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(We find Willow, Riley, Buffy, Giles, Xander, Anya, and Tara sitting in the chairs and on the floor, surrounded with old dusty books, obviously trying to find a way to solve their Glory problem and their brand new problem with Faith)
“There’s gotta be something!” Giles thought allowed, the panic in his voice was obvious.
The gang looked at Giles, the panic in his voice surprised them, the only other time he has acted like that was when he found out that the judge was assembled and that Angel had turned to Angelus.
“What about a spell, Will to send Glory away until it’s too late to do the spell with the kke—Dawn.” Buffy Suggested looking up at Will, Buffy knew her idea was a long stretch, she was just trying to keep everybody thinking positive.
“That won’t work, she’s too powerful for any type of teleportation spell I'm capable of, plus the last one I did didn’t seem to send her very far.” Willow said, looking down disappointed in herself.
Then Buffy got up obviously frustrated and also worried. “I can’t fight both of them at once, the only thing we have going for us is that Glory still has no idea where her key is, but if she ever finds out…” Buffy mind was on Dawn, she couldn't say what she imagined could happen to her sister if Glory found out. Her attention was attracted to the clock where she noticed it was late, too late for Dawn to not be home from school yet. She glanced quickly outside... “Where’s Dawn?!?” Panic was starting to set in.
Xander looked around guiltily he forgot to tell her… “oh yeah, The Dawnmister told me to tell you she was going to be staying after school for some sort of study thinger.”
The bell to the magic shop door rang and everyone turned expecting to see Dawn, they all looked in amazement, the person they least expected was standing at their doorstep.
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(Dawn lied, she went to the basketball game with a couple of friends, she knew Buffy wouldn’t have let go for a basketball game with her school grades the way they were. But attending this game was important to her, Owen Andrews was playing and she had a huge crush on him, and word was he liked her too. She stayed for as long as she thought she could get away with. After saying goodbye to her friends and throwing her backpack over her shoulder she headed out of the school and headed toward the road.. She took a turn down a dark path, a feeling crept in the pit of her stomach and she looked around uncomfortably. Then suddenly three high school guys came onto the path from out of nowhere.)
“Hey guys lookie what we hav herre” said that largest and tallest member of the group said, standing in the middle of his two friends giving Dawn a sideways glance.
“imm late, I got to go home my sis…” Dawn tried to get out while trying to escape around the group of guys.
One of the guys grabbed her and threw her back and she fell to the ground. They laughed at the look of fear in her eyes.
“Wats da matta? Where not gonna hurt ya.” The leader of the group said then whispered, “much” under his breath sending smirking glances to his friends that began to laugh.
One of the guys grabbed her bag and began to rummage through it. “What ya got in da bag?” He threw her makeup and notebooks to the ground not stopping until he found a twenty dollar bill in the side pocket. He held the twenty in between his finger tips and inspected it, apparently waiting for it to multiply. Then he showed it to the leader and he grabbed it and held it in Dawn’s face.
“That’s all you have?!? Tisk tisk, we didn’t put in *all* this effort just to leave with a twenty…We need something more…” Panic overwhelmed every inch of Dawn’s body as the leader picked Dawn up and pressed her back against the tree. Then we went to kiss her but Dawn pulled her face away.
“You don’t like me do you?” His voice took a curious tone Dawn looked at him surprisingly and shook her head. “Well fine than…” and he stepped back, Dawn was still to surpised to move. The leader turned his head as if about to leave then he took his right hand and slapped her across the cheek so hard Dawn feel to the ground. “You don’t have to like me.” He rummaged through his pocket and pick out a pocket knife and he picked Dawn up again.
“This is where it gets good.” One of the leader’s friends said with an evil cackle.
He went to kiss Dawn again but then an unfamiliar voice said, “Enough!”
Everyone turned to see a young girl with long brown hair standing there glaring in the direction of the leader. Though she was tall she seemed barely as old as Dawn. *what is she doing!* Dawn thought to herself.
“What’s da matta can’t get a girl your own age… A little pathedic don’t you think?” Said the young girl with a surprisingly confident tone.
The three men glanced at each other, then burst out in hysterical laughter. The leader threw Dawn to the ground again and walked over to the young girl looking right into her eyes not 3 inches from her face.
“You gonna go get mommie if I don’t stop.” He said as his friends laughted behind him.
The Young girl looked around unphased, then the leader picked up the knife and held it right next to her throat. “Why don’t you run back home, its past you bed time, besides this is all too adult for you.”
“That just makes it more embarrassing when I kick your ass.” She responded with instantly, the knife near her neck seemed to not bother her, Dawn studied the knife carefully hoping the stupidity of this young girl wouldn’t cause the girl's neck to be pierced by it… Then Dawn noticed something she has seen many times before, even on her own sister, a scar... from a vampire bite.
“Your cute, You’re gonna kick *my* ass. That’s….classic.” He said then he took the knife and pulled it back and lunged at the girl aiming for her stomach.
The girl grabbed his wrist and cracked his arm over her knee causing him to drop the knife. His friends stood there in amazement for several moments then glanced at eachother and jumped into action.
One guy grabbed her from behind holding her across the stomach. She threw her head back, hitting the guy in the face with the back of her head, Dawn could swear she heard a crack, his nose had to be broken. He fell over and grabbed his face, moaning in pain. The second guy threw a punch at her face, she ducked underneath it and punched him hard in the ribs, Dawn heard another crack, *two for two* she thought. The second guy grabbed his ribs and fell to the ground… The leader of the group looked at the ground to his friends who were starting to attempt to get up. Then he looked back at the young girl. The girl must of seen the fear in his eyes and smiled.
“I don’t think you’ll be doing that again… will you?” her tone hinted that she was expecting one answer, she gave him a sideways glance much like the one he gave Dawn.
He shook his head, too afraid and dumbfounded to answer. She still stared at him and he answered, “nn-no, never, won’t.”
The leader inched over to his friend, still staring at the young girl. His Friend was still on the ground grasping his ribs and the leader helped his friend up and they ran as fast as they could. The girl watched them closely until they were out of sight. Then she turned to Dawn and walked over to her, Dawn hadn’t moved since the 'battle' started. She just watched in amazement.
“You alright?” The girl’s tone was a lot more friendly and sincere. She bend over offering Dawn her hand to help her up. Dawn stared at it, then slowly accepted the offer, Dawn was still unsure of this girl, *her strength isn’t natural, she has to be some kind of demon or a vampire, but why then... is she helping me.* she thought. Her attention moved back to her neck, the scar. But then the girl grabbed Dawn's bag and handed it to her. Dawn took the hint and they both picked up Dawn’s stuff that was all over the path. After everything was picked up the young girl looked at Dawn.
“Well you better get home, its getting dark and there’s gonna be worse things out then those three guys.” The girl said turning to walk away.
Then Dawn finally discovered something that wasn’t idiotic to say. “Hhow come you helped me?”
The girl stopped walking turned around, she stood there for a moment studying Dawn, thinking of what to say. Then she replied with, “It doesn’t matter why, just be happy that I did.” The way she said this made Dawn feel bad for her, Dawn couldn’t figure out why The girl just seemed to feel.. in a way hopeless.
Dawn couldn’t think of any better way to say it, “Who are you?”
The girl walked over to Dawn held out her hand and said “My name’s Paige.”
Then after Dawn introduced herself the girl smiled, turned around and with her eyes watching her feet walked away...
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