New chapter! This one is a little longer, but not much. I'll update asap!

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Chapter 6

It was six o'clock AM and very quiet. Buffy opened her eyes only to see Spike's face staring at her.

"What the hell are you doing?" She jumped up and put her hands on her waist.

"I was just... Um... Just... Well, you see I was..." Spike swallowed. "You know, I was just checking if you were alive?"

"Why?" Buffy asked angrily. "So that you could... Where's Dawn?" There was nobody next to Buffy. Spike shrugged.

"Where... Is... My... Sister?" Buffy demanded.

Anya rose up, but she clearly wasn't awake. "I'm... How do who... Do Christina Jenkins? Emmanuela. Might you be Anya?"

"Rise and shine!" Buffy yelled. "It's time to find Dawn!"

"Not yet," Xander moaned. "I need more sleep."

"The dawn is coming. We don't have to find it, Buffy. It always comes," Giles muttered, his eyes closed.

"Hello? Dawn, my sister?" Buffy said. "Remember?"

"Are you sure she's not in the bathroom?" Willow asked.

"No," Buffy said. "But Dawn..." She marched in the bathroom without knocking. "Dawn?" she shouted. "No, she's not in here."

"M-maybe she went out to get some fresh air," Tara suggested. "I do that sometimes."

"Six o'clock AM?"

"W-well, maybe not that early, but..."

The lock in the door made a crack-sound.

"Are you all awake?" they heard a familiar sound.

"Oh, not again!" Buffy whispered. "Yes, were awake!" she yelled.

The woman they had met yesterday bounced in. "Finally I found you!" she said loudly. Giles sneaked quietly in the bathroom.

"Ouch! My head hurts," Xander said, his eyes still closed.

Dawn walked in and sat on her bed. "She found me walking in the park," she explained. "I needed some fresh air."

Tara lifted an eyebrow. "I-I do that too. Not so early, though."

"Dawn!" Buffy yelled. "You... You could've been killed! You don't know what kind of de... Uh, people walk around in here."

"Luckily she found me!" the woman said. "But she couldn't remember where the motel was... Wait, did you just call Michelle Dawn?"

"Oops..." Buffy said. "So your name is Michelle. I always forget the names."

"Oh! And I forgot to tell you my name!" the woman almost shouted.

"And we don't want to hear it, 'cause we don't want to see you again!" Spike muttered.

"Pardon? Anyway, I'm Grace," Grace said. "And..." she searched through her bag. "I brought videotapes!"

"But we don't have a VCR," Willow said. "And that TV's kinda... Broken."

"Noooo, it'll do fine," Grace assured. "And I brought my VCR too. Because I thought it would be really cool to watch this new Buffy with the cast of Buffy!" she giggled. "My niece is coming too."

"The cast!" Dawn said, exited. "We're the cast! Cool!"

"H-how old is your n-niece?" Tara asked.

"She's nine," Grace told her. "Really sweet. Kinda reminds me of myself when I was young."

"She's nine and you let her watch my... Um, Buffy's slaying?" Buffy asked.

"My, why not?" Grace asked. Buffy shrugged.

The door opened again, and Grace's niece stepped in. She was wearing a pink miniskirt, white belly-baring tank top with the text "Star" written on it and high-heeled sandals. She was also wearing so much make-up, that she didn't look like a nine-year-old at all.

"Hi," she said. "I'm Star." She was chewing gum. "This is so cool!" She walked a couple of steps ahead and almost fell because of her heels. Then she spotted Spike.

"Wow," she said. "You!"

Spike looked around. "Me?"

Star ran toward him, but fell right in front of him. She hugged his legs. Spike tried to shook her off, but she was like glued on him.

"What the hell?" he cried. "Take this thing off!"

All others in the room giggled.

"She's not very well mannered, though," Anya announced.

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The couch was too small for nine persons (Giles was still hiding in the bathroom), so only Anya ("You gave this couch to me!"), Xander and Grace sat on it.

"You were right," Buffy said. "This floor is cold and dusty."

Willow still had some popcorn left and she was munching it. Star tried to lean closer to Spike, who tried to push her away. Dawn looked excited when she put the tape in the VCR.

"It doesn't have the previously-on," Star explained, staring at Spike. "I knew you don't like them, aunt Grace."

"No I don't," Grace said. "I remember everything even without it."

"Shhh! Listen!" Dawn yelled. "We have a theme song! And it's... weird."

"This is a nightmare," Buffy muttered as her face appeared on the screen.