Dawn's still sitting, huddled in a corner of
the laundry room, still in the dark, still crying. Though now, she's too exhausted to do anything but let the tears falls.
She doesn't want to see anyone, but should probably talk to someone about what happened. If she can sort everything out in her own head. But someone will have to find her and convince her of that, because she's gonna stay tucked away in here until... until... she's not even sure, just a very long time.
Mostly, she feels really stupid for not realizing it was Angelus. She should have known - because he was paying attention to her. That should have been a dead give-away right there, but id didn't register for her. He played her; played on her desire to be wanted, touched, loved. He played on it and she let him. Had she convinced herself that it was Angel, despite seeing the signs, just so she could do something that would set Buffy off? Just to get attention? Because negative attention was better than no attention.
She sits there - in the laundry room - rolling all of these thoughts over and over in her head.