Chance
Disclaimer: Joss owns, I don't. Deal. All I own is the plot for the story, Dusk and any other characters you don't know.
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Note 2: Again, the theme of most chapters will be at least slightly based on an episode from the show. Also, Dawn and Dusk are like the split personalities of Dawn, so they are total opposites.
Buffy walked along a corridor in UC Sunnydale, carrying a stack of large boxes. She put them down near the wall. As she was walking back to her dorm room, she saw Dawn carrying a staggering pile of small boxes.
"Be careful," Buffy warned.
"I'm okay," Dawn said meekly.
A few seconds later, she was followed out by her identical twin sister.
"God Buffy, we're not stupid," Dusk spoke up loudly. "We can carry a few boxes without you watching our every move. Creepy much."
Buffy shook her head and walked into her dorm room, while the girls continued to carry the boxes.
"I dare ya to drop the boxes," Dusk rushed in a hushed voice.
"No," Dawn complained. "Stop making trouble."
"If trouble wants to find ya, it's gonna," Dusk smiled wickedly.
She then shot her arm out and punched the box at the bottom of Dawn's stack, making them topple over everywhere. Buffy ran out of the room and looked down the hall.
"Dawnie!" she complained. "I did tell you."
"Umm...yeah," Dawn sighed. "I'll be more careful next time."
Dawn looked at the floor and shuffled her feet, while Dusk peered nastily into her eyes.
"When are ya gonna start standing up for yourself," she moaned. "You just stand there like a big lemon."
"Maybe I'd stand up for myself if you left me alone," Dawn said quietly.
Dusk ignored this remark and walked back up the dorm room, while Dawn continued to refill the boxes.
"Some of your cd's are my cd's," Dusk whined to Buffy.
"Where's Dawn?" Buffy asked briskly.
"She's sorting boxes, geez," Dusk told her.
Buffy ignored this and started heading towards the door.
"Dawn?" she called out.
At that moment, Dawn walked through the door slowly.
"Don't...saunter," Buffy said. "Otherwise we might think something has happened to you. Now, come help me fold."
"Starting the feel that fight?" Riley asked Buffy compassionately.
"Nothing like getting your ass kicked to make your ass hurt," Buffy joked.
"You'll totally take her next time," Dawn smiled.
"Coz you'll have back-up baby," Xander piped in. "She's messing with all of us."
"Yeah, I'm gonna kick her butt," Dusk beamed.
It went quiet for a minute and everyone looked at her.
"What?" she asked loudly.
"You're not coming," Buffy said. "Neither of you."
"But I'm like slayer junior," Dusk argued. "Remember I staked that vamp that one time..."
"When you snook out and didn't tell us," Buffy interrupted. "Doesn't count. We don't even know what she is, we need more info."
"Yes," Giles agreed. "We'll find her weaknesses and then..."
"Yeah," Tara said brightly. "You learn her source and we'll introduce her to her insect reflection."
There was another moment of silence, when everybody looked at Tara.
"Ha," Dawn giggled quietly. "I totally get that."
"But does anybody else?" Dusk said cruelly.
"Um...that was funny if you studied Taglarin mythic rites," Tara looked down at the floor shyly. "And are a complete dork."
"Guess that's why Dawn got it," Dusk smirked before walking out of the room.
"Where are you going?" Buffy yelled.
Dusk back-stepped and put her head round the edge of the door.
"This is a university," she said slowly, mocking Buffy. "There are lads here, hence I have to ogle."
Buffy tried to call her back, but Dusk just strolled out briskly.
"So Xander, how come you didn't laugh?" Riley asked.
"I don't know that Taglarin stuff," he replied innocently.
(Later, at the Summer's house)
Dawn walked through the hall in the Summer's house, backpack in tow.
"See you later," she smiled.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Buffy exclaimed. "Where do you think you're going?"
"To Melinda's for dinner," Dawn explained.
"Since when."
"She...she just called me and asked..." Dawn stuttered.
"You can't," Buffy enforced. "It's not safe for you to walk there.
"It's across the street," Dusk said loudly.
She was sat on the 4th stair from the bottom.
"It's family night," Buffy told Dawn. "And besides, Melinda's a bad influence. I don't like you hanging out with someone that...short."
"Are you just gonna let her boss you about?" Dusk rushed to her sister's side.
"It's...no biggie I guess," Dawn muttered.
She turned around and walked up to her room. Dusk glanced at Riley, before flickering over to Buffy.
"I'm so glad you're moving back into the house."
Dusk stomped up the stairs, muttering and cursing under her breath. She reached the room she and Dawn shared and pushed the door open with such a force that it banged against the wall and it made Dawn jump.
"What's the matter with you?" Dusk said, almost yelling. "She's not mom, but you let her boss you about like she's all it."
"But mom's ill so..." Dawn trailed off.
"So? So what?" Dusk said angrily. "I feel real bad that mom's ill but it doesn't mean that Buffy can come and just boss us about like that, just coz she's the slayer."
"Well...why don't you just keep out of it?" Dawn countered quietly. "I was invited, not you so it was my argument. Just because I keep my toes on the line, your feet are barely touching it."
Dusk got really irritated when Dawn said that and she walked slowly towards Dawn, slightly on her tip-toes so she had the height advantage.
"Don't you speak like that to me," she hissed threateningly. "I am the oldest twin; I'm the one in charge so you just bugger off somewhere else!"
Dawn started sobbing and ran out, into the bathroom and locked the door behind her.
Dusk fell backwards onto her bed and sighed. She'd done it again. Everyone told her she had a wicked bad temper, but she always took it out on Dawn and then she took it one step too far. And now she'd made her cry again. Dusk tried to tell herself that it was Dawn's fault, that she was a little cry baby but she always had this nagging feeling at the pit of her stomach which told her that she was too harsh. And this voice was back.
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