A/N: This is highly AU. Dawn Summers was not the Key. However, Glory did find her Key, forcing the Slayer to take action. Buffy Anne Summers did die because of Glory, but instead of being sent to Heaven, she was trapped in Hell. Her younger sister was thirteen, and she was fifteen. Shortly after she was resurrected because of Willow and Tara's spell, she turned 16 and she and Angel shared a moment of true happiness. Unfortunately, this caused him to revert back to Angelus, ending in Ms. Calendar almost dying, his soul being restored and Angel leaving town for L.A. He never even knew that Buffy got pregnant on her 16th birthday. It will be a WWE crossover within the next couple of chapters. It is also a Nancy Drew on Campus crossover, also very AU. After all, in book reality Bess grew up in River Heights—not Sunnydale.
Prologue: Los Angeles, CA
June, 2003
"You'll come and visit, won't you?" sixteen year old Dawn Summers asked her best friend anxiously. Elizabeth "Bess" Marvin was being sent to live with her aunt and uncle in River Heights, Illinois for senior year, while her parents toured Europe.
The smaller, slightly plump blonde nodded. "Of course I will, Dawnie. I just wish that you could come to. But we only have a couple of vacations and then we'll be free of high school forever!" It was no secret that Bess much preferred chasing boys to doing schoolwork while Dawn……well, she enjoyed playing with her sister's three year old twins, Maggie and Liam.
"That we will, Bess," the brunette said in agreement. "We just gotta stay in touch, ya hear?"
"I hear," Bess replied. After another long hug from all of the Scoobies, the teenage witch boarded the plane. No one could ever have suspected what would happen over the next few months nor would they have ever imagined that it would be a decade before any of them would see Bess again. Of course they did live on the Hellmouth, so they should have expected the unexpected. And it didn't help matters any that life has a way of throwing curveballs when one least expects it…..