After the Crater part 3

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Heres the third part of my story After the Crater 
This responds to the prompt Ayers Rock from  tamingthemuse 
previous parts can be found here

Pairing: Wesley/Dawn
Rating: PG
Author: grenouillenue
Summary: After the fall of Sunnydale Dawn heads to LA to find her own life
AN: This is unbetaed. i need a beta to push me into developing the story a little faster. I have soo many plans but I have no idea how to get to a point where I can use them.

Dawn's POV
Wesley normally stops by every night but he wasn't around last night. I wonder where he's gone. This week has been really busy for the both of us. We haven't had much of a chance to talk. Whatever we have has made absolutely zero progress we haven’t talked about it and whenever I get within a foot of him he does that cute stuttering thing that makes me want to give him something else to do with his mouth. I can't get over the way his lips felt on mine when I kissed him I felt like he was entirely there you know how many people can say that at any moment in their life they have been entirely in the moment not thinking about what changes an event will cause or what led up to it. The only other time I've seen it was when someone was in immense pain.
Buffy called me today.
I kept the cell phone she insisted I have even though I didn't exactly tell here where I was staying. She thinks I'm doing the whole Jack Kerouac road trip. She pays my insurance and sends me gas money. Part of the agreement we came to. If she was going to pay for things I had to allow contact. We kinda fell apart after Sunnydale became a hole in the ground. She wants me to be the normal girl have all the normal experiences after all the supernatural part of my life is over. Yeah right I was a green ball of energy and now I'm not it's that simple. Buffy doesn't get it I know how I'm supposed to react to something and I know why I act that way but It's not real it's just some impulse the monks made me learn to pass me off as normal. Buffy may be the slayer but I'm the Key and I'll always be the key. I don't know how I'll survive with this inside me what will the energy do? Will it just erode me until there's only a small piece of me I'll be like Ayers Rock all that remains of an ancient mountain range? I wish Wesley were here no one else knows about my special circumstance. Special circumstances that’s a laugh I was pure energy for centuries and that's just a special circumstance in my life.

Wesley's POV
This week was hell. What with saving and finding Nina and Spike constantly being in the way. I think he can smell her on me. I came in after I went to her apartment the other night and Spike popped up next to me in the hallway. He took a big breath relieved to have at least a semblance of his physical shape and then he turned to me and cocked an eyebrow. I didn't go see her tonight we all went up to Angel's penthouse and celebrated our small victory in retrieving Nina from the crazy's who wanted to eat her. I wanted to call Dawn and tell her I hadn't forgotten about her but I don't have her number and I didn't want to have W&H find it for me. 

I need to tell Dawn that Spike's alive but I don't want her to find out and then have him gone. I want her to know I want to be the one to tell her but I don't want her to be mad at me for hiding it. I don't want to hide it but I don't want to hurt her by making her lose him again. Ok I think I've spent too much time with Fred her babbling is contagious.

I could call Giles and tell him I bumped into her while she was passing through and I'd found a book on traveling across the States that I thought she would be interested in and if he could please tell me how to contact her. Bloody hell that wouldn't go over well. 

I want to talk to her but I know that if I call her job the owner will think I'm a stalker.
The need's too great I give in and call the reception and ask them to find out if there is a cell phone registered to a Dawn Summers I can't help myself I have to talk to her even though I can't see her today.
I call the number it rings twice and I almost drop the phone. 
"Hello?" says the quite voice on the other end
"Hi Dawn."
"Wesley" she replies and I can almost see the smile on her face.