Dawn sat in a bathroom stall, scrub brush tossed aside and forgotten on the floor, her journal on her lap.

Dear Journal,

So I spent almost the entire day in the library searching for the demon we were fighting. And when I finally find what I need I find out that everyone else already knows! Then, when I give them a beter plan than what they had, I get left home while the trio or senior layers go out to fight the demon. So I sneak out to help them, and after killing the demon and protecting Faith from the weird sucky thing the demon did what do I get? Grounded for the weekend AND I have to clean one of the bathrooms in Slayer HQ, do you know how bad that job is? I mean sure, girls are naturally cleaner than guys, but cleaning up after a couple hundred of them? My life sucks.

I'm getting kinda worried about Willow though, she did that spell just fine, but Giles told me that she's having trouble doing even simple things now. He says it's because when she unlocked the power of the scythe she tapped into a power so strong it stretched her control and made it a bit weaker. Plus I saw Will after the spell and she looked really worn out, I asked her how the spell went ans she mumbled something about her 'hair not deciding what color it wants to be', which I'm guessing means her hair kinda did the funky thing it does when she does major spells. Only I guess since it sometimes turns white and sometimes turns black it gets confusing for her.

Anyway, when I got back everyone wanted the details of how the demon died. But I was soo not wanting to go into that! It was gross how he died, like, his skin was melting... yuck! He said he'd come back too, even though Buffy said that that's what all bad guys say when they're dying. Which is kinda true. Plus Beast le Rojo only eats firstborns... But I'm still sleeping with a paintball gun by my bed.

Whoops, I hear someone coming and I'm supposed to be cleaning! 'Till next time journal!

Dawn Summers

The teenager quickly closed the book and picked up the scrub brush, pretending to scrub the top of the toilet as someone came in.

"Dawn?"

"Yeah?" Dawn poked her head out of the stall she was in, spying Buffy by the doorway and coming all the way out of the stall. "What's up?"

"I just wanted to let you know, although sneaking out was stupid and you could have been killed, I'm proud that you protected Faith." the blonde seemed to swell with pride as she said these words, grinning at the teenager before her.

"How is she? I never got to check..."

"Oh, Faith's fine, her pride's hurt a bit that my kid--" here Dawn interjected with an indignant, "Teenaged!" and Buffy quickly amended the slip, "My teenaged sister covered her ass and beat the bad guy before she did!" the sisters grinned wickedly for a time at this, both lost in thier own little worlds before Buffy crossed the room and swept Dawn into a bear hug.

"Next time I catch you sneaking out to fight evil again though, You're gonna be grounded for a lot longer than the weekend" the blonde said happily as Dawn groaned loudly.

"Come-on!"

END