What Are The Odds?: Prologue
by inlovewithangel
In my alternate reality, Connor and Angel have a good relationship, Angel does not love Cordy, Cordy is not a higher being, nor is he at the bottom of the ocean.

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He grabbed Dawn’s hand, yanking her up from the pavement. “Quickly!” he yelled to her, and she struggled to raise herself. She winced at the pain that seemed to be coming from every part of her body.

Dawn, visiting her father with her older sister in LA, had pleaded with Buffy and Hank Summers to let her go out for a walk by herself. They had finally given in, telling her to stay close to the house. Being the rebellious teenager that she was, she paid no mind to their warnings, and walked into downtown LA, into a not exactly desirable neighborhood. Three vamps had attacked her, and thanks to the slaying training she’d been receiving, and the stakes and holy water she always remembered to carry, she’d managed to kill them all. Then, just as she finished staking the last of them, ten had surrounded her. She would be dead, she was sure, if that boy who looked to be about her age had not rescued her. He had distracted them enough, and killed five, to get her out of there. Now they were running from the others.

“My father’s place is near here,” the boy gasped, “we will be safe there.”

Dawn nodded, terror in her eyes.

After ten minutes of running, the boy slowed down, and looked at the girl whose life he had just saved. “I am Connor,” he said, sticking out his hand.

“Dawn,” the slayer’s little sister answered, shaking Connor’s hand. Dawn took a deep breath and looked into his eyes. Familiar, she thought, but shook the thought off. She sighed, staring at her cuts and scrapes, and feeling the blood that oozed down from a cut on her forehead.

“Don’t worry,” Connor said, watching Dawn feel the blood between her fingers, “It will heal.” Dawn looked at him and smiled, wondering if it was wrong that she was attracted to someone less than twenty minutes after having been nearly killed. “This is my father’s,” Connor said a few minutes later, gesturing to the gigantic hotel in front of them.


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