Title: Busted Author: Shannon (mighty_minnie_mouse@hotmail.com) Rating: PG-13 (Geez, I can't write anything above that if Kristy's going to read it.) Pairing: Dawn/Amanda Summary: Dawn and Amanda get caught. Uh oh!

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Dawn ran up the stairs, giggling as Amanda ran after her.

"Dawn, are you sure your sister isn't home? 'Cause I wouldn't wanna make Buffy mad..."

Dawn silenced her girlfriend with a short kiss, and grinned.

"I'm positive. She's working at school. Which is, if you remember, where we're supposed to be."

"Oh! Right.. Yeah." Amanda giggled and she and Dawn walked into Dawn's bedroom and pushed the door shut.

"Amanda?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah?"

"Kiss me. Now."

Amanda smiled happily and obliged her brunette girlfriend, kissing her fervently. Her hands snaked around to the small of Dawn's back, as they both stumbled over to where Dawn's bed was in the middle of the room. They rolled on top of it, Dawn maneuvering herself to the top position. Amanda began to reach her hand inside the back of Dawn's shirt, when-

"DAWN!"

Dawn froze mid-kiss. She disconnected her lips from Amanda's, and looked down to where one of her hands was sitting snugly.

She shut her eyes and whispered, "Oh, God."

"Dawn," Buffy began in a calmer voice, "What the hell are you doing?"

"Eep." Dawn managed to make her voice resemble some kind of squeak. Buffy tilted her head to the side a bit, to try and make out whoever her little sister was lying on top of.

"Amanda?!" Buffy looked at the girl she'd once counseled, aghast. "Dawn, you better explain this right the hell now."

"I can do that! We were... Um... Conducting a science experiment!"

Amanda cast Dawn a strange glance. Dawn continued.

"On, uh... How the human body reacts to different, um, stimuli."

Buffy looked at her sister disbelievingly. "Uh-huh. And Spike really did build a Buffy Bot to play checkers with."

"Well, we are technically seeing how we react to different thin-"

"Enough! I don't want to know any more! I'm going to go... This way. And your door is staying open. And you two are going to... Just, be good." Buffy left Dawn's room clutching her forehead.

Dawn and Amanda both let out collective sighs.

"That was..."

"Close." Amanda finished.

"Yeah."

"Uh-huh."

They both sat in silence for a few minutes, contemplating Buffy and her sentence. Amanda broke the silence.

"So you wanna...?"

"Oh yeah."

Dawn grinned, and moved back towards Amanda, with only one thing on her mind.

END.