The rest of that day he did everything he could to touch me. He brushed up against my nipples when walking through the hallway. He snuck into the bathroom when I was washing my hands and rubbed my entire body as he wrapped his arms around me. He reached under the table and rubbed my sex during dinner.

That night- after everyone was asleep; after we'd all patrolled- he came into my bedroom "Rain?" He asked. "Are you decent? May I…"

"Come on in, Jake."

He crawled onto my bed and ran his hands over my body with nothing but one sheet between his palms and me. I was naked under the sheet and as we talked that night- he just ran his hands up and down my body, all over. It was amazing. I felt so completely alive and *there*. He was listening and asking and answering questions while he touched me. He cupped my sex and felt his fingers pushing inside slightly with the sheet covering them. It was incredible that night.

"DAWN!" Buffy screamed when she opened my bedroom door in the morning. "What the-"

"BUFFY! Ever think of knocking?" I shrieked.

"Buffy, what's up?" Angel asked before appearing in the doorway. "Oh… Connor-"

"Get out!" I said, sitting up with the sheet covering me. "GET OUT!" I screamed and the door suddenly slammed shut as Buffy and Angel were thrown out into the hallway. Apparently, the magic lessons from Willow and Tara were working, which was good.

He placed his hand onto my bare back and I practically melted. "Your hands feel so good, Jake."

"You're so soft… like rain."

"Ha, ha."

Things were tense that day but I didn't care, I argued with everyone who tried to tell me that nothing could ever come of a relationship between he and I. Yeah right!

The next night, he was already in my room when I got there to go to sleep. He was under the covers and I could tell he was nude. "Hey," I said.

"I thought… maybe…"

"I'd love to touch you," I said quietly. I laid down on top of the covers and he held me in his arms. I slid my hand over his abs, down to his thighs and then over his manhood.

He gasped as I ran my hand up the length of him. "How's that?" I asked.

"Sooo good," he whimpered as I squeezed his cock. He was thick and slightly longer than Mike was. I could tell, just by stroking him through the sheet, that he would feel *amazing* inside me, although I'm glad he wasn't going to be my first- because it would have hurt. A lot.

That night, as I stroked him and kissed him, he told me about Quor-Toth and about his childhood and how he'd trained every day of his life. He told me so much about how he really felt about Angel and we just… became so close. We'd only known each other for a month, been friends for not even a week, and we were *so* close. I felt like I'd known him all my life.

He started really whimpering around dawn- all night without release (I've heard) will turn grown men into fools. "It… hurts, Rain. I need…"

"To come," I said. "Have you ever… before?"

"Yessss… when my father left and I…"

"It's okay- it's normal for teenage boys to… do what I've been doing. Girls do it too."

"Do what?" He asked as he closed his hands over mine.

"Use our fingers to get ourselves off." I held my index and middle finger up and said, "These two… I pretend they're the man of my dreams."

"The man of your dreams?" He asked and I just smiled. "Can we…"

"Yes, let's."  I slowly started pulling the covers down and kissed his chest as it was revealed to me. At last, I uncovered his red erection and we passed our hands over it, squeezing and pumping. His skin felt wonderful in my palm and under my lips as we together brought him to climax.

"RAAAIN!" He shouted as he came over our hands in sticky white strings.

"Dawn?" I heard over the knocking on the door. "Are you okay?"

"FINE, Buffy!" I answered.

"Have you seen Conner?" She asked as the opened the door and stood there in shock.

Spike was standing behind her that time and said, "Well- I guess she has, Luv."

That night, we were quarantined. Buffy decided that if she wasn't getting any, that I wouldn't be. She told Angel to take himself and Connor to a motel, but he refused, and the two of them ended up sleeping in the dining room on the floor with Wesley. Buffy slept in my room with me.

The next day, it was decided that we would all just rest. No training. No researching. We knew all we could possibly know. So we sat awkwardly around the living room, talking occasionally, but otherwise just sitting there petrified of the next day.

He tried to sit next to me, but Buffy wouldn't allow it. "What do you have up your ass, Buffy?" I asked.

"DAWNIE!" She gasped.

"What? Just because you're not getting any, I can't have some?"

"Dawn- it's a bit more complicated than that. He's Angel's son!"

"SO?! May I remind you that Spike is *also* Angel's son?"

"Dawn! This is so not the same. I don't want-"

"Buffy, I'm eighteen years old and might I add, in case you don't know or actually care, I'm *not* a virgin. SO there's no point in saying you're trying to *save* me."

"*Dawn*, now is *not*  the time to be having this conversation!"

"When are we gonna have it, Buffy? Before we're enslaved or after the demons torture us?"

"Dawn!"

"NO! We're all thinking it. I'm just the only one who'll actually say it. Why won't you let me be with the one person I wanna be with before we die! God- Buffy… I *love* him! You, of all people, should understand how rare that is- to have a connection with someone who really understands you…"

"You what?" He asked quietly.

I turned to him and smiled as I fell to me knees on the floor next to him. "I *love* you, Jake. I wanna be with you."

"Me too," he said softly before he pulled me to him for a kiss.

"Who's Jake?" Angel asked.

We both stood up, holding hands. I turned to Buffy and said, "We're leaving now. We'll be back tomorrow at noon. Don't try to stop us and don't come looking for us."

He followed me out the front door silently as we heard Angel ask, "Who's Jake?"

"Are you okay?" He asked as I grabbed a blanket out of the back of Angel's car.

"Yes. She's just… self-centered. And unfortunately, my life does not revolve around my sister." I explained more about Buffy and myself as we walked back to the bluff.

We placed the blanket down and looked up at the sun. It was about five o'clock. By that time the next day, we'd be on our way into battle.

"Rain? Did you mean it?"

"What?" I asked, turning toward him.

"That you love me?"

I kissed his lips sweetly and said, "Yes. Absolutely, ever since I first saw you. The past few days, when I've been in your arms… I felt so at peace. I felt like I was home."

I think he actually started crying a bit then. "What?" I asked as my thumb wiped away his tear.

"I just- I've never… felt loved before. Everyone has always just wanted something from me. It's never been selfless."

"Well-" I said with a coy smile. I slid my hand over his penis, " I wouldn't say it's *completely* selfless."

"Are we going to have… sex?"

"No- we're going to make love," I replied.

"Okaaay," he said nervously.

I slid my hands up to cup his face and whispered, "Just relax… and feel me."

For the next three hours we kissed and touched. He lifted my shirt off and I took his tank top off and the feel of his skin, finally and completely, on mine was amazing. He kissed his way down my throat to my nipples and suckled them. I couldn't believe how perfect his mouth felt sliding against my skin.

He cupped my breasts and covered my skin with his hands, touching everywhere possible. I nibbled on his nipples as well before kissing my way down to the button of his jeans.

"Rain-"

"Shh… I need to feel you inside me, Jake. I need you to feel me too."

He nodded and helped me pull his jeans off. I could finally see what I had been touching the night before, his thighs, his manhood… there was nothing I didn't love about him. His body… was divine. Working out and training and fighting had given him such an incredible body and as I kissed my way over his skin, I could feel how much strength he had inside him. I moved my fingertips gently over his skin and I felt each and every muscle respond to my touch.

"How do you do that?" He whimpered.

"Do what?" I smiled.

"Drive me crazy."

"Magic," I said before licking the tip of his erection.

"Rain!" He started to protest but I just kept licking and kissing him, slipping my hands down to caress his sac. "Ohgodpleasedon'tstop!" He panted.

I slithered up his body and kissed him deeply. I love how his tongue feels against mine. I can't get enough of his kisses or his hands on my body.

"Rain- please… let me see *you* now."

I couldn't deny him. I slipped my pants off and the look he got when I was standing nude in front of him was unbelievable. I felt completely adored and loved and… it was just amazing.

"You're so beautiful," he whispered as he beckoned me to lay down with him on the blanket in the dusk. I shivered a bit as it was starting to get a little chilly what with having no clothes on.

I watched as he built a fire a couple feet from the blanket. Once it was roaring, he came to me again and we just… melted. We kissed and touched and it was so beautiful and magnificent. I've never felt so alive as when he's inside me.

I took him in slowly and he gasped and whimpered the entire time. He'd never felt anything like it and I was happy I could be the only one who would ever take him inside.

And when we came… it was like a tsunami rolling through us, completely taking us over as we cried in ecstasy.

We laid together in front of the fire, touching and rubbing each other for a few hours, just talking and being quiet. I was so angry that I'd just found someone and we might die the next day.

We made love five more times that night and once in the morning. To this day I can't explain how that was even possible. Perhaps because I was the key and he was the child of two vampires… perhaps it was the magic in the air of what was meant to be… perhaps it was anticipation of the fight and the possibility that we'd never be together again…

"DAWN! Are you okay?" Buffy exclaimed as we walked back into the house at noon.

"Fine, Buffy. It's not like I was with a murderer."

"I'm sorry, Dawn," she said and hugged me. We didn't have time for any other words.

"Who's Jake?" Angel asked.

"I am, Father. My name is Jake now."

Angel seemed to accept it pretty quickly, but I suppose to him, it was better than Steven.

"Okay, we're all just… in the living room."

We all sat in silence that afternoon. We were all holding hands, just crying and hugging and… we were so scared. All of us. It was out of our hands. We still didn't know what the Adinomauh was and we weren't even sure we'd be able to kill the thousand demons that would be escaping the Hellmouth.

At five o'clock, the sky got incredibly darker than normal and Buffy stood up. "It's time."

We all changed into clothes we'd found particularly better for fighting. Everyone had knives, stakes, swords, axes and guns strapped to them, under our clothes, in our boots… we were no longer people. We were warriors. Dressed in bright yellow. We didn't really like the color, but we thought it would be useful to be able to find each other once demons started coming out.

"Okay-" Buffy stood on the stairs as we all looked up at her. "I don't… have any words… except that… I love you- all of you. It's a pleasure to be fighting with you all. And… I just… love you."

We all hugged once more and then we broke up to pair up. We'd taken great amounts of time to plan out our strategies. Everyone had a partner with which to stay. We were going to start right at the Hellmouth. All the prophecies said they'd pour from the Hellmouth. One thousand. We'd decided to just be there and kill them as they came out.

Jake and Angel were paired, as they were to end the fight if we managed to kill the demons. I was to stay with Willow and Tara, as we had all learned several spells to try and help the fight. We had invisibility spells and relocater spells ready to go as well. Cordelia had been practicing with her demon power as well. We were as well prepared as we could be.

"Rain!" He came over and kissed me so deeply and passionately, trying to reassure me as well. "I will be inside you again, my love."

"Let's move out," Buffy said.

Over the past month, Fred and Willow had also taken a lot of time hiding weapons at the school, as well as explosives if need be. We had all been sparring inside the building as well. We'd cleaned up the halls as best we could so that we could minimize the threat of broken legs and sprained ankles. We had also created several places to hide in case… in case we were losing.

We all had radios and if it looked as if we were going to lose- we all decided that we would try to regroup and… it was unclear whether we were considering mass suicide or if we just wanted to be together.

Demons started pouring out of the Hellmouth in twenties and we were soon outnumbered. The plan was to keep the battle centralized in the school so we could blow it up if needbe and kill a bunch of demons. The ground was shaking and then the ceiling started falling.

It got worse when the sky… it opened up. Balls of fire fell to the ground and claimed Gunn and Fred. I'd never seen so much pain. I'd never… we tried so hard to save everyone. Willow, Tara and I were chanting spells left and right, protecting or stopping what we could. We also had healing spells that saved Giles and Xander.

The fight was tough and long. I watched from above as everyone started fighting. We watched Wesley go down first, then Anya. It was… horrible.

Bodies started piling up. Hundreds of demons and they just kept coming. Demon after demon- different kinds, different tendencies, different strengths and powers… demon after demon.

It was starting to look hopeless. Buffy made the call. Get the bodies and get out. Transportation spells made it much easier to get our loved ones out in a rush. Once we were all outside, Willow pushed the button and blew up about four hundred demons. Perhaps three hundred more to take out?

They kept pouring out of the school and we fought them on the lawn. Willow and Tara and I kept our backs together as we picked up our weapons and kept chanting.

Cordelia started glowing so intensely that we were able to kill a few demons that were frozen blind.

I'd never seen so much. I've never seen as much since.

In the end, we lost six very dear friends. Wesley, Anya, Gunn, Fred, Xander and Giles.

But as Jake tore the last demon apart, a *huge* force shot out from the Hellmouth accompanied by a bright light, the brightest I've ever seen. Jake and Angel ran toward it and I was sure I'd never see him again. I'd seen too much- too many bodies, too much death…

I often have him tell me the story of what they found when they reached the center of the force. A calm, peace, silent. In the center was a large door. Jake says that when they looked inside they were looking into the face of evil. He won't say much else except that they struggled to close the door as it resisted. And once they'd closed the door the force and light were all sucked into it. And they hacked it apart with their axes.

I suppose "Adinomauh" is demon for the source of all evil.

We buried our dead and grieved and were elated at the same time. It was a long while before any of us were ready to return to our lives. We just all sat around the living room dazed for a week or more, barely eating. It was over.

For Buffy and Spike, it was the beginning. For Angel and Cordelia as well, apparently. And in time, Faith and Gru.

For Jake and I? Well, obviously since he's *here* with *me*, it was definitely the beginning of something wonderful.

*********

"Honey?" He asks.

"Sorry- did I wake you?" She asks as his hands creeps around her swollen belly. "I was just…"

"Talking to the baby again?"

"Guilty as charged," She admits. "But… she needs to know our story…"

"She? How do you know it's not another boy?"

"Jake- we already have *three* boys! It's time for a girl!"

"We can always try again…" he whispered as he drifted off again.

*********

Sorry about that, Honey. Your daddy can be…insistent. That's for sure.

Anyway- Daddy and I decided to move out and start our own lives. He wanted to build our life from scratch, which explains why we live in a cabin in the woods. That's why Daddy hunts for our food and why we grow our own fruits and vegetables.

*And* it explains why I'm pregnant all the time!

But I suppose as life goes- this isn't really bad since I have everything I could ever want.

I have three, soon to be four, beautiful, healthy children, and a gorgeous home.

*And* I have the love of a man who calls me Rain. A man that *I* call Jake.

What else is there?

~El Fin~