Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer - Restoration : An Unholy Ending

Author - Shane A. Hopkins (thesorcererbard@I-am-the-key.com)

Rating - R

Pairing - Spike and Dawn

Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to them. What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit.

Authors Note - This story is written along the lines of Lady Myst's 'A New Dawn' story. Dawn sacrificed herself in the episode 'The Gift' rather than let Buffy die.

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Restoration : An Unholy Ending.

**R minus 1 day**

"Dawn!" cried Spike as he walked out of the kitchen, carefully avoiding any direct sunlight.

"Yea?" she called back.

"You want a coffee?" spike said as he stopped in the doorway, the living room curtains were all pulled to keep the light out.

"Yea, why not." the brunette said as she turned her head to look at the vampire with her spectrum blue eyes, here eye's dropped down to his arse as he turned around and headed back to the kitchen, "What a cute arse" she said to herself.

"I heard that Lil-bit." called Spike, "Vampires have very good hearing."

Dawn had the decency to blush before turning her mind back to what was happening, "Spike?"

"Yea?" he said as he walked back into the living room with a mug in each hand.

"What do you think the world will be like if Buffy had died instead of me?" Dawn asked as she took the mug of coffee from him and he sat down beside her.

"I really don't know, Lil-bit, it may be worse than this but it may very well be better." Spike answered.

"But, how could Buffy die, I mean she must have made a choice to give up her life to save mine." Dawn said.

"Lil-bit, you have been thinking about this way too much." Spike said as he pulled Dawn's head down to lean on his shoulder.

Dawn smiled.

Meanwhile in a place that was neither here nor there a discussion was going on.

"THEY DO NOT REALISE."

"NO, BUT THEY WILL SOON ENOUGH."

"WE SHOULD HAVE LET THEM KNOW."

"THE KEY MUST BE KEPT SAFE."

"THE KEY IS THE LINK, THE LINK MUST BE RESTORED."

**R minus 12 hours**

"Hey guys, found anything?" Buffy asked as she walked into the magic shop.

"We've had a big helping of nothing chased down with a portion of sod all." Xander said looking up from the book he was flipping through.

"Yes, I must admit we have had very little luck." Giles said coming round the counter.

"Little luck? We've had no luck at all." Willow said disappointedly.

"How's Dawnie?" Xander asked.

"She's handling this all very well, she's not worried at all." Buffy answered walking over to the table and sitting down.

"Spike follow me." Dawn said to her vampire companion.

"But, it's daytime, Lil-bit." Spike said.

"We do have a sewer access here." she pointed out.

"Okay, where are we going?" he asked.

"The cemetery, your crypt to be precise." Dawn told him.

"Why?" Spike asked worriedly.

"I have a surprise for you." Dawn answered.

Minutes later Spike and Dawn emerged from the sewer entrance to his crypt.

"Lil-bit, this is a long way to come for a surprise." Spike grumbled.

"Spike, kiss me and everything will become clear." Dawn said pulling on his collar.

Spike leaned in an planted a very passionate kiss on her lips. As his tongue probed her mouth he felt a current of power flow up through him into his brain, he felt a sharp shock almost like someone had kicked him in his behaviour modification chip.

Spike broke the embrace, "W-what did you do?" he asked clasping his hand's to his head.

"I gave you what you always wanted, the power to love with all your soul." Dawn answered as he sank to the ground.

"Y-you gave me a soul?" Spike sounded shocked.

"No, that would kill you, I have only given you the power of love." Dawn said as she crouched down in front of him.

"H-how?" Spike asked.

"Through your chip, it is more than just a chip, it has the ability to generate human feelings." Dawn said taking Spike's head and hugging it to her chest.

**R minus 2 hours**

"Dawn?!" Buffy called as she walked into her house, "Dawn, where are you?"

"She's not here." said Tara as she walked from the kitchen, "Both her and Spike are gone."

"Were?" Buffy asked the blonde witch.

"I don't know." Tara answered a little worriedly, since Buffy and Dawn's mother had died Tara had taken on a sort of mother role for Dawn.

"Spike, this is my gift to you, no matter what the Powers do it will remain with you, forever." Dawn told the vampire.

"Dawn, I-I don't want to feel this way, not if anything happens to you." Spike cried, he lifted his head and Dawn could see the tears running down his face.

"IT IS TIME."

"THE KEY IS THE LINK, THE LINK MUST BE RESTORED."

"Ah!" Dawn cried as she doubled over in pain.

"Lil-bit, what is it?" Spike still had tears running down his cheeks but is worry for Dawn overrode his pain.

"G-get Buf." Dawn managed before lapsing into unconsciousness.

Spike tried t lift her but found that she was somehow too heavy, "I'll go get her Lil- bit, don't you worry." he said before running down into the sewer and heading back to the Summers house as fast as he could go.

"Spike! Where's Dawn?" Buffy rounded on the vampire as he emerged from the basement.

"Out cold in my crypt, she was in pain before she passed out, we have to get there now!" Spike said, he was out of breath, which was very unusual since vampires don't breath.

"Okay come on!" Buffy said leading the way.

"Oh dear." Giles said as he examined Dawn.

"What?" Buffy and Spike asked in unison.

"The wounds Glory inflicted on her are reopening as well as new ones here on her wrists." Giles told them.

"Is there anything we can do?" Spike asked.

"I honestly don't know." the watcher answered.

"IT IS THE RESTORATION!" came Dawn's voice, it was much deeper and had a reverberation that it couldn't have possibly had. Then Dawn screamed as pure white light flowed from the cut's that had appeared in her wrist's. The light was so bright that Buffy and all those gathered had to turn their head's away.

"Giles, what's going on?!" Buffy yelled at him

"It must be the Powers spell!" he yelled back.

**R minus 0**

To be continued.