Title: Part of Me
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Joss Whedon & Co I'm just borrowing them for now.
Summary: Buffy's thoughts on Dawn. Set somewhere before the battle and after the talk in the Magic Shop on how to stop the portal.
So much has happened this past year, it's almost unbelievable. Finding out about Dawn, Spike falling in love with me, mom getting sick and dying, leaving me to look after Dawn. Sometimes I wanted to leave, to just pack-up my stuff and disappear like I did after sending Angel to Hell. I guess you could call it running away but I prefer to think of it as a vacation.
Maybe after we kill Glory I'll take Dawn to LA for a couple of weeks, it would do her good to get away from everything here, everyone here. I couldn't believe it when that Monk told me she wasn't my sister, my first instinct was to reject it all and then to reject her. But no matter how she came to be, she'll always be my baby sister. She's all I've got and I'm all she's got. There's no way I could ever give her up, not for Glory, not for Giles and certainly not for the world. To quote Willow, "Dawn's my always" and nothing can ever change that.
I'd do anything for Dawn, I know it sounds bad but I'd even sacrifice my friends for her. She comes first, always has done and always will. My heart ached when she found out from some book that she wasn't just Dawn Summers, that she was a key. As soon as she told me how she found out my first impulse was to beat the hell out of Spike, very nearly did until he told me the real reason I was there. Guilt. I felt so guilty about not telling Dawn that I looked for someone else to blame. And Spike just happened to draw the short straw. I don't know what I'd do if I lost Dawn. She's my night and my day, my heart and my soul, my everything and if I lost her, I think I'd lose part of myself.
My life has never been perfect but to me Dawn always has.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Joss Whedon & Co I'm just borrowing them for now.
Summary: Buffy's thoughts on Dawn. Set somewhere before the battle and after the talk in the Magic Shop on how to stop the portal.
So much has happened this past year, it's almost unbelievable. Finding out about Dawn, Spike falling in love with me, mom getting sick and dying, leaving me to look after Dawn. Sometimes I wanted to leave, to just pack-up my stuff and disappear like I did after sending Angel to Hell. I guess you could call it running away but I prefer to think of it as a vacation.
Maybe after we kill Glory I'll take Dawn to LA for a couple of weeks, it would do her good to get away from everything here, everyone here. I couldn't believe it when that Monk told me she wasn't my sister, my first instinct was to reject it all and then to reject her. But no matter how she came to be, she'll always be my baby sister. She's all I've got and I'm all she's got. There's no way I could ever give her up, not for Glory, not for Giles and certainly not for the world. To quote Willow, "Dawn's my always" and nothing can ever change that.
I'd do anything for Dawn, I know it sounds bad but I'd even sacrifice my friends for her. She comes first, always has done and always will. My heart ached when she found out from some book that she wasn't just Dawn Summers, that she was a key. As soon as she told me how she found out my first impulse was to beat the hell out of Spike, very nearly did until he told me the real reason I was there. Guilt. I felt so guilty about not telling Dawn that I looked for someone else to blame. And Spike just happened to draw the short straw. I don't know what I'd do if I lost Dawn. She's my night and my day, my heart and my soul, my everything and if I lost her, I think I'd lose part of myself.
My life has never been perfect but to me Dawn always has.