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Spike promised to protect Dawn, and he is not about to break that promise. Dawn is held captive, and about to be sacrificed, so Spike does the only thing he can do to protect her, and Buffy, both. He didn't think he'd walk away from that. He didn't.
Not unscathed anyway.
A 'What if?' Spike story
Author's Notes:
I heavily take from the transcript of S5 E22 "The Gift" for the first chapter, then diverge from there. The transcript I am using was Transcribed by Joan the English Chick. I credit the transcript here
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