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A/N- Ok, here's the next chapter, ok. And something's are coming from the little of season seven I watched, but with some changes. And this (~) means someone is dreaming ok.

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Dawn didn't say anything, because she knew the truth. Finally she spoke, "Probably just some sick cult or crap." She said and switched the channel again. 'I guess I can't run from my job. I'll just have to start kickin a#s again I guess.' Dawn thought sadly. She didn't want to have to fight with them anymore; after all Buffy was still training her, when she died. 'I'll just have to teach my self, I watched her enough, before to know how it's done.' She thought, before falling into an unpleasant sleep, with dreams of memories that she wanted to run from.

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~ "Hey, Dawnie. You know where Buffy is?" Willow asked as she walked into the house. It was almost five o'clock, and Dawn was sitting in the living room watching TV.

Dawn glanced at Willow and then back at the TV. "Where do you think?" She asked. "Do Potential Slayers and Vampires mean anything?" She asked

"Oh, well we found a spell that will help us locate one of the potential Slayers, that are here in Sunnydale. Want to help me?" Willow asked.

"Sure." Dawn said and followed Willow to help make the spell, along with Anya and Xander. After they had made the spell a green yellow shining light came out of the fireplace and surrounded Dawn. Dawn looked up at Anya, Xander and Willow with wide eyes, before the light disappeared.

"You must have done the spell wrong, I can't be a potential." Dawn said frantically.

"No, I did it right. It worked." Willow said smiling. "We have to tell Buffy."

"NO." Dawn said.

"Dawn she needs to know." Xander said.

"But, I mean, I can't be. That means in order to become the slayer Buffy has to die." Dawn said, as the dream started to fade away into another memory of Dawn's

(Memory Change)

Dawn sat on the couch with Willow, Anya, and Xander and waited for Buffy to come back up stairs, from the basement where the potential's were. When Buffy got up there she sighed and looked around at her friends and sister. "Willow did you find the other girl?" Buffy asked.

"Yeah." Willow answered.

"Good then lets go and find her." Buffy said.

"She's already here." Dawn spoke up looking straight ahead.

"Then where is she?" Buffy asked looking around.

"Talking to you." Dawn said, blue eyes meeting green.

"Dawn I really don't have time to joke around with this." Buffy said irritability.

"You think I would joke around with something like this?" Dawn asked.

"Buffy, it's true." Willow said. "I did the spell, and it went to Dawn." Willow said.

"No." Buffy said.

"No?" Dawn said. "What do you mean no?" Dawn asked.

"I don't believe you? And even if you were I still wouldn't let you." Buffy said.

"Oh so your gonna let those girls in our basement?" Dawn asked, not believing her sister. "Buffy, you need all the help you can get." Dawn said.

"Dawn's right, the more potential slayers you have the better chance you have." Anya said, and got an agreement from Willow and Xander.

"Those other girls aren't my sister." Buffy said.

"Buffy, I'm not a child, stop treating me like one! I'm older then some of them girls down there!" Dawn said.

"I'm not treating you like a child Dawn! I'm just trying to keep you safe!" Buffy said.

"Really well I can't really see the truth in that. You haven't been here at all!" Dawn yelled.

"Is this what this is?" Buffy asked. "Jealousy, you're trying to be a potential, because you want to be around me more?" Buffy asked.

""Buffy, it's not jealousy, and it's not a lie it's the d#mn truth!" Dawn said. "But you don't believe me do you?" Dawn asked, as they two continued to argue more, while the potentials down stairs listened to them.

(Memory change)

Dawn walked behind the rest of the potentials that were following Buffy. The potentials didn't really get along with Dawn, except one, and neither was Dawn and Buffy. Not since that argument when Buffy found out about Dawn being what she was, they had both said nasty things to each other. Her and Buffy usually kept quiet around each other, Buffy usually talking to a potential, or training them. While Dawn spent her time training, talking to Spike, or the other scoobies, or doing homework.

However, at that moment Dawn was in the kitchen fixing her something to eat, when the door rang. Dawn yelled she would get it, and opened the door to see none other then Buffy brown headed dead ex. (It's nighttime by the way)

"Angel." Dawn said smiling at Angel.

"Dawn, is Buffy home?" Angel asked.

"Um, not right now, she should be back soon. You could wait if you wanted." Dawn said.

"That would be nice." Angel said.

Dawn only nodded her head, "Well come in." She said ushering him in. "So why are you here? Did Buffy call you and ask to help train the potentials? Because Spike is all the way there." Dawn quickly said, as she sat down beside of Angel on the couch. As Angel turned around, something unexpected happened, that neither of them expected, that neither wanted, but because of the closeness of them, their lips accidentally meet, just as Buffy came in.~

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Dawn woke up gasping, tears streaming down her cheeks. That was when it had started, when she found out she was a potential, and Angel came. She looked around the dark room; she guessed Max was already asleep, because it was passed one am. Dawn slowly stood up, letting the blanket fall to the couch. She silently slipped into her shoes, grabbed her jacket and quietly slipped out of the apartment clutching the stake in her jacket tightly. As she walked down the dark silent staircase that would lead her to the outside, she began to wonder if she could really take on these vampires if she came across them? She shook the thought out of her head, a doubting slayer, was a dead slayer.

When Dawn reached the front door, she quietly slipped out and felt the cold night air hit her tear stained cheeks. As she wondered through the streets of Terminal City, she began to think about her old friends, and what they were doing right now, if they were even alive. She thought about the happy times they had together before things got complicated, she thought about her mom, and about Buffy, and then about weather or not he would find her or not. Weather she would live to see her seventeenth birthday, before he found her. She wondered how many more people would die, before he got to her, before she just gave up.

Dawn was so caught up in her own thoughts that she didn't realize she had wandered off and gotten lost. She looked around around, and cursed under her breath, for her stupidity. Just as she was about to walk off again, she felt someone behind her, her breath caught, but she continued on as if she didn't notice. However, when she walked, she felt them following her, although she couldn't hear their steps, she felt them. She quickly turned a corner and threw herself against the wall into the darkness, waiting for her stalker to come around the corner so she could kick their a#s for following her. Just as the person turned the corner, Dawn punched, and kicked him off of their feet so they landed on the ground. Dawn climbed on top of the person placing her knee in the middle of their back. Because of the darkness and her eyes not adjusting yet, she couldn't tell who it was.

"Who the f#ck are you?" She asked. However, the person quickly turned the odds to his favor, and had her pinned, so she could see their face. It was Max's brother, Zack. Dawn's looked up at him suspiciously. "Why were you following me?" She asked.

"Why were you wondering the streets?" He asked, his grip hurting her arms.

"Because I needed some fresh air." Dawn lied. "Why were you following me?" She asked. "And could you please get off of me." She said. Zack reluctantly got off of Dawn, and she climbed to her feet glaring at him. "Thanks." She mumbled. "Now why were you following me? Or was it because you can't keep your nose in your own business, so you go and snoop in mine?" Dawn asked.

Zack sent her a hard look, which made her shift uneasily. "You could have been planning to do anything." He said.

Dawn looked at him. "You may not believe me, but I'm not gonna like hurt your brothers and sisters or anything." She said stiffly. "And were the freak did you learn that move?" Dawn asked, not even remembering and seeing him change positions on her.

Zack looked at her still rubbing her arms where he had put a little too much presser down on her. "It was mere self defense." Zack said.

Dawn raised an eyebrow. "Please, why would you need self defense, or use it on a sixteen year old? And besides I didn't even see you, you went to fast, all I saw was a blur." Dawn rambled. "And I know that wasn't mere self defense." Dawn said. "And besides no ordinary self-defense teaches you how to get out of the hold I had you in." She said.

Zack raised an eyebrow at her, before turning around abruptly and leaving her. Dawn looked over him before quickly catching up. "You're just going to leave me here? Without showing me the way back?" Dawn asked.

"Well that was the idea." Zack said coldly.

"You know just because you've had a hard life, doesn't mean you can go and treat me the way you have been, you've been acting like a total b#tch to me. You don't even know me, and you already hate me. You know it's not like I've had the easiest life either, but I don't go around and immediately hate everyone I met without giving them a chance." Dawn said finally fed up with his behavior toward her. "You could at least give me a chance, or would it break your whole cold demeanor?" dawn asked sarcastically.

Zack stopped and looked at her, really looking at her. For the first time he noticed she had stained cheeks, and biggest blue eyes seen, however they were broken. They were as if she had been through Manticore in his eyes, through hell. "You've been crying." He said.

"Finally he speaks." Dawn said, before shrugging at his comment. "It was just a dream." She said.

"A dream bad enough to make you cry?" He asked, his voice still as hard as stone.

"Bad memories, happy now?" Dawn said, very uncomfortable about were their conversation had went.

Zack just looked at her; yes in deed she was broken. But as they continued to walk in silence he, like Max, felt something about the girl; he felt his heart warm to her a little, which had never happened before. He felt like this girl had been through a lot of pain, and yet he didn't even know her story.

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As the young brown-headed female, lay on the bed of yet another hotel room, she wondered what her dreams meant. Seeing Buffy and her mom, but never Dawn. She sighed and rolled over her dark brown eyes slowly closing

~The room was black, pitch black, with only a single ray of light shiny in the middle of the room. The brown headed female, walked up to the light and let it shine on her, wondering what the dream would be this time. She wondered what the purpose was behind all these strange dreams were.

"You came." Said a female voice out in the darkness. The female slowly walked out into the light, to show it was Buffy.

"Yeah well I didn't really have a choice, now did I?" The other female asked.

"No, you had a choice, but that isn't what is important right now." Buffy said her voice urgent.

"Then what is B? Why am I here, talking to you?" She asked.

"I need, your help because I am unable to do it right at this moment." Buffy said.

"Ok." She said. "Mind being a bit more vivid?" She asked sarcastically.

"I need you to find Dawn, and help her, for the time being." Buffy said.

"Find Dawn? B, what are you talking about? Dawn's at home with you, and why can't-"

"I'm dead." Buffy said.

The brunettes eyes widened in shock. "What the F#ck are you talking about?" She asked.

"I died, I can't explain now, have Dawn too. Please go to her and find her, and help her for the time being." Buffy begged.

"I don't understand. Help her with what?" She asked.

"She's a slayer, in training. He's coming after her, and she can't fight him, she can't beat him, I couldn't. Pleas help her train! Help her! Please help keep her safe Faith? She can't die, if she does then everything that I have done will be for nothing!" Buffy said.

"What no! Number one Buffy you saved a lot of people, and just because Dawn would happen to get killed by him, wouldn't mean anything. Number two who's him? Number three I'll help. Number for, but why me?" She asked.

"Because I know your strong, and you know the way, and I trust you with her." Buffy said.

Faith looked at Buffy and nodded her head. "Where is she?" Faith asked.

"Seattle." Buffy said, before everything went dark. ~

Faith immediately woke up, because the manger was yelling outside her door at a young boy. She cursed under her breath and looked at the big fat guy. "You know you could have yelled somewhere else!" Faith yelled angrily before slamming the door and looking around. 'Great, I get to travel back across America to Seattle, to find the brat.' Faith thought before quickly gathering her things and leaving, to catch a bus that would take her from New York, to Seattle.

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Ok, that's the end. Sorry that it was so short. I'll try and write you a really long one next time. Well Thank you too everyone who reviewed!!! YOU guys are the best!!!!!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!

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