Buffy, who has already had a hard time with Dawn's dating Eric, a vampire, would flip her lid if Eric ever turned Dawn. Plus, Dawn likes being alive. There may come a day when she doesn't like it so much or when turning her is the only choice in some catastrophe or another. But in the meantime, she likes feeling the blood rush through her veins and her heartbeat in her chest.

She shouldn't be pleased at Eric's praise when she'd just drawn blood of another living creature, but it's just the same as when Buffy had praised her while teaching her to slay. Dawn always soaks praise up like a sponge.

"Only a little bit." She tells him, pausing in licking her lips and teeth. Maybe she should have tried to spit that little bit of blood out. Too late now. "Am I gonna die?"