Dawn Returns the Gift
BTVS
Series: S5, a slight AU of the finale
Type: Revenge Fic
Characters: Dawn, Creepy Guy
Rating: PG
Summary: Dawn channels a little bit of Bugs Bunny and Jerry Mouse to change the outcome of the final battle with Glory.
 The cold gaunt monster sliced at Dawn, looking neither truly happy nor truly anything else.

"Small cuts....small cuts."

More than Ben or even Glory, Dawn now wanted vengeance on this total opportunist. When, despite his small cuts, she saw some of her blood on him, she also saw her opportunity.

"Buffy?"

The slime never turned around.

"Try much harder, my dear."

So she did.

"Don't even say it, Ben. I don't want to hear your lame apologies."

A half-smile formed.

"Oh, my. Are you saying that this Ben is somehow connected with Glorificus?"

Yet Dawn had known he would not turn around either time. With one leg free of constraints, she made her last bit of trickery count. Her eyes went completely wide with feigned surprise.

"Malcolm McDowell, Anthony Hopkins, AND Jonathan Harris---in Sunnydale? Here?"

 Like Andrew, who they had yet to meet, for Shatner, Nimoy and De Kelley, the delighted monster turned around on fanboy-driven reflex.

"Oh, SIRS! I've admired your work for as many decades as you've all been alive!"

With her free leg, Dawn swept him down, then nudged him toward the portal as he tried to regain his footing. Her blood and his lifeforce was just enough to fool the whatevers that ran such things, and it began to close. On the ground, a staggered Glory screamed and made a leap for life.

"I can still get home!"

She jumped in and vanished forever. Seconds later, the quick-witted heroine who had averted more than she could ever know was being bear-hugged by her sister and their friends. But the day was not yet over. Xander and Dawn watched Cartoon Network. The green-suited little girl on screen slammed a familiar-looking foe.

*Well, if you mess with the Powerpuff Girls, your names gonna be Gory!*

From beneath a pile of rubble, the banished goddess whined a blue-streak.

"Whaaaat do I hafta do to get hoooome?"