The Ties That Be
By Lady of Mischief
Disclaimers: If you think I own any of this besides the storyline then you should go have your brain checked NOTE this means I don't own it, never did, never will, no copyright infringements intended, blah, blah, blah.......
A/n: blame the strange title on lambentness, she threatened me, she made me use it!!!
That girl is scary much.
I thank those nice people who reviewed my story.
Here be the fic!
"blah" – talking
/blah/ - thinking
blah - incantations
Chapter Two: Walking Home
Dawn wrapped her arms around herself as she walked, the young girl was quite cold. Beside her walked a tall boy with black hair and an odd scar, he noticed her shivering and draped his jacket around her shoulders. Dawn stiffened up and then relaxed again, the young man's body heat still clung to the jacket and she was already warm within its folds.
"Thanks. What's your name?"
"Harry, yours?"
"Dawn."
"Its nice to meet you Dawn."
She took a deep breath. "Who were those boys, the ones that ambushed me I mean."
"The fattest one is my cousin Dudley, the others are his friends. Peirs the rat-faced one and Dennis, Malcolm and Gordon. Dudley is the leader because he is the stupidest and fattest of the lot." Harry explained
"Aren't you afraid they'll take it out on you for getting me out of there?"
"Nah. I can run faster than all of them and I am better at self-defence so they usually leave me alone now."
"Do you live around here?"
"Yeah with my cousin, uncle and aunt." He grimaced
"Well that can't be fun."
"Not especially"
Dawn laughed, and then she clutched her side in pain. Even though Harry had reset her bones and such, she was still pretty sore from being repeatedly kicked.
"You okay?" Harry asked supporting her so she didn't fall
"I'm alright I am just glad nothing seems to be broken" she said
"Yeah.........." Harry trailed off but Dawn didn't notice because at that moment someone called out from behind them.
"Hey Nibblet. Where have you been? You're sisters getting frantic"
Dawn practically ran into the blond strangers arms. "Spike!"
"Hey Short-stuff" The newcomer whose name was apparently Spike or so Harry assumed noticed the bruises adorning her face and arms. "What happened?" he growled menacingly, eyes turning suspiciously to Harry who could have sworn that they flashed yellow.
"I... I got attacked" Dawn whispered
"By who?" Spike ground out "I'll hunt them down and pound them into pulp no matter how many headaches I get!"
The comment about headaches confused Harry but as Dawn had started to cry again and wasn't at that point capable of speech. Harry answered the blonde ones question. "A gang of guys that live in the area, grabbed her."
Dawn recovered the power of speech but it was still punctuated by the odd hiccup. "If it weren't for ,hic, Harry here I really don't wanna, hic, think about what might of happened." She shuddered and hiccuped some more but otherwise was quieter and a lot calmer.
"Harry....eh?"
"Well I think it's a little more common than Spike"
Spike roared laughing. "Point taken kiddo." Dawn giggled and then winced when it caused her pain yet again. "Who are these kids?" Spike demanded, refering to Dudley and gang. "And where are they?"
"One of them is my cousin, I can pretty much guarantee that he wont step foot out of his own bedroom for another week or so" Harry was expecting to be at the Burrow by that time but Dawn and Spike weren't to know that. "As for his four friends I willing to bet that they are at home hiding and not likely to come out for awhile either." He smiled wickedly.
Spike looked at Harry sizing him up. /This kid take on five other boys and not have a scratch on him? Yeah right, and demons quiver at the sight of rabbits./ Then remembering Anya's fear and hatred of afore-mentioned fuzzy creatures and his own unlikely situation. /But then again who am I to judge whats possible and what is not? Me a vamp with a soul who fell in love with the slayer before I got it and who watches out for her kid sister. Who just so happens to be a mystical key who can open all the hell dimensions. Like that is normal/
"Right then, you scamper off home and I'll take Dawnie here back to her sister."
Spike expected to be obeyed immediately but......
"Hey Dawn is that okay with you?"
"Yeah I'm fine, its okay. Big Bad and peroxide here will look after me. Buffy would kill him if he didn't"
End Chapter Two
LoM= So you like?
Harry= I gotta ask. 'Nibblet'? Dawnie I can understand but 'Nibblet'?
LoM= Don't worry all will be revealed...........................later.......much later.
Spike= Why am I included in this mess?
LoM= Because you're my favourite vampire William that's why.