3 hours later, after a long swim, Dawn had walked back to the dormitory, Buffy and her had exchanged words, not the usual arguments they had had in Rome when the boys on the scooters bought her back in the early hours, this was serious; age, previous boyfriends and bad mistakes had all been brought up with little or no tact. Dawn regretted much of what she had said, but what could she do, Buffy could not be reasoned with when she was like that, admittedly she had not helped, but Dawn could not understand...why had she blown up?
If anyone would meet Buffy's standards it would have to be Xander. He had saved both their lives and even brought Buffy back form the dead... twice! He was loyal, kind honest and even had good job prospects... she had never understood why Buffy had never noticed this, he was Hot too!
Brother Darius walked over as soon as she cleared the woods, "Hello Dawn, perhaps you would like to join me in the library?"
Books! Books were good "Yeah sure "
"Er perhaps we should go this way, your sister is assisting with the building repairs over there and I suspect you do not wish to see her at the moment"
"How did you know?"
"Well, she is currently carrying stones which weigh at least 250 pounds with one hand and muttering under her breath words, which fortunately the novices have not heard before, though I am sure for the next language class they will have many questions"
Dawn laughed, it felt good "Lead on"
Buffy was doing what she always did when angry, blowing of steam, in this case carrying rocks, most of the other builders were staying out of her way, a long way out of her way, they had expected to take all day to move one pile, and she had already moved two.
In love with Xander, she fumed he is way too old for her... or is he, an annoying voice popped into her head interfering with her internal rant, have you ever dated a younger guy? Well, no... but And dawn is pretty mature, after mum died, and you died, hey! and saving the world, she is pretty mature for her age which is 4 no, if she is human then-okay she is 18 and not in my control but Xander? One of your best friends, who would do everything in his power to make her happy. The soul of the Scoobies The Soul just like her.
"Buffy stopped and put down the pile of bricks as the sunset "Just like her."
A/N
Only 1 or 2 more installments to go in Monastery. For those of you who wanted the sould to be Spike, Sorry, but he didn't have a soul when Dawn pooped up, I thought about it though.
Thought about Giles, you know father figure, and Tara, as she was highly underated and I hope the writers had nightmares after killing her (sob, poor Willow, Sob) Also, not sure how Buffy would have handled the Willow/Dawn relationship.
But lets face it, If you read any of my other stuff, 9 times from 10 it will be Dawn/Xander...Speaking of which, I recomend Handy Man for Xanderphiles or O-yukata for Andrew Admirers.