Challenge 2- Under the Sea

Hi! I hope you like it so far. This one picks up right where the last one left off, on the night Dawn found out she is the key. So, I'm off to the next challenge Hope you like this one!

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters from Buffy or the NaNOWriMo challenges. I'm just borrowing them.

Challenge: We dare you to send your characters on a journey to the bottom of the ocean . . . right now!

Dawn was almost running towards her house. She needed to get home before Spike came back. He would defend how Buffy lied to her, how she kept who, what she was from her. She cried as she walked. Misery filling her. Dawn couldn't stand it. How could she not be real? How could she be a thing?

Dawn wasn't watching where she was going. She fell over something and landed on her knees.

"Ow!" She started to get up of her knees, when she saw a hand in front of her face.

"Sorry about that. My new puppy gets too excited about seeing people when we are out for a walk. Sorry." The red headed women held on to a leash as she helped Dawn up with her other hand.

"It's ok, I wasn't watching where I was going." Dawn brushed off her knees. "You're puppy's really cute, what's her name?" Dawn leaned down to pet it.

"Arial. Like from the little mermaid." The women smiled at her. "I got her from a client at work. And I'm Abby."

" Dawn. I always wanted a puppy, but…." Dawn held back tears, she remembered wanting a puppy.

"Yeah, most kids do. I never was allowed one my father well… You look upset. Where were you headed off to?" The women looked down at Dawn. Dawn stood up.

"Home." Dawn told her.

"Oh? Where's home?"

"I'm not sure." Dawn told her getting tears in her eyes again. The women sat down on a bench nearby, obviously intent on hearing the story.

"Did you know I didn't exist until recently?" Dawn told her. She sat next to her, still stroking the puppy. She was crying in front of a complete stranger. Great.

"Really?" She asked intrigued.

"Yup, I am an object. I don't belong in this world." Dawn told her the truth, knowing Abby wouldn't take her seriously.

"Hmmmm, I had a similar problem. My father thought I was…But I handled it just fine. Of course I took what others to perceive as vengeance, for what he did to me. But it was justice."

"Yeah, well, there doesn't seem to be any justice for me. I wish I could be so far away from this place, maybe under the sea with Spike. It would be like the Little Mermaid 2 that Buffy took me to see last week… I could swim with the fish and dolphins and I wouldn't have to worry about life. Spike and I would dance to music being played by fish! And no one would tell me what to do, or how to be, or what I am." Dawn looked down at her lap. Great wish, unfortunately it would never come true.

"Well, wish granted!" Dawn's head snapped up to look at Abby. Abby winked at Dawn as Dawn felt herself spinning. She closed her eyes.

Dawn felt odd. She opened her eyes. She looked out at a coral reef. Not from above the water, but in it. She looked down at her self. SHE HAD A TAIL! She was like Ariel, the little mermaid! Dawn swam around. She couldn't believe this! She looked around, enjoying her freedom. She spotted Spike he also had a tail, also he had no clothes. That didn't bother Dawn a bit. This was amazing. She looked at her own tail, then saw she wasn't wearing a shirt either. She panicked for a moment. Then Dawn realized this was most likely a dream. She could do anything she wanted! She swam up to him.

"Spike!" She squealed. She embraced him in a hug.

"Dawn? Where are we? What are we doing here? " He asked her in a panic. The last thing he remembered was talking to Dawn about how she was a person, then dusting that vamp who was trying to eat that girl, then here. He didn't know what to do.

"Under the sea in my dream!" She let go of him. He looked at her and realized she was naked. He covered his eyes.

"God Dawn! You are naked." She put her hands on his, Trying to convince him to remove his hands.

"Yeah well, so are you and there isn't much to cover up, If you haven't noticed." Or so Buffy told her. "And there's not much to cover up with. So enjoy the view while it lasts. I know I will." Dawn giggled, looking at Spike's broad chest. She swam away and did a couple of back flips in the water. "It's not like you're going to remember this any way. It's my dream. We have different brains. You won't remember a thing." Dawn danced in the water. She put her left hand on his arm and she grabbed his hand with her right.

"Dawn, no." He told her. He was interested in finding the way out of here, not dancing with the slayer's naked, little sister. No, he had to stay focused. No necked slayer sister for him. "How did we get here? Dawn what happened? I told you to stay where you were."

"Dance with me!" Dawn smiled up at him. "It's my dream and I wish to dance. So dance!" She pulled on his arms.

"No, where are we?" Dawn yelled at her.

"In my dream, I must have fallen asleep in my room. This is a strange dream so far. First I was in the magic box and found out I'm a magical key, then I met this lady with a puppy named Arial and I wished to be under the sea with you and here we are! I'm starting to like this dream!" Dawn smiled up at him. She was happy this was all a dream and that she wasn't a key. "Dance with me!"

'She must have made a wish to a vengeance demon.' Spike thought. 'It's the only way they would have ended up to here.'

"Dance with me!" Dawn pulled on his arms. She could feel him caving in.

"There's no music." He told her. He thought that would stop her silly nonsense and help think of a way to get out of this reality and back to their own.

Just as he said that he heard chords strike, as if an orchestra was going to start to play.

"I hear some. C'mon" Dawn pulled on him. They swam towards the music.

He might as well, if it was 'her dream'. He also felt as if he needed to dance with her. "Fine, one song! But that's it!" he will figure out how to fix it after a dance with the 'Bit, how much harm could it due…

I even looked up the Little Mermaid 2 to make sure it came out before Buffy's 5th season. It came out about the same time! I don't know how great the story is, but here it is. I have a few ideas for the next challenge so tune in later! Oh and please, please, please review! Tell me how you think I did with this challenge! Thanks!