Title: Dawn of the Son
Author: Spichik453
Chapter 1
Dawn sat up in her bed sighing as the alarm still went off to her side. She had the weird dream again. The one where she was running through the Sunnydale grave yard, and the demon with tentacles trying to bite at her ankle and her mom sitting on a grave laughing at her. She leaned over, turned off her alarm and walked across the hall to brush her teeth. Looking out the window in the hall it was clear that the weather was the same as always. Damp. What a far cry from California, or even Cleveland as where she had been living before she moved to Seattle. "Hurry up!" She said, pounding on the door. Her housemate, Lucy, was taking forever in the bathroom, and Dawn had to get to work on time. Deciding that it was better to brush her teeth after breakfast, and after Lucy had left the bathroom, Dawn wandered downstairs to the kitchen. Elizabeth was already at the breakfast table, dressed for work, eating a bowl of cereal. "Lucy still in the bathroom?"
"Yeah. That girl takes forever." Dawn offered. "Are we out of Raisin Bran?"
Elizabeth nodded. "Thomas is picking some up after he gets done with his shift today."
Dawn nodded, grabbed the Wheaties, and sat down. Elizabeth ate the last couple of bites and then stood up. "I'm going. I want to get the best cases today. I feel like today is my day to finally scrub in."
"I'll see you there." Dawn said taking her bite. "Lucy promised me she'd give me a ride in."
Elizabeth grabbed her keys. "Oh yeah. Your friend Willow called last night. It was before you were done with your shift. Nothing important, just call her back when you can."
"Thanks. See you in a bit?"
"Yep." With that, Elizabeth left, leaving Dawn alone in the kitchen. She heard Lucy get out of the bathroom, and she ate one more bite of breakfast before running up the stairs. Thomas would be getting back from the hospital soon and Dawn wanted to beat him to the hospital so that she wouldn't be late for work.
The second the door was opened, Dawn slid in. "Gosh Summers, its like you used to live with a lot of people in a tiny house." Dawn smiled to Lucy as she shut the door. If only she knew about the hoards of potentials that all stayed at the Summers' residence. Sometimes, it was easier to just ignore people trying to pry information about her past. They knew she was from Sunnydale, the "Sink Hole" town, and that she had strong connections to Cleveland. But Dawn had decided, nine years earlier when she had first started school in Cleveland that some things would be easier to hide if she just didn't say anything. It was not always easy to hide the fact that she was now fluent in Ancient Samarian, Babylonian and knew a demon language (or three) or the fact that she had helped her sister save the world. No. Seattle was a life apart from all the Slayers, and the Scoobies.
Moving to Seattle was one of the hardest decisions she had ever made. Going to school in a different state was one thing. But actually leaving without knowing when she was coming back was difficult. After her mom died, the Scoobies had become her family. There was not a day that went by that Dawn had to remind herself why she went to medical school to be a emergency room doctor. To help the Scoobies. Just in case there was another apocalypse. But as Dawn went to school, and more Slayers started turning up, Giles was able to find a doctor to help treat all the slayers, all while Dawn was training to be one. When it came time to pick where she was going to do her internship, Dawn thought long and hard. She could try the whole living away from the shadow of Buffy in a different state, or she could remain close.
Dawn took the leap.
Lucy was waiting impatiently for Dawn downstairs by the time Dawn had gotten dressed. Thomas was coming in the front door. He had been on call the night before and after a long shift, he looked like he was about ready to collapse. Which he did. All over Lucy's couch in the living room. "Your shoes better not be on the couch!" Lucy called as she and Dawn went out to the garage. As Dawn shut the door behind her she could hear Thomas' shoes hit the floor.
And so the day started. Aside from the dream, Dawn did not think the day was out of the ordinary. Even the dream was becoming normal routine. Three, four nights a week for the past month Dawn would find herself running through the cemetery, avoiding the weird demon with the tentacles and her mom. Dawn wasn't sure it was even a demon. She had never seen one that big. (The fact that she had seen demons was another thing she kept very secret from her new friends in Cleveland and Seattle.) Dawn spent only a second dwelling on the fact that she had had the dream every night for the past five nights, a first, as she grabbed a chart and went into trauma room two.
"What do we have?" Dawn said, looking at a young woman about 25, with long blond hair and an I Love New York t-shirt on. People were already rushing around the tiny room getting anything Dawn's attending might need.
"25 year old Jane Doe. Found out by the pier this morning." The paramedic reported as they moved her off of the cart and onto the bed. "Her blood has been drained but there was not a pool around her, and she's got these two punctures in her neck." The paramedic lifted up the hair to let Dawn look.
"What does it look like to you Dr. Summers?" Asked her attending Dr. Wilhelm.
Dawn knew what she thought. It was unmistakably a vampire. But she would lose all credibly when if she were to cry vampire. "I've never seen anything like it." Dawn said. "We should start giving her blood, and treat her for iron deficiency stat."
Dr. Wilhelm nodded and barked orders for the nurses and other interns to start following Dawn's instructions. While treating this woman, Dawn couldn't help but wonder. What kind of vampire would not finish their meal? She was found in daylight, which means that they did not turn her.
When a second patient came in the next day, and two the day after that, the exact same symptoms as the first woman, Dawn and the rest of Seattle started getting suspicious.