A Slayer's Sister A Vamp's Son
By Rachel
"Hi Xander, Thanks for taking me to school." Dawn greeted her friend, climbing into his truck.
"No prob. So why couldn't Buffy take you?"
Dawn smiled nervously. Buffy had stayed the night at Spike's, but didn't want Xander knowing. She didn't even want Xander know Spike was back. Dawn knew that wouldn't last long though.
"Well she had something to do today. I'm not really sure what though."
"Alright." Xander pulled out of the drive way.
Dawn listened to the radio as they drove toward the school. She stared out the window watching her surroundings as they sped by. Then something or rather someone caught her eye.
"Connor!" she exclaimed.
Xander tossed her a quick glance.
"Xander pull over. That's Connor a friend of mine." She rolled down the window, "Hey Connor!"
Connor looked over at her, a slight smile crossing his features. Dawn was good people. Nice, helpful, pretty. The truck she was riding in came to a stop and she bounced up to him.
"Hello Dawn. It's nice to see you again."
"Yeah you too. So you uh on your way to school?"
"School?"
"Yeah you know place where you go and learn stuff, Get an education."
"Sounds like fun. How do I go to this school thing?"
"Whoa1 You've seriously never gone to school. It's the most totally boring place. It's like a jail for kids."
Connor narrowed his eyes, "A jail for kids? Why would anyone put someone so pure and beautiful as you in a prison?"
Dawn blushed. Xander watched this all in amusement. It was good that Dawn was liking someone her age. She used to have a crush on him, but he was with Anya then and he was too old. Then she developed a crush on Spike. And besides just being totally eww, wouldn't have worked out. To Xander the peroxided vampire would always be an evil soulless thing.
"Well it's not really a prison. It just sometimes feels that way."
"Oh."
"Listen why don't you meet me at the entrance to Sunnydale High at 3:30. We can talk get to know each other. Hang out. Be normal teenagers."
"Nothing about me or where I come from is normal." Connor stated icily.
Dawn put a hand to his chest. The movement startled him and he flinched slightly, but he soon realized she wouldn't bring him harm.
"Connor you are normal. Maybe your life isn't, but you are. You have a beating heart. You're human. But hey if you don't want to hang out then don't come. I won't be offended or anything."
He watched her climb back in the truck with that other guy and drive off. Should he meet her? Of course he should. Besides what could be wrong with this hanging out thing if she liked it? What could be wrong with anything she liked?
Dawn exited the school building a smile on her face. She had the best day. There was her encounter with Connor that morning, then she got practically straight A's on her report card, summer started in two days, she humiliated the popular bitch in front of everyone. The day had been perfect. Now if Connor showed up it would be even better.
She had a crush on him it was obvious. Even her friends who had never met knew. Janis could tell as soon as she noticed Dawn at lunch that she liked some boy. Dawn hoped he'd show. She really wanted to get to know him. And it was cool that he fought vampires too. That way she didn't have to keep secrets and tell lies like Buffy had to do at her age.
She sat down on the steps and waited. Anyone watching her could tell she was impatient by her glancing at her watch every 30 seconds and fidgeting. Her watch read 3:28 when she looked at it for the fifth time. He wasn't late yet. 3:39 and still not here. She sighed. At exactly 3:30 she heard a sound from near by and looked over. There was Connor dropping out of a tree and landing in a crouch position. She walked over to him as he straightened up.
"Hey. I was beginning to think you weren't going to show."
"I'm not late, am I?"
Dawn glanced at her watch and scowled at it, "Actually your right on time. I was just impatient."
"I see. Shall we commence with the hanging out."
She giggled.
"Did I say something funny?"
"Relax. You're too tense, boy. Hanging out is just a term. It's when two friends get together and just.hang out. Talk, go see a movie, walk around, eat. That kind of stuff. Yo just relaxing with your pals and not worrying about life."
"I think I can manage that."
She giggled again and he looked down at her. They had started walking already and were headed no where in paticular. He listened to her ramble on about movie she liked, her friends, stuff she liked doing, her sister.
".You have know idea what it's like living with Buffy. I mean she's always like, 'I'm Buffy, I'm the slayer, I'm the boss. And what I say goes' or 'You're to young for this Dawn go somewhere else.' And I'm like 'yeah tch"
"Your sisters not the slayer." He said suddenly.
"Yeah she is. Trust me I know, she reminds me all the time."
"She can't be the slayer. I know the slayer. Her name is Justine and she lives in L.A.'
"No Buffy's the slayer. Oh maybe, maybe Faith died. You see Buffy died once a long time ago and a new slyer Kendra came along. Only she was dead for just a few minutes. Still Kendra became the new slyer. So then there were too slayers running around. And then Spike's ex killed Kendra and Faith became the new slayer. So that must mean that Faith's dead."
He stared at her. This girl was too much. She was pretty, nice, confident, and just plain. perfect. She may have not spent most of her life in a hell dimension, but hers hadn't been the easiest. And it probably wasn't living with a slayer.
"Wow, you must be tired of hearing me babble like that. Sorry I got carried away."
"It's okay. I like hearing your voice." He replied. It was the truth too. She had a pretty voice.
"Thanks," she was blushing again, "So whats' the deal with your father getting killed by a vampire? I mean who killed him do you know?"
Connor scowled at the memory.
"Yeah I know. His name was Angel. He was supposed to be a good guy and all, but I saw the evil in him. He couldn't fool me."
Dawn looked up at him, "Did you say Angel?" she asked in a small voice.
"Yes."
"Angel as in Angelus Angel."
"That would be the one. You know of him?"
"Know of him, I know him. Connor Angel didn't kill your dad. He wouldn't. It's not like him. Angel's a good guy. Yeah he was evil once, but he got his soul back and has been doing good for the past century trying to make up for all the bad things he's done."
"You can try and convince me all you want Dawn, but I know what I saw."
"You saw Angel kill him?"
She looked stricken. Like she was going to be sick.
"Well I didn't actually see him kill him, but I found the body. Justine said she saw it. There were the two bite marks on the neck also."
"I don't believe Angel would do something like this. Why would Angel do something like this?"
Connor took a deep breath, "Because Angel is my real father."
Dawn stared at him for what had to be ten minutes straight. The look was one of disbelief. And he wanted her to believe him. She had to believe him. If anyone did it had to be her.
"Angel can't be. He's a vampire." She finally spoke, barely above a whisper.
"It was apparently part of some prophecy. A child born of two vampires. Actually technically I wasn't even supposed to be born, but my so called mother found a loop hole. Staked herself leaving me there so technically I wasn't born. I don't know much of what happened after that. I grew up with my father, Holtz in a hell dimension known as Quor-toth. One of the most dangerous ones at that. My father taught me all about Angelus and Darla. About the events of my 'birth'. He told me that Angelus would try to trick me into thinking he's good. He was right. Angel tried to trick me. He even got my da. Holtz to write a phony letter saying that I was to stay with him. But I found the body and got my revenge."
Dawn listened to this and believed every word of what he told her. Because from his end that is what he knew as the truth. It was how he grew up. She knew Angel didn't kill this Holtz guy. But the way he brought up he believed it. The bite marks must've been made by some other vamp. Or maybe they weren't bite marks.
"Listen Connor I uh have to get home. So Buffy doesn't start worrying. Maybe I'll see you around."
He watched her walk off down the sidewalk. So she was a friend of Angel. Once again his instincts had betrayed him. As much as he wanted to he couldn't trust her. Not if she was a friend of Angel's. He felt sick to his stomach.
A/N: that was the end of that chapter. I'm aware that Connor is slightly OOC here. Especially with the outburst near the end. I think I got dawn In Character pretty well though. So tell me what you think. Flames are accepted. I went with what I heard about Justine. I know nothing about her really. I just heard somewhere that she thought she was the slayer. Faith is not actually dead. Still holed up in jail. That was just the conclusion Dawn came too. R&R! ^_^!
"Hi Xander, Thanks for taking me to school." Dawn greeted her friend, climbing into his truck.
"No prob. So why couldn't Buffy take you?"
Dawn smiled nervously. Buffy had stayed the night at Spike's, but didn't want Xander knowing. She didn't even want Xander know Spike was back. Dawn knew that wouldn't last long though.
"Well she had something to do today. I'm not really sure what though."
"Alright." Xander pulled out of the drive way.
Dawn listened to the radio as they drove toward the school. She stared out the window watching her surroundings as they sped by. Then something or rather someone caught her eye.
"Connor!" she exclaimed.
Xander tossed her a quick glance.
"Xander pull over. That's Connor a friend of mine." She rolled down the window, "Hey Connor!"
Connor looked over at her, a slight smile crossing his features. Dawn was good people. Nice, helpful, pretty. The truck she was riding in came to a stop and she bounced up to him.
"Hello Dawn. It's nice to see you again."
"Yeah you too. So you uh on your way to school?"
"School?"
"Yeah you know place where you go and learn stuff, Get an education."
"Sounds like fun. How do I go to this school thing?"
"Whoa1 You've seriously never gone to school. It's the most totally boring place. It's like a jail for kids."
Connor narrowed his eyes, "A jail for kids? Why would anyone put someone so pure and beautiful as you in a prison?"
Dawn blushed. Xander watched this all in amusement. It was good that Dawn was liking someone her age. She used to have a crush on him, but he was with Anya then and he was too old. Then she developed a crush on Spike. And besides just being totally eww, wouldn't have worked out. To Xander the peroxided vampire would always be an evil soulless thing.
"Well it's not really a prison. It just sometimes feels that way."
"Oh."
"Listen why don't you meet me at the entrance to Sunnydale High at 3:30. We can talk get to know each other. Hang out. Be normal teenagers."
"Nothing about me or where I come from is normal." Connor stated icily.
Dawn put a hand to his chest. The movement startled him and he flinched slightly, but he soon realized she wouldn't bring him harm.
"Connor you are normal. Maybe your life isn't, but you are. You have a beating heart. You're human. But hey if you don't want to hang out then don't come. I won't be offended or anything."
He watched her climb back in the truck with that other guy and drive off. Should he meet her? Of course he should. Besides what could be wrong with this hanging out thing if she liked it? What could be wrong with anything she liked?
Dawn exited the school building a smile on her face. She had the best day. There was her encounter with Connor that morning, then she got practically straight A's on her report card, summer started in two days, she humiliated the popular bitch in front of everyone. The day had been perfect. Now if Connor showed up it would be even better.
She had a crush on him it was obvious. Even her friends who had never met knew. Janis could tell as soon as she noticed Dawn at lunch that she liked some boy. Dawn hoped he'd show. She really wanted to get to know him. And it was cool that he fought vampires too. That way she didn't have to keep secrets and tell lies like Buffy had to do at her age.
She sat down on the steps and waited. Anyone watching her could tell she was impatient by her glancing at her watch every 30 seconds and fidgeting. Her watch read 3:28 when she looked at it for the fifth time. He wasn't late yet. 3:39 and still not here. She sighed. At exactly 3:30 she heard a sound from near by and looked over. There was Connor dropping out of a tree and landing in a crouch position. She walked over to him as he straightened up.
"Hey. I was beginning to think you weren't going to show."
"I'm not late, am I?"
Dawn glanced at her watch and scowled at it, "Actually your right on time. I was just impatient."
"I see. Shall we commence with the hanging out."
She giggled.
"Did I say something funny?"
"Relax. You're too tense, boy. Hanging out is just a term. It's when two friends get together and just.hang out. Talk, go see a movie, walk around, eat. That kind of stuff. Yo just relaxing with your pals and not worrying about life."
"I think I can manage that."
She giggled again and he looked down at her. They had started walking already and were headed no where in paticular. He listened to her ramble on about movie she liked, her friends, stuff she liked doing, her sister.
".You have know idea what it's like living with Buffy. I mean she's always like, 'I'm Buffy, I'm the slayer, I'm the boss. And what I say goes' or 'You're to young for this Dawn go somewhere else.' And I'm like 'yeah tch"
"Your sisters not the slayer." He said suddenly.
"Yeah she is. Trust me I know, she reminds me all the time."
"She can't be the slayer. I know the slayer. Her name is Justine and she lives in L.A.'
"No Buffy's the slayer. Oh maybe, maybe Faith died. You see Buffy died once a long time ago and a new slyer Kendra came along. Only she was dead for just a few minutes. Still Kendra became the new slyer. So then there were too slayers running around. And then Spike's ex killed Kendra and Faith became the new slayer. So that must mean that Faith's dead."
He stared at her. This girl was too much. She was pretty, nice, confident, and just plain. perfect. She may have not spent most of her life in a hell dimension, but hers hadn't been the easiest. And it probably wasn't living with a slayer.
"Wow, you must be tired of hearing me babble like that. Sorry I got carried away."
"It's okay. I like hearing your voice." He replied. It was the truth too. She had a pretty voice.
"Thanks," she was blushing again, "So whats' the deal with your father getting killed by a vampire? I mean who killed him do you know?"
Connor scowled at the memory.
"Yeah I know. His name was Angel. He was supposed to be a good guy and all, but I saw the evil in him. He couldn't fool me."
Dawn looked up at him, "Did you say Angel?" she asked in a small voice.
"Yes."
"Angel as in Angelus Angel."
"That would be the one. You know of him?"
"Know of him, I know him. Connor Angel didn't kill your dad. He wouldn't. It's not like him. Angel's a good guy. Yeah he was evil once, but he got his soul back and has been doing good for the past century trying to make up for all the bad things he's done."
"You can try and convince me all you want Dawn, but I know what I saw."
"You saw Angel kill him?"
She looked stricken. Like she was going to be sick.
"Well I didn't actually see him kill him, but I found the body. Justine said she saw it. There were the two bite marks on the neck also."
"I don't believe Angel would do something like this. Why would Angel do something like this?"
Connor took a deep breath, "Because Angel is my real father."
Dawn stared at him for what had to be ten minutes straight. The look was one of disbelief. And he wanted her to believe him. She had to believe him. If anyone did it had to be her.
"Angel can't be. He's a vampire." She finally spoke, barely above a whisper.
"It was apparently part of some prophecy. A child born of two vampires. Actually technically I wasn't even supposed to be born, but my so called mother found a loop hole. Staked herself leaving me there so technically I wasn't born. I don't know much of what happened after that. I grew up with my father, Holtz in a hell dimension known as Quor-toth. One of the most dangerous ones at that. My father taught me all about Angelus and Darla. About the events of my 'birth'. He told me that Angelus would try to trick me into thinking he's good. He was right. Angel tried to trick me. He even got my da. Holtz to write a phony letter saying that I was to stay with him. But I found the body and got my revenge."
Dawn listened to this and believed every word of what he told her. Because from his end that is what he knew as the truth. It was how he grew up. She knew Angel didn't kill this Holtz guy. But the way he brought up he believed it. The bite marks must've been made by some other vamp. Or maybe they weren't bite marks.
"Listen Connor I uh have to get home. So Buffy doesn't start worrying. Maybe I'll see you around."
He watched her walk off down the sidewalk. So she was a friend of Angel. Once again his instincts had betrayed him. As much as he wanted to he couldn't trust her. Not if she was a friend of Angel's. He felt sick to his stomach.
A/N: that was the end of that chapter. I'm aware that Connor is slightly OOC here. Especially with the outburst near the end. I think I got dawn In Character pretty well though. So tell me what you think. Flames are accepted. I went with what I heard about Justine. I know nothing about her really. I just heard somewhere that she thought she was the slayer. Faith is not actually dead. Still holed up in jail. That was just the conclusion Dawn came too. R&R! ^_^!