One of the girls
"Look at me, Be in me."
Drusilla swayed and moved her hand continuously in Dawn's face, slowly but surely Drusilla was entrancing her. Dawn's view of Drusilla began to slowly distort and warp. She began to be overcome by drowsiness and fatigue.
"That's it dear, deeper and deeper…"
Dru's voice began to echo in Dawn's head as she went farther and farther down into unconsciousness. The voice had familiarity to it and was comforting at points. Dawn couldn't shake the uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. She closed her eyes for a brief moment to try to grasp reality one last time for she knew on some level it was about to be altered. She failed for by now she was too far-gone. She opened her eyes with a false hope that nothing had changed and that the past hour was a dream.
"Dawn? Dawn it's me dear. Honey I'm here come back to me."
That voice, she had heard it many times before. But it was impossible, it couldn't be.
Joyce Summers?
"Mom is that you?""Yes Dawn, it's me I'm back honey."
"But how?"
"Shh…don't speak dear, just know I am here now."
"Oh mom."
Dawn began to sob and embraced "Joyce".
"Now there there Dawn, I'm here it's okay. Listen Dawnie I need you to do something for me."
"Anything mom, god mom I missed you."
"Listen Dawnie, you have a tremendous power inside of you. And your friend Tara needs your help. That power I am talking about can bring people back."
"But mom Tara isn't herself…she killed a man."
"Not directly."
"No…but mom she kidnapped me and this vampire woman… she is her new friend."
"Listen Dawn, there is enough energy inside you to get me back to you permanently.
Tara might help you if you help her. Please Dawn it's our only hope."
Dawn shook her head, as she couldn't believe what she was hearing from her mom. She knew that there was something not right about her mom that made her uneasy. She didn't care, she wanted her mom and that is all that mattered.
"Dawn?"
"I'll do it."
"What?"
"I'll do it, I'll help Tara."
These words sealed the pact and then with a snap of her fingers Joyce disappeared and there stood Drusilla. Dawn followed her and sat down where she was having a tea party with Miss Edith. Dru picked up the plastic teapot that she had found in the dorm and poured an imaginary tea into the cup in front of the doll. Dru leaned nearer to Miss Edith and appeared to be listening to a secret being told by her doll. She giggled and looked over at Dawn.
"Yes, Miss Edith I understand, but we can't eat her now. First we need daddy back."
The tea party continued on for some time and a desperate Dawn only sat silently waiting for Tara's return.