After months of sitting around the moping Scoobies, Dawn left to find herself. Dawn wanted to be more then Buffy's sister, more than the Dawnster, more than that girl who had a crush on Xander. She simply just wanted to be her own person, to make a name for herself, away from people who searched her face for any trace of Buffy's lost one. After a month of being in L.A., staying in a local shelter and having some very close run-ins with Sir. Gell-a-lot (Angel). Not wanting the Scoobie gang to come to L.A. and join in the search party, Dawn left. In Seattle, coincidentally on her first day there Dawn met Max, that night Max broke into her hotel and tried to lift some stuff off of her. After a series of visits to Max's workplace and practically stalking Max, all was finally explained. Dawn decided then to blackmail Max with her X-series secret, in exchange for Max teaching Dawn all she knew about fighting, stealing and generally playing dirty (hey! Only the strongest survive, right!) You be surprised how much Dawn had managed to learn in three months, a lot that's how much. That was then, now Dawn had been getting reports from Seattle of Max helping a strange guy in a wheel chair, who one of her friends and co-workers named Alec said gave off a weird, strange, "all around creepiest guy vibe." Funny how much someone can change in a year and six months.
Dawn was on a run from Normal, (a girl has to make a living), when out of nowhere and I mean nowhere everything went black. It was weird one minute your riding on a crappie low-budget, should have never been sold bike and the next minute you feel like your infinitely falling and everything's black, there's no sound and you can not find the word's, nor the voice to speak. A few second's later your plopped down in a tube-like container and you open your eyes, the door slide open. Dawn found the large circular room she fell into, with her oh, so gifted Summer's genes, disturbingly white. Everything was white, the chairs, the desks, even those suits all those people bumping into Dawn were wearing. The spots from Dawn's eyes finally started disappear and the woman in front of her came into focus.
She was of the oriental persuasion, had white skin and oh thank god some colour other then white! Her hair was black and eyes had a nice brown colour. "Hi, welcome to UEC." Dawn responded with a very dizzy and unstable voice, "am I in heaven." "Merv I think you picked up the wrong girl, the file says Dawn Summers not a Pinky and the Brain fan club member." "Really, then lets just..." "No, I'm Dawn Summers." Without a moment of pause or surprise the woman started talking again. "Hi my name is Laurell and I will be your tour guide and future team leader." "What's with all the white?" Dawn said with the mere innocence of a child unknowingly starring into the new chapter of her new life, not knowing the scary and unusual things to come. "Ahhhh, a commonly asked question. White is the purest form of energy, raw, doesn't hurt that its the most powerful. Its a bitch to clean though if you don't know magic, but luckily we got people here who can take care of that." "You guys are pure?" "No, but we like everyone else to think we are." "Another question." "Shoot straight and fire" "What does UEC stand for?" "Universal Earth Center." I know it doesn't rime, I noticed it right away, you can't blame me though, I don't make the rules. I am psychic though, so I know everything your thinking, creepy, huh? We are also known as the center, or as you know us the PTB (Powers That Be.) We do not use our real name for a number of reasons, one of which is you can find us in your local yellow pages." Laurell said that without coming up for air, alarmingly reminding Dawn of Willow and making her dreadfully homesick.
'We have a number of alliances throughout this world the galaxy and we also have several other networks similar to the UEC throughout all the realms of existence, of course its not possible to have alliances in all the realms, but were working on that." "Who do you have alliances with in this world?" "I can't tell you that, not until you join us." "Join you?" That simple question opened up so many doors, some good, some bad. I was later taught magic, how to mask my feelings and all that rot you have to learn to be an undercover agent. I learned that we had many alliances in this world including Manticore, the Greek Gods, some whiteliters, Wolfram and Hart and other such organizations. I learned how to control my key powers, I also found out that I can not teleport while at Hogwrts, for my energy signal is similar to one of an atomic bomb. I met the other spies within Hogwarts, one for each house. I was given my code name Pawn, that name has so much more then one meaning hidden under it, a Pawn is the first defense.
After all the time that has passed you think I'd be use to the role I am playing now, but I'm not. I still wish for the childlike innocence I possessed then to come back to me, to claim my soul and show me the wonders of innocence. You learn after a while that all is not simple, that beneath surface their are secrets that some cannot begin to imagine.
Next chapter: Find out how Pawn's upcoming marriage to Draco Malfoy is legally binding in 192 countries and all magical realms.