Fic: spoonfuls of sugar need not apply [B:tVS pre-S6; Spike & Dawn friendship]

[Posting from the road! Whee!] Gen; B:tVS set between S5 & S6; 1800 words. For 2016 genex.

It grated on Dawn's nerves to still have a sitter at an age when the others had been out roaming cemeteries and hanging with their friends and dating all the wrong people. But at least it was Spike.

spoonfuls of sugar need not apply

(Linked @ the AO3 collection; written for dreamiflame)