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Chapter is edited. I added to this chapter because of the long wait.

Summery: Dawn is trying to get to know her surroundings.

Final Edit December 3, 2006

Chapter 4

The next day, could not have come too soon. She did not want to stay in that coffin any longer.

Dawn spotted one of the other men that lived in the house, but he did not look too happy. She did not connect it with her. This is mostly because she had only just moved here. How could anyone be upset about her if they had not met her?

"Vampire." He shouted once he saw her. The man looked terrified. What ever was going thought that man's mind did not involve a friendly handshake.

Dawn felt like hitting him against the wall. Of course, she is a vampire any idiot could see that. Some people have shout out the obtuse facts. How could doing a good impression of Robin from Batman help him if Dawn is an insane vampire? He would be dead already. She did not want to waste any time on someone so stupid.

How many clans of vampires were out there in this world? It would be funny if he shouted out her clan name. That would be informative, since she could not remember and once she did the conformation would gave her an order from Buffy to kill her master. Darn Willow, Darn Buffy, Darn witches and slayers in general. "Really?" She could not really blame him only other vampires could tell or some genius who could build some sort of machine to sense a particular demon. Maybe someone on Angel's team would build it.

Not being able to be with her master pissed her off but she stood guard. This guy is smaller than her but she had never been a fool.

Buffy always told her never to underestimate anyone. Buffy had a duty to fight every night. The job never came with instructions and Buffy would often find herself at a lose in what to do. Her sister had become bitter after all these years. Would all this fighting leave Dawn blind to any emotion? Buffy seemed to have given up on her. Or, did Buffy give up on Dawn? However, that might just be how it seemed because her sister did not express her feelings as often as Dawn would have liked.

These people might kill her. The world seemed to shut her out. Her only chance of leaving the nest was being turned into a vampire. Life seemed to play little tricks on her. Dawn had grown up and her protectors were depending on some gods or powers that were not human to tell them what is right. They would never feel the love that she felt for her sister. They would use Buffy and Dawn as a vampire killing tool.

The powers did not let her see her sister for 7 years. They punished her and gave her a vampire family that would not love her. They would never care unless they were well fed.

When would this drama end? Did her master love her? Did he or she even care? Did he or she feel her loneliness? Where is her family, now? Would she be able to fallow the letter from her sister that gave her a direct order to kill her master? That order only works if Willow's spell had a loophole in it. This loophole might have the ability to reveal who her master is and possibly a location of her master.

Anything is possible when magic is involved. Dawn hopes she would never see her master.

The PTB put Buffy in charge of her. Why did they do this? Where is Buffy to take charge?

Those thoughts flashed by in a second but she could not help but feel the hurt. She saw the fear in the man's eyes. It was the same fear that she felt when she saw a vampire up close. "Some one, a little help." He managed to say in a slow whisper.

Dawn prepared herself to fight. Vampire strength helped a lot more than she could ever image. This fight may not be long if he is smart enough to end it.

She sensed more people enter the hall but backed up. A hand touched her shoulder. Her eyes bulged out. If she could breathe in she would have do that heavily.

Would they stake her in the back? She quickly flipped the guy that had put his hand on her shoulder. He let out a cry. "Owww, my ass." He popped back up like nothing happened. The other man backed up so as to have someone to protect him.

Dawn figured that this was instinct. The guy in front of her must be the stronger fighter. She remembers him from the night before. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a woman but the woman did not look happy to see her.

Three humans against one vampire are those far? Dawn's only choose is to try to attack than she smelled a familiar sent. Zoe. Zoe had exited her room. They could not expect to fight with a little girl in the room. The little girl tried to get closer but the woman pulled her back. "Would you like to go to the park with me? Mommy said an adult has to accompany me."

The park? Yes, girls her age liked the park. It would be nice to have a 24 hour mall that she wanted to go to but a park? How many vampires would want to kill a little girl in the park at night? 100,200 or maybe 2? She could kill two.

She walked up to the little girl. The little girl tried to pull out of the woman's grip. "There will not be any children your age out at this time of night." Dawn spoke directly to the girl.

Shaking her head she said, "You can protect me." Dawn did not want to say no. Zoe looked so pretty and innocent. Her demon wanted to drain the little girl. In fact, her demon screamed for her to do so.

"When night falls again I will ask your mother, if you can go to the park." Dawn did not want to lie but she could not stand to kill an innocent. She would have to have more control in order to protect such a delicious little morsel.

Zoe moved back to her room. She smiled in satisfaction.

Dawn did not trust any of these people. They might stake her at any time. Out of nowhere she growled. Her demon wants a fight. It wanted to drain them all. Would it really matter if these 3 people were attacked? It happened every day in Sunnydale. The cops would do little and even cover it up. There must be some gangs on PCP here that the cops can blame it on.

Her soul started to think the same thing. Who were these people in the grand plan? Would they matter? She growled, again.

Vampires were not met to be caged up. Vampires did what their Master's told them. The Powers That Be clearly do not care about that they left her to her sister. Her sister owns her and could deal with her. Her master would mean nothing to the PTB. He or she would just be the birth parent of a champion vampire. Their new champion would be on the slayer's leash, if the slayer died the slayer would pick someone else to hold the leash. The slayer said nothing about killing these people.

Then, she changed into her vampire form but not completely. Only her eyes and fangs turned. She smirked then jumped on one of the men. "Stop, you can't do this." It was the voice of the man that she met in the kitchen. She now remembered his name from the night before.

She stopped and moved off of the man and quickly moved toward King. "Why not?" The smell of fear was intoxicating to a young vampire like herself.

King stumbled backwards but did not fall. "You where sent here to help." More fear rolled off of him.

Dawn changed back. "My leash extends as far as protecting Zoe." She did not want to say this. It would give them time to stake her or worse. Did they smell her fear? She hoped they could not because in reality she was terrified.

"You were forced to come here?" King seemed shocked. They all thought she was placed here of her own free will.

"I can only leave when Zoe tells me to go. Unless, I can get someone else." That was a fact. She did not want to say.

"You could hunt vampires with us?" That was question more than a statement. Could she hunt vampires? She had hunted with other vampires.

Dawn sniffed him for any deviation in his voice to detect a lie. "I am in my Pajamas."

"Come with us, once, when you feel you are ready."

Then, she thought about Buffy and all the times she watched her slay vampires. It had been fun. Dawn perked up. "Will there be chips and dip?"

"No," He did not understand her. One minute she wanted to kill him the next she wanted him to bring food.

Then, she went back to her room to pretend to sleep after she scrubbed her coffin for the second time.

After awaking, Dawn looked down at her clothing. She shifted a bet and looked at her coffin. Her eyes went from the coffin to the man before her that she had not seen before. Her feet seemed to drift in his direction and when she was half way there she looked back at her coffin. Taking a small step back she recounted her luggage in the room from the night before. The two people who were obviously human seemed to not be able to take their eyes off of her.

Her head tilted up as she sniffed in the air. She walked forward but noticed that the two did not move. She tried to look around them then became very concerned that they were in a state of shock. Then, it hit her, she was alone. The sent in the air smelled like her sister but her sister is not here. The sent of a slayer must linger longer then any human sent ever could.

She looked back at her coffin. "Did anyone tell you of my stay here?"

They looked in even more shock then before, if that is possible. The women spoke up. "One of them said that it was your assignment to baby-sit my daughter and you could help us out."

"Who?"

"Wolfram and Heart from LA." Dawn did not like this one bet.

She knew the answer but wanted to hear it from someone who lived in the house. "Did any of you know they were doing this?" Dawn stopped studying there faces and spoke out loud. "My sister could have taken me home." She moved back to her coffin. She sat on the side of her now closed coffin.

The man walked up to her. "Would you like a more personal tour?" He unconsciously touched her arm. Dawn looked at his hand and moved away.

"Yes, I will go with you."

He looked at her strangely. "You are a vampire. Right?"

She wanted to roll her eyes but vampires did not roll there eyes. "I am."

The woman spoke up, "It may sound strange but we have not lost anyone of our members."

Dawn looks at her. "My sister has this dreams of what is to come. Some of you will die. Her dreams are never wrong. It may take a year or two but her dreams are never wrong."

They walked her around the house and pointing out which rooms would be of interest i.e. the bathroom, kitchen and some other rooms.

The man looked at her. "That must mean that her guardian will die."

The women spoke, again. "And you are to kill us?"

She looked at all of the people who were now awake. "My sister kills vamps all the time. I don't think she would allow me to kill any of you." She looked around and the room started spinning. "I think I need to set down." She stumbled over to the couch. The smell of humans seemed to get to her. Why it did not before she could not say. If she did not drink some blood soon she would be feeding on one of them.

"Miss we appreciate the help but we are just fine." Then, Dawn blacked out.

They could not believe what they had just seen. Vampires don't pass out. Vampires kill innocents and act tough.

When she awoke she was still laying on the couch. It was only minutes later. "Dawn are you alright?"

She tried to stand up but found she could not. "I must be hungry." Her teeth ached from messing a meal.

One of the guys gave her a one of her blood packets with the label blood on it. Dawn opened it up. "Is this what you wanted?"

"Thanks." She went to the kitchen to prepare it and when it was done she returned to the couch. She sniffed it than she drank some. Then, she put the rest down on the table and again picked it up and finished the rest. She got up and looked at her new companions more closely. "Why do you guys need a babysitter anyway? My sister must have really felt sorry for what is going to happen to all of you." Now, that Dawn had feed she was able to feel sorry for them.

"What?" They still did not get it. Dawn was stuck here for now.

"I do not know, but my sister does (pause). Do you mind if I go outside and think?" She did not want to give away every fact at once. Dawn needed some mystery and to feel the wind brush past her face.

They all read the note that they had received before Dawn arrived but decided that she could go just for one night.

Dawn had walked for what it seemed like forever, until she noticed a man about to light up a cigarette beside a van. There should no one out at night and he looked to be all alone. The streets are dangerous. She decided to help the guy. "Smoking could kill you."

He turned around shocked with what stood before him. Dawn was the cause of this effect. Not only had vampires started to exit the building across the street in small number but a vampire stood in front of him. "Smoking is not what will kill me."

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