FORGETTING EMPTINESS: Chapter 9

DISCLAIMER: Can be found on Chapter 1.

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Buffy left Dawn alone for an hour, the crying not stopping once. Buffy herself was still trying to deal with the reality of the situation. Dawn thought she was pregnant, so she had to have had sex, right?

The door to Buffy's room was open, and she sat on her bed mindlessly swinging her feet. 'Could my Dawn have really had sex.'

Finally Buffy stood up and walked to the door, outside Dawn's door was open and the bathrooms closed. The shower was on and there was no sound of tears. But Buffy knew better than that, the shower was a place you went to cry your eyes out, letting the water fall down your face. When Buffy was a teenager, she spent many lonely nights in the shower crying her eyes out, the slayerage taking its emotional toll.

But it wasn't just the Slayerage that took its tool on Buffy, it was also Angel!

Buffy lost her virginity to Angel and then he went badly. He made love to her and then totally pulled the 180 in the direction of hatred, killing all the possibility of a happy normal life with the one she loved. For months after that Buffy would go and shower, crying her pain away, letting the tears go down the plughole. Now, Dawn had her very own emotional baggage to wallow over.

The shower turned of, and Buffy could hear Dawns faint wallows. Buffy waited outside the door, and when the door finally opened five minutes later, Dawn was dressed in a bathrobe and slippers.

"Dawn, come and sit in my room!" Buffy put her hand on Dawn's shoulders and led the way to Buffy's room. Dawn lay down on the bed and Buffy closed the shutters. She then turned on her lamp and sat in her cane chair.

Dawn started crying again and Buffy stood up. She walked over to her dresser and circled the room until she was by Dawn's side. She presented Dawn the test.

"You didn't read the instructions properly. You have to wait two minutes for the test to work properly. The pink was just the start, it turned to purple then finally it turned blue. That's what happens. Your not pregnant!" Buffy layed down on the bed next to Dawn, her hand on Dawn's shoulder.

Dawn didn't move, she just stared. She looked as if she was in a trance and eventually after about an hour, Dawn fell asleep.

Buffy got up and closed the door to her own room. She then went to Dawn's and changed the sheets to her bed, heading strait for the laundry with the tear filled sheets.

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