Angels and Drums II: Seeking Arcana (BtVS/TW/DW) PG

[mhalachai]

Seeking Arcana
Part II in the Angels and Drums series
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood ficlette
by mhalachaiswords

Summary: Dawn is looking for Buffy in all the wrong places...
Disclaimer: Russell T. Davis and the BBC own Dr. Who and Torchwood. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is all Joss, baby.
Rating: PG
Setting Post BtVS, after Dr. Who's Last of the Time Lords. Uses a minor non-spoilery character from Torchwood's Dead Man Walking, but you don't need to know that show.
Characters/Pairings: Dawn Summers, Little Girl
Words: 450
Note: Um, yeah. Stupid new fandoms. But I'm still working on Inevitable. This little series is to prevent me from going loca.

Sequel to Five Times The Doctor Met Someone New: Angels and Drums.

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Dawn sat across the table from the little girl, wondering if she was signing a deal with the devil. "Why are you here?" the girl asked, looking idly at her tarot cards.

Dawn inhaled, the cloying incense filling her lungs until she couldn't breathe. "I've lost my sister."

The girl turned over a card. Two of swords. "You've come a long way from Venice."

A shiver ran down Dawn's spine. How had the girl known where Buffy had vanished? Was she really as good as everyone said? "A friend told me you could help," Dawn said.

The girl gathered the cards back to her. She turned over the top card and laid it before Dawn. The hermit. "Your sister ran away."

"She wouldn't do that!" Dawn exclaimed, but the words tasted like a lie.

"She went mad." The little girl plucked another card from the pile and laid it on the table. This time, it was the nine of swords. "And she sought out..." Another card, the Magician. A disconcerting smile spread across the little girl's innocent features. "A doctor to take away her pain."

Dawn gripped the edge of the table. "Do you know where she is?"

Judgment was laid upon the table. "She dances across the stars."

"She-- what?" Dawn leaned in closer. "Where is she?"

Her raised voice brought the tea shop's bouncer over to the table.

The little girl went back to her cards. "You think you have lost her, but you have not." The last card turned over. Ten of swords. "She ran away from the memory of your death."

"But I'm not dead!"

The girl sat back against the cushions of her chair. "We're all dead. You just don't know it yet."

The bouncer took Dawn's elbow and hauled her to her feet.

"Speak with the Captain," the little girl called as Dawn was dragged from the club. "Tell him that I've sent him a key for his locked memories."

The words struck all breath from Dawn’s lungs. In her stunned state, the bouncer easily tossed her out onto the sidewalk and closed the door.

Staring up at the dark Cardiff night sky, Dawn let the rain spatter down on her upturned face. She'd come to this stupid Hellmouth city looking for Buffy and she was even further away from answers than before.

Now, at least, she had something. She would track down this Captain, then she'd find Buffy and everything would be better. Never mind that Buffy had been gone for months, that Dawn was falling apart at the seams from not knowing.

With a sigh, she reached for her cell phone. While she was at it, Dawn was really going to have to have another talk with Giles about their use of creepy little girls as informants.

end

Next in the Angels and Drums series: Ghost Story

Comments

[firefox1490.livejournal.com]

DUDEEEEEEEEEE Why do you do this to us? Really? Really really. You write awesome great things that leave us going "WHAT WAIT there's more right!?!?!" but then theres not. And then I end up awake in the middle of the night thinking of what COULD have happened. Thats whats going to happen with this. Just so you know.

[kira-snugz.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! awesome!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Now finding "The Captain" ought to be interesting - so long as she doesn't end up with Captain John or something.

[rhianona]

oh nice. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Thank you!

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Really looking forward to more Angels and Drums fic. A key for the Captain... gives me shivers just thinking about it.

[beneficia.livejournal.com]

While she was at it, Dawn was really going to have to have another talk with Giles about their use of creepy little girls as informants.

Hee. So true.

And now of course, you have to write about Buffy's time with the Doctor ;)

[morgie.livejournal.com]

......

I agree with everyone else.

*makes big, tearful eyes* Might I have some more?

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice. Seriously, the possibilities! And of course, Dawn wouldn't get why Buffy couldn't deal anymore.

[silver-venus42.livejournal.com]

Jack/Dawn? ... ummmmmmmmmm...........interesting..........

Jack/Dawn/Ianto?... ummmmmmmm.........VERY interesting............

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Actually I don't think I could have said that better!

Oh... except I'd have left out the 'DUDEEEEEE' :-)

[lyndalynn.livejournal.com]

Oh. Wow. There *has* to be more of that story swimming around in your head.
Because....omigosh!
I loved this line! "Speak with the Captain," the little girl called as Dawn was dragged from the club. "Tell him that I've sent him a key for his locked memories."

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Um, sorry? Although I'm not... I like this little world. It's been a while since I wrote in BtVS and it's fun to get back to. As I'm sure most people here know, I like adult!Dawn and damaged!Buffy... plus Torchwood is made of win.

And there will be more... I've got about 3,000 words on what Buffy and the Doctor are up to.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd be able to write the Dawn meeting Cpt. John... It'd be all Spike/not!Spike and I'm not sure I'm interested in that.

But with the way Torchwood zips around town in their little branded SUV, I'm sure Dawn can find Jack soon enough ;)

Re: Thank you!

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I think that's Slayer Rule #45. Right up there with "No, seriously, don't trust a vampire" and "Mini-skirts are not for Slaying".

Buffy's time with the Doctor is sitting at 3,000 words! It's going to be interesting (and will all tie back together in the end :)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Hee :) More soon; I'm writing about how Buffy and the Doctor seem to attract trouble. Even when they just stop to refuel the Tardis...

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'd say don't tempt me, but that was sort of the idea in the first place...

Oh yeah. Fun times.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

There is more of the story in my head... mostly with Buffy and the Doctor to start, and then some of Dawn looking for Buffy and lo, there was wackiness.

I like that line too, have to admit :) Can just see Jack getting all freaked to the max.

[ambrosia-1.livejournal.com]

"a key for the Captain" - excellent!

[magicamethyst80.livejournal.com]

Lovely, of all the Torchwood characters to have Dawn meeting, the little girl from Dead Man Walking is just perfect. While I am curious to know about what will happen once Jack meets Dawn, I think there is certainly something to be said for leaving this as a one shot mystery.