Kragdon

PART 13: Little Sister

No one moved or said a word, holding their bated breathe as they watched Dawn launch herself at Faith's prone body on the floor. All for different reasons did they stare at Faith and Dawn as they almost fell to the floor because of the young brunette embracing the older one.

"Not your fault." Dawn whispered as soon as she felt the other girl hesitantly embrace the other girl back. No one spoke for the longest time as they watched some in awe others in apprehension as they saw the tears that ran down the hardened brunette's cheeks. If a stranger perhaps had walk in on the scene that was the training room they would have been touched to the point of tears as the scene unfolded. For what that stranger would have saw would be two brunettes who bore a striking resemblance to each other hugging as if their life depended on it, surrounded by four females and two males, three of them looking dumb founded, one with tears in her eye, the older gentleman looking cautious and a female who looked indifferent, all being illuminated in an orange hue of light coming in from the windows.

Faith couldn't believe it. After years of searching and enduring trials of pain, heartache, and control she had found her Dawnie. She felt a warmth inside her spread throughout her whole being as the knowledge of what that meant sunk in. The priests had explained it to her in the beginning but her moment of clarity didn't come until that moment as she raised her head and stared in to the eyes of those she had brought with her arrived. Their gasp of surprise and joy breaking the trance that everyone had been in. Bringing Buffy and the rest of the gang back to the reality of what they were witnessing.

"Dawnie?" both Buffy and Tara said at the same time, looking at each other first then back to the two brunettes that were still hugging.

Dawn extricating herself from Faith turned to stare at her sister and the rest of the gang who had now moved further into the room. She was wiping the tears that had started to fall from her eyes when she started to hug Faith, and memories of another life had assaulted her mind, ones of castles, wars and a love for a sister/mother feeling that she got when she first saw Faith. She remembered, everything. Just as she was about to respond to her sister's unspoken question she was all of a sudden tackled and in a wash of breathtaking hugs by two tanks better known as Sar'ah and Selena. Both who were crying like their queen had been earlier as the relief filled them over the fact that they had found their lost cubbling.

Before they knew what was happening the lovers were being thrown off of Dawn by the slayer. Hitting the ground and getting the air knocked out of them the clothes that they had been carrying and that had still been in Selena's hands flew and landed about a foot away.

"BUFFY! Why did you do that for?" Dawn shouted at her sister reprimanding her at throwing Sar'ah and Selena. She started to move towards them to help them up only to be stopped by Buffy's hand.

"Dawn, they're demons, they were going to hurt you." Buffy told her sister slowly as if she were talking to a five year old who couldn't possibly understand. Just as Dawn was about to protest she was cut off from an outburst by willow.

"Will someone please tell me what is going on and why the frilly heck Faith the psycho slayer is here. And who the heck are they." Willow yelled pointing at the two new strangers, which was followed with nods and concurrences from the rest of the gang except for Buffy, Tara and Dawn, two of which knew or had guessed at the answers.