Disclaimer: Joss owns all, for now. He's a rat bastard who got me hooked
on show tunes, especially his. *glares* For now, he owns all characters,
and some dialog that takes place in the beginning. But I will prevail. Just
watch….
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The walls just disappeared
Nothing to surround me
Keep me from my fears
I'm unprotected
"Naked", Avril Lavinge
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Dawn looked at the people in front of her. "We have to die. Well doesn't that sound cheery?" she glared at Aidan who just glared back as well.
"This isn't my fault, they were the one's who told me!" Aidan pointed to the two people that stood in front of her.
"Alright, who the hell are you? You come traipsing in here, and tell me that in order to defeat this big nasty," Dawn demanded, her hands on her hips.
The girl smiled, it seemed to light up her face and make it just that bit more unique. "Well if you believe in this big nasty, maybe you'll believe this. But first my name is Isabelle and this is Christopher."
"Believe what?" Dawn asked.
Isabelle smiled, "Chris and myself are angels. Death and birth respectively."
Dawn blinked, and suddenly, the two didn't look very plain at all. She turned to Christopher. He looked like a surfer. "You're the Angel of Death?" she asked.
He nodded, his blonde hair falling into his blue eyes, obscuring them slightly. "Yeah, I know, not the usual black an all. Though I can pull it off quite nicely."
Aidan cocked an eyebrow speculatively; "Well that's nice to know. Now what does that have to do with us dying?"
Isabelle sighed, and ran a hand through her hair. "Well that's the thing, well, this demon, you can't kill it on this plane."
Dawn raised an eyebrow in question. "So where will we kill it?" she asked. If they couldn't kill it here, wouldn't it be hard to kill it, period?
Christopher laughed, and continued where Isabelle left off. "Well that's why you have to die, you see, we have to get you to a different plane, and in order for you to get there, well you have to die. Because inter-plane travel takes its toll on a human's body."
"But what about Eve, you only said Dawn and I had to die. Now why can't we have the same fate she does?" Aidan demanded.
"Because you know that soul energy thing I was telling you about? Well with that, I'm not totally human, giving me the power to cross planes. Still hurts like a bitch though," Eve sighed after saying this and sat down.
Dawn looked at the other girl and then at the two angels. "We might as well get this over with. I've always wanted to know how being dead was like."
Aidan gave her a surprised look, "You scare me some times, you know that?"
She shrugged him off and looked at the angels. "Well let's get to it!" she told them.
Isabelle nodded and went to the corner, pulling a bag that was hidden from sight by a chair. "Lay down, both of you." The two teens nodded and laid down on the floor, side by side. Both Isabelle and Christopher started chanting, and Dawn felt tired, but she struggled to stay awake, to stay alert. "Let my voice guide you, you will be safe," Isabelle said softly, almost a whisper. Dawn nodded and took her last breath, falling into the deep sleep.
When her eye fluttered open, she found Aidan standing on one side of her and Eve on the other. Grey mist surrounded the three of them. She shivered slightly; the mist seemed to go everywhere, but no where at all.
"Where are we?" Aidan asked, not liking that he didn't know. If someone told him a week or two ago that he would be doing this, he would have told them they were insane and stalked off.
But never the less, here he was, with his best friend and creepy girl with him. And he didn't like it.
"The spirit realm. I've been here before, but I have a feeling I won't be going back to our plane any time soon. And don't look at me, I don't know what to do," she added the last part hurriedly.
"Well now we sit here and wait, like sitting geese. Whose up for a game?" Dawn said, sitting down.
Aidan looked at her, "And what game shall we play? It's too small a group for duck, duck goose. We can't play hide and go seek, and we can't play I spy. And no, I'm not playing truth or dare."
Dawn pouted for a minute, before sighing. "Okay, so what do we do?" she finally asked.
"Come with us," a voice said. The three turned around and saw Isabelle and Christopher standing there. Christopher was dressed in a dark shirt and pants, and Isabelle in a white slip dress. In a blink of an eye, Dawn's clothes were changed into a similar dress, a green color. Eve's changed to a red dress, and Aidan's to a blue getup much like Christopher's.
"Oh look, we all match!" Eve said, rolling her eyes. Both angels pretended to ignore her and proceeded to lead them into the mist.
As the group walked, the mist seemed to separate and close behind them, leaving them in a long hallway. Aidan, Eve, and Dawn looked about curiously, but Isabelle and Christopher paid no mind to it. They finally stopped in front of a painted wooden door, the green paint was chipping, but the doorknob was slightly dusty, as if nobody had even bothered to open the door in a long while.
"Here you are!" Isabelle, slightly too cheerful. "Why don't you pop in and walk around for a bit, get acclimated to the place. We'll be back in a few hours. We have to get the big nasty."
The three looked at her, and Christopher sighed, "You try running around the city trying to catch that thing, and then find you guys. Getting you to this place took at least a couple hours."
They turned to leave, but a shout from Dawn stopped them. "Wait! What if we have to be there for a couple days or something? What do we eat?"
Isabelle laughed, "The river water's clean, and the tree fruit by the river is okay. You'll be fine on that."
The three nodded at that and the angels turned, leaving them alone, in front of the door.
"So what should we do?" Aidan asked as the two disappeared into the mist. The two girls looked at him.
"I'm thinking the door. If we're supposed to defeat this monster thing, shouldn't we know something about the land?" Eve said sensibly.
The other two shrugged, and Eve grasped the knob and twisted. One by one they walked into the room, not sure what was a head, Eve was the last through and as soon as she passed, the door closed behind her, leaving no indication that there was a doorway at all.
"Well, there's the river," Dawn pointed and they started to walk silently. One really not sure what to say to the other two.
After reaching the shade of the trees that sat down for a few moments. Aidan looked at Dawn for a moment, and then blinked, was he seeing a glow around her, or was he just going crazy? He liked the latter better. At least then he knew he was something, instead he was in a place that he had never heard of before, and didn't really know if it was real or not.
"Dawn, do you normally glow green?" Eve asked.
Aidan sighed in relief; at least he wasn't the only one who saw it. So maybe he wasn't going crazy after all.
"Huh? What?" Dawn asked as she looked at herself. She was glowing a vibrant green. "Cool! I'm glowing!" she grinned happily as Eve and Aidan watched.
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Dawn, you scare me," Aidan declared.
The only answer he got was Dawn sticking her tongue out. They soon burst into giggles that left Eve slightly more than confused. Dawn got up; slightly winded from the giggle fest she had with her best friend, and walked over to the river.
Looking down into the water she sighed, then something caught her eye. The person that stared back at her wasn't her. She reached out to touch it, to see if it was real, and something grabbed at her hand. Dawn, surprised, pulled back, drawing whatever was holding on to her, come out as well.
It was a pale arm, delicate, but it held a hint of power. Dawn kept pulling and soon a young woman emerged in a purple dress, much like Dawn's own green one. And even though she just emerged from the river, she was dry.
"Who are you?" Dawn asked the older woman.
She smiled, showing of a set of white teeth. "I'm you…sorta."
Dawn blinked, "What?"
"My name's Dawn, just like you. But I'm Dawn Summers. The slayer's sister, also the Key, also you. When I died 12 years ago, my energy was put into your body, therefore making the body have two souls. Since you went and killed your body, both souls were released, you just had to release me," the older Dawn said. "But to make things easier, just call me Summer."
Dawn smiled, "Okay, Summer. But what do you mean, key?"
Summer sighed. "Basically, we're are a ball of green energy, in the shape of a human. We have the power to open and close dimensions, which's how your tears summoned that big nasty. I was a part of you until you found yourself here, where we finally were able to split apart."
Dawn blinked, "Does this mean I have a split personality?"
Summer shook her head, "No, this means that we actually have a fighting chance."
Dawn pouted, "Like we didn't before?"
Summer looked, "Don't give me that look. I invented that look. And no, you didn't have a chance because you don't know the wonderful parts being a Key gives you, I do."
By that time they had walked over to the shade of the three and the other two looked at Summer. She looked a lot like Dawn, but her hair was a shade lighter and longer, a wave that glistened in the sunlight. Her eyes were blue instead of brown, but their eye shape was the same, as was their nose and mouth, although Summer's lips were pinker and her skin paler than Dawn's. Aidan thought she was pretty, but no match for Dawn.
Night settled over the area like a blanket over a tired child. Dawn and Aidan sat together, Dawn's head on his shoulder, Aidan's head leaning on hers. Soon they fell into a blissful sleep, unaware that Summer and Eve were watching them.
"She loves him you know," Summer whispered.
Eve looked at her, "They do make a cute couple, but you don't know that for sure."
Summer laughed, "I spent eleven years in her body, I spent time in her mind. That girl loves that boy."
Eve nodded, hopefully they would get out of this, alive, and hopefully, the two of them would actually let them have a somewhat normal life after this. Hopefully.
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When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Simon and Garfunkle
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Much thank-you's:
Tigerlily*
Buffy-Spike-Mad*
Ivorycat*
Cassie-bear01*
Lorelai Anastasia*
Gidgetgirl** (two because she's greedy!)
No new faces, which saddens me, but I get people though! So it makes me happy! I'm sorry to say the fic will be wrapping up soon, so I would love to see an extra push towards a total of fifty reviews. If you do, I'll put up a little sequel. Which I'll probably put up anyway, I just like reviews.
Shameless Self Promotion:
Hehe, I got Saving the Series: the Torch Bearer out with 3 other people, so I look forward for you people to read/review that. I'll make fans outta you! And I also got another fic, which is just named "Tallulah" for now, I will possibly change it, considering my original plot is light years away from what I have now. *Grin* But both fics will be fun, don't worry!
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The walls just disappeared
Nothing to surround me
Keep me from my fears
I'm unprotected
"Naked", Avril Lavinge
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Dawn looked at the people in front of her. "We have to die. Well doesn't that sound cheery?" she glared at Aidan who just glared back as well.
"This isn't my fault, they were the one's who told me!" Aidan pointed to the two people that stood in front of her.
"Alright, who the hell are you? You come traipsing in here, and tell me that in order to defeat this big nasty," Dawn demanded, her hands on her hips.
The girl smiled, it seemed to light up her face and make it just that bit more unique. "Well if you believe in this big nasty, maybe you'll believe this. But first my name is Isabelle and this is Christopher."
"Believe what?" Dawn asked.
Isabelle smiled, "Chris and myself are angels. Death and birth respectively."
Dawn blinked, and suddenly, the two didn't look very plain at all. She turned to Christopher. He looked like a surfer. "You're the Angel of Death?" she asked.
He nodded, his blonde hair falling into his blue eyes, obscuring them slightly. "Yeah, I know, not the usual black an all. Though I can pull it off quite nicely."
Aidan cocked an eyebrow speculatively; "Well that's nice to know. Now what does that have to do with us dying?"
Isabelle sighed, and ran a hand through her hair. "Well that's the thing, well, this demon, you can't kill it on this plane."
Dawn raised an eyebrow in question. "So where will we kill it?" she asked. If they couldn't kill it here, wouldn't it be hard to kill it, period?
Christopher laughed, and continued where Isabelle left off. "Well that's why you have to die, you see, we have to get you to a different plane, and in order for you to get there, well you have to die. Because inter-plane travel takes its toll on a human's body."
"But what about Eve, you only said Dawn and I had to die. Now why can't we have the same fate she does?" Aidan demanded.
"Because you know that soul energy thing I was telling you about? Well with that, I'm not totally human, giving me the power to cross planes. Still hurts like a bitch though," Eve sighed after saying this and sat down.
Dawn looked at the other girl and then at the two angels. "We might as well get this over with. I've always wanted to know how being dead was like."
Aidan gave her a surprised look, "You scare me some times, you know that?"
She shrugged him off and looked at the angels. "Well let's get to it!" she told them.
Isabelle nodded and went to the corner, pulling a bag that was hidden from sight by a chair. "Lay down, both of you." The two teens nodded and laid down on the floor, side by side. Both Isabelle and Christopher started chanting, and Dawn felt tired, but she struggled to stay awake, to stay alert. "Let my voice guide you, you will be safe," Isabelle said softly, almost a whisper. Dawn nodded and took her last breath, falling into the deep sleep.
When her eye fluttered open, she found Aidan standing on one side of her and Eve on the other. Grey mist surrounded the three of them. She shivered slightly; the mist seemed to go everywhere, but no where at all.
"Where are we?" Aidan asked, not liking that he didn't know. If someone told him a week or two ago that he would be doing this, he would have told them they were insane and stalked off.
But never the less, here he was, with his best friend and creepy girl with him. And he didn't like it.
"The spirit realm. I've been here before, but I have a feeling I won't be going back to our plane any time soon. And don't look at me, I don't know what to do," she added the last part hurriedly.
"Well now we sit here and wait, like sitting geese. Whose up for a game?" Dawn said, sitting down.
Aidan looked at her, "And what game shall we play? It's too small a group for duck, duck goose. We can't play hide and go seek, and we can't play I spy. And no, I'm not playing truth or dare."
Dawn pouted for a minute, before sighing. "Okay, so what do we do?" she finally asked.
"Come with us," a voice said. The three turned around and saw Isabelle and Christopher standing there. Christopher was dressed in a dark shirt and pants, and Isabelle in a white slip dress. In a blink of an eye, Dawn's clothes were changed into a similar dress, a green color. Eve's changed to a red dress, and Aidan's to a blue getup much like Christopher's.
"Oh look, we all match!" Eve said, rolling her eyes. Both angels pretended to ignore her and proceeded to lead them into the mist.
As the group walked, the mist seemed to separate and close behind them, leaving them in a long hallway. Aidan, Eve, and Dawn looked about curiously, but Isabelle and Christopher paid no mind to it. They finally stopped in front of a painted wooden door, the green paint was chipping, but the doorknob was slightly dusty, as if nobody had even bothered to open the door in a long while.
"Here you are!" Isabelle, slightly too cheerful. "Why don't you pop in and walk around for a bit, get acclimated to the place. We'll be back in a few hours. We have to get the big nasty."
The three looked at her, and Christopher sighed, "You try running around the city trying to catch that thing, and then find you guys. Getting you to this place took at least a couple hours."
They turned to leave, but a shout from Dawn stopped them. "Wait! What if we have to be there for a couple days or something? What do we eat?"
Isabelle laughed, "The river water's clean, and the tree fruit by the river is okay. You'll be fine on that."
The three nodded at that and the angels turned, leaving them alone, in front of the door.
"So what should we do?" Aidan asked as the two disappeared into the mist. The two girls looked at him.
"I'm thinking the door. If we're supposed to defeat this monster thing, shouldn't we know something about the land?" Eve said sensibly.
The other two shrugged, and Eve grasped the knob and twisted. One by one they walked into the room, not sure what was a head, Eve was the last through and as soon as she passed, the door closed behind her, leaving no indication that there was a doorway at all.
"Well, there's the river," Dawn pointed and they started to walk silently. One really not sure what to say to the other two.
After reaching the shade of the trees that sat down for a few moments. Aidan looked at Dawn for a moment, and then blinked, was he seeing a glow around her, or was he just going crazy? He liked the latter better. At least then he knew he was something, instead he was in a place that he had never heard of before, and didn't really know if it was real or not.
"Dawn, do you normally glow green?" Eve asked.
Aidan sighed in relief; at least he wasn't the only one who saw it. So maybe he wasn't going crazy after all.
"Huh? What?" Dawn asked as she looked at herself. She was glowing a vibrant green. "Cool! I'm glowing!" she grinned happily as Eve and Aidan watched.
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Dawn, you scare me," Aidan declared.
The only answer he got was Dawn sticking her tongue out. They soon burst into giggles that left Eve slightly more than confused. Dawn got up; slightly winded from the giggle fest she had with her best friend, and walked over to the river.
Looking down into the water she sighed, then something caught her eye. The person that stared back at her wasn't her. She reached out to touch it, to see if it was real, and something grabbed at her hand. Dawn, surprised, pulled back, drawing whatever was holding on to her, come out as well.
It was a pale arm, delicate, but it held a hint of power. Dawn kept pulling and soon a young woman emerged in a purple dress, much like Dawn's own green one. And even though she just emerged from the river, she was dry.
"Who are you?" Dawn asked the older woman.
She smiled, showing of a set of white teeth. "I'm you…sorta."
Dawn blinked, "What?"
"My name's Dawn, just like you. But I'm Dawn Summers. The slayer's sister, also the Key, also you. When I died 12 years ago, my energy was put into your body, therefore making the body have two souls. Since you went and killed your body, both souls were released, you just had to release me," the older Dawn said. "But to make things easier, just call me Summer."
Dawn smiled, "Okay, Summer. But what do you mean, key?"
Summer sighed. "Basically, we're are a ball of green energy, in the shape of a human. We have the power to open and close dimensions, which's how your tears summoned that big nasty. I was a part of you until you found yourself here, where we finally were able to split apart."
Dawn blinked, "Does this mean I have a split personality?"
Summer shook her head, "No, this means that we actually have a fighting chance."
Dawn pouted, "Like we didn't before?"
Summer looked, "Don't give me that look. I invented that look. And no, you didn't have a chance because you don't know the wonderful parts being a Key gives you, I do."
By that time they had walked over to the shade of the three and the other two looked at Summer. She looked a lot like Dawn, but her hair was a shade lighter and longer, a wave that glistened in the sunlight. Her eyes were blue instead of brown, but their eye shape was the same, as was their nose and mouth, although Summer's lips were pinker and her skin paler than Dawn's. Aidan thought she was pretty, but no match for Dawn.
Night settled over the area like a blanket over a tired child. Dawn and Aidan sat together, Dawn's head on his shoulder, Aidan's head leaning on hers. Soon they fell into a blissful sleep, unaware that Summer and Eve were watching them.
"She loves him you know," Summer whispered.
Eve looked at her, "They do make a cute couple, but you don't know that for sure."
Summer laughed, "I spent eleven years in her body, I spent time in her mind. That girl loves that boy."
Eve nodded, hopefully they would get out of this, alive, and hopefully, the two of them would actually let them have a somewhat normal life after this. Hopefully.
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When you're weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Simon and Garfunkle
************
Much thank-you's:
Tigerlily*
Buffy-Spike-Mad*
Ivorycat*
Cassie-bear01*
Lorelai Anastasia*
Gidgetgirl** (two because she's greedy!)
No new faces, which saddens me, but I get people though! So it makes me happy! I'm sorry to say the fic will be wrapping up soon, so I would love to see an extra push towards a total of fifty reviews. If you do, I'll put up a little sequel. Which I'll probably put up anyway, I just like reviews.
Shameless Self Promotion:
Hehe, I got Saving the Series: the Torch Bearer out with 3 other people, so I look forward for you people to read/review that. I'll make fans outta you! And I also got another fic, which is just named "Tallulah" for now, I will possibly change it, considering my original plot is light years away from what I have now. *Grin* But both fics will be fun, don't worry!