Buffy (as presented in TV!canon) doesn't necessarily sit around twiddling her thumbs until people start dying.
Sometimes in TV canon she looks ruefully at their blood dripping down the window and says that they really should have asked for a foot rub.
And in comics canon she has been known to sit and watch people getting killed because she thinks it will serve the greater good to wait and follow them back to their headquarters. In that light, Buffy putting Dawn low down her priority list - especially when Dawn apparently doesn't want to be helped - seems entirely consistent.
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Date: 2008-12-28 02:03 pm (UTC)Sometimes in TV canon she looks ruefully at their blood dripping down the window and says that they really should have asked for a foot rub.
And in comics canon she has been known to sit and watch people getting killed because she thinks it will serve the greater good to wait and follow them back to their headquarters. In that light, Buffy putting Dawn low down her priority list - especially when Dawn apparently doesn't want to be helped - seems entirely consistent.