Title: Somewhere in Between

Part: 2/?

Author: Vicky Morgan

Email: vicks_tricks@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: Trust me if I owned em' I would so brag about it. However I don't so. I'll sit and sulk about it! The song is somewhere in between by Lifehouse (they so totally rock!)

Summary: Unnatural brats challenge 7: month of June 2003. Kinda of a She's All That theme. Connor is the most popular boy in school. Makes a bet to make the most unpopular girl prom Queen. But there's a twist. They're both miracle children, and destiny is about to make an appearance.

Rating: PG-13

Spoilers: Scrap everything that comes after season 4 of Buffy (expect Riley leaving and the potentials becoming slayers!). Scrap everything after the first series of Angel! Buffy and the gang move to L.A., just after Dawn is born, but Angel and his gang don't know this! Plus everything that has happened is set like over 18 years ago!

Couples: Spike/Buffy, Connor/Dawn Angel/Cordellia If you want other couples, let me, but right now undecided!

Authors Note: Now the challenge says that Connor isn't the child of 2 vampires. but it never said he could be the son of 1 vampire! And for that matter, Buffy and Spike also have a child, and spike also has a soul. ya know this really should come under summary. oh well! Authors Note 2: Thanks to Rakel for being my Beta, you so totally rock! And I thank movies, for giving me endless hours of mind numbing treats, I can feel myself becoming an airhead as I type! _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_

"Look Anya all I'm asking is no funny business ok? If any of you demon friends want to come by, delay them till later. Connor Angel is coming over, and being as shallow as he is, he probably doesn't know anything about demons, vampires and the forces of darkness. not that there's an out cry from them these day!" Dawn commanded Anya. It was almost 6, and Connor was due any moment. All afternoon Dawn had been training with her mom, so all she really wanted to do now was sit back and relax. but no she had to deal with Connor!

"Fine, but if he's your bed buddy you better take him somewhere else! This shop is a 'play' free zone!" Dawn just looked at the shop owner.

"Two words for you: Xander Harris." Dawn crossed her arms, and Anya gave a small blush.

"Yes, well I own the shop. If I choose to have sex with my husband then I will. In fact just last night we did it in the chair your sitting in." Anya got up and walked into the back, while Dawn shot up out of the chair.

"I really am going to need to disinfect the whole shop. I have no idea where Xander's naked butt may have been!" She shuddered, just as the chime on the shop went, signalling someone's arrival. She looked up and saw Connor running down the step. He gave her a wave, which she returned.

"So who's naked butt has been everywhere?" Connor asked Dawn as he sat down in the chair she vacated.

"Oh, the fact that my uncle and his wife had hot sweaty monkey lovin' in the chair you just sat down on. and most likely anywhere in the shop to think of it!" At this Connor shot up and shuddered.

"That's nearly as bad as my mom and dad. they always seem." He trailed off and Dawn blushed, which made Connor embarrassed. "So History huh?"

"Yea. But right now I'm trying to get horrible visions of old people having sex. It's truly is the most evil thing I've seen!" At this both teens laughed.

'My god I'm laughing with Connor Angel! He really does have a great laugh.'

'Wow I'm laughing with Dawn Summers! She has a beautiful laugh.' For a moment they didn't day a word, they looked away blushing, not noticing that the other did the same. The door chimed, signalling the entrance for someone else in the store.

"Hi Connor, I didn't expect you to be here!" A red head in his late thirties commented as he galloped down the stairs. Dawn noted that he had some serious green skin.

"Yea. Lorne this is Dawn. Dawn this is Lorne, he works for my dad, and owns his own bar!" Connor replied uneasily. Surely Dawn didn't know about demons. or maybe she just thought he was in costume. that must be it! Dawn and Lorne smilled.

"We've already met Connor. Lorne is in here like every week, talking with Willow, Tara or Anya."

"Since when did you come to a magic shop?" Connor was seriously confused. He didn't know this piece of information, and why was Dawn freaking out!

"About a year after you were born. They moved into the joke shop that was here, and turned into a serious magic shop. Willow and Tara are both powerful witches, and Anya was a vengeance demon, so it seems fit that they own a magic shop." Both Dawn and Connor's eyes opened wide and looked worried at each other.

"Do they know about. angry puppies?" They asked Lorne in unison.

"You telling me that you've been going to the same school, and you didn't know that about each other. Why Dawn here is the resident." Lorne went to continue, but Dawn covered his mouth.

"The resident scaredy cat. I run away all the time. Scary stuff, ya know blah blah blah! Time for Dawn to go a running!" She gave an uneasy laugh, and Connor knew there was more too it, but he let it drop for now.

"Right, yea. So any way. we should get down to business, history, and all!" Connor gathered his stuff and looked at Dawn.

"Oh yea. Follow me, I'll take you to the back room. It's quite back there, and no-one will disturb us." They walked through the shop out to the back of the shop. Connor noticed that there was some serious training equipment.

"Why is there so much training stuff?" Dawn turned to look at him.

"Training stuff?" she gave a nervous laugh. "This isn't for training! Uh. this belongs to Mr Giles. He collects all this stuff, and sells it on for a higher price!"

"Oh." Connor didn't buy it, but dropped the subject. He would ask his dad later if he knew a Mr Giles. The two of them sat and worked for the next two hours in peace. Just before 8 they finished up for the day.

"Ok, from what I can tell we're about 1/3 through the research stage. So if you want to come back on Saturday we can continue then." Dawn gathered her books and placed them onto the book shelve. Connor put his own books into his bag, but watched Dawn at the same time. She turned around and saw him staring at her. "What? Do I have something in my hair?"

"Huh." Connor snapped out of his trance. "No. I was just wondering what are you doing now?"

"Kit and Carlos are coming here, and we're going to. a club. Not that it's any of your business." She raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms. "Why what are you doing now?"

"Patrolling." Was his blunt reply. If she knew about angry puppies then she must patrol as well sometimes.

"You. patrol?" Dawn laughed. "Do you even know how to patrol? I mean come on. Shelly must think your weird then if you patrol all the time."

"She doesn't know. I didn't know anyone else in the whole school new about vampires till today anyway." He picked up his bag. "So how long have you know about the things that go bump in the night?"

"Always. Have you heard of the watchers council? Well I know a few people who work for them. It's kinda how I knew about it in the first place." Dawn gave a small grin. "Though my mom always thinks that they screw everyone over! There was this time back when she was graduating where they wouldn't give her this antidote."

"An antidote for what?" Connor was interested. He remembered a story that his father told him about a past lover who quit the council because they wouldn't tell her what stopped the poison in his blood."

"Oh. I don't really remember. Uh. any way my moms quit over it. Though she did get rehired in the end. Of course the council got blown up, and re built. Its like a yo-yo with them at times! And the pay sucks!"

"Yea, I guess it does. wait a minute. Your moms a slayer?"

"What???" Dawn's eyes got big. "No.. no its. oh crap yea, my moms a Slayer. I mean everyone else knows that!

"That's so cool. I was starting to wonder who the Slayer was in this town. Neither me or my dad had any idea!" He was thinking. Her moms friend quit, just like his fathers lover had. Perhaps they know one another. "What's your moms name?" Connor looked at her. For a moment she didn't say a word.

"Her. name? Buffy. Her name is Buffy." She grinned. "And she's the greatest Slayer of all time! She helps me to train as well!"

"You train?" Connor was impressed, but of course didn't show that!

"Well. yea. Coz see. uh. yea. I train. It's fun."

"Maybe one day we can train together." Connor got up and walked over to Dawn. He had an extremely strong urge to kiss Dawn. He couldn't stop it, couldn't control it. The feeling was almost primitive. He leaned it, at the same time that Dawn did. It was close. Their lips only half an inch apart.

"Hey Dawn, we're hear!" Kit cried out from the shop. At his Dawn and Connor pulled away from each other. Neither one looked the other in the eye.

"I gotta go. I'll see you later Dawn." He dashed from the back room and through the shop to the front door."

"Boy he's fast!" Kit commented.

'Yea. almost too fast to be human!' Dawn thought. Not even Dawn could move as fast as Connor did just then. If you had blinked you would have missed him.

"Any ways come on. Carlos is outside. He's finally got his car fixed. That piece of junk in theory won't fall apart for like a week!" Dawn laughed at this and they made their way outside, where the sun was just finishing to set.

Outside the Hyperion Hotel

"So it looks as like everyone will know where everyone else is soon." Whistler looked out to the sunset. He was sitting on the hood of his car waiting for the right moment to enter the hotel. Destiny was now starting, Connor and Dawn where beginning to fall in love. And Angel and Buffy now needed to know that. A sudden breeze blew past Whistler. He looked and saw Connor running past him.

"Hey boy. I think you've forgotten your car at the magic shop." Whistler called out. Connor paused and turned around.

"Uh thanks. But how did you know where I left my car?"

"Your see soon." Whistler hopped into his car and drove off.

"Strange guy." Connor shook his head, and walked into the hotel, and planned to get his car tomorrow.