Chapter 11

Buffy kissed him gently. She pulled away but he cupped her head in his hands and kissed her more.

"You know-" She said between kisses

"I really-"

"Have-"

"To go." She managed to pry her lips of his, leaving him with a disappointed look on his face.

"Where?"

"I have to get ready to patrol. The sun's almost down and Giles has got me on double duty because of this sword thing."

"Fine, then I'm coming."

"No. You'll just distract me."

"I thought you wanted to be distracted."

"No, well, yes. But this is serious, something is coming and I have to be ready."

"Yes, something is coming, me."

"Stay!" Buffy yelled, pinning him against the wall. Spike made a sort of growl sound and scowled. Buffy tried to kiss him goodbye but he turned his cheek.

Frustrated Buffy yelled. "Fine then! Be a stubborn asshole!"

"I will thank you."

* * * * * Spike came into the room, took his jacket, and left without a word.

"Hey Willow I'm going to go to McDonald's to get some take out you want to come?" Oz asked her.

"Okay, anyone else want something." Willow said.

"I want a chicken nuggets happy meal, and make sure they give you the red power ranger." Said Andrew, never once glancing up from "Captain Underpants." "Uh.right, We'll be right back."

Oz led Willow out the back door and into the Baskin Robbins parking lot. They got into his car and drove a few blocks to the McDonalds.

"Yeah we want a Diet Coke, a number 7, and a uh. happy meal with a red power ranger." Oz said sheepishly. The employee laughed through the speaker box.

"Yes, the red power ranger. Yes! It's very important alright?" Oz said in response to the man at the register.

They drove up to the pick up window and were handed their food.

"Actually Oz, can you drive up to the regular entrance I have to pee."

"Sure."

When Willow was out of the car Oz reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a plastic bag of white powder. He opened to bag and put about half of it in Willow's Diet Coke. He quickly put the lid back on when he saw her returning.

"You ready?"

"Yeah let's go."

They drove down the street and passed the Magic Box. Willow looked puzzled. "Where are we going Oz?" She asked.

Oz was impatiently waiting until she'd take a drink and was trying to think of a story for why they weren't going back.

"Oh, I uh, forgot something at my hotel. You don't mind do you?"

"Oh, no go right ahead."

He drove for about fifteen minutes, pretending to be lost, until Willow finally took a sip of her drink. She sat for a few minutes, then put her hand to her head.

"Ooh, wow. I've got the biggest headache. I. Can you pullover I just need to get some air."

"Sure." He faked, knowing that in about 30 seconds she would go to sleep.

Willow clutched her forehead tightly and the world started to get blurry. She started to feel dizzy and sick and leaned against the window. And suddenly everything went black... Oz turned the car around and sped up.

* * * * * Dawn was lying in her bed in her room with the music up full blast so if Buffy came home, she couldn't hear her sobbing. She was still wearing her jeans and Oregon Ducks sweatshirt. She knew he was right. She knew absolutely nothing about him. But it didn't matter, she WANTED to know him, everything about him. And she wanted him to know everything about her too. She wanted so badly what Buffy had. Most people didn't know about her and Spike but she did. She saw the way he looked at her. Spike loved her unconditionally and accepted her. She wanted someone to love her like that too. Dawn closed her eyes and cried herself to sleep.

* * * * * * Buffy walked through the deserted graveyard. It was especially misty tonight. She had been patrolling for about two hours and hadn't seen a single vampire or anything. She decided to call it a night and head home. But as she was unlocking her car door a cold hand gripped her shoulder. She grabbed it and flung her attacker over her shoulder, slamming them hard on the ground.

"Ow."

"Sirius?!?" She said, a little taken aback. "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you." He got up, supporting his back with his left hand and wincing. "Bloody hell, are you always this hostile?"

"Sorry, I'm a bit alert when I'm patrolling."

"I can see that. Come with me, I have to show you something."

* * * * * * Draco sat alone on the concrete floor in Spike's crypt.

"Fuck!" He muttered. "What have I gotten myself into?"

He grabbed the bottle of Absolute Vodka that Spike left in the fridge and chugged it. His first thought was to leave Sunnydale but he knew he couldn't. Well, rather that he wouldn't. He set down the bottle and grabbed his jacked and headed out. He walked through the cold graveyard to the corner of Erica Way and then thought. "What the fuck am I doing?" and apparated to Dawn's bedroom, quite sure that she would be asleep.

He quietly pulled up a chair by Dawn's bed and sat there for a few minutes, watching her sleep. Then he got up and turned around, pacing the flowery bedroom. He was silently trying to decide whether to wake her up or not when a metal lamp came down on his head. He fell to the floor and completely blacked out.

When he woke up a few minutes later he was bombarded with bright shining lights.

"Augghhh.." He said shielding his eyes. He took a few seconds to observe his surroundings before realizing he was laying on Dawn's bed with a cold washcloth on his head.

"Oh you're up." Dawn hurried to his side. "Draco I'm so sorry, I thought you were.er.trying to kill me."

"Really? I thought you hit me over the head with a lamp because you were still mad at me." Draco smirked a little

"Well I am. But I wouldn't hit you over the head just because I was mad at you."

Draco sat up, holding the cloth to his forehead.

"So.why are you here in the first place, and how did you get in my room?"

"Magic. And now I don't really remember why I came here. I think you killed a good number of brain cells. What now then?"

"You apologize."

"For what?"

"Being an asshole."

"Love, I've been an asshole my whole life. If I did that then I'd be apologizing for my existence, and I refuse to do that."

Dawn turned her back to him and scuffed. Draco sighed and put down the cloth. "Look at me." He said and put his hands on her shoulders. She turned around waited impatiently.

"I'm sorry alright? I just got a bit wound up." He paused, looking at her face. "Oh don't give me that look, Dawn." She smiled a little and said. "Okay, apology accepted."

"Come on." He grabbed her hand and started leading her across the room.

"Wait." She said, stopping him. "Buffy's got superhuman hearing, if Buffy's home she'll hear us and wake up."

"Hmm." Draco pondered. "The window!"

"Are you crazy?"

"Completely, come on then." He opened the window and climbed outside onto the roof. He led her around to the side and hopped up onto the top. He reached out his hand and she took it. He hoisted her up onto it and they lay down together.

"So do you really want to know all about my sketchy past?"

"Yes."

Draco went on to tell her all about his father and the rest of his family, Ginny, and Sirius. He talked for hours while Dawn listened intently. When he was finished Dawn moved closer to him and put her arms around him.

"Did you love him?"

"Who?"

"Lucius."

"I don't know. I guess I did because I figured I had to. He certainly didn't love me. I was just a pawn in his grand scheme to conquer the world."

"Yeah well I was just the key to hell. And I just found out that I'm not even that. So I don't know what I'm here for."

They sat in silence for a while. Dawn closed her eyes and her thoughts drifted to her mother and the day they were in the hospital and she found out Joyce's illness was terminal. Dawn was crying, and her mother was stroking her hair. She never forgot what she said to her;

"Dawn. Don't be afraid. Everything that lives is born to die. But that doesn't mean that nothing matters. It mean everything matters."

She didn't know why she thought of this but Draco's warm embrace reminded her of her mother. Soon she fell asleep and Draco carried her inside.

* * * * * "Look at this." Sirius said and pointed to the large stone cross that was at the entrance of the graveyard. There were words carved into the cross.

She has risen again. They have joined. The muggle world will fall.

"They always go for the dramatic threat. Shock me shock me shock me with those unexpected world domination threats!" Buffy said sarcastically.

"Yes, evil folk are very dramatic people."

* * * * * "Shock me shock me shock me" was taken from "Empire Records." Thank you Gina for your wonderful inspiration.