Dawn Hatcher

**Dawn Hatcher** is an **Escape the Night** OC created by Dede42. She is the main protagonist of the **Light Bearer** series.

### Early Life and Career

Dawn Diana Hatcher is the oldest daughter of Ron Hatcher and Aline Hatcher, with three younger sisters, Stephanie (married name Locke), Amanda, and Mackenzie. She was born a week and a half late, and had to be poked with a needle by the nurse to wake her up since she was asleep. Despite not having any acting experience, she got a role on *Doctor Who*as a constant companion to the Doctor, whose role had just been taken over by Sylvester McCoy, and was the same role that her mother had held until she felt like she was getting too old to play the part.

Dawn was five years old when she started working on *Doctor Who*, and the first episode aired on September 7, 1987, the day before her sister Stephanie was born. Being on *Doctor Who*until it went off the air in 1989, when she was seven years old, launched her acting career, which her parents watched very closely, making sure that her agent didn’t try to get her involved in anything that would emotionally traumatized her.

When not acting, Dawn was busy attending school, being a big sister, especially after her sister Amanda came along, discovering that she had Down Syndrome. Among the shows she worked on was *Star Trek, Power Rangers*, and even SciFi related movies. In 1995, she started getting headaches and learned that she would need glasses for she was becoming near-sighted. Although worried of how this would affect her acting career, she found a way around the situation, and special contact lenses were crafted for her to wear while filming.

In 1996, Dawn got to return to her old *Doctor Who*role during an attempt to bring the show back by producing a TV movie with Sylvester McCoy returning long enough to play the Doctor before handing the reins over to Paul McGann to take over as the 8thDoctor. Although the TV Movie was successful on many levels, she was sad when the series didn’t return to the air, but she did enjoy working with Paul and others on the project.

Dawn did, however, attend a number of *Doctor Who*Conventions to do panels, autographs, and photo ops with fans. It was in 2005 that she would once again be involved with *Doctor Who*when it finally relaunched March 26th, 2005. The fact that she was now twenty-three years old, playing a fourteen year old didn’t bug her in the slightest since she didn’t look her age.

Dawn would continue to work on *Doctor Who*, other shows like *Criminal Minds*, and she even eventually began playing a recurring character on *Supernatural*, where her sister, Stephanie was part of the main cast already. It was in 2007 that she decided to have herself retested to determine whether she had a form of Autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome or a standard learning disability, and when the results came back from the tests, it confirmed that she did have a very mild form of Autism, although the report referred to it as an atypical form of Asperger’s.

When the news that Dawn had Autism became public knowledge, she did have to deal with people either being overly critical, claiming that her having a disability meant that her acting career was over, or were just plain rude. When this lead her to being cornered in the street outside the filming studio in Hollywood by haters, that was when she had had enough. She made a public announcement of how she wasn’t ashamed at all to have Autism, but she was disgusted with the cowards that seemed to enjoy trying to ruin lives and should be ashamed.

Dawn was pleased when this put the worst of the haters to shame so much that they backed off, and it was in 2010 that she first met Joey Graceffa at the San Diego Comic Con when he was the MC for her panel. She and Joey became friends over the struggles of living with disabilities, the stereotypes that they were expected to live up to, and because of their friendship, she ended up getting to know a lot of YouTubers in the YouTube community, even befriending a number of them.

### History with Joey Graceffa

Dawn was among the first that Joey Graceffa talked to later on when he came to the conclusion that he was either bi-sexual or even gay, and she assured him that no matter what happen, she would remain his friend and be there to support him, which she knew he was relieved to hear. And she did support him as he tried to figure out what was going on with himself, and she did voice concerns when she first met Preston, who Joey was seeing at the time.

One day, Joey came to visit her on one of the filming sets, and Dawn was sad to hear that he was starting to think that Preston was cheating on him. This gave her the opening to sit down with her friend and voice her concerns about what was being said in the acting circles about Preston, and she was afraid that he was right about the guy.

Dawn was glad when Joey finally broke things off with Preston, came out about being gay between 2015, along with starting to date Daniel, and 2016, and it was around this time that she learned that her best friend was suffering from a recurring nightmare about a house locked in time, one that had been built with no hands, and in the nightmare, he was being chased through the rain and a graveyard by a hood figure with a hook that always ended with him cornered against a tree before he woke up.

### Escape the Night: Light Bearer Series

#### The 1920s

It was two days later, when Dawn was finishing filming some scenes for *Independence Day: Resurgence*, that she got a call from Joey, who’d just learned that he was apparently inheriting a house from a distant relation, and that it was the same house from the dream, which he hadn’t had for two whole days. She advised Joey to wait for her to come over and hear for herself about this, for she wasn’t sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Dawn did meet Arthur, who was the butler for the estate, and she talked with Joey a bit before they both decided to see the house for themselves to see if it was worth the risk or not to live there. They did have to get 1920s clothing and leave behind all modern stuff, including their cellphones, and both her glasses and her contact lenses, in order to be able to see the house, and they were surprised when it seemed to appear like magic right before their very eyes.

Dawn and Joey met Sarah the maid and Marvin the groundskeeper, and they decided to spend the night at the house after exploring the estate. It was during that night that Joey started to have the nightmare, and when she stayed with him, he was able to sleep without being attacked by the nightmare. They did have to return to 2016 to update stuff and she couldn’t stay at the 1920s house all the time because of her acting career and family life back in Utah.

When Dawn did go back to the 1920s house, bringing with her some 1920s glasses that she’d had made, she was concerned to see that Joey was definitely suffering from the recurring nightmare, and after several weeks, she suggested that maybe staying at the house wasn’t a good idea, especially since the staff were giving her the creeps and she was getting a bad feeling about the place.

Joey did convince her that they should stay since he was due to get the deed soon, and Dawn reluctantly agreed that they would have a dinner party and invite the YouTubers that they both knew. When the night for the dinner party arrived, she didn’t wear her glasses as she didn’t expect to need them, they greeted their guests: Shane, Eva, Oli, Benny, Bart, GloZell, Justine, Andrea, Tim, Matt, Sierra, and Lele.

The party started out well, with everyone enjoying themselves, despite an awkward moment when Lele asked Joey if he had a girlfriend, but he was able to laugh it off, and when he and Dawn were asked by Shane if he could take a look around the house, Joey wasn’t too keen on the idea and agreed with the brunette when she offered to give a tour after they had dinner.

When it came time for the dinner, Dawn and Joey were surprised and a bit disappointed when they discovered that Shane and Eva had snuck off, despite the promise of a tour, and when the two missing friends did show up, they did question them about where they had been, even with the hints from the others that they had probably been having a make out session.

Dawn wasn’t entirely convinced when Eva insisted that she had been in the bathroom, and it was when Shane, after receiving a telegraph, started coughing up blood that all hell broke loose. Learning that there was an antidote locked in a large black box, Dawn went with Joey, Eva, and GloZell to search for the first key, which GloZell found sticking out of a certain piece of artwork that had mountains on it. After using the key to unlock one of the antidote vials, which Eva gave it to Shane, and after he drank it, she saw that he did look a bit better.

When GloZell and Bart started accusing Dawn and Joey of being responsible for what was happening to Shane, she got angry, especially when Bart claimed that she probably killed people all the time on the TV shows and movies she was involved in, and she yelled at him that they were works of fiction and she’d never killed anyone in her life.

Dawn was devastated when Shane died, and she was shocked to learn that Shane had been the member of a secret society known as the Society Against Evil from a letter that Joey had found inside their late friend’s jacket, and that there was an Evil in the house that had been responsible for his friend’s death. She and the others did try to leave, but the time traveling car was destroyed and they had no choice but to finish Shane’s mission and find four artifacts, even though it meant that some of them were probably going to die in the process.

Dawn had no intention of dying, and she made a point to be helpful as they searched for clues that did lead them to a cog key that they would need to gain access to where the first artifact was hidden. When they learned that they would have to vote for two people, who would need partners, to go up against an ungodly machine that was in the basement of the house, she allied herself with Joey, Eva, Justine, Benny, and Sierra, choosing to vote for Andrea.

When the vote revealed that Andrea and Lele were to go into the basement, Dawn was concerned when Andrea chose Justine, who had a freak out session at being chosen, as her partner while Lele chose Eva, and she waited with the others, hoping that all four girls would come back alive, for she didn’t want anymore of her friends to die.

Dawn was sad when Eva, Lele, and Justine came back without Andrea, who’d been killed by the ungodly machine, and just the first artifact with a clue. When Tim started to blame Justine for Andrea’s death, she took the book from Eva that had the instructions and, after reading through them, pointed out that with the time limit, had both Eva and Justine had failed the challenge, then a monster would’ve been created at the cost of both Lele and Andrea’s lives, and that monster would’ve killed all of them. Also, it was pointed out by her that if they kept blaming each other, then that meant that the Evil would win. The blame game did end up until Oli found a note that said that they had been warned and that one of them was in league with the Evil of the house.

Once again blame was being thrown around and Dawn was certain that the blame game was going to be the death of all of them at the rate things were going She did agree when Joey insisted that they should focus on finding the next artifact, and the blame game stopped since they had only that one night to find the artifacts and do the ritual before sunrise.

After using the clue to locate three items: a red scarf, a pair of emerald earrings, and a lock of blonde hair, the group did a séance and learned from the ghost of Caroline Eastwick, when she possessed Sarah the creepy maid, that she had been buried alive in a coffin that they would need to find, along with a key, in order to free her and get the second artifact.

Dawn went with Joey, Eva, Tim, Benny, Oli, and GloZell, she found it suspicious when the butler Arthur came with them, to search for the coffin, and she just shook her head when Tim voiced that he didn’t trust anyone in the other group, knowing that Tim meant that he didn’t trust Justine. She knew that the stress and the time limit on the challenge had made it hard for the blonde, but convincing Tim of that wasn’t going to be easy.

Once they found the coffin, Dawn was helping dig up the coffin when the other group arrived with the key, and some of them assisted in getting the coffin out of the hole once Sierra used the key to remove the chain. When the coffin was open, they discovered that it was empty – save a for note that revealed that in order to find the next artifact, someone would have to be buried alive in the coffin. Dawn was determined to protect Justine when Tim, GloZell, and Bart all started insisting that the blonde should go in the coffin because she was acting sketchy, and while she didn’t want to vote for anyone, she agreed with Joey, Matt, Justine, and Benny to vote for Tim.

When the vote revealed that Justine was to go into the coffin, Dawn and Joey both tried to keep their friend from being buried alive, but they were restrained by GloZell and Bart. She and Joey could only watch helplessly as Justine was shoved into the coffin, screaming for them, and when the others started to shovel dirt onto the coffin, she and Joey outright refused to help when Tim insisted.

After getting the second artifact and a wooden box, Dawn lost her temper when GloZell started accusing her and Joey of only *pretending* to be sad when Justine was buried alive, and she ended up screaming at the black woman to shut up. After finding a hidden dining room with creepy mannequins, that she half-expected to be Autons, and a clue that revealed for the next final death challenge three would need to be voted for in order to play perverse games, she wasn’t looking forward to voting for anyone.

Dawn was surprised when she and Joey were voted into the perverse games challenge with Lele, and she strongly suspected that Bart had voted for her. She *so*didn’t want to play perverse games, and when she saw the mannequins in all sorts of suggestive positions, she covered her eyes with her hand, moaning that she didn’t need to something like that. When Lele teased her about being a pure soul, she did stick her tongue out at her friend.

Dawn felt like she was going to have to scrub her brain out after having to play spin the bottle, cracked up over Lele doing a threesome with a female mannequin and a male mannequin, and covered her eyes again when Joey had to *help*a female mannequin from behind. She wasn’t thrilled to learn that in order to get the third artifact, they would have to write two names in a murder journal, and she reluctantly wrote Bart’s name into the journal after Joey wrote GloZell’s name, for he was certain they were responsible for them being in that room.

When Dawn heard the screams for help coming from their friends downstairs, she realized that GloZell and Bart were dying, and she had a panic attack until Joey managed to get her to sit down in a chair and focus on her breathing, a trick that she’d taught him, along with others, to get her off the emotional ledge. She didn’t want to lie about what they had had to do to get the artifact once it was revealed, along with a clue, and she reluctantly agreed with Joey and Lele to do so.

However, when Dawn got back downstairs with Joey and Lele, where they found their friends gathered around the dead bodies of GloZell and Bart, learning that they *had*been responsible for her and Joey going into the final death challenge, Matt began accusing Lele after he saw the brunette holding the artifact. Lele did revealed that while Joey and Dawn had written GloZell and Bart’s names into the murder journal, she’d had wanted to write Matt and Tim’s names down instead, and she shoved Matt onto the nearest couch with the order that he sit down and shut up.

When it came to having to outwit the Guardian in order to find the final artifact, Dawn was worried when Tim got grabbed, Matt also got grabbed, and she was relieved when they were able to defeat the Guardian, getting them both back. When it came time to vote for the next final death challenge, she was surprised when Oli and Tim were voted into the challenge.

Dawn was surprised and relieved when Oli and Tim got to live, plus they were able get the fourth and final artifact. She listened as Tim and Matt revealed what they had gone through when they had been captured by the Guardian, and she was honestly confused about the hints about there being some kind of Light inside her that she herself didn’t even know about.

After eating sandwiches provided by Arthur and Sarah, Dawn fell asleep on the floor with Joey having an arm wrapped around her waist, and she was startled when she and the others were woken up by Arthur so that they could do the ritual and *finally*go home.

Dawn volunteered to be in the middle with the fourth artifact, wanting to get the hell out of there and back to 2016, and she was disappointed when the ritual failed. She wasn’t thrilled to learn that they would need to find and release the five owners of the house in order to weaken the Evil and finally seal it away when they found a priest trapped down in the basement.

Dawn helped Joey, Benny, Oli, and Eva find the rosary, and when it came time to vote, she was annoyed when Matt, after volunteering to do the exorcism, tried to back out, and she voted for Matt, for she remembered the no-take-backs rule from school. She was surprised when Sierra was vote into the challenge, along with Matt, and she hoped that Sierra would come back. She waited with the others to see who would come back from performing the exorcism, and she was shocked when only Matt came back with the cross. She learned that he hadn’t read the final step the whole way, and this had lead to Sierra’s death.

After giving the priest the cross so that he could have his faith back and his freedom, Dawn was becoming increasingly annoyed when Matt, who’d clearly had lost all hope of them ever getting out of the house alive, kept talking about how they were all going to die and that there was no point in find the other owners.When they were at the pool, where she, Joey, Lele, and Benny swam around to get the three bodies, and she asked Tim to shove Matt into the pool with the hope that the cold water would snap him out of his funk. She did chuckle when Tim did shove Matt into the pool, but he was still in jerk mode when they went back inside the house to vote for two people to find the doll that’d once belonged to the daughter of the second owner, who’d been transformed into a mermaid.

Dawn wasn’t too surprised when Matt was voted for by their friends, and she was a bit surprise to have Tim go into the challenge, too, when his name was also drawn. She was thrilled when Tim came back with the doll, and they all went to give the doll to the second owner, giving her her freedom at last.

When it came to the third owner, Colin, Dawn was annoyed when Eva and Lele kept flirting with him, and she wasn’t thrilled when she, Joey, and Oli were trapped in a lab with a zombie that was chained to the wall. She was relieved when they were able to escape the lab after injecting the zombie with an antidote, and when they came out with a chest that had a block of dry ice in it, she stepped out of the way as Lele took the shovel to the ice to reveal where the gold was hidden.

When it came time to vote, Dawn was surprised when Eva was voted to go into the challenge with Tim, and when Eva was the only one to come back after playing a twisted version of *Battleship*that involved a gun that’d cost Tim his life, she was sad and she was fed up with the whole voting business.

When it came to Vincent, the fourth owner, Dawn and the others had to deal with some vivid hallucinations ranging from creating a swamp man to take out *another* zombie to get the first key, finding the right masks to get the second key, and then it came to one more vote in order to get the final key. When she learned that three would have to be voted for, and that those voted for would need partners to face the final death challenge, she agreed with Lele when she stated that she was going to vote for herself.

Dawn wasn’t thrilled when Oli was voted to go into the basement, along with Lele and Benny, and since they had to choose a partner who was the opposite sex, Benny chose her, Oli had Eva, and Lele had Joey. She wasn’t thrilled to see that Oli, Lele, and Benny were to be strapped to electric chairs that were hooked up to an old-fashion electroshock therapy machine, and it was up to her, Eva, and Joey to get three rings on the metal poles to complete the circuit with a time limit of thirty minutes.

Every time Dawn failed to get a ring on one of the poles, Benny would get an electric shock that grew stronger each time, and he did his best to encourage her, even when there was just ten minutes left on the timer. She was devastated when she failed to save Benny, who was electrocuted along with Lele after Eva managed to save Oli.

After freeing Vincent, Dawn was shocked to learn that Arthur was the fifth and final owner, she, Joey, Eva, and Oli all did try to escape, but they were captured by Sarah and Marvin. She was upset to learn that Arthur had been using them to get the artifacts and get rid of the other owners so that he could have the house and control the Evil, even the ritual had been a fake one and not the one that Shane had been intending to use before he was murdered.

After being drugged with chloroform, Dawn woke up to find herself chained to an x-pole in a dungeon with Joey, Eva, Oli, and a creepy crazy man that was nearly behind Oli. She was relieved when they all managed to work together to free themselves of the chains, and was shocked to learn that Arthur had injected them all with a serum to turn them into his slaves.

Escaping from the dungeon and ending up in what was Arthur’s bedroom, Dawn was unnerved to find files on herself, Joey, Dawn, Oli, and all of their late friends, and that meant that the fake butler had targeted them all for a reason. When Oli found another file that was about Arthur’s own brother, who was also being held prisoner somewhere in the house, and she figured that if they could free the brother, then they could stop Arthur once and for all since they only had until sunrise to do it.

After being chased around by Arthur, Sarah, and Marvin, finding the gems and then both a map and a key, Dawn and her friends were able to free Arthur’s brother from where he was being held prisoner in a different part of the basement. She and her friends watched as the man managed to kill Sarah, Marvin, and then Arthur himself.

Realizing that they could now perform the correct ritual, Dawn helped Oli, Joey, and Eva get everything set up and, while Joey sat in the middle with the fourth artifact and the correct cord, Oli read the ritual. This time they were able to seal away the Evil, and got the artifacts buried in a hole just as the sun rose above the mountains, ending the long night at last.

Dawn was glad to leave the estate with Joey, Eva, and Oli, and she and his friends were shocked to learn that they had actually been stuck in the 1920s house for three months instead of a single night by one of the leaders for the Society Against Evil, a man named James McCoy, who had retrieved them from the estate and reunited them with their families.

Dawn did attend the funerals for his late friends, knowing that Oli, Joey, and Eva were doing the same. Once the last funeral was done, she and Joey were surprised and suspicious when James showed up to check on them, and he gave her a letter. She did wait a few days before she finally read the letter, learning from it why she and Joey had been targeted by Arthur, and while it did answer some questions, it still didn’t answer the question about the so-called Light that was suppose to be inside.

Dawn chose to store the letter away and move on with her life with the hope that the nightmare wouldn’t happen again… she hoped.

##### 1920s Aftermath

Dawn Hatcher spent the rest of 2016 doing her best to get over the guilt of failing to save the lives of ten friends from the horrors of the 1920s house, and the biggest thing she did was focus on her work, spending time with friends, and spending time with her family. When the year 2017 began, she was delighted when Joey and Daniel invited her to go with them to adopt a new husky puppy, and she immediately fell in love with the female puppy that they ended up naming Lark.

By the time that the memorial service for the victims of the 1920s house rolled around, Dawn had gotten over the worst of her guilt, and she even managed to keep herself together when she gave a speech at the memorial service, even though she wasn’t sure how Joey, Oli, and Eva managed to convince her to do it.

Dawn was confused by the presence of James McCoy, one of the leaders for the Society Against Evil, but she put that out of her mind, figuring that he’d been asked to be at the service to represent the secret order. For the next month, she was busy with work and when she got a call from Joey one day to have lunch with him, she looked forward to seeing her best friend.

##### Joey's Subsequent Disappearance

Dawn was confused when Joey called her a second time, just as she was about to leave her house, and her confusion turned to alarm when she realized from the fear and pain in his voice that something was *seriously* wrong. When the phone call got cut off, she wasted no time in driving to the house to help her best friend.

When Dawn entered the house, she was really worried and that grew when she only found Joey’s phone on the floor of the entrance hall. She did a search of the house and found a journal entry that she read, discovering that Joey had taken the deed from the 1920s house, and that he had given it to the Society Against Evil, but it must’ve been tainted since he’d been having dizzy spells and unsettling dreams whenever he was alone.

Dawn realized that whatever Darkness had been growing inside Joey this whole time had been responsible for his disappearance, and this made her determined to find her missing friend and get him back. It was around this time that she realized that there were others in the house, and she did her best to escape. She put up a fight, and just when she thought she was in the clear, that was when she was grabbed from behind and injected with a sedative, despite her best efforts to break free from her captor.

Dawn’s next clear memory was when she woke up in a study that was in a safe house for the Society Against Evil, and she was pissed when she saw James, figuring that he was responsible for her being kidnapped and sedated. She accepted his apology and shared with him what she’d found out, and reluctantly agreed to let him know when she got word from Joey.

#### The Victorian Era

Dawn spent the next month, trying to focus on her job, but it was hard, and having no word from Joey during that month made it even worst. When a woman dressed in gothic victorian clothing came to her house one day with a package and an invitation, she figured that it had to be from Joey since his name was on the front of the invite.

Dawn read the invitation, which had definitely been written by Joey, that was inviting her to attend a Masquerade ball, and that she had been given the persona of the Detective. She did have to convince Oli and Eva that she was going to go to the Masquerade ball so that she could rescue Joey, and was surprised when her right hand started glowing with a white light for a few seconds.

Dawn wasn’t sure if this was the Light that had been hinted at last year, the same Light that she couldn’t get a straight answer from James about when she asked, but she put it out of her mind when she tried on the detective outfit that’d been provided, and she called James to let him know about the invitation. She was surprised when James insisted on coming to her place instead of her going to the safe house, but she didn’t push the issue.

After Dawn showed James both the invitation and the outfit, she once again asked him about the Light, sharing with him what had happen earlier with her hand, and once again, he wouldn’t give her a straight answer. Although annoyed by him pulling a Gandalf, she did accept his help in making a plan of how to rescue Joey, and accepted a set of special contact lens that she would be able to use while at the Victorian mansion.

On the day of the Masquerade ball, Dawn dressed in the outfit and boarded the carriage when it arrived, hoping that the Society Against Evil would be able to gain access to the mansion and help get her, Joey, and the others that were invited out before hell broke loose once again. She was impressed when she saw the mansion and did thank the woman who let her out of the carriage.

When Dawn entered the mansion, she was caught off-guard when Liza greeted her and hugged her, and she did return the hug since she and Liza were good friends. She let Liza introduce her to some of the other people who were already there and shared a hug with Jesse, too, since she already knew him. She was eager to start searching for Joey when the last of the guests finally arrived, but she wasn’t sure when she would have a chance, and it was then that Dorian made his appearance on the stairs above them.

Dawn was immediately suspicious of Dorian when he commented on how they all looked “delicious” and when he had his daughter, Alison, pass around glasses filled with champagne, she made a show of pretending to drink from the glass after they had a toast, and exchanged the glass with the empty one that Gabbie was holding.

After Dorian left with the promise that Joey would be along soon, Dawn put the glass down on the tray and went up the stairs to start searching for her missing friend, but she was waylaid by Liza, Andrea, and Alex. She had no choice but to chat with them about what they thought about the house, about Dorian, and their personas. She did agree with Andrea’s warning to avoid dark entranceways, and she thought she would be able to sneak away when Liza was distracted by Tana and Lauren, but when Lauren noticed her attempt to sneak away, she admitted that she wanted to explore the place and solve the mystery connected to it.

Dawn reluctantly agreed to have Liza, Tana, and Lauren help her look around for clues, and when the book with the bookmark and a chapter about Dorian was found, she was certain that she was on the right track to find Joey. She voiced her suspicion that Dorian was no friend of Joey, and when they went back downstairs, she found that a map half had been found, along with a cryptex.

Using the clue from the bookmark, Dawn managed to open the cryptex and a key fell out into Jesse’s hand. She was startled when Alison gestured to her to follow her, and she did tell Jesse to hang onto both the key and the cryptex before following the woman, along with Alex and Tyler. She figured out why Alison wanted to talk to her and the two boys when the woman insisted that they needed to leave as it wasn’t safe there.

Dawn made it clear that she wasn’t going to leave without Joey and was arguing with Alison when two men appeared, informing them that it was time to go to the ball. She followed Alison out of the room with Alex and Tyler, and she was about to tell Liza what they were talking about – when she and Liza were suddenly grabbed by the two men, and dragged back into the study!

Dawn put up a fight as she and Liza were dragged through a secret entrance and into a hallway that went to the ballroom. She didn’t like being captured and when Dorian made a comment about the Light that was apparently inside her, she made it clear that she had no idea of what he was talking about, and was insisting that he should let them go or else.

Dawn was alarmed to discover that Dorian was a vampire, and then she and Liza had no choice but to wait and listened to the music coming from the ballroom. She was alarmed when she heard her friends shout and scream in fear when they discovered that they were being cornered by vampires, and she thought she heard them shout Joey’s name when she and Liza were manhandled into the ballroom and onto a stage with a strange machine and three x-poles.

Dawn was both alarmed and relieved when she saw Joey chained to one of the x-poles, and she did insist that Tana not try to help save them since there was a large group of vampires between her and her friends. She was glad that Alison was able to get the group out of the ballroom, and she was upset to learn that the vampires had been using the machine to take Joey’s blood like he was a human blood bank.

When Joey noted that there was a lever between Dawn and Liza, they both kicked it and were alarmed when the machine activated, shooting blood back into their friend, clearly hurting him. But when he insisted that he was going to be okay, they reluctantly kicked the lever again, and this time Joey was freed from the x-pole.

Dawn was glad when Joey freed himself of the needle that’d been in his neck, and she told him who was there while he used a ring of keys to free her from the x-pole. She did hug him, having been missing him for the past month, and they worked together to free Liza. She did try to convince Joey to sit and rest since there was a vampire guarding the only way out of the ballroom, but he was stubborn, wanting to help, and when she and Joey teased each other, Liza snickered.

Dawn didn’t think Joey using his own blood to lure the vampire away was a good idea, but the idea became moot when they found there were three spaces at the base of the machine for ankh symbols, and when they found a lock on the machine that needed a key, she wasn’t too excited to be going through this again. She was surprised when it turned out that Liza had an odd gold spoon that they were able to use to unlock the top of the machine, but she figured that whoever sent Liza her explorer outfit had provided the gold spoon to be a useful item.

Dawn helped Joey with one of the words in the book they found, and learned that somewhere in the ballroom was a wooden stake. She was surprised that they would need to find three ankhs to fit on the spaces, and was impressed when Liza managed to find two of them. She did tease the girl a little because she was acting hyper when it came to the final ankh, which was in a clock that neither of them could reach, but Joey could.

Dawn helped placed the ankhs on the machine, turning them upside-down, and they all jumped when a red banner dropped in front of the gold throne, with both a black wooden stake and a small book. She helped retrieve the two items, finding that the book was locked, and according to a note on the stake, they would need to kill the guard in order to escape from the ballroom.

Dawn was both impressed and a little alarmed when Joey killed the vampire with the stake, calling him a vampire slayer, and then they went in search of their friends, hoping that they were okay. She was startled to find Lauren and Andrea tied to a pair of pillars, and learned from them as she helped untied them that the group was searching for salt that, according to Alison, could help them defeat her father.

Dawn wasn’t too surprise when Joey voiced that he didn’t trust Alison after what the vampires had done to him, even though his memory of the past month, including how he ended up at the Victorian mansion was a blur. She pointed out that, trust issues aside, they still needed to find the rest of their friends, and they hurried off to do that, hopefully without being captured by vampires again.

Dawn was glad when they managed to find their friends outside of the mansion and did chuckle when Alex kissed Lauren full on the mouth. She learned from the others about what Alison had told them, also in an effort to convince Joey that Alison was on their side, and she was eager for them all to get out of there. As she and others followed Alison to get to the carriages, she wasn’t surprise when Joey voiced his concerns about trusting Alison, and she pointed out that they didn’t really have much of a choice until the Society Against Evil showed up to help.

Dawn was disappointed to see that the carriages were gone, which meant that they were trapped…again. She did her best to calm Joey down when he confronted Alison, and was confused when Alison recognized the book that she’d been carrying. She and Joey ended up telling their friends the truth about last year as they followed Alison back into the mansion since Jesse had heard her groan “not again” earlier.

Dawn was getting annoyed with DeStorm, who clearly thought that she and Joey were lying, and she became suspicious of him when he revealed that he had a key on his pocketwatch and wouldn’t say where he got it. She and Joey sided with Liza, who was refusing to give the book to DeStorm, and became even more suspicious of DeStorm when he managed to get the book and unlocked it with the key.

When DeStorm read the book and stopped upon reaching the words “evil Joey”, she went to her friend’s defense and took the book from DeStorm, reading the full sentence “The spell requires the evil Joey *carried*’,” and she ended up doing a tug-a-war with DeStorm when he tried to take the book back. She gave the book to Joey, who read the rest of it, and neither of them were happy to learn that in order to find the nine gems for the Crown of Oblivion, they would have to vote to send people into the final death challenges.

Dawn helped trace the second half of the map that was under a piece of glass and helped locate the sunstone. She kept tabs on the vampires in the ballroom, feeling like she would need to scrub out her brain when she saw that they were having a freakin’ orgy, and let her friends know when Andrea lured Dorian out of the ballroom. She cheered when Joey managed to kill the vampire king, enabling them to get the first gem, and then everything fell apart when the vampire queen arrived with a crossbow.

Dawn didn’t like getting cornered by the vampires near the fountain and her heart sank when Alison convinced her mother to let them go and vote to see who would go into the final death challenge to get the golden goblet. She became annoyed when upon returning to the lounge, the group started in on Joey until she reminded them that this was happening because of the Sorceress, that the vampires weren’t going to wait forever, and they should figure out who to vote for.

Dawn was worried that there were those in the group who would probably vote for Lauren just because she hadn’t done a lot for the challenges they’d encountered so far, and she agreed with Alex when he asked their friends to vote for him instead of Lauren. Although she wasn’t looking forward to the vote, she voted for DeStorm since he was being super sketchy, and was disappointed when Lauren was also voted into the final death challenge with DeStorm.

When Alison lead DeStorm and Lauren away to face the final death challenge, Dawn questioned her friends, figuring out which ones had voted for Lauren, and explained that even though there wouldn’t be real blood on any of their hands, whoever didn’t come back from the final death challenge would be on them all. She was sad when Lauren didn’t come back, and had to restrain Alex, with Joey’s help, when he tried to go after DeStorm.

Dawn ended up losing her temper when DeStorm stated that Lauren had deserved to die since he thought she was weak, and she ended up punching him in the face. She was then pulled back onto the couch by Joey and Alex to get her to calm down, and she hated that they were going through hell and that she’d lost her temper once again.

Dawn did wonder why Alison hadn’t reveal the gem map, which had been hidden inside the fireplace, right away, and the last thing she expected to happen when Joey put the gem on the map, was for there to be thunder, lightning, and white smoke forming in the entrance. She also didn’t expect the smoke to start glowing purple, and she was startled when the Sorceress emerged from the smoke like a Disney villainess.

Dawn did glare at the Sorceress when she said that they all would die and she was getting frustrated that the bad guys knew that she was a Light-bearer, whatever that was, and that she didn’t, fully expecting her friends to question her about it. She did panic when a spider woman suddenly entered the lounge, and was alarmed when she kidnapped Alex, trapping them in the lounge by having all of the doors lock themselves.

Dawn was frustrated by this point and did get a little testy when Tyler questioned her about the whole ‘Light-bearer business’, and pointed out since she really didn’t know what a Light-bearer was, that they should focus on figuring out how to rescue Alex instead. When Tana found a box and DeStorm opened the base of the golden goblet, finding both a note and a shot bottle filled with alcohol, she wasn’t happy to learn that the spider woman was Jorogumo, who she admitted was from Japanese mythology and she had a thing for eating men.

Dawn helped search for the other three shots, giggling when Liza and Joey teased each other, and after they were found, she found a tray filled with cups of different alcohols, which Joey helped her lift onto the bar since it was heavy, and read the note that made it clear that whichever man drank, they had to be sure to drink them in the right order or the first would be their last.

Dawn was concerned when Joey volunteered to drink the four shots, once they were matched up to the shot bottles, and didn’t blame Tana when she offered instead, agreeing with her fears that Jorogumo would take Joey next. She was relieved when Joey managed to drink them in the correct order, although she did have to support him over to the box as Jesse set the four glasses on top with their matching symbols.

Once the box was open and Tyler used the gold gem inside to unlock the doors, Dawn entered the study with her friends and was alarmed to find Alex lying on the desk, completely covered with webbing, and unmoving. She was startled when Alex suddenly woke and sat up, but she did help him get the webbing off, and when he complained of a headache and that his neck was sore, she checked and found that he’d been injected with a sedative, but that Jorogumo hadn’t bitten him…thankfully.

Dawn was annoyed when it became apparent that Jesse and DeStorm had wandered off, which she knew was a bad idea, and helped search for the right red book that would have a plan to help find the next gem. When she and her friends went outside to search for clues, she wasn’t thrilled to see two dead bodies wrapped in webbing, and the thought of having to tear them apart made her feel sick. She let Alex take her back into the study, and shared with him what little she knew about the Light that was apparently inside her and what the group had done in order to find them.

Dawn chose to stay inside with Alex when their friends started ripping into the two bodies to look for clues, and both she and Alex looked around the room, surprised when they found a locked chest that hadn’t been there before. She was surprised when Tyler rejoined them after revealing that Gabbie had the clue, and they all jumped when the chest suddenly opened.

Dawn let Liza use the lantern from the chest to search the room and when her friend found four kanji symbols on a black board, she saw that they were Japanese, and she wrote them down on a piece of paper, translating them for Alex when he found a box with a combination lock, enabling him to open it. She didn’t look forward to having to go into Jorogumo’s web to locate the real gem now that they had two fake gems, and when they went outside, she was alarmed to see two strange women holding Jesse and DeStorm hostage.

Dawn was alarmed when Jorogumo descended from the sky and felt her heart sink when the spider woman told them to vote for two women to race to save Jesse and DeStorm. She was surprised that this was a gender-specific vote, and was worried that she would be voted into the final death challenge. Although she was relieved when she wasn’t voted for, but she was worried for Gabbie and Tana when they left with Alison to take part in the final death challenge.

Dawn was honestly confused when Gabbie and Tana returned with DeStorm, and was upset to learn that Jorogumo had tricked them, and that when Gabbie had won the challenge, she’d had to choose between Jesse and DeStorm to save one of them. She and Joey were honestly upset that Jesse had been killed, and she was fed up with Gabbie and DeStorm acting like jerks.

Learning that things would change at midnight left Dawn feeling uneasy since that wouldn’t be a good thing and, after finding a key, went to the green room with her friends, where they found the Helm of Obedience. She was worried when Joey put the helm on, and she was fearful of what it would make him do, especially after he found Jesse’s gun in a chest.

Dawn was relieved when Joey didn’t have to shoot any of them, but did cringe when he shot and killed a Confederate soldier for his bugle. She wasn’t thrilled to learn that they would have to split into teams for Capture the Flag in order to get the next gem, but she was glad that she was on Joey’s team, and was thrilled when they managed to win, having gotten some payback on Gabbie by helping Joey put her in the time out area.

Dawn was surprised when Alex volunteered to go into the final death challenge against DeStorm and so she voted for DeStorm. She cheered Alex on when he managed to find the correct gem in the swimming pool that was filled with other gems, and she didn’t like seeing DeStorm get executed by the Dark Army. She was confused when Alex found a chocolate bar in a leather bag that he’d been given, and learning that there were children being held prisoner by the Gingerbread Woman, she was determined to rescue them since she didn’t like the thought of children being eaten as she was both a big sister and an aunt with two nephews.

Dawn helped search for the missing recipe by sampling chocolates in order to put them in the correct spots on a box, and while she wasn’t keen on eating brains, even fake ones, she did so, leading to them finding the recipe. She was glad when they entered the baking room and was able to rescue the children from the oven, and just when she thought that a man named Sampson was going to give them the gem in exchange for the meat pie recipe, the Gingerbread Woman arrived.

Dawn was reluctant to accept anything from the Gingerbread Woman and tried to convince her that they hadn’t stolen her recipe, becoming alarmed when the evil woman used a butcher knife to cut off several of Sampson’s fingers. She wasn’t looking forward to the vote, and decided that they shouldn’t be following the Sorceress’ rules anymore.

Dawn hoped that Tyler and Liza would find a way for them both to come back from the final death challenge, and when she and Joey were asked by their friends why they ran outside, they both admitted that waiting to see who would come back from the challenge was the worst part. She was glad when Liza and Tyler returned from the challenge, bringing with them both the gem and a clue – only for the Sorceress to appear once again.

Dawn was alarmed when the Sorceress had Sampson killed by an orange harpy, and when a blue harpy grabbed Liza, she tried to go to her friend, but Alison wouldn’t let her. She was devastated when Liza was killed, and she agreed with her friends that they needed to play by the Sorceress’ rules and that they needed a break when Tyler ran to the bathroom to throw up, plus she wasn’t feeling too well either from all of the candy, either.

Dawn didn’t like it when she and Joey were captured by Greek soldiers and taken to King Midas, who revealed that they would be placed in the Lair of Medusa while their friends would have to take part in a challenge to see who would go down there for the final death challenge in order to save them. Her memory got a little fuzzy after being put in Medusa’s lair, and her next clear memory was being shaken awake by Ernie and Artie.

Dawn didn’t like watching the twins having to fight each other until Ernie was the winner, and she didn’t like leaving Artie behind either to his fate of being turned to stone by Medusa. She helped her friends search for blood, which was needed to reactivate a compass, and when they used the compass to enter a different realm, she had mixed feelings when Sirena referred to them as the heroes of prophecy upon meeting her.

Dawn helped search for fairy tears and a moss specter that they used to free a warrior, getting a bit annoyed when Gabbie and Tana flirted with him, and watched as Joey and Alex played stones against the harpies in order to get a talisman. She was sad when the warrior died protecting them from the harpies that he managed to kill in the process, and she was annoyed when it was suggested that she, Joey, and Andrea go into the final death challenge known as the Path of Betrayal.

Dawn agreed with Joey and Andrea to work together to get the three keys from three puzzle boxes, and when she learned that they would have to choose a friend to betray, she immediately flashed back to the murder journal and had a panic attack at the thought of having to betray a friend again. She and Joey reluctantly agreed with Andrea to choose Tana, and cringed when she broke the tablet with their friend’s name on it.

Dawn was relieved when they defeated the ice queen and was outraged when they failed to get a gem. She was *so*angry that they had betrayed a friend for nothing, that she vowed to kill the Sorceress herself, and was honestly surprised when she started glowing with a white light for several seconds. She was disappointed when they only got a magic crystal and, after throwing up because of the guilt of the betrayal, was pulled into a group hug by her friends after they learned why she and Joey were so upset.

Dawn helped search for parts for a steampunk machine, helped shoot targets to keep Tyler from being blown up, and she was surprised when Alison pushed her to safety to keep her from being captured by Cedric. She helped find the pieces to restore the Automaton Bride, and was feeling uneasy when she learned that they would have to vote for two to go into a final death challenge, where one of them would *literally* lose their heart if they lost.

Dawn thought she was going to be sick again when she saw one of the Promethean Men holding a still-beating heart, realizing that was Gabbie’s when a dejected Alex returned alive, and she didn’t like watching as Cedric put the heart into his Automaton Bride. She was worried when midnight came and had fixed feelings about helping a cowboy, but agreed to in order to save his son in exchange for the next gem.

Dawn didn’t like being chased around by werewolves, but was glad when she and her friends were able to save the boy, only for his father to turn out to be a werewolf, and wouldn’t given them the gem until they ran a gauntlet. She managed to get through the gauntlet and was surprised when Alison gave her life to save Andrea from the werewolves. She didn’t like having to do a séance to locate two twin idols needed to get access to the Dark Dimension to find the final gem, and found it amusing that the Devourer was scared of the stone statues.

Dawn wasn’t thrilled when it was revealed that three would be voted into what was most likely to be the final vote of the night to go into the Dark Dimension to locate the final gem. She had mixed feelings about voting for herself, but she did, and when Ernie chose her to be his partner, she did the best she could to help him find the gem.

When Andrea managed to find the gem, Dawn realized that Alex and Ernie were going to die, and she had no choice but to watch as the Guardians of the Dark Dimension killed them both. She was annoyed to discover that the ice queen gem had been hidden inside the compass that whole time, and when it was revealed that the Crown of Oblivion was hidden inside the gem map, she knew that they were that much closer to going home.

Learning that the Light would be needed to help them retrieve the final gem, luckily without anyone dying, Dawn wasn’t sure how she could summon it until Andrea reminded her about what happen after the incident with the ice queen, and she realized that when she summoned the Light, it was based on her emotional state.

Dawn was impressed when she successfully summoned the Light on her own, and just when it looked like they were home free – she was furious when the Sorceress arrived and snatched up the final gem, resulting in a wave of Darkness that broken her concentration and the Light ended up retreating back into her soul. Her angry grew when Joey was forced to give the crown to Cash, and she protested when it was given to the Sorceress.

Learning that the Society Against Evil had been responsible for keep the Sorceress from getting the crown in the first place and had told her that only souls from the future and a Light-bearer could obtain the gems and restore the crown, Dawn was furious that they were pawns in the Society’s war…*again!*She figured out that the Sorceress had locked up her good half, and she didn’t like being chased by the lieutenants again as she and her friends worked on breaking the three seals.

Dawn was glad when they were able to free Riley and weaken the Sorceress, but she wasn’t sure if it was a good idea when Joey went to get the crown after they found the Sorceress lying motionless on the stairs in the foyer. She was alarmed when the Sorceress suddenly revealed that she was alive and attacked Joey with a knife, stabbing him in the chest. She lost all emotional control and, after summoning the Light, went after the Sorceress to keep her from stabbing her best friend a second time.

Dawn was seeing red by this point, determined to make the Sorceress pay for putting them through hell and forcing them to kill their friends – only to have the Sorceress cut her right arm with the knife, forcing her to let go and fall to the floor, clutching at the wound. She watched helpless as the Sorceress stabbed Joey a second time, this time killing him, and she couldn’t stop Riley from killing the Sorceress.

Dawn wasn’t sure how, but she got an impression from the Light to have Tyler put on the Crown of Oblivion since they were running out of time, and she, somehow, imbued him with the Light. She watched as Tyler put on the Crown and used both its’ magic and the Light to destroy the spell and rid the entire mansion of Darkness. Hurting from the lost of her best friend, she crawled over to Joey’s body and began crying as she laid her head on his blood-stained chest, not caring if the blood got on her face or into her hair.

Dawn let Tyler and Andrea help her up and bandaged her arm, and she watched as they put Joey in a coffin that they’d retrieved from the ballroom. She did put his hands over his chest and kissed his forehead goodbye, moving away so that Tyler could put the Crown on their friend’s head. She could only nod when Andrea shut the lid, and she let her two friends support her out of the mansion.

##### The Victorian Era Aftermath

Dawn felt like her world was coming to an end, even though they were freed of the Victorian mansion, with her best friend dead, she was having a hard time being cheerful, and she had a feeling that even though both Tyler and Andrea wanted to laugh and smile at their freedom, they were choosing not to for her sake.

When Dawn saw the SUVs from the Society Against Evil arrive after they left the grounds, she was too tired to be angry that they hadn’t been able to enter the property, for she had a feeling that the spell that the Sorceress had used to lock the place in time, had somehow been able to keep the Society from getting in, and when James asked her where Joey was, she tried to answer – that was her last coherent thought for a while.

Dawn’s next clear memory was of waking up in the infirmary of a safe house for the Society Against Evil, and she was told that the knife that had been used to kill Joey and cut her had had a toxin on it, and it had been touch-and-go for three days before the anti-toxin had worked to keep her alive. She learned from Andrea and Tyler that they had been in the mansion for three months, which didn’t surprise her after what happen last year, and she was shocked to learn that, somehow, Joey’s body and the Crown of Oblivion had gone missing.

Dawn had wanted to go looking for her late friend, but James convinced her not to, and it was hard for her not to tell Daniel the truth when she was reunited with him. She did attend all of the funerals with Tyler, Andrea, who chose to skip Tana’s funeral, Oli, and Eva, and they all held a memorial service in the backyard of her California house for Joey since that was all they could do.

It was a month before Dawn was able to speak with James, and this time she had been able to get some answers about how she was the Light-bearer. She wasn’t too surprise to learn that the Society Against Evil had been watching over her and her family for a long time, which she had actually suspected since they had known that she had been at Joey’s house shortly after he’d been taken by the Sorceress. She was surprise, however, by how much they had on her family tree, stuff that she didn’t even know about, and she was floored when she learned that she was connected to an ancient prophecy.

Dawn had mixed feelings when a new section of the prophecy translated itself after she agreed to let James train her, and it revealed that Joey was going to come back from the dead. Neither she nor James knew for sure how it was possible, and while she was hopeful that she would get Joey back, she didn’t want to build up her hope too much.

Dawn didn’t want to have to go through that sort of hell a third time, which the prophecy was hinting at, but if it meant getting her best friend back, then that was the risk she would have to take. No matter what, she was going to get Joey back.