S01 E14 Dawnsitter

Sam learns more about his past while Aurora and Katrina serve as babysitters to Janna's son.

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Dawnsitter is the 14th episode of the 1st season in the series.

## Plot synopsis

Sam learns more about the past while Aurora and Katrina babysits Janna's son, Mack.

## Overview

The episode opens with Sam entering a not-very-friendly-looking bar of Galafamor. He tries to avoid a few glances and sits on a bench near the counter. He looks around the place until someone asks him if *"looking nervous is part of his plan to be discreet"*. He's surprised to see Ally disguised as *"Gina"*, Pierre's Face Cookies helper. Sam tells her to hurry up and he has time to go home. She asks about Rory and Sam just says she's busy.

The scene switches to Aurora and Katrina, Buff Frog's daughter, being driven by Mr. and Mrs. Diaz in front of a house. Aurora thanks Katrina for helping her with the babysitter services, who says she's only there to see how she does. They're welcomed by Janna after they ring the bell. Janna praises them for punctuality and after passing some basic instructions, she asks if she's done something like this before. Aurora says that Katrina has already taken care of several children (including nobles), and shows the picture of last year's Silver Bell Ball, saying she felt like a kindergarten teacher that night. Janna gives a brief smile, and calls Mack, who's playing video games in the room to introduce himself to the girls and says goodbye. Trying to sound confident, Rory says he's going to keep Mack on the straight and narrow, and the little boy just narrows his eyes. Janna wishes good luck to Aurora and Katrina before leaving. Just as the door closes, Mack says he's hungry and Kat and Rory go into the kitchen.

In an isolated corner of the bar, looking at his and Ally's picture, Sam asks when it was taken. *"Last year"*, Ally replies. Sam then asks why he doesn't remember that. "It's a long story to tell ... it's better to show", Ally answers before placing a small glass ball on the table. *"It's a rememball. It serves to visualize the memories of its bearer"*, she clarifies to Sam, who says it won't work with a boy without memories. After she says she hasn't erased their memories, just blocked them, Sam gets annoyed and asks what else she did. Ally then grabs Sam's hand, puts it on the rememball and says *"Show! Don't tell!"*. Sam sighs defeated and looks at the bottom of the globe.

Going against the idea of Katrina, Aurora prepares a dinner full of vegetables. Aurora calls Mack, and after he tries and spits out the food saying it was horrible, Aurora tries to protest, but the boy says it's time for "Hide and Seek" and runs away. Aurora complains about his possible bad eating habits and comments that he seems to be full of energy, but Kat tells her not to worry and to go after the boy.

An 8-year-old Sam fights a troll kid in a scorching desert. He saves himself when his opponent is swallowed by a Sandworm. He sees a glowing object on the horizon and runs towards it, but is pulled away by a girl. Sam falls, but he knocks her down as well. She holds him by the ankles and they start fighting on the ground until Sam throws sand into her eyes and hurls her against a stone, leaving her dizzy. He addresses the gleaming object, but seeing the girl cry for help as she sinks into the quicksand, he becomes indecisive. As he grabs her hand, the scene cuts to Sam and Ally separating their hands from the rememball in the present. Still ecstatic, Sam remembers citing the desert in sessions with Rory. Ally says she still has more to show and they again hold hands.

Kat and Rory look for Mack around the house, but only find Lego pieces on the floor in the living room. When Mack mocks them from the top of the stairs, Rory runs after him and is surprised by a bucket hitting her face. *"I told you not to do that"*, says Kat, before going to try to speak gently to Mack, who shouts *"Giant Toad"* and flees after throwing salt on her face. Kat initially reacts without worry, but soon after falls to the ground choking. Rory runs to help her, dunking her head into an aquarium. Mack runs to his room and locks himself there. Rory tries to open the door with a *"Hellcome"* sign hanging on it, but when she touches the door handle she gets a shock and Mack giggles. She puts her head through a doggy door, where she's hit by a shot of Mack's slingshot. After sticking out his tongue to her, screaming that *"no silly princess would catch him"* and hops into an air duct, Aurora becomes furious. She opens the air duct using the spell *"Solar Storm Whip"* and pulls him out with *"Levitato"*. Aurora says, *"You. Bath. Now"*. Mack gets angrier at this.

The kids, Sam and Ally, are holding the gleaming object, the Golden Serpent, together in the presence of several white-hooded individuals. After someone questions that only one could have survived, another says that if both are alive, it's because *"The Serpent"* wanted it so. They are given the right to choose a name, which they base on their identification collars: 54MU3L (Samuel) and 4L150N (Alison). However, it's said that they will be just as one: training (showing them training and being mocked by a chameleon boy), by eating (sharing the same tray), sleeping (sharing the same mattress) and doing everything together (they smile a to another and immobilize the chameleon boy who mocked them).

Aurora finishes drying Mack and releases him to watch TV. She then checks on Katrina and comments that *"she wasn't this stressed since her last birthday"*. Kat throws a glass of water on her own face and takes a breath, saying that she has been through bad times with noble children, but never a child who would throw salt on her. *"Does he know what happens when you throw salt on a toad?"*, she asks, still astonished. As they head back downstairs, Aurora sees Mack watching a horror movie. She changes the channel, claiming it to be unsuitable for his age, but Mack challenges her and returns to the film. They stay in this dispute until Aurora gets tired and says Mack must obey her. Mack pulls Aurora's hair by knocking her down and saying she's the same as all the other babysitters. He calls her *"a boring and bossy stupid"* and runs off. Katrina just watches him run away and comments that she was knocked over by a 6-year-old. Aurora gets up and yells at Mack to find her *"a boring and bossy stupid"*. Katrina then surprises her and says Mack is right. Katrina explains that she has watched Rory all night and comments that she tried to impose what she wanted and thought she was right about him. She finally explains that *"caring"* for a child is different from *"controlling"*. Aurora feels bad and Katrina tries to cheer her on and then tells them to go look for Mack.

In an amusement park, a goblin counts the money earned from cheating in a bottle-knocking game, when Sam and Ally come up to play. Sam spend all his money trying to win a plush pig-goat for Ally but ends up losing and leaves. The goblin counts the money earned by licking his fingertips until in a moment, the goblin's mouth turns black and he passes out. Watching from a photo booth, Sam holds a bottle of Lacrimosa and Ally takes a large iron coin out of her pocket, which magically gains a scorched snake mark on one of its faces. *"Done"*, says Ally. Sam asks if they're already leaving, but Ally asks him to enjoy that they're in a photo booth and register the moment. Sam laughs and together they pose for the picture. Flash! In the present, with the photo in hand, Sam asks why he doesn't remember any of it. "Because of the night before our last mission", she replies, and he asks, *"What mission?"*.

Aurora and Katrina search for Mack until the princess finds him locked inside the broom closet. Aurora apologizes, but Mack says he doesn't want to look at her. The princess then passes one of her bracelets under the door. When caught, Mack is surprised by Aurora's voice. After telling Mack that her bracelets have various cool functions, she promises that if he opens the door, he will prepare nachos for him to eat and that he can win a pair of these bracelets just for him. Mack then opens the door. Aurora then holds him in her arms, smiles and tells him to mess up his mom's kitchen, making Mack laugh and Katrina wink at Rory.

Sam repeats the question *"What mission?"* to Ally, but before she can respond, she pulls Sam under the table and tells him to be quiet. Sam asks what's happening and she covers his mouth, then points to the counter of the room and says, *"Apprentices were sent by the Guild to spy on some members of whom they distrust"*. Ally opens a dimensional portal and tells Sam to go, promising to tell him everything the next time they meet. She hands the photo to him before he goes. Ally sits down on the table and receives the visit of the apprentices, who ask why she is disguised. Ally tries to play it off, saying that *"a member of the guild must always be disguised"*, however, she soon stops to hear a laugh of unknown origin and a voice saying, *"she was never good at the lying game"*. When she sees two eyes open on the wall beside her, she screams.

On Earth, Aurora tries to put Mack to sleep. The boy says that his mother always tells him a bedtime story to sleep. Aurora says she doesn't know any stories but knows a lullaby from when she was a child called *"The Fair and the Wild"*. Aurora opens the head of her wand, revealing a small music box, and after putting the song to play, she sings to him. Katrina makes a frightened face because of the lyrics, but the song works and Mack drifts off to sleep. *"He looks like an angel sleeping"*, Katrina says, Aurora emphasizes, *"Yeah, just when sleeping"*and they laugh. As they go into the living room, they see Janna entering the house, holding a heart box in her hands and asking how the night went. After they confirm that it went okay and that Mack is already asleep, Janna shows a certain surprise and pays Katrina. *"Your part you'll pick it up tomorrow at the store"*, Janna winks at Aurora. Angie and Rafael arrive by car and honk to Aurora, who says goodbye to Janna and Katrina, who returns to Mewni.

At the Diaz house, Sam is in his room watching the photo and remembering the things Ally told him. As he heard the door of the house open and Aurora said they were back, Sam hides the picture in a drawer and descends to greet her. The episode ends with a close-up in the locked drawer.

## Appearances

* Aurora Butterfly
* Sam
* Ally
* Katrina
* Janna Ordonia
* Mack Ordonia