Series Title: Quirks
Title: Dawn
Author: Jmaria
Rating: FR-15
Dislaimer: I do not own them. Joss owns the girl.
Series Summary: Everybody's got 'em. Vignettes from the Resurrected 'verse.
Summary: A quirk of the Key, or just another family trait?
Words: 234 (seriously?)
A/N: Not where I was meaning to go with this, but - eh, I think its okay. They are going to get light-hearted. Dammit.
Quirks
Dawn
Its not done consciously, but over the years Dawn's absorbed the best of her family's traits. Maybe it was the part of her that was still the Key. Maybe it was part of the spell the monks made. Honestly, she's not sure because she's never paid that much attention to it.
She sees things like Xander. She's blunt like Anya. She's excited by learning - like both Willow and Giles. And she needs like Buffy - needs stability, friendship, comfort - a mother.
Its this need that prompts her to take risks. She needs an ally against Buffy and Angel - and finds Connor, who in turn needs someone who gets the whole part-of-it-yet-still-outside-it vibe the two groups have always given off. When Giles left the Ohio Hellmouth to fix the Council HQ in London, she needed a mentor - a father figure of sorts. And Bobby Singer, in turn, needed a translator. When Dean died and left Sam Winchester vulnerable, Dawn slipped in because she was feeling a need to leave Buffy alone to finally connect with Graham like she knew her sister should.
When the Winchesters' needed a guide, a home, she found herself needing that too. And she found the best way to meet that need, was to give it all to them. Because that was the very thing she'd absorbed from her mother Joyce. The need to fill the void.