Disclaimer: in case you had already missed the point… these characters aren't mine

Not much point in asking y'all to review… cos you don't! well that's probably cos no one reads it but anyway…

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El contemplated her life as she stared up at the stars. She did this often, whenever she had a lot to think about she used the sky as inspiration. Plus, it was quite crowded in the Summer's house and she enjoyed the peace and quiet.

In a couple of days she had gone from a complete loner, to being surrounded by the friends that she had given everything to years back. The nostalgia was overwhelming. And as for Gunn… well she didn't even know where to start. Part of her wanted to just leave things be, happy that she was finally at peace with the pain that their break up had caused. The other part of her insisted that she should act upon the love that she so blatantly still had for him. She wasn't sure how he felt but the way that he hardly ever met her eyes, or looked in her general direction reminded her of how he was before he got up the guts to ask her out. She was pretty sure he felt something for her… but she still couldn't be sure.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of the youngest member of the household,

'Hey' greeted Dawn, who hadn't really had a chance to get to know this new slayer,

'Hi,' replied the older girl, smiling.

'I was thinking, that… well it would be nice if I sort of got to know you. I mean, what with you living in my house and all… plus I heard that you pretty much beat Buffy today which makes me happy,' Dawn giggled a little, El felt herself warming to the Key… the normality of the conversation was novel for her.

'Sounds good to me. 'Fraid I'm a step ahead of you. Spike used to mention you quite a bit… 'Niblet' isn't it?' Dawn's eyes widened,

'How d'you know Spike? You're British' El chuckled,

'Yeah I know. Poor guy needed to let off some steam after he got himself a soul. We sparred a lot till one day his demon almost took control of him,' El looked almost wistful for a minute, 'We had some fun fights.'

'And how come we know nothing about you? I mean the council don't really like Buffy but surely they wouldn't have told us that there was a new slayer… or even Angel and co.' El breathed in deeply, she wondered if she was ready to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She decided she may as well start and see how she felt,

'I asked Angel and the others not to tell anyone who and what I was. I severed all ties with the council two months after I was called and wanted to keep it that way. I had no idea that Buffy and the council were on such bad terms, after all my watcher made me watch video after video of her techniques… it appeared to me that they thought she was great. I didn't want her to let on to them where I was.'

El began to get the feeling that Dawn had actually been sent by the blonde slayer. She wondered why Buffy hadn't asked her herself. Perhaps she thinks that I still don't trust her.

'Sorry,' said Dawn, who had seen a dark look pass over the slayer's face as she talked about her past, 'I guess you don't really want to talk about it,' El smiled weakly,

'Its okay.'

'So… onto more important subjects,' Dawn said seriously, 'There's this guy that I kind of have a crush on and well Buffy kinda can't deal with me being old enough and I don't know if he's even noticed me and well I just really don't know what to do cos I think he's so…'

TBC

Not much point, not much interesting stuff. But then, that's fan fic for you!