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Xander enjoyed being with Rona catching up with her for the day, eventually Rona asked to be driven from their motel where they had been speaking to headquarters. As Rona went in he looked at headquarters closely, he knew that Dawn was in there and she still hadn't called him back. He wanted to talk to her face to face but he had to wait until she was ready and he would wait as long at it took.

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Xander was calling Dawn...again. Em was up and around chattering on and on about something he had no idea about. He was waiting for the Dawn's voicemail so he could leave yet another voicemail. He had lost track how many voicemails he had left up to this point.

"Hello?" Dawn voice came over the line quietly.

"Dawn?" he said momentarily shocked that he had actually gotten her on the telephone. "Dawn I-"

"I heard your messages all 15 of them and I'm willing to see you but I make no promises. Met me at headquarters in room #5026 at noon tomorrow and we'll talk."

"Th-" the phone went dead. "anks Dawn." he finished to no one. The wait was going to kill him.

The next morning he let out a big yawn. He had barely been able to sleep the night before, that was how nervous he was. And Em seemed to notice how nervous he was and gave him a long hug. He hugged her back tightly.

"You ready to go?" he asked her as they parted. She nodded they made their way to the car and he strapped her into her booster seat.

He got there early because of the sensitive nature of his conversation with Dawn, he wanted to have Willow watch Em while he spoke to Dawn. That way Dawn could speak her mind or yell at him all she wanted without Em being distressed at someone yelling at her Dad. He unstrapped her and they made their way inside of the building. Willow was waiting in the lobby. She smiled reassuringly at him.

"Nervous."she asked and he nodded.

"It'll be fine." she said in what was meant to be a reassuring voice, he didn't feel very reassured.

"Daddy do I have to go with her?" Em asked. Xander smiled apologetically at Willow. She was 5 she didn't exactly have much in the way of tact yet.

"Em." he said sharply. She looked at him and then back to Willow for a long moment.

"Sorry." she said her tone not exactly conveying what it was supposed to, she probably just said it because she knew she was supposed to, she looked nervous. Understandably so she had only met Willow a few days ago and this would be the first time she would be with Willow without him alone. He squatted down down to Em level.

"You'll be fine, you and Willow will have fun." she looked unsure.

"Promise?"he nodded.

"Yes." he affirmed. She still frowned, but she moved to Willow and looked at her nervously. Willow gave Em her best warming smile. She could melt glaciers with that smile and Xander could see the uneasiest melting off. Em put her hand in Willow's and they made their way to the elevator. Xander stayed back and watched as Em continued looking back at him over her shoulder until they were in the elevator, where she looked at him until the doors closed.

Xander watched the Elevator go up go up to the 15th floor, then he hit the call button and watched the elevator come back. When the door opened he slowly made his way into the elevator. He watched the numbers ascend as the elevator ascended as well. The doors opened, it was the same floor he had met Willow. It wasn't the same room though, it was a few rooms down from the other one. He came to the door and paused momentarily before nervously lifted his fist to the door.

"Come in." he heard Dawn's voice through the door he couldn't hear any discernible inflections in her voice. He put his hand on the handle and opened the door. Dawn didn't look up she was looking down at the dark wooded table, her eyes not visible. He sat down across from her still unable to see her eyes.

"Hello Dawn." he said softly.

"Xander." she said a bit stiffly, and unmoving. Xander cleared his thorat nervously.

"Look Dawn, I'm so sorry, I said we'd stay in touch and...I ended up lying. It's not something I purposely set out to do, but it happened and I am so, so, so, sorry." She looked up at him and she had tears in her eyes which tore at his soul.

"I am so, so, sorry." he said again.

"You promised." he had.

"I know, I'm so sorry."

"You promised." she said crying her body convulsing with the sobs she tried to suppress.

"I know I am so, so sorry." he wanted to hug her to comfort her, but he wasn't sure how Dawn would respond to that. As her body convulsed again he realized he just couldn't leave her there alone to cry, no matter how mad or hurt she was at him. He got up and crossed the distance between them quickly and swept her into a hug. She tried to fight him off for a few seconds but Xander held on, eventually she stopped and just sunk into his arms. She cried for awhile and Xander just held her. Running his hand gently over her back slowly in a soothing manner until she finally stopped. Even then she didn't pull away for awhile just continued to hug him.

After quite awhile she pulled away, she starred at him, he could still see the pain in her eyes the pain that he had put there. The pain he felt so bad about, but somehow he knew that now was not the time to apologize again. Instead he tried to convey the feeling of his sorrow about it in his eyes. Dawn nodded after a long moment.

"Alright I'll give a chance but you screw up one more time I swear we will never ever talk again." Xander nodded vigorously, he could live with that deal. Dawn smiled her eyes still teary.

"I really did miss you Xander."

"I really missed you too Dawn." Dawn hugged him again though this time wasn't nearly as sad and he hugged her tightly back.

Years later.

"Come on Dad." Em complained. Her long black hair pulled back into a pony tail. Her hands were on her hips.

"Nu-uh." Xander said with a shake of his head.

"What's the point of having Uncle Sam and Dean and Aunt Buffy, and train me if I'm never actually going to hunt anything?"

"So that when your 18 and I can no longer say what you can and can't do ,if you still decide you want to hunt then you can protect yourself, and if anything comes after you due to your connection to me."

"Come on Uncle Sam and Dean will be there, I mean it's hardly dangerous with you three big strong man...you being the strongest and bravest of them all." she said with a very sweet smile.

"Flattery will get you no where young woman."

"Please." she pleaded, she said using her best puppy dogs eyes pity for her he was nearly immune to them now.

"No."

"Fine."she said then stalked off.

"Teenagers." he said with a roll of his eyes.

The End

A/N: I hope you liked the story, and I want you all to know how much I've enjoyed everyone's reviews. And also let you know there is now a sequel called Em Harris.