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This is after Chosen
Author's Note: This is my first Buffy fic. To tell you the truth I don't know a lot about Angel and I know about Buffy up to the fourth season and then not so much. So bare with me and I'll make any corrections that I can that don't screw up the story!!!
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Dawn's POV
I looked out the window peering down at the ground below me. The man in a business suit beside me was snoring noisily. I gave him an annoyed look, which he obviously didn't see because his eyes were closed. I sneered at the drool that was dripping down on his clean jacket and turned my attention back to the window. That's when I saw the crater that used to be Sunnydale, my home, my life. It had been a few years since we defeated the First. I remember looking over the large hole and asking Buffy what we were going to do now.
That was before we moved to Rome then to England where Buffy really started working on her 'Slayer Empire' as I like to call it. "Buffy" I scoffed softly to myself. I scowled and slid the window cover shut loudly causing the man beside me to wake. He looked angry that I woke him but I just shrugged it off and went back to my thoughts.
Buffy had started out her new life. Her new life, it was like this beautiful, perfect diamond like on her engagement ring but with one spot. That spot was me. I didn't really fit into her plan especially since I started to 'act out' again. She thinks that it's because I don't like England, my school or something like that. She asked me if it was because I've been missing California and if I wanted to live there again. That was when I realized she would be happier if I was out of the way so I told her it was because I missed "home" that was the word that I strategically used to seal the deal. She did look upset but I knew that it was best for her if she didn't have to deal with a rowdy teenager. We had been drifting apart since we've left Sunnydale or should I say that big ditch in the ground?
Of course I still love her and know that she loves me. God she died for me! That's why she deserves to have a happy ending. So I've willingly been sent to LA to be baby sat by Angel at Wolfram and Heart.
I breathed in deeply. It had been so long since I've seen Angel. But I wasn't surprised when he said he would take me in, he would do anything for Buffy. Thinking of vampires that would do anything for Buffy reminded me of Spike. He did so much for her, looked after me, got a soul, and died for her. I like to think that he also died to save the world but I know that it was just to save Buffy.
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I got off the plane and went to get my bags letting my legs get used to walking. It had been a long flight. I saw Wesley and some thin wavy brown haired girl; she smiled broadly when she saw me approaching.
"You must be Dawn," she said extending her hand "I'm Fred".
I put down one of my suitcases and shook her hand "Hi" I forced a smile.
"Hello Dawn" Wesley greeted "You've grown, how old are you now?"
"Eighteen" I answered there was an awkward pause.
"Here let me help you with those" he took the suitcase that I had put down and another from my hand.
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I entered the large Wolfram and Heart building. Some people had taken my bags to where I was supposed to be saying. It just hit me that I had no idea where that place was. Wesley led me to an elevator, when the doors opened again my jaw dropped in shock. The floor was filled with all sorts of demons speaking strange languages. There were also humans, and a few vampires.
"This way Dawn" Fred motioned to stairs. I closed my mouth and went up the stairs trying to collect myself and shake off the shock. I should have expected something like this but I never thought it would be so . . . big. But that was just the first of my shock the next were going to be even larger.
"Harmony?" I asked as we reached the receptionist desk outside of Angel's office.
"Hi" she smiled brightly and got up from her chair waving.
"Why are you working for Angel, you're evil?" I asked confused
"Hey! I resent that! I haven't been evil for a really long time" she pouted sat down and started to work on her nails.
"Does she have a soul?" I asked Wesley as went over to wooden double doors. He shook his head as he opened one of the doors for me. I walked in and saw Angle sitting at his desk turned towards the windows with sunlight pouring in . . . wait sunlight. He isn't a pile of dust.
He turned and put on his lop sided grin. "Dawn"
"Angel" I nodded and then darted my eyes to the window and back to him. His grin widened.
"They're special windows there in the whole building and the cars" he told me noticing my confusion.
Suddenly the doors burst opened again. "Hey Peaches we need to talk. Nibblet?"
I stood their frozen staring at Spike. He couldn't be here. This isn't real.
"Ok luv I know that this must be strange seeing me here alive or undead," he said calmly as he took a few steps towards me.
I blinked out of my trance and punched his jaw. My fist defiantly hit his flesh he was actually standing in front of me. This wasn't another one of my dreams where he is still undead.
"Oi! What was that for" he asked angrily cupping his face.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were back?" I asked ignoring his previous question.
He looked hurt not just from the punch. "It's complicated Bit"
"No" I smiled and said simply "Its Buffy"
I exited the room. I need to walk, to get away. This was too much for one day. Leaving the people that I've been with my whole life, being sent to live with these strangers, and seeing Spike again. I walked frantically through the multiple hallways. Turning different ways every so often. I didn't care that I probably wouldn't be able to find my way back. I kept going in till I reached a greenhouse. It was mostly filled with herbs that you would use for spells. I went and sat down on an empty bench and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and gingerly took one out and put it in between my lips as I put the pack away and got my lighter. I flicked the little flame and lit the end. I took a deep breath and slowly let the smoke out. I shoved the lighter back into my pocket as I took another puff. Stared at my feet as I saw the ashes fall to the ground.
"When did you start having fags?" I looked up and found Spike standing in front of me.
"Since when did you care?" I blew the smoke into his direction. How could he do this to me, not tell me. Not tell his beloved Buffy for that matter.
"Oh come of it" he scoffed at me and sat beside me. He watched me make smoke rings for a while.
"I missed you," he said. I stopped blowing the rings and let the rest of the smoke out of my mouth.
"You did?" I said cocking an eyebrow.
"Well yeah" he nodded looking back at me "Aren't you going to tell me that you missed me?"
"I guess I did" I shrugged not freeing my eyes from him. He was here sitting right beside me after so long. He hadn't changed at all. Same bleach blond hair, leather duster and ice blue eyes. I had changed though my hair was a little shorter, a darker shade, I filled out in more womanly ways, wore darker makeup and different clothing. At the moment I had on black leather pants and a black sleeveless shirt.
"So what have you been up to Nibblet?" he asked nonchalantly. I smiled at the old nickname. I liked being called that again, it was something that only he called me. The one thing that he gave me and not Buffy
"Not much" I answered even though that was nothing close to the truth.
"How's the big sis?" he asked.
"Ah, yes the real reason you came to talk" I nodded understandingly "Well she's engaged" I smirked "to Brain. He's your complete opposite. He doesn't steal, drink, was never evil, always had his soul, human" I listed watching his face fall and pain flash in his eyes.
"Oh. Good for her" he sighed breaking our gaze he stared down at the floor.
"You know it really is. She's super happy with him" I told him truthfully "He's a great guy. He kind of sucked up to me at first wanting to get on my good side but then he was cool. He reminds me of Riley without the vampire addiction and minus the initiative. Real dependable guy" I couldn't help but take some pleasure in making him suffer. He made me suffer when he died . . . again. But a part of me felt bad for him so I stopped raving about Buff's fiancé.
"When will she get married?" Angel asked from behind me. I wondered how long he had been standing there.
"They don't know yet," I answered not turning to face him but I heard him say, "She's baked. She's cookies"
"What?" Spike asked frowning
"Nothing Dawn we need to talk," he told me. I tapped my cigarette letting the ashes fall and took another drag.
"So talk," I said
"Ok there are going to be some rules. First no smoking" he took the cigarette from my hand and dropped it to the ground and stepped onto it. "Second curfew . . ."
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Angel led me with Spike back to his office where a green demon and a good- looking black man were waiting with Fred and Wesley.
"Guys this is Dawn" he introduce "Dawn that's Lorne," he pointed to the green demon with red horns and then to the man "and Gunn"
"Hi" I said stiffly. I wasn't pleased with Angel's little rules and I was going to use all of my power to break every one of them. I knew that they were just passed on from Buffy because they were the same as hers.
"You are going to have to sing for me," Lorne said
"That's a fine 'how do you do'" Spike said "How about 'nice to meet you?'"
"Excuse me. What's your problem?" Lorne asked "You know that I read people by their singing"
"But you are freaking her out" Spike pointed out.
I rolled my eyes "No I'm fine"
"I want you all to look out for Dawn" Angel informed the group.
They were going to treat me like a kid here as well. "Great" I said sarcastically
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"This is your room" Angel opened the door to a fancily decorated room with a large bed and my bags at the center of it.
"Thanks" I entered the space slowly.
"So you know how to reach me," he said I assume he was referring to the phone and how I knew the number.
"Yep I nodded. I've also got the map" I lifted the piece of paper in my hand. He had given me a map of only the parts that I needed to know of Wolfram and Heart.
"I'll see you tomorrow. Sleep tight" he closed the door.
I waited in till I knew that he was gone and peered out the door. The hall was deserted. I quickly went to the elevator and got in. I pressed the 'G' button. There was no way I was going to sleep. For one thing I wasn't tired for another I need to know what LA's nightlife is like.
I stepped out of the elevator and was very impressed at the sight before me. These were beautiful cars. I went over to a red Jaguar and felt it's smooth surface. This would do. I opened the door and sat down in the black- leathered seat and closed the door. I looked for a spare set of keys and found them in the glove compartment. I was about to start the engine when there was a knocked on the window. I jumped slightly at the noise. It was Spike. I rolled down the window.
"Now pet I don't think it's a good idea for you to go out driving at night" he said crouching by the door.
"I can take care of myself," I told him
"Can you then?" he asked, "'Cause judging by your past you usually need the protecting and saving"
"That was the past I've changed" I said he didn't know about anything that I had gone through he couldn't just assume that he knew everything now. I started up the engine and pulled out of the space.
"Wait!" he called I stopped and he jogged over to the other side of the car and got into it. "I'd feel better if I came with. Since it looks like I can't stop you"
"What is the Big Bad going to protect me?" I asked teasingly and then floored the petal speedily driving towards the exit.
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Possibly TBC
This is after Chosen
Author's Note: This is my first Buffy fic. To tell you the truth I don't know a lot about Angel and I know about Buffy up to the fourth season and then not so much. So bare with me and I'll make any corrections that I can that don't screw up the story!!!
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Dawn's POV
I looked out the window peering down at the ground below me. The man in a business suit beside me was snoring noisily. I gave him an annoyed look, which he obviously didn't see because his eyes were closed. I sneered at the drool that was dripping down on his clean jacket and turned my attention back to the window. That's when I saw the crater that used to be Sunnydale, my home, my life. It had been a few years since we defeated the First. I remember looking over the large hole and asking Buffy what we were going to do now.
That was before we moved to Rome then to England where Buffy really started working on her 'Slayer Empire' as I like to call it. "Buffy" I scoffed softly to myself. I scowled and slid the window cover shut loudly causing the man beside me to wake. He looked angry that I woke him but I just shrugged it off and went back to my thoughts.
Buffy had started out her new life. Her new life, it was like this beautiful, perfect diamond like on her engagement ring but with one spot. That spot was me. I didn't really fit into her plan especially since I started to 'act out' again. She thinks that it's because I don't like England, my school or something like that. She asked me if it was because I've been missing California and if I wanted to live there again. That was when I realized she would be happier if I was out of the way so I told her it was because I missed "home" that was the word that I strategically used to seal the deal. She did look upset but I knew that it was best for her if she didn't have to deal with a rowdy teenager. We had been drifting apart since we've left Sunnydale or should I say that big ditch in the ground?
Of course I still love her and know that she loves me. God she died for me! That's why she deserves to have a happy ending. So I've willingly been sent to LA to be baby sat by Angel at Wolfram and Heart.
I breathed in deeply. It had been so long since I've seen Angel. But I wasn't surprised when he said he would take me in, he would do anything for Buffy. Thinking of vampires that would do anything for Buffy reminded me of Spike. He did so much for her, looked after me, got a soul, and died for her. I like to think that he also died to save the world but I know that it was just to save Buffy.
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I got off the plane and went to get my bags letting my legs get used to walking. It had been a long flight. I saw Wesley and some thin wavy brown haired girl; she smiled broadly when she saw me approaching.
"You must be Dawn," she said extending her hand "I'm Fred".
I put down one of my suitcases and shook her hand "Hi" I forced a smile.
"Hello Dawn" Wesley greeted "You've grown, how old are you now?"
"Eighteen" I answered there was an awkward pause.
"Here let me help you with those" he took the suitcase that I had put down and another from my hand.
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I entered the large Wolfram and Heart building. Some people had taken my bags to where I was supposed to be saying. It just hit me that I had no idea where that place was. Wesley led me to an elevator, when the doors opened again my jaw dropped in shock. The floor was filled with all sorts of demons speaking strange languages. There were also humans, and a few vampires.
"This way Dawn" Fred motioned to stairs. I closed my mouth and went up the stairs trying to collect myself and shake off the shock. I should have expected something like this but I never thought it would be so . . . big. But that was just the first of my shock the next were going to be even larger.
"Harmony?" I asked as we reached the receptionist desk outside of Angel's office.
"Hi" she smiled brightly and got up from her chair waving.
"Why are you working for Angel, you're evil?" I asked confused
"Hey! I resent that! I haven't been evil for a really long time" she pouted sat down and started to work on her nails.
"Does she have a soul?" I asked Wesley as went over to wooden double doors. He shook his head as he opened one of the doors for me. I walked in and saw Angle sitting at his desk turned towards the windows with sunlight pouring in . . . wait sunlight. He isn't a pile of dust.
He turned and put on his lop sided grin. "Dawn"
"Angel" I nodded and then darted my eyes to the window and back to him. His grin widened.
"They're special windows there in the whole building and the cars" he told me noticing my confusion.
Suddenly the doors burst opened again. "Hey Peaches we need to talk. Nibblet?"
I stood their frozen staring at Spike. He couldn't be here. This isn't real.
"Ok luv I know that this must be strange seeing me here alive or undead," he said calmly as he took a few steps towards me.
I blinked out of my trance and punched his jaw. My fist defiantly hit his flesh he was actually standing in front of me. This wasn't another one of my dreams where he is still undead.
"Oi! What was that for" he asked angrily cupping his face.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were back?" I asked ignoring his previous question.
He looked hurt not just from the punch. "It's complicated Bit"
"No" I smiled and said simply "Its Buffy"
I exited the room. I need to walk, to get away. This was too much for one day. Leaving the people that I've been with my whole life, being sent to live with these strangers, and seeing Spike again. I walked frantically through the multiple hallways. Turning different ways every so often. I didn't care that I probably wouldn't be able to find my way back. I kept going in till I reached a greenhouse. It was mostly filled with herbs that you would use for spells. I went and sat down on an empty bench and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and gingerly took one out and put it in between my lips as I put the pack away and got my lighter. I flicked the little flame and lit the end. I took a deep breath and slowly let the smoke out. I shoved the lighter back into my pocket as I took another puff. Stared at my feet as I saw the ashes fall to the ground.
"When did you start having fags?" I looked up and found Spike standing in front of me.
"Since when did you care?" I blew the smoke into his direction. How could he do this to me, not tell me. Not tell his beloved Buffy for that matter.
"Oh come of it" he scoffed at me and sat beside me. He watched me make smoke rings for a while.
"I missed you," he said. I stopped blowing the rings and let the rest of the smoke out of my mouth.
"You did?" I said cocking an eyebrow.
"Well yeah" he nodded looking back at me "Aren't you going to tell me that you missed me?"
"I guess I did" I shrugged not freeing my eyes from him. He was here sitting right beside me after so long. He hadn't changed at all. Same bleach blond hair, leather duster and ice blue eyes. I had changed though my hair was a little shorter, a darker shade, I filled out in more womanly ways, wore darker makeup and different clothing. At the moment I had on black leather pants and a black sleeveless shirt.
"So what have you been up to Nibblet?" he asked nonchalantly. I smiled at the old nickname. I liked being called that again, it was something that only he called me. The one thing that he gave me and not Buffy
"Not much" I answered even though that was nothing close to the truth.
"How's the big sis?" he asked.
"Ah, yes the real reason you came to talk" I nodded understandingly "Well she's engaged" I smirked "to Brain. He's your complete opposite. He doesn't steal, drink, was never evil, always had his soul, human" I listed watching his face fall and pain flash in his eyes.
"Oh. Good for her" he sighed breaking our gaze he stared down at the floor.
"You know it really is. She's super happy with him" I told him truthfully "He's a great guy. He kind of sucked up to me at first wanting to get on my good side but then he was cool. He reminds me of Riley without the vampire addiction and minus the initiative. Real dependable guy" I couldn't help but take some pleasure in making him suffer. He made me suffer when he died . . . again. But a part of me felt bad for him so I stopped raving about Buff's fiancé.
"When will she get married?" Angel asked from behind me. I wondered how long he had been standing there.
"They don't know yet," I answered not turning to face him but I heard him say, "She's baked. She's cookies"
"What?" Spike asked frowning
"Nothing Dawn we need to talk," he told me. I tapped my cigarette letting the ashes fall and took another drag.
"So talk," I said
"Ok there are going to be some rules. First no smoking" he took the cigarette from my hand and dropped it to the ground and stepped onto it. "Second curfew . . ."
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Angel led me with Spike back to his office where a green demon and a good- looking black man were waiting with Fred and Wesley.
"Guys this is Dawn" he introduce "Dawn that's Lorne," he pointed to the green demon with red horns and then to the man "and Gunn"
"Hi" I said stiffly. I wasn't pleased with Angel's little rules and I was going to use all of my power to break every one of them. I knew that they were just passed on from Buffy because they were the same as hers.
"You are going to have to sing for me," Lorne said
"That's a fine 'how do you do'" Spike said "How about 'nice to meet you?'"
"Excuse me. What's your problem?" Lorne asked "You know that I read people by their singing"
"But you are freaking her out" Spike pointed out.
I rolled my eyes "No I'm fine"
"I want you all to look out for Dawn" Angel informed the group.
They were going to treat me like a kid here as well. "Great" I said sarcastically
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"This is your room" Angel opened the door to a fancily decorated room with a large bed and my bags at the center of it.
"Thanks" I entered the space slowly.
"So you know how to reach me," he said I assume he was referring to the phone and how I knew the number.
"Yep I nodded. I've also got the map" I lifted the piece of paper in my hand. He had given me a map of only the parts that I needed to know of Wolfram and Heart.
"I'll see you tomorrow. Sleep tight" he closed the door.
I waited in till I knew that he was gone and peered out the door. The hall was deserted. I quickly went to the elevator and got in. I pressed the 'G' button. There was no way I was going to sleep. For one thing I wasn't tired for another I need to know what LA's nightlife is like.
I stepped out of the elevator and was very impressed at the sight before me. These were beautiful cars. I went over to a red Jaguar and felt it's smooth surface. This would do. I opened the door and sat down in the black- leathered seat and closed the door. I looked for a spare set of keys and found them in the glove compartment. I was about to start the engine when there was a knocked on the window. I jumped slightly at the noise. It was Spike. I rolled down the window.
"Now pet I don't think it's a good idea for you to go out driving at night" he said crouching by the door.
"I can take care of myself," I told him
"Can you then?" he asked, "'Cause judging by your past you usually need the protecting and saving"
"That was the past I've changed" I said he didn't know about anything that I had gone through he couldn't just assume that he knew everything now. I started up the engine and pulled out of the space.
"Wait!" he called I stopped and he jogged over to the other side of the car and got into it. "I'd feel better if I came with. Since it looks like I can't stop you"
"What is the Big Bad going to protect me?" I asked teasingly and then floored the petal speedily driving towards the exit.
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Possibly TBC