Dawn couldn't help but smile, so in an attempt at courtesy, she covered it with a cough. The demons were still raging against the invisible wall, though she had managed to place a small soundproofing spell on it. Spike and Angel were staring at her with gaping mouths, the blonde completely forgetting that he was sporting a blood covered game face. Though Gunn was healed, he was emotionally weak, which was why he was leaning against the wall as Illyeria watched her, her head cocked to the side.
"Why are we not fighting, Little One?" She demanded, her voice its constant even tone. Dawn could feel the anger, fear, and sadness radiating from the former God-King.
"Because, I think I can get him back," Dawn's chin was tilted confidently, watching with fascination as the woman (God. Thing?) before her changed her demeanor completely.
"Who?" Gunn breathed, sweat dripping from his forehead. He swiped at it.
"Wesley," Dawn said the dead man's name softly, knowing the wounds of his death were still strong. She felt herself being pushed against the wall, lifted into the air with an ironclad hand encasing her throat. She heard Spike growl, and heard him begin to move. She stopped him with her mind, her flashing eyes looking down on Illyeria.
"Liar. Filthy mortal scum. How dare you,"
"Mortal?" Dawn demanded, her eyes turning green again. Suddenly their places were switched, Dawn's hands around Illyeria's throat. "I'm not human, and I might be scum but I prefer to be called something less vile. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, cause a lot of my energy is going towards that," She gestured to the wall. "But I'm here to help you. All of you. I can get Wes and Lorne back," She let go, stepping back.
"How?" Angel asked, running his hands through his not so gelled hair.
"Giles found a book. It's about the Key, about me. The energy from the Key was once a God, who was cursed for her power scared the fellow God's. She was entrusted under the care of Glorificus, Glory," Her eyes flashed to Spike. "It was prophesied that when turned into a form with the power of thought, the Key's powers could be channeled. Controlled. But the Monks messed up. They made the Key to young, because fourteen isn't old enough to access those powers. To use them, the Key had to be un-pure-ified." She blushed lightly. "Tainted, transformed from a child into an adult. Once, that happened, things began to go wrong. It started in Sunnydale, with the whole Potential glow-y thing. Turns out there's a reason why it hit both Amanda and me. It was supposed to sense power, right? Well apparently it sensed a bunch from me. Anyway, these things started happening. Seeing things, feeling things, fighting better. When I was doing the research, I didn't even have to try translating the books. I knew them. I wasn't reading them, I had them all memorized. I was like the demonic dictionary of freaky,"
"When did you know?" Gunn was watching her with fascination.
"I got glowy-ish on patrol once. Xander was attacked, and I flipped. This vamp was biting him, sucking him dry. And two others were holding me back. Next thing I knew, I was back to the beginning of the night, able to predict all of their moves, able to save Xander's life. That's when Giles began looking."
"So you're going to turn back time, Bit? How far back," She knew the look in his eyes, the pleading look to go back far enough, back before he ever loved Buffy, before he ever was vamped.
"A few days. Exactly the moment Angel got that vision to be exact. No further; I can't mess the future up to much. Just enough,"
"What do you need?" Angel questioned, stepping towards her. "Will we remember?"
" No. But I'll be there, and there's no doubt that this'll fail. Are you in?"
"Yeah, I'm in," Angel's voice was determined.
"Me too," Gunn didn't hesitate.
"I will join you, if it brings back Wesley,"
"What the hell," Spike chuckled.
"Lets go to work," Angel repeated, smiling at Dawn, who couldn't help smile back. It had to work, or she would never forgive herself.
A/n: Hope it was as good as the first. I went into detail about Dawn's God-ness. Please Review. Pairing yet to be determined.
