Title: Confessions of a Teenage Watcher

Author: Episkopos Reverend Alixtii O'Krull V, TRL of the Church of St. Jesu the Heretic, Discordian

Timeline: Somewhere around "The Girl in Question." Spoilers for "Chosen."

Rating: PG

Summary: Dawn Summers is an American attending an Italian high school in Rome. Beatrice DeCosta is her Italian classmate. Their rôles as Watcher and Slayer will send them into a world of high intrigue as the Council tries to assert its control over the guardianship of the Cleveland Hellmouth.

A/N: Okay, so this is a really short chapter. So sue me.

Disclaimer: All original Buffy and Angel characters belong to Mutant Enemy, not me.


Beatrice won't stop talking on the plane ride to the States, so excited about finally getting to meet the famous Slayer, Faith (although she is in control enough not to mention the Slayer part in public). Half the time she speaks in English, the other half in Italian. Dawn does her best to zone out her charge's animated babblings, adding a "hmm" here and an "uh-huh" there without really listening. After all, it's an eight hour flight, and everyone else is sleeping.

"Dawn, are you listening?"

"Uh-huh."