Let Me Hear You Whisper

(IMPORTANT: I WROTE THIS STORY BETWEEN THE 4TH AND 5TH SEASONS, BEFORE DAWN EVEN SHOWED UP. THIS STORY IS BASED ON ALL THE RUMORS ABOUT HER BACK THEN (CAN CHANNEL EVIL FORCES, ECT.), SO THIS DAWN SOUNDS, ACTS, LOOKS, AND IS YOUNGER THEN THE CURRENT DAWN.  IN THIS STORY, THOUGH, IT IS LIKE DAWN HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. THIS TAKES PLACE IN THE 2ND SEASON. HOPE I MADE IT CLEAR TO WHAT IS GOING ON, PLEASE DON'T BITE MY HEAD OFF.)

Rated: PG-Usual Buffy violence

Let Me Hear You Whisper

Disclaimer: I don't own BtVS or any of the characters. Not even Dawn. They're owned by Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon, WB, FOX, yadda. Doesn't that just suck?

Notes: Written late at night. I had that "Let me hear you whisper" song frickin' stuck in my head. But it's not a songfic, the song has very little to do with the story. My Dawn is different then the present Dawn. 1. Younger. 2. Different looking. 3. At the moment she has a speech impairment and can't say her r's or l's. They come out like w's. I had written this before Dawn actually showed up. Yeah, I've been jossed in way. Except it's as if Dawn has always been here. Did that make sense?

Characters: Dawn, Buffy, Joyce, Xander, Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Drusilla, Spike, and Angelus.

Distribution: My sites Zoinks! And Echoes Of Angels. Want it? E-mail me.

Season: 2

Spoilers: After I only have eyes for you and before Becoming.

P.S. Sucky story….

The girl stared intensely at the math problem; she titled her head to one side and chewed on the end of her pencil. With one motion of her hand she swept the hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear.

I'm never gonna finish this!

She looked up at the clock, then looked at the kitchen were she could see her mom talking on the phone. Quickly she got up off the floor, dropping the pencil and leaving her papers scattered. She rushed out of view of the kitchen and up the steps as quietly as she could. Her heart started pounding in her chest and her breathing got heavier. She turned the knob on the door and opened it ever so slowly because it squeaked. She peeked in then turned behind her having the feeling she would show any minute. She quickly entered and slowly closed the door behind her. Her eyes scanned the room then saw it on the nightstand, the small book that her sister wrote down all her most private secrets. She picked it up in her small hands. She set it on the bed, and then she hoisted herself up and sat down on the comforter. She picked the diary up so carefully, as if it would shatter and break like thin glass if held too tightly.

She opened the cover and flipped through the pages. She laid on her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows. She curled her hair around her finger as she read or tried to. The words "patrol" and "Angel"
showed up a lot. She wondered what they were. She knew what Cordelia was though! Her sister had wrote, that she was a "dog" like the dog in her books. See dog run. Dog run fast. Run dog run!

She giggled then gasped as she heard the frontdoor close and footsteps running up the stairs. She rolled off the bed and put the book back on the nightstand. She quickly squirmed and wiggled to fit underneath the bed. She pulled her foot in just as the door opened. She watched as her sister dropped her backpack beside the bed.

Please don't lie on the bed.

Just as she thought that her sister threw herself upon the bed. She squeaked and bit her lip as she was slowly being crushed! She heard her mumble something but couldn't understand. Then she heard her mom call.

"Buffy! Have you seen Dawn?"

Buffy scowled.

"No!"

"Can you look for her?"

Buffy said something but it was muffled, Dawn watched her sister, or more her sister's boots, walk out the door and slam it behind her. Dawn sucked in air from her almost suffocating then sighed with relief. She rolled out from beneath the bed, smiling. Ecstatic that she had done something bad and not been caught! She opened the door, ready to run out. Only to crash into a form. She winced and looked up.

"You think I didn't know you were in there? How stupid do you think I am?!"

"A wot!" She tried to run past but Buffy caught her by the arm.

"That was a hitorical question!"

"I don't what hitowicaw is! Wemme go!"

"You not supposed to answer!"

"I don't cawe!"

"You asked!"

"Mom!!!"

"Were you using my make-up, again?"

"MOM!!!"

"Buffy, stop teasing your sister."

"I'm not!!"

"MOOOOOOOOOM!!!"

"BUFFY!"