After seasons 3/6 And please, the new character is based on me, so if you
don't like her, :p. Don't tell me about it!! But review please. (
Buffy POV
As I walked along, arm in arm with Dawn, I didn't think I'd ever been quite so happy since I've come back.
"Aww, isn't that bird just adorable?" Dawn asks me, smiling.
"It sure is," I replied, smiling back at her, knowing that she knows I'm finally able to appreciate this world again and everything in it. Including her.
We walk along, nearing our house. Then, suddenly Dawn stops abruptly.
"What?"
"Giles," she whispers in horror. My heart sinks. Then I swallow painfully.
"We'll call the magic box once we get home. If he and Anya aren't there, we'll call the hospital. Anya's probably taken him." Dawn nods as I suppress the urge to smile falsely as I always have done when thing's were going wrong around Dawn.
Dawn picks up our pace a little and we both rush into the house, but stop dead upon seeing the small teenage girl with black hair to her waist and green eyes that spoke of an age far beyond measure, sitting in our living room, waiting.
Dawn POV
My joy upon seeing Ariana is still smothered under worry for Giles, whom I like to think of as my Dad.
"Buffy, this is my old friend Ariana. Why don't you call about Giles while she and I talk for a bit?" I suggest. Buffy nods, still looking concerned, but her worry for Giles wins and she quietly leaves the room. I turn to Ariana.
"What are you doing here? How are you? How'd you get here? What's been going on? I like your hair by the way. Why are you here?" unable to help my barrage of questions, everything spilled into one until not even I could understand.
Ariana, however, just laughs and comes over to give me a hug. She never used to let anyone hug her, but after a few years I'd managed to win her over. She'd gone to Sunnydale High the 2nd with me for a couple of years, but then a few months ago had declared that she had to leave for 'business matters' and would return the next school year. Ariana had never been one to really open up and share, so I wasn't really expecting her to answer any of my questions. She would normally just give me a look and reply in some cryptic way.
Ariana grabbed my hand and pulled me down to sit next to her on the couch. "Dawnie, I know I've never been very open with you, and I was always so grateful that you never minded, but I think today I have to tell you a bit about me."
My jaw dropped. Afraid that if I spoke, she would close up and decide not to tell me, I said not one word.
"With anyone else, I would be afraid to tell them, worried about what they would think. But I know you'll be able to understand." She smiled. "After all, it's pretty normal for your life."
A thousand thoughts ran through my head, she was pregnant, had flunked a class, had skipped school, something, anything but what she said next.
"I'm a witch."
Buffy POV
As I walked along, arm in arm with Dawn, I didn't think I'd ever been quite so happy since I've come back.
"Aww, isn't that bird just adorable?" Dawn asks me, smiling.
"It sure is," I replied, smiling back at her, knowing that she knows I'm finally able to appreciate this world again and everything in it. Including her.
We walk along, nearing our house. Then, suddenly Dawn stops abruptly.
"What?"
"Giles," she whispers in horror. My heart sinks. Then I swallow painfully.
"We'll call the magic box once we get home. If he and Anya aren't there, we'll call the hospital. Anya's probably taken him." Dawn nods as I suppress the urge to smile falsely as I always have done when thing's were going wrong around Dawn.
Dawn picks up our pace a little and we both rush into the house, but stop dead upon seeing the small teenage girl with black hair to her waist and green eyes that spoke of an age far beyond measure, sitting in our living room, waiting.
Dawn POV
My joy upon seeing Ariana is still smothered under worry for Giles, whom I like to think of as my Dad.
"Buffy, this is my old friend Ariana. Why don't you call about Giles while she and I talk for a bit?" I suggest. Buffy nods, still looking concerned, but her worry for Giles wins and she quietly leaves the room. I turn to Ariana.
"What are you doing here? How are you? How'd you get here? What's been going on? I like your hair by the way. Why are you here?" unable to help my barrage of questions, everything spilled into one until not even I could understand.
Ariana, however, just laughs and comes over to give me a hug. She never used to let anyone hug her, but after a few years I'd managed to win her over. She'd gone to Sunnydale High the 2nd with me for a couple of years, but then a few months ago had declared that she had to leave for 'business matters' and would return the next school year. Ariana had never been one to really open up and share, so I wasn't really expecting her to answer any of my questions. She would normally just give me a look and reply in some cryptic way.
Ariana grabbed my hand and pulled me down to sit next to her on the couch. "Dawnie, I know I've never been very open with you, and I was always so grateful that you never minded, but I think today I have to tell you a bit about me."
My jaw dropped. Afraid that if I spoke, she would close up and decide not to tell me, I said not one word.
"With anyone else, I would be afraid to tell them, worried about what they would think. But I know you'll be able to understand." She smiled. "After all, it's pretty normal for your life."
A thousand thoughts ran through my head, she was pregnant, had flunked a class, had skipped school, something, anything but what she said next.
"I'm a witch."