Spike learns that the Scoobies are sending Dawn to DFS/Children's Services. The two of them leave, and they end up in LA, where Wolfram and Hart, through Lilah, get Spike money, papers, sun protection, a chipectomy, and the paperwork to make Dawn his ward. In return, he will do a few jobs for the law firm here and there. She also finds a home for them, with a good school, and I believe, some horses? Spike gets a job as a professor of English at the local university.
After her resurrection, Buffy tracks them down, and she decides to stay. | 
