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A/N: They mystery guest is here. Hope you like it.

Chapter Fifteen

I'm afraid she'll hate me

Faith found Dawn in her room later that evening. Dawn sat on her bed writing on her laptop.

"Whatcha up to Dawnie?" Faith asked sitting next to Dawn on her bed.

"Just sending an email to my friend Haley."

"I thought everyone left Sunny Dale."

"Yeah, they did. I met Hales when I lived in Tree Hill, North Carolina."

"Oh."

Faith didn't remember Buffy or Dawn ever living in North Carolina. She hoped they didn't meet him.

"So I've been meaning to talk to you about something," Faith explained.

"What about?" Dawn asked closing her laptop.

"What's up with you and B?" Faith asked.

"I don't know. She's been avoiding me and I've been avoiding her. It's complicated."

"Why are you avoiding her?" Faith asked.

Dawn opened her mouth to speak.

"And don't tell me because she's avoiding you," Faith added quickly.

"I wasn't going to say that."

"Yes you were."

"So what If I was. I've been avoiding her because if feel like she hates me," Dawn explained looking down at her hands.

"Why do you say that?"

"Well she never told me she came back to life. I heard it from Spike. Not my own sister."

"Ouch. Maybe you should talk to her. She must have a good reason," Faith suggested.

"Then why hasn't she tried to explain to me?" Dawn asked, looking Faith straight in the eyes.

"Maybe she's afraid you'll hate her."

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She was afraid Buffy would hate her. After all she married the man that Buffy had dated just months after her break up. She had somehow felt guilty. She didn't know why. It was just a feeling that she got. She also felt like she was filling Buffy shoes and it was an unbelievable hard job to do seeing how Riley had loved her so much. But Buffy didn't love him. And that's how they came to be. But now she didn't know what to think anymore. Riley had left her. She wouldn't have cried so many nights over that, but they had a baby together. A sweet baby boy. They had named him Ryan Michael Finn. He had Riley's beautiful blue eyes and his smile. He had her nose, but whenever she looked at him she saw Riley. Which hurt her even more. Riley had left her and their baby boy without looking back. He had come home from work one day and told her he had found some one better. Then he left. It crushed her. But little Ryan, who was only one at the time didn't realize what was happening. He would feel Riley's absence like she would. He wouldn't look in the mirror and say I look like daddy. Because he wouldn't remember Riley. But Sam would. She would remember the hurt that he caused her. She regretted marrying him. But the one thing she didn't regret was Ry…

"Who are you?" some asked snapping Sam out of her little world.

Sam hadn't realized that she had arrived at Buffy's house and now stood on the lawn. A girl around Dawn's age stood in front of her. Sam chickened out and ran. The girl who stopped her tried to call out after her but Sam never answered.

A/N: Who's surprised it's Sam. Be honest.

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A/N: And as a special treat I'm putting another chapter up again.