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Ok, now on to my story!!!
Chapter 3: Sleepless Thoughts
Kelly woke up from her dream in a sweat. She wiped the little beads of perspiration from her forehead and nose while getting up and turning on the lights of the room she shared with Dawn Summers at the Hyperion Hotel. "Not again.." she complained. Kelly strode over to the desk at the back of the room and unlocked the bottom drawer to the right. She pulled out a tiny blue journal and began writing the details of her dream down while she could still remember it.
She wrote:
I19th time I've had this dream. Some of the newer details-
The two figures that are surrounded by the black circle have blonde hair. I know that I know their names but I can't seem to put my finger on them. Instead of a black circle, as I saw in all my other dreams, I can now see at least 25 different people. All dressed in long, black robes with white masks. They are all pointed thin, wooden things at the two blondes, but they are too thin to be stakes. A taller, creature like figure, dressed like the others, walks into the circle and a bright light flies out of the end of his wooden rod and the two blondes fall to their knees. He backs away and two more creatures, taller than the other, glide in, literally glide, and they each stand in front of one of the blondes. Then everything goes blurry and I can't see anymore.
-Kelly/I
Kelly closed the journal and slid it back into its position underneath a fake bottom in the drawer. Kelly turned around to go back to her bed and screamed. When she realized whom it was she settled down and started to laugh.
"Getting a little jumpy, aren't we?" the girl said and joined Kelly in on the laughing.
"Don't ever sneak up on a slayer, Dawn." Kelly retorted, sitting down on her bed and glancing at the clock. It clearly read 3:24 a.m.
"Yes, well a REAL slayer would have punched me in the face." Dawn said, jokingly and sat down next to Kelly on the bed. "Anywho, what's with the secret journal?"
"Oh.. It's nothing.." Kelly said, moving under her blanket and reaching over to shut the light off.
Dawn quickly turned it back on. "If we're gonna be best friends then you're gonna have to be completely honest with me! I tell you everything!"
"You didn't tell me that you were a Key."
"Yeah well you found out anyway.. So tell me!" Dawn said, begging her. She tried to hold back the tears of the memories that flowed into her head. Of when she watched Buffy sacrifice her for Dawn, when she used to sneak out and break Buffy's heart when she said those terrible things to her.. She pushed the memories out of her head and tried to keep her attention on Kelly.
"Ok, ok.." Kelly told Dawn about the dream that she had been having for the past couple weeks. She left out the part about why she always wrote her dreams down. Kelly's mom had had a lot of faith in dreams and made her keep a Dream Journal. Her mom would go through it and predict things every now and then. Kelly didn't believe it until she predicted Kelly becoming something stronger, and more powerful, and she predicted her own death. So she was now trying to learn how to break the dreams down into what they meant. But Kelly was having trouble with this one. She couldn't break it down.
"That isn't a dream." Dawn stated.
"What? Of course it is, I saw it when I was sleeping, so what else could it be?"
"It's part of you're slayer-ness." Dawn tried to explain. Still seeing the confused look on Kelly's face, she continued. "Sometimes, I'm not really sure when, Slayers get Prophetic Dreams, where you see the future or something and you try and prevent it." Dawn yet again had to hold back the tears building up in her eyes as she explained this. 'Buffy used to get those all the time.' She thought. Dawn thought back to all the times Buffy had shared her dreams with Dawn, during their 'sister bonding' times.
"Oh, that explains it."
Dawn was about to ask, 'Explains what?' but Xander knocked quietly on the door, waited a few seconds for a reply, then walked in. The girls easily pretended to be asleep, having done it plenty of times before.
"Girls, time to get up!" Dawn, still lying down next to Kelly, threw the pillow she was using to cover her face at Xander. It hit him square in his head and startled him a little bit. "Come on, Dawn, we're having a traditional Scoobie Gang Meeting! You don't wanna miss out on that!" Xander said, knowing he was battling on the losing side. In response to Xanders last comment, Kelly through her pillow at him. Both the girls started laughing as Xander made a 'huff'-ing sound and walked out of the room.
Dawn got up and shut the door. "I guess we should get ready for the day!" she said, and began looking through her wardrobe, quickly looking at the clock. It now read 5:45. She silently cursed Xander for calling a meeting so early, but then realized that he was probably just bored, he hadn't been able to sleep anymore than she had. Kelly woke her up just a few hours after she finally fell asleep. Breaking away from her thoughts on sleep, or lack there of, she went weak in the knees when she came across the leather jacket she had gotten Buffy for her birthday so many years ago. Dawn took out a black mesh top and a neon pink tank top to go underneath and threw them on her bed. She took out a pair of black cargo pants with zippers up the back of the legs and on all the pockets and threw that on her bed, along with the leather jacket.
Kelly wore a beige, fitted t-shirt with faded jeans. Over the tee she wore a dark jean jacket. As soon as Dawn was done changing into her outfit they walked downstairs. Dawn was surprised when no one commented on her unusual Gothic-y-ness but then realized that no one really knew what to say, or how to act around her except for the Slayers, who had all lost their parents to Bringers and in return, had killed the Bringers themselves.
"So, what's with the get together? Another big-bad in town already?" Kelly asked, she had caught on to the Scoobie language soon after being rescued by Buffy, having attended many meetings herself. She took a seat on one of the open couches, along with Dawn. Xander was the one to begin the meeting.
"Well.. With Buffy.. Yeah.. We didn't really.. um.. Wills? A little help? Xander gave up as a tear rolled down his cheek. Willow could see more threatening to spill so she took over.
"When Buffy was killed we were lost." She began, and her eyes were watering up. "And, well.. as you know, I took you all off patrol. If Buffy was taken down by a simple vampire, we need to pump up the training." Willow could hear the moans and groans coming from the Slayers. "Listen, all you newbies don't know much about the world of demons. It's tough. And Buffy lived through it longer than she was supposed to. She was stronger than most of you will ever be." Willow said, almost whispering out the last sentence. 'Buffy was so much better at these speeches!' she thought, the tears silently making their journey down her cheek and dripping off her chin. "But that's besides the point. As all of you know, we will be leaving for.. Um.. England in August." Willow went on to explain the details of their journey. When she was done, she thought to herself, 'Giles will be so proud of me! I didn't give out any unneeded information and still gave a pretty good speech!' she Congratulated herself but then saw Dawns doubtful gaze. Willow gave her a feeble grin then went to the other side of the room to begin handing out the pamphlets she made up the night before.
"She's keeping something from us." Dawn whispered to Kelly as Willow handed out the plane tickets and needed information for their trip.
"So I'm not the only one that can tell that?" Kelly replied, skimming through the paragraphs of tourist attractions and mini English-British dictionary that Willow handed her.
"Every since Giles dropped by the other night before he left for England himself she's been acting all giddy and happy-go-lucky." Dawn said, watching Willow prance around the room. At the mention of Giles, his face popped into her head. The look on it was devastating. When Angel told Giles the news about Buffy, Dawn didn't think she could take it. All during his lecture about how they were needed in England and blah blah blah he sounded like a robot, just going through the motions. [A/N: Sorry, I couldn't help myself!!!] "There is something.. weird.. about this trip!" Dawn concluded, saying what they both were thinking.
"Yeah.." Kelly was too deep in thought to come up with a better answer to Dawns comment than that. She looked down at the last paragraph in the pamphlet.
INot to worry, everyone will be sticking together at a new school! That's right, Slayers and Scoobies, we will all be going to school again! Doesn't that sound like fun? We will all go shopping for supplies and robes when we get there. You will be learning new skills, along with extending your strength. Before you start school you will need to learn a new currency, government, and practically a new way of life! I hope you're as excited as I am!/I
"Ok, Willow is now officially the nerdiest person that I know! She's making us to go school!!" Kelly complained.
"What did you expect? Just because you're a Slayer doesn't mean you don't have to go to school. Being a Slayer isn't a paying job you know." Dawn thought about what she had just said and searched through her memory for the time Buffy got a job at the Burger place. She cried again, if only she could take back all the things she said to Buffy about her never being there. 'I was so selfish.' She thought. Then a tap on her shoulder brought her back to reality.
"Yoo, earth to Dawn! Did you hear me?" Dawn shook her head no. "I said, I've been to England before, it's not much different than here, why is she emphasizing it as being a new way of life?" she questioned, Dawn just shook her head in bewilderment and led Kelly up into their room to catch up on lost sleep.
[A/N: I know it's a really awkward place to read it but I need to figure out exactly how I'm going to break the news to them about--- err.. something. SOO I'm going to leave it here.. sorry!]
Ok, now on to my story!!!
Chapter 3: Sleepless Thoughts
Kelly woke up from her dream in a sweat. She wiped the little beads of perspiration from her forehead and nose while getting up and turning on the lights of the room she shared with Dawn Summers at the Hyperion Hotel. "Not again.." she complained. Kelly strode over to the desk at the back of the room and unlocked the bottom drawer to the right. She pulled out a tiny blue journal and began writing the details of her dream down while she could still remember it.
She wrote:
I19th time I've had this dream. Some of the newer details-
The two figures that are surrounded by the black circle have blonde hair. I know that I know their names but I can't seem to put my finger on them. Instead of a black circle, as I saw in all my other dreams, I can now see at least 25 different people. All dressed in long, black robes with white masks. They are all pointed thin, wooden things at the two blondes, but they are too thin to be stakes. A taller, creature like figure, dressed like the others, walks into the circle and a bright light flies out of the end of his wooden rod and the two blondes fall to their knees. He backs away and two more creatures, taller than the other, glide in, literally glide, and they each stand in front of one of the blondes. Then everything goes blurry and I can't see anymore.
-Kelly/I
Kelly closed the journal and slid it back into its position underneath a fake bottom in the drawer. Kelly turned around to go back to her bed and screamed. When she realized whom it was she settled down and started to laugh.
"Getting a little jumpy, aren't we?" the girl said and joined Kelly in on the laughing.
"Don't ever sneak up on a slayer, Dawn." Kelly retorted, sitting down on her bed and glancing at the clock. It clearly read 3:24 a.m.
"Yes, well a REAL slayer would have punched me in the face." Dawn said, jokingly and sat down next to Kelly on the bed. "Anywho, what's with the secret journal?"
"Oh.. It's nothing.." Kelly said, moving under her blanket and reaching over to shut the light off.
Dawn quickly turned it back on. "If we're gonna be best friends then you're gonna have to be completely honest with me! I tell you everything!"
"You didn't tell me that you were a Key."
"Yeah well you found out anyway.. So tell me!" Dawn said, begging her. She tried to hold back the tears of the memories that flowed into her head. Of when she watched Buffy sacrifice her for Dawn, when she used to sneak out and break Buffy's heart when she said those terrible things to her.. She pushed the memories out of her head and tried to keep her attention on Kelly.
"Ok, ok.." Kelly told Dawn about the dream that she had been having for the past couple weeks. She left out the part about why she always wrote her dreams down. Kelly's mom had had a lot of faith in dreams and made her keep a Dream Journal. Her mom would go through it and predict things every now and then. Kelly didn't believe it until she predicted Kelly becoming something stronger, and more powerful, and she predicted her own death. So she was now trying to learn how to break the dreams down into what they meant. But Kelly was having trouble with this one. She couldn't break it down.
"That isn't a dream." Dawn stated.
"What? Of course it is, I saw it when I was sleeping, so what else could it be?"
"It's part of you're slayer-ness." Dawn tried to explain. Still seeing the confused look on Kelly's face, she continued. "Sometimes, I'm not really sure when, Slayers get Prophetic Dreams, where you see the future or something and you try and prevent it." Dawn yet again had to hold back the tears building up in her eyes as she explained this. 'Buffy used to get those all the time.' She thought. Dawn thought back to all the times Buffy had shared her dreams with Dawn, during their 'sister bonding' times.
"Oh, that explains it."
Dawn was about to ask, 'Explains what?' but Xander knocked quietly on the door, waited a few seconds for a reply, then walked in. The girls easily pretended to be asleep, having done it plenty of times before.
"Girls, time to get up!" Dawn, still lying down next to Kelly, threw the pillow she was using to cover her face at Xander. It hit him square in his head and startled him a little bit. "Come on, Dawn, we're having a traditional Scoobie Gang Meeting! You don't wanna miss out on that!" Xander said, knowing he was battling on the losing side. In response to Xanders last comment, Kelly through her pillow at him. Both the girls started laughing as Xander made a 'huff'-ing sound and walked out of the room.
Dawn got up and shut the door. "I guess we should get ready for the day!" she said, and began looking through her wardrobe, quickly looking at the clock. It now read 5:45. She silently cursed Xander for calling a meeting so early, but then realized that he was probably just bored, he hadn't been able to sleep anymore than she had. Kelly woke her up just a few hours after she finally fell asleep. Breaking away from her thoughts on sleep, or lack there of, she went weak in the knees when she came across the leather jacket she had gotten Buffy for her birthday so many years ago. Dawn took out a black mesh top and a neon pink tank top to go underneath and threw them on her bed. She took out a pair of black cargo pants with zippers up the back of the legs and on all the pockets and threw that on her bed, along with the leather jacket.
Kelly wore a beige, fitted t-shirt with faded jeans. Over the tee she wore a dark jean jacket. As soon as Dawn was done changing into her outfit they walked downstairs. Dawn was surprised when no one commented on her unusual Gothic-y-ness but then realized that no one really knew what to say, or how to act around her except for the Slayers, who had all lost their parents to Bringers and in return, had killed the Bringers themselves.
"So, what's with the get together? Another big-bad in town already?" Kelly asked, she had caught on to the Scoobie language soon after being rescued by Buffy, having attended many meetings herself. She took a seat on one of the open couches, along with Dawn. Xander was the one to begin the meeting.
"Well.. With Buffy.. Yeah.. We didn't really.. um.. Wills? A little help? Xander gave up as a tear rolled down his cheek. Willow could see more threatening to spill so she took over.
"When Buffy was killed we were lost." She began, and her eyes were watering up. "And, well.. as you know, I took you all off patrol. If Buffy was taken down by a simple vampire, we need to pump up the training." Willow could hear the moans and groans coming from the Slayers. "Listen, all you newbies don't know much about the world of demons. It's tough. And Buffy lived through it longer than she was supposed to. She was stronger than most of you will ever be." Willow said, almost whispering out the last sentence. 'Buffy was so much better at these speeches!' she thought, the tears silently making their journey down her cheek and dripping off her chin. "But that's besides the point. As all of you know, we will be leaving for.. Um.. England in August." Willow went on to explain the details of their journey. When she was done, she thought to herself, 'Giles will be so proud of me! I didn't give out any unneeded information and still gave a pretty good speech!' she Congratulated herself but then saw Dawns doubtful gaze. Willow gave her a feeble grin then went to the other side of the room to begin handing out the pamphlets she made up the night before.
"She's keeping something from us." Dawn whispered to Kelly as Willow handed out the plane tickets and needed information for their trip.
"So I'm not the only one that can tell that?" Kelly replied, skimming through the paragraphs of tourist attractions and mini English-British dictionary that Willow handed her.
"Every since Giles dropped by the other night before he left for England himself she's been acting all giddy and happy-go-lucky." Dawn said, watching Willow prance around the room. At the mention of Giles, his face popped into her head. The look on it was devastating. When Angel told Giles the news about Buffy, Dawn didn't think she could take it. All during his lecture about how they were needed in England and blah blah blah he sounded like a robot, just going through the motions. [A/N: Sorry, I couldn't help myself!!!] "There is something.. weird.. about this trip!" Dawn concluded, saying what they both were thinking.
"Yeah.." Kelly was too deep in thought to come up with a better answer to Dawns comment than that. She looked down at the last paragraph in the pamphlet.
INot to worry, everyone will be sticking together at a new school! That's right, Slayers and Scoobies, we will all be going to school again! Doesn't that sound like fun? We will all go shopping for supplies and robes when we get there. You will be learning new skills, along with extending your strength. Before you start school you will need to learn a new currency, government, and practically a new way of life! I hope you're as excited as I am!/I
"Ok, Willow is now officially the nerdiest person that I know! She's making us to go school!!" Kelly complained.
"What did you expect? Just because you're a Slayer doesn't mean you don't have to go to school. Being a Slayer isn't a paying job you know." Dawn thought about what she had just said and searched through her memory for the time Buffy got a job at the Burger place. She cried again, if only she could take back all the things she said to Buffy about her never being there. 'I was so selfish.' She thought. Then a tap on her shoulder brought her back to reality.
"Yoo, earth to Dawn! Did you hear me?" Dawn shook her head no. "I said, I've been to England before, it's not much different than here, why is she emphasizing it as being a new way of life?" she questioned, Dawn just shook her head in bewilderment and led Kelly up into their room to catch up on lost sleep.
[A/N: I know it's a really awkward place to read it but I need to figure out exactly how I'm going to break the news to them about--- err.. something. SOO I'm going to leave it here.. sorry!]