Dawn walked up to Connor’s house and saw him getting in his car, “Hey.”
He turned around and smiled, “Hey.”
“I’m sorry for acting immature before.”
“You weren’t.”
She smiles, “So what are you up to?”
“Going to buy a suit.”
“Don’t you mean tux?”
“There’s a difference?”
“Oh boy, okay I’m coming with you,” she said getting in the car.
“What?”
“I am not letting you ruin this for Fred get in the car.”
“Okay, geez,” Connor joked as he got in the car and started the ignition. He backed out of the driveway and they drove off.
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Fred knocked on Summers’s front door and Dawn answered.
“Fred?”
“Hey, can we talk?”
“I thought you weren’t going to marry him,” Dawn said, icily.
“I wasn’t….my parents forced me…..”
“They don’t run your life!”
“Don’t they?......I didn’t ask for this Dawn….I don’t want this! I don’t want to be 17 and pregnant! I don’t want to give up the baby! I don’t want to keep either! I don’t want to marry Connor!”
“Then what do you want?”
“I don’t know,” she whispered, “I just want everything to be the way it should be. I don’t want to get in the way.”
“You’re not in the way.”
Fred smiled unconvincingly.
“I’m coming to the wedding,” Dawn said.
Fred nods, “I’ll see you there.”
“Fred?”
“Hey, you wanna be my Maid of Honor…I figure this wedding can’t get any weirder right?”
Dawn nods, “Sure.”
“Great, I’ll call you with the details,” Fred said before turning and walking down the drive way.
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Dawn stood outside Fred’s dressing room in the church. She was wearing a silk midnight blue bridesmaid’s gown and holding a bouquet of flowers.
Buffy walked over with Angel, Fred’s father, and Darla.
“Where is she?” Angel asked, “The wedding suppose to start soon.”
“I don’t know,” Dawn said.
Fred’s father knocked on the door, “Fred?? Sweetheart, you’ve got to come out now, everybody’s waiting for you. Fred?”
Darla grabbed a hair pin a picked the lock to the door, when it opened the room was empty, “She’s gone.”
“What?” her father exclaimed.
“She’s not here,” Darla said.
“Who’s not here?” Connor asked, walking into the room.
“Fred,” Angel said.
“She pulled a Julia Roberts,” Dawn said, everyone looked at her blankly, “Oh come on I can’t be the only one who’s seen Runaway Bride.”
“Dawn not the time,” Buffy said.
“She’s gone, why?” Connor asked.
“Don’t worry we’ll find her,” Angel said.
“Yeah how hard can it be to find a pregnant bride,” Dawn said, everyone looked at her, “what? Like you weren’t all thinking it!”
Connor’s cell phone began to ring. He picked it up, “Hello?”
“Is this Connor?”
“Yeah who’s this?”
“Gunn.”
“Gunn? The guy Fred’s in love with Gunn?”
“Yeah, ummm we’re at the hospital.”
“What?”
“She’s having the baby.”
“I’ll be right there,” Connor said before hanging up the phone, “Fred just went into labor.”
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Dawn, Connor, Darla, Angel, and Fred’s parents all ran into the hospital.
“She’s in there,” Gunn said.
Connor and Fred’s parents went into the delivery room while Darla and Angel sat down in the waiting room. Dawn walked over to Gunn.
“what happened?” she asked him.
“We went to elope,” he told her, “But she went into to labor while she was walking down the aisle.”
“Oh my god.”
“I’m Gunn, the other man,” he joked.
“Dawn, the other women,” she said with a shrug.
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Buffy walked into the church and they began to play ‘Here Comes the Bride’.
“No not me,” she hissed. She smiled at every one apologetically as the music was cut and she walked up to the alter.
“Umm everybody please quiet down,” Buffy said from where she stood on the alter, “There’s been a slight change of plans. The wedding is kinda……off,” she smiled as her cell phone rang. She picked it up, “Hello? Oh that’s great yeah I’ll tell them,” she closed the phone, “Good news, Fred had the baby, it’s a girl…her name’s Emma.”
Everyone in the church just stared at her.
“Okay,” Buffy said, getting down from the alter and running out the door, leaving the confused crowd behind her.
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Dawn sat in the waiting room alone. Connor walked over to her and sat down.
“Congratulations,” she said.
“Thanks…I talked to Fred. We’re not getting married.”
“Why not?”
“She loves him and I love you.”
Dawn smiled and Connor moved to take her hand and that’s when he noticed a small cut on her arm.
He frowned, “What’s that?”
“Nothing,” she said, pulling her arm away.
“Dawn?”
“I cut myself okay, no big deal. Just clumsy Dawn at it again.”
“That’s bull.”
“Excuse me?”
“where are the rest?” he said pulling her into an empty corridor.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“There aren’t anymore on your arms, maybe your legs?” he lifted up the hem of her skirt a bit and revealed the cuts that were there, “Dammit Dawn! What are you doing?”
“Don’t worry about it,” she told him.
“You need help.”
“I….I know.”
“So get it.”
She shakes her head, “No not now….Buffy……and my dad…he’ll use it against her.”
Connor frowns.
“I promise I won’t do it anymore. Really.”
“Okay,” he nods and kisses her gently on the lips.
“Connor?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m sorry,” she said sincerely.
“Me too.”
“I didn’t think we’d end up this way.”
“Me neither.”
“Tell me,” she moved closer to him, desperate to touch him, “ell me it’s going to be okay?”
“It’s going to be okay,” he told her moving closer and brushing her hair out of her face.
“Tell me you love me.”
“I love you.”
“Please tell me it’s going to be okay,” she said beginning to cry.
“It’s gonna be okay I promise,” he told her, wiping away a few tears with his thumb and kissing her tenderly.
“I missed you.”
“I missed you too.”
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“So you’re sleeping over later right?” Charlie asked Dawn over the phone. Charlie had just gotten back from camp.
“Yep,” Dawn said, “I’ll catch you on all the drama that’s been happening around here.”
“Drama, in Sunnydale? I’ll believe it when I see it,” she jokes.
“I’ll be over in a little bit, there’s just something I have to take care of first.”
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Dawn knocked her dad’s motel room door.
“Dawn?” Hank said, surprised when he answered the door.
“Hi, we need to talk.”
He nodded, “Come in.”
“No, I want to talk here,” she said, decisively, “Drop the legal battle and go home.”
“No, Dawn, you’re too young to understand….”
“I wasn’t asking,” Dawn interrupted, “Drop it. I won’t go with you. I don’t want to. I want to stay with Buffy. I want to stay with my family. I don’t have a family with you. I haven’t for a long time.”
“You don’t mean that?”
“Yes I do. I’m old enough to make my own decisions. I won’t let someone, who has barley been in my life, run it. Go back home dad. I don’t need you, we don’t need you.”
He nodded, “I can see that.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry for getting for what you want,” he said before closing the door.
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“Wow,” Charlie said as she lay next to Dawn in her bed. It was late and they were snuggled under covers. Dawn had just finished telling her everything that had happened while she was at camp, “You weren’t kidding when you said there was drama.”
Dawn laughed, “Tell me about.”
“Tibby is gonna be so pissed she didn’t get a chance to film it and make it into a Lifetime movie,” she joked.
“Nah,” Dawn said, “She always said how those director’s who filmed Lifetime T.V. movies were sell outs.”
“She thinks everyone’s a sell out….”
“Except Indie film directors,” the said in unison and then burst into a fit of giggles.
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Dawn was sleeping when she heard her cell phone beep. She groaned and grabbed it. She looked over at Charlie who was still sound asleep and then looked at the text message. It was from Connor.
Meet me in the park in 15?
Dawn texted him back: Sure
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Fifteen minutes later Dawn walked over to the swing set where Connor was sitting in the park. He smiles at her as she sits down.
“So what are you going to do with your life not this summer full of drama has come to a close?” Dawn asked, a smirk playing across her lips.
He looked at her and smiled. She could feel her knees go weak as usual and she felt like she was the only girl in the world. It was in the moment that she fell in love him all over again.
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What we live for….What we settle for….and what we’re meant for : )
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