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Narrative Works of 'Dawn the Last Slayer-  # 11A
copyright © 2001 gloryisagod.com/DS/G(G)
"Tess & Little Zan - Bye-Bye Roswell Really - Part 1 of 6"

 Previous Narrative Work: "Clare & Glory - Our Story" # 11
 Next Narrative Work: "Glory, Curupira & Tess-  Before Sunnydale" #12

  Primary Focus: Tess Harding, Little Zan
                             Isabel Evans-Ramirez, Kyle Valenti
                             Liz Parker Evans, Max Evans
                             Maria, Michael
                             Clare, little Gloriana, Dawn, Ava, Glory, Buffy, Buffy-Anne, Curupira, Tess
                             Pat, Isabel-Amanda, Angie, Kat, Kyle, Little Inanna, Isabel & Tess, Holly, Lonnie
                             Olivia of Majestic, little Inanna, Kat & Angie Hall

    Locations:  Tess Harding apartment, Sunnydale
                        'Lost' Roswell' flashbacks
                        Sunnydale, California various apartments, kitchen
                        Glory Hall Apartments, Glory's Palace, Glory's world
                        'Glory Triumphant' starship
                        'Clare Declared" starship
                         Crescent ship fighter spacecraft
                         Antar region ([36 A Ophiuchus region 20 LY from earth]
                         Space near Antar, Tess' old  villa on Antar
                         Various locations in the Antar double star system.
                         Glory's palace, beach barbeque

    Initial Time: MaybeJune 2002, Buffy-is-TV Dimension
                         Maybe April-July 2004 Buffy-is-Real dimension
                         Maybe September-December 2010, Glory's faster time rate world

    DTLS Foreword: This work was to be a narrative work created by Gloriana. It was discovered that it really happened/
                                     is happening. I have co-opted the title/content. Sorry for the false start. In the chronology
                                     this work follows just after "Our Story", not before, as had been thought when it was deemed
                                     fiction.

                                     The work covers the arival of Tess & little Zan in Sunnydale just days after the others arrived,
                                     The shocking events between Liz & Tess. The aftermath, and the acceptance of a bestowed Tess
                                     into the Pantheon. The curious relationship between the bestowed Isabel and Kyle. Ava's
                                     agressive actions toward Kyle after the 'gottin-milch' breakfast. The preparations for the punitive
                                     expedition to Antar. Ava starting her own hunt in 'Lost Roswell' for Alex and the 2 pregnant sisters, the
                                     other Lonnie & Ava, detailed in the separate work "The Quest for Alex", which rejoins this work in Part 5.

                                     The Antar expedition details are in Part 4. The surprising role Isabel & Kyle play is intriguing, as is Maria
                                     finally coming out of her post-Liz terror about Tess and Clare. Maria finally finds an initial place in the
                                     scheme of things, bonding with the Sukkhal Twins, Isabel & Kyle, as a drunken new Queen of Antar, Tess,
                                     toasts these 'Damned Pilots".  Returning to earth, they meet up with Ava, back from her foray and all sorts
                                     of surprises await. The lakeshore barbeque is the celebration.

                                     Plans are made for a return to Antar after the snow starts falling to introduce a version of Christmas
                                     celebration to the Anarians from Tess' villa on the hill. It'll be the first white Christmas for many. The
                                     renewal of white Christmases for others. Tess, the Queen of Antar, and the Christmas Elf, hosts
                                     that celebration.

Parts:
Part 1 - "'I'm a bitch,' said Tess"
Part 2 - "Liz and Maria's Nightmare "
Part 3 - "Ava, Tess and the 'Gottin-Milch'
                Breakfast "
Part 4 - "The Antar Turkeyshoot"
Part 5 - "Meet Tess, the New Queen of Antar"
Part 6   "Tess, the Christmas Elf"

 Source:  DTLS Notebook copy 2002-M pp 2067-tbd
 

Part 1: "'I'm a bitch,' said Tess"

"I'm a bitch," said Tess.

She made a face at herself as she peered into the mirror over the sink.
The daunting task of changing little Zan for the umpteenth time today
was losing its charm.

His little legs kicked as she popped the tabs loose  and took a deep breath.

Her nipples were sore from nursing, her temper was short from the lack of sleep,
and she was contemplating using her considerable powers on her infant son.
He was so irritable since arriving in Sunnydale.

Anything to stop his incessant recycling of her milk into still another changing session.
To get a full night's sleep again.

"How'd I ever get into this mess?"  she asked her mirror self.
...

Afterward she stood in front of the windows facing the luxury apartments
across the cul-de-sac. That was where the blonde with the little girl seemed
to live.

The one that had taken pity on her and Zan as she tried to quiet him in the park
beyond several days ago.

The woman apparently owned all three of the apartment buildings, but this one, the
least pretentious, seemed to have only one tenant. Well, two, if Zan counted.
And he did. She kissed him. He was quiet now and sleepy.

Tess kept having disturbing dreams that troubled her interrupted sleep.

The words of the woman about not going into the park until full daylight because
of wild animals were some. Another was one about a beat-up van that she
knew she'd seen on the side street across the park that day.

That was in a less expensive area of older homes and she wondered why she kept
flashing on it. Maybe she needed to walk across the park and investigate. But without
Zan. She wondered if the long-haired brunette high school girl that frequented the woman's
building would baby-sit him for even a few hours.

Besides she needed to find some illicit activity in Sunnydale that she could
use mindwarp on to scoop up some more cash without risk. Until leaving Roswell
she'd never had to provide for herself.

Resorting to her powers had been a natural.

Departing Roswell some days after the diversionary detonation of the ship's engine
had left her with only the stuff she had on and the baby things. Plus the cash from
the two ferrying Zan to his presumed new adoptive parents.

'Course that was all mindwarp.

It was the oddity of driving in 'their' car, leaving them behind and puzzled as to
how they ever got there, that made her have a feeling that she'd never see that
Roswell again.

It was like the explosion had done something to the whole area.

Tess listened to the car radio for news of the explosion aftermath, which was
a big thing in Roswell, but no news apparently once outside the area. It was
also odd that the news was slanted in a different direction. Less foreign news
and more local news.

She also wasn't sure why she'd stopped to walk in the park the other day.

She could have comforted Zan in the car. Lucky for her though. This place was
way better than the motels she'd stayed in on the way west. In fact, it was
comparable to what she and Nasedo had usually lived in.

As she swayed with Zan to rock him, she again thought that it was curious that
so many people went in and out of the woman's apartment building at all times
of the day and night.

In fact, people came out, mostly female, that she never noticed going in.
Maybe she was seeing things from lack of sleep or just plain worn out from
the trip still.

Sitting down in the closest chair, Tess drifted off into a deep sleep for a change,
and Zan was quiet as he slept in her arms.

Across the park, Liz and Maria stood in the yard beside the old van.
"Lots different from Roswell," Maria commented as she searched for her lost
brush in the van.

Liz was admiring her wedding band in the morning sunlight. "Let's go
explore the park. The guys are still sleeping."

"And why not?" Maria said smugly. "They did most of the work."

"yeah," Liz' face grew dreamy. "Even Kyle. Did you notice that Isabel stayed
in the room with Kyle all night? Still there, too."

"Guess we'll see what happens to them here in this quiet little part of the world.
At least it's not as weird as Roswell was," Maria found her brush and motioned
for Liz to walk down the street and cross over to the park. "Nice apartments
or condos on the other side," Liz observed as dodged a big crack in the sidewalk.

"At least," Maria kicked at the weeds encroaching on the sidewalk, "We'll never see
Tess again."
...

The two girls waited while a slow moving truck passed, then headed across the street and
down the sloping path to the little bridge over a small creek.

Beyond was mostly grass, a few large trees and lots of bushes in clusters. A few large rocks
or boulders had flower beds around them.  The somewhat small park was surrounded at the edges
by bushes and trees as a border.

One of the few openings in the border was clear across the park. There the slope up the
hill ended at the back of one of the expensive-looking 3-story apartment buildings

With the just-risen sun behind their backs, Maria and Liz walked to the right, where there was
a playground area. With swings, monkey-bars and see-saws, plus a little push merry-go-round.
And some sturdy-looking metal framed picnic tables slightly under the larger trees.

"Ohh," Liz said. "That'd be a great place to eat lunch. We've got to get everyone over here
for a picnic."

"As they sat down in the sling seat swings and began pumping them up like little girls, Maria
reminded Liz that they'd just spent a good chunk of the cash Max & Isabel's parents had given
them. It'd gone for the rent-to-lease for the old, but clean home they'd been in for 3 days now.

...he
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