Things are done differently in your time. I'm all about the getting that, now. But you need to understand that...hiccups like that? They would've worked themselves out with time.

[ somehow, she doesn't sound surprised to hear that dawn had asked that. and why not? the monks had made dawnie out of her and buffy had a well-hidden vulnerability that would have led her to ask the same thing. ]

Things don't have to be picture perfect from the beginning. Most of the time? They're not. They seem like they are but everyone's just pretending and...

Love's something you work at. [ she understands that, now. ] Dawn would have learned how to stop blaming and start helping.