Spoilers: Season 7 Buffy, up to (And maybe including, haven't decided yet) Infinite Crisis in DC, and mid-to late ninties issues of various X-Men, X-Force, that sort of thing. I'm sorry, but current Marvel really sucks.
Rating: T/pg-13 (for the moment)
Pairings: Dawn/Bart Allen (Kid Flash), mentions of Robin/Batgirl, Wondegirl/Superboy, maybe Connor(Angel's son)/Greta or Connor/Cissie
Summary: During the fight against the First, Dawn falls through a potal which sends her to an alternate dimension. Unable to return home, Dawn makes a new life for herself, only there's a couple problems: her new boyfriend is anything but normal, and how exactly is she related to the Summers family anyway?
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katie: Thank you for another review.
Allen Pitt: What can I say? It'll serve a purpose later on. As for the Lobo thing, yup, it was a referance to the now dead de-aged Lobo.
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isabella: Glad somebody agrees with the criminal record thing. Thanks for the review,
Valkyrie: I know what you mean, but I needed a more mature version of Bart for this story. I tried to keep with his personality both from the current Teen Titans comics and from "Sins of Youth," when we met the adult version of Bart.
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Chapter 2
With a sigh, Dawn flopped down in her chair in the back of the classroom. In the three months Dawn had been in this dimension, she had become used to their ways... sort of.
She already knew most of what was being taught in her classes, well with the exception of math. So she used the class time to chronicle her memories from before she had been given a human body.
It was actually rather helpful. It enabled her to look back at certain incidents and try to figure out exactly how she had done whatever it was with her powers and if she could do it again. She practiced as often as possible, and now had rather good control over her powers as the Key. Admittedly there was room for improvement, but that was to be expected.
The visions... well, she had managed to stop innocents from dying and such, thanks to the visions. Other than that though, Dawn hadn't really bothered patrolling or anything. Keystone City had the Flash, Kid Flash, and that other Flash for that.
Ignoring the teacher Dawn began to write about her experiences with Etta, one of her former champions.
Bart was annoyed. Very annoyed. Admittedly, after proving that he actually knew what he was talking about, the teachers had decided that he wasn't cheating, but that wasn't the problem.
The problem was, his A.P. Calculus teacher had pressured him into tutoring one of his classmates. It had already been arranged between Jay, and the girl's guardians for her to come over to their place after school.
He leaned against the wall. Bart was supposed to walk her over there so that she didn't get lost or anything.
Apparently, except for Math, in which Miss Dawn-Marie Summers was getting a D, she was a straight A student. Not that Bart was supposed to know that.
"I-uh... hi."
Bart turned to look at the girl to his left. The girl from the library She was the girl who had been using curses from languages that as far as Earth was concerned didn't exist.
"Yeah? Dawn-Marie?"
"It's Dawn," she growled. "Never call me that in public again. Bartholomew Allen, right?"
"Bart, my friends call me Bart."
It was times like these that Bart was really grateful he'd had that growth spurt during summer break between junior and senior year. Dawn was very tall, about 5'9 or 5'10, if not for the fact that Bart was now nearly 6'6, he would have been the one looking up at her instead of the other way around.
As they talked about math (Dawn was in Sequential 3), Bart began to realize that if he looked at her the right way, the air around her glowed. It was nearly impossible to spot, unless you knew what you were looking for. Whoever or whatever Dawn Summers was, she was most definitely not a normal human.
Dawn couldn't help but notice how handsome Bart was. He was more than half a foot taller than her, unlike most guys, who were in fact shorter than she was. He had shaggy auburn hair and eyes a rather nice shade of yellow. Dawn had to admit that, like her cousin Scott, she had a thing for red heads, and Bart was one of the better specimens she'd found. He was kind of stringy, but if you actually looked you could see the underlying muscle and he was very intelligent.
For a moment Dawn wondered about the yellow eyes. In her dimension, the only humans with eyes that color were mutants or not completely human to begin with. Deciding that he was most likely a meta-human (this dimension's term for mutants), Dawn shrugged it off.
It didn't really matter too much to Dawn which side of the law Bart was on, if in fact he had chosen a side. The Key was rather ambiguous. Neither good nor evil, and Dawn didn't particularly feel like taking sides unless an innocent was about to be injured.
Although, she was somewhat frightened that Bart was a Super hero or some such. Back before she had gotten her body, Dawn had been forced to do some horrible, horrible things. That was one of the problems with being sentient but inanimate. If Bart was a Superhero, she knew that he would judge her past harshly. And for that matter, if he was one of the bad guys, he might try to use her for her powers.
Dawn couldn't help but smile. She had gotten a B+ on her first math test since Bart had been tutoring her. If she got an A on her midterm it would be perfect.
She would be applying to University of Kansas, Keystone City as soon as she took her midterm. UK-Keystone was on the same level as Fordham University. It was the best college Dawn could get into and afford. With financial age, a part-time job, and her inheritance from Spike she would be able to pay her tuition and get an apartment without getting any loans.
It did help that UK-Keystone had a very good anthropology department. Dawn had every intention of doing a double major in linguistics and anthropology.
"Ow! Let me go asshole!"
Bart paused as he walked down the hallway of the school. That voice was familiar. Even if it hadn't been he would have done something. Dawn. Somebody was messing with Dawn.
He pushed his way through the crowd, most of whom were ignoring it. The moment Bart was past his classmates, he understood why they were doing nothing. Dawn had been cornered by the quarterback, Jeff Manson, who was much larger and much stronger than most of his classmates. Not to mention the fact that several of the other players on the team were nearby.
"Let me explain it to you this way, Dawn, you are going with me to the Winter Formal," said Jeff. "And after the formal, you and I are going to have some... alone time." Jeff's hand trailed down her neck.
Bart could understand why Jeff wanted Dawn. With her unusually long dark hair, large amethyst eyes, and almost unhealthily pale skin, she was very pretty. She was tall, thin, and, in Bart's opinion at least, Dawn was very nicely curved. Ok, so her breasts weren't all that large, and Dawn always wore clothing that covered everything except her face and hands. However, Dawn was one of the prettiest girls in the school.
As Jeff's hand neared Dawn's breast, Bart acted. Moving forward he grabbed Jeff. He pulled the quarterback away from Dawn with one hand.
"I suggest you stay away from Dawn," said Bart, slamming Jeff against the lockers. "If I see you near her again... well it won't be pleasant."
Bart had no intention to fight Jeff, just threaten him. Luckily, Jeff didn't know that. Jeff looked up at Bart, who was several inches taller than him, and much more muscular.
"If she was you girl, all you needed to do was say so," stuttered Jeff.
"Mr Allen! What do you think you're doing?"
Bart turned to see Mr. Lorenson, his history teacher. The one who had first accused him of cheating in tenth grade.