"Well, well, what do we have here?" asked a short, grotesquely fat vampire
with a receding hairline and baggy jeans that looked like his ass was
probably hanging out in the back.
"Looks to me like dinner," said his companion, who was smaller but grosser, with a disgusting unkept beard and an awful smell floating around him.
"W-w-what?" stammered Dawn, who was slowly backing up, inching closer and closer to the headstone behind her.
"C'mere sweetie, you're going to make a lovely main course," said the first one, creeping towards Dawn with a bloodthirsty gleam in his eye.
"P-please, no, I'm really not that tasty.I mean, look at me, all skins and bones, not a whole lot of blood in here." Dawn kept moving until she hit the headstone, and then the first one charged right at her.
She quickly spun to the side, and before he could stop, she grabbed his head and cracked it right onto the stone, sending him howling to the ground. She pulled a stake out of the back of her jeans and smiled.
"Anyway, judging from your waistline, I really wouldn't be much more than an appetizer."
With that, she plunged the stake into him and spun around to look for her next victim, only to see Buffy behind a dissipating cloud of dust.
"Gee Dawnie, his friend was so surprised at that vamp ass you kicked, he just stood there. Nice job."
"Why, thank you," Dawn giggled. They continued to walk in silence through the cemetery. Dawn has memorized Buffy's routine and after three months of training with her, she often handled patrolling herself. She had never felt more pride than the day Buffy allowed her to go out alone.
"I like this," she remarked.
"You like what?" asked Buffy.
"This. Patrolling.with you. I feel closer to you, you know, now that we can share something together. And bond, I guess."
"Oh yeah, sisterly bonding over the killing of the evil undead."
"Ok, so it's not the most normal activity, but to be closer to you, I'd do anything. When you shielded me from the whole slaying part of your life, you really did block me out of your life. This is who you are. I want to be a part of that."
Buffy turned to her sister, teary eyes, and full of love for this amazing girl whom she was only beginning to really discover.
"I like it too."
"Looks to me like dinner," said his companion, who was smaller but grosser, with a disgusting unkept beard and an awful smell floating around him.
"W-w-what?" stammered Dawn, who was slowly backing up, inching closer and closer to the headstone behind her.
"C'mere sweetie, you're going to make a lovely main course," said the first one, creeping towards Dawn with a bloodthirsty gleam in his eye.
"P-please, no, I'm really not that tasty.I mean, look at me, all skins and bones, not a whole lot of blood in here." Dawn kept moving until she hit the headstone, and then the first one charged right at her.
She quickly spun to the side, and before he could stop, she grabbed his head and cracked it right onto the stone, sending him howling to the ground. She pulled a stake out of the back of her jeans and smiled.
"Anyway, judging from your waistline, I really wouldn't be much more than an appetizer."
With that, she plunged the stake into him and spun around to look for her next victim, only to see Buffy behind a dissipating cloud of dust.
"Gee Dawnie, his friend was so surprised at that vamp ass you kicked, he just stood there. Nice job."
"Why, thank you," Dawn giggled. They continued to walk in silence through the cemetery. Dawn has memorized Buffy's routine and after three months of training with her, she often handled patrolling herself. She had never felt more pride than the day Buffy allowed her to go out alone.
"I like this," she remarked.
"You like what?" asked Buffy.
"This. Patrolling.with you. I feel closer to you, you know, now that we can share something together. And bond, I guess."
"Oh yeah, sisterly bonding over the killing of the evil undead."
"Ok, so it's not the most normal activity, but to be closer to you, I'd do anything. When you shielded me from the whole slaying part of your life, you really did block me out of your life. This is who you are. I want to be a part of that."
Buffy turned to her sister, teary eyes, and full of love for this amazing girl whom she was only beginning to really discover.
"I like it too."