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Dawn rubbed her eyes, getting extremely frustrated. She had been in the library for hours, going through whatever books she thought could help her with Angel's potentially huge problem. She wasn't getting anywhere. She couldn't find anything. She banged her fists against the table in frustration. And at that moment Giles walked in.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing," she said quickly. "I'm just getting tired.. I think I'm gonna head off to bed," Dawn said, leaving before Giles could ask anything more.

Maybe if I get some sleep, I'll be better focused. I'll be better. I'll find something if I just get some sleep.

That's what Dawn said to herself, before crawling into her bed.

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3 hours later...

Dawn could not sleep any longer. She woke up and felt a bit more energized so she decided to sneak back to the library and attempt some more research.

"I don't care what I have to do, I'm gonna get Angel out of this mess," Dawn muttered.

She closed the door behind her and headed straight for the area of books she was looking for. She didn't bother choosing just one. There were at least 50 different books, and those were only the ones that Dawn had easily found that she needed to search for information in.

"What Buffy doesn't know won't make her mad," Dawn said to herself, as she took a deep breath.

She opened up each book, and one by one, placed her hand on top, absorbing its information. There was no time for reading. She was getting pretty good with the magic, so she decided that she would try a spell to get more information in record time.

"Nothing," Dawn hissed, angrily as she kept making her way through the books, magically.

She was about half way through, with absolutely no results. Dawn was getting angry. She needed to find something to help save Angel's life. She couldn't just let him vanish off the face of the Earth.

Dawn was beginning to get dizzy, but she stupidly pushed all that aside, and kept absorbing the information. She knew it was all too much for her, but she kept going.

She only had about five books left on the massive table.

"Just a few more," she muttered to herself.

Her vision was becoming blurred and she began to feel her legs shake.

As Dawn finally made it to the last book, she could take no more. Blood was oozing out of her finger nails, and her body gave up. She hit her head on the edge of the table as she fell, and then blood pooled next to her on the ground.

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"Awake quietly. Quietly awake. A little bit of me, I offer to you. Magic to magic, me to you. Take this strength to your heart and let it re-start," Shayla chanted, holding onto Dawn's hand.

Shayla had not been able to fall asleep so she had decided to go to the library to see if she could do any useful research, and it's a good thing she did.

The first thing Shayla saw when she walked in was Dawn lying on the ground with a pool of blood next to her. Shayla almost had a heart-attack when she found that Dawn's heart was not beating, but she quickly composed herself, and grabbed Dawn's hand and began to chant a spell that she prayed would start up Dawn's heart again. She didn't know why she hadn't run to get Buffy, she just had this feeling like she shouldn't.

She had been chanting for nearly five minutes, and now, finally, Dawn's eyes opened. Shayla buried her head in her hands. Dawn was okay. She was alive. And Shayla had saved her.

"Shayla?" Dawn said quietly.

Shayla didn't answer, she just kept her head in her hands. She didn't want Dawn to see her cry, which is exactly what Shayla was doing, with her hands covering her face. She'd been around Dawn a lot in the past months, and she really liked her. She was beginning to feel like family. And Shayla couldn't bear the thought of anything happening to her.

"Shayla?" Dawn said again.

Shayla wiped her eyes, and finally looked at Dawn.

"Thank you," Dawn whispered.

"What the hell were you doing?" Shayla asked her. "Do you know that I just re-started your heart, kid? What is going on? The truth, I mean it," Shayla said seriously.

"I was stupid with the magic again," Dawn said quietly.

"I figured that part out all on my own, Dawn. Now tell me what's up, I need to know. I care about you, kid. I don't want anything happening to you. Unfortunately that already happened. Tell me what's going on or I swear, I don't care that you're legally an adult, I will go straight to your big sister."

"No, you can't tell Buffy anything," Dawn said quickly.

"Then you tell me," Shayla said, softly. "Tell me what's worth almost getting yourself killed for."

"Would keeping a good guy alive, and keeping my sister happy be a good answer?" Dawn said.

"Depends," Shayla answered. "Is that what you were trying to do?"

Dawn didn't want anyone to know, just to keep the chances of Buffy finding out as small as possible, but Shayla just saved her life. Dawn owed her the truth, and maybe Shayla could even help.

"That's the truth," Dawn answered.

"Alright then. Start from the beginning, make this make sense to me."

"Angel's gonna die. The Powers said so. It has to do with the baby, cuz she's a supernatural life. Basically they messed with things so that she could exist. To bring supernatural life into the world, they also have to take one away. And we can't tell Bufy, cuz she'll flip and I'm pretty sure extra stress is not good for the baby," Dawn said quietly.

"Oh my," Shayla said. "Yeah, I agree. No telling Buffy... I'm going to help you with this."

"Thanks," Dawn said.

"Are you sure you feel okay?" Shayla asked Dawn.

"I'm good, thanks to you."

"Now tell me, did you manage to find anything, before nearly leaving us all for good?" Shayla asked.

"Yeah, actually, I did," Dawn said, with just a hint of a sad smile.