Dawn sat on her bed, writing at a leasurly pace,
Dear journal,
so Giles hands me this book today and mutters somthing about 'Watchtchers always kept journals and maybe you should too'. Personally, I think he wants me to be a watcher like him. Anyway, Buffy and Faith played paintball again today. This time it was one-on-one, I think everyone has gotten tired of putting ice on their welts. Buffy lost this one and now she and Faith are talking about another rematch. I don't get it, what makes slayers so competetive anyway? I don't know about Faith, but Buffy's sporting some nasty looking bruises, I mean sure, they'll probably heal right up but it just really gets me how Buffy would intentionally play a game were you end up with welts and bruises. Guess that's another thing to put on my list of 'Why-do-slayers-do-what-they-do' questions.
Oh, I guess now that I've told about my day I should tell about what happened after Sunnydale collapsed... We drove for a long time untill we reached the nearest hospital, we dropped our wounded off and then looked for a cheap motel to crash at. After that we ate at the nearby all-night diner, and, oh my god, the food that was inhaled! I knew slayers got really hungry after slaying, but boy can those girls eat! There wasn't even talking, it was just everyone consuming thier food at an alarming rate!
Anyway, we stayed at the motel for a while, or untill the ones in the hospital got better, and then took off again. Buffy had wanted to maybe take a break from the whole slaying thing but Willow and Xander wanted to go to Cleveland so they could watch the activity of the other hell-mouth. And because Buffy didn't wanna be away from them she decided it would be okay to fight evil at least once a week.
And then Giles discovered that the council had left a whole lot of money in a bank somwhere and he had Willow wire it to a personal account so he could buy this cool building we all use now. I call it Slayer Head Quarters, but everyone else just calls it 'the building'- well, scratch that, Andrew calls it 'The Slayer Cave', I think he has a disorder- but anyway most of the girls here go to school with me or are tutored. and some are dropouts, but everything works pretty smoothly. Kennedy teaches martial arts after school, Buffy teaches somthing like 'Slayer theory' after dinner on Wednesdays and on weekends, and Faith teaches real situations by taking small teams of girls out every night to fight vamps. It's a pretty cool system. And Giles is even trying to set up a training system for training more watchers. Which brings me back to when Giles handed me this book and told me to record stuff in it, I seriously think he's planning to train me as a watcher. And Buffy would agree to it because she doesn't like me going out on missions, as if I was still in 8th grade... Aside from slayer/watcher stuff, Andrew is teaching me how to play D&D, it's kinda confusing, and he likes to lord it over me when he wins, but I think I'm getting the hang of it now, he's also helping me with some of his video games. Andrew's an okay person to hang around, I don't know why everyone gets so annoyed with him...
Giles' voice rang out through the slayer head quarters, "Dawn, Buffy, Willow, Kennedy, Xander, and Faith, please come to the confrence room! this matter is most urgent!" he sounded thorouly worried and Dawn looked up from her journal before scribbling the last lines and hopping up from her bed.
Uh-oh, that was Giles's voice over the intercom (I know, cool right?) he sounded like it was important... I guess I have to end this entry and see what Giles wants!
Dawn Summers