BUFFY: Are you okay? Did she hurt you?

DAWN: Why do you care?

BUFFY: Because I love you. You're my sister.

DAWN: No I'm not.

BUFFY: Yes you are.

(she lifts Dawn's arm, so we can see her arm and hand are still bloody)

BUFFY: Look, it's blood. It's Summers blood.

(Buffy presses her hand against the tire-iron wound on her shoulder, wincing a little. She clasps her bloody hand in Dawn's bloody hand.)

BUFFY: It's just like mine. It doesn't matter where you came from, or, or how you got here. You are my sister. (pause) There's no way you could annoy me so much if you weren't.

(Dawn looks at her for a moment, then hugs her tightly. They both get teary-eyed.)

DAWN: I was so scared.

BUFFY: Me too.

• Angsty Traumatic Confrontations
• Buffy & Dawn
• Dawn as the Key

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/91bloodties.html