>>A/N...this was originally a cordy angel song i had for a fic and might still be...urm, and yeah people, dawn's 18 in this story....maybe i'll continue it =) song belongs to lifehouse


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>>I'm finding my way back to sanity again
>>Though I don't really know what
>>I am gonna do when I get there
>>Take a breath and hold on tight
>>Spin around one more time
>>And gracefully fall back in the arms of grace

Dawn smiled excitedly, changing in her walk-in closet. "Yanno one of these days you are *so* going to get tired of me babbling."
"You don't babble, Nibblet, you go on." He smiled a tiny bit at her closet door.
"Which is code for babble, right?"
"Sure Nibblet."
" 'Sure Nibblet'. I sound like an entree when you say that. "
"You aren't an entree. You're the thing before that."
"The appetizer?" Her head peeked out from her closet. "Gee thanks."
He smiled a little. "I aim to please."
"So I'm like soup or salad or something?"
"Basically." She smiled and fell silent, coming out of her closet with some sweat pants and a tank on. She laid down on the bed, reaching for the light and smiling when he got it for her. "Thanks, Spike."
"No problem, luv." A moment of awkwardness and then a kiss goodnight. A kiss neither was expecting.

>>I am hanging on every word you say
>>And even if you don't want to speak tonight
>>That's alright, alright with me
>>'Cause I want nothing more
>>Than to sit outside Heaven's door
>>And listen to you breathing
>>Is where I want to be

"Spike?" she whispered.
"Yes, luv?" he looked down at her.
"Stay here? With me? At least until i fall asleep?" He smiled slightly.
"Always." He laid next to her, not touching her at all, for fear she might pull away and leave him burnt as her sister had.
"Spike?"
"Yeah?"
"Tell me a story." A smile played on her lips as she turned her head to look at him.
"What kind of story?"
"A love-ish, fairy tale story."
"You want *me* to tell *you* a fairy tale."
"Yep."
"I don't tell fairy tales."
"Please? For me?"
He sighed. "Fine. Once there was a lonely prince..." He started and she smiled.

>>I am looking past the shadows
>>Of my mind into the truth and I'm
>>Trying to identify the voices in my head
>>God, which one's you
>>Let me feel one more time
>>What it feels like to feel and
>>Break these calluses off of me
>>One more time
>>Cause I am hanging on every word you say
>>And even if you don't want to speak tonight
>>That's alright, alright with me
>>'Cause I want nothing more
>>Than to sit outside Heaven's door
>>And listen to you breathing
>>Is where I want to be

Five minutes later she was sound asleep and he was listening to her breathe. True, he told her he was leaving after she fell asleep, but...
He rolled over. Maybe it'll make tomorrow better. He listened to her breathing, counting in time to it, until he fell into a long awaited peaceful sleep.

>>I don't want a thing from you
>>Guess you're tired of me waiting
>>For the scraps to fall
>>Off of your table to the ground
>>I just want to be here now
>>I am hanging on every word you say
>>And even if you don't want to speak tonight
>>That's alright, alright with me
>>'Cause I want nothing more
>>Than to sit outside Heaven's door
>>And listen to you breathing
>>Is where I want to be