Is Dracula the Key to Dawn?

I wanted to do this a little later in the season, but since I just revealed it elsewhere I better update my site.

The following is just a theory. It has not been mentioned on message boards previously, till today.

I think Dracula could well be the key to Dawn. I'am going to take you back through out season 5 episode1.

We first meet Dracula and Buffy in the grave yard. (The full transcript can be found at Buffyworld.com

It's a harmless introduction, but she is meeting Dracula for the first time.

DRACULA: Naturally. You're known throughout the world. BUFFY: (smiles bashfully) Naw. Really? DRACULA: Why else would I come here? For the sun? I came to meet the renowned ... killer. BUFFY: Yeah, I prefer the term slayer. You know, killer just sounds so... DRACULA: Naked? BUFFY: Like I ... paint clowns or something. I'm the good guy, remember? DRACULA: Perhaps, but your power is rooted in darkness. You must feel it. Buffy frowns and ponders this for a moment.

DRACULA: You are magnificent. BUFFY: I bet you say that before you bite all the girls. DRACULA: No, you are different. Kindred. BUFFY: Kindred? Hardly, I- DRACULA: Pull your hair back.

Buffy looks surprised but pulls her hair back from her neck. Shot of Dracula admiring her. BUFFY VO: This isn't how I ... usually fight. Buffy looks a little self-conscious. Glances at the window. BUFFY: You think you can just waft in here with your music video wind and your hypno-eyes... (trails off) DRACULA: I have searched the world over for you. I have yearned for you. (Sits on the bed next to her) For a creature whose darkness rivals my own. He puts his hand on her chin and moves her head aside. He sees the scar where Angel bit her (episode "Graduation Day") and touches it with his fingertips. DRACULA: You have been tasted. (smiles slightly as he trails his fingers over her cheek) BUFFY: He was- DRACULA: Unworthy. (Buffy stares at him, looks scared) He let you go. (Looks her in the eyes) But the embrace ... his bite ... you remember. BUFFY: (uncertain) No. Dracula caresses her face some more. DRACULA: Do not fight. (Puts his hand behind her neck) I can feel your hunger. He leans down to bite her neck. Buffy gasps but doesn't pull away.

I believe Xander's Quote to be the Key here.

BUFFY: (pause) No. (gets up) No, I didn't. XANDER: See! Buffy didn't feel it. I think you're drawing a low of crazy conclusions about the unholy prince. Everyone gives him a strange look. XANDER: ...bator. GILES: The point is, though he goes through the motions of an intimate seduction, the end result is the same. He turns them into a vampire. Buffy looks as if she hadn't considered that. XANDER: Well. That *is* intimate. Dracula's gifting these ladies with his own blood. And blood -- (He notices a spider on the desk next to him, glances around to see if anyone's looking) Blood is life.

True intimacy amoungst Kindred.

BUFFY: What are you- DRACULA: All those years fighting us. Your power so near to our own... (Cuts his arm with a fingernail till blood wells up) ...and you've never once wanted to know what it is that we fight for? (Holds his arm out to Buffy) Never even a taste? BUFFY: (looks conflicted) If I drink that- DRACULA: I have not drunk enough for you to change. You must be near death to become one of us. And that comes only when you plead for it. BUFFY: (staring at his wrist) I'm not hungry. DRACULA: No. Your craving goes deeper than that. Buffy stares at him. DRACULA: (whispering) You think you know ... what you are ... what's to come. You haven't even begun. Buffy looks at his arm, at his face. Takes his hand in both of hers and puts her mouth on the bloody wrist. DRACULA: Find it. The darkness. Find your true nature. Buffy's eyes are wide. A very quick series of shots flashing by. Most are shots of Buffy fighting, but a few are shots of the First Slayer from episode "Restless." There's also a shot of a vein with blood corpuscles rushing through it. Buffy lifts her head. BUFFY: (softly) Wow. She suddenly shoves out her hand and pushes Dracula away. He lands on the table and slides across it on his back. BUFFY: (normal voice) That was gross.

Ok and I think that right there is the key to Dawn.

At the end of this episode "Buffy's little sister." is first introduced. Then in part 2 the real me. Dawn speaks, but only one part of her conversation to me seems relavent.

Then we have the next episode. I'll just go over a bit of it. But the end of the episode. Dawn's little speach is key.

DAWN: She still thinks I'm Little Miss Nobody, just her dumb little sister. Boy, is she in for a surprise.

Then season 7 episode 1.

DAWN Hi. BUFFY So you're the new principal. I expected you to be more... aged. PRINCIPAL Huh. You seem a bit young to have such a gown-up daughter. BUFFY Oh. Uh, uh, no. Sister. PRINCIPAL Oh, right, um, of course. BUFFY You didn't really think she's my... it's my hair. I have mom hair. DAWN No...

The are more clues from this season, but I'll let you find them. This for now is my theory and I'm sticking to it.

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