Whatever I face

Amber Mention of the episode "Grave"

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot of this fanfiction.

Summary: Dawn is living with Angel and the crew the summer after the episode "Grave". The events of "Tomorrow" never happened.

Chapter 1

"Dawn" Buffy yelled as she walked into the door. She dropped the mail on the counter. "I'm home."

"Hold on" Dawn yelled. She was getting ready for a meeting at the mall with her friends. They needed to see what they wanted for school shopping in September. It was only June. She ran down the stairs. "How do I look?"

"Fine" Buffy didn't look up. "There's a letter from your school."

"Oh really? From Sunnydale High?"

"What?" Buffy looked up. "No, I demolished the place years ago."

"They're rebuilding it."

"Oh" Buffy replied. She never heard about this. Even though she the gang had told her many times, she shrugged it off. After dying and Willow's incident, she really didn't have time to think about it at all. She read the letter. "Why are they rebuilding now?"

"The district can't afford sending busses to and fro to the other district anymore." Dawn answered in a matter-of-factly voice.

"But building the school would cost more, and on the hell mouth as well."

"Don't ask me" Dawn shrugged her shoulders. "I'm not the politician"

"We have to send you to another school"

"You can't." Dawn spoke up. "Private school costs too much and she wouldn't be able to send her to another district."

"You can't go. You're a little girl." Buffy was stretching her limitations. "How bout you drop out. The SCC's got a good GED program."

"No Buffy" Dawn was furious. "I might not be normal, but a kinda normal life. Even though I live here in the Hell mouth, want something that normal people have." Dawn caught her breath. "That's a high school education. Even though you live a crazy life, I don't need too as well. I may be the slayer's sister. But that's all I am the slayer's sister. Nothing else."

"Whatever" Buffy blew off Dawn's plea. "You need to know how to fight off whatever comes to you in high school."

"You can show me." She was exasperated.

"No, I can't" Buffy explained. "I have work to do, and things to kill. But I know someone who will." She picked up the phone and dialed his number.