Chapter One - The Wages of Sin

Disclaimer: Again I dun own any of the Buffy cast or the Angel cast, this btw is an x-over with Angel the series, again they all belong to Joss (sadly) now if I owned them this series would be far more interesting. Scythe and Azrael are the only ones I own. Well make that just Scythe, Az belongs to my friend Azzy, love ya sis ^_^ - This chapter is going to be one of many dedicated to my online family and my girlfriend Nightstalker. Love you honey - get online NOW!!!

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*Stupid Willow and her magics* the girl thought bitterly as she looked down at her arm, Willow had tried to talk to her earlier, but had stopped when Dawn had just closed the door on her face. *It's her fault, and Buffy's and Xandar's, and Anya's and Tara's* Dawn Summers thought bitterly as she looked at her broken arm.

She was sick and tired of everyone treating her as a kid, sick of everyone not noticing her, even whenever she stole things, sure she didn't have money and sure it was wrong, but still she wanted her sister and her sister's friends to notice her, to realize that she wasn't some little three year old who needed a nanny constantly, that she understood things a lot better then they ever gave her credit for understanding the madness that was life in Sunnydale.

A desperate cry for attention that's what it all was. For her it was always, ohh Buffy's a smart girl, and Dawn your just a little kid who doesn't know about these things blah blah blah. She thought bitterly as she looked at her arm and the purple cast that held it in place.

The only one who had ever really seen her for herself was Spike, he was her best and only friend (at least among the people Buffy knew) he'd been there for her whenever she'd needed him, the same had been true for Buffy. No matter what else, Spike had always been there for them and he'd been the only one to not treat her like a baby.

She'd seen the way he'd turned and left, the way he looked defeated, something was up, and she was planning on finding out - question was how to do it without everyone else trying to stop her, or fawning over her like she was a little kid.

The window called to her, she'd once seen Buffy climb out of her window whenever she needed to leave for somewhere, and for a moment she contemplated going to see her best friend, before she shook that thought away. *He's probably got something better to do then talk to me* she thought bitterly.

"Dawn?" Willow asked as she came in the room, "I - I - I - I - I'm so-" she started to say before Dawn held up a hand.

"Don't, you knew full well what you were doing; you hurt me by making the choice to go there, just as you did by pulling Buffy out of heaven, messing with all of our minds, honestly I don't understand how everyone can just forgive you like that. You played God in people's lives - that's just as bad as what the Initiative did to Spike or what the Nazis did." She said as she looked at Willow. "You broke my trust and faith in you Willow, and you broke Tara's as well." She said before Willow slapped her.

"Dawn - th-th-tha-that-tha-that's enough!" Willow said her eyes starting to flare angrily, "my intentions wer-"

"Your intentions were selfish, purely selfish!" Dawn said angrily as she held her hand to her cheek. "You did it because *YOU* wanted to do it, not because of anything else!" She said before Buffy entered the room.

"Dawn what's going on?" her sister asked

Upon seeing Buffy, Willow broke down and Buffy glared at her sister who glared back as Willow ran from the room.

"Dawn what said to her was uncalled for," Buffy said in that "I'm you're older sister I know more then you" tone of hers.

"Like her slapping me wasn't? Or her acting all sympathetic and manipulative to get your attention wasn't?" Dawn shot back as she glared at her sister. "I suppose if it were Spike, or Faith, or someone you didn't let into your little club then you would judge them!" She said angrily as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Spike's a demon and Faith-"

"Spike's been here for me then you or your friends Buffy. Hell his friends (what few of them that are left) have been nice to me, so don't tell me that he's any different from anyone else!" She said. "Better yet I've read the things he did and listened to his stories, he was nothing compared to Angelus or Anya, or to some of the humans who kill, rape and hurt others." She said as she tried to get a handle on her anger.

At that Buffy looked at her sister angrily. "Dawn? Enough? You are not to go anywhere near him again." She said. "He's a soulless monster"

At that something snapped inside Dawn and she shoved her sister out of the room. "You bloody well shut yer gob! You aren't Mom and you can't tell me what to do so get the hell out of my room!" she snapped before locking the door, leaving Buffy standing right outside in shock before she turned and fled back to her room in order to cry.

"Screw this" Dawn said before she got up, opened up her window and left, right now she needed to be with a friend and cool down...

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She found him a few minutes later as he sat there on a tombstone waiting for the sun to arise. "What do you think you are doing?" She demanded as she stared at her friend.

"Waitin' fer the sun nibblet." Spike answered truthfully before Dawn's tiny fist caught him in the jaw and he staggered back and fell off the stone and onto the hard grassy ground. "Oww bloody 'ell!" Spike said as he rubbed his jaw, it was still sore from Buffy hitting him it seemed.

"How could you?" Dawn screamed as she began to cry before the platinum blonde vampire sighed then hugged her. "You're all I have left Spike, mom's gone, Buffy's all on the Willow bandwagon and Tara left." She said as she sobbed, "I can't lose you too!" she replied.

"What do ya want me to do Dawn? I don't 'ave anythin' left. Buffy 'ates my bleedin' guts, I'm a disgrace to demons everywhere, the scoobies 'ate me too, I've got this friggin' chip in me 'ead an' my own sire 'ates me!" He said as he cried tears of blood.

"But I love you, you are my best and only friend." Dawn protested, as she looked at him her eyes pleading with him.

"Don't look at me like that nibblet!" Spike said as he cringed upon seeing her "puppy dog" look. "I can't go through with this 'nymore, seein' Buffy, but never bein' apart o' 'er life. Seein' vampires out tryin' to raise 'ell, while I can't." He said as tears of blood began to fall once more. "I do no' 'ave a place in this world no'more, an' I'm right pathetic for even tryin'" he said before Dawn looked at him, tears in her own eyes.

"What about me Spike?" she cried as she hugged him tightly. "I'm all alone; Buffy cares about Willow and her friends more then she does for me, I don't have anyone else!" she said as she began to sob in his arms. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME!!" she said as she cried over and over, afraid for him and for herself.

"I don't know if there's anythin' else left to do lille' bit," he told her, "I 'aven't got anythin' left no'more." He said in a resigned tone.

"Oooohh so that just makes it all better?" Dawn demanded bitterly. "You said you would protect me until the end of the world and now you want to just give up and die because Buffy's a manipulative whore?" she said angrily before Spike glared at her. "What? You know it's true!!" she snapped.

"I know nibblet, I know," he said with a sigh. "An' I'm wonderin' if she'll ever change, if she'll ever see that I can love, that I can care 'bout others beside myself." He told her, "an' that she'll realize that just because someone's 'uman an' soulful doesn't mean that they are good." He told her. "But I doubt she will Dawn; an' the thing o' it is she reminds me so much of Cecily." He said before she hiccuped and fell asleep in his arms. "Bloody 'ell" he said with a bitter laugh.

"Bloody 'ell indeed Billy." A voice simular to Spike's yet younger retorted and Spike turned to see someone he thought he'd never see again…