I feel thesefour walls closing in
My face up against the glass
I'm looking out... hmm
Is this my life I'm wondering
It happened so fast
How do I turn this thing around
Is this the bed I chose to make
Its greener pastures I'm thinking about Wide open spaces far away
All I want is the wind in my hair
To face the fear but, not feel scared
Wild horses I want to be like you
Throwing caution to the wind
I'll run free too
Wish I could recklessly love, like I'm longing too
Run with the wild horses, run with the wild horses!
I see the girl I wanna be
Riding bare back, care free along the shore
If only that someone was me
Jumpin' head first headlong without a thought
To act and damn the consequence
I wish it could be that easy
But fear surrounds me like a fence
I wanna break freee ee yeah
All I want is the wind in my hair
To face the fear but, not feel scared
Wild horses I want to be like you
Throwing caution to the wind
I'll run free too
Wish I could recklessly love, like im longing too
I wanna run with the wild horses, run with the wild horses!
Wild horses I want to be like you
Throwing caution to the wind
I'll run free too
Wish I could recklessly love, like im longing too
I wanna run with the wild horses, run with the wild horses!
I wanna run with the wild horses
Dawn awoke to the sunlight creeping across the curtain around her bed. She rolled over onto her back, and then froze; a young, plump, friendly-looking woman in a nurse's uniform was sat there watching her.
"How are you dear?" she asked kindly
"F-fine." Dawn stammered, then, looked down at her scraped arms, there were only fading scar lines where they had been, she poked her hips, but she could feel no cuts where the gashes had been. She looked up, wide-eyed the woman.
"How long have I been asleep?" She asked.
"A day." The woman replied.
"One day?" Dawn asked, her eyes widening, she then muttered "Magic."
"That's right dearie." The woman said, it was only then that Dawn realised she had an English accent.
"Where am I?" Dawn asked
"Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry." The woman replied
"No." Dawn shook her head "What country, planet, dimension? Is this Hell?" The woman leaned back, and replied
"Scotland, Earth, umm…this one." She peered closely at Dawn,
"Are you sure you're ok?" she asked, genuinely worried.
"Fine." Dawn said, very fast, and looked around the room she was in. It looked like an old castle. "Is that boy meant to be awake?" she asked, pointing to the rooms other inhabitant. As she peered at him closer Dawn realised that it was the werewolf from last night, or whenever it was.
"Oh, thank you dear." The woman said, recognising, and respecting Dawns evasion technique.
"I am Ms Pomfrey, by the way." She said as she left.
"Dawn, Dawn Summers." Dawn said, laying back onto her pillows and looking up at the ceiling, striving to get some sense into her head. She knew she wasn't in a Hell dimension. She could've guessed that herself. Her wounds were healed. She wasn't dead. She was someplace else, but like, maybe the same as her old one. She was on her own in this strange place, but the locals so far had proved nice, mind, she had liked Glory at first, so that was nothing to judge by. Before Dawn had gotten any further the other occupant of the room, in the bed next to her interrupted.
"Hi, I'm Remus Lupin." He said, smiling kindly. Dawn realised that he was about her age.
"How old are you?" she asked, before she could stop herself, then clapped a hand around her mouth. He grinned at her, and Dawn could tell he was trying not to laugh.
"15" he replied. Dawn nodded awkwardly,
"I'll understand if you don't want to tell me, but, how did you get here?" He asked, a kind, understanding look on his face. Dawn felt inexplicably compelled to answer. She began to tell her story, tentatively at first, missing lots of things out, then her story started to pour out, and she told this strange boy everything from the day she found out the was the Key onwards. As she reached the bits about Buffy Dawn began to cry, and Remus took her into his lap, and held her close. When Dawn had finished she was surprised to find herself there, but he was holding her gently, comfortingly, like an old friend, and she wasn't bothered by it somehow.
"A werewolf attacked you?" Remus asked, a strangled look on his face, "Did it touch you"? Dawn remembered her realisation that he was the wolf from last night.
"No." She said reassuringly, "I wouldn't hold it against him if he did." And with that she launched into some choice Oz/Willow stories, and he settled down. Dawn stayed in Remus' lap for a long time after they had finished talking. Finally she gathered nerve enough to look up into his face. She froze as his amber eyes held her wide, ocean-blue ones. She felt an aching longing to be closer to him in her chest. She tipped her head backwards, so they faced each other. A person nearby cleared his throat. Dawn and Remus jumped into the air, and Dawn landed uncomfortably on the floor, having missed the chair on her way back down.
"I am very sorry to have interrupted, but I wish to speak to Miss Summers here." Dawn looked up to see a kindly, old face, with sharp blue eyes looking amusedly at her.
"Do you want to know why I'm here?" she asked, trying to brave herself up to repeat her exhausting tale.
"No thank you, Miss Summers, I already heard it. I did not mean to eavesdrop, but I came in when you were in mid-flow." Dawn turned beetroot as she realised just how much the old man had seen.
"What I wish to know," he continued, "Is what Miss Summers plans to do now, she is welcome here for a while, and as a student, if she wishes, as she has proved to have some magical aptitude."
"How do you know that Sir?" Remus asked, and Dawn realised that he must be a teacher, and an important one at that.
"She saw this castle as it was, when she arrived here, any Muggle would see an old ruin, without door knockers." The old man replied, then for Dawn's sake added "It has a spell on it." Dawn nodded.
"I would like to stay here, if possible, but I want to try to goo hoome."The last words came out blurred, as Dawn, much to her great shame burst into tears again. She didn't know how long she cried in Remus' lap, she heard the teacher slip out, and somewhere she cried herself to sleep, she awoke in her bed. Remus was nowhere in sight.
Thanks to all my reviewers, your advice has been taken to heart. I am afraid there will be no Dawn/Sirius relationship as yet, but everyone seems to be doing them. Please keep all reviews coming, I love them, they give me a bubbly feeling inside!