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Author's Note: Flashbacks are in italics. And sorry it took me so long!

Faith looked at Dawn who was sleeping. 'Of course she's sleeping,' she thought as she looked at the clock, 03.07. Faith just couldn't sleep. She had to figure out a way how to tell Dawn she's dying, and not hurt her. But she knew there was no easy way out. Maybe if she'd just walk out? Would that hurt less? No. She knew that would be low. Even of her.
Faith stood up and looked at Dawn again, before going to the bathroom. She looked at herself from the mirror and started to cough, blood spilling onto the mirror and the white walls.

"Oh no" Dawn whispered. She was standing at the doorway.

"Dawn?" Faith said as she turned around to face Dawn.

"No...I...You...I...I can't loose you" Dawn said, teary eyed. She started to steppe away from the bathroom and a vase fell to the floor as he hand went against it. She just couldn't loose Faith. She needed her. Loved her. Faith was her everything.

Faith went to her. "You're not" she said. She put her arms around Dawn. "Don't worry" she added and looked at Dawn who was crying a little already.
"Liar" Dawn said, her tone harsh. Something Faith had never heard from Dawn. "You can't promise me that because you know it's not true. We haven't found the cure yet, and I doubt we will." Dawn felt like braking down. or beating Faith up for lying to her. And for dying. She didn't want to loose her Faith. Not now. Not ever.

"I know you'll find the cure. Just in time" Faith said with a small smile. Yeah, she knew that she was lying to Dawn. But you always gotta have faith, right?

Dawn just looked at Faith and then hugged her, like she'll never let go.

A few days later

Dawn looked at the unconscious Faith. She held her hand tight. "You're the strongest person I know. I know you can do it. If not for yourself, then for me. I love you. More than anything else in the world. Please, Faith. Please" she said, sobbing a little. She stroke Faith's pale cheek with her other hand softly. But Dawn knew Faith would never wake up. She didn't find the cure. No one did. But she just kept blaming herself. She didn't find the cure! Even if she had to. She had to find the cure to help Faith. But she couldn't. She couldn't help the one person she loved the most in the world. She knew that blaming herself wouldn't help. She suddenly felt someone's hand on her shoulder and looked up, it was Buffy.

"Do you want anything? Coffee? Tea? Water, maybe?" Buffy asked, looking concerned.

Dawn just shook her head and looked back at Faith.

Buffy sighed a little and nodded. "Will and Giles are still looking" she said.

"I know" Dawn whispered. But that didn't make her feel better. She should have been researching. But she knew that she also had to be with Faith. This was the least she could do. "I don't want to loose her" she said and looked at Buffy, then back at Faith.

"I know" Buffy said. She looked at Dawn. "And you won't. Even if she dies, the memory stays. And she'll be in your hart for ever"

"But she'll be dead" Dawn said. Another sob.

"I don't think I can eat anything for, like, a week now" Dawn said and made a face.

"I'm getting a little hungry already" Faith said with a small smirk.

"We just walked out of the cafe, where you ate two portions of fries, three big ice creams and drank two milk-shakes. And you're hungry again? I just don't get you!" Dawn said, shaking her head.

"I'm a Slayer. We, Slayers, can eat a lot. Actually, we have to eat a lot" Faith said. "And I still always look hot" she added with a smirk.

Dawn whistled a little, not saying anything.

Faith looked at Dawn. "What?" she said.

"You're actually getting a bit...fat" Dawn answered and started to run away from Faith.

Faith quickly got her and softly pushed her to the ground. "What did you say?" she asked.

"That you're getting a little fat" Dawn answered.

"Take back your words" Faith said and started to tickle Dawn.

Dawn tried to push Faith's hands away. "Alright! I give up! You're hot" she said, laughing at the same time.

"Just hot?" Faith asked.

"You're the vision of hotness " Dawn answered.

"That's right! And never forget that" Faith said. She stopped tickling Dawn and kissed her.

Buffy closed her eyes. It hurt her to see Dawn like this. But a beep made Buffy open her eyes.

"No, no" Dawn said and pulled Faith's hand into two of her hands. No, she couldn't loose Faith. Everything had been going so well lately. But that was how things were. When everything was perfect, something had to happen.

A doctor and some nurses stormed into the room. "Miss, you have to leave" the doctor told Dawn.

Dawn just shook her head. She wasn't going to leave Faith. She needed her. Dawn needed Faith, and Faith needed Dawn.

Buffy tried to pull Dawn away. "Come on, Dawn. We have to leave. They need to help Faith" she said.

Dawn just squeezed Faith's hand with her hands. And she though she felt Faith squeezing her hand, too.

"Buffy is going to kill me. And you!" Dawn said as she climbed out of her window.

"I'm sure she won't kill you. And I doubt she'd kill me; I'm too hot to be dead" Faith said with a huge smirk.

Dawn frowned a little. Faith was hot, very hot. But...People shouldn't bring that a reason why someone shouldn't kill them!

"Come on, Brat!" Faith said and started to walk.

"Faith, wait!" Dawn said and looked at her. She had to get over with this right now.

"What?" Faith asked and looked at Dawn.

Dawn walked to Faith and looked into Faith's eyes. She closed her own eyes and kissed Faith. She felt her heart beating faster, and her hands getting sweaty. And she was so afraid that Faith wouldn't kiss her back.

But she did. Faith smirked a little and put her hands onto Dawn's hips.

They soon pulled apart and Dawn looked at Faith, smiling. "If Buffy saw that, we so dead!" she said.

"I know" Faith said with a smirk. She grabbed Dawn hand. "Let's go before the wicked Slayer has a chance to come out of her tower" she added and started to run with Dawn, the younger girl giggling a little.

THE END

This is the end, but what about a sequal? I have a few ideas, but I'd like to know if anyone would read the story if I ever did write a sequal.