The Circle

The Circle

Summation; The night before the final battle the Potentials are all terrified. So Dawn organises them into an orgy to take their mind off things.
Please note; in all these stories Dawn and all the girls are 16 (17/18 if that's your local AOC).

"Can we talk about something else?"
Dawn looked around the room, filled to the brim with Slayer's in waiting, lounging around in their nightwear. She could sense the fear in the room, feel the tension, the sleeplessness. There was fear on each and every young face there. She felt so sorry for them.
She felt the fear too. She felt the fear each and every time Buffy hane one out on the hunt, the gnawing, aching dread that one night she might not come back. She knew their mother had felt it, probably felt it more acutely than she did. Buffy hid the fear behind her humour. Faith hid hers behind her '5 by 5' bravado. Neither could ever conceal it totally. To Dawn it seemed worse, however, so much worse because she actually had lost Buffy before, had looked upon her dead body and wept beside her grave. The idea that she might go through that agony again was just too cruel.
But she was used to it. She had lived with it for years, she couldn't remember a time without it, had known of Buffy and her secret world since the beginning, long before Joyce ever had. These poor girls, some of them had been in training with the Watcher's Council but most had been plucked from their normal lives a mere matter of weeks ago. Now they were expected to fight for their lives in a desperate conflict they had not sought and thought they had only the tiniest chance of winning.
But then they didn't know her big sis, they didn't know Buffy. Dawn knew they were certain of victory. She'd tried to show them that through her stories but it wasn't enough, you couldn't be told. They would have to see for themselves.
Tomorrow they would.
Until then she'd better distract them. Nearly everyone else in the house had someone, was with someone tonight, Willow and Kennedy, Buffy and Spike, Xander and Anya, even Faith had Principal Wood. All thesels hls had was each other. But then that would be more than enough.
"Ok, who wants to play a game I learned at Girl Scout camp?"
"Don't we need a campfire?" Rhona asked. Things had been a little tense between them since Dawn had snapped at her when they were chucking Buffy out of the house. Dawn still winced at the memory. But that was water under the bridge. What mattered was that she was back and they'd all made up, even Buffy and Faith. What mattered was the here and now. It was all they had. Besides, she'd forgiven Buffy for dragging her into the cellar to kill her that time, just as Buffy forgave her now.
"No, we just need to sit in circle"
"We're not going to sing ging-gang-gooley are we?" Violet inquired. She was kneeling behind Amanda, fixing her hair as they sat on top of the bunk bed Xander and Andrew had 'requisitioned' from the abandoned local furniture store.
Dawn smiled. "No, we're not. This is a different sort of game"
Dawn sat down on the floor and crossed her legs. She gestured for the others to join her.
Rhona, Amanda, Violet did, joined by Chao-Anh, as ever not really understanding what they were doing but faithfully copying. The others hovered around them, watching curiously.
"Ok, what now?" Amanda asked.
"Now you put your hand here" Dawn took Amanda's hand and pushed it up under the material of her blue cut off night top until her palm rested on Dawn's breast. Amanda's eyes went wide and she blushed but Dawn kept her hand clasped tightly to her chest.
"What the...?" Rhona spoke for all of them.
"And you put your hand here" Dawn took Violet's hand and slipped in under the elastic and deep within the material of her skimpy pink panties. Violet was too shocked to resist.
Chao-Anh said something in Chinese. None of the girls understood the word but all knew what her tone meant.
Dawn turned to Violet and Amanda in turn. "Do you trust me?"
"Uh, yeah, I suppose so" Amanda seemed far from sure.
Violet was still speechless. She just shrugged.
"Sttilltill" Dawn took her hand away from Amanda's and slipped it down the front of Amanda's plain blue silk short shorts, her finger's feeling with joy the soft brown curls of her pubic hair, stroking it gently. Amanda seemed to have lost all ability to speak, move or even form thoughts. Her other hand made its' way under Violet's night top and found her breastsoletolet bit her lip and trembled.
The other girls clustered around, the air breathless with anticipation, eagerly awaiting Dawn's next move. Dawn smiled. "Well, I've sure taken their mind off tomorrow" she thought triumphantly.
"Just do what I do" Dawn instructed. She began tracing her fingers up and down the lips of Amanda's cunny, teasing her, stroking her, very, very gradually forcing their way inside her, Amanda rapidly becoming wet as Dawn parted her labia with her fingertips.
"Oh God, oh God, Dawnie, Dawnie what's happening? Oh, oh, uhhhhh, aaauuuuhhhhh" Amanda moaned softly. She couldn't prevent herself slowly flexing her legs apart until they were obscenely wide and arching her back. Nor could she conceal the increasingly damp patch on the front of her panties that was slowly spreading as the other girls watched with interest.
Dawn began to murmur softly, so softly that the other girls had to strain to hear her. "And he took me there and then, took me in his arms and carried me. I felt helpless as he did so for he was so strong, so filled with muscles and I knew then I there I loved him, loved him totally with all my heart and that he loved me just as much..."
"Oh God, DAWNIE, w-what is this feeling? Uhhhh, ahhhh, UHH, UHHHHHHH!" she flung back her head as she groaned like a bitch in heat and started to grind her pelvis frantically against Dawn's relentless fingers, heedless of her audience who were avidly watching her with a mixture of lust and incredulity.
Dawn began to toy with Violets nipples, stroking them, rubbing them, pinching them lightly until they swelled into two hard jutting points that seemed to wish to erupt through the thin layer of silk material which covered them, straining to contain their engorged load.
"... he tore my clothes off and pinned me to the wall and I tried to struggle and I tried to fight but he brushed me aside because he was so strong and then he was inside me and thrusting and thrusting..."
Violet's breathing became slower and more laboured, her chest heaving and thighs slowly parting as though to admit entrance to something between them. "Oh Dawn" she gasped. "Oh, don't stop, don't stop!" she closed her eyes in ecstasy.
"Now you do me" Dawn ordered. Obligingly Violet'ngerngers began to explore Dawn's cunny whilst Amanda desperately groped her breasts. Amanda stretched over and reached down Chao Anh's pyjama bottom's and delved between her thighs. Violet unbuttoned an unresisting Rhona's top to reveal a suprisingly impressive pair of large breasts which her hand began to paw with enthusiasm. Chao Anh and Rhona looked at each other and then placed their hands upon one another along with Violet and Amanda , completing the masturbatory circle.
"...he looked me in the face with tears in his eyes and I put my hand up to his cheek and stroked it as he told me that he loved me, that I was his everything, that he could not live another moment of another day without me..."
Dawn opened her eyes and looked over the rest of the Slayer's in Training who were outside the ring of nubile flesh. Some just stared open-mouthed. Some shyly played with their nipples, rubbing them through the material of their nightwear. A few had their hands blatantly inside their pyjama's and nighties and were vigorously playing with themselves, not caring who knew it. The air was rent with the scent of sweet female sweat and frenzied moans of pleasure.
She stuck two fingers into the hot V of Amanda's cunny and began finger-fucking her, thrusting them in and out, deftly finding her clitoris and G-spot, stimulating them both with knowledge gained from much practice. She felt Amanda's muscles begin to spasm around her hand as she discovered something else.
Amanda's still intact hymen. She was still a virgin.
But then so was Dawn.
Technically.
"OH GOD! OH GOD! DAWN! OHHHHH! OOHHHHHH! AAAAUUUUURRGGGHHHHHH!" Amanda came first in a boneshakingly powerful climax, Dawn's more experienced fingers showing their skill. Dawn kept teasing her, making her come twice more until everyone else caught up.
Amanda collapsed, looking as if she had just run a marathon. The others laout,out, slouched around the room, gasping for air. Dawn brought her fingers up to her mouth and licked them clean of Amanda's es aes as the others watched, fascinated, several of them copying her example.
"So damn sweet" she declared.
Violet copied her actions. She furrowed her brow as she tried to find the words. "It tastes like...like..."
"Slightly bitter pineapple juice?" Dawn suggested.
Violet nodded.
Rhona stared at her. "Exactly what sort of fucking Girl Scout Troop did you have?" she demanded.
Dawn giggled. "A 'fucking' Girl Scout Troop is right. The leader was an old college friend of mom's, she taught us this game. Beautiful woman, she used to be a marine"
"Th-that, that was an orgasm, right?" Amanda inquired shyly, still struggling to form words after the fury of her climax.
"Sure felt like one to me" Violet observed.
"But you're still a virgin!" Rhona objected, holding up her hand to emphasise how she knew.
"Doesn't mean I've never had one before" Vi declared archly.
"Yeah, I suppose so, I've been with loads of guys and hardly ever had one" Rhona replied.
"So, you've gone all the way?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, a few times. Mostly nowadays I just give guys blowjobs"
"What's that like?" Violet queried.
"Nice enough, feels good to please them, powerful too, they're like a puppet on a string. Nice to have their hardness inside your body whichever way you take it, nice to feel their weight on you, their muscles. First time I came during sex I think the guy I was with was more pleased than I was"
Amanda pointed to Chao Anh. "She's no virgin either"
Chao Anh didn't understand the words but got the message, ducking her head shyly and bringing her legs back together.
"I just got mine from touching myself " Violet confessed. "First time I had one I didn't know what the hell was going on but they sure were fun. It was years before I even knew there was a word for them"
"I got my first one when Mom spanked me". Suddenly all attention in the room was on Dawn once more. "I broke a window with my volleyball and mom put me over her knee. It hurt a lot but suddenly I had this amazing feeling, I didn't know what it was but I knew I liked it"
"Being spanked made you come?" Violet asked.
"Hey I had a friend who told me she had her first one when she was horse-riding" Dawn felt slightly sad as she remembered Tara.
"Every little girl wants her pony" Violet observed.
"My parents used to spank me" Amanda agreed. "It kinda hurt but I kinda liked it"
"So what did you do when you realised?" Rhona asked Dawn.
Dawn smiled slyly "Broke another window" A titter of laughter spread through the room. "After a while I think Mom got a little suspicious about my all my naughty behaviour. That's when she suggested I join the Girl Scouts, Buffy was already a member" She turned to Amanda. "That reminds me, you lost"
"WHAT!?" Amanda was still recovering from her first climax.
"The girl who comes first loses, she has to do a forfeit" Dawn pronounced firmly.
"Wha...but...but I didn't even know the rules! And anyway, how do you know I came first?"
"Oh, you did!" Rhona declared.
"Oh yeah" Violet confirmed.
Amanda sighed resignedly. "Ok, what do I have to do?"
"Stand up and take your clothes off"
"What? You...you mean, naked?"
"Yes" Dawn said with emphasis.
"No, no I can't, I mean I won't"
"Strip" Dawn ordered. Amanda looked aghast. A subtle chanting began to grow around the room as the other girls began to chant.
"Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip..."
Amanda realised there was no escape. She stiffly made her way to her feet. She stood in the centre of the group and slowly worked off her cut off t-shirt, casting it gently to the floor. She shyly covered her breasts with her arms as she turned around and faced the wall before gently tugging down her blue night short shorts to her ankles and stepping out of them daintily. She turned around to face them, covering her body with her hands as she did so. Under their gaze she realised the futility of trying to conceal her nakedness and let her arms drop to her side. She stared at the floor, her face a mask of shame.
There was a long silence.
"My God" Dawn said at last, "You're so beautiful!"
"WHAT!?" Amanda couldn't believe her ears. She looked around the room at the other girls who staring at her in awe, drinking in her nakedness as if they had never before understood the allure and sexiness of another woman's body. Amanda had a true willowy beauty, long slender legs leading up to a pair of heart shaped hips, a soft mound of full pubic hair beneath which her labia lips were faintly visible, a tiny waist, small but nice breasts leading to a shapely neck and shoulders. The coy way in which she bowed her head only added to her attractiveness, her expression one of innocent uncertainty.
"You're gorgeous" Vi confirmed.
"Wake up and smell the hottie!" Rhona agreed.
Amanda stared at them, wondering whether or not they were playing a cruel joke as so many had done before but she saw they wtotatotally serious. She let a slight smile spread over her face. "You really think so?"
"I wish I had legs like that" Rhona observed wistfully.
"I wish I had breasts like yours" Amanda replied.
Rhona grinned and pushed her shoulders back a little to emphasise her ample cleavage even more. "Guess we all want what we don't have"
"No one's ever called me pretty before. Not even my dad" Amanda appeared a little sad.
"You're beautiful" Dawn said again, a murmur of agreement rippling through the room. Amanda smiled bashfully.
"I came last so I get the reward" Dawn explained. "Amanda, bend down on your knees before me" She obeyed with a little uncertainty. Dawn reached her hand around Amanda's head and wrapped her hair around her fist into a ponytail. She used it to draw Amanda's face to hers and kissed her. Amanda closed her eyes and melted into the kiss, moaning slightly and opening her mouth to allow Dawn's tongue access, tentatively tonguing her in return, gradually exploring her mouth with greater and greater enthusiasm.
"She tastes sooooo gooood" thought Dawn.
Violet turned to Rhona and looked her in the eyes. In a moment they were in each other's arms, kissing passionately.
Dawn broke away from the kiss causing Amanda to mewl a little in objection. Dawn smiled and kissed her on the cheek before gradually forcing Amanda's head down to her breasts. She knew they were nice, quite large although not in the same league as Rhona's. "Lick them" she instructed. "Lick them Amanda, lick them, kiss them, suck them, suckle on my titties!"
Amanda pulled Dawn's top off and obeyed with vigour, quickly having Dawn moaning softly with pleasure, her nipples swollen painfully hard. Dawn hugged her closely and stroked her hair as she did so, kissing her ears. She looked up to see Rhona nursing both Vi and Chao Anh's heads in her arms as their mouths enveloped her ample breasts, Rhona keening with pleasure as she did so. Around her she saw several of the other girls following their example and suckling on each other's cleavage, one particularly buxom blond copying Rhona by suggestively unlacing the front of her white lace babydoll nightie and suckling two girls at once. Virtually every girl was openly masturbating herself by now whether she had a partner or not and some were fingering each other again.
Once again she prised Amanda's head away and stifled her objections with a long searching kiss. She looked her in the eyes. "Kiss me all the way down".
Amanda obeyed. She was just so wonderfully submissive, Dawn thought. She had a moment of doubt as she wondered if that would hurt her as a Slayer but then maybe she just needed a dominant Watcher. Maybe Dawn could fill that role?
She rapidly forgot her objections as Amanda kissed her all the way down her body. Lips, chin, lovely featherlight kissing and gentle gnawing on her neck, soft pecks on her collarbone, lingering on her breasts, her flanks, teasing kisses down her tummy and then to the top of her sopping wet panties...
Amanda looked up at her questioningly. Dawn nodded. She raised her hips and allowed Amanda to strip off her panties to her ankles...
"Yes, oh, yes, go there, go there..." everyone looked at Rhona who blushed a little at her open wantoness. Vi and Chao Anh even looked away from Dawn and Amanda and up at her but didn't stop sucking on Rhona's breasts for an instant. Vi slipped her hand between Rhona's thighs and started stroking the outline of her labia lips through the now soaked material of her white cotton panties, causing her to sigh happily. All three girls turned back to staring at Amanda and Dawn, ravenously taking in Amanda's openly displayed cunny and arse as she knelt forwards, totally oblivious to her exposure as she concentrated on pleasuring Dawn. .
Amanda began to lick up Dawn's juices from her thighs, working her way up to her labia lips, lapping them up with gusto, probing Dawn's cunny with her tongue, causing Dawn to moan and throw her head back, clasping the back of Amanda's head with her hand. She clamped her thighs around Amanda's ears and rubbed her pelvis against her face urging her on and on.
"Uh...guys..." she gasped. "Come...ah, ah...here"
Violet. Chao Anh and Rhoan gathered around Amanda and Dawn, kneeling before them. Dawn could sense the anticipation amongst them as they wondered what was coming next. The other Slayer's in Training stopped their own activities and watched avidly.
"Spank her"
"MMMMPPPPPPPHHHH!" Amanda's objection was stifled in Dawn's flesh, Dawn keeping her head firmly down between her legs with pressure from her thighs and hand. She tried to push herself away with her hands on the floor but Dawn kept her securely pinned down.
"Don't stop licking or it will be the worse for you!"
Rhona and Chao Anh looked uncertain. Violet reached her hand out and stroked the shapely flesh of Amanda's buttocks. She started to slap Amanda lightly with her palm. Slowly Chao Anh and Rhona joined in, giving Amanda soft spanks on her arse cheeks.
"Harder!" Dawn ordered.
A look of frenzied lust appeared in Vi's eyes. She began to increase the rate and severity of her spanking until the sharp snapping sound of her hand on Amanda's flesh echoed around the room. Encouraged Rhona and Chao Anh copied her example, spanking Amanda harder and harder.
"Poor Amanda" Dawn thought remembering how many times she had lost this particular game when she had first played it.
Amanda whimpered and tried to cry out but she was smothered in Dawn's cunny, the vibration caused by her muffled protests only adding to Dawn's pleasure as it stimulated her clitty. Amanda reached around the back of Dawn and grabbed her buttocks in her hands, digging her nails deeply into her flesh, causing Dawn to squeal, partly in pain, partly in delight. She noticed Amanda was slowly beginning to melt into the experience, raising her hips up to meet each stinging blow, a look of lustful rapture spreading across her face. Dawn smiled at the sight and decided to take pity on her.
"Don't..uh...don't forget her" she told the others.
They understood, Vi and Rhona each grasping one of Amanda's nipples in their fingers and squeezing them HARD. Chao Anh's fingers found Amanda's clit and pinched it nastily, causing Amanda to shake uncontrollably and cry out as she orgasmed, utterly helpless in the other girls' grasp.
"Don't stop" Dawn chided and watched with delight as Amanda resignedly continued licking her to climax, tears running down her face.
When she was done Dawn let her up. She tried to get away, tried to struggle but Dawn held her firmly in her arms, pulling her whimpering onto her lap and hugging her close. Amanda stopped trying to get away and just surrendered herself to Dawn's embrace, burying her head in her shoulder, crying her eyes out. Dawn cooed to her, blowing softly in her ear, just as her mother had done when she was comforting her. She stroked Amanda's hair with one hand and gently massaged her stinging buttocks, marvelling at the heat they produced and their lovely red hue.
"Did we hurt you?" she asked, stroking Amanda's bright scarlet hips with her fingers causing a stifled yelp.
Amanda nodded her head, still unable to speak.
"We're sorry, but you deserved it, you're a bad girl, a bad slutty girl who stripped naked and licked out her friend's cunny. What would we be if we didn't punish you?"
Amanda started to object but Dawn nipped her stinging buttocks and quietened her. She raised Amanda's head in her hands and looked her in the eye. "What are you?"
"I...I'm a bad girl" Amanda repeated.
Dawn nodded. "And you deserved this didn't you?"
"Yes, yes, I was naughty. I deserved to be punished. You were right to spank me. I'm a bad, bad girl" Dawn felt an erotic thrill course through Amanda's body as she submitted to her will.
Dawn held her head in her hands and kissed her on the lips. "It's ok now, you were bad and we punished you, you don't need to feel guilty anymore. Do you know why we did this?"
Amanda shook her head.
"Because we love you"
Amanda looked uncertain but the rest of the girls in the room took up the cry.
"We love you Amanda"
"We love you"
"Yes, we love you Amanda, we really love you"
Amanda grinned feeling punished but well loved. Dawn hugged her again and let her fingers stray from the warm skin of Amanda's bright pink buttocks to another 'burning' place between her thighs. Amanda began to breath more heavily again as Dawn's fingers moved inside her dripping cunny and very, very gently masturbated her to orgasm. She and Dawn simply sat cuddling together, kissing and exploring each other's bodies for a long time as the other girls watched.
"I'm sorry if we hurt you" Dawn whispered softly in Amanda's ear, her breath producing the loveliest tingling sensations. "I love you"
"I know" Amanda replied. They closed their eyes and rested their heads on each other's shoulders, hugging tightly.
"Let's play again!" Violet urged.
They played again, three other girls joining the circle. Dawn made sure that this time Amanda came last.
Violet came first.
Without a word Violet rose to her feet and started to strip off her pink camisole top and drop her matching shorts to the floor before folding them neatly away. She had a sexy body, not as slender as Amanda nor as voluptuous as Rhona but a nice compromise of the two, not unlike Dawn's. She reached down to take off her white cotton night socks.
"Leave them on!" Rhona implored.
Violet raised an eyebrow at her. "Like my little girly socks do we?" she asked.
"Pull them up to your knees" Rhona responded. Violet reached down and stretched them up almost to her thighs. She looked at Rhona coyly, the other girls enjoying her exposing herself as she bent down.
Unbidden she knelt before Amanda and kissed her longingly, Dawn feeling a pang of jealousy within her. Strangely it lessened as Violet worked her way down to her breasts, that was somehow less personal. Vi lingered there for a few minutes until Amanda moaned then almost dived into Amanda's cunny and began to lap like a kitten presented with a plate of cream.
The others clustered around Vi and began the spanking, groping her all over as they did so. There almost seemed to be not enough of Vi to go around for all the hands that desired her. Her buttocks were soon a lovely shade of pink and her cunny dripping onto the carpet as she arched her back and threw her hips out in anticipation of each blow, her nipples painfully hard as they were teased mercilessly by lustful fingers. Vi seemed to be enjoying this so much Dawn wondered if she'd lost on purpose.
Dawn looked around again. The blond girl was now leaning back with one of her lovers undoing the bow that held her white lace panties together, licking and kissing what she found there. The others were following her example to a greater and lesser degree.
Dawn knelt behind Amanda and kissed her neck, nuzzling her ear and stroking her hair, her nipples pressing into Amanda's back as Violet licked her out. Amanda reached around behind her, stroking the back of Dawns thighs and back of her head. Dawn was surprised but delighted when Amanda leaned back and started whispering in her ear seductively.
"Let's make her BEG" she suggested wickedly. Dawn was taken back for a moment that Amanda would suggest this but was quickly taken in by the idea. Dawn went around the group sharing the idea with the others, whispering so softly to make sure Vi couldn't hear them.
They began kissing Violet, kissing her all over, her flanks, the nape of her neck, her spine, her shoulders, her elbows, nibbling on her buttocks, stroking her thighs, sharp fingernails titillating between her arse cheeks, nuzzling the back of her thighs, her kneepits, her feet, the sensitive flesh between her arse and cunny. Amanda came and then turned Vi over to expose more and more of her, Amanda and Dawn joining in. Every part of Violet was stimulated, every inch of her body overwhelmed with pleasure. Time and time again Violet was on the verge of orgasm and time and time again she was brought to the brink before her sweet tormentors brought her back again. She bucked and thrashed wildly under their piquant teasing, screaming with all her might. "Oh God! OH GOD! PLEASE, MAKE ME COME, MAKE ME COME! UHHHH, UUUUUAAAAHHHHH!"
Dawn and Amanda grabbed her wrists and held them firmly, Dawn tying her hands together with her panties and pinning them to the floor. Violet seemed on the edge of hysteria but those probing fingers and tongues just would not stop...
"OH GOD! OH GOD! PLEASE...PLEASE...!"
They finally took pity on her and let Violet come. She actually passed out for a few moments but when she came around the girls were clustered around her their faces filled with concern, hugging her with relief.
Willing hands helped Violet into her sleeping bag, Rhona slipping in beside her. Violet couldn't get enough of Rhona's large, jutting, chestnut brown nipples, licking and suckinem, em, groping her gloriously large breasts.
Dawn took Amanda by the hand and led her to the bed, slipping in beside her. She looked at Chao Anh who was alone, looking at the others with interest.
"You can join us if you want?" she offered ha lia little reluctantly.
Chao Anh shook her head and smiled. "I think she likes to watch" Rhona ventured.
Dawn and Amanda wrapped their arms around each other and cuddled up, enjoying the warmth, scent and softness of each other's body. Dawn nestled her face in Amanda's sweetly scented hair and drifted off to sleep, the other girls joining them, the morning now holding no fear for them.

*

Buffy shifted a little in her sleep, nestling on Dawn's shoulder. Dawn looked around her at the various Scoobies, half sitting, half lying around the hospital waiting room. She felt as drained as any of them. Willow sat opposite her, Xander and Kennedy slumped against her on each side. Giles, Chao Anh, Andrew and the various others were scattered around the seats. Violet was actually lying on some cushions beneath the bench. Two doctors were discussing with wonder how fast Rhona was healing, even though she was still on the critical list. Dawn smi ima imagining what they would think of the wound on Buffy's side which had already disappeared. Slayer healing was wonderful stuff but Buffy was still as exhausted as the rest. Only Faith was still on her feet, pacing anxiously outside the room where Principal Wood was being treated. It looked like he would pull through but she was still anxious.
Dawn shifted again, craning her neck so she could see the TV mounted in the corner, the news still filled with images of the collapse of Sunnydale. She hoped they'd show the clip of the military rescue team again, certain that it was Riley's friend Graham she had spotted before. It was world news, even reaching her father in Spain. Part of her looked forward immensely to seeing him again, part of her wondered what they would say to each other. Well, he cared enough to fly over and see they were ok, that was a start. They would take things from there.
There was somng ing in her back pocket. Something uncomfortable. She reached around slowly, taking pains not to wake Buffy up. It was a letter. It wasn't hers, someone must have placed it there without her realising it. She opened it up.

My dear Dawn,
If you're reading this then we won but I am dead. Wow! Never thought I'd write that. Or maybe I'm still alive and wasn't able to get this back from you in time. If I am alive, don't read on, come and give it back to me and I'll tell you to to face.
Still reading? Then I am dead. Well, I'm glad we won. I found the world a cruel place sometimes but I found it beautiful in places too. And of all those beautiful things I found you were the most lovely.
Hey I always knew I was, well, different. Always felt the freak, the outsider, that I could be alone in a crowded room. When I became a Potential Slayer it was wonderful for me because I was finally with other freaks, other girls who were different, I had a sisterhood after all. But then I realised it wasn't just that.
I love you. It took me so long to admit it to myself, to come to terms with what I was, to be ok with it, to be ok with myself. Now if you're reading this it means we can never be together, even if you wanted me ell,ell, at least not in this world. But I thought it was important you knew how I feel about you, how I felt about you.
I love you.
The time we spent together last night, when I was sleepless with fear and you held me in your arms to comfort me, it was the most special time of my life, it meant more to me than anything. I don't know what it meant to you but I never felt so wanted, so cherished than I did at that moment. I felt as though I finally belonged, I felt as though I was born and wished to die in your grasp (hey, maybe I did?)
What am I trying to say? I don't know. I'm just trying to put down in words what I can never now say to you in person, twe cwe can never have the life together that I imagined for us. But those precioomenoments we spent together, they were enough for me, they will last me for eternity if that's what's called for.
So live your life my sweet Dawnie, marry and have kids and laugh and play and do all those things I will never now do. And don't feel sorry for me, don't cry for me, for knowing that you live your life through my sacrifice makes me happier than you could ever imagine.
Tell my parents I did my best, as I know they did for me, no matter how much we fought. Tell my brothers I love them and to remember their sister when they're naming their kids. If what Buffy says is true then I'm enjoying my big dessert at the end of the meal (hopefully they won't take into account me cheating on my maths test but I figure fighting the ultimate evil will counter that). If I see your mom I'll say hello for you (providing we go to the same place, I'm a Lutheran) and tell her how much you miss her. And I'll say hello to Chloe and Molly and Dianne and everyone for you.
And who knows? Maybe one day we'll all see each other again, when you're an old lady and decide to give up on life support. And then we can tell each other how we truly feel. Somehow I think it's all going to be ok.
And until then know that us being together was the most miraculous thing that ever happened to me. And that you alone were my one earthly love.
Yours always
Amanda

Dawn read it again. Then she called to Faith softly.
"Faith, can I borrow your lighter?"
Faith plumped herself down beside her. "I'm not normally one for the rules, Dawnie but this place is full of oxygen, you really can't smoke"
Dawn showed her the letter. She was half way through it before she started crying. She was sobbing by the end.
"Oh God, Dawnie, they're dead, they're all dead, so many of the girls, they're all gone. Amanda's gone, dear sweet Amanda, she was so shy..."
Dawn never thought she would see Faith cry. She took her head and rested it on her shoulder, nuzzling her face to hers. "If things had worked out differently I could have been her sister" she mused.
"They're not all dead, Faith, we saved some, we saved enough" she held out her hand and Faith wordlessly placed her lighter in it.
Dawn took Amanda's letter and kissed it hard, making sure she left plenty of lipstick on it. She set it alight and watched it burn, turning to an incredulous Faith.
"It was the only way I could think of to get it to her" she explained simply.
Faith closed her eyes and dosed off. Dawn stayed awake a little longer, Buffy and Faith lying against her on either side, a Slayer resting on each shoulder. Then she too closed her eyes.
As the sleep came her nostrils were filled with the scent of ashes mixed with the sweet aroma of her kiss.