Time lapse. The next morning, Dawn is sleeping on the couch, Oz and Willow are cleaning Dawn up. Kennedy is sitting in a chair. Alex is tied to another chair, in the dining room. Faith is beating Alex for information. Spike and Buffy are talking with Kennedy, Xander is holding Dawn's hand.
"You what!!!" Buffy yells.
"I told you!" Kennedy screams.
"Well, tell us again." Oz says remaining the only calm one in the house.
"Okay, like I said, we were talking then all of a
sudden..." Kennedy doesn't get to finish, because of Alex's
scream.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!"
"Shut up!! And tell me what you know!!!" Faith yells.
"Faith, can you turn it down a notch!" Buffy yells.
"Sure!"
Oz gets up from Dawn duty, and walk over to Kennedy, and puts a knife to her throat.
"Okay, now your gonna tell me exactly what you know, or I'm gonna do exactly what you did to Dawn and then some." Oz says with controlled rage.
"Uh-huh" Kennedy replies. Dawn starts to stir out of her slumber.
"Ugh..."Dawn mumbles.
"Buffy!"
"You better hope that she's okay." Buffy warns to Kennedy. She walks over to Dawn.
"Hey, you okay, Sweetie?" Dawn bults up, and runs over to Kennedy, and stars punching her in the face.
"Dawn!!! No!! Don't!!!" Willow yells.
"You little...", Dawn starts.
"Dawns pregnant!!!" Kennedy yells Dawn turns bright red. She turns around to look at the shocked faces of her family. Willow and Oz sit down on the couch. Faith enters the room, by overhearing what was said.
"Dawn? How?? When?? What?" Buffy asks.
"Okay, listen to me..." Dawn starts
"No, I have to... Be..." Buffy just grabs her coat and leaves. Faith follows her. A moment of silence follows.
"Dawn, go up to your room," Xander says
"But..."
"No buts, Dawn, just go." Xander says
"Willow?"
"I have to agree Dawn."
"Oz?"
"Sorry, what Willow says goes."
"Spike, come on, I'm your little bit, you wont make me, will you?
"Dawn, please, I love you, with all my heart, but right now, you have to go upstairs and stay there until we figure out how to deal with this." Dawn is now crying, because all of the people that she calls family have abandoned her.
"Fine." Dawn says, and runs up stairs.
"What do you think that we should do?" Xander asks
"Whatever you guys think is best." Spike replies.
"What do you mean you guys? You're involved in this too, Spike?" Oz questions.
"I'm out," Spike says, while Robin enters.
"What do you mean out? You can't quit this early in the game." Oz replies
"Guys, stop it, Dawn does not need us fighting about how to handle her little problem," Willow says, trying to be calm.
"Wait, her problem, getting pregnant is not a little problem," Xander says
"Wait a sec, Dawn is pregnant?" Robin asks
"Yeah," Xander says, while Spike says, "Pretty much," while Willow says, "I guess so."
"Okay, so apparently I've missed some stuff, because this is all making the kinda sense that's not," Robin replies.
"Short story, Dawn got pregnant, Kennedy found out, and beat the crap out of her," Spike said.
"Wait a sec, back to the whole getting out thing," Willow replies.
"Huh, oh, yeah, I don't want to have anything to be with
this." Spike says.
"Why?" Xander asks.
"Because not 10 minutes ago, I told dawn that we were going to deal with this. Now I didn't want her to go, but I love her so much, I don't want anything to happen to her. But, I know how she's feeling right now"
"You've been pregnant before?" Xander asks.
"No, not that, she feels like everyone in her world has given up her."
"How?" Xander asks.
"First, Buffy leaves without letting Dawn explain then, You telling her that she wasn't old enough to handle this, and sent her to her room like a little child. Then Willow the one person who she told me she "can trust with everything", denies her. Then, Oz, she has looked up to you she met you, right now, I'm thinking that she doesn't look up to you anymore."
"What, she said that she can trust me with everything?" Willow asks.
"Yeah, but I'm betting that's not so true right now, look, I'm gonna go check on her, and tell her that I'm on her side."
"Wait," Willow says
"Let him go, she really needs someone on her side right now." Robin chimes in.
Faith and Buffy are
walking down the street. Talking about Dawn.
"So...what are
you going to do?"; Faith asks.
"What I have to."
"You're not gonna kill Dawn are you?"
"What? No, she is going to have an abortion."
"You just, what? Made up your mind for her?"
"Uh-huh."
"You can't make that decision for her. Its something that she has to make for herself."
"And she will, as soon I tell her to do it."
"Buffy!"
"What! What do you think that she should do? Because this is not my territory Faith! I don't know to make this decision! The only thing that I know, is that Dawn is not ready for this."
"Are you sure, that you're just not ready?"
"Yes, I'm ready, I want to be an aunt, but not now, not under these circumstances."
"So, how, then?"
"Do I really have to explain this to you? Because I don't think that I can."
"Well, your gonna have to, because Dawn. She isn't gonna want you to tell her that she cant have this baby, just because your not ready."
Dawns room, she is sitting on her bed, crying.
"I can do this...it's not too hard, just don't tell anyone what your doing, and you'll be fine" Dawn walks into Buffy's room, and takes her wallet out of Buffy's purse, and steals, what look like a two-inch wad of fifties, and Xander's car keys. While still crying, she shoves them into her pants pocket, she opens Buffy's window and climbs out, she drops down. Just as Spike goes into her room. She runs over to Xander's car, and gets in. She wipes her tears away from her face, and turns the car on, and drives away.
The living room. Oz is looking out the window.
"Dawn." Oz, says while looking out the front window, watching her drive away.
"Xander, call Buffy." Willow says, Xander walks into the kitchen and calls Buffy, while Spike comes down the stairs.
"Dawn isn't in her room, I couldn't get a good look but I think that she might have gone out the window." Spikes says going into the living room.
"Yeah, she just drove away in Xander's car." Oz responds.
"What, she drove?" Robin asks
"Yeah, you were here." Willow says
"No, I mean she doesn't know how to drive."
"Actually..." Kennedy starts
"Shut your mouth!" Spike yells
"No, let her talk." Oz responds
"She was taking lessons last year, she just got her license three weeks ago."
"What, why didn't she say anything to us?" Spike asks
"She did," Andrew says walking into the house, because the door was open.
"Where did you come from?" Robin asks
"I was with you, remember, you just left before me." Andrew replies.
"No, that's not important, when did she tell us?" Willow asks
The sidewalk, Buffy is laying on the ground. Faith is standing and helping a little girl get back on her bike and walks over to Buffy, helping her up.
"Okay, that's the second time in two days, that you've fallen. What's wrong with you?" Faith questions.
"Okay, I'll tell you but you have to promise not to tell anyone."
"Yeah, of course."
"Okay, look, I have cancer."
"Huh?" Faith says
