Who: Dawn Summers & Willow Rosenberg Where: Rec Room When: Monday night What: Awkwardness? Rating: Probably low. Possibly angsty Status: In Progress
She was fine. That was all she kept telling anyone, because really - what did it matter? No one cared if she was grieving still for her sister. Others had lost people, too. Most of the people there were just like Dawn; no family, no real home anymore, except for where they were. One death meant little when people died all the time; when the dead walked the earth.
So. Dawn was fine. She kept repeating that in her head, over and over again, until even she started to believe it. She'd even begun to fake emotions again; she pretended to be a 'real' girl, though it wasn't working all that great. She'd pushed away more than one person who'd tried to be her friend in recent months to the point where she didn't really have many left. Even Connor, who she thought maybe she'd started to have actual feelings for...she'd barely seen or talked to him since the weird love spell stuff. Things between them seemed strained at best, and she started to wonder if she'd imagined all the things that she'd seen in his eyes in the months before Glory grabbing them. Or maybe her capacity for love - for caring - was just gone now, with her sister. It was too much effort to love someone, only to lose them.
When Willow had proposed a movie night, Dawn hadn't argued. It was part of her determination to prove that she was fine now. Unaffected by the outside world. Absently sipping from a bottle of water as she headed for the rec room where the TV was, she inwardly calmed herself for the upcoming meeting. Willow had been absent almost as soon as Buffy had died, and even when she came back, they had barely spoken. But if the witch wanted to pretend everything was fine too, well, that's what Dawn would do. Pushing open the door to the rec room a few minutes later, she stepped inside while putting the cap back on, then glanced around for the redhead, half hoping Willow wouldn't show up and she wouldn't have to deal with any of this tonight.