Who: The Summers Sisters When: This afternoon Where: Buffy's cell Rating: Who even knows? Status: In progress
Dawn hadn't been quiet about how she'd initially felt about having her sister in the prison. Buffy was a killer; she'd killed Dominique, one of the Slayers, she had injured several people just a few months before, and she had terrorized others in the time since she'd been made a vampire...by Angelus. Despite all that, after she'd gotten over the initial pain and anger, Dawn had slowly begun to realize that it might be good to have the ensouled former Slayer there. If she really did have her soul, she'd do everything in her power to stop Glory and save the world (again).
Plus, she was still her sister, as much as Dawn had wanted to deny that. Even having died and risen as a vampire....Buffy was still her sister.
It had taken her a long time to come to terms with that. So long, in fact, that she almost thought it might be too late to try and talk to her. A huge part of Dawn was scared to death that Buffy was going to help with Glory, and then go kill herself, since the younger Summers was fully aware that her sister wouldn't want to live as a vampire...and she wasn't sure how to stop that from happening, unless, just maybe, she could get Buffy to become too attached to her to do that. Just maybe, she could be enough, for once, to make Buffy want to live.
Standing just out of sight of Buffy's cell, she took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. She figured that her sister could probably hear her, even smell her, already, so she couldn't walk away now. That would be cowardly. After gathering her strength, she forced herself to close the remaining distance and stand in the entrance to Buffy's cell, bright blue eyes studying the blonde. Dawn's own hair was dark now, nearly black thanks to the dye from Connor, but she'd left it down instead of pulling it back into a ponytail as she so often did. She opened her lips to say something, but all the words in her mind fell flat, and instead she just stared at her sister.