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Chapter 14
When we last left Dawn was at school, Xander and Anya were working on the weddings, Willow and Tara where creating a "real" Angel, Cordy, Wesley, and Giles were researching and answering questions, Gunn and Fred were at the mansion with Lorne asleep, Spike was in the basement getting ready to go get Dawn, and our lovers, they were wrapped in each other's arms asleep and feeling as though they had their own slice of heaven. Unfortunately we all know that wouldn't last.
Dawn gave a startled shriek as she was suddenly drug into the basement of her school, by a demon. She had been waiting for Spike, because she wasn't allowed to go anywhere by herself anymore. The demon looked her over, before nodding to itself, offering it's hand to Dawn.
"You.. Come me. Master wants." the demon said.
"Sure, in another lifetime maybe." she said sarcastically, "Buffy told me not to go anywhere with strangers." the demon looked incredibly confused at what was going on. "Where the hell is Spike?"
"You have to go to school." Dawn mimicked as she ducked another swing from the demon in front of her. "Because my school isn't sitting on the mouth of Hell!" the demon was dark green and burly, judging from the speech patterns, it was also stupid and was probably sent by someone or something to take out the slayer's sister or to capture her. While Dawn was contemplating all of this, the demon got a lucky swing in knocking her to the floor.
Dawn struggled to her feet as the demon leaped at her once more, she grabbed the nearest object to her, a chair, and threw it at the demon, momentarily stunning it. Looking around the room, she searched frantically for something that she could use for a weapon, she was the slayer's sister after all. She grinned as she picked up a shovel, swinging it around like she had seen Buffy do and catching the demon off guard.
"Nibblet!" Spike yelled as he entered the basement, watching in awe as she swung the shovel around like she was the slayer. He gave a warning growl when the demon got a good shot in, moving with vampiric speed he grabbed the demon and twisted it's neck. "Are you okay?"
"You're late." she said, hitting him, hard, in the chest.
"Ow." he said rubbing the spot thoughtfully.
House
Dawn launched into her tale, while everyone listened, except for Anya who was currently talking with Hallie who was going to be contacting all of their demon friends.
"I think that Nibblet got more than slayer's nasty temper." Spike said to the two watchers, when Dawn had run upstairs to check on Buffy.
"Oh?" Giles asked, he was very interested in finding everything out about Dawn, because they weren't sure how much of Buffy was in Dawn. Spike nodded wearily and lifted his shirt showing them a horrendous purple and blue bruise, where Dawn had hit him earlier.
"Dawn hit me." he told them and the two watchers glanced at each other sharply.
"This requires research." they said, "But it will have to wait until after will find out about the demon that attacked Dawn." They went upstairs to get Dawn, so that they could get her to look through the books to find the demon. They found her watching Buffy and Angel, standing beside her they waited for her to speak.
"Should we wake them?" Dawn asked the two watchers, standing in the doorway and watching the two lovers sleeping. She was awed at how relaxed the two of them seemed, because they had always seemed so jumpy, especially since they had found out that Buffy was pregnant.
"No." Giles said, "You are okay and the demon didn't do anything. This is the most peaceful that Buffy has slept since she has been back, according to Willow and the rest of you." Wesley nodded, although his main concern was Angel, because the vampire hadn't been the same since Buffy had died. "Besides we still don't know that much about the demon."
"Demon?" Buffy asked sleepily trying to get up only to have Angel let out a warning growl, his arms pulling Buffy back against him, his hand cupping her abdomen protectively.
"Nothing." Dawn said immediately, before she ran for it, leaving the two watchers to the half awake slayer and the growling vampire. They didn't say anything, instead choosing to follow Dawn's lead and beat a hasty retreat, both muttering nothing and glaring at Dawn's retreating form.
"That was rude." she muttered to herself, settling back into Angel's arms, his growling ceasing and turning into purring, placing her head on his chest she let herself fall back asleep.
Downstairs
"We are sure that the demon that tried to take Dawn wasn't working for Baterated?" Cordy asked, everyone looked sharply at one another, this thought clearly hadn't entered their minds.
"It said it wanted to bring me to it's master." Dawn said.
"What else?"Giles asked, whipping his glasses off and cleaning them, while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Nothing that I understood." Dawn replied, "I'm happy that I understood that, wasn't the most articulate demon ever." she flipped the page as she said each word, frustrated that the watcher's hadn't simply known what type of demon was after her.
"What demon?" Anya asked, walking into the room from the dining room, where she had just finished the list of who was going to be invited and what needed to be done.
"The demon that attacked Dawnie." Xander said, offering his hand he pulled her into his lap and wrapped his arms around her.
"What did it look like?"
"Well, it was dark green, ugly," Dawn said and Anya gave her a look that spoke volumes, "you know, it kind of looked like those minion guys that Glory had. If they had been on steroids." Looking at Giles and Wesley, "Do demons have steroids, cause wouldn't that just be like cheating?"
"Oh!" Anya said, "It's a lower class demon, not too smart if memory serves me."
"Spike killed it." Dawn said, smiling at Spike who gave her a smile back.
"Again, not too smart." Anya replied, "They are bred to serve, well generally, the most feared demons in the land to help advance their destruction of the Earth."
"Hey!" Spike said, "I'll have you know.."
"Children!" Giles said, before anything got out of hand. "Need I remind you that there is a master vampire and slayer sleeping upstairs, both of whom have been sleep deprived and are nervous wrecks?"
"Whose a nervous wreck?" Buffy asked, walking down the stairs and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Dawnie." Xander replied.
"Yes." Dawn said jumping in and glaring at Xander, "I have this huge Biology test tomorrow that the stupid teacher didn't tell me about."
"And why aren't you doing your homework and studying?" Buffy asked in a parental tone.
"And so it starts." Cordy muttered and Buffy looked at her. "What! Everyone else was thinking it. You've got the parental thing going on, soon you will be grounding Dawn and knitting."
"What's wrong with knitting?" Spike asked, "Me mum used to knit."
"I rest my case." Cordy replied, crossing her arms over her chest while Spike looked at her, really looked at her.
"What's the meeting about?" Buffy asked, looking at the assembled Scoobies and AI team, none of whom seemed to meet her eyes, except Giles.
"We were discussing the wedding." Anya said, everyone glaring at her. "My wedding."
"Yes." Fred jumped in, "We thought that we would hold it in the church, as opposed to outside, so in case a vampire or demon wanted to enter."
"Sorry, luv," Spike said, "A vampire can.."
"Can't enter unless it is good." Cordy said, trying to keep Fred and Anya's lies going. Buffy looked at them trying to figure out what was going on and not sure who would be the best person to go after for the information.
"Alright." Buffy said, using her slayer tone, "Who am I going to have to beat to get the information that I want?"
"Well," Giles said, "no one. There isn't anything going on. We were simply discussing weddings."
"Yes," Anya said, "Buffy, how did you plan so quickly for you're last wedding?"
"What last wedding?" Cordy asked, shocked. "When? And why wasn't I invited?"
"Because there wasn't a wedding." Buffy replied, just as confused as everyone else.
"Sure there was." Anya said, "Remember when you were going to marry Spike?"
"You were going to marry Spike?" Angel growled out, as he arrived in the room. Spike retreated, moving towards the exit, only to be blocked by Angel. Dawn stepped in between the two and glared at Angel, daring him to lay a hand on her, for any reason. Angel stepped back, but his gaze promised retribution, before turning his gaze to Buffy who was glaring at the red haired witch.
"I'm so sorry." Willow said, Tara holding her hand and looking slightly confused.
"Why are you sorry?" Fred asked, confused.
"Yea, it wasn't like you used magic." Gunn said and Willow looked a little sheepish at the comment.
"You didn't!" Cordy gasped and looked at Buffy who nodded. "How could you?"
"I didn't mean to!" Willow replied, defending herself.
"Does anyone else feel like they are missing serious back story?" Gunn asked, Lorne, Wesley, Fred, Tara, and Cordy raising their hands.
"Well," Xander began, "we all remember when Oz left Willow?" everyone nodded, "Well, our favorite witch decided to try an I will it spell."
"Let's just say that it didn't go quite as planned, demon magnet." Buffy said, glaring at the laughing boy in front of her, who was attempting to use Anya as a shield.
"Sorry guys." Willow said, "Well, I didn't think it worked, I tried to control a whole bunch of things, but it didn't work. When I said things by accident, like Xander was a demon magnet, they turned them into it. This was the time we were hunting Spike about the Initiative and I accidently said that she should marry him."
"I can't believe you wanted "Wind Beneath My Wings." for.."
"Shut up, Spike." Buffy muttered, flushing when everyone turned their attention to them. "Let me just say, it took a long time to get Spike taste out of my mouth." Angel let out another growl, possessively pulling Buffy to him, his arms wrapped around her from behind.
"Sorry." Willow said again, Tara squeezing her hand to give her support. "So, anywho D'Hoffaryon offered me a job, I didn't accept it and I undid my spell."
"I for one am glad I didn't see it." Giles said, shuddering the remembered sounds, Angel was much preferred.
"Didn't see it? Where you on a vacation?" Wesley asked, confused.
"No." Giles answered, "Willow said that I didn't see anything, so I became blind."
"But hey, at least Xander didn't get the syphilis this time around." Buffy said sweetly, giving her most innocent smile when he glared at her.
"When did you have syphilis, my little dumpling?" Lorne asked.
"Got it from a revenging Native American." Xander supplied.
"For Thanksgiving." Spike said, "If you had kicked the bucket, I'm sure I could drink your blood."
"Still not going to happen, Deadboy Jr." Xander replied, glaring at the younger vampire.
"With blondie pissing off the natives and turning them into bears, I'm sure it will."
"I didn't turn him into a bear!" Buffy mock-shouted, "He did it himself." she settled back against Angel, pouting that she was still being blamed for turning the Native American into a bear.
"I remember that." Cordy said softly, caught up in her own memories of that time when Doyle had been alive, tears slipping down the side of her face.
"Crying for me, princess?"
Chapter 14
When we last left Dawn was at school, Xander and Anya were working on the weddings, Willow and Tara where creating a "real" Angel, Cordy, Wesley, and Giles were researching and answering questions, Gunn and Fred were at the mansion with Lorne asleep, Spike was in the basement getting ready to go get Dawn, and our lovers, they were wrapped in each other's arms asleep and feeling as though they had their own slice of heaven. Unfortunately we all know that wouldn't last.
Dawn gave a startled shriek as she was suddenly drug into the basement of her school, by a demon. She had been waiting for Spike, because she wasn't allowed to go anywhere by herself anymore. The demon looked her over, before nodding to itself, offering it's hand to Dawn.
"You.. Come me. Master wants." the demon said.
"Sure, in another lifetime maybe." she said sarcastically, "Buffy told me not to go anywhere with strangers." the demon looked incredibly confused at what was going on. "Where the hell is Spike?"
"You have to go to school." Dawn mimicked as she ducked another swing from the demon in front of her. "Because my school isn't sitting on the mouth of Hell!" the demon was dark green and burly, judging from the speech patterns, it was also stupid and was probably sent by someone or something to take out the slayer's sister or to capture her. While Dawn was contemplating all of this, the demon got a lucky swing in knocking her to the floor.
Dawn struggled to her feet as the demon leaped at her once more, she grabbed the nearest object to her, a chair, and threw it at the demon, momentarily stunning it. Looking around the room, she searched frantically for something that she could use for a weapon, she was the slayer's sister after all. She grinned as she picked up a shovel, swinging it around like she had seen Buffy do and catching the demon off guard.
"Nibblet!" Spike yelled as he entered the basement, watching in awe as she swung the shovel around like she was the slayer. He gave a warning growl when the demon got a good shot in, moving with vampiric speed he grabbed the demon and twisted it's neck. "Are you okay?"
"You're late." she said, hitting him, hard, in the chest.
"Ow." he said rubbing the spot thoughtfully.
House
Dawn launched into her tale, while everyone listened, except for Anya who was currently talking with Hallie who was going to be contacting all of their demon friends.
"I think that Nibblet got more than slayer's nasty temper." Spike said to the two watchers, when Dawn had run upstairs to check on Buffy.
"Oh?" Giles asked, he was very interested in finding everything out about Dawn, because they weren't sure how much of Buffy was in Dawn. Spike nodded wearily and lifted his shirt showing them a horrendous purple and blue bruise, where Dawn had hit him earlier.
"Dawn hit me." he told them and the two watchers glanced at each other sharply.
"This requires research." they said, "But it will have to wait until after will find out about the demon that attacked Dawn." They went upstairs to get Dawn, so that they could get her to look through the books to find the demon. They found her watching Buffy and Angel, standing beside her they waited for her to speak.
"Should we wake them?" Dawn asked the two watchers, standing in the doorway and watching the two lovers sleeping. She was awed at how relaxed the two of them seemed, because they had always seemed so jumpy, especially since they had found out that Buffy was pregnant.
"No." Giles said, "You are okay and the demon didn't do anything. This is the most peaceful that Buffy has slept since she has been back, according to Willow and the rest of you." Wesley nodded, although his main concern was Angel, because the vampire hadn't been the same since Buffy had died. "Besides we still don't know that much about the demon."
"Demon?" Buffy asked sleepily trying to get up only to have Angel let out a warning growl, his arms pulling Buffy back against him, his hand cupping her abdomen protectively.
"Nothing." Dawn said immediately, before she ran for it, leaving the two watchers to the half awake slayer and the growling vampire. They didn't say anything, instead choosing to follow Dawn's lead and beat a hasty retreat, both muttering nothing and glaring at Dawn's retreating form.
"That was rude." she muttered to herself, settling back into Angel's arms, his growling ceasing and turning into purring, placing her head on his chest she let herself fall back asleep.
Downstairs
"We are sure that the demon that tried to take Dawn wasn't working for Baterated?" Cordy asked, everyone looked sharply at one another, this thought clearly hadn't entered their minds.
"It said it wanted to bring me to it's master." Dawn said.
"What else?"Giles asked, whipping his glasses off and cleaning them, while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Nothing that I understood." Dawn replied, "I'm happy that I understood that, wasn't the most articulate demon ever." she flipped the page as she said each word, frustrated that the watcher's hadn't simply known what type of demon was after her.
"What demon?" Anya asked, walking into the room from the dining room, where she had just finished the list of who was going to be invited and what needed to be done.
"The demon that attacked Dawnie." Xander said, offering his hand he pulled her into his lap and wrapped his arms around her.
"What did it look like?"
"Well, it was dark green, ugly," Dawn said and Anya gave her a look that spoke volumes, "you know, it kind of looked like those minion guys that Glory had. If they had been on steroids." Looking at Giles and Wesley, "Do demons have steroids, cause wouldn't that just be like cheating?"
"Oh!" Anya said, "It's a lower class demon, not too smart if memory serves me."
"Spike killed it." Dawn said, smiling at Spike who gave her a smile back.
"Again, not too smart." Anya replied, "They are bred to serve, well generally, the most feared demons in the land to help advance their destruction of the Earth."
"Hey!" Spike said, "I'll have you know.."
"Children!" Giles said, before anything got out of hand. "Need I remind you that there is a master vampire and slayer sleeping upstairs, both of whom have been sleep deprived and are nervous wrecks?"
"Whose a nervous wreck?" Buffy asked, walking down the stairs and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Dawnie." Xander replied.
"Yes." Dawn said jumping in and glaring at Xander, "I have this huge Biology test tomorrow that the stupid teacher didn't tell me about."
"And why aren't you doing your homework and studying?" Buffy asked in a parental tone.
"And so it starts." Cordy muttered and Buffy looked at her. "What! Everyone else was thinking it. You've got the parental thing going on, soon you will be grounding Dawn and knitting."
"What's wrong with knitting?" Spike asked, "Me mum used to knit."
"I rest my case." Cordy replied, crossing her arms over her chest while Spike looked at her, really looked at her.
"What's the meeting about?" Buffy asked, looking at the assembled Scoobies and AI team, none of whom seemed to meet her eyes, except Giles.
"We were discussing the wedding." Anya said, everyone glaring at her. "My wedding."
"Yes." Fred jumped in, "We thought that we would hold it in the church, as opposed to outside, so in case a vampire or demon wanted to enter."
"Sorry, luv," Spike said, "A vampire can.."
"Can't enter unless it is good." Cordy said, trying to keep Fred and Anya's lies going. Buffy looked at them trying to figure out what was going on and not sure who would be the best person to go after for the information.
"Alright." Buffy said, using her slayer tone, "Who am I going to have to beat to get the information that I want?"
"Well," Giles said, "no one. There isn't anything going on. We were simply discussing weddings."
"Yes," Anya said, "Buffy, how did you plan so quickly for you're last wedding?"
"What last wedding?" Cordy asked, shocked. "When? And why wasn't I invited?"
"Because there wasn't a wedding." Buffy replied, just as confused as everyone else.
"Sure there was." Anya said, "Remember when you were going to marry Spike?"
"You were going to marry Spike?" Angel growled out, as he arrived in the room. Spike retreated, moving towards the exit, only to be blocked by Angel. Dawn stepped in between the two and glared at Angel, daring him to lay a hand on her, for any reason. Angel stepped back, but his gaze promised retribution, before turning his gaze to Buffy who was glaring at the red haired witch.
"I'm so sorry." Willow said, Tara holding her hand and looking slightly confused.
"Why are you sorry?" Fred asked, confused.
"Yea, it wasn't like you used magic." Gunn said and Willow looked a little sheepish at the comment.
"You didn't!" Cordy gasped and looked at Buffy who nodded. "How could you?"
"I didn't mean to!" Willow replied, defending herself.
"Does anyone else feel like they are missing serious back story?" Gunn asked, Lorne, Wesley, Fred, Tara, and Cordy raising their hands.
"Well," Xander began, "we all remember when Oz left Willow?" everyone nodded, "Well, our favorite witch decided to try an I will it spell."
"Let's just say that it didn't go quite as planned, demon magnet." Buffy said, glaring at the laughing boy in front of her, who was attempting to use Anya as a shield.
"Sorry guys." Willow said, "Well, I didn't think it worked, I tried to control a whole bunch of things, but it didn't work. When I said things by accident, like Xander was a demon magnet, they turned them into it. This was the time we were hunting Spike about the Initiative and I accidently said that she should marry him."
"I can't believe you wanted "Wind Beneath My Wings." for.."
"Shut up, Spike." Buffy muttered, flushing when everyone turned their attention to them. "Let me just say, it took a long time to get Spike taste out of my mouth." Angel let out another growl, possessively pulling Buffy to him, his arms wrapped around her from behind.
"Sorry." Willow said again, Tara squeezing her hand to give her support. "So, anywho D'Hoffaryon offered me a job, I didn't accept it and I undid my spell."
"I for one am glad I didn't see it." Giles said, shuddering the remembered sounds, Angel was much preferred.
"Didn't see it? Where you on a vacation?" Wesley asked, confused.
"No." Giles answered, "Willow said that I didn't see anything, so I became blind."
"But hey, at least Xander didn't get the syphilis this time around." Buffy said sweetly, giving her most innocent smile when he glared at her.
"When did you have syphilis, my little dumpling?" Lorne asked.
"Got it from a revenging Native American." Xander supplied.
"For Thanksgiving." Spike said, "If you had kicked the bucket, I'm sure I could drink your blood."
"Still not going to happen, Deadboy Jr." Xander replied, glaring at the younger vampire.
"With blondie pissing off the natives and turning them into bears, I'm sure it will."
"I didn't turn him into a bear!" Buffy mock-shouted, "He did it himself." she settled back against Angel, pouting that she was still being blamed for turning the Native American into a bear.
"I remember that." Cordy said softly, caught up in her own memories of that time when Doyle had been alive, tears slipping down the side of her face.
"Crying for me, princess?"