by Red WolfDawn sometimes wondered what life would have been like if she'd had a normal childhood. Would she be off at college studying fashion or accounting? Would she have left school and gotten a job?
Well, technically she did end up doing the latter. But she couldn't have predicted that an affinity for languages, demon and human, or skills with edged weapons would see her living in London and running her own business.
"We out of Ginger Snaps?" Spike yelled from the kitchen.
"Ask the Retjulls." Dawn smiled as she heard a yelp. No, she wouldn't trade her life for anything.
Jossverse Drabbles — challenge #153: a simpler life
Published Babble Horde — 27.02.2006
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dawn summers | fan fiction | fiction | london | retjull | spike
Haha! Great stuff. :) Wondering 
what ifis always good (well, for the viewers!) — via LiveJournal — posted by laridian at 23.09.2007 18:09 AEST |
Makes for an interesting writing exercise — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:10 AEST |
Glad Dawn is enjoying her life, but I guess it is never simple! — via LiveJournal
— posted by woman_of_ at 23.09.2007 18:11 AEST |
I'm sure it would have been safer, but a hell of a lot less interesting — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:11 AEST |
Would she left school and got a job?
Have left?
Still, this was so cute — there will be more, right? — via LiveJournal — posted by fatale at 23.09.2007 18:12 AEST |
Bugger! Stupid editing artefacts. Thanks for the catch.
There will sort of be more. Ideas this churned up may make it into a ficathon entry, but the muse is fickle and easily distracted, so who knows — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:13 AEST |
There will sort of be more. Ideas this churned up may make it into a ficathon entry, but the muse is fickle and easily distracted, so who knows — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:13 AEST |
::giggles:: Oh no, neither would I! I loved this! ::wide smile:: — via LiveJournal
— posted by limerickgirl at 23.09.2007 18:14 AEST |
Many thanks! Don't think I'd go for the normal life either — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:15 AEST |
Thanks! And you're back! ::waves:: — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:20 AEST |
Grown up Dawn is fun the play with — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:37 AEST |
Awww. They're so cute together, and it's sweet that Dawn realizes what she has and how good it is.
Would she have left school and got a job?— posted by Elizabeth Culmer at 23.09.2007 18:40 AEST |
And to keep the word count the same, perhapsor skills with edged weapons would see her living in London and running her own business— via LiveJournal
It's tough to say what her life would have been like. She wouldn't have been the cheerleader, that was Buffy. She's smart enough, but maybe not the geek Willow was to have been excluded that way. I'd say she would have drifted through as an average student, running on a different track so she wouldn't follow in Buffy's shadow, but maybe excelled at a college level.
Her life seems far more interesting now than it could have been otherwise.
Thanks for the catch. Considering I was tooling about with that sentence for so long, it's surprising it makes sense at all — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:41 AEST |
Her life seems far more interesting now than it could have been otherwise.
Thanks for the catch. Considering I was tooling about with that sentence for so long, it's surprising it makes sense at all — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:41 AEST |
I really like how Dawn turns a relative negative into a positive in this drabble. And great humour at the end :) — via LiveJournal
— posted by lillianmorgan at 23.09.2007 18:41 AEST |
Perspective is everything.
She's been through enough to know she couldn't be happy being that other girl knowing what she knows now, but still occasionally wonders what she could have been. Probably just as happy, but maybe not as challenged (or threatened) quite so often — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:42 AEST |
She's been through enough to know she couldn't be happy being that other girl knowing what she knows now, but still occasionally wonders what she could have been. Probably just as happy, but maybe not as challenged (or threatened) quite so often — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:42 AEST |
You're just angling for ginger snaps aren't you?
You may have some tomorrow (mindful of the time difference I think that's in about 4 hours(?)) — via LiveJournal — posted by mad_jaks at 23.09.2007 18:43 AEST |
You may have some tomorrow (mindful of the time difference I think that's in about 4 hours(?)) — via LiveJournal — posted by mad_jaks at 23.09.2007 18:43 AEST |
It's the first thing that came to mind and I miss them. Okay, I'm angling for Ginger Snaps — via LiveJournal
— posted by Red Wolf at 23.09.2007 18:43 AEST |
I'd be willing to bet all our Jossverse heroes have had similar thoughts, at one time or another... — via LiveJournal
— posted by Mark Hunter at 23.09.2007 18:44 AEST |
Good stuff. I love Spike and Dawn interactions, angsty or fluffy — via LiveJournal
— posted by spuffyduds at 23.09.2007 18:45 AEST |
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