Dawn had not spoken a word to Jessica in the car and didn't plan to. Dawn had eaten dinner in her room, and done her homework and pretend to fall asleep. Reluctantly Jessica had left her alone all afternoon. She had to have time thinking. All I want is to bring Buffy back, really that's all I want more then anything in the world. I left the thing with Mom alone, but there is something more about Buffy that I need. I need her and I want her to be there for me. Her friends need her. Jessica needs her to be a better slayer. Willow and Xander, her best friend need her. Spike the one that loves her so much needs her. She scrawled in her diary when she felt something fall of her bed. She bent down to retrieve it whens she saw the title on the leather bound book. It read Resurrection in thick golden letters engraved in the leather. This must be Willow's or Tara's she thought to herself. Sure enough the name Willow was printed neatly in the inside. She flipped the worn pages that probaly were centries old when a crumpled paper fell out the book, she unrolled it and read the words, "The Key" in Tara's handwriting. Then a spell caught her eye but was intreruppted by a knock on the door. Dawn quickly shoved the book under her bed and quickly sat up."Um come in!."she called. Jessica appeared and smiled weakly at Dawn."Um can we talk?"she asked. Dawn nodded. Jessica sat down on the bed and stroked Dawn hair."Im sorry about earlier, I should have not been so hard on you the other today." Dawn shook her head."No your right Jess, magick is no way to bring Buffy back."she said calmly. Jessica smiled."Know come on, you have to go asleep you have school tommorow!."she exclaimed and kissed Dawn goodnight. Dawn watched as her cousin closed the door and left. Suddenly Dawn felt so alone. She knew she had family and friends who cared for her but she wanted the slayer, her sister the one that she wanted."Im going to bring you back Buffy, even if I die trying.''
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Dawn watched nervously around the crowded classroom and raised her hands."Um Mrs. Smith can I go to the restroom?"she asked without hesitation. The teacher nodded and returned to the lesson plan. Dawn quickly snuck out with her backpack under her jacket and crept to the halls and turned to the exit door. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and unchained her bike from the bike rack and made her way to the Magic Shop. She knew it was twelve and at that time Giles and Anya always locked up the shop and went out to lunch everyday. She lifted the thick carpet from the ground and spotted the key to the magic shop. She picked it up and then stuck it in the key lock and pushed the door open. She ran up the loft and into the ladder. She rummaged through the bottle of the potions set neatly on top of the huge shelf. Dawn sorted through all of them and pulled one out labeled "Newness for the dead." She opened the bottle and immediately wrinkled her nose in disgust. The bottle AKA potion seriously reeked of centuries old. Dawn really had to hurry up and had only thirty minutes until Giles or Anya came back to tend the Magic Shop.. Dawn pulled out the book she had found under her bed and flipped to were the spell and the potions were. She read aloud, "Bark from a Weeping Willow tree, natural herb called Kokos and blood from the flesh if the receiver, gather all objects and form a circle with the picture of the deceased in the center, also including a sacred object of the deceased, be careful with thee can only progress this incantation one time, the deceased will come to thee with open arms and fellow people that thou loved." Dawn ran to the nature section of the store and grabbed a small section of the bark of a weeping willow, the potion labeled"Kokos," and a small pouch to pour her blood into. She would do the bleeding later that evening and an framed picture of Buffy and Buffy's most sacred object, a small ring that Angel had given her before he left. Suddenly she heard the small bell attached to the door give a little tink she scurried down the letter and hid behind the huge display of chicken feet. She was relieved to see it was only Anya, grabbing her purse and then disappear through the door again.She quietly slipped her way to the door, put her backpack into the bike basket and glanced at her clock , it read two. It had taken her a while to the find all the ingredients she needed for the spell.
It had taken more time then Dawn had ever thought, practically three weeks. She gathered more ingredients, stronger herbs and researched more and more about the resurrection of Buffy. She would log on the Internet for hours going to the magick sites and reading all the information she could get. She read all the past slayers before Buffy, digged into Giles earlier watcher's notes, and in one a occasion even read Buffy's diary.(It was boring). She read into Willow's spells when she wasn't looking, spent countless hours trying to pry information from Tara, sleeping over at Willow's just to gather books. Dawn asked Anya about the dimension Glory had planned to open with her, the blood of Dawn. She even contacted a watcher to know more about slayers. Then, on a foggy Saturday afternoon while Jessica was hanging out with Anya and Willow shopping, Xander was at the working and and Giles and Spike had gone back to England for a short while, they had left in a not that they were to stressed after Buffy's death and wanted to go home for a while. And Tara had been getting more classes at the UC of Sunnydale. She looked around the room and onto the floor. Neatly on formed in a circle was the objects needed for the spell. There was the small bottle of "Kokos" and Newness for the dead, a smiling picture of Buffy and the ring, the most personal possession of the slayer, a strand of Buffy's blonde hair intertwined in the thick brush and a small lit candle. Dawn took out the crumbled piece of paper and looked and carefully chanted the words."I plea to thou magicks above, bring back the one I loved. Return to me what has been loved and proclaim all the vibes and feelings thy had possessed."she rolled her eyes at the spell it probably some wicca's lame rhymes but still the power was strong. It took her at least two hours to get the spell to work, but she was more determined as ever. Suddenly a gray mist of air and then clearly cleared. There in front of Dawn stood a lifeless Buffy.Dawn screamed with joy and gave her sister a big hug."Buffy!"she screamed and smiled. But her smile vanished when Buffy gave her a blank look and didn't respond,"Somethings wrong!"she whispered. Buffy countied giving Dawn a blank stare but did blink. Dawn backed down a little and felt tears streaming down her eyes.