Escape/Return
By Vanilla Tiger

AN: Two drabbles, set pre- and post-Chosen
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This is Dawn's refuge.

No one knows what the two of them do here.  No one knows how she feels, maybe not even Kit.

Kit hasn't joined the mass exodus out of Sunnydale yet, and Dawn shows her gratitude with every touch.

It can't last.  The final battle is coming.

One day Dawn feels in Kit a strength that was absent before, one that surrounds her every day.

It's not impossible to believe they missed one.

"Go! Get out of Sunnydale," screams Dawn.

Angry and confused, Kit obeys and Dawn is left alone again.

Maybe this way she'll be safe.

The battle was over.  Now Dawn's job was to seek out new Slayers, guiding them towards their destiny.

She'd found one of them, but it hadn't been the Slayer she'd been looking for.

Then again, perhaps she was the only one Dawn was looking for.

Still angry, Kit demanded to know why she'd been sent away, why she hadn't been taken in with the other now-realised Potentials.

"They were expendable," Dawn answered.  She wanted to explain that she didn't mean it as callously as that sounded, that it referred to herself too. 

But all that came out was, "You're not."

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