Fiction Rome If You Want To

Rome If You Want To

Author: Restive Nature (aka Bavite)

Rating: G

Spoilers: Entire Buffy and Angel series.

Summary: How Buffy and Dawn may have gotten to Rome.

"…what do you want to do?"

The question rolled around Buffy’s head for two hundred miles. It’s not like she had anything else to think of. Scratch that. There were newly awoken Slayers to find, finding accommodations, settling Dawn. Lots of thoughts. But somehow it was only that question that echoed in her mind.

In LA accommodations were found.

In the hotel room, tentative Slayer-finding plans were made.

Dawn was fine. Tired, saddened, but fine.

And still the question.

"What do I want to do?"

"I want to go," she smirked softly, half-formed ideas rampaging through her head. With quick motions, she grabbed pen and paper from the desk. Tearing the paper into twenty pieces, she swiftly wrote on ten of them. Waking Dawn wasn’t so easy.

"So I’m supposed to write down ten places I want to live and we’ll pick one?" she asked, her jaw cracking on a yawn. Buffy nodded.

In minutes, Dawn, eyes closed, was rifling through the mass of papers. Clutching one, her eyes popped open. "Yes! Rome!" The sisters embraced, until Dawn noticed. "Wait, this isn’t mine!" She unfolded every slip. "Buffy, they’re all Rome."

Buffy smiled sheepishly. "Oops?"