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Authors note: Sixteen year old Buffy moves to Sunndale and uncovers a mystery a hundred years old.

Authors note 2: I think it was two parts ago I wrote Hank was Buffy's father, that was a mistake on my part. Giles is Buffy's father in this story. Sorry if that confused anyone.

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Title: A Girl From Long Ago 22/25

Author: TK

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PART 22

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            "Here we are," said Buffy ninety minutes later as she helped Elizabeth out of Angel's black 1967 mustang convertible. 

            "My little sister is still in there?" asked Elizabeth in astonishment as she looked at the run down asylum.

            "She's waiting for you," said Buffy sweetly as she helped Elizabeth walk towards the front of the asylum.  Angel followed behind his great-grandmother and girlfriend up the chipped, gray, cemented stairs and into the asylum. 

            When the two teenagers and old woman reached the inside, they found Dawn already standing there wearing a huge smile.  The air around her seemed to light up with the sun's evening light.  Buffy heard Elizabeth gasped, whether it was in surprise or sadness she was not sure, but the minute she let go of Elizabeth's arm, Elizabeth walked over to Dawn.

            "Hey, Sunshine," Elizabeth said as she felt a happy sob in her throat.

            "Elizabeth," whispered Dawn as she walked up to her big sister," is it really you?" she asked even though Buffy had told her, and even though Dawn had believed Buffy she was still surprised to find the eyes of her big sister looking at her with love and happiness.

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            "I think we better go," said Angel softly as he wrapped his arms around Buffy, who at the moment was holding back happy tears. 

            "Look at them, Angel," replied Buffy in an under tone as she lend against her boyfriend's board and firm chest.  "They're happy," she said simply.  Buffy felt her insides spring with happiness for the two sisters, who after all theses years, were finally reunited.

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            "Are you okay?" asked Dawn as she pulled out one of the wooden chairs Buffy had sat on the night before for her sister to sit on.

            "I'm fine, I can't believe you're really here that's all," confessed a weepy eye Elizabeth.

            "I thought you forgot about me," confessed Dawn in a sad little girl's voice.

            "Oh, Dawnie, never," Elizabeth assured her little sister taking one of Dawn's little hands into her slightly larger ones.  "You're my little sister Dawn, no matter what ever happens or what did happen you were and will always be in my heart," she told her little sister giving her hand a squeeze.  "I tried to get to you so many times," Elizabeth said her voice containing a slightly frustration.  "But father told me that I couldn't see you, or it would hurt your recovery.  Then when I came here they wouldn't let me in without father's consent, which he never gave."

            "Buffy says that father is the one who killed me.  Now I didn't remember this until after my talk with Buffy last night, but as slept memories of our lives started to flash across my mind.  I now know that what you told Buffy is the truth.  Our father killed me to keep me quite," Dawn said as tears rolled down her face like rain calmly falling down a window. 

            "Oh, Sunshine," said Elizabeth as she moved to engulf her little sister in a hug.  "I don't know understand how a father could do that to a child," she confessed as Dawn wept into her shoulder.

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            "Buffy, maybe we should go," Angel said once again to his girlfriend.

            Buffy stood there with tears rolling down her face as well.  'How could he?' she angrily wondered about Mr. Keys.  'How could he hurt his children like that?' 

            "How could he?" Buffy said softly as her heart broke at the sight of Dawn and Elizabeth's tears.  "They didn't deserve it."

            "Buffy, come here," Angel said gently after hearing his loves words. 

            Buffy allowed Angel to lead her outside and onto the asylum's porch to give the two sisters privacy.

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            Dawn pulled slightly back from her sister's embrace before asking a question that had been on her mind since talking to Buffy," Can I ask you something?"

            Elizabeth looked down at her tear faced sister and smiled warmly through her still flowing tears," Sunshine,  you can ask me anything, you know that," she assured her sister.

            "Who pulled me out of the fire?" she wondered looking up at Elizabeth with her big innocent eyes.  "I mean I was obviously pulled out of the fire, and I can remember a figured dressed in black pull me out.  They had blonde hair and a British accent, but I couldn't clearly see their face," she said describing some memory she had gotten last night.

            Elizabeth took a breath before answering her little sister," It was William," she explained.  "In the letter father wrote to me on his death bed, he said that William had gone in to save you, knowing how important you were to me.  He then entrusted you to Father who had arrived at the scene moments later when he had saw the place go up.  Father had told William that he was very thankful for him saving you and told him that he would take care of you.  Once William left to go help with some of the other victims father then carried your smoked up body to the woods that use to be behind the asylum and…," Elizabeth stopped when a sobbed caught in her throat.

            "Then he stabbed me," Dawn concluded.  "I remember looking at him, and feeling so afraid by the vacant look in his eyes," she said in a whispery voice as she a flashback of her father's last look before she felt pain hit her surfaced.

            "I'm so sorry you had to go through that," Elizabeth apologized.  "I'm sorry I wasn't there for you when you needed the most," she added as the hard and sorrow filled tears rushed down her cheeks.  She had let her little sister down, and she promised her when they were younger she never would let any happen to her.

            "Its okay, Elizabeth," Dawn assured her sisters as she wrapped her arms around her sister and cried just as hard.  "It's okay, we're together now.  If only for a little while we're together now," she pointed out between sobs.  "I love you, Liz," Dawn told her big sister using the old nickname she had once used for her.

            "Sunshine, I love you as well," Elizabeth told the young girl she who she was so proud to have as her little sister.

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            "Buffy, are you all right?" asked Angel as he kissed the top of Buffy's head.

            The two of them where sitting outside on the porch of the asylum letting the cool breeze brush across their faces as they held onto one another.  Buffy was in Angel's lap curled around his body.  Her head rest on his right shoulder.  Buffy wiped away tears as she heard Dawn crying. 

            "It's not fair," Buffy said repeating her thoughts from earlier.  "They don't deserve to be in pain like this.  Dawn is so young and her horrible father took away her chance at getting older," she added with disgusted in her voice.  "If he was here right now I kick his butt up and down the street," she admitted.

            "That would be a sight to see," Angel joked lightly.  His petite girlfriend surprised him every time he was with her.  It was obvious that she had come to care for Dawn as a little sister, and it hurt her to see Dawn in pain.  It hurt him as well, and he had just met the young girl.  He couldn't believe someone in his family could be capable of such a thing, but Mr. Keys was. 

            "Angel?" asked Buffy as she moved her head so she could look up at him.  Her expression was that of a little girl looking up innocently at him. 

            "Yeah, Love," Angel said softly brushing the Buffy's lightly flying hair back behind her ear. 

            "Do think this will help Dawn and Elizabeth?" she asked, while praying that it did.

            "I believe it will," Angel answered.  "They are talking and everything is being revealed.  I have a feeling that both their hearts and souls will find peace after this," he stated, as he too prayed it was true.

            "I'm going to miss her," Buffy commented softly as she laid her head back down on Angel's shoulder.

            "I know," Angel said catching what Buffy had said," but," he started lifting her chin up. "You'll always have me," he commented before capturing her lips in a tender, loving kiss that made the stars sing. 

            Buffy knew she would always have Angel with her, and as one kiss ended and another sweet tasting one began Buffy knew without a doubt that she was the luckiest girl in the world to have him by her side, however a huge part of her was going to still miss the young girl, who had come to be like a little sister to her, very much.

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