Crying Shame Summery: A demon comes to Sunnydale that feeds off people's tears. What will the gang do when their whole life turns into tragedy galore? Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me except the following: Sheme the tear demon, Dawn's friend Lexi, and Justin. The rest belong to the wonderful Joss Whedon.

Chapter 2 Dawn walked into the school building the next day to see everyone staring at her. She started walking a little faster feeling self-conscious, She noticed some people whispering as she passed. She walked quickly into the girls' bathroom and looked into the mirror, "What are they looking at?" she said out loud. "Oh, hey Dawn," Lexi said walking into the bathroom. "Hey," she said, "do you know why everyone's looking at me all funny?" She looked uncomfortable, "Well, see, Kirsty told everyone that your sister was raped."

Buffy walked into the living room and turned on the TV. She saw some medics carrying a body on into an emergency truck and when the camera got closer it revealed the body to be Giles'. She dropped the remote and ran out of the house.

Dawn sat at a table at lunch by herself and she heard her name said to her left, as she turned to look she saw everyone's head at the table beside hers shoot away like they weren't starring at her.

Buffy, arriving at the hospital ran up to the just arriving vehicle, "Giles!" she said running up to the medics, "Is he going to be ok?!" she asked frantically. "He's in critical condition, we have to get him inside so please, Ma'am, give us some room!" the medics said pushing passed her.

Dawn sat in a bathroom stall crying and she heard Kirsty and her friends walk in, "Can you believe that Summers girl is getting so upset, I mean seriously, I didn't know that me spreading that about her sister would work so well!" she heard her say. "Is it true??" one of the other girls asked her. "Who cares?" she said and the others laughed and agreed.

Buffy sat in the waiting room twiddling her thumbs, "I hate this place," she thought out loud. Xander and Willow rushed into the waiting room and went over to Buffy. "Any word?" Xander asked worried. Buffy shook her head. "He'll be fine." Willow said sitting beside her, "Don't worry." "I hope so." Buffy replied sadly.

Dawn walked up to Kirsty and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around to look at her, "Oh, hey Dawn, how you doing?" Dawn punched her in the nose. Everyone gasped at this act of violence. ".Better now!" she said and walked away.

Meanwhile, the demon sat in a dark room with his eyes closed, breathing in some kind of blue light. He opened his eyes, "That's it, don't fight the pain," he said with a deep raspy voice and smiled evilly.