Title: Back to the Drawing Board 2/?
Arthur: Christen (PurplehaysC@netscape.com) and Krystal (krazystar15@aol.com)
Disclaimer: These Characters belong to Joss Whedon, except anyone you do not recognize.
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: this is my third Buffy and Angel crossover fanfic and I want all the comments good or bad you have!
~J~
Connor woke up with a start as he heard the door to the old warehouse slam. He grabbed a stake and got up.
"Janet, you sure no one's in here?" Dawn asked as they entered.
"As for a I know no one is staying here. There's a new business that might be moving in soon but as far as now no one is in here." Janet said aggravated as they headed into the warehouse.
"I'm just glad to be out of that house." Dawn said.
"I don't know how you can stand being in that house I would have gone crazy by now." Janet said.
Connor got right up behind Dawn and grabbed her. "I'll stake her if you two don't leave." He threatened.
"Stake her? Are you crazy are something?" Janet asked.
"I'll do it." Connor said.
"Then I'm out of here." Janet said leaving.
"Janet! God I can't believe you would do that to me." The door slammed. "And you get your hands off!" Dawn said as she pushed Connor to the floor.
Connor got up quickly. "Die Vampire." He said as he tried to go after her.
"I'm not a vampire! God, what is your problem." Dawn said as she kicked the stake out of Connor's hand.
"Prove to me that you're not a vampire." Connor said angrily.
Dawn walked over to him and he backed away. "I don't bite." She said as she grabbed his hand and put it to her heart. "There's your proof." Dawn said smiling.
Connor quickly took his hand back. "Then what are you doing in an abandoned warehouse?"
"It's not as abandoned as you think, businesses move in and out of here all the time, not that that's the point. But what are you doing here?" Dawn asked.
"It's none of your business." Connor said rudely.
"Ok you come and try to stack me and then you asked me tons of questions but I'm not allowed to ask you any questions! That's insane." Dawn said mad.
"What is wrong with you and why do you keep screaming?" Connor asked confused as he backed up even further.
"Are scared of something?" Dawn asked concerned. "This is not the city to be in if you get scared easily…." Dawn started to say as Connor just backed up more. "But if you want a place to stay where no one will find your you, I can show you better a place." Dawn offered as she walked towards him. "And I meant it when I said I don't bite. I mean what do you have to lose?"
"Why should I trust you?" Connor asked.
"You got any one else trust?" She asked sarcastically.
Dawn started to walk away from the mansion but she checked on Connor one more time. He was asleep on the couch. She did not know who he was but something was wrong with him, something that she had not seen in another person before. He looked like he had been though more pain then most people had in five lifetimes. She felt sorry for him. She felt a concern for him that she had not felt for any one in her life. She walked into her house and went straight to her room. Even though her house was now filled with pain, she never for one second that night thought that it compared to the pain the he had in his life.
Connor woke up a few hours after Dawn left and looked around the mansion. It was not a bad place. It seemed oddly familiar to him. He had no way of knowing that his father had lived here a long time before. He thought back to Dawn and he smiled, something he had not really done in a long time. He had not felt some one really care for him since…. Well he could not even remember when. Even his father did not seem to really care for him. Angel, he still did not think he could trust him, nor he could he think of Angel actually caring for him. But he did not have to worry about Angel any more, he was stuck in the ocean forever. Now there was nothing left in the world that he could possibly have to worry about. At least he hoped not any way.