Chapter 13: One Lost Moment
It started with a kiss but did not end there. Dawn had wanted Connor in a way that she had never wanted anyone else before. Neither one of them knew what they were doing. They just got lost for a moment, lost in each other's touch, for a moment nothing else existed except the two of them. Connor thought he knew true happiness but that was before he had met Dawn. Connor thought, he knew the reasons; that he existed it was to fight evil. Now he knew there was a whole other reason and it was Dawn.
In Dawn's arms, he did not feel like the destroyer anymore. He only felt like himself, the man who loved her more than he could ever say. In his arms, Dawn felt like she was home, as if she finally found her place in the world. They made love as if it was the last thing they would ever do, as if the world would end if they stopped touching one another. By the time morning came Dawn was no longer chaste.
Since neither one of them were expecting to make love; they did not protect their selves at all. Buffy never had "the talk" with Dawn; it never came up. Dawn only went out with two boys, if that. Buffy had thought she would have more time with her. Angel never had "the talk" with Connor either, he tried a couple of times but he always failed. Spike tried to talk to him but Angel yelled at him, so he stopped. Angel always assumed that if Connor was going to get intimate with anyone that he would come to him first.
They both knew that when they decided to take that final step that neither one of them could tell Buffy, Angel, not Spike ever. They also knew that they would have to keep all of them apart because if Angel or Spike happened to run into Buffy, they would make sure to tell her all about Connor. Neither of them wanted that to happen yet, not until they knew where the thing they had was going.