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Dawn's Fine	By : abra Category: BtVS Crossovers > BtVS/Smallville Views: 2833 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the setting of the story. As far as I know, Dawn Summers and all things I borrowed from the Buffyverse are a creation of and belong to Joss Whedon, and Milton Fine belongs to the creators of the Superman comics, and Warner Bros and whoever else owns "Smallville".

Timeline � after "Hypnotic", before "Oracle" and "Vessel"(Smallville), post Chosen (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer), post NFA (Angel)

We all know that Superman always wins. So, for the purposes of this story, I'm just going to assume that Spike 2.0, our resident BrainIAC apostate, will give Clark an edge in his efforts against Zod and his super intelligent minion.
Beta: Rachael

I wrote this chapter more than a month ago. I know the end of the story, but I can't seem to get it out of my head. Nice reviews may help with the block.

Chapter 16

He had burnt another CD for her. He had used his eyes again. Dawn was shocked to realize that she loved his blue eyes even more after seeing him do that. Any normal person would've been freaked, because it meant that he could melt her brain just by looking at her. And she still let herself fall into his eyes without fear, without hesitation.
As soon as the plane was in the air, Dawn put the CD in her laptop. She shivered reading the information on it. The disk contained the Brain Interactive Construct's capabilities and design. She shuddered. She did not understand most of it, but what she did understand scared her. She understood his despondency a little better now. There was nothing on Earth that could match the BrainIAC. He was right. He could not protect her.
Nothing on Earth. An idea blossomed in her mind. The mere ghost of a plan, laced with so much danger and so many drawbacks that she didn't even want to think about details. Instead, she let her mind replay the past week.
She had never in her life been so horny. She hadn't even imagined she could be. It was downright worrying. The attraction to him had become stronger, the need to be as close to him as possible hadn't left her for a moment. It was lust, but so intense and constant that it seemed to go beyond physical and emotional. Then again, she had only the human terms to grade her feelings, and neither of them was human, were they? They were both made on Krypton. Maybe this was normal for a Kryptonian. Still, she could not shake the sensation of inevitability. Something was going to happen. They either made it happen themselves, or it would be done to them.
The first thing Dawn did after she landed in Metropolis was to buy a ticket for the next plane to London. She had to talk to Giles.

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It took a lot of coaxing, a great deal of scared little girl looks, but she got everything she wanted from Giles. He told her everything he knew or suspected about her origin, her purpose, her use.
"Please, don't tell Buffy about this yet. I'm going to talk to her myself. I just had to know," Dawn said.
"You know there's no one on Earth better suited to protect you than your sister," Giles reminded her.
"I know. I also know that the last time she chose to save my life with the cost of hers. I know you know she made the wrong choice then. She has more to offer this world than I ever will."
She saw Giles wanting to deny it politely. She must have grown up, Dawn realized, because Giles didn't say the sugarcoated words of comfort.
"I promise you, this time is not about the end of the world. It's just someone powerful who found out what I am. I can't let anyone use me like that."
"You'll be careful, won't you, Dawn?"
"Of course. Once I pass through, the portal will close right? Nothing anyone can do to open it again right?"
She saw him cringe. The memories of that year must be piling up in his mind now, she guessed.
"As far as I know," he said.
Dawn heard the sorrow in his voice. Maybe she was real to him, after all. He was certainly clear-headed enough to understand that she hadn't come to see him in a whim. She had to leave this reality.
"Don't be sad. I was not supposed to be here in the first place. I do have another, huuuge favor to ask."
"Yes?"
"I'll tell Buffy. When I'm ready. But you know her. She will try to stop me, try to find another way to save me. There is no other way. What I want, no, what I need, is for you to do a spell after I'm gone. Make her forget I ever existed."
Giles flinched.
"What? Dawn no," he began.
"Not just Buffy. I want everyone who ever knew me to forget about me."
"This is impossible. You don't know what you're talking about."
"Not impossible. Difficult. Magickally draining maybe, not impossible. The monks put fourteen years worth of memories in your minds. Find a way to take the past seven years worth of me out of them. Find the monks, if sweet Glory missed any of them in her killing spree."
"You are very determined to do this, aren't you?" Giles said thoughtfully.
"Matter of life and death, you know," she said.
"This person who found out about you must be very powerful. If you get out of his grasp, he might always find another way to gather more power."
Dawn thought back at the information on the CD. There was someone on Earth who had a shot at stopping the BrainIAC. Clark Kent, of all people.
"He will be dealt with. He just mustn't have the Key. That could make things very, very bad for everyone."
Giles watched the stack of documents he had pulled out from various corners of his library. Everything he had on Dawn's creation, on Glory, on portals, on other dimensions. It was all he had, it was a lot, but was it enough? Dawn followed his gaze to the papers, smiling as she compared it to the amount of information on the CD she had just read. Giles had never been a computer enthusiast even before his relationship with Ms Calendar.
"This is all I have. The difficulty will be in finding where you can open a portal. I'm assuming you'd rather not do it on a Hellmouth."
Dawn smiled shaking her head.
"No Hell, thank you. Is there a way to find a place to open a portal to a non-hellish dimension?"
"Yes, but it's very complicated. There are a lot of variables to take into account. You would need a highly skilled mathematician to work out an algorithm, and a computer like they have at NASA to run the program," he said.
"Funny you should say that. I happen to know a guy who's a real brainiac, and he might have access to a super computer," Dawn said.
"My, how things just worked themselves out on this," Giles said.
"Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good," she said, smiling brightly to hide the sadness.
She stood up. Giles put the materials in the briefcase Dawn placed on the table. She watched his movements. The man seemed tired, maybe downright exhausted. Without any warning, she felt a strong nausea.
"Bathroom?" she asked, barely able to keep a grip on herself.
"Down the hall, on the left. Are you all right?" Giles asked, but she was already running.
Dawn barely made it. The sound of the door slamming shut was still in the air when she threw up. Explosively. She'd been sick before, but it nothing had ever been so enthusiastic about leaving her body.
Airplane food? She wondered. Or maybe she was more freaked out than she had realized. Maybe the fact that she was preparing to leave this dimension was sinking in. She would leave Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, everyone. Since she'd been in Metropolis she had hardly seen any of them, but the thought that she would never see them again was frightening. It was the only way out, the only way she could remove the constant danger her presence represented for Earth.
She flushed the toilet, then washed her hands and face without as much as a look in the mirror. She thought about him again. About the wonderful, terrifying, sexually intense week they just spent together. She couldn't think of him as Milton Fine anymore. She wanted to find him another name. A real name. Real? Who was she kidding? She wondered how had the monks chosen a name for her.
Dawn smiled, slightly embarrassed by the incident. The worry on Giles' face made her feel even worse. Her little demonstration of self-control was sure to make him believe he had done the right thing by giving her all the requested information. Not!
"Shouldn't've eaten on the plane," she said in the way of an explanation.
"It's okay to be scared, Dawn. You're on the brink of a serious decision."
She nodded, feeling somewhat better. Giles usually had this calming influence on her. She was all grown up now, but he was still the adult. He had answers.
"Please think about what I asked you. Life would be easier for everyone if I'm erased from their minds just like I was inserted in them to begin with."
When she looked in his eyes, Dawn saw the faintest sparkle of tears. She walked to him with the certainty that his arms would close around her, making her feel just a little safer.
Giles hugged her tightly for a few moments. She felt affection, care and worry surrounding her. It gave her an inkling of what saying goodbye to Buffy was going to feel like. Her sister would be better off not remembering anything at all. Dawn knew she was going to carry around the feelings and memories of her human existence. She squeezed Giles tighter before pulling away.
"Thank you," she whispered, holding back her tears. "Goodbye."

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Dawn was half a block away when she saw him. She was surprised to see him there, but she knew he could fly. When she first read it on the CD, she wondered it he could fly with her in his arms. She wondered how that would feel.
Milton Fine was wearing the same clothes he had on when she had left him in the Cleveland airport only a few hours ago. She flew into his arms. He caught her spinning around with her in his arms, like they did in old movies.
He set her on her feet, but didn't let go.
"They found out," he said, his face buried in the crook of her neck.
She pushed herself away from him in shock.
"What? How?"
"You read about the time I put the Kryptonite in you through a rose thorn. They could have done something like that."
"Christ! So they suspected the changes in you all along?"
"It seems so."
"Oh my God! That thing's still in me? They heard everything I talked to Giles?! They can find us at any time?! What can we do?"
"We have to leave. The Kryptonite isn't inside you anymore. I made you throw it up. This is going to feel a little cold," he said.
"What?" she squeaked when he lifted her in his arms.
The next thing she knew, they were flying above London.
"Hold on to me. Real tight, luv," he said.
Dawn was already hanging on to his shoulders as hard as she could. She hid her face into his chest.
"Don't be afraid. I have you," he whispered soothingly.
"Talk to me," she begged in a small voice. "How did you made me throw up? How did you find out it was inside me?" she murmured.
"You remember that little exploit of yours in the restaurant? The one under the table," he added when she didn't say anything.
"Yes, yes, yes, I remember," she said, blushing.
"I was a kind of taken by surprise. When I came, I actually came. You swallowed. That's how I got inside you again. I was programming the nanobots to leave your body when I discovered that there was something else. I had to act quickly. So I programmed the nanobots to attack the other Kryptonite, and then induced vomiting."
They remained silent for the rest of the flight. She was afraid. Of flying. Of the future. Of running out of time. She wished she could feel the mad sexual attraction that had kept her wired all through the previous week.
A few minutes later, they landed in front of something that looked like a deserted bomb shelter. Dawn didn�t have a clue where they were. They could be literally anywhere on Earth.
They walked hand in hand toward the entrance. She wondered how long they were going to be safe there. Or if they were safe at all.

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To be continued...
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