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I stayed up all night watching her, when really, it wasn't that hard, but on the other hand, it was. She moved just like Buffy in her sleep. I remember when I would climb up on the tree and just watch her all night, sometimes crawl in through the open, inviting window and sit, just like I'm doing now and watch her until before the sun would rise.

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[womansized]

I'd been sleeping in Angel's bed again. After the first night staying in the hotel I'd gotten used to staying in his bed. After spending weeks upon weeks living in a house packed to the max with mini slayers I just couldn't get comfortable in a big empty hotel. Everytime I turned around I was afraid I'd see her, my mother. Except it wasn't really my mother, it was just The First trying to get under my skin. Not that I was important, not important like Buffy anyway. If I was I wouldn't be in L.A. being babysat by Angel, instead I'd be in Sunnydale where I belonged with my friends and my sister. I still had no idea what was going on there

[__angel]

I could hear her screaming for me as I got hit in the back and I went down. Three of them were on me, holding me back as I tried to get away and eventually? I did. Breaking necks as I went, I finally managed to break away and run upstairs to her room that she was sleeping in before all of this madness began. Walked into the room as a couple of bringers tried to hold her down, but she was screaming at the top of her lungs, kicking and punching her way, trying to get out of it

[womansized]

Breathing hard I tried to wrench away from them as they grabbed my arms and twisted them behind my back, holding me in place. There was so many of them, and I'd fought them before but I'd always had Buffy and Xander and Willow and a ton of potential slayers around helping me. Now I just had Angel, and I could hear him fighting trying to get away from them as The First taunted him in Buffy's voice. That was my sister, and it made me so angry knowing that The First was using my sister to get at me. Why would they come for me anyway? I wasn't important, I wasn't Buffy, I wasn't a slayer, I was just Dawn. The only thing I ever slayed was the coffee table one time when I fell on it and it splinted in half. Dawn the coffee table slayer, people weren't exactly lining up for that

[__angel]

They kept on coming at me and no matter what I did, I couldn't stop it. I couldn't protect her. I tried. I'd grab her only to get thrown to the ground again and I wondered why they haven't staked me yet. That was surprising. My game face on, I threw them off one by one and got back on my feet. Just in time to see the knife go right though her ... heart

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I didn't know where I went, but there was just nothing there. I tried to call out for Buffy, the real Buffy but I couldn't make any sound, I couldn't do anything. It was like I was just...lost for a minute. Was I dead? I could still feel the stinging burn of a knife through the chest, and so I was pretty sure I was dead. Most people didn't survive knife attacks to the heart, unless you were Spike or something and tried to cut your own heart out. But I wasn't a vampire, so I was dead. That was it...the end

[__angel]

I had to get it all off, her blood was all around and even though I have a soul? I am still a vampire. It's tempting and wrong. It's Buffy's sister. The girl that I was supposed to protect, the girl that ... I didn't protect. Not like I was supposed to. I let ... she died, right in front of me and I didn't do anything to stop it, it just happened. My skin was starting to get raw, if it could anyway from the sponge that I was using against it to scrub the blood off.

Closing my eyes, I let the water fall over me and rinse me off, I knew that I'd have to do the same thing to Dawn and therefore, I'd get her blood on me.

Again.

I stopped moving however, when I heard someone walking into the bathroom. I dropped the sponge and moved toward the end of the shower, waiting, then suddenly threw it open and stood there, my eyes narrowed. The First? Again? Reaching out, I shoved Dawn and she went flying into the counter.

"Fuck, how ... what? Sorry," I said and then swallowed hard watching her before looking down at myself.

"Oh crap."

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I didn't have time to react as his hand suddenly shot out with alot of force and I found myself shoved straight into the cabinet. My back hit it hard and I fell to the ground before looking up at him with wide eyes. He was still naked, but I was hardly even noticing the naked part anymore. Mostly I was just...scared, even though I knew why he did that. He shoved me to see if I was The First Evil. He must have carried me in from the other room thinking I was dead. I was dead, except I wasn't. I didn't understand

[__angel]

She was still alive and it was really her. And? I just shoved her into a cabinet. Stepping out of the shower, I grabbed a towel quickly and wrapped it around me and just watched her as she looked at her shirt. Blood. It was still around, but the temptation was long gone by now. I was just grateful that she was alive. But how? I didn't understand it.

"Yeah. You were," I said and walked toward her. "I ... I won't hurt you, come here," I whispered and helped her up, then helped her to the bedroom, both of us sitting down on the bed. What was I going to tell Buffy? That she died and now she was alive.

I got up from the bed and got a wash cloth, wetting it, then came back. I sat back down next to her and looked her over before I started to wipe at the blood, getting it all off. I had no idea why they would come for her, no idea at all. But they did, and they killed her, but now she was here.

"How ... I mean, this is ... well, not interesting, but in a way, it is," I said evenly as I wiped her face.

[womansized]

I just sat there as he wiped the blood up from my shirt, and all over my hands and arms, finally my face. I was really really dead, I'd felt my heart stop. "The key, it's immortal. I don't know why I'd never figured this out before." I explained to him as he continued to trail the wet cloth across my forehead. "I'm the key so...." Suddenly the full weight of what I had just been faced with hit me. Instinctively I pushed his hand with the cloth away from my face and narrowed my eyes. "I can't die...I'm going to live forever

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She ... was immortal, which just like she said, it meant that she couldn't die. She pushed my hand away and got up, getting another shirt before going into the bathroom. What were we going to do now? I guess I'd call Buffy - the real Buffy and tell her what was going on, either that or way until Buffy came here to get her.

Sighing, I got up from the bed and ran a hand over my face, pausing when I heard voices in the bathroom. Buffy's voice.

Moving quickly, I opened the door to an upset Dawn and ... nothing. I didn't see anything. Was I hearing things? Of course she'd be upset because of the finding out that she's immortal.

"Sorry, I thought I heard something," I said and looked her over, wiping the tears going down her face. Turning around, I opened the door to walk out and back to the bedroom.

[womansized]

I turned around quickly when Angel opened the door and it only took me a second to realize that The First had disappeared too. It thought might do that? Was that all just a test? That was why it was here? To see if I could die or not? How had The First evil known that I was immortal when I had no idea at all

[__angel]

I stood up from the bed, pacing a bit and waiting for her to come out. I imagine that she'll have questions about all of this and considering that I'm a vampire and can't die ... well, not really, that she'll have questions to ask me. What was I supposed to say? How was I going to answer her? This was getting really complicated. All I did was sign on to babysit and already, she's died. I just ... I didn't want to see Buffy now

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I followed him down into the sewers and immediately made an ick face when I saw all the slime and sludge. I could feel it slick under my shoes as Angel led me further into the sewers and away from the hotel. Maybe we were safe down here, and those Bringers couldn't get down here? I wasn't sure what we were doing down here other then getting away. Why? They couldnt' kill us. Well, I guess they could stake Angel or chop off his head or something. I'd hate to have to tell Buffy that her ex-boyfriend turned into dust trying to protect me when I didn't even need protecting! They couldn't even kill me. The problem was, The First seemed to know that. She was testing me, and I didn't know why

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Of course they would follow us, this just seemed like a good idea since I couldn't go outside. I'd rather not be dust this early in the morning. I pulled her along the sewer and I could hear her making noises behind me. I was used to it, it didn't bother me. That much.

I heard something and pulled her into a side tunnel, holding her to me. Brought my finger to my lips and I could hear her heart pounding in her chest, so hard. Next thing I knew we were face with an ... what the hell is that?

Pushing Dawn behind me, I was met with a hand around my neck, squeezing hard enough to pop off before I was thrown into a wall. Falling in the water, I got back up, holding onto my neck before charging after this thing. Knocked him into the wall but he just turned around, heading toward me.

"Dawn. Run. NOW!"

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I took a few steps backwards as the ubervamp grabbed Angel by the throat and knocked him into a wall. My eyes widened as it looked down at me and I took a few careful steps back as Angel climbed back up to his feet and charged straight into the ubervamp. I still remembered what one of these things had done to Buffy. I really didn't think she was going to make it for a little while and now it was after Angel. Okay, he was immortal, I was immortal unlike my big sister but still. I liked having all of my limbs attached to my body, and I kind of liked Angel with all of his too