AN: Those who know me and my not existing punctuality, know what is coming now….I am sooo sorry it took again so long for me to post the next chapter. I have to admit, that I can be very lazy…Please forgive.

Dawn stood in front of her home. Her runaway had only last two days. How rebellious…. She had to admit that she had been afraid of the moment she would see her sister again. Even if she would have had resolved the mystery about her dream it would have been difficult to explain everything to Buffy. But now she was stood here with Angel and his friends and that made the situation even much more difficult. A good ending was nearly impossible. On the way to Sunnydale Dawn gad decided that she would simply tell the truth. All the lies she had told in the past had created this trouble she had now. And now she had to do a lot explaining…, explain to Buffy why she ran away; explain Angel that she was Buffys sister and The Key; explain to Giles why she HAD to see the Watcher Diaries.

The only one who would be on her side would probably be Anya. If she was lucky, Anya had already explained why she had to go to LA. That would also explain why Buffy hadn't followed her or just phoned Angel.

"Come on Dawn", she heard Cordelia yell from the door. Dawn swallowed and caught up with the others. Then the door opened and Spike stood in front of them.

"Bit!"

Angel gave him a confused glance. „Bit? Not Peaches? Or Poofter?"

Then he realized that Spike hadn't spoken to him, but to Dawn. He repeated his question. "Bit? Could someone explain that to me?"

Ok, so now the moment has come…Dawn thought, and then began to formulate an answer. "Uhm, well Angel, fact is…"But she was interrupted by another yell.

"Dawnie!" Buffy appeared behind Spike. " How could you run away! We were so worried about you! Just leaving this letter which doesn't explain anything and this cryptically stuff about you and answers that could be too frightening. With other words: You are so not going to ever leave this house again until you're forty, understand!"

That made Dawns plan of explaining everything to her, Angel and everybody else in a calm, mature talk, INSIDE the house crash into 1000 pieces. Ok, first thing to do was getting them all into the house.

"Really, Buffy, I think we shouldn't discuss that here, where all neighbours can hear. And I also think that we should all sit, because this is going to take much time…."

When she had finally managed to get them all into the living room, she saw that Anya and Giles were already waiting there for them. That would make everything much easier, because she wouldn't have to call them. She needed Anya for support and Giles if she could convince him to give her the diaries. Buffy noticed the look dawn gave Anya and said:"Anya couldn't bring much light into the situation. She said just the same cryptically stuff like you, about a dream, that could be more and that you needed to find answers. But now we are going to get answers. Explain: Why did you go to LA?"

So Dawn began. She told them about the dreams she had had, also angel and co already knew about that. She told about how she went to Anya for help and what they found out. She told them about how she arranged everything for LA and finally got there. And how relieved she was that nobody there had memories of her. At this point Angel interrupted her. "What memories should we have of you? I think you should explain some things to us. You say you're Buffys sister-how can that be?" But before Dawn could respond to that, Giles went to the three people from LA and told them in a low voice about the Key and Glory, while Dawn went on about the episode in LA. When she had finished, all the eyes were on her again. She hadn't noticed, but during her speech Anya had moved behind her, to show her that she supported her. Dawn had to smile. She never thought that Anya could be so serious and loyal, until the day she told her about her dream. It seemed that they all needed to get another image of the Ex-Demon...Silence filled the room, until Giles finally broke it. „This sword, I mean katana, do you have it with you?" Dawn nodded and wanted to fetch it from the car, but then she saw that Wesley already got it and was giving it to Giles. They both sat down in one corner of the room and discussed about what Wesley had already found out about it. Apart from this little noise it was silent again. This was broken again by Cordelia voice. "So, you two are dating now?" she asked Buffy and Spike. "Actually we're living together, "Buffy answered, but looked into Angels eyes, as if she had to get his permission. He seemed to notice that, because he answered with low voice, but loud enough for her to hear him „it's good that you are finally happy." Spike went to Buffy ad lay an arm around her. "Yeah, she is." But before this harmless conversation could turn into something bigger, Giles announced, that he came to a conclusion. "It seems that all the answers we need, are to be found in the Watchers Diaries. So I am going to fetch them, and then this mystery will hopefully be resolved." He was already on his way to the door when he turned around again. "Anya, Dawn, this would also be a good opportunity to give me back the books you have "borrowed" without my knowledge. And of course we will have to talk about that, too." Dawn blushed lightly, because she felt ashamed of what she had done, although she knew she had no alternative, but Anya seemed to feel nothing like that. Probably she had just too often done something like that to be still ashamed when caught. They went put the stairs to get the bag with the books out of Dawns room and followed Giles. When they gave it to him, Dawn began to apologize, but was cut by Giles. "I said that we would talk about it, but not now. There are more important things that need to be done. " Then he gave her a small sad smile. "Now I'm just happy that you're back. Promise me, that you will never do something like that again. You should have told us, and asked for the books. I would have given them to you. But to steel them and to run away was surely the wrong way to handle your problem. "But when hugged her Dawn knew that he wasn't mad at her anymore.

Half an hour later they were again sitting again in the Summers living room with all the books on the table. And they were many. There were big books and small books, some with large handwriting, some with so small handwriting that it was difficult to read them. And there were books which weren't completed. Those were the ones of those Watchers who had died before their Slayer and were replaced by another one. The book they needed was one of these. Giles red out the last few pages about Edith Hargreaves and ended with the note that her Watcher had died. That wasn't new to them, they already knew that she had lost her Watcher and never got a new one. But now they had to find the journal of the mysterious partner of Edith who had went on to write about her. That took again some time, but finally Cordelia found a small red leather book which began on the 16 July 1856, the time Edith had lived. Cordelia was already going to give it to Giles, but Dawn was faster and grabbed it out of her hand. Somehow it was so familiar…She opened it and began to read the first entry for herself.

16 July 1856, London

Thomas Cunningham, Edwards Watcher, is dead. I call her still Edward, although I now know that it should be Edith. But it's the under which I got to know her, got to love her, so I'll stay with Edward. That might confuse those, who will read this after, and I hope someone will read it, cause that it the reason I do it. Thomas once told me about the Watcher's Diaries and how important they are for the following Watchers. And as long as Edward refuses to accept any other man as Watcher, I will write down her fights. I should begin with the one during which Thomas died. During the last months several girls disappeared from Miss Perrits School for higher Daughters, which I visited, too. Miss Perrit herself told me about it during a garden party and I gave this information to Thomas. He and Edward could find out that they were supposed to be sacrificed to an old Egyptian God. During the ritual they were supposed to be burnt while still living. When Edward and Thomas stormed the hidden temple, they had already begun and one altar was already burning. Thomas could rescue the girl on it, while Edward fought the cult follower, and they could also free the other girls, but during that Thomas was burned by the fire and his injuries were too bad to be healed. Of course Edward blames herself. She should have been faster, should have found the temple earlier, should have noticed the disappearance earlier. She didn't say it out loud, but I could see it in her eyes. Edward has never been a person who was emotionally, who found easily friend and could open herself to the people who cared for her. It took much time for Thomas, and later I to get to her, to convince her that she could trust us and that we were her friends. Therefore it was even harder for her to loose on of this few friends, but she still wanted to deal with it on her own. While I'm writing this she is on patrol, to distract her with the only thing she knows: Killing the monsters around us.

When Dawn had finished reading, realisation hit her like a lightning .And then everything around her turned black.

Some minutes later she woe up again and found herself on the sofa. Buffy was leaning above her and held a glass of water in her hand. When she rose, she could see that also Anya seemed to have had this black-out. And also Angel lay on the floor. Both of them woke up simultaneous to her.

"What was that? From one second to the other you were all fainting and then…"

But then Buffy was interrupted by Dan, who shoved her to the side and went to the katana, which was still lying in the corner where Giles and Wesley had left it .Before anybody realised what she was doing, she had grabbed it and turned to Angel.

"Now you are finally going to die, Angelus."

AN: This chapter seems to be short, but I have already went on with writing. But I thought this was a good point to end it. In the next two days the next chapter should be posted. And I think that will be the last. No more mysteries, only answers then.