Evil Egg
A/N Kinda going off-piste with this one. So Dawn is being mind-controlled by the demon egg so it's more like a stream of consciousness.
Sunnydale, the world without shrimp 1998
Dear Diary,
I don't know where I am. I was at home, watching TV. I am watching TV. Where am I? I don't know where I am. Must get to the school. Am I at the school? Where am I? I was at the school. I am here. Must feed mother. Must feed. Must kill. Kill others. Kill others. Mom! Help me. Help me, I don't know what I'm doing here. Buffy? Buffy help me!
I scanned the room, my mind breaking through the control for a split second, but I couldn't see her anywhere. I was holding something, an axe. I swung it into the ground, leaving it there.
Kill! The screaming inside my head continued. I felt myself being pulled back under the demon's control. Nooooooo!
I don't know what I did. Did I hurt people? All I remember was Xander and Giles running in and shouting. Maybe they were here to save us, but the voice in my head told me to kill them. It was horrible.
After the fog had lifted people were saying there was some sort of gas leak. My head feels too heavy to believe them. So that night I asked Buffy what really happened. At first she told me not to worry about it, she was grounded and a little grumpy I guess. But then she saw the look on my face and repealed her answer. She told me that in health class she got an egg, they were doing some sort of project about babies, I don't know. And over night the egg starting hatching because it was really a demon egg. Demons are very bad.
She told me that the baby demons inside the eggs were evil and that they took over people's brains. Xander had to save everybody because he hard-boiled his egg and didn't get infected. Or hypnotised, or under the thrall or something. I asked Buffy if she was going to tell mom what really happened, but she said no. I told her that she should, she'd probably get into less trouble if mom knew what was going on half the time. That it wasn't actually Buffy's fault she kept getting into trouble. That mom would understand. But Buffy said it was part of her job, keeping that stuff a secret. That mom probably wouldn't believe her, not because she didn't want to but because she was a grown up and grown ups didn't always get stuff like this.
She told me that I had to keep her secret too. I felt special to be keeping her secret, like it was some sister bonding thing. I really wanted to be like her when I grew up. Sometimes I was jealous because I was always right there when stuff went bad but I couldn't do anything to help. Later Buffy made me see why I had to wait. The world is dangerous.
Dawn Xx