| TITLE: A little less numb -- 5/? (S/D, W/T, X/A, S/B) AUTHOR: Bree EMAIL: [email protected] RATING: PG-13 SPOILERS: BtVS Season 5 post "The Gift" CLASSIFICATION: Spike/Dawn = friendship SUMMARY: Earlier in the day, Dawn was pissed because Spike and Willow decided she can't date until she's 16. It's her birthday, and Dawn's not having a good day. The following is written later the same day. DISCLAIMER: I wish, I wish, I . oh forget it. DISTRIBUTION: Athenaeum, Original Sins, Lil' Nibblin, RRS&S, Dawn & Spike, Fire & Ice and any other lists I'm on that are archiving this story. Anyone else, please ask first. FEEDBACK: If you want to live through the night. *wicked smirk* The choice is yours. DEDICATION: To Sally for her constant encouragement, even though she's not really a D/S 'shipper. Thanks, sweetie baby! NOTE: I decided to go ahead and get this part out as a follow-up to #4. It's short and sweet, but I'm happy with it. *g* ~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~ Entry - August 5, 2001 (later that evening) I. Love. Him. I. REALLY. Love. Him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. Oh my God! I cannot believe he did it! Spike is totally the coolest. He bought me N'Sync tickets! I'm going to see N'Sync! Finally, someone listened to me for once. Ahh, I can't wait. The concert isn't for another month, but who cares? I'm going to see N'Sync! I don't get to take Lisa with me, though. The only catch is that Spike has to go with me. I guess he thinks it might be too big a risk letting me into a crowd of thousands of people since there are still some "things" out there looking for the Key. Or so his sources say. But anyway, I cannot believe Spike did something so cool. Okay, so maybe I was a little too harsh earlier. So maybe I don't *hate* him for not letting me go out with Matt, but I'm still angry. And no, the tickets don't make up for it, they just help a little bit. I can just see Spike having to sit through an entire concert of N'Suck, as he calls them. He deserves it, though, for being so mean to me! I guess I should do something nice for him in return. He did go out of his way to make sure I had a nice birthday, which I did. Giles got me a silver cross necklace, which looks an awful lot like the one Angel gave to Buffy. I got some cool clothes from Willow and Tara, and they also said that if Giles and Spike agreed, that they would teach me some basic spells. But I had to promise that I will only use them in an emergency. I guess the spells are pretty much just for protection anyway in case something should happen before anyone could help me, but even so -- spells! Yeah! Xander and Anya gave me a stake of my very own, and they also bought me a bunch of stock in some big company. Anya said it had something to do with my portfolio and a 405 something or the other. Xander pulled me aside and asked again if I would like to move in with them. He's still scared that Spike's chip is going to stop working and that he'll go all vampy on me some night while I'm sleeping. I assured Xander that since Willow and Tara are living with us now that I'm fine. I guess he wanted to renovate their apartment to make a room for me and everything, and as much as I appreciate the thought, I've gotten used to my new life. I still miss my mom and Buffy more than anything, but this is my life now, good or bad (aka Spike), and I know that what they'd want for me is to be happy, and that's what I am. Especially since I get to see Spike suffer through an entire N'Sync concert! Oh yeah, did I mention we've got front row tickets? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *to be continued* |