Author: Alex

Summary: This story takes place right after episode 13 of season 5 "Blood Ties" when Dawn finds out that she is the key. CHAPTER 2

Timeline: RIGHT AFTER BLOODTIES IN SEASON FIVE CHAPTER 2 OF MY STORY

Pairing: Spike/Buffy slightly

DISCLAIMER: I am aware that the characters and the town of Sunnydale do not belong to me. I am not making money off of these stories. All characters are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Fox and whoever else produces this show.

Chapter 2 Homesick

"Spike I need your help!" screamed buffy "Ugh! Bloody hell, what is it now!?" "Dawn is gone, please help me find her." "Again? I mean right.ok lets go."

Buffy and Spike search the graveyard thoroughly but cant find dawn.

"Spike do u know any places that Dawn could get some kind of mystic powers?" Umm.yea the guy we went to when she tried to bring back your mom. Besides that no." "Alright lets go"

As Buffy and Spike are going to the other side of town to get guys house, Dawn is just arriving there.

"Kyle wait here I have something to in here."

Dawn enters and the sees a messy old home with tons of books opened and tons of papers and dust all over.suddenly a man pops out of the hallway "Your that young girl who tried to bring your mother back."

Before he can finish Dawn says, "Yes that was me, but I decided not to go through with it." "Ok.then why are you here?" "Im looking for a kind of power. I don't know how to explain it but I want strength like a slayer, can you give me something like that?" "No im sorry I can't.but I can give you half that power, I can't give you the power of a vampire but only half. I have a vampire that is willing to give half his power in order to be able to be in the sun." "Would I be able to be in the sun as well or would I have to hide in the dark to?" "Yes since there is only half the power its only half the deal of being a vampire." "Ok I want it, where is this vampire?" "Right here"

Dawn sees a shadowy figure come out of a dark room. As he walks into the light she sees a young teenager like herself. The boy had green eyes, a tan completion with brown hair.

"Hi im Kegan, are you the one who is taking my power?" "Yea that's me." "Not that im trying to turn you away by any sort but it's a lot harder to be a vampire then you know." "Im not scared.are you? Cause if you are that's pathetic." "Im not scared, it was just a warning."

After another 10 minutes of who was scared more the man decided to break them up and said, "If you two are done lets go! I don't have all day."

With that being said the both got ready for the spell to be cast. The old man moves slowly to his supply box and takes out a bunch of old black and red stones. He hands the boy the red

"Make a circle with these stones."

He takes a few steps towards dawn and hand hers the black stones. He tells her to do the same with the black stones as Kegan is doing with the red. After they both finish he put a necklace over Kegan's neck and recites the phrase "He who had the power shall give it up, for another he will take this cut." With that part said he makes a knife and cuts his chest and lets a little blood drain into a wooden cup. He continues "Let the one without the soul be free, and bring the power upon the key!" The red stones begin to glow, flashes of red come out of every stone. He recites the phrase for Dawn "May the human show no fear, her fait near. What she loses can and will be gained to the cure the one whos heart and soul has been attained." Dawns rocks glow and black shoots out of every stone Kegan's, red lights of each rock goes into each of Dawn's black ones. Five minuets pass and the lights have dissolved. The man tells dawn to try out her power to see if all went well. "I want you to think of something that makes you mad, and you will change." Dawn thinks heard and remembers how she had to figure out that she was the key, as she gets angrier her face changes. She is feeling an overwhelming feeling of pain but she likes it, to know that there aren't anymore rules holding her back and she is so free to do what she pleases without having to worry, all her stress and fear is fading as her power is taking over. The pain leaves and she looks at her arms to see them huge and muscular, she takes a few steps to the mirror to see her face completely transformed.

"So what do u think? Is it what you wanted?" asked Kegan "Yeah its.perfect. Wait I still have a soul and I wont have any desire to want to create destruction will I?" "No your fine." Replied the man, his face had a pleased look as if he knew what he had done would make problems arise. "I feel this weird sense that someone is coming I can feel them." "That would mean that the slayer is near, it's a sense that all vamps get when she is near." Kegan said. "O my god I have to go thank you! How much do I owe you?!" "fifty." replied the man.

Dawn gave him the money as quick as possible and headed out, to see that Kyle wasn't there, a not was left on the ground in the dirt:

Dear Dawn, I came on this trip with you to tell you that I couldn't stay its getting late
bye,
Kyle Dawn ran as fast as she could because the sense was getting stronger and she knew if she stayed any longer that they would find her! She rain down the street and hoped the fence. Just then Buffy and Spike showed up.

"This is the place." Spike said Ok.whatever, look what I found." It was the letter Kyle had written to Dawn, she forgot to erase it..

Keep reading to See what happens next chapter!!!