Fic: Canaries in a Coalmine (BtVS)

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Title: Canaries in a Coalmine
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, post-series
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~1900
Characters/Pairing: Dawn, Faith
Author's Note: Written for spook_me and the prompt "Disease"
Summary: They probably expected the apocalypse to look a lot different. "Probably" since, well, nobody's quite sure if they can trust their memories now that there seems to be worldwide amnesia pandemic. Trying to keep their heads cool while everyone around is losing theirs, Dawn and Faith take some of the last Slayers on a roadtrip trying to find a cure.

She's spent so much time trying to pinpoint where it started that she's not even sure of what it is she's not sure of, what's memories and what's just things they've repeated enough times. Memories aren't supposed to be perfect, she keeps thinking. People forget stuff every day. How do you know when you start forgetting things for real? Buffy was always absent-minded, was Dawn supposed to notice when the whatchamacallems got more frequent? If they'd noticed earlier, could they have done anything differently, could they have -

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