BUFFY: Hey.

DAWN: (sleepy) What time is it?

BUFFY: It's late. I just wanted... I love you. You know that, right?

DAWN: What's wrong?

BUFFY: I know I haven't been everything I should be ... everything Mom was... ...but I love you. (tearful) I always will.

DAWN: Why are you talking like this? Buffy?

BUFFY: There was an accident. In the woods. A girl ... she was hurt. I hurt someone.

DAWN: Oh my god. Is she all right?

BUFFY:No. I'm sorry. There's something I have to do. I have to tell what I did. I have to go to the police.

DAWN: The police?

BUFFY: Dawnie, I have to.

DAWN: But ... what's going to happen?

BUFFY: I don't know.

DAWN: (upset) They'll take you away. Won't they.

BUFFY: I'm sorry.

DAWN: No, you're not. You're never here. You can't even stand to be around me.

BUFFY: That is not true.

DAWN:You don't want to be here with me. You didn't want to come back. I know that. You were happier where you were. You want to go away again.

BUFFY: Dawn...

DAWN: Then go! You're not really here anyway.

• Angsty Traumatic Confrontations
• Buffy & Dawn

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/113deadthings.html