Faith's POV

She's talking to us... that is something, isn't it? If we can just keep talking, and reassuring Dawn that everything will work out I think we'll be okay. We can take her home and start trying to live our lives again. Maybe even work at being a regular family. Of course there's nothing regular about this family. A mother, her two slayer daughters and their kid. Their kid who used to be a mystical key to some sort of lock. Definitely not your normal family.

I squeeze B's hand just to know she's with me in this. She looks at me and there's no doubt in my mind, not that there ever is.

We love Dawn. We have to keep her safe from Glory and everything else that comes our way. Keeping Dawn from Glory may be the only way to keep the world safe, and obviously Dawn too. We have to find a way to stop Glory before she finds out. But first we have to worry about Dawn and how she's doing, before we worry about...

"Ben..."

Ben?

B stands up to meet him as he comes this way.

He doesn't look so good.

Buffy calls out to him.

"Ben!"

"What's up B?"

"I just want to thank him again for what he did for Dawn."

"Oh, yeah we should do that."

I still don't know what's up with him, but he did do something good for Dawn, and for us. We should thank him for that.

Buffy calls out to him again.

"Ben!"

He turns down a hall about 10 feet away, completely ignoring us. B looks at me and I just shrug.

"I'll go see if he's okay."

She goes toward him. Everything that bothers me about Ben tells me to go with her, so I do.

"Maybe he's just busy, doesn't have time to talk."

"Maybe, but he didn't look that great, and he did help us with Dawn. He's a friend."

"Okay..."

She stops as we hit the corner Ben turned down.

"You don't think so?"

"No I do I mean, he's been great. He's helped take care of me, you, Joyce and even Dawn. He was the only one who was involved with all of us. Don't you find that a little odd for an intern?"

"True..."

"And he's just sorta creepy himself. Something about him bothers me."

"They could just be short staffed after you cleaned them out of their Omega members. But you're right. Something is going on with him. Whatever it is we'll ask him about it after we thank him."

She starts to go after him again and I do the same. We get a few inches from him and Buffy tries to get his attention again.

"Hey Ben!"

He doesn't respond until she grabs his shoulder and he turns around, pushing her hand off him.

"What do you...? Buffy, Faith, what are you still doing here?"

B and I both look at each other.

"We're waiting for the psychiatrist to come back and speak to Dawn again so we can take her home."

"Dawn's still here?"

"Uh, yeah..."

"You have to get her out of here."

"We will, as soon as she sees the psychiatrist we'll take her home."

"No, you can't take her home she'll find you there."

She?

"Who?"

"You have to get Dawn as far away as you can. Get her out of town, out of state, hell get her out of the country if you can."

He's not making any sense.

I step up to him.

"And why are we doing that?"

He catches me off guard as he grabs me and shoves me up against the wall.

"If you don't, she'll find her and then we're all doomed."

I'm about to assert my slayer authority but Buffy beats me to it, grabbing him by the shoulders and pulling him off me. She throws him clear across the hall against the opposite wall and is on him in a split second, pinning him there. I walk up behind her as she starts interrogating him.

"If there's some reason why Dawn needs to get out of here then tell us but attacking us is not going to achieve that."

"What's going on Ben?"

He looks down at his shaking hands and gets a panicked look on his face.

"She's coming..."

Who's coming? Wait, he can't mean...

"Glory?"

Buffy turns her head to look at me at the mention of Glory, taking her forearm off Ben's throat. Ben confirms the sudden fear in me and B.

"Yes..."

He's connected to Glory?

Buffy finishes my thought out loud.

"How? How do you know she's coming?"

"I've been trying to keep her contained all day until I could figure out what to do. But it's too late, she's here..."

Here?

"Where is she Ben?"

He looks up at us.

"I'm sorry..."

I'm about to ask what he means when he changes into...

Oh my god, Glory.

I take a step back in shock.

"Hey kids, looking for a threesome?"

Before either of us can react Glory puts her fists together and double punches B in the stomach, knocking her into me and sending us both crashing through a wall and into a pile on the floor of a patient's room.

Everything is sort of faded as I feel the back of my head and my hand has blood on it.

"Buffy?"

I look at her lying on top of me.

She's unconscious and not moving and there's a huge cut on her forehead.

Dawn...

I try to move B off of me but the stinging pain on the back of my head makes everything darker.

Gotta, save, Dawn...

I manage to move B off me, but I try to sit up and everything goes black...

Glory's POV

Ugh, those slayers actually tried to touch me.

I wipe my clothes off any place they might've touched me.

Maybe I should kill them for daring to touch a god.

I look around me.

I'm in a hospital. Wait... if they're here in this hospital... then my key must be somewhere nearby.

I look through the hole I made at the human in the bed.

Too old to be my key. The minions said she was the sister of the slayer, which I think was younger when they were reporting information to me.

I look down each way down the hall.

Humans usually have other humans around them. There aren't any around here except doctors who are all coming from the same direction.

I head in the opposite direction looking for more disgusting humans. I reach another hall and look both ways down it.

There are some humans over there, and they look like the ones my minions described kinda.

I start towards them.

"Which room is my key in?"

They all get up to look at me. One of the young children talks to the others.

"This must be Glory. We can't let her get to Dawn."

They all take a few steps forward like they're going to try and fend me off.

Stupid humans...

"What happened to Buffy and Faith?"

I walk right up to the young guy and push him, making him fly into the young girl who was hiding behind him. The older guy comes up to me and actually tries to punch me. I grab his fist and crush it in my hand.

"This is how you throw a punch old man."

I punch him in the stomach, making him fly through the door of one of the rooms. Now all that's standing between me and my key is some old woman who's standing between me and one of the doors.

"You won't get near my daughter..."

I roll my eyes at her.

Fine...

I walk over to the wall and grab a chunk out of it. I throw it at her and it lands on top of her, pinning her down.

She was protecting this room. My key must be in there.

I walk into the room and there's a cute little brunette girl sitting on a bed. She looks up at me and curls up into a ball.

"Who are you?"

Playing dumb eh?

"Oh honey, you know exactly who I am so, don't play dumb. You're my key."

She hugs her knees a little harder.

"You... you stay away from me..."

"Not likely kid, you're my key, and I need you to get home. So one way or another you're coming with me."

I walk up to her and she tries to get out of the bed she's lying in, but I grab her by the hair. She bats my hand off her hair and just for fun I let her go, acting like it worked.

"You get the hell away from me, my... my sis... I have people who can take you, you better leave now."

"They're sleeping sweetie, they aren't coming for you."

She backs up a bit away from the bed.

"Leave me alone... please?"

I grab one side of the bed separating us and throw it out of my way.

"You're coming with me one way or the other, now come on."

I grab her wrist and pull her to me, scooping her up over my shoulder.

"Let me go..."

"Shut up kid."

I turn around and walk out the door and head for the nearest exit.

My key, I've got my key and I'm finally going home. Woo hoo, I'm finally going home and getting out of this crap hole of a dimension.