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"What is that?" Dawn asked moving her hands to cover her ears.

"I'll be right back, stay here." Spike instructed.

"What? No way I'm coming with you!"

Spike gave her an irritated look "Fine but hurry up." He instructed.

Dawn quickly threw the blankets off her and pulled out the IV which was still attached to her.

Spike and Dawn made there way down the hall to Angel's office, when they reached it however no one was there.

"Hello? Angel? Lorne? Gunn?" Dawn called.

"They're not here, Luv." Spike told her.

Dawn gave him a questioning looking he just shrugged. "Come on, let's keep looking."

They moved into Angel's bedroom, finding him not in there they started to head to the source of the sound, the lobby.

"Angel?" Dawn and Spike screamed over the alarm finally spotting him tinkering with a fuse box of some sorts. Together they rushed towards him. He looked at them furiously.

"Dawn what are you doing out of bed, and Spike why Are you with her?" He demanded.

"I wanted to know what happened, Spike told me no but I came anyways, there's not much he could do to stop me, given his condition" Dawn told him in rush while getting a glare from Spike who resented having a 'condition'.

"Go back to bed!"

"Angel you gotta do this" Dawn said walking over to the box and pulling a plug out.

"Um thanks Dawn- Now go back to bed!" He said. Dawn glared at him.

"What if I tell you No?"

"I can fix that." He said bending over and picking her up to throw him over his shoulder. He didn't see her fingers suddenly get an angry red fire crackling around her fingers sparks flew around them. Dawn stared in shock at her hands wondering what it meant she concentrated hard on the power crackling at her finger tips and suddenly her body flipped over Angel's shoulder and she was on the floor. Angel spun around in surprise.

"How did you do that?" He asked.

Dawn held up her hands, the power still emanating from them "I have no clue." She said slowly, as if in wonder. She flicked her hands as she had seen The witches on a TV show do and the room went airily quite she couldn't hear anyone speaking but she could hear thoughts. She flicked her hands again trying to draw away from the power, slowly her finger stopped crackling.

"Bit, what the bloody hell did you just do? And why couldn't I talk?" Spike demanded.

"I'm not sure."

"Dawn maybe we should have the lab"

"No Angel" she said sharply cutting him off. "I'm a person! I don't want to be examined." She spat the last word out as though it was putrid, her fingers were starting to crackle again.

"Alright Luv lets not jump to conclusions, I'm sure Angel was just trying to help. Right poof?" Spike asked pointedly at Angel.

"Yes, of course." Angel said "And could you not call me that?" He directed to Spike in an agitated voice.

"Nope" Spike said smirking.

Dawn started to look like she was going to faint at that moment.

"At least let me help you to bed then." Angel requested to Dawn trying his best not to look concerned. She nodded her consent and he swept her off her feet carrying her swiftly back to her hospital, she seemed to spending more and more time there. Dawn was asleep before Angel even got her into her room.

Once he was out in the hallway again Angel pulled out his cell phone and dialed Buffy's house number.

"Hello?" It was Willow.

"Willow, I need to speak with Buffy it's urgent."

"Okay hold on one sec." Angel could hear her yell for Buffy in the background.

"Angel? Is Dawn ok?"

"Buffy She's actually why I'm calling, see today"

"Is she okay?

"Let me finish telling you first then you tell me if she alright. Alright?" Even though he couldn't see her he knew she was nodding.

"Good, now today she was out of bed, and from her recent, adventures for lack of better words, I instructed her to go to bed. She refused so I picked her and started to bring her back. But before I knew what was happening she had flipped some how over my shoulder and was standing on the floor behind me. Her hand though, Buffy they were crackling with like this fire." Angel stopped when he heard her gasp.

"Angel I want you to tell Willow exactly what you just told me." Buffy said her voice shaky as she handed the phone over to Willow. Angel did as she asked and as soon as he finished Willow started talking.

"Are you testing her" Willow asked, Angel already knew that question was coming.

"I tried suggesting it to her but she got so made her hands started to, I'm not even sure what to call it, again." Angel told her. Willow sighed.

"Alright we'll start cracking the books here." She said sounding tired.

"Willow I was only calling to let you know ,I'm going to have Wesley's department on this at once." Angel said and he could hear her tell Buffy the same thing he told willow, he predicted her reaction, she was going to freak tell him no evil lawyers were going to touch her sister, he was only partially correct.

"Okay, but Buffy says to tell you that you are not in any way shape or form allowed to do tests on her unless Dawn or Buffy consents him to." Willow told him.

Angel quickly agreed but just as they were about to hang up Angel remembered something.

"Willow? Can you maybe have the watchers council look into this? If Giles doesn't mind of course." He added the last sentence when Willow didn't say anything.

"They can't" she said softly, Angel was confused but told her anyways "right, well if you don't think"

"Oh no Angel it's not that they won't it's more the fact of they can't, the watchers council was destroyed, we just found out earlier today."

Angel's heart went out to the girl , this whole first ordeal was putting a strain on her.

"Willow why don't you come down to Wolfram and Heart and help us research here for a day?" When she didn't reply quickly he added "it's only for a day of course it's nothing permanent and I'm sure Dawn would love to see you."

"Alright yeah" The witch said slowly "Just let me tell Buffy, would it be okay if I left later today to come there? And stay over night tonight?"

"It's more than Okay" He said gently.

A few minutes later Willow came back on the phone to tell him Buffy had agreed. Willow was going to make a trip to Wolfram and Hart.