Title: A New Dawn Rising
Author: Annje
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Doctor Who. Joss Whedon owns one and the BBC the other.
Description: Dawn finds out she isn't who she thought she was.
Rating: T
Prologue:
It was the end of a great people. They never thought the day would come when death would come knocking on their door. For many thousands of millennia they thought they were safe in their alcove outside of space and time. Now the reaper walked the streets, the sky was full of smoke from fires that raged throughout the planet. People were screaming and children were crying. The leaders tried to calm them by telling them that it would all be ok. The truth was that it wasn't. Those who didn't know how to help fought even though many died in the process.
The streets were full of bodies burnt beyond recognition; others just fell where they were shot by the great army of Daleks that roamed the streets. Nobody noticed the young girl with long chestnut hair that clutched her 7 year old son to her side as they stared at the carnage around them from the safety of an alleyway. Her husband was fighting by the town square with other members of the Underground. Her mind wandered as she stared at the bloodbath of fire and death in front of her. She looked up and saw the fire storm falling from the sky.
The last thing she remembered saying before it all went black was "This can't be the end of Gallifrey. By Rassilion's Power please who ever is listening I wish we survive." As her body fell to the ground next to her son after being shot by a Dalek, a lone figure stepped out of the shadows and muttered "wish granted."
All the Doctor saw was his home world burn to ash and rock. What he didn't see as his TARDIS entered the Time Vortex was a mist of green energy leave Gallifrey entering a time portal that opened quickly and shut in a blink of an eye.
Now it's known to all in the Universe that Time Lords do not interfere with lesser beings. What they didn't know was that in case of dire emergency there was a fail safe that should have gone off. It should have, but after many years of neglect and being forgotten about this fail safe in a twist of irony…failed. So a wish by a young mother, woman, and friend saved an entire world. What they didn't expect was that a group of monks on a distant planet would take into their hands the fate of the Great Gallifrey. Nor would the Time Lords if still alive, approve of creating Gallifrey into the image of the young woman and tossing her into the time stream of Earth willy-nilly style. Granted they were trying to protect this ball of green energy from a Hell god bent on getting back to her dimension by ripping open a void between dimensions. Now it's known to many that Gallifreyans can feel each other by telepathy. A lone Time Lord flew through time and space thinking he was alone in the Universe but not realizing that a Hell mouth in one Sunnydale, California was blocking the signal.
Now in the year 2007 was the time of a new dawn for Gallifrey. The "key" was awakening from her deep slumber and space and time and the lives of those she loves will never be the same again. The Slayer had done her job by protecting the "key." Now another will take the Slayer's place and teach and guide Lady Gallifrey in the ways of space and time. Her nightmares should have been the first warning, but Dawn Summers thought she had just ingested some bad pizza before bed. As the months wore on and the dreams became more vivid and terrifying she started to withdraw into herself. What Dawn did not understand was that she was viewing her own death from every perspective. Man, Woman, Child, Young and Old. Buffy and the others noticed Dawn's withdrawal and thought she was just under a lot of stress from studying at the University.
As Dawn Summers got ready for another day of working in the Watcher's Library she looked up in the mirror and screamed as a figure appeared. A man with big ears, deep set blue eyes, and wearing a black coat appeared in the corner of her room. Dawn whipped around and looked in the corner but nothing was there. As she turned back to the mirror she saw him still standing behind her with an amused smirk on his face and his arms crossed across his chest leaning against the far wall.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my bedroom?" Dawn asked feeling very afraid not knowing why some strange man was in her room.
"I am the Doctor, and I am here to guide you. Is 'hat alright?" he said walking towards her.
"I guess…Guide me in what exactly?" Dawn said turning around.
The doctor's form materialized before her as a mist and became more solid as it took form.
"In what you really are, you're not just some ball of green energy. You are a planet and hold within you the entire history, memory, and consciousness' of an entire people."
"I think I need to sit down…"Dawn said as she sat on her bed. What the Doctor did not expect was his charge would promptly faint from this realization.
"Well, that didn't go as planned." The Doctor said as he sat down and waited for Dawn Summers to wake.
TBC
