Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss. All others are mine.
Rating: PG-13 (for some crude talk. really pretty tame but playing it safe)
Summary: This takes place between season 5 & 6. All characters from the show are alive and well except Joyce, basically no one died battling Glory. Dawn has flunked gym and has to go to summer school
Feedback:Yes. please R/R . This is a mult-part story so the more comments the better the story gets.
Distribution: Cool that would be great just ask me 1st.
Note: You will see some of my characters may seem like copies of willow(hannah) xander(lawrence) cordy and harmony(jasmine & holly). I will flesh them out more as the chapters continue but basically I thought of giving dawn her own scoobie gang. That was the idea behind writing this story and as the story grows hopefully so will the characters.
DAWNY: Chapter 1:
"This really stinks, you know that." said dawn.
"Well maybe you should have thought of that before you skipped out on those classes. It's your own fault dawn. How in the heck do you fail gym by the way? All you have to do is show up to pass the damn thing." said buffy.
"They were playing dodge ball. I hate playing dodge ball so I told the teacher it was a sadistic game that preyed on the weak and vulnerable and I was going to boycott it by not participating in such a barbaric game that's why!" spouted dawn.
Buffy had images of the time xander was possessed by the hyena spirit playing dodge ball and got a shiver running down her spine. "It's not the way to go around things dawn and now you have to go to summer school end of discussion."
"The school is so hot in the summertime and all my friends will be outside while I'm stuck in some stupid gym class." complained dawn.
"If it makes you feel any better dawn I have to go to school to. I have to do some catching up on the classes I dropped to take care of.. well you know what we had to take care of." said buffy.
Dawn thought about her time with glory and the stress it put her and all of the scoobies under.
"I'm sorry buffy, I didn't mean to snap at you. It's just gym class in the summer. I think there should be a law against it. It's cruel and unusual punishment."
"Yes it is, but your still going. Now hurry up,. xander and anya are picking us up to give you a ride to school and drop me off at the university," said buffy.
"Xander's coming. Why didn't you say anything..' said dawn as the doorbell rang "Oh my god that's him. I look like a freak. You have to stall buffy, I can't let xander see me like this. I have to redo my hair. I'll be right back" said Dawn. Dawn ran up the stairs before buffy could stop her.
"Dawn wait we don't have time for..Ugh"
Buffy opens the door to see xander and anya standing there.
"Hey guys. Dawn will be down in a minute she's making herself look good for you xander. I think she is sporting major puppy dog eyes for you." buffy said and smiled.
"That's not good, Xander's mine I'll teach her to go after my man. I'm going to go beat her up" said Anya who started to charge up the stairs.
Xander grabbed anya before she got up the stairs.
"Anya stop she's just a kid," said xander "It's just a harmless crush and you have nothing to worry about. You don't have to beat her up OK"
"You sure because I'm pretty sure I can take her," said anya.
"Yes I'm sure you could. I have no interest in Dawn OK. I may be one raging hormone sometimes but I'm not a deviant," said xander. "Plus there are laws against that sort of thing"
Xander gives a wink at buffy.
"Yes well just remember that if ever you ever act on an urge to break those laws, you will meet a hairy backed man named Bubba who will make you his sexual love monkey. Of course you probabaly will never see his hairy back because you will have your back to his..," replied anya.
" OK anya, I got the visual." said xander interrupting her. " I want to thank you in advance for the nightmares that will follow from it. "
"What are girlfriends for." replied anya.
"Well they are good for this.", said xander giving anya a smooch.
"Oh god, do you guys have to do that in front of me. I'm an impressionable kid you know." said dawn coming down the stairs. "There are laws about corrupting a minor you know."
"Yes there are laws and that means that xander won't risk jail time on you by having se..." Anya started to say before xander placed his palm over her mouth.
"OK anya that's enough of that. Come on dawny we got to get going" said xander as they all walked to the car.
Buffy lets out a giggle as they walk to the car.
"I want to sit up front with xander," shouts dawn.
"Bubba." mutters Anya under her breath.
Buffy again covers up a smile coming across her face." Get in the back seat with me dawn, anyway you haven't seen xander drive. Trust me the back seat is safer." said buffy.
"That's not fair. first you force me into some hot gym sequestered from all my friends and now I'm relegated to the back seat like some prisoner. You're so unfair." dawn said in a huff.
"She's a grown up we all have to be unfair to minors. It's in the rulebook." said xander.
"There's a rulebook. No one mentioned anything to me about a rulebook. Why didn't I get a rulebook." shouted anya.
"It's a joke anya," said buffy. " I would think you would be used to xander's sarcasm by now."
"Oh yes the xander harris wit. Usually when I don't understand it I smile broadly and just fake it. I have to fake it alot." said anya. "Umm I don't mean that in a sexual way"
Buffy laughs out loud at anya's comments.
"OK Anya I think it is quiet time for you until we drop off our passengers.", said xander.
Dawn just sat quietly the rest of the trip. She would catch xander giving little looks to stupid anya and would just sign loudly. What did he see in her? She knew he thought she was a kid but she wouldn't be a kid forever. Buffy said she should hang out more with kids her own age. Kids her own age were all dummies. Of course going to summer school for gym could qualify her in that category too as well she realized.
"We're here dawn." shouted buffy rousing dawn from her thoughts.
"Time to get out dawny." said xander.
"I really hate that name you know." dawn snapped at xander. "It makes me sound like such a kid."
"Dawn you apologize this instant." scolded buffy.
"No No buffy the dawster umm I mean dawn does have a point. We were that age to once remember. See ya dawn." said xander.
"Yea whatever, I gotta go." said dawn who ran out of the car without a goodbye.
"Well I hope she doesn't treat everyone like that or she won't have any friends at all." buffy mused. "OK Xander it's off to higher learning."
Dawn entered the gym and saw nine others people sitting on the gym bleachers. There were three girls and six boys. A small framed girl with glasses was sitting closest to her alone at the end of the bleachers. she was looking in a textbook and writing feverishly. Dawn didn't recognize her and decided to introduce herself.
"Hi my name's dawn." shouted dawn enthusiastically.
"What the..," said the girl jumping up, dropping her papers and textbook to the floor with a loud thud.
Dawn giggled a bit and then helped her with the papers.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you," replied dawn.
"That's OK. I just didn't think you knew who I was." said the girl.
"Oh that's silly of course I know who you are," said dawn trying to search her brain for the poor girls name.
The girl took one look at dawn's face and made a grunt.
"No you don't. " said the girl. "I sit in your history class. My name is hannah." she offered her hand out to shake dawn's hand.
"Well, I never really pay attention in history anyway. With all the false memories those monks planted in my head you think they could have included some basic history in there too so I wouldn't have to worry about it." she commented as she shook her hand.
"What?" hannah replied looking oddly at dawn.
"Oh ahh. nothing just saying that memories are like plants and my mind has a water shortage and so I can't remember things like monks do?", dawn said trying to cover her slip about being a key.
"Your a very strange girl Dawn Summers", hannah remarked.
"Just like her sister", said one of the two girls who walked over to dawn and hannah.
"Hello Jasmine", Dawn said unenthusiastically.
"Hello runt", replied Jasmine. "Me and holly were wondering if you sister set fire to the college yet since she destroyed sunnydale high"
"She was saving sunndale you stupid bimbo." replied dawn.
"Saving it from what, running out on it's fire insurance." Holly churped in.
"You sister Buffy was always a loon. I remember when my sister harmony would chat about how weird she was and all." Jasmine announced.
"Yes well at least my sister isn't a va... va... vanishing student," Dawn said
"Dawn Summers that is a cruel thing to say, even for you. Yes my sister vanished , alot of kids disappeared after buffy did her psycho act at graduation. The papers said it was some kind of mass-hysteria cult type thing. My family still holds out hope that we'll see her again. I wouldn't be surprized if you sister didn't just bury her in a coffin or crypt somewhere." screamed Jasmine.
"You probably wouldn't be that far off." said Dawn.
"Hey jasmine. You really should take a look at that zit on your face. It looks like It has a mind of it's own", chirped in hannah.
"Zit, I have a zit. Where?" said jasmine frantically looking at holly " Can you see it?"
"I don't see anything." said Holly.
"Oh my god if James see's it I would just die. This is a disaster. Why is God punishing me this way", cried jasmine.
"Hey guy's." said james walking up to the girls.
As soon as jasmine heard his voice she screamed covered her face and ran out of the room.
"OK I don't usually get that kindof reaction", smiled james
"Umm I think I better go help my friend. ", said holly walking off.
"Well that was strange", said James.
"I think she's in mourning. she found out the backstreet boys are breaking up." Dawn gave a sideways glance at hannah and smiled.
Dawn saw james smile at her and started to melt. She thought he was so dreamy. "So ahh you have to take summer school gym too I thought you were all like Mr. jock"
"Yea well I guess when your on the football team you don't think that gym was that important and I cut the class one to many times I guess. Your names dawn dawn right?" said james smiling.
She couldn't believe he actually knew her name. James Henderson actually knew her name. She could die a happy girl. She used to go to his football games and cheer for him. He was the star quarterback and though she usually thought jocks were nothing but muscle heads, she was totally enamored with him. Her face was starting to get flushed and she thought that maybe this summer school thing wouldn't be that bad after all if james was there with her. Now all she had to do was not embarrass herself.
"Yep that's me dawny ahh I mean dawn just plain dawn. that's me." she said fidgeting.
"Well just plain dawn. nice to meet ya."
"Hey is this a private party or can anyone join." said a large man behind james.
"Hey Bo. How the hell are you." said james giving the big man a hug. "This here is bo. sometimes we just call him U-boat"
"Yes I'm large and in charge," bo laughed loudly. "No one can get past me on the football field"
"That's for sure," Bo agreed.
"Nice to see you. I'm dawn." said dawn.
"I'm hannah", the young girl said.
"Hey Hannah are these people bothering you", said a voice from behind dawn.
"No lawrence. Come join us", said hannah tentatively
Lawrence sat down by hannah and when he saw dawn his mouth just dropped. He couldn't believe it was her. He didn't realize with her back to him that it was 'her'. Lawrence had a crush on dawn since the beginning of the school year but never had the nerve to actually speak to her and here she was looking at him.
"Hi lawrence. Nice to meet you. My name's dawn.", she smiled at him extending her hand.
"That's nice" said lawrence still gauking at her. Hannah jammed him in his side and he jumped up. Dawn was still looking at him a little nervously with her hand sticking out waiting for him to shake it.
"Oh yes dawn. Nice to meet you" he said shaking her hand vigorishly not letting go.
"Hey larry. Man, I think you can let go now", said james. "It's a handshake not a freaky dance"
"Oh god I'm so sorry. Guess I'm a bit nervous today what with gym class and all. I am not a big fan of gym." said lawrence.
Dawn just smiled at lawrence. She noticed holly and jasmine enter the gym and give hannah and her a dirty stare as they went over to the kids on the other side of the gym.
"What's that about," said bo commenting on the look the girls gave." What did you do to them?"
"It's a long story," said dawn. "So does anyone know where our teacher is?"
As if on cue, the gym teacher showed up with a cart full of large rubber balls.
"OK people huddle up. the five of you in the corner can be team one." he said pointing to dawn's group. " The other five facing me here can be team two. Grab a ball everyone and get on opposite sides of the gym. we are going to play dodge ball."
END Chapter 1:
Rating: PG-13 (for some crude talk. really pretty tame but playing it safe)
Summary: This takes place between season 5 & 6. All characters from the show are alive and well except Joyce, basically no one died battling Glory. Dawn has flunked gym and has to go to summer school
Feedback:Yes. please R/R . This is a mult-part story so the more comments the better the story gets.
Distribution: Cool that would be great just ask me 1st.
Note: You will see some of my characters may seem like copies of willow(hannah) xander(lawrence) cordy and harmony(jasmine & holly). I will flesh them out more as the chapters continue but basically I thought of giving dawn her own scoobie gang. That was the idea behind writing this story and as the story grows hopefully so will the characters.
DAWNY: Chapter 1:
"This really stinks, you know that." said dawn.
"Well maybe you should have thought of that before you skipped out on those classes. It's your own fault dawn. How in the heck do you fail gym by the way? All you have to do is show up to pass the damn thing." said buffy.
"They were playing dodge ball. I hate playing dodge ball so I told the teacher it was a sadistic game that preyed on the weak and vulnerable and I was going to boycott it by not participating in such a barbaric game that's why!" spouted dawn.
Buffy had images of the time xander was possessed by the hyena spirit playing dodge ball and got a shiver running down her spine. "It's not the way to go around things dawn and now you have to go to summer school end of discussion."
"The school is so hot in the summertime and all my friends will be outside while I'm stuck in some stupid gym class." complained dawn.
"If it makes you feel any better dawn I have to go to school to. I have to do some catching up on the classes I dropped to take care of.. well you know what we had to take care of." said buffy.
Dawn thought about her time with glory and the stress it put her and all of the scoobies under.
"I'm sorry buffy, I didn't mean to snap at you. It's just gym class in the summer. I think there should be a law against it. It's cruel and unusual punishment."
"Yes it is, but your still going. Now hurry up,. xander and anya are picking us up to give you a ride to school and drop me off at the university," said buffy.
"Xander's coming. Why didn't you say anything..' said dawn as the doorbell rang "Oh my god that's him. I look like a freak. You have to stall buffy, I can't let xander see me like this. I have to redo my hair. I'll be right back" said Dawn. Dawn ran up the stairs before buffy could stop her.
"Dawn wait we don't have time for..Ugh"
Buffy opens the door to see xander and anya standing there.
"Hey guys. Dawn will be down in a minute she's making herself look good for you xander. I think she is sporting major puppy dog eyes for you." buffy said and smiled.
"That's not good, Xander's mine I'll teach her to go after my man. I'm going to go beat her up" said Anya who started to charge up the stairs.
Xander grabbed anya before she got up the stairs.
"Anya stop she's just a kid," said xander "It's just a harmless crush and you have nothing to worry about. You don't have to beat her up OK"
"You sure because I'm pretty sure I can take her," said anya.
"Yes I'm sure you could. I have no interest in Dawn OK. I may be one raging hormone sometimes but I'm not a deviant," said xander. "Plus there are laws against that sort of thing"
Xander gives a wink at buffy.
"Yes well just remember that if ever you ever act on an urge to break those laws, you will meet a hairy backed man named Bubba who will make you his sexual love monkey. Of course you probabaly will never see his hairy back because you will have your back to his..," replied anya.
" OK anya, I got the visual." said xander interrupting her. " I want to thank you in advance for the nightmares that will follow from it. "
"What are girlfriends for." replied anya.
"Well they are good for this.", said xander giving anya a smooch.
"Oh god, do you guys have to do that in front of me. I'm an impressionable kid you know." said dawn coming down the stairs. "There are laws about corrupting a minor you know."
"Yes there are laws and that means that xander won't risk jail time on you by having se..." Anya started to say before xander placed his palm over her mouth.
"OK anya that's enough of that. Come on dawny we got to get going" said xander as they all walked to the car.
Buffy lets out a giggle as they walk to the car.
"I want to sit up front with xander," shouts dawn.
"Bubba." mutters Anya under her breath.
Buffy again covers up a smile coming across her face." Get in the back seat with me dawn, anyway you haven't seen xander drive. Trust me the back seat is safer." said buffy.
"That's not fair. first you force me into some hot gym sequestered from all my friends and now I'm relegated to the back seat like some prisoner. You're so unfair." dawn said in a huff.
"She's a grown up we all have to be unfair to minors. It's in the rulebook." said xander.
"There's a rulebook. No one mentioned anything to me about a rulebook. Why didn't I get a rulebook." shouted anya.
"It's a joke anya," said buffy. " I would think you would be used to xander's sarcasm by now."
"Oh yes the xander harris wit. Usually when I don't understand it I smile broadly and just fake it. I have to fake it alot." said anya. "Umm I don't mean that in a sexual way"
Buffy laughs out loud at anya's comments.
"OK Anya I think it is quiet time for you until we drop off our passengers.", said xander.
Dawn just sat quietly the rest of the trip. She would catch xander giving little looks to stupid anya and would just sign loudly. What did he see in her? She knew he thought she was a kid but she wouldn't be a kid forever. Buffy said she should hang out more with kids her own age. Kids her own age were all dummies. Of course going to summer school for gym could qualify her in that category too as well she realized.
"We're here dawn." shouted buffy rousing dawn from her thoughts.
"Time to get out dawny." said xander.
"I really hate that name you know." dawn snapped at xander. "It makes me sound like such a kid."
"Dawn you apologize this instant." scolded buffy.
"No No buffy the dawster umm I mean dawn does have a point. We were that age to once remember. See ya dawn." said xander.
"Yea whatever, I gotta go." said dawn who ran out of the car without a goodbye.
"Well I hope she doesn't treat everyone like that or she won't have any friends at all." buffy mused. "OK Xander it's off to higher learning."
Dawn entered the gym and saw nine others people sitting on the gym bleachers. There were three girls and six boys. A small framed girl with glasses was sitting closest to her alone at the end of the bleachers. she was looking in a textbook and writing feverishly. Dawn didn't recognize her and decided to introduce herself.
"Hi my name's dawn." shouted dawn enthusiastically.
"What the..," said the girl jumping up, dropping her papers and textbook to the floor with a loud thud.
Dawn giggled a bit and then helped her with the papers.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you," replied dawn.
"That's OK. I just didn't think you knew who I was." said the girl.
"Oh that's silly of course I know who you are," said dawn trying to search her brain for the poor girls name.
The girl took one look at dawn's face and made a grunt.
"No you don't. " said the girl. "I sit in your history class. My name is hannah." she offered her hand out to shake dawn's hand.
"Well, I never really pay attention in history anyway. With all the false memories those monks planted in my head you think they could have included some basic history in there too so I wouldn't have to worry about it." she commented as she shook her hand.
"What?" hannah replied looking oddly at dawn.
"Oh ahh. nothing just saying that memories are like plants and my mind has a water shortage and so I can't remember things like monks do?", dawn said trying to cover her slip about being a key.
"Your a very strange girl Dawn Summers", hannah remarked.
"Just like her sister", said one of the two girls who walked over to dawn and hannah.
"Hello Jasmine", Dawn said unenthusiastically.
"Hello runt", replied Jasmine. "Me and holly were wondering if you sister set fire to the college yet since she destroyed sunnydale high"
"She was saving sunndale you stupid bimbo." replied dawn.
"Saving it from what, running out on it's fire insurance." Holly churped in.
"You sister Buffy was always a loon. I remember when my sister harmony would chat about how weird she was and all." Jasmine announced.
"Yes well at least my sister isn't a va... va... vanishing student," Dawn said
"Dawn Summers that is a cruel thing to say, even for you. Yes my sister vanished , alot of kids disappeared after buffy did her psycho act at graduation. The papers said it was some kind of mass-hysteria cult type thing. My family still holds out hope that we'll see her again. I wouldn't be surprized if you sister didn't just bury her in a coffin or crypt somewhere." screamed Jasmine.
"You probably wouldn't be that far off." said Dawn.
"Hey jasmine. You really should take a look at that zit on your face. It looks like It has a mind of it's own", chirped in hannah.
"Zit, I have a zit. Where?" said jasmine frantically looking at holly " Can you see it?"
"I don't see anything." said Holly.
"Oh my god if James see's it I would just die. This is a disaster. Why is God punishing me this way", cried jasmine.
"Hey guy's." said james walking up to the girls.
As soon as jasmine heard his voice she screamed covered her face and ran out of the room.
"OK I don't usually get that kindof reaction", smiled james
"Umm I think I better go help my friend. ", said holly walking off.
"Well that was strange", said James.
"I think she's in mourning. she found out the backstreet boys are breaking up." Dawn gave a sideways glance at hannah and smiled.
Dawn saw james smile at her and started to melt. She thought he was so dreamy. "So ahh you have to take summer school gym too I thought you were all like Mr. jock"
"Yea well I guess when your on the football team you don't think that gym was that important and I cut the class one to many times I guess. Your names dawn dawn right?" said james smiling.
She couldn't believe he actually knew her name. James Henderson actually knew her name. She could die a happy girl. She used to go to his football games and cheer for him. He was the star quarterback and though she usually thought jocks were nothing but muscle heads, she was totally enamored with him. Her face was starting to get flushed and she thought that maybe this summer school thing wouldn't be that bad after all if james was there with her. Now all she had to do was not embarrass herself.
"Yep that's me dawny ahh I mean dawn just plain dawn. that's me." she said fidgeting.
"Well just plain dawn. nice to meet ya."
"Hey is this a private party or can anyone join." said a large man behind james.
"Hey Bo. How the hell are you." said james giving the big man a hug. "This here is bo. sometimes we just call him U-boat"
"Yes I'm large and in charge," bo laughed loudly. "No one can get past me on the football field"
"That's for sure," Bo agreed.
"Nice to see you. I'm dawn." said dawn.
"I'm hannah", the young girl said.
"Hey Hannah are these people bothering you", said a voice from behind dawn.
"No lawrence. Come join us", said hannah tentatively
Lawrence sat down by hannah and when he saw dawn his mouth just dropped. He couldn't believe it was her. He didn't realize with her back to him that it was 'her'. Lawrence had a crush on dawn since the beginning of the school year but never had the nerve to actually speak to her and here she was looking at him.
"Hi lawrence. Nice to meet you. My name's dawn.", she smiled at him extending her hand.
"That's nice" said lawrence still gauking at her. Hannah jammed him in his side and he jumped up. Dawn was still looking at him a little nervously with her hand sticking out waiting for him to shake it.
"Oh yes dawn. Nice to meet you" he said shaking her hand vigorishly not letting go.
"Hey larry. Man, I think you can let go now", said james. "It's a handshake not a freaky dance"
"Oh god I'm so sorry. Guess I'm a bit nervous today what with gym class and all. I am not a big fan of gym." said lawrence.
Dawn just smiled at lawrence. She noticed holly and jasmine enter the gym and give hannah and her a dirty stare as they went over to the kids on the other side of the gym.
"What's that about," said bo commenting on the look the girls gave." What did you do to them?"
"It's a long story," said dawn. "So does anyone know where our teacher is?"
As if on cue, the gym teacher showed up with a cart full of large rubber balls.
"OK people huddle up. the five of you in the corner can be team one." he said pointing to dawn's group. " The other five facing me here can be team two. Grab a ball everyone and get on opposite sides of the gym. we are going to play dodge ball."
END Chapter 1: