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Dawn ran down the stairs not caring that she fell down in the hall. She ran into the kitchen and sped right into Spike, who she guessed, was coming to see what the crash was. Dawn sprawled out onto the floor looked up to see Spike and Buffy seeing if she was ok.
"You know, Kid, you should watch out," Spike said picking Dawn up and off the floor, "You're gonna fall into a grave one day and be stuck there until a not-so-nice vampire finds you."
Dawn glared at him and said, "Since when do you even care about me?" After looking to see what she had done to Spike who just shrugged off the words and muttered something like "…it runs in the family," Dawn asked Buffy "Did you tell anyone other than our Willow about your… um… what's the word… powers?"
Buffy stared at her sibling, "No, but anyone could have figured out, why?"
Dawn for once actually believing her sister asked Spike, "What about you, you tell anyone other than other vamps about Buffy?"
"No," Spike said with such simplicity that Dawn dazed for a moment.
Buffy yet again asked, "Why? Why do you want to know?"
Dawn thinking of a quick excuse because she knew that if she told the truth that the going to the party thing was so over, "I…I just had a bad dream that's all, I nodded off to sleep for like five minutes and I guess I had a mini-nightmare."
Spike and Buffy looked at each other. None of them were buying it but decided to let it go. "Ok," Buffy said, "then why don't you go back to your room and get some sleep… real sleep."
"That sounds like a great idea, Buffy. Good night, Buff. Good night, Spike." Dawn walked out of the room as fast as she could. She didn't want them to change their minds about ignoring the whole outburst.
Buffy moved from the middle of the kitchen to the nearest counter seat. She needed to sit and process what happened because it was all becoming a blur. She was wondering the real reason why Dawn had just come downstairs like that and asked all those questions. It wasn't like her to be spastic that was her job, Buffy's job, but this time it was Dawn. "What was that all about?" Buffy said allowed forgetting Spike was just feet away. "I don't know," Spike said sitting down across from Buffy, "maybe she's turning into you." "Oh god no she shouldn't do that." Spike and Buffy laughed in unison. This usually didn't happen.
After two minutes of laughter, they heard someone coming through the front door. "HEY GUYS WE'RE HOME!" It was Willow and Tara. They walked into the kitchen and had to do a double take because Buffy and Spike were both smiling. "What has got you guys so happy?" Spike and Buffy looked at each other, but only Buffy spoke, "We just had a very weird encounter with our friend Dawn. She had like a melt down. It was actually pretty funny."
Willow and Tara made their way to two empty seats at the counter, and Willow said, "Spill." So Buffy explained what happened not even a half-hour ago. Spike thought it took longer to explain then to actually live it. The four talked about what could have possibly sparked this intriguing episode, and decided that Dawn had met someone who was just messing with her and she forgot about it for awhile until now. "I like that theory and that's the way its astayin'." Buffy said saying good night to everyone because other than Spike they said they were wiped.
Once everyone had gone upstairs, Buffy turned back to Spike, "Well, I guess this is good night I mean I am going to bed so you should leave now too, if you don't mind." Spike had to reply, "No shivery from thy lady?" Buffy said, "No," and walked up the stairs and into her bedroom.