Dawn Summers

Once upon a time... I was the Key, but now I'm all deactivated so, now I'm just Dawn. {Older Dawn Summers Indie/Verse blog}

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Returning Home || Open

It’d been years since she had been back in California, and there was a good reason too. After leaving home, Dawn had realized you can’t just spend your whole life in one place. There was so much out there in the world that in her opinion if you didn’t go out to see them you weren’t really living. Though, she saw it all and practically did it all so it was now time to return home. Find somewhere permanent, or semi, to be for a while. “Thanks for the ride.” She told the cab driver, handing him his money. Dawn grabbed her bag and from the trunk before he drove off leaving her on some busy street in Los Angeles.

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

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Spike shrugged slightly in response. “Not a problem,” he answered, managing a slight smile. He was the one in the wrong here, and he couldn’t ask anyone to feel bad for the memories that crowded memories of what he had done to Dawn… But they haunted him all the same, and he hated every time they pushed into his mind.

Spike smirked and shook his head. “You could have fooled me, b-Dawn,” he commented, catching himself before he could call her bit. He didn’t want to upset her in the slightest…. He’d done enough of that. “I like being up here. Less judgement here than everywhere.”

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“What do you think about him anyway?” She asked looking over to him. “Thor I mean.” Dawn wanted to rebuild what they had, but she knew it could never go back to where it was before. There would always be tension between them since it seemed like neither could ever forget a single detail. But it didn’t hurt to take small steps in that direction. 

“I think I like him, but then again I don’t think I’m ready for any kind of relationship.” She shrugged and looked back out the window. “I’m just not the type for them, I guess. Never really have been.”

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3 Stages of Dawn Summers Fangirling (Insp)

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Favorite Unpopular Characters Meme A Favorite Underappreciated Regular Character → Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) “She still thinks I’m Little Miss Nobody, just her dumb little sister. Boy, is she in for a surprise. “

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

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Spike only nodded, obviously upset but understanding why she didn’t want to be called that after he had done… That to her. “Ok. I won’t, Dawn,” he said after a moment, leaning against the railing and glancing at his out of the corner of her eye occasionally. His frown only deepened when she tried to joke and only seemed to upset herself. He had really buggered up.

“I suppose you’re right,” he agreed softly, not making eye contact either since it seemed to make her uncomfortable. He glanced up and shrugged. “Once in a while. I was trying to get away from Fury and people. Your boyfriend being one.” He didn’t mind being beat up for what he had done, but preferably while he was drunk.

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“Thank you.” She offered him a small smile. His nickname pushed her over the edge and brought up some horrible memories. Some that wouldn’t be helpful for her brain right now; he was lucky that she wasn’t yelling at him or freaking out. Dawn’s smile dropped after a few seconds, it had been awhile since it lasted longer than that. 

“He’s not my boyfriend.” She snapped at him. “Sorry.” She apologized after realizing what she did. “Not yet anyway,” Dawn tried to cover up what had happened, “it’s nice to come up here. It’s all open and you can think, there’s just so much going on that we forget to breathe. We need places like this.” She rambled on it quietly. Never taking her eyes off of the window in front of her she finished her ramble, “Being up here makes me almost feel free. I can escape from my mind.”

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

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Spike blinked in surprise as she told him to stop, standing there for a moment as he examined the young woman. He could hear how quickly she was breathing, and the breathless voice just tipped him off further. “Thank you, bit,” he said quietly, taking a slow step inside as he watched her and managed a small smile. “Of course I won’t hurt you.”

He could still feel the guilt that crushed around him for what he had done to the girl who probably trusted him most. Besides maybe her big sister. He had gone at her without a soul, and that was a terrifying memory for him. “Well, if you want me to leave, tell me,” he commented quietly, moving closer to her and slowly stepping up to the railing.

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She shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest to create some security for herself. “Don’t call be that please... not yet.” Dawn’s voice was quiet and shook a little. Even though he couldn’t hurt her because if she were to scream someone would be able to her. “Good, I’m really not in the mood for violence.” She tried to joke, but it only made her shiver.  “It’s fine, like I said there’s no point in leaving.” Dawn shrugged, never making eye contact with him. There were a few moments of silence between them for she coughed and said, “So, do you come up here often?” She tried strike up a conversation, not really wanting to have dead air since it was already awkward enough. 

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

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Spike winced as she jumped and started to turn around. He only had the moment to realize he shouldn’t go after her unless she really hurt herself… She’d be terrified of him, and rightfully so. He didn’t want to make it any worse, and he certainly didn’t want to get any closer if she was going to hurt herself because of it. That certainly wouldn’t be a good thing. “I’m not going to do anything, I’ll go away if you really want me to,” he promised quietly, watching her silently.

He stiffened as she started to hyperventilate and raised his hands slightly, stepping back towards the door to step out. “I’ll leave. I don’t want to upset you,… I didn’t even expect you to be up here,” he promised quietly. “I’m sorry, Bit. For everything I did to you… I’m gonna go unless you ask otherwise.” He took another step back and carefully reached for the door handle, every move slow and careful.

“W-wait.” She called after him in a breathless voice. “Mon- Spike wait.” Dawn  knew that this wasn’t going to end well, but she needed to do this. It would happen sooner or later, it just happened sooner than she thought. “You can join me.” She offered him a small smile and motioned to the spot next to her. “That’s if you promise not to hurt me.”  Dawn was getting a little more comfortable around him, but was still completely on edge. Her therapist said it would be good for her to see him and have a small conversation, but like expected everyone disagreed especially Thor. “We both came up here for some air, we shouldn’t have to leave because the other is here.” She turned around and leaned against the railing, staring out the window at the night sky again.   

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

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Spike hadn’t seen Dawn around since Thor had managed to get her back, and he didn’t want to upset her further if he did see her. The only interaction they had been when she was terrified and he was trying to sink as far into Lorne’s bar as possible, away from everyone.He hadn’t meant to do all those things… Well, he had, which was worse. His soulless self had enjoyed every moment of it, and he hated that memory. He had nightmares about it all the time. Torturing his little Bit.

He had started to move up to the observation deck to try to get some alone time. It really wasn’t hard to break into things around here, and most of the guards were off at nights anyways. It made things so much easier for him. He stepped out onto the deck and paused in surprise as he saw Dawn. “Hey, Bit,” he said quietly, standing near the door in case she freaked out. He would leave if it was a problem. He didn’t want to upset her further, and he was sure Thor would kill him if he even unintentionally messed with Dawnie even more. He didn’t want to make her worse. He was sure that Thor would dust him if he even unintentionally harmed her now.

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She whipped her head up quickly at the familiar British accent and turned around. By doing this all so quickly she managed to fall through the railing by misplacing her step. After nearly hitting her head up on the way too she managed to finally look at Spike. Dawn knew she looked like an idiot after all that, but in all honesty, she could care less since the person she feared the most was standing just a few feet away. “ W-” She tried to said, but fear took over. This wasn’t anywhere near what her shrink had recommend, hell it was no where near it.  Dawn’s breathing became heavy and she started to panic. She hadn’t seen Spike since Thor had rescued her and to her he was still the monster haunting her dreams. He had caused her so much emotional damage that seeing him now made it even worse than it probably should have. To her mind it was basically the same of being tortured again. Dawn looked around for an escape, but the only one was where he was leaning and there was no way she was going to try for that one. “W-wh-” She tried again, but still nothing. 

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Healing || Spike and Dawn || W5

It had been weeks since she had gotten back to the SHIELD base. Dawn had been in recovery ever since trying to get her mental state back to where she was before, but they could only do so much for her. For the first few weeks she would have episodes where she couldn’t remember where she was and thought everyone was out trying to get her. Those had gone away, but the night terrors she had were still there and weren’t planning on leaving anytime soon.  The medical officials of SHIELD had finally cleared her to go out on her own. Today was the first day she did go out and if she was honest with herself it was absolutely terrifying since she still had a feeling that something was going to happen. Dawn had ended up on the observation deck, and since it was night out it was easier to get into since not all of security was on duty. Looking out into the sky she found it was surprisingly calming and put her at ease. Being in this state of mind kept her from having flashbacks of what had happened. Dawn has learned how to deal with the flashbacks, but it wasn’t something that she wanted to see every waking hour because seeing it in her sleep was enough. She leaned over a railing and placed her head in her hands, trying to calm her nerves down even more.   

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