A/N Hey hope you like it! As I said in the summery this takes place a year after the battle with Pitch in Rise of the Guardians but it also occurs a few weeks after the Battle in Manhattan that occurs in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.

Disclaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians or Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

A young girl sat at the farthest back of the bus her hair, blonde as the summer sun was hung loose ending just below her shoulders. A drawing pad was open on her lap as she sketched silently. She looked up as the bus announced its next stopped and flipped the pad closed and quickly stuffed it into her bag. She reached up and pulled the cord signaling that the next stop was hers. She picked up a violin case that was right was placed in the seat beside before walking to the front of the bus and stepping off. She smiled as she looked around at the town she had returned to.

The town had not changed, it was still the same small close nit town she remembered from when she ran away three years before at the young age of ten

She sighed her mother had been pregnant at the time, young Sophie would be around three years of age now. Her brother Jamie who had just celebrated his 7th birthday the day she had left town, would be around ten now.

She sighed as she shouldered her backpack and began to walk in the direction of the house she had spent the first ten years of her life in, feeling a type of thrill and joy at being back in the small town of Burgess.

Dawn just hoped that her family felt happy about seeing her.

The young blonde girl took a deep breath as she stood in front of the house that used to be (and hopefully would once again be) her home.

She raised her hand to knock on the door but stilled it a inch before the door. What if her mother yelled at her? Was angry that she never called or wrote? What if she left her out in the street? What if her mother decided that their family was better off without monsters attacking them? Or - and this was the fear that ate at her most - She blamed her for what happened all those years ago?"

Then you'll know and you never have to see her again, and camp Half-blood will welcome you back with open arms.

Chiron's voice came back to her as her fears started to escalate. She sighed, she she knew Chiron was right, and she knew that Camp half-blood would welcome her home no matter what (even if Dionysus was completely against kids being at the camp.)

No her fear was not that she'd be turned away, it was that her mother would despise her. Would decide that she was not her daughter anymore because her mother liked not being attacked by monsters from Tartarus every other week. After all that had been the primary reason she had left, what if her mother had over the years started to agree, just as Dawn had come to want to be home again.

She shook her head. She had friends back home, friends who liked her for who she was, and if her family couldn't see past what she was and the mistakes she made, than she'd leave and never return. It would be more that what she deserved.

Her resolve steadied once more she knocked on the door, and after a few seconds the door opened her mother standing there looking haggard and tired, before her eyes widened in surprise.

"Hi" Dawn said to the woman in front of her. Still partially afraid that she would be yelled at.

Ms. Bennett stared at her in shock. "Dawn?" She said her voice barely above a whisper.

Dawn nodded slowly but was unable to say anything.

Turns out she did not need too for Miss Bennett reached out and gave her daughter a hug as she broke down crying in the young girls arms.

"Your home" She whispered in the young girls ear. "Thank you for coming back home."

Dawn said nothing though her stomach churned because she had not considered Burgess home for 3 years, so she smiled and said instead. "I'm Back."

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