Dawn was having a marvelous first day in the hotel. She slept in since there was no one to get her up for school, she wandered down to the banquet hall and had chocolate chip pancakes smothered in whip cream and more chocolate chips since and a side of chocolate milk for breakfast, after a bit more exploring she wandered back up to her room where she was currently jumping on her unmade bed singing along with the Backstreet Boys at the top of her lungs
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"Oh, I was wondering how you were able to go into the sun without burning," Dawn said conversationally until what Pam told really sank in. "Wait! You mean all that talk about eating me and you're not even a vampire anymore! That is so totally lame! And you know what, you weren't even that scary, I just didn't want to make you feel bad. What kind of vampire wears panyhose anyways?"
Pam had to shake her head slightly to clear the ringing in her ears from the shrillness of Dawn's outrage. "One of the waitresses at the bar once thought it was a good idea to bring her chihuahua puppy to work one night. It had a very stupid name, like cupcake or snowball or something," she reminisced. "All it did was bark incessantly all night as if it believed it could take on every vampire in the building even though we could have snapped it's little doggy neck in less than a human heartbeat. You remind me of that dog."
"While I admire your bravado, do you really not think I have learned something in the last few centuries so that I could kill you even without the use of my fangs little human?" Pam asked with what could almost be considered sincere curiosity. "Because this very well dressed vampire could, without even putting a run in my stockings."
"If I had a chihuahua I wouldn't name it Cupcake or Princess or anything like that," Dawn replied, completely ignoring any death threats or insults in Pam's story. "I would give it a strong name that it could hold it's head up high in the dog park. I would name it something like Killer or Thor!"
Pam had a flash of a mental picture of her master carrying around a little yappy dog named after one of his gods and couldn't help the smirk that passed over her lips. She blinked the amusing thought away and turned her attention back towards the teen. "Has anyone ever told you, you are a very odd young human?"
"Cool!" Dawn said excitedly, already sliding her feet into her sneakers, which were admittedly not as snazzy as Pam's designer pumps, were serviceable enough to get her down to the theater.
"So," Dawn asked, trying to act casually as she followed Pam down the hallway, trying to keep pace with her long strides, "when you say that everyone comes here becomes human, do you mean it just turns you back into a human? Like vamps are suddenly alive again? Or does it mean that anything that a person might have inside of them that isn't human goes away?" she wondered trying to figure out what happened to keyness, and if it was or wasn't gone what that would mean for her. Of course that was tempered by the fact that she didn't really know what it meant for her in the first place since she only found out about it a couple days ago and no one seemed to want to talk to her about it.
"It appears that no matter who or what you were before you entered the hotel, you become a completely average run of the mill human," Pam revealed, still not completely at ease with this fact of the hotel. "Vampires are alive, witches have no magic, weres do not shift, even aliens from other worlds are utterly human and common. Even humans with extraordinary abilities loose those. I have a friend who was a telepath before bring brought here and she has lost the ability completely." Sure Sookie was more than human what with her fae ancestry, but the telepathy was supposedly not connected to her genealogy and she was trying to make a point to the child.
"Why do you ask?" Pam questioned, sensing that it was more than just an academic question.
"Oh, no reason," Dawn said a little too quickly. Where there went the idea that she could use her keyness to get them all out of here, not that she had any desire to go back to Sunnydale and those people who weren't really her family. Of course as much as she told herself that, that didn't stop them from feeling like her family, but she wasn't going to think about that now.
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"While I admire your bravado, do you really not think I have learned something in the last few centuries so that I could kill you even without the use of my fangs little human?" Pam asked with what could almost be considered sincere curiosity. "Because this very well dressed vampire could, without even putting a run in my stockings."
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"Soooo... I heard there is a movie theater around here. Do you wanna go see a movie with me?" she asked.
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"Alright," she finally agreed, deciding that she didn't have anything better to do.
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"So," Dawn asked, trying to act casually as she followed Pam down the hallway, trying to keep pace with her long strides, "when you say that everyone comes here becomes human, do you mean it just turns you back into a human? Like vamps are suddenly alive again? Or does it mean that anything that a person might have inside of them that isn't human goes away?" she wondered trying to figure out what happened to keyness, and if it was or wasn't gone what that would mean for her. Of course that was tempered by the fact that she didn't really know what it meant for her in the first place since she only found out about it a couple days ago and no one seemed to want to talk to her about it.
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"Why do you ask?" Pam questioned, sensing that it was more than just an academic question.
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