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SISTERS
Chapter 7: Confusion
By: Verna

Summery: We all make mistakes

Disclaimer: I don't own it. Joss does. I'm making
no money off this. ( I Wish!)
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Dawn didn't seem to hear. A few of the others cast a glance his way but for the most part he appeared to be the only one that heard her voice or saw any cause for concern. Were they all blind? Did none of them understand
what would happen? Annie's voice got louder and blended with another voice.

"It's coming... Coming... No more tears... No tears are left to cry... We cried for you and you cried for us now there are none to shed... Coming coming..."

"It's Buffy", Willow said under her breath.

"Yeah but who's the other person?" Asked Anya.

"Annie? Anne, is that you?" Spike didn't want to believe it. It couldn't be happening. How could she? How could Dawn do this to Him? To Annie? Or did she know how it would turn out?

The mists kept spinning. Faster and faster. They seem more solid now. Did Spike really see two almost human outlines forming? Dawn's voice blended into the voices already chanting.

"No cause for tears...None to shed... Coming...No grave... No tomb... No tears any more... For once dead we were but now we come... We two... We two... We two... We only two..."

Spike stared in horror as the shape of Buffy appeared facing him. Her eyes blank. She stood back to back with some one taller by at least a head. That head that William had been able to pick out of any crowd at a party. Annie.

Someone across from him screamed. Buffy's eyes seemed to come alive then. She took one look at Spike and turned around.

"Dawn! Angel!" Her voice hit him like a punch in the face. She still didn't care. He stared doubly at her back. As another sister was slowly swaying on her feet. Spike didn't notice he until she fell backwards on to him.

"Annie!" It came out a squeak. Her face. Her beautiful face. A demon's face now. She had been turned into a Vampire.

"William? Where am I? What's happening? Oh God!" She screamed the last part. No wonder they had screamed. No one had expected her to come back as a Vampire.

He looked up. Giles was staring at them. Willow was too. In fact. Every one of them except Buffy and Dawn was. (They were too busy crying) "What the hell did we do?" Xander asked.

"William. What's happening?" Spike looked at her face. Human now which showed her confusion even more. He could imagine. How hungry and confused and scared she must be. "William", she sobbed.

Angel blinked a few times and then stood up. He picked her up off Spike's lap and stood her on her feet and gave her a harsh once over. Annie seemed even more frightened when he went all vampy on her. She fainted.

By this time Buffy and Dawn had become aware of the world again. "Who's that?" Asked Buffy.

"My sister" Spike breathed the words out. "She's a vampire" He felt that if he said the words out loud that it would make them less true. after all. Most of the things he said any way was lies. Why not this.

"She has a soul" Angel said. They all looked at him. "she was afraid of me. I don't really know how to explain it but she does"

Every one looked at Dawn. "Oh dear" she said. Spike wanted to lung at her and take her in his hands and kill her for what she did to his sister but he knew that had no idea what would happen.

"Why didn't you tell me what you were REALLY doing" he snarled. "She didn't deserve this. No one does. You should have brought back your mother. Annie could rot in hell for all I care!" Again. the lying thing.

It was just about them that Buffy realized that this little brat of a kid had been brought back in the place of her mother. "Dawn! How could you! You bring back HIS kid sister over your. OUR. Mother! You can't repeat the spell. It can't be done again, Ever! Not by any one in this room!"

Dawn began to cry and Buffy melted. Spike knew that the entire group hated him more than ever now and he picked up his sister and walked
out of the room into the kitchen. Behind him he could hear Dawn say, "I didn't know. I thought I'd be able to do it again. I'm sorry Buffy"

Buffy dissolved into tears again. So much for no more tears. And heck. maybe they could all learn to deal with this new order of things. Dawn was still stammering out apologies.

"I wanted to do something nice for him. He was so good while you were gone. Please don't be mad..."
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An hour later everyone sat around. Annie seemed a little less frightened but suck close to Spike which he found annoying in a comforting way. They talked long into the night about every thing. They answered all of Buffy's question's about what had been going on and they asked
her about death.

"I didn't feel anything once I was really dead. I just sort of woke up from not falling asleep."

They all tried to apologies to Annie and Spike who both seemed withdrawn. Dawn had stopped crying and Angel and Buffy wouldn't let
go of each other unless dawn asked. Which she didn't. it was going to work out.

To Be Continued....

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