Buffy's Blackmailing Little Sister Ch. 01

They reach the elevator and Dawn presses the call button. The elevator soon arrives and the doors open.

"Age before beauty." Dawn says gesturing for Buffy to enter the lift first.

Buffy looks at Dawn as she walks past her, unable to believe how relaxed her sister is.

Once they are both on the elevator Dawn presses the ground floor button and the doors close and open again when they reach their destination and once again Dawn gestures for Buffy to get off first this time not saying anything.

After getting off the elevator they head over and enter the hotel restaurant.

As soon as they are inside Buffy immediately starts looking around making sure none of her friends or Riley or any of his family are there after having done a full sweep of the restaurant Buffy turns her head and looks at Dawn.

"Happy?" Dawn asks having watched Buffy do a full sweep of the restaurant with her eyes.

Buffy slowly nods her head.

Dawn nods back and with that she leads the way over to a man wearing a black suit and with a black leather book in his hand.

"Good evening ladies how may I help you?" He says and asks as they approach.

"Reservation for Summers." Dawn tells him.

"One moment please madam." The man in the suit says opening the book and looking down a list of names.

"Ah yes. We have a reservation under that name. Table for two yes?"

The man asks looking between Buffy and Dawn.

"Yes." Dawn says.

"Please follow me." He then says and with that he leads both Buffy and Dawn over to a table at the centre of the restaurant which is exacterly what Dawn asked for.

The man in the suit holds out Dawn's chair for her first which she sits down on and then does the same for Buffy.

"A waiter shall be along in a moment to take your orders." The man in the suit tells them.

"Thank you." Dawn says smiling at him.

"Enjoy your evening ladies." The man in the suit says with a smile and with that he leaves Buffy and Dawn alone at the two seater table.

Once the man has left the table Dawn turns to look at Buffy who turns and looks back at her across the table. Dawn smiles warmly at her sister, who looks away and then does another sweep of the place, double checking nobody is watching them and none of their group is there. Buffy then triple checks as Dawn sighs and picks up one of the menus that were waiting on the table.

After a few moments of silence a waiter approaches them and asks, "Are you ready to order?"

Buffy doesn't feel that hungry but she finally reaches for her menu, until Dawn stops her.

"No need, I'll be ordering for the both of us tonight." Dawn says.

Buffy thinks about asking why but instead says nothing as Dawn turns to the waiter and smiles.

"I think we'll have a bottle of your finest and most expensive white wine and your finest and most expensive thing on the main menu." Dawn says.

"No problem." The waiter says and with that he takes the two menus from Dawn and leaves the table.

Buffy looks at her sister in shock at what she has just said.

"Will you be able to afford that?" Buffy asks the shock evident from the tone of her voice as well as the look on her face.

Dawn looks up from the menu and over at Buffy and smiles.

"Considering the fact I am not paying for tonight I think it is safe to say I will." Dawn says.

Buffy's shock turns to confusion.

"If your not paying then who is?" Buffy asks.

Dawn's smile disappears.

"Your soon to be future husband." Dawn says, not wanting to mention the man in question's name unless absolutely necessary.

"Dawn we can't put this on his tab." Buffy says immediately realising what her sister is getting at.

"Why not? Your going to be his wife in a couple of days." Dawn says, hoping she can stop what she has just said from happening, "He wouldn't begrudge you spending some money on yourself and your sister having a friendly dinner together before the big day would he?"

Buffy glares at Dawn but she knows there's not much she can do.

"Just this once." Buffy says looking over at her sister with a serious look on her face, although she knows she's in no position to stop Dawn from doing whatever she wants.

"You have my word after tonight I will be paying for everything." Dawn says with a smile.

Silence than falls between the two sisters for a few moments until the waiter returns with a bottle of white wine in one hand and two wine glasses in the other. He places the glasses down onto the table opens the bottle and pours equally into the two glasses and leaves the bottle on the table in between the two now equally filled wine glasses.

Once he is gone both Buffy and Dawn pick up their wine glasses.

Buffy goes to drink her's immediately.

"Ah ah Buffy." Dawn says stopping her and causing her to look over at her, "We have to propose a toast first."

Buffy reluctantly agrees.

"What shall we drink to?" Buffy asks.

"To the week ahead." Dawn offers raising her glass in the air.

Buffy glares at her sister but slowly does the same, clinking her glass with her sister's before the two of them take a sip of their wine.

The two sisters sit where they are in silence for a while, sipping their glasses of wine, neither of them sure what to say to the other or what to talk about.

"So." Dawn says once she has taken another sip of her wine, "What shall we talk about while we are waiting for our meals?"

Buffy thinks for a moment due to her having loads of questions she wants to ask her younger sister however there is one question that she wants to ask more than any other she just isn't sure weather here and now is the right time. Still, the place is virtually deserted and if she doesn't start asking questions soon she might not be able to get out of this. So, after thinking long and hard about it Buffy decides to start at the beginning.

"Dawn... I wouldn't have any problem with it if you are... I mean my best friend is one and... I've dabbled in it, as you know... I'm just curious whether or not you're... whether you're... whether you're a full one... or half a one... or just curious... because you can tell me if you are... I just need to know... are you... are you a... you know." Buffy says, not wanting to say the word or words in public.

"No what?" Dawn asks acting like she doesn't know what her sister's asking.

"Dawn you know what I'm talking about." Buffy says looking at her sister seriously.

"No, why don't you tell me." Dawn says playfully.

Buffy frowns and then sighs.

"You've... you've never had a boyfriend.. at least I can't remember ever seeing you with one..." Buffy begins.

"So? Maybe I'm dating a vampire. Wouldn't be a first for a Summers girl." Dawn suggests with an ear to ear grin.

Buffy glares at her.

"Ok." Dawn says, pretending to get serious, "So you've never seen me with a guy... so that means you are going to ask... if I'm still a virgin?"

"No... are you?" Buffy asks.

Dawn wants to laugh however she manages to suppress the desire as she simply looks at her sister.

"Surely your not that naive." Dawn says.

Buffy just looks at her.

"For your information I've had plenty of sex, both with men and women, but mostly women. Actually almost all women except one guy, but he was kind of a turn off." Dawn says, completely at ease with what she's saying.

Buffy just looks at Dawn unable to believe what her sister has just told her.

"So you're... so you're a... you're... you know..." Buffy can't bring herself to say it.

"Gay? A lesbian? Yes, yes I am." Dawn says, finally admitting it to her sister.

Really Dawn came out the night before to Buffy but saying those exact words still made Dawn feel like a weight has been lifted off her shoulders as she reveals her sexuality to the last person in the world she cares about who didn't know... the one person in the world she cares most about.

"Are... are you sure?" Buffy asks.

The question is beyond silly given what Dawn has just revealed but Buffy is in such a state of shock she can't help it.

This reaction is far from unexpected but it disappoints Dawn nonetheless, so much so it actually shows on her face a few seconds before her disappointment is replaced by anger.

"Believe me, I'm sure." Dawn says, avoiding the urge to go on a long and detailed monologue about just how much she loves women as from the looks of her sister she is unsure whether she would be able to handle it.

For a few moments the sisters sit in silence, Dawn patiently waiting for Buffy to digest the information she has just given her. There is no way it should be a surprise, but the only thing Dawn can guess is that Buffy has been so preoccupied with her little blackmailing scheme it hadn't even properly sunk in until now that Dawn herself had 100% confirmed that the slayers innocent little sister is in fact gay.

"Can I ask you a question now?" Dawn asks looking at Buffy a tad worried as to how her sister feels about her confession.

Dawn has told all of her's and Buffy's friends but she has never told Buffy. Their friends always asked her when was she going to tell Buffy and Dawn always told them she was just nervous of telling her but the truth behind why Dawn didn't tell her older sister was and is a very different story.

"Sure." Buffy says, still in a state of shock.

Buffy certainly isn't homophobic considering her best friend is a lesbian and taking into consideration her own past she can't really have a go at Dawn for trying it but still hearing your own sister say the actual words or basically confirm that she is one is still a lot to take in.

Dawn slowly turns her attention from Buffy down to the wine bottle as she thinks about what she can ask her older sister as she does she notices out of the corner of her eye Buffy's left hand laying flat on the table and the finger next to her little pinky which is where she had been wearing her engagement ring the night before is now naked. In other words she is no longer wearing her engagement ring.

"What happened to your engagement ring?" Dawn asks curiously.

Buffy looks down at where her engagement ring normally rests and closes her eyes and swallows hard having hoped Dawn wouldn't notice that she had taken it off.

"I don't know." Buffy says looking at Dawn hoping she buys her answer.

"Did you loose it?" Dawn asks able to tell from the look on her sister's face that she is lying.

"No." Buffy says quickly proving that she was lying, "I just... didn't want to wear it tonight."

"Why?" Dawn asks even more curious now.

Buffy rolls her eyes.

"Because I don't want to wear something that reminds me of Riley while I'm doing... this." Buffy says doing her best to try and control her anger.

"Ok, after tonight though I want you to wear your engagement ring for the rest of the week." Dawn says with a smirk.

Buffy looks at Dawn in disbelief.

"Why?" Buffy asks with a frown, not understanding why Dawn would make her do that.

Dawn's smirk turns into a smile.

"Because for the next week you have to do what I say and that is something that I want you to do." Dawn says plainly and matter of factly even though that isn't the real reason.

The real reason she wants her sister to wear her engagement ring is because she wants Buffy to look at it and think about Riley and the boring mediocre life she is trying to convince herself that she is willing to settle for and how that dull loveless life can't compare to what she can offer her.

Buffy hangs her head knowing that she has no choice but to accept what Dawn wants and that she has to do what her younger sister tells her to do.

"Ok." Buffy says lifting her head and forcing herself to look at Dawn.

Dawn smiles as she picks up her glass of wine.

"Your turn to ask me something now." Dawn says as she takes a sip from it.

For a few moments Buffy tries to think but there is one question which is echoing in her head which just might save her which she needs to ask before it's too late and now seems as good a time as any, so taking a deep breath Buffy summons up the courage she needs to ask the question.

"Last night after you told me about the time you caught me and Faith together." Buffy says keeping her voice as quiet and as low as she can so that only Dawn can hear her, "You said that you felt a certain way about me... that you thought I felt about you. And that ever since that night you haven't been able to stop thinking about me."

"Yeah, and?" Dawn asks not understanding what Buffy is asking or getting at.

"Well I've been thinking and I think I might know why you think you feel that way." Buffy says.

"Oh really?" Dawn says smiling a small smirk interested to hear Buffy's theory on why she loves her the way that she does.

"Yeah." Buffy says, not liking the smirk on her younger sister's face due to this being a serious matter.

"Ok then, tell me, why do you think I feel the way I do about you?" Dawn asks her.

Buffy ignores the cocky bordering on arrogant tone in her younger siblings tone of voice.

"Well." Buffy says swallowing hard due to her not wanting them to go over old ground which they have both or had both dealt with years ago, "You know the spell that was used to create you?"

Dawn's smirk quickly disappears at the mention of her true origins.

"Yeah." Dawn says.

"Well... maybe this... maybe these thoughts and feelings are a result of the spell to create you... having gone wrong." Buffy suggests. "Or perhaps someone's put a spell on you to make you think you want me the way that you claim. I mean, you can't really feel that way, someone or something has to be doing something to you, or maybe... or maybe there's a problem with the monk's original spell..."

As Buffy trails of Dawn looks at her older sister, wanting to smile and yet managing to keep a straight face.

"Well, those are interesting and plausible theories." Dawn says taking a sip of her wine, deciding that she is going to have to tell her older sister how she came to find out weather what she now feels for her older sibling was real or not, "However I know for a fact that neither of those theories are the right ones."

Buffy looks at her sister in shock at her statement.

"And how do you know that?" Buffy asks.

Dawn takes another sip of her wine about to start explaining how she knows that what she feels for Buffy is real when she spots the waiter heading towards them with a tray in either hand.

"I'll tell you once he's left." Dawn says keeping her focus on the waiter while talking to her sister.

Buffy's head snaps around to see who the 'he' is that she is referring to and is relived to see that it is just the waiter due to her having feared it might be either Riley or Xander.

The waiter reaches their table and puts the two trays down and then moves the plates of food off of the trays and puts them down in front of Buffy and Dawn before he heads off, leaving Buffy and Dawn alone again with their meals.

"Bon appetite." Dawn says smiling a small smile at her sister before tucking in to her meal.

Buffy just sits there, watching Dawn eat.

"Come on Buffy, eat something. You'll need the energy." Dawn says smiling, before adding after Buffy glares at her, "Eat a little and I'll tell you what you want to know..."

Buffy glares again, but does as she's told, eventually earning herself the story.

"After the night I caught you and Faith together." Dawn says starting to tell Buffy the story of how she came to find out that her feelings for her sister where and are real as they eat, "And you said what you did..."

"Faith made me say that." Buffy snaps keeping her voice down but making sure Dawn knows that she didn't want to say what she did.

Dawn keeps her focus on her food hating the fact that her sister refuses to accept the truth and yet every time she denies it it simply makes her more determined to make her accept it.

"After the night I caught you and Faith together... and she made you say what you did." Dawn says altering the end to please her sister, "After that night I started to think about you in a new way... and like I said last night I couldn't stop thinking about you in that new way... however while I was thinking about you in this way I was very conflicted about what I was now starting to feel for you... even after you and me had talked about whether what I felt and thought was real I still had doubts. I do admit that I did wonder if maybe I had been created wrong when those monks turned me from my original form into... this. I felt I needed to learn more about myself and I thought about who could help me."

Dawn takes a moment before she continues.

"I was tempted to ask Willow for her help what with her getting better at using magic and me being... magical." Dawn says with a small smirk, "I even knew what I would say if she asked why I wanted to know I was going to tell her I simply wanted to know about my past because I was curious however I was worried that even if I told her not to tell you she might still tell you I then thought about asking Giles but I was again worried that he would also tell you even if I asked him not too. Which led me to somebody I knew I could trust not to tell you if I asked them not too partly because there was a good chance you wouldn't believe him even if he had."

"Spike." Buffy interrupts.

Dawn nods her head.

"And he helped you?" Buffy asks, anger clear in her voice.

"Yes, he did." Dawn admits, hoping this admission won't lead to Buffy unnecessarily hurting her friend.

Dawn is grateful to Spike for all of his help over the years, not just helping her but helping her sister and the gang. She had always had a little soft spot for him, starting from the little crush she had on him and then that crush developing into an odd friendship as he continuously came through for her. Dawn is certain he has developed a soft spot for her, not one in the sense that he is attracted to her but simply due to her always having been nice to him. Despite this though Dawn knows she can't completely trust Spike and is a little worried what could happen if he ever manages to get the chip out of his head or if it ever stops working.

"He managed to find another Monk that belonged to the Order Of Dagon. When he had gotten the monk he called me and told me to meet him at his crypt which I did and sure enough the monk was there and so after I had managed to convince Spike to leave us alone for a while I asked the monk to tell me everything he knew about me and my creation nothing he told me explained why I was feeling the way I was and so I told him my dilemma... or at least an edited version of it in which I told him I wanted to know if the feelings I was having for another girl were real or not." Dawn says taking another sip of her wine, having reached the end of her glass and so she stands up and refills both her's and then Buffy's glass before sitting back down and continuing with her dinner and her story, "He told me that his brethren where in a hurry to create me so they gave me a soul which gave them a template of thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc which more or less equals a human being or more accurately who I was then and am now. The monks than did a spell where the or should I say MY template of a person was given the identity of being your sister and put me in the memories of everyone in your life for 14 years. While I wasn't really there for those 14 years. Through the spell the monks were quickly able to create a template of how I would affect things and the thoughts and feelings I would inspire in both myself and those around me. This gave them an overall template of everyone's thoughts feelings and memories before turning the key... before turning me into the template they had created and sending me to you. The monk went on to tell me that this way every decision I ever made, everything I ever did in the past was something that I would have done had I really done it because those decisions where based on the most likely decisions that my soul would make."