Part 6. Please see part 1 for disclaimer.

"What happened to Buffys body?" Giles asked softly.

"Burnt it." Raven said simply, his eyes unreadable. "Doused the house with gasoline, the body too. Got a few things that Xander mentioned were important and then lit it. I stayed inside long enough to watch the body catch." Willow gagged, and turned her face away. Giles shot Riley a look.

"Initiative troops have Sunnydale surrounded." Riley reported with a small smile.

"Right," Giles said and turned back to them. "Well the reason we havn't mentioned Dawn yet, is because she simply did not exist." Jeff mouth dropped back open.

"Please explain to me why there is a pregnant girl sleeping upstairs who apparently did not exist 8 years ago." Jeff managed to ask.

"In Buffys second year of College, Dawn appeared, comeplete as if she had always been there. She had a room and clothes and she was in pictures dating back to her birth. Dawn had birth record and Joyce remembered giving birth to her. Dawn is and was, what is known as a key. She can open and unlock portals through time and dimensions. Before she was Dawn." Giles paused, his brow wrinkled. "She was a glowing ball of energy, protected by a group of monks." He sighed, "They were keeping the key from a hell goddess, known as Glory. In order to keep it safe they sent it to the Slayer, they made Dawn."

"Because what will a slayer protect the most," Willow said sadly, "her family and friends."

"While Glory was chasing after Dawn, Joyce got sick, and then died of cancer." Riley tossed in. "So Buffy had to take care of Dawn, have a job, as well as being the slayer and protecting her sister from a hell goddess."

"And Glory didn't actually know that Dawn was the key," Willow  tossed in. "She found out when she sucked Taras brain dry."

"I thought Tara got shot?" Chris asked, Willows eyes flashed dark and Chris swallowed.

"She did. But before that, she was basically mind raped." Willow said, her voice trembling. "But she could see auras, really well. And then Glory popped into visit at the same time as Dawn did, and Tara choose that moment to look at Dawn with her second site."

"Which sent blond and fashionable but oh so evil after Dawn." Xander tossed in. "And to make a very long story short, she caught Dawn, tied her up on top of a scaffolding, opened up a portal, which is when Buffy and us showed up, collectively kicked her ass, but the portal was open. It wouldn't close until the heart stopped pumping out the blood. So Buffy jumped into, killing herself and closing the portal." Chris raised a hand.

"I'm confused." He said, "If she died then, then how was she alive to die today?" Willow waved a hand.

"That'd be my fault." She said softly. "I'm a witch. I brought her back from the dead. Dawn was 17 then."

"Right." Xander said, " And then all this stuff happened with these three guys who thought they were the big bad." Spike grinned.

"But they weren't." Spike clarified. "They were computer geeks with gadgets."

"And one of them shot Buffy." Giles said.

"And she died?" Chris asked.

"No, but his second shot hit Tara." Xander explained softly. 

"She died in my arms." Willow said, her eyes a deep dark black. "And i went a little crazy." She took a deep breath and suddenly her hair was black. The hair on Jeffs arms stood straight up.  "Even then, i was a very powerful witch. I was actually addicted to the magic. So i drained all the powerful artifacts and books and people i could get my hands on. I killed the one that killed Willow." She shuddered. "Ripped his skin off. Then i tried to end the world."

"But you failed." Jeff said.

"No, Xander stopped her actually." Cordy said, her voice soft. "And she went to England and got better. When she came home,"

"Everything was different." Xander said. "So she left again. She came here."

"And Dawn came with her." Wesley added. "A year later, Faith got out."

"Out of what exactly?" Chris asked.

"Jail." Faith said. "We skipped that hurrying to get to the Dawn business. I killed someone. I hurt people, and would have killed more. I almost killed Wesley here. But then i saw the light, or something like it. I turned myself in and i did my time."

"Then i accidentally found one of Gunns wrestling magazines. It mentioned that the recruiters would be in town." Cordy said. "I definitely wasn't interested. But Faith, Willow and Dawn were. So they tried out."

"And impressed the socks off of the recruiters." Chris added. "They flew through their training and hit raw, with interest."

"And that is the end of our story." Giles said. "Now you know everything."

"I think my brain is melting." Chris joked half heartedly.

"I think I need to think about this." Jeff said, he looked at his watch, it was 9pm, and he was starving. "After more food." Riley chuckled.

"Some of my men are in the kitchens making food." Riley said, "you can head that way anytime."

"Ohh military food," Xander joked. " I haven't had it but i know how it tastes," he sighed. "Actually a decent memory of it." He stood. "Food anyone?"