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Dedication: To the many B/A AU fans out there!

Spoilers: Only of what might happen next.

Summary: Buffy Summers and Angelus O'Connor. Worst enemies. Brother and sister in law. And slowly falling in love.

Reviews: What a stupid question! The answer is yes, if you were wondering!

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Chapter 8:

Dawn grinned, "Aren't you pleased to see me?"

Buffy went round the kitchen island and decided to just gaze sternly at Dawn, "Does your mom know you're here?"

Dawn snorted, "No. Why should she?"

Buffy rolled her eyes and leaned on the counter, "The fact that she's your mother wouldn't count?" She sighed despairingly at Dawn's vigorous shake of her head, "Well, what are you doing here? Have you finished your rehab?"

Dawn scowled, wrinkles appearing on her small nose, "Technically, no. But I'm cured!"

Buffy laughed, running a hand through her already tousled hair, "I don't think you can just leave, Dawn."

The brunette shrugged, unconcerned over what she'd done, "Oh, well. Anyway, what have you been doing? You stink!"

Buffy stared levelly at her, "I just got up." She said, going over to the fridge for a yoghurt.

"Oh, yeah, that's a good excuse." Dawn scoffed. She eyed Buffy carefully, "You've been clubbing, haven't you?"

Dawn grabbed a spoon from the sink and opened the yoghurt. She threw Dawn a puzzled glance and nodded before sticking the spoon into the pot, "How could you tell?" She asked, taking a mouthful.

"You have bags the size of the Grand Canyon and I can smell your alcohol-infused breath from here," Dawn smiled and tapped her head, a knowing look on her face, "Or I'm psychic."

Buffy nodded thoughtfully, "Then you'll know," She grabbed the phone and threw it at Dawn, "That you're going to call your mom."

The teenager scowled and let the phone fly over the counter onto the floor behind her, "I don't want to." She protested, folding her arms defiantly.

"Tough." Buffy cast a glance to where the phone lay, "You'll pay for that if it's broken." She grinned and tapped her head mockingly, "But then you'd already know that, wouldn't you?"

Dawn stuck her tongue out playfully at her aunt before picking up the phone and bouncing onto the sofa.

"It's 2 on speed dial." Buffy told her, between mouthfuls of yoghurt.

She watched as the teenager dutifully pressed the button and waited impatiently for someone to pick up.

"Hey mom?" Dawn asked.

Buffy tuned out, deciding it wasn't worth listening in on if she could only hear one side of the conversation. Her thoughts turned to her dream. Or what she thought was her dream. But just because it felt amazingly real and that she had an achingly familiar feeling still lingering between her legs did not mean it was real. Well, she hoped it didn't.

Buffy sighed; mentally reminding herself that she needed to talk to Willow about what exactly happened last night.

She was brought out of her daydream by hearing her name.

"Buffy!" Dawn was saying, holding out the phone, "She wants to speak to you."

Buffy took the phone from her, "Hey Darla," She greeted unenthusiastically.

"Buffy! Why is Dawn at yours? What happened to rehab?"

Buffy sighed and collapsed onto the sofa next to Dawn, "Dawn's quit rehab." She glanced up as the said teenager spotted one of the kittens, "Didn't you ask her all this?"

"Oh, she gave me some shit about being cured."

"Well, maybe she is."

"Oh, please, Buffy!" Darla screeched, making Buffy wince, "We're talking about the girl who, after supposedly being cured from dug-taking, started stealing. Then when she was 'cured' from that, she became fucking anorexic! Just imagine what she'll do next!"

"Teenage pregnancy." Dawn suggested, hearing the conversation from across the room.

Buffy grinned, "Dawn suggests teenage pregnancy." She passed on.

"See! And you do nothing to help the situation; you encourage her!"

The grin faded, "Darla, I do not encourage her! And you were fifteen when you got pregnant with Dawn, so don't be too hypocritical."

"Buffy, don't fucking lecture me. I am her mother; I think I know what's best for my own daughter. I'll be around at about two. Whatever you do don't let her find out about Angelus."

Buffy cast a glance at Dawn who was looking curiously at her, no doubt wondering why Darla had stopped screaming. "You haven't told him?" She asked quietly.

"No and he's not going to find out. Understand?"

"Whatever." Buffy disconnected and threw the phone down next to her.

Dawn picked up the kitten and brought it over to the sofa. "So? What's happening?"

Buffy shrugged, "I've no idea. She's coming round at two." She smiled slightly at the teenager, "It looks like you could be staying with me for a bit." She stood up and yawned, "I'm going to go and have a shower. Make yourself at home."

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"Hello?"

Buffy smiled into the phone, "Wills, hey. It's me, Buffy."

"Buffy? Why are you ringing so early?"

Buffy laughed, stopping suddenly as her head thumped in pain, "It nearly twelve, Willow." She opened a cupboard for some paracetomol.

"Is it? Shit. I hate hangovers."

"I second that." Buffy said, taking the medicine, "Do you want me to ring back later?"

"Nah, I'm up now. What's wrong?"

Buffy sat down, looking up as Dawn came through holding two more kittens.

"How many do you have?" The teenager asked incredulously.

Buffy smiled slightly and shrugged.

"Who was that? Oh, my god, did you get laid? Who was it? Do I know him?"

Buffy turned her attention back to Willow, "That was my niece, Dawn. You remember her?"

The blonde could almost hear Willow frown, "You mean the skinny brunette who was into stealing?"

Buffy watched Dawn as she played with the kittens, "Yeah. Anyway, she's staying with me for a little while, Darla's coming over later. But that's not why I rang."

"Good, 'cause if it was I'd have to kill you."

"Kind of spoils it by telling me, don't you think?" Buffy grinned, "Anyway, I need you to tell me what happened last night."

"Why?"

Buffy sighed, "I just do, Wills, okay? I want to know what I did."

"Well, if you remember, we weren't talking for most of the evening."

"Wills, please!"

"Okay, okay, well I went off to find Oz backstage, so I don't know what happened to you then. When I came out, Anya was going on about how you'd left her or something. I wasn't really listening. Anyway, I couldn't find you after I came back to the bar so I asked around and found you'd disappeared somewhere and then about ten minutes later I found you all kind of shell shocked and shaking, but I just figured you'd gone into your depressive drunk mode."

Buffy breathed deeply, "Right. Okay, thanks. That's it?"

"Yeah, that's as much as I remember. I mean after that you went off dancing, but, yeah, that's basically it."

"Okay, thanks Wills. I'll talk to you later." Buffy disconnected and threw the phone down next to her.

"You have a habit of doing that, don't you?"

Buffy stared at Dawn, "What?" She asked wearily.

Dawn looked pointedly at the phone, "You have a habit of not saying goodbye before you hang up and then you throw the phone down." Dawn studied her, "Bad news?"

Buffy smiled slightly, "You could say that." She muttered.

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Ah! Another chapter! All worship me!

Nah, I kid, you can just love me forever. Either one will do.

So, what will happen in the life of little Buffy next? Why does Darla not want Angelus to know about Dawn and vice versa? Was the whole dream incident actually real or not? Will Spike and Faith get together? Or will Buffy get in there? What will happen in Spain? And will Buffy and Angelus ever really get together?

I should shut up now.

God, I'm hyper. That's what chocolate and reading reviews does to you.

Yay! I've finished another chapter!

Oh, I've had a lot of people ask me about Emotions and Souled and, well, Souled I can't even remember that last chapter and Emotions is coming along but I've had some major case of writer's block for both stories but hang on. Emotions chapter is coming up and I'll start on Souled the minute I can.

Right, I should go.

Hyperness has deflated because of stupid crappy mother.

Love to you all.

WS xXx

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