Lost in the 80's
Dawn Summers entered the cemetery stake in hand. Buffy wouldn't approve of her sneaking out of the house to seize a late night slay but Dawn didn't really care these days. She swiftly rotated around as she heard a crunch of leaves behind her. "Someone there?" She said out loud then cursed herself thinking it was probably a bad thing. 'Yes Dawnie let's speak to the undead creatures of the night so they'll know I'm here.' She thought to herself. Someone grabbed her from behind and she spun around to see Spike standing there.
"Shouldn't you be tucked in bed nibblit?" he asked taking a cigarette from his jacket and lighting it. "What would the Slayer say if she found you out poking with the dead."
Dawn turned away from Spike, "Please Spike don't say anything to her. I mean I know you've got this soul and you feel all remorseful and stuff but please, she doesn't need to know."
Spike turned Dawn around, "Look Dawnie I know that you want to learn to fight but really if you wanted to be a damn vampire hunter at least ask me to train with you. I don't want to see you tomorrow feeding from some bloody friend of yours."
Dawn looked at him, "I'm sorry Spike. Really I am but I just don't want Buffy to find out, she wouldn't let me go out of the house ever-" Spike pushed Dawn out of the way as a vampire came from behind. Dawn hit a gravestone. "SPIKE!" she tossed him the stake.
The vampire Spike was fighting with knocked the stake from his hands then turned to Dawn. He grabbed her by the hair bringing her to her feet. "So how would you like to die?" The vampire turned Dawn's head to the side bringing his mouth to her neck.
Spike didn't know why he'd done it but the next thing he remembered was grabbing Dawn's hand and saying something in Latin, that now he didn't even remember how to translate. Drusilla gave it to him when he was crippled. If he ever wanted to get away all he needed to do was say it. Of course he didn't exactly believe her it wasn't like she was completely sane but he memorized it and prepared to use it if he ever needed to.
Spike hit the floor with a thud. The bright sunlight beaming across his face, the sudden realization that he was standing in sunlight hit him, and the fact that he wasn't bursting in to flames made him want to jump for joy. But something was wrong, besides the fact that being a vampire and not in flames right now wasn't completely out of the question. Whatever parallel universe Dru sent him to he was wondering if it was a smart idea to bring Dawn in it with him. Dawn, where was she? Spike looked, the ocean, the beach. No Dawnie. "Dawn?"
Dawn awoke to her toes submerged in water. Whatever weird trick Buffy was playing on her Dawn wasn't in the mood for. Almost getting bitten by a vampire was one thing but waking up with your toes in the water was another thing. "Come on Buff go away." She said as her eyed fluttered open.
"Finally she wakes." She heard a boy say, definitely wasn't Xander or Spike, the voice was too young, then Giles was certainly out of the question. Dawn sat up and looked at the boy whose voice she just heard. Blonde hair, blue eyes, about 16, cute, although something wasn't right, he seemed a little… outdated. "My names Sam." He said as he helped her to her feet. "I take that you know what vampires are by the cross around your neck and the stake in your belt loop so telling you that I killed the one that was trying to attack you won't scare you." He gave her what seemed to be a reassuring smile, "Weird thing though he burst to dust, not usual."
Dawn looked at him, "My name's Dawn." She said, "Um… but what do you mean them not bursting to dust isn't normal that's what all the ones I've seen staked do." She brushed the sand from her backside and took a look at him. He wore what seemed to be a coat made of a rug, though very outdated she actually thought it looked cute on him, fit his personality, or what she got by looking at him.
"You know loads of blood." He said, after she didn't answer he thought maybe he was wrong, "You from out of town or something? Maybe it's different where you're from." He caught a look at her, her style was definitely weird, nothing he'd ever seen. Her shirt was red and long-sleeved, very slim fitting but it had some sort of frilly stuff on the collar and sleeves.
"Sunnydale." She said, "And last I checked I didn't really go far."
"Farther then you think." Sam said, "You're in Santa Carla. Welcome to the murder capital of the world."
Dawn laughed, "Right, I've lived in Sunny D for 7 years now, trust me that place takes the cake for being murder capital of the world. I mean when mom and dad divorced in 95' or something then Mom moved us over to Sunnydale, never would have thought I'd ever hear about so many deaths."
"Wait did you just say 95'? Like 1995?" Sam asked more confused then ever now.
"Yeah 1995." Dawn said looking at him, "You okay or something? You seem kind of out of it, I mean I know I just met you but woah, it's like you've lived in a box your whole life."
"Me?" he asked, "Are you sure you didn't hit your head when you collapsed or whatever before I saved you from being turned into the next lifeless teen here? You're in 1987 if you forgot. As for your style I think you might need to return your clothes and ask for something less hippy. I think maybe you're living in the wrong time zone."
"87'?" Dawn asked, "Okay for once you're correct and it's not about my clothes, I am definitely in the wrong time zone." Suddenly Dawn remembered something, "Spike. Spike said something before I was dropped here or whatever you want to call it. A spell I bet." Dawn thought for a second, "Oh no…" She looked into the blazing sun, he was gone, Spike was gone. A vampire wasn't going to survive the sunlight and if he landed with her he must have been a goner. Dawn felt tears welling up inside, "Sam how long have you been here?" she asked.
"Couldn't have been too long before you arrived otherwise that vampire would've gotten you." He said wondering what was all the sudden wrong with her.
"You didn't happen to see a platinum blonde Billy Idol wanabe have you?" She asked hoping Spike didn't turn to dust right when he hit, maybe he had enough time to escape the sunlight.
"No sign of a Billy Idol wanabe when I came." He said looking at her, "Is that a good thing or a bad thing you need to fill me in on all these empty spaces you're leaving."
"It's horrible!" she said, "Vampires in Sunnydale blow up into a pile of dust when they're in the sun. Spike, is a vampire. Don't get me wrong though I can already tell you're the type that doesn't care about there past or whatever you just care that they're a vampire so you slice and dice. Spike is good; he's got a soul. He's saved my life on many occasions but back to the story. If he didn't get out of the sun he's poof gone."
Sam looked at her, "Alright I'd ask why you care so much about a vampire but I know what you mean. My brother was half vampire for about a week, wouldn't let the Frog's get near him."
"Frogs?" she questioned a hint of humor in her voice but this was no time to be joking around with a bleached blonde vampire missing.
"Edgar and Alan Frog. More commonly known as the Frog brothers. They're the ones who helped Michael, my brother back to being human." He said.
Dawn's eyes brightened a little, "You mean there is a way to do that?" she thought of Spike becoming human again. He was already half way there that is if he wasn't a pile of dust.
"Well there's a way to do that if the vampire in question hasn't already had their first kill." Sam said looking at her.
"Spike's out of the question then." She said looking around some more hoping to see platinum blonde along the beach. "So like what is this place?" she asked.
Sam looked around, "The Boardwalk. Vampire central. All the vamps hang around here, each clans got a place they've taken shop. When people come in during the day they feed off of them since they can't get dinner during the day."
"So you have a little group you kill vampires with?" Dawn asked.
Sam looked at her, "Are you making fun of me?" he asked.
Dawn laughed and shook her head no, "No, the slay gang back home's more referred to as the Scoobies over anything else. We've got my sister Buffy the vampire slayer, really she's called and everything, then Willow, she's all into the Wicca scene, pretty cool but Willow went a little "kill the worldish" so now she's kind of trying to tone it down, then you've got Spike, the vampire with a soul, though the soul is only recent he was chipped before."
"Chipped?" Sam questioned cutting the teens babble.
Dawn brought a hand through her hair, "Some mega army dudes captured him and put this chip in his head so he couldn't harm humans which is why he had been in the Scoobies for so long before the soul, but then he fell in love with my sister the slayer and wanted to have her love him back so he went to the end of the earth and got a soul for her. But yeah, then there's Anya, ex vengeance demon, she's kind of...weird. But then there is Xander, he's a carpenter."
"Carpenter?"
Dawn smiled, "Yeah you know makes houses, all that stuff." She paused, "So what about your gang?"
"Well Michael, my brother. He's the former half vampire. Alan and Edgar Frog have always hunted vampires. They have a comic shop in the pier so they can keep watch during the day. And I'm well, I'm just a helper I guess you'd say." He smiled at her, "What about you where do you fit into your group?"
"The Key." She said, "I was made from monks, I'm not really human you see, or wasn't actually. This Glory bitch wanted to use me to open up a hell dimension so she could go back to her world but my sister prevented it and died for me, well really she isn't dead anymore. She's died twice already and now she's back again, long story really I'll get into it later but now we aren't really sure if I'm still the key or if I'm human now."
Sam laughed, "I never really realized how much girls talked until now." 'But then again Sammie you've never actually had a conversation with a girl up until now.' He said to himself.
"Hey Sam." They heard someone say, Sam turned around to see his brother Michael in front of him, "Sam I thought you said you were going to come home last night not stay out all by yourself and kill. Now I find you on a date with a girl why didn't you just say that?"
Sam's face flushed from embarrassment, "I'm not on a date with her Michael I did go out to stake vamps and I found her I stayed with her till she woke up."
"Sure little brother." He said, "I'm Michael Sam's brother and you're…"
Dawn smiled at him and shook his hand, "Dawn Summers. And actually your brothers right he was slaying." She said, "I'm from Sunnydale year 2003. I came from a portal I guess, and there's a vampire on the loose. Though he's good he's got a soul. Or at least I think he's on the loose, he might have blown to dust."
"Her vampires go all dusty instead of all bloody." Sam said, "Less mess."
"Wish ours did that, I wouldn't have ruined so many shirts." Michael said, "So Dawn this vampire is a good one?" he asked.
Dawn nodded. "Yeah looks like Billy Idol. Comes to the name of Spike."
"Spike…" Michael said. "I know of him, he's not a good vampire Dawn."
"No Michael, he's with me trust me he's good. I'm sure back in these days he was bad but trust me he's better now he's got a soul. He's doing the whole redemption thing." Dawn said, "But you know him?"
"Spike, the only one who didn't run with David's clan. David was the vampire that made me a half vampire at one point but we killed him. Spike was always into messing with my head. Too good of a vampire though to actually get any of us, but we stopped going after Spike, wanted to keep our heads."
"Trust me though Michael, Spike is good. And for all I know he could be dead right now. But I just want to find him and figure out what is going on." Dawn said.
Michael nodded. "All right. We'll take you back to our place get you some food or something. Figure some things out and we'll search for Spike."
Dawn smiled at Michael. "Thanks. I know you don't know me very well and that you're willing to trust me means a lot."
More to come…..