the right word. I was pissed. Some asshole had hurt my girl! Okay so maybe I hadn't asked her out yet. But she was the one for me. I just knew it. But this Tommy guy was way dead. He was so dead he might as well be a vampire because he was walking while dead. He wouldn't be walking for long. Wait until Spike and my dad found out about this punk. Daring to hit and abuse our Dawn. Now I understand why she was so different from Spikes stories.

This guy was going to pay. And he was going to pay big time. For a split second I wished my dad was Angelus so that he could torture the ass with no guilt. Well I'd just have to deal with the guilt. I was going to make sure he either never left the hospital again or that he was seriously broken beyond repair in some way. No body and I mean nobody hurts my little Dawn. She was the sweetest girl ever. I hadn't meant to stumble onto her diary. But she left it open and she was taking forever in the shower. I decided not to tell her that I knew. No I would go to dads and tell Spike and dad first then make sure they knew to leave some for me. But not right now. I continued to read her diary learning all about what he had done to her and how she felt about it. That jackass had brainwashed her into believing that she deserved that shit! Well that did it. Or at least I thought that did it until I read that he had gotten her into smoking and Alcohol. He actually had the nerve to tell her that she wasn't worth anything unless she was drunk and in his bed. That did it. I put her diary back the way I found it and wrote a note telling her that I was leaving so that she wouldn't get scared that I had left her. Because I knew how her mind worked now. I wrote her

"went to see my dad for a little bit I'll be back in an hour and I'll call if I'm going to be late. Love, Connor.'

Dad and Spike were going to have a field day and then they were going to take a fieldtrip.

Within a few seconds I was there. I was so mad that I was using my super speed on the way there. I wasted no time going in and when I spotted Spike and dad in the kitchen I decided to let some of my anger out and started punching the wall like crazy. I kept punching until dad grabbed my fist. "stop it your going to bust you knuckles open. What's wrong." dad asked. I punched to wall then with my other fist and before I could do it again dad grabbed it to and dragged me away from the wall. "I said stop it! Your going to hurt yourself. What's the matter? What happened? I cant help if you don't tell me." dad reasoned with me. Or at least tried. I was so pissed I wasn't sure I was ready to listen or tell them without tearing the house apart with my bare hands. "your lucky I came straight here and didn't stop to kill anything on the way here. Lets just say there's a human who just earned death by my hand." it was a threat and I shouldn't have said it. But I knew it would get his attention. "now. Now calm down there junior. No need to take your anger out on the locals. Why don't you tell daddy and me what's got you all riled up." Spike said. "Dawn." I said. Then when my dad let my hands go I went right for the wall again banging with all the anger I had in me and before dad could stop me I started talking. "Dawns staying at my house and I just found out her boyfriend was abusing her and I don't care what you say. What I'm going to do to him would make Angelus proud! And neither of you can stop me." I said. My father chose then to stop my fists by wrapping his arms over mine in a hug type hold from the back. "I don't like that she was abused either Connor. But abusing yourself isn't going to help. And neither will hurting her ex. We need to find ow." dad was interrupted by the back of my head ramming into his nose. But to my surprise it didn't loosen his hold. "I cant believe you just did that. Are that mad little boy that you would start acting like your old self?" dad said making me feel shame for acting like my old self. He was right this wasn't helping anyone. "I'm still going to kill him." I stated firmly then mumbled. "I'm sorry for trying to hurt you. Its not your fault all this happened." dad steered me towards Spike. "you think you can calm down enough to explain a little more or are you going to go for the wall again. I promise there's a punching bag with your name on it downstairs when your done." dad said. "I'll sit. I cant take too long anyways. She'll think I abandoned her." I said then when dad released me I sat down and told them everything from meeting her and feeling something between us to what was written in her diary and back to that I was going to mutilate the asshole. "Connor I know your pissed off. We are to. Spike don't! your not being a very good example here." dad said to Spike who had started pounding on the wall himself and cursing. Saying words that I was way too nice to say out loud. "yah Spike don't hurt the poor wall save for when I jump the idiot." I said only half joking. My dad gave me a look that said shut up. And I completely ignored it until my phone rang. Everyone stopped. As soon as I saw that it was Dawn I put it on Speaker to answer it so that they could hear and maybe talk to her to. But before answering the phone I told them not to mention anything about her ex.

"hey cutie what's up?" I answered the phone. "Connor." I sat up immediately because she sounded like she was crying. "Dawn what's wrong?" I asked worried. "Connor I… I ….My ex boyfriend…he he's just called me. I'm sorry but I have to go back to sunny dale with him… I don't have a choice." she said crying now. "hes on his way over right now." she said. By the end of her sentence I was up and thank god that it was past sundown because Spike and dad were right out the door with me as we ran together I spoke to down calmly. "it's okay sweetheart. You know you really don't have to go with him. Not if you don't want to." I said. "yes I do. I don't have a choice. I want to stay here with you so bad but he wont let me." she cried. I almost laughed at that statement. I'd like to see him try to force her into anything with us there. "you didn't tell Spike and Angel that I'm here did you. Oh my god they'll be so mad I didn't tell them. I just didn't want them to snap at me if they were mad about it. You know I mean they could kill me really easily. Maybe they should." and by the end of that sentece I had to put my hand over the phone because Spike had tackled the Guy getting out of Dawns car. He had knocked the guy out in less then a second. "I know him! That was the guy. Tommy I think his name is. Don't worry Connor we'll fix this." Spike said and we all headed up stairs.

And the opening statement when we entered the room was a threat from Spike "tell me one more time to kill you bit and I'll smack you on your bum." Dawn was more then shocked to see us. She ran to Spike and hugged him tight. And he lifted her up off her feet for a moment then set her back down. And she ran to hug my dad too. He did about the same thing Spike did. "what are you guys doing here. Oh I'm so happy I got to see you before I left." Dawn said. "your not going anywhere. You could say your ride was put to sleep." Spike smirked. She looked scared now. "No! do you have any idea what he's going to do to me now? No of course you don't." Dawn said. "he's not hitting you again Dawn. I'll kill him first." I said. She starred at me speechless for a moment. Then paled because we all knew. Spike heard him first. "sounds like ex lover boy Is waking up. Think I'll go talk to him about police and stuff." Spike said. I realized that if Spike was going to jump him he would have just ran and not said anything about it. "police.?" Dawn said. "yeah last time I heard abusing the woman you claim to love is against the law." Spike said giving her a look then walked out to deal with ex lover boy.

I decided to let Spike handle it that way Dawn could only get mad at me for reading her diary and telling them about it. She could get mad at Spike for tearing her ex to shreds and sending him to prison.