A/N: Okay, so i wrote this story before season 5 of Angel and I was younger which means I ended up writing in present tense. ( I'll probably end up switching to past tense in future chapters. FYI: I suck at grammar so please don't shoot me if there are mistakes. (Probably tons of comma splicing, I do it all the time) This story is like my version of season 5 of Angel and combines a bunch of characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It takes place about 1-2 years after season 7 of Buffy. There's lots of random pairings, but the main couple is Connor/Dawn. Lines separating paragraphs mean a change of scenery and mass amounts of space between paragraphs means change between character or passing of short amount of time. I hope that all made sense...
Disclaimer: Basically I don't own anything you recognize...well except for Rachel, but she's a minor character anyways.
Connor walks out of his dormitory at UCLA and walks to a taxicab that will take him home. As he walks to the cab he passes the university's bulletin board. A flyer catches his eye. The flyer is about a tour around Wolfram and Hart. The cab honks the horn at him. Connor quickly scribbles his name and a girl's name, Rachel on a piece of paper. Connor reads the flyer to see where to put the paper. He runs of to the main office to put the paper in a box marked Wolfram and Hart. Then Connor sprints to the cab and practically gives the driver a heart attack when he taps on the window. The driver looks very tired.
"Whoa! Kid ya nearly gave me heart 'ttack," driver practically yelled at him.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," replied Connor with just a bit of anger at being called a kid.
The driver is totally annoyed at Connor as he talks again, "One second I see ya runnin to a building, next second you're bangin on my window! Kids these days! They run like cheetahs and stay out till five in the morning!"
Connor is now really ticked off at the guy. "It's only midnight!" he exclaims.
The driver continues to ramble on. "Takes bout an hour to get to ya house, then ya'll probably eat all night."
"I'm not like that," Connor responds bored.
The driver finally gets annoyed that a kid is contradicting his word, "Whatever!"
Connor finally gets in the cab and closes the door.
As the cab drives away a vampire comes out of the bushes. He is talking on a cell phone. "Yeah, I think I found him," he replies devilishly.
In a quiet, fancy room where someone is sleeping an alarm clock goes off. The person in the bed stirs, but doesn't wake up.
Now some anonymous person speaks into a speaker, "Miss Summers, please get up your work shift starts in fifteen minutes." A beeping noise starts. Covers are now thrown off the bed and Dawn sits up. Her room is very empty too. Dawn gets up and walks to her left of the room. There is a mirror filled with pictures of Buffy, Xander, Willow, Kennedy, and Tara, even some of Giles, Oz, and Cordy. It's been one year she thought. When Buffy left to start a new life, Willow and Kennedy broke up, and when Xander, well just left. Also it had been a year since Anya and Spike died. A few tears fall down her cheek as she thinks of the past seven years.
The speaker goes on again, "Miss Summers please get up." Dawn walks over to her closet. She puts her hand on the wall. The speaker automatically talks. "Good morning Miss Summers," it says in monotone like voice.
Dawn replies sleepily, "Yeah, yeah," Dawn opens her closet door. "Now what am I going to wear today," she says a little more awake.
She pulls out a navy blue mini skirt, a nice crisp white blouse, and a navy jacket. She hurriedly gets dressed and puts on a pair of matching shoes. She rushes out of her room into a hallway that is shiny, bright, and clean. People in formal dress wear and nametags say hello to her. She stops in front of a set of doors.
"ID please," the voice from the speaker says kindly
"Hold on a second, let me get…it," Dawn suddenly remembered she left it in Angel's office. "I took it off in Angel's office after I patrolled. Shit!" Dawn says angrily.
"ID please," the voice says again. Suddenly the two doors open and Angel walks out with Dawn's name badge.
"I see your memory is exactly like Buffy's," Angel says jokingly.
"Well you know I try not to be like her," Dawn says slightly embarrassed. She grabs the badge from a not surprised Angel.
"But you're more and more like her everyday," Angel said. They paused for a moment to think about what Angel said.
"So what do I have to work on today," Dawn said very businesslike.
"Well, students from UCLA are coming in on Friday for a tour," Angel said.
"Do you have a list of people?" Dawn asks.
"Not yet. The list comes at noon," Angel answered
"Why noon? The tour is tomorrow?" Dawn said questioningly.
"For forgetful people like you," Angel says with a smile on his face. Angel starts walking and Dawn follows him. They come up to an elevator. Angel presses the up button. Angel and Dawn walk into the elevator. Angel continues talking.
"Until noon, you can monitor Cordy," Angel said almost sadly.
"Any improvements?" Dawn asked.
"Not really, but last night some workers said she had a surge of brain activity for twenty minutes," says Angel.
"Any idea what it was?" Dawn asks with interest.
"Not the slightest idea, but you are going to find out," said Angel.
"Me?Coolie!" said Dawn truly excited. The elevator doors open and Dawn walks out.
"Have fun," Angel says in a playful tone.
"I will. I love researching stuff on the computer," Dawn said happily.
The elevator doors close and Angel presses up again. In a few minutes he walks out of the elevator and goes to his office. He strolls in his office and asks the computer for reasons why someone in a coma would have surges of brain activity. In three seconds the computer had an answer. "I just love this technology," says Angel with tons of enthusiasm.
"Small brain surges rarely happen in the beginning stages of a coma. If it happens any later the patient is no longer in or starting to get out of a coma." The computer said in a monotone.
"Not the info I was looking for! Hopefully Dawn comes up with something." Says a disappointed Angel.
"Connor, come get breakfast," Connor's mom yelled up to his room. Connor lies in his bed. He slowly sits up in his bed. He has cold sweat all over his face and body.
"Connor! Get up!" An angry sister yells as she walks in. Connor weakly got out of bed. "You're still having nightmares," his sister says worryingly.
"Shut up Rachel!" says a pissed off Connor.
"A sister tries to be considerate to her bro and he just yells at her. I just love my life." Rachel says in a sarcastic tone.
"Sorry. Please tell mom I'll be down in a second," Connor asked his little sister.
"Fine." Rachel says in an angry tone. Rachel walks out and closes the door behind her. She walks slowly down the stairs into the kitchen. "Mom, Connor will be down…" Connor's voice cuts off Rachel.
"Morning mom and dad." Connor said brightly.
"Oh my God! How did you get dressed so fast? Rachel said amazed.
"I didn't. You' re moving slow." Connor said calmly.
"You're ruining MY life!" Rachel says angrily.
"Oh, then I can call UCLA and cancel your spot on the tour of Wolfram and Hart." Connor says with an attitude.
"You got me a tour of Wolfram and Hart?" Rachel asks. Connor nods. "Oh my God," Rachel says with excitement. She starts jumping up and down.
"That was very nice of you, Connor." Connor's dad says seriously.
"What can I say? I'm a nice boy." Connor says like it's actually true.
Dawn is on her computer searching about comas. Cordy is in front of her in a glass room getting a pedicure and haircut. Dawn is not having much luck.
"Argh!" Dawn said frustrated, "Out of all this technology and brains these people have there is NOTHING about brain activities during a coma!" Someone walks by and starts talking to Dawn.
"Well duh! Having a coma means no brain activity!" The person said real snotty. "It would have to be magic or something for that!" The person walks away. Dawn has a look a realization on her face
"Magic," she mutters to herself. "Magic. Does Cordy even have connections to magic? She seems to normal for magic." Dawn says unbelievably. "Angel should know." Dawn said confidently. She pages him. "Hey Angel, does Cordy have any connections to magic?" Dawn questions.
"Well, yeah. She's a higher being." Angel says normally.
"Oh," Dawn says shocked, " I always thought Cordy was uh, a little uh, too mean to be that." Angel laughs at her.
"Yeah, you would think that," Angel says jokingly, "She sees visions from the Powers That Be." Angel said more serious.
"Well I think that might be what the surge of brain activity Cordy had, but I'm not sure." Dawn said.
"Okay, It's lunch time for you. I'll have Fred continue researching." Angel says businesslike. Dawn nods. "When you come back you can work on the tour with UCLA." Dawn nods again and gets up to go get lunch.
"Oh Angel," Dawn said
"Yeah," Angel says
"I'm going out for lunch and to WalMarts. I need some stuff." Dawn said.
"Okay, but try to come back on time." Angel says strictly and emphasizing on time. Dawn nods her head again and leaves after organizing her work.
"Please pick up some stuff I need at WalMarts," Connor's mom says nicely.
"What stuff do ya need?" Connor replies.
"Here's the list and PLEASE hurry." Connor's mom said.
"Yeah, don't get sidetracked by a girl," Rachel said teasingly. Connor hits Rachel in the arm. "Ow! Dad!" Rachel said angrily.
"Rachel be nice to your brother he just got you a tour at Wolfram and Hart." Connor's dad said sternly.
"I'm going. Bye mom, bye dad," says Connor. Then Connor goes to WalMart.
Dawn is at Burger King. She just finished her lunch and is throwing it away. "Now to WalMart," Dawn said to herself.
Connor walks in WalMart. He looks at list he of things his mom needs. "Holy cow!" Connor exclaims. The list is over a page long. "I can see why mom wanted me to hurry," Connor said. On the top of the list is shampoo for Rachel. He continues reading the list and sees that most of the stuff is for Rachel. "If most of this is for Rachel then why didn't she come? I don't know my way around here." Connor says angrily. He looks around and sees a cheery WalMart employee. He walks up to her. "Excuse me," Connor said politely.
"Yes, How may I help you," the employee said politely too.
"Um, Where is the shampoo?" Connor says sheepishly.
"Aisle 19," the employee responded happily. Connor nods his head and walks down the main aisle to find aisle nineteen.
Dawn walks in WalMarts in a rush. She practically runs down an aisle off to the side to get to aisle nineteen. Dawn enters aisle nineteen on the right and Connor enters it on the left. They both enter the exact same time. They don't notice each right away. Connor and Dawn both grab for the same shampoo. Dawn accidentally bumps into Connor. They both fall down. Dawn drops her purse and contents of it go flying all the over floor. Dawn and Connor finally look at each other. They are mesmerized. Connor can only say two words. "Oh my."
Fred is searching the computer about information on Cordy, that night she had brain activity. Fred pages Angel with a look of triumph. "Angel, I'm positive Cordy had a vision that night," she said happily because she figured it out.
"Good work," Angel said.
"The cameras show her eyes turning white at the exact same moment and her head turning side to side frantically," Fred says as she watches the surveillance camera's video.
"Can you get an image of the vision," Angel questioned.
"I'll try, but I can't promise anything." Fred said professionally.
"Do the best you can," Angel said.
Dawn is still on the floor. She is dazed at the sight of Connor. Love is in her eyes. "I'm sorry," she managed to say nervously. Connor starts to pick up some of the contents of Dawn's purse. He picks up her name badge.
"No problem, uh, Dawn," He said flirtatiously. He holds up her name badge and some makeup.
"Thanks," Dawn says in a rush. She grabs the makeup and name badge and stuffs it in her purse. She gets the shampoo she wants. Connor grabs the same one and she gives him a confused look.
"I have to get shampoo for my sister," he said sheepishly.
"Oh, and here I thought you were gay." She said getting her confidence back.
"Nope, totally straight," he looks at her hopefully, "I got a long list of stuff to get for my sister. Could you help me find everything?" Connor said more comfortable.
"Sure, I loved to," Dawn says happily. They both walk out of aisle nineteen smiling.
"Your late!" Angel said angrily.
"Sorry, WalMarts was totally busy," Dawn says lying. Angel never detects the lie.
"Well, just get started with the paperwork," Angel says more calmly.
"Okay," Dawn said. Angel leaves his office. Dawn sits down and makes herself comfortable. Angel comes back in to tell her that she is going to show UCLA students around. Angel leaves again. "Great what fun," she says sarcastically. Dawn starts to make nametags for all the students. She talks to herself as she makes the nametags. "Celesta Lawrence. Interesting name. Bernadette Oates, Sarah Larkin, Milo Lee, Karen Thompson, Michelle Dayton, Ryan Smith, Connor Hart, Rachel Hart, Jason Dane, and… WHAT! There are only ten people going on this tour? I expected like a hundred. Is Wolfram and Hart that unpopular?" Dawn said to herself.
Dawn jumps a mile when Angel pages her. "Oh my God, Angel you scared me to death!" Dawn exclaims. Angel tries to hold in his laughter, but fails. "Hey not funny," Dawn says angrily.
Angel slowly recovers from his laughing spell. "You should've of seen your face! It was priceless." Angle says, "And you jumped so high! I don't even think Buffy could jump that high."
Angel was going to continue, but Dawn interrupts him, "Angel!"
"Right, go patrolling." Angel said seriously.
"Okay." Dawn gets up and leaves.
Dawn is walking through the cemetery in her work clothes. "Why didn't I change? My feet are killing me!" Dawn says to herself. A vampire comes up behind her. She flips him over her shoulder two more vamps show up. She kicks one in the stomach and punches the other in the face. She pulls out a stake and lunges at the one she kicked. He blocks it and throws her into a tree. He charges at her. Just as he is about to bite Dawn she jams the stake through his heart. As the dust clears the girl vampire she punched picks up and slams Dawn to the ground, she drops the wooden stake. The girl vamp slashes Dawn in the stomach. Dawn manages to throw the girl into another tree. She tries to get the stake and get up, but a garbage can is smashed on her back. The vampire picks Dawn up and holds her still as the girl baddie punches her in the face couple times. Blood starts rolling down her neck from her wounded face. The vampire holding Dawn looks at the blood and cannot resist. His fangs go deep into Dawn's neck. She gasps in pain as the girl vamp laughs at her. The girl baddie starts punching Dawn some more. Dawn feels like she cannot take any more. Everything becomes a blur, she feels like giving up there and then. "Maybe death is underrated." Dawn says to herself. Then suddenly she feels grass all around her as dust lands on her. She looks up and sees a leather duster and platinum blond hair before she passes out from lose of blood.