Title: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Author: Science
Rating: R
Beta'd by: KnifeEdge and Ryn

Summary: Buffy and Dawn Summers have just moved into a new house and Buffy's already made enemies with their next door neighbor, Spike. He's kind of a jerk, she's kind of a bitch, and they hate each other on sight. But can the teenage Dawn's unlikely friendship ( Read more... )

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Dawn woke to a dark room and a growling stomach. She had a vague memory of Tara coming into her room to say goodbye. She liked Tara; why couldn't she be her sister instead of stupid Buffy? Of course, if Tara was her older sister, maybe she'd be cranky and bossy and mean, too. But Dawn doubted it. She'd never seen Tara be anything other than totally ( Read more... )

10/19/10: This chapter has been updated. Thanks to KnifeEdge for the beta-read.


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Spike was dragged out of sleep by the buzzing of his alarm clock. He rolled over in bed, glared at the clock that read 8:57, and yanked the thing off the table. He threw it across the room and immediately fell back asleep.

What seemed like only minutes later, he was roused again by the sound of slamming car doors and the clamor of voices coming ( Read more... )