Until Then

After a few minutes, Dawn comes rushing into the room, jumps onto the bed and crawls up to me. I smile at her sudden energy and kiss her as she leans into me. We kiss for maybe three minutes or so before she breaks away to say, "So what do you want to do now? It's about 2:00 in the morning, and I'll have to be back home at 8:00."

"Well, you can most definitely stay here and do whatever I want," I say with a smirk.

Dawn smiles and says, "Ok, I'm yours." Then she leans into me and kisses me.

I break away from the kiss to correct her. "Did I say you could kiss me?" She laughs and replies, "No." Then I kiss her and she responds to me happily.

As our kiss turns passionate, our hands begin to roam each other's body and we release moan after moan from each touch. I feel the need begin to call on me to be more than gentle with Dawn, but I know better than to do that. So I just kiss her a little bit harder and rest my right hand on her thigh then move it slowly to the inside, and she moans in response.

I slowly move my hand up towards the top of her underwear while I move to rest on top of her, moving her onto her back as I slowly remove what's in the way of an amazing night with Dawn. As soon as her underwear is gone and out of the way, I kiss her hungrily and she kisses me just as hard. She moves to try and get my shirt off, but I stop her just in time. "Did I say you can take my shirt off?" I ask, continuing to tease her a bit. Instead of responding to me verbally, she just lays there and stares.

She licks her lips and begs me with her eyes. She wants to see me naked, and that gets me very hot, and I know that I want to see that reaction she gets when she sees me naked. So I sit up and watch her expression as I remove my shirt and throw it to the ground. She looks at me as if I was goddess sent.

She waits for me to tell her what I want her to do, but I don't tell her anything, I just move to give her a kiss and whisper, "I love you" in her ear. Just as my hand is getting closer to her clit, I kiss her harder and feel her begin to grind against my teasing fingers. But I'm not ready to give her what she wants.

I smile at her growl of frustration and continue to kiss her harder as my hand suddenly disappears. Her eyes reveal the shock of sudden pleasure. I whisper into her ear, about how much she means to me. I know that that she's trying as hard as she can to focus on me, but her attention is completely on that pleasure that ripples through her when she screams my name.

I hold her closer and tell her I love her and that I want her to always know that I will always be there for her, no matter what Buffy or anyone else says. I kiss her gently and hold her close as she falls asleep in my arms. And I watch her sleep. I look at the clock and set it to wake us up at 7:00.

For the rest of the night, I sleep holding Dawn close to me, dreaming wonderful dreams of what life will be like when Dawn is old enough to leave Buffy's house. I dream of how we will live somewhere quiet and spend our days in each other's company, being happy as lovers.

When morning comes and the alarm goes off, I get up and put my clothes on and wait for Dawn to finally get up. "Hey, Dawn, are you still sleeping?"

"No," replies the muffled voice coming from Dawn, who is lying on the bed face down. I laugh and walk over to my sleeping beauty and poke her a few times knowing that she hates to be poked.

After a moment of me poking her, I hear a, "Grrrr" coming from Dawn, and I know that I better watch it before my grumpy teenage girlfriend gets her revenge. So instead of poking her, I stop and ask her, "So, is my girlfriend awake? Or will I have to tickle her to get her up?" Dawn lets out a few giggles of amusement before turning onto her back to look up at me.

I stare at Dawn for a moment before commenting, "Aww…isn't my girlfriend as cute as a button." I poke her one final time on her nose before she jumps up and attacks me furiously with her fingers. She's tickling me and I'm squirming as I try to get away. When I finally do get away, I say to her, "You really got to stop doing that. If people were to see me squirm like that because I was being tickled then there goes my image!"

Dawn laughs in response and replies with an evil grin on her face. "Well, you are such a softy, naturally it won't take people long to figure that out."

"What! Me a softy, I don't think so," I say as I move closer to give her a good morning kiss. "But I am I kissie person, as you already know."

"You bet you are," Dawn replies as she pulls me in closer to give me a kiss.

The kiss was really meant to be short and friendly, but it didn't take long for it to turn passionate, as my hands moved to her neck and her hands moved to my waist. After what seemed like forever, I realized that Dawn would have to be home soon or big sis would be suspicious. So I broke away from the kiss. I kept my hold on her though and tried to avoid checking out her pretty much naked form. "Ok, Dawn, you have to get dressed and get ready to go home."

"Do I have to? I really want to stay for a while longer," she replies with a pout.

"Believe me, I want you to stay longer too, but big sis isn't going to be so friendly if you're late. You've got thirty minutes to get dressed and back at home," I say as I move away from Dawn's distracting body to help find all her clothes.

As soon as Dawn has on all her clothes and is ready to go, I walk with her as far as I can without the risk of being spotted by Buffy. When I have gone as far as I can go with her, I stop where I stand and give her a big hug and a small kiss. I tell her, "Dawn, I love you and I'll see you later."

Dawn smiles at me and replies, "I love you too, Faith, see you soon."

And then we walk our separate ways for the moment.