Dawning Light 14: Family Hour (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Anita Blake) PG

[mhalachaiswords]

She's really five now...

Dawning Light
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Anita Blake crossover
Chapter Fourteen: Family Hour
by mhalachaiswords

Summary: Dawn fell from Glory's tower and into the portal. Now she's all alone and scared... but sometimes family comes from the strangest places.
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.

Comments

[kira_snugz]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
awesome!

i love dawns reactions to the tension, and her rant on family and it may have made me cry.

love love love love this!

[mhalachaiswords]

Thanks! It's always been rather poignant, writing Dawn's take on family. She's only a year and a half old, really, and she's still learning. I have no idea what Anita's excuse is (well, I do -- it's fear of loss and rejection, and I think a mini-Dawn will help Anita deal)

[neviditelny]

Absolutely brilliant. Can't wait for part 2!

[mhalachaiswords]

Thanks! Part 2 will be great - when I get there. Soon :)

[hsifyppah]

Awwwww.

[mhalachaiswords]

Oh yeah.

OT: Did you get to a polling station today?

[hsifyppah]

I did! Joe took pity on me and drove me from voting to my delivery.

[mhalachaiswords]

Joe's awesome. Yay to votery! I'm constantly refreshing the internets waiting for results.

[goldenrat84]

I don't know why but Dawn calling Nathaniel his 'governess' strikes me as the cutest thing.
Do we get to read about Dawn's next 13 years or do we jump right into the action?

[mhalachaiswords]

It's something ridiculous Dawn would do. She's been watching too much Sound of Music in her off-hours :)

We will see a bit of the next 13 years - I need to introduce a new character in an 'interlude', but then we will go to year 13, when Dawn hits 18 and oh, the wackiness begins.

[tygermama]

I'm embarrassed to say I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this series, especially given how much I LOVE "Physics of the Spin" And I sometimes do not like Dawn, but I love her here. She's acting, they all are acting, so realistically.

Uncomfortable family dinners *sighs*
I actually find myself liking, or at least sympathizing, with Micah's dad. If anything happened to my children that had such broad effects on their lives, I'd have trouble handling it too, especially as he probably has seen first hand how lycanthropy can go awry. Of all of them, he seems to me to be trying the hardest to accept the situation.

*waits patiently for more*

[mhalachaiswords]

There's enough love to go around :) I love all my stories of wounded little girls. Which is mostly all of them. But Dawn is so adorable and wounded. There's something irresistible to a young child, which Dawn was even on the show in early days (young mind in a teenage body). She's so vulnerable and yet wise, in her own way

[tygermama]

I own "Micah", it's in the next room! I feel silly now, but that's not an infrequent thing with me.

Please feel free to ramble as much as you want. I love rambles, I think I learn more from listening(reading?) writers ramble than I necessarily learn from reading their work!

I like your Anita, she's trying so hard to overcome her issues and sometimes the books leave me feeling unfulfilled. "Great sex scenes, Laurell, but WTF is going on! Have we furthered the overarching plot at all?" (Although in all fairness, there's been lots of character development, the Mother of All Darkness freaks me out and I want to know what she's up to. So basically I'm impatient.)

[mhalachaiswords]

One of the reasons I started this story (waay long time ago) was that I wanted to have Anita forced to deal with something outside of her own head. In the books, it was very much sex-power-sex without anything resembling reality coming in, or at least going in that direction. Frankly, it wasn't that interesting to me. So I gave her Dawn and took her in a very different direction.