Part 7 – Got news for you.

Dawn had some trouble sleeping in the new bed.

Buffy entered the room.

"Buffy?"

"Oh Dawn you're awake, I need to talk to you."

Buffy sat on the bed and Dawn leaned on the headboard.

"About?"

"Ah... Tara."

"Tara?" Dawn said surprised.

"Yeah... ah... what would you do if I told you that she's alive?"

"I would say that she's not." Dawn said with a thinking face.

"No.. but what if she was..."

"Wow... well... if she was alive I would be very happy of course, she took care of me and I would love to have her again... but why are you asking me that?"

"Well I kind... is that... ah... she is... you know alive."

Dawn gave Buffy a choked face. "What? No ... I mean…Ah? I ...I ...saw her body Buffy... she looked pretty dead to me... and we saw..."

Buffy took Dawn's hand. "Sweetie, before we left Sunnydale this woman appeared to me and she said I could ask for a wish and I wished Tara. She's back, I spoke to her."

"Wait, who did you wish for? Is she here? You what? Spoke to who? Oh god is she ok? She isn't the First is she?"

Dawn was excited, but also very freaked.

"She's fine and NO. She is Tara, the First is dead... I hope..."

"Buffy where is she?"

"While I was talking to her and she discovered about Kennedy she..."

"You told her?"

"I didn't mean to but she would have found it out anyway."

"Well yeah but... what did she do after that ...I mean where is she?"

"She ran, told me to stay away, and I did." Dawn was about o say something very angry to Buffy but before she could say anything Buffy interrupted her. "I told Giles and Xander, they are looking for her and I'm sure they'll find her, she couldn't have gone very far."

Dawn had no words to describe how she was feeling, just this enormous happiness but also very confused, seeing Tara again after a year! It's longer than when Buffy was dead.

"Dawn?" Buffy called.

Dawn was lost in her thoughts.

"Dawn!" Buffy called again.

"Yeah, oh sorry what?"

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah... I was just thinking... wow..."

"Yeah, why don't you go to sleep and you can see her later."

"Later? No I wanna see her now. Take me to her Buffy, pleeeeeeease?"

"But I don't know where she is..."

"I'll go find her, with Giles and Xander."

Dawn got up from her bed and started looking for something to wear.

"Dawn honey, we don't know where she is and it's better we stay here waiting for Giles and Xander, I'm sure they'll find her. And it's very cold outside."

"Ok... but I want to wait for her downstairs."

"Fine... I'll get you something to eat... you wanna?"

"Sure, will you make me pancakes?"