"Why are you staring at me, Dawn?"
All the words that were locked up tight inside, alongside the jokes about that shiny head of his ('will you give me three wishes?'), but finally they were able to come spilling out.
(and I had Buffy hidden in the shadows just in case this turned into something horrible)
"Just trying to find out how you can be such an evil man and expect me to keep staying with you, Lex."
In the last few months of our relationship, it was hard to look back and see how big our smiles were and now there frowns, I finally got to see the evil that he's been trying to hide for so damn long.
(and it only took a second of bad to erase years of good)
"That's an easy one, Summers, you love me and you couldn't leave me even if you wanted to."
It was clear that he had no idea that for the past few months, after I saw the blood that was staining his hands which used to hold my own, all I wanted to do was leave him.
(the whole time I had the strong hands of my friends helping me to get away from him)
"Nope, wrong answer, Luthor, I loved the man you were before and now I don't see him anymore."
Everything was set for me to leave, and I was finally brave enough to do it, but knowing Lex it wouldn't go smoothly.
"I won't let you leave me, Dawn; you can't do that to me."
I was waiting for his hands to strike out at me, hoping they would so I could crush his dreams of me being a helpless little girl, but instead he just held out his arms wanting me to run back to him like before but this time I wasn't going to.
(the only thing I was running to was the goddamn door)
"But I can, and I will."