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A/N- Okay, here's the next chapter!!!!!! Hope its some satisfaction for my wonderful reviewers!!!

Parings- Still thinking, but I almost positive I know who will be with whom, at least for Max, lol.

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"No problem Max. That's what friends are for right?" Logan asked with a bit of tension.

"Yeah, listen I gotta go." Max said. "Bye." Max said and hung up. 'What happened to her mother, and where's her sister?' Max asked before calling Zack and laying the message to him.

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Max sat in her desk thinking about everything that had happened that day. Everything from getting into a fight about Dawn, to Zack not being happy about the lack of information available. She sighed and left for home, only to run into Alec.

"What are you doing here?" Max asked.

"What are you doing?" Alec asked.

"My office." Max replied. "Besides I'm going home now." Max said and continued to walk.

"Home?" Alec asked with a twinkle and smirk starting to form on his face.

"No your no coming with me" Max said.

"Dear Maxie did I ever say that?" Alec asked.

Max rolled her eyes and continued walking. "So how long is the kid planning on staying?" Alec asked walking beside of Max.

"Don't know." Max simple answered, not really in the mood to talk to him at the moment.

"So what did old Logan have to say?" Alec asked while saying Logan's name a bit sarcastically.

Max rolled her eyes. "That she's getting ready to turn seventeen, used to live in California under the care of her sister." Max said.

"That's it?" Alec asked.

"Logan is looking into it." Max said.

Alec didn't respond to her immediately so they just walked in silence. Finally Alec spoke up. "Why don't you call her home in California?" Alec suggested.

"No sh#t Sherlock." Max said. "But that's sorta hard to do when you have no phone number!" Max said as they reached her apartment. Max unlocked the door and walked in and turning to look at Alec. "Night Alec." She said.

"Night Maxie." He said, and left to also go home.

When Max turned around she was greeted by the site of Dawn curled up on her couch in a pair of gray jogging pants and a gray long sleeve shirt. Her knees were brought up to her chest and her arm was under her head like pillow and the blanket was draped over her small frame. She was fast asleep, and she looked peaceful, almost. She looked at her a second longer before going into the bathroom to take a nice long bath.

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Ring, Ring went Max's phone at nine o'clock that morning. Max quickly picked it up and answered it. "Hello." She said.

"Max?" She heard Logan say.

"Yeah. You have anymore info, like what her number was, so I can get in contact with her sister." Max asked.

"I barely did." Logan said and gave her the number to Dawn's old home.

"Thanks Logan." Max said.

"No problem Max." Logan said before the hung up and Max dialed the number Logan had given here. It rang five times before the answering machine came on. "Hello you have reached the Summers, leave a message after the beep and I'll be sure to get back to you." A perky voice from the answering machine said.

Max smirked. "Yeah you don't know me, but I have information on your little sister. Call me back at 589-3344." Max said and hung up. She sighed and leaned against her frig; she wondered when they would call back. Then there was a knock on the door. Max rolled her eyes and answered it. She saw Zack.

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

Zack looked at her and then past her at the lump on her couch still asleep. "I called her home in California today I should get a reply back soon." Max said.

"You didn't reach anyone?" Zack asked.

"Does a perky voice on a machine count?" Max asked.

Zack looked at her, but she merely shrugged not wanting to have a fight with him this early in the morning. She walked away leaving Zack to either come in or stand out in the hallway like an idiot. Zack glanced at Dawn and stared at her.

"She could be dangerous." Zack said.

"Zack, I really doubt she's dangerous to us." Max said.

"You don't know." Zack said.

"Zack stop being paranoid." Max said.

"I'm just trying to keep you and my family safe." He said.

Max looked at him and sighed. "I know ya are Zack, but just give her a chance. My gut tells me this kid's been through a lot." Max said. "Plus look at the way she acts, member yesterday I have a feeling she doesn't trust people that easily."

Zack looked at her, his face firm and hard. "Fine, but the second I see she's going to cause harm to my brothers or sisters that's it." Zack said and only got a smile and nod from Max before leaving.

Max looked at the door for a minute before Alec walked in. "Don't you know how to knock?" Max asked.

"Um, no." Alec teased.

"Well learn." Max said. "And what are you doing here?" Max asked.

"Well you're a ray of sunshine this morning." Alec said with a smirk. Max rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath.

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Dawn's eyes slowly fluttered open. She glanced around the room and rested her eyes on a clock that read eleven o'clock. She sighed and lay there for a moment wishing everything would just go away, but for Dawn Summers nothing seemed to be aiming her way anymore, so she sat up on the couch and looked around. It was quiet; she heard nothing, but silence. Dawn quickly changed into a pair of dark hip hugger blue jeans and put on a black shirt that went to her elbows and slipped into her jacket and shoes before brushing her hair. Afterwards she walked out of Max's apartment closing the door behind her.

When Dawn reached the outside she looked around, and noticed the shape the city was in. She sighed and shook her head. She slowly walked down the street looking at the 'people' around her. The wind blew making her hair gentle fly as she continued to look at Terminal City. Her eyes and thoughts were else where when she bumped into a small figure. Dawn looked down in surprise and saw a little girl around the age of seven or eight; she looked a lot like Max's sister Jace.

"Sorry." Dawn said helping the kid off of the ground.

"Who are you?" The little girl asked.

Dawn smiled softly; it wasn't a big smile, but a smile no less. "I'm Dawn, who're you?" Dawn asked bending down so she could be somewhat eye level with the kid.

"My names Max." The little girl replied.

Dawn smiled; she had to be one of Max's sisters or brother's kid. "That's a nice name." Dawn said about the time she heard thunder break through the peaceful morning stillness.

Max jumped slightly and looked at Dawn with frightened eyes. (She's afraid of thunder and storms) Dawn looked at her and frowned. "You should get back to your mom before the storm breaks." Dawn said.

"I don't know where she is." The little girl said and jumped as another applaud of thunder boomed overhead.

Dawn looked at the obviously frightened girl, and had pity for her. She knew what it was like to be scared and alone with no one to comfort you. "Come on, I'll help you find her." Dawn said as lightning flashed overhead and a drizzle of rain started to fall. Dawn held out her hand to the small girl and she took it eagerly as another wave of thunder and lightning boomed. 'ok now what am I supposed to do?' Dawn thought as she and the little girl started to walk. 'Buffy would know what to do, she always did.' Dawn thought and was immediately hit with such guilt and sadness it wasn't even funny. She couldn't even stop the one or few tears from streaming down her face that was intermingled with rain. 'Ok I'll take her to a café. Her mom or someone should find her there.' Dawn thought as she headed for the café that Max had taken her too earlier. Just as she was about to reach the building it started to pour rain by the million. Dawn quickly rushed inside with the little girl in front. Dawn wiped her face off and looked around the café. She was receiving some stares from the people in there and shifted uncomfortable.

"She's not here." The little girl said in a miserable voice. Dawn looked down and felt horrible for the little girl.

"Don't worry Max, she'll find you soon. But right now we just have to wait until that nasty storm outside breaks." Dawn explain as she slid into a booth in a corner.

"Promise." Max said.

Dawn looked at the little girl and smiled. "Pinky promise." Dawn said holding up her pinky for the little girl to take, which she did.

"May I get you anything?" Asked the young brown headed girl, she heard be called Gem.

Dawn looked up at her suspiciously. Children were one-thing adults were another. "Um no thanks." Gem only nodded and left leaving Dawn alone with the little girl Max to wait out the storm.

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Jace paced around Max's office nervously, wondering where her kid could be. "Where is she? I told her not to wonder off." Jace said.

"Jace I'm sure she's fine." Max assured her older sister. "After the storm we'll go look for her. But we can't now, not in this weather" Max said.

Jace only nodded, worry still etched in the back of her mind as she continued to pace, knowing how frightened her daughter got when a storm hit.

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As another clash of thunder and lightning crashed overhead the little girl Max got more frightened as she sat across from Dawn. Dawn herself didn't like storms, but she wasn't about to show it, not like she used to. She watched as the little girl jumped yet once again.

"Dawn why is the sky so angry?" Max asked out of the blue.

Dawn looked at the little girl and raised an eyebrow. "Well it's not." Dawn said.

"It's not?" Max asked.

"No. Have you ever heard the music of an orchestra or symphony?" Dawn asked. When Max shook her head no Dawn sighed. "Well it's a big band of musical instruments that play different kinds of music, loud, soft, angry, sad, anything." Dawn explained.

"What's that got to do with the storm?" Max asked confused.

"Well ya see the sky also has a orchestra that he has play symphonies at any given time. And the thunder and lightning are his instruments along with the rain and wind." Dawn explained.

"Ohhh." Max said. "But why is it so loud?" Max pouted.

"Well ya see the sky is over billion of miles away from us and it has to be loud so everybody will be able to hear it. It's his own music that he is sharing with us, and some people aren't as fortunate as we are to get to hear his beautiful symphonies." Dawn explained.

"Ohhh. So he's not mad?" Max asked.

"Nope." Dawn replied and smiled at Max. "So there's nothing to be afraid of."

Max smiled at Dawn and Dawn smiled back. "Your smart." Max said. "Did your mommy teach you that?" Max asked.

The smile was quickly wiped from Dawn's face at the mention of her mother. Her thoughts went back to her mother and the guilt she felt toward her death. After all it was after she came that her mom got the tumor in her brain and died. If it wasn't for her Buffy would still have a mother, Buffy would still be alive.

Dawn's eyes filled up with tears and she quickly looked away from the little girl trying to fight back the hot tears that threatened to break the dam that were holding them in. "Dawn.." Max trailed off. Dawn forcefully blinked back the tears and looked up at Max.

"N-no my mom didn't tell me that." Dawn said.

"Who did?" Max asked.

"My sister." Dawn said as a tear trailed down her face.

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The warehouse was cold, damp, and dark and full of wooden crates. The only light was dim and casting eerie shadows over the warehouse and three people standing in the middle of the warehouse discussing and negotiating.

"She could be as good and strong as them with the right training." A deep male voice replied.

"And we're supposed to believe you?" Another male voice asked.

"He's right. You just show up out of nowhere and tell us to meet you here and try to get us to believe this girl could be as strong as anyone of them? A normal girl no less." Another male voice said.

"But here's the catch, she's not normal." The deep male voice said while twirling something around in his hand.

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