Issues
Author: funnybunny7
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A Buffy/Higher Ground crossover! Yay! After Dawn's mom dies, Buffy thinks it's best if she is sent of to Horizon. Set after Scott and Shelby are together and after 'The Body' Buffy.
Disclaimer: I own not a thing from Buffy or Higher Ground! (Though I wish I owned Scott and Spike!)
Enjoy!
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Peter was late for Group, which never happened.
The Cliffhangers began to worry if something had happened.
Suddenly, Peter walked in the door with Dawn.
"Hello everybody! I'm sorry I'm late, but I was meeting our new member of the group. Group, meet Dawn Summers!"
Dawn looked around the crowd. There was a smug looking blonde hair girl, sitting next to a rather hot guy, whom also had blonde hair. Then, on the floor, there was a girl who had brown hair and looked really perky. Next to her was a Mexican guy. Then in a chair in the corner, was a sarcastic girl with brown hair and next to her was a pale faced boy.
They all stared at her blankly.
"Um, hey guys!" Dawn smiled and waved at them nervously.
They all stared in disbelief.
Peter clapped his hands. "Well, I guess its time for all of us to get acquainted. Um, Auggie, lets start with you." He pointed to Auggie.
They told all of their problems like it were something that was done everyday.
Dawn was almost in tears she was so shocked. How could they be so open about their problems? No way in the Hellmouth would she tell total strangers that she was abnormal.
"So, Dawn, why don't you tell us about yourself." Peter patted her knowingly on the back.
Here goes. "Um, my name is Dawn Summers. I come from Sunnydale California, um; I live with my sister, Buffy." She looked at Peter, not knowing what to say. He just nodded.
"Well, a couple of weeks ago, my mom died." She paused, and shuddered. "Um, I stole a lot of stuff, from stores, family, and friends. I skipped school frequently. That's all." She looked at her feet, ashamed.
Everyone was quiet. Dawn seemed like a very disturbed girl.
"Yes, well, Dawn thank you. We are going to have Share Time now." Peter smiled.
Like robots, everyone got up and spread onto the floor in a circle.
Dawn followed quietly, sitting in between Shelby and Ezra.
Everyone started confessing their feelings.
When it was her turn, she thought for a moment. Finally, she answered.
"Alone."
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"Well, Dawn, you are going to have super fun here at Horizon. I'll show you the ropes tomorrow." Juliet beamed, putting her arm around Dawn.
"More like climbing the ropes. Tomorrow, we tackle Big Eddie." Daisy came up behind her, walking in the door of the cabin.
They were walking back from Group, and Dawn was dragging along her suitcase and presents from the Scoobies.
"UGH! No not Big Eddie! I just got to the top of Little Louie!" Juliet whined, walking in the cabin too.
Dawn looked around the cabin. It was fairly big, not too big, but it seemed roomy. It had 4 full sized beds, two lined up on each wall, with a dresser and nightstand beside each. In the back was a lounge area, with a couch, a chair, a small radio, and a bookshelf. To her right, next to the front door, was a bathroom. She peeked in it and saw 6 stalls, 2 sinks, a long mirror that lined the left wall, and two showers in the back.
She then remembered the Big Eddie conversation. "What's Big Eddie?" She asked curiously, taking her belongings to the bed beside Juliet.
Juliet and Daisy burst out laughing.
"Oh, I forget you're new! Big Eddie is only the biggest rock wall on Mount Horizon, and tomorrow we climb it." Juliet explained, still snickering.
"Oh no, I'm really not good at the 'great outdoors' motif." Dawn explained about how she and her friend Xander went camping one time, and about how it didn't turn out well.
"Well, brace yourself Dawnie, because Horizon is all about the outdoors." Daisy concluded.
Dawn whimpered. Then she did a head count.
"Hey where's that blonde girl, what's-her-name?"
"Oh Shelby? Probably out with Scott, gosh they make me sick." Daisy stuck out her tongue.
"Daisy, I think it's really sweet the way they are. It makes me and Auggie want to expand our romantic world!" Juliet swooned.
"To what, the size of a pin-head?" Daisy joked.
Dawn coughed. "So, Scott and Shelby are together? I mean, as a couple?" She really wanted the answer to be no, for she had taken a liking to Scott. He reminded her of Spike in a weird, obnoxious way.
"Oh, yea, since forever! Well, I was with him first, but then I fell in love with Auggie." Juliet said, brushing her braids from the bathroom.
"Wait, so you and Auggie are together?" Dawn asked, confused.
"Yea, and so are Daisy and Ezra." Juliet laughed.
Daisy turned bright pink. "Are not! But, I guess it COULD happen, eventually."
Dawn smiled. She really liked her new roommates.
"Hey guys, I'm going to take a shower! Okay?" Juliet called.
Daisy yelled back "Okay!"
Dawn continued to put her stuff away, when she smelled something familiar, incense. Magick incense.
Being the curious cat she was, Dawn wondered over to Daisy, who was sitting on her bed, chanting.
"So, you do spells?" Dawn asked hopefully.
Daisy looked around and put a finger over her mouth. "Yea," She whispered. "But, I'm really not allowed to, I mean, not here anyway."
Dawn nodded and grinned. "I'm used to it."
"Oh, I didn't know you were a witch, I mean, not from the way you look." She took a double-take at Dawn.
"Well, beginners witch actually. I can't even float a pencil yet, but I have two very cool friends that are."
"Hmm, what are their names; I have a directory that tells me these things."
"Oh, Willow Rosenberg and Tara McLain."
"Wow, I've never heard of that Tara girl, but Willow, yea. Have you met her before?"
"Oh, my sister was best friends with her, I mean with my sister being the Slayer, they kind of mesh." She stopped herself immediately. She had told someone her sister was the Slayer.
"Wh-what did you say?" Daisy asked quickly.
"My sister being in PRAYER. Yea, she's very religious." Dawn's heart was pounding in her chest.
"Oh. I thought you said Slayer. Boy, is that a relief." Daisy went back to lighting candles when Dawn went back over to her bed.
"Yea, relief."
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It was 1:00 AM, and Daisy and Juliet were asleep. Dawn was over in the lounge area.
Tomorrow, she would have to make a first impression. They would be climbing Big Eddie, and she wanted to be a success.
She opened the Teen Spells book that Willow and Tara had given her.
"Rebirth Spell, Floating Spell, Ah Ha! Ability Spell!" She whispered to herself, looking in the Table of Contents. She would need embryo herb, raven toenails, and three prelit purple candles.
Then a thought came to her. Daisy had told her where she kept her magic supplies. Dawn could just wonder over there, borrow some, no one would ever notice.
But that would be stealing, one of the things that landed her here in the first place.
However, this was important. Besides, she wasn't stealing, just borrowing. Daisy wouldn't mind.
She crawled over to snoring Daisy's bed. Then she lifted up the sheet that swept the floor and grabbed the stuff she needed under the bed.
Putting a towel under her space, she ever so quietly began the spell.
"Lightlorian, I wish to be the best. Please help me fulfill my quest. To be the best that I can be, let this spell take over me-"
Shelby bounded through the door, a blanket in her hand.
Dawn threw the towel and its contents to the side, standing up.
Shelby turned around and gasped. "Gosh, don't do that, okay? It gets freaky."
"Where were you?" Dawn asked, changing the subject.
"Well, well. Aren't we Miss Nosy?" Shelby threw the blanket on her bed.
"I won't tell." Dawn said, smiling.
"You won't? Honest and truly?" Shelby turned around, looking hopeful.
"Nah, I'm not like that. Hope you had fun, whatever you were doing."
"Thank you, new kid. You are a friend and a half. Well, I think I'll go to bed. You better too, tomorrow we tackle Big Eddie."
"Yea yea yea. I noticed." Dawn rolled her eyes as Shelby fell asleep.
Then she put back all the continents she stole from Daisy.
Oh well, she would tackle Big Eddie. Without magic.
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The morning sun shone in threw her window.
She peeked her eyes open.
Daisy looked over at her.
"Well, look who decided to get up!"
She sat up. "What time is it?"
"9:30...we leave in an hour."
Dawn got up and stretched. "An hour? What about, like never?"
Juliet chuckled. "It doesn't work that way here. You better get a shower before Shelby. She tends to use all of the hot water."
Dawn made her way out of the bed, yawning.
In California, it rarely got cold. In fact, the coldest it had gotten in years was 50 degrees.
Here however, wasn't like California. It was cold, damp, and dreary.
Daisy was dressed in a red knit sweater, with khaki corduroy pants.
Juliet sported a black novelty sweatshirt that said 'Hot, Hot, Hot!' She wore black sweatpants that said 'Sizzlin' on the butt.
Dawn peered into her suitcase. It was mostly tank tops and Capri's. She'd have to go shopping. The Scooby Gang pulled their money together, giving her 300 dollars.
She pulled out two of the few warm clothing items that she'd brought. It was a sparkly baby blue sweater and flared faded jeans.
Then she took a shower. When she got out, Daisy was putting on tennis shoes.
"C'mon girl! We leave in like fifteen minutes! How long do you shower, like 45 minutes?" Daisy joked with her.
"Oh shit!" She yelled, running with a towel on her head and body to get her clothes.
Shelby looked at her haughtily. "Thanks a lot, kid. I SURE didn't want to take a shower." She rolled her eyes.
Dawn gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I completely forgot about you!"
Shelby just shook her head and stomped into the bathroom, slamming the door.
"Don't worry bout' it Dawn. Shel can be a bit edgy." Juliet explained.
Dawn got dressed and dried her hair.
Then it was time to leave.
The girls of Cabin #17 walked outside.
Dawn screamed, shivering and hugging herself. "Mightiful Zeus! What is it, thirty freaking degrees?!"
Daisy put her arm around her. "Actually, its 27 degrees, but you were close."
*Great!* Dawn thought to herself. *I'm tired, freezing my ass off, and I have to climb a mountain! Can things get any worse?*
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~Yippee! I liked that chapter! So sorry for not updating quicker, but I was grounded and working on other stories. P.S: In case you haven't noticed, Kat is gone. R&R! ~funnybunny7
Author: funnybunny7
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A Buffy/Higher Ground crossover! Yay! After Dawn's mom dies, Buffy thinks it's best if she is sent of to Horizon. Set after Scott and Shelby are together and after 'The Body' Buffy.
Disclaimer: I own not a thing from Buffy or Higher Ground! (Though I wish I owned Scott and Spike!)
Enjoy!
_____________________
Peter was late for Group, which never happened.
The Cliffhangers began to worry if something had happened.
Suddenly, Peter walked in the door with Dawn.
"Hello everybody! I'm sorry I'm late, but I was meeting our new member of the group. Group, meet Dawn Summers!"
Dawn looked around the crowd. There was a smug looking blonde hair girl, sitting next to a rather hot guy, whom also had blonde hair. Then, on the floor, there was a girl who had brown hair and looked really perky. Next to her was a Mexican guy. Then in a chair in the corner, was a sarcastic girl with brown hair and next to her was a pale faced boy.
They all stared at her blankly.
"Um, hey guys!" Dawn smiled and waved at them nervously.
They all stared in disbelief.
Peter clapped his hands. "Well, I guess its time for all of us to get acquainted. Um, Auggie, lets start with you." He pointed to Auggie.
They told all of their problems like it were something that was done everyday.
Dawn was almost in tears she was so shocked. How could they be so open about their problems? No way in the Hellmouth would she tell total strangers that she was abnormal.
"So, Dawn, why don't you tell us about yourself." Peter patted her knowingly on the back.
Here goes. "Um, my name is Dawn Summers. I come from Sunnydale California, um; I live with my sister, Buffy." She looked at Peter, not knowing what to say. He just nodded.
"Well, a couple of weeks ago, my mom died." She paused, and shuddered. "Um, I stole a lot of stuff, from stores, family, and friends. I skipped school frequently. That's all." She looked at her feet, ashamed.
Everyone was quiet. Dawn seemed like a very disturbed girl.
"Yes, well, Dawn thank you. We are going to have Share Time now." Peter smiled.
Like robots, everyone got up and spread onto the floor in a circle.
Dawn followed quietly, sitting in between Shelby and Ezra.
Everyone started confessing their feelings.
When it was her turn, she thought for a moment. Finally, she answered.
"Alone."
_______________________
"Well, Dawn, you are going to have super fun here at Horizon. I'll show you the ropes tomorrow." Juliet beamed, putting her arm around Dawn.
"More like climbing the ropes. Tomorrow, we tackle Big Eddie." Daisy came up behind her, walking in the door of the cabin.
They were walking back from Group, and Dawn was dragging along her suitcase and presents from the Scoobies.
"UGH! No not Big Eddie! I just got to the top of Little Louie!" Juliet whined, walking in the cabin too.
Dawn looked around the cabin. It was fairly big, not too big, but it seemed roomy. It had 4 full sized beds, two lined up on each wall, with a dresser and nightstand beside each. In the back was a lounge area, with a couch, a chair, a small radio, and a bookshelf. To her right, next to the front door, was a bathroom. She peeked in it and saw 6 stalls, 2 sinks, a long mirror that lined the left wall, and two showers in the back.
She then remembered the Big Eddie conversation. "What's Big Eddie?" She asked curiously, taking her belongings to the bed beside Juliet.
Juliet and Daisy burst out laughing.
"Oh, I forget you're new! Big Eddie is only the biggest rock wall on Mount Horizon, and tomorrow we climb it." Juliet explained, still snickering.
"Oh no, I'm really not good at the 'great outdoors' motif." Dawn explained about how she and her friend Xander went camping one time, and about how it didn't turn out well.
"Well, brace yourself Dawnie, because Horizon is all about the outdoors." Daisy concluded.
Dawn whimpered. Then she did a head count.
"Hey where's that blonde girl, what's-her-name?"
"Oh Shelby? Probably out with Scott, gosh they make me sick." Daisy stuck out her tongue.
"Daisy, I think it's really sweet the way they are. It makes me and Auggie want to expand our romantic world!" Juliet swooned.
"To what, the size of a pin-head?" Daisy joked.
Dawn coughed. "So, Scott and Shelby are together? I mean, as a couple?" She really wanted the answer to be no, for she had taken a liking to Scott. He reminded her of Spike in a weird, obnoxious way.
"Oh, yea, since forever! Well, I was with him first, but then I fell in love with Auggie." Juliet said, brushing her braids from the bathroom.
"Wait, so you and Auggie are together?" Dawn asked, confused.
"Yea, and so are Daisy and Ezra." Juliet laughed.
Daisy turned bright pink. "Are not! But, I guess it COULD happen, eventually."
Dawn smiled. She really liked her new roommates.
"Hey guys, I'm going to take a shower! Okay?" Juliet called.
Daisy yelled back "Okay!"
Dawn continued to put her stuff away, when she smelled something familiar, incense. Magick incense.
Being the curious cat she was, Dawn wondered over to Daisy, who was sitting on her bed, chanting.
"So, you do spells?" Dawn asked hopefully.
Daisy looked around and put a finger over her mouth. "Yea," She whispered. "But, I'm really not allowed to, I mean, not here anyway."
Dawn nodded and grinned. "I'm used to it."
"Oh, I didn't know you were a witch, I mean, not from the way you look." She took a double-take at Dawn.
"Well, beginners witch actually. I can't even float a pencil yet, but I have two very cool friends that are."
"Hmm, what are their names; I have a directory that tells me these things."
"Oh, Willow Rosenberg and Tara McLain."
"Wow, I've never heard of that Tara girl, but Willow, yea. Have you met her before?"
"Oh, my sister was best friends with her, I mean with my sister being the Slayer, they kind of mesh." She stopped herself immediately. She had told someone her sister was the Slayer.
"Wh-what did you say?" Daisy asked quickly.
"My sister being in PRAYER. Yea, she's very religious." Dawn's heart was pounding in her chest.
"Oh. I thought you said Slayer. Boy, is that a relief." Daisy went back to lighting candles when Dawn went back over to her bed.
"Yea, relief."
_______________________
It was 1:00 AM, and Daisy and Juliet were asleep. Dawn was over in the lounge area.
Tomorrow, she would have to make a first impression. They would be climbing Big Eddie, and she wanted to be a success.
She opened the Teen Spells book that Willow and Tara had given her.
"Rebirth Spell, Floating Spell, Ah Ha! Ability Spell!" She whispered to herself, looking in the Table of Contents. She would need embryo herb, raven toenails, and three prelit purple candles.
Then a thought came to her. Daisy had told her where she kept her magic supplies. Dawn could just wonder over there, borrow some, no one would ever notice.
But that would be stealing, one of the things that landed her here in the first place.
However, this was important. Besides, she wasn't stealing, just borrowing. Daisy wouldn't mind.
She crawled over to snoring Daisy's bed. Then she lifted up the sheet that swept the floor and grabbed the stuff she needed under the bed.
Putting a towel under her space, she ever so quietly began the spell.
"Lightlorian, I wish to be the best. Please help me fulfill my quest. To be the best that I can be, let this spell take over me-"
Shelby bounded through the door, a blanket in her hand.
Dawn threw the towel and its contents to the side, standing up.
Shelby turned around and gasped. "Gosh, don't do that, okay? It gets freaky."
"Where were you?" Dawn asked, changing the subject.
"Well, well. Aren't we Miss Nosy?" Shelby threw the blanket on her bed.
"I won't tell." Dawn said, smiling.
"You won't? Honest and truly?" Shelby turned around, looking hopeful.
"Nah, I'm not like that. Hope you had fun, whatever you were doing."
"Thank you, new kid. You are a friend and a half. Well, I think I'll go to bed. You better too, tomorrow we tackle Big Eddie."
"Yea yea yea. I noticed." Dawn rolled her eyes as Shelby fell asleep.
Then she put back all the continents she stole from Daisy.
Oh well, she would tackle Big Eddie. Without magic.
__________________________
The morning sun shone in threw her window.
She peeked her eyes open.
Daisy looked over at her.
"Well, look who decided to get up!"
She sat up. "What time is it?"
"9:30...we leave in an hour."
Dawn got up and stretched. "An hour? What about, like never?"
Juliet chuckled. "It doesn't work that way here. You better get a shower before Shelby. She tends to use all of the hot water."
Dawn made her way out of the bed, yawning.
In California, it rarely got cold. In fact, the coldest it had gotten in years was 50 degrees.
Here however, wasn't like California. It was cold, damp, and dreary.
Daisy was dressed in a red knit sweater, with khaki corduroy pants.
Juliet sported a black novelty sweatshirt that said 'Hot, Hot, Hot!' She wore black sweatpants that said 'Sizzlin' on the butt.
Dawn peered into her suitcase. It was mostly tank tops and Capri's. She'd have to go shopping. The Scooby Gang pulled their money together, giving her 300 dollars.
She pulled out two of the few warm clothing items that she'd brought. It was a sparkly baby blue sweater and flared faded jeans.
Then she took a shower. When she got out, Daisy was putting on tennis shoes.
"C'mon girl! We leave in like fifteen minutes! How long do you shower, like 45 minutes?" Daisy joked with her.
"Oh shit!" She yelled, running with a towel on her head and body to get her clothes.
Shelby looked at her haughtily. "Thanks a lot, kid. I SURE didn't want to take a shower." She rolled her eyes.
Dawn gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I completely forgot about you!"
Shelby just shook her head and stomped into the bathroom, slamming the door.
"Don't worry bout' it Dawn. Shel can be a bit edgy." Juliet explained.
Dawn got dressed and dried her hair.
Then it was time to leave.
The girls of Cabin #17 walked outside.
Dawn screamed, shivering and hugging herself. "Mightiful Zeus! What is it, thirty freaking degrees?!"
Daisy put her arm around her. "Actually, its 27 degrees, but you were close."
*Great!* Dawn thought to herself. *I'm tired, freezing my ass off, and I have to climb a mountain! Can things get any worse?*
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~Yippee! I liked that chapter! So sorry for not updating quicker, but I was grounded and working on other stories. P.S: In case you haven't noticed, Kat is gone. R&R! ~funnybunny7
