DISCLAIMER: all belongs to Joss Whedon, Sky and Sir are mine

Look to the Sky

Connor Brown was your average university student. He did his work and got good grades in all his subjects. But what really fascinated him was the supernatural. He read books on it, took courses on it, and even wrote his own theories. What peaked his interest the most were the stories on demons, dimensions, and the future.

Some would say that he was just lucky, but most say that these were the reasons that she chose him. Who chose him for what you ask; this is what I'm about to tell you. It's a rather long story if you want to hear it properly, which I'm sure you do! So I would advise you get quite comfortable while I grab my papers. This being the only adventure I'd ever been on so I promptly wrote down every detail I could remember.

My name is Quentin Sir; I am a theorist and heavily involved in the supernatural. It was my profession that brought me upon such a young man as Connor Brown. He was coming to me for advice in something anyone other than me would have turned him in to the mental institution for. After all no one actually believes in demons and alternate dimensions. Sure we all read about them in books and watch stories about them on television, but no one actually believes. This is all fine and dandy but I don't actually come in at the beginning of the story so let's go back to Connor's university shall we.

It was a Monday afternoon in the middle of the school year when Connor first met Sky. She had no last name, or at least she didn't share it with him. It was 10:00 and first period was just starting when Connor noticed the beautiful new student sitting in the front row. Why anyone would be starting a class at this time of year would surely be insane. Think of all the notes she would have missed. Connor couldn't shake the absurdity of a new student out of his head even when Mr. Dupius, the professor of paranormal studies, introduced her as a transfer student. Transfer from where? And when other questions floated through Connor's head he couldn't help but notice her beauty. She had long blonde hair and definitely was no little girl. And though her head was not toward him he knew her eyes would be her most stunning feature. But surely someone like her would be off studying the history of polka dots not the paranormal and supernatural theories.

Then just at that moment she turned to look him straight in the eye and smiled sweetly. Connor was taken aback, how had she known he was watching her? Maybe she didn't and just happened to look back, you idiot; he thought. But that smile, it seemed like she knew him. Okay, you're in the middle of class concentrate on the work, he said to himself. But the class was already ending, seemed he'd just daydreamed through the entire lesson. Not good.

He walked through the halls and out the doors of the tall university building and headed off in the direction of the large doors of the Chap's Building. As the name indicated it was the boy's dormitory the girl's was on the other side of the campus. It was a stupid name and the residents of Chap's were constantly trying to come up with a new name and get it changed. Without prevail. Though it wasn't any better than the girl's dormitory a.k.a. Lass's. You'd think that a board of university professors could pick out better names for their buildings. He passed the fountain at the centre of the campus and passed the statue of the wolf. Sometimes Connor thought it was real, at night it was like a lone wolf howling to the moon. There was a hawk on the opposite side of the fountain. The statues apparently represented those who sought learning. How the two things connecting Connor could only guess. He was just at the steps of Chap's when he saw a flash of blonde hair out of the corner of his eye. He turned around quickly, just in time to see Sky look back at him as she turned a corner off the campus. Odd, he thought. All girls stayed at Lass's and there weren't any apartments close to the university. He shrugged it off and walked inside the dorm.

He waved to guys he knew in the hallway and stuck his key in the lock of his room. He dumped his bag on his bed and immediately turned on the computer. It was like a ritual for him to go back to his dorm straight after class, go on the net and search for anything about the supernatural or possible occurrences of supernatural events. Connor was a steadfast believer of anything to do with demons and dimensions and the like. He had quite a reason to it as well. It was also another ritual of his to go out around town when it was quite dark and find any dark beings. Yes, vampires. Connor was a vampire hunter, the only one in town in fact. There's usually about two in every city keeping the vampire and demon population down to a minimum, but no one seemed to have noticed – or cared about what was going on in Dale. Dale had a pretty long missing list and dead bodies were being found more and more often. Things were getting out of hand. Which is why I was sent to observe what was happening you see. Connor was starting to have trouble keeping up with the steadily growing population of vampires. He may be a super kid with incredible abilities and strengths, but he was still human and there was still a risk.

Connor returned from his patrol of the park dead tired. He had managed to bag five vampires. He trudged up the steps of Chap's not noticing the shadow watching him from behind the bushes on the side of the stairs. He dumped his weapons in his closet and collapsed on his bed falling asleep immediately.

The next morning Connor managed to get to class early, surprisingly enough. While he was sleeping he had had a dream of dark shadows all night so he was up earlier than usual. Sky was the next person to arrive. Connor watched as she set down her books and bag at her desk and was surprised when she didn't sit down. Instead she walked over to him, she sat backwards in the seat in front of him.

"So," she said bluntly. Connor raised an eyebrow. "Sky," she said holding out her hand to him. He took it and gave her his name. "So Connor, planning on joining 713?" she said with a small grin.

"I hadn't planned on it actually," he replied which was the truth.

"Surprising, I heard that everyone who wanted to get the credentials to join that branch of the government should take this course, and that there are rarely students who take it for fun." She examined her nails then looked at him straight in the eye.

"Are you?" He asked plainly. She shook her head.

"I was just interested in you." With that the door banged open and the other students poured into the room. She winked and returned to her seat. Connor was dumbfounded, that was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. She was just teasing him, he thought to himself, though he couldn't shake the feeling that there was something deeper. When class was over he gathered his things and headed out the door. He was about halfway down the hall when he noticed a flutter of blonde hair appear next to him.

"Hi," said Sky zipping up her bag. Connor nodded. "You don't say much do you?"

"Not usually," he replied a small smile playing across his lips. He couldn't help but feel that he could say anything to this girl. Sky smiled.

"When's your next class?"

"After lunch."

"Good. You can take me out for a cappuccino." Connor looked down at her in surprise. Sky just grinned, grabbed his arm and began leading him through the crowd. Next thing he knew he was seated in a small diner across from the strange girl. They ordered their drinks and waited in silence.