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I Choose You

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Chapter Two

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Dawn Summers sighed and shrugged her bag more securely onto her shoulder. Another ship and job behind her. She was lucky the captain hadn't shot her for beating the crap out of the ship's mechanic.

The Hwoon-dahn's own fault for not keeping his hands to himself.

That was the problem with looking like she did. After being alive for five centuries and still looking like a fresh faced college student, inevitably led to people underestimating her. She did have a charm given her by Willow that helped her to look a bit older. It allowed Dawn to appear to age until she reached about 35 and then it 'reset' back to her perpetual early twenties appearance.

That was why she looked twenty one again. And why the ships mechanic had thought he might get a little trim from the girl (in his eyes) flying the boat. He found out the hard way that a woman who had lived as long as Dawn had, most of it fighting things that go bump in the night wasn't a good thing.

Dawn was as deadly with her hands as she was with a weapon... or anything that flew.

Dawn had flown nearly everything from a Piper Cub, back on Earth-that-was to the massive exodus ships of the great migration.

She also was a quintuple ace over six different wars, ranging from the Indo-Pakastani war in 2027 flying for the US Navy to the latest conflict, the Unification war. A conflict where she flew for the Independent Aerospace forces.

Dawn sighed and made her way through the Eavesdown night. She was always wary on Persephone. Too many Vampires on this planet for her liking. Something about the ignited gas giant, Lux that the planet orbited allowed Vamps to be out in the twilight hours. They seemed to congregate here on Persephone, or Pelorum, the other world that orbited Lux.

“You! Halt!” An authoritative voice called out from behind her.

Dawn stopped in her tracks and slowly spun around. She did her best to keep