Buffy's House (Guest room)
12:17 AM
Rain pattering softly on the window awoke Rose. She panicked forgetting where she was then settled down. She read the clock on the bedside table. Realizing she was in a pool of her own sweat she whispered out for Drusilla.
"What's wrong Prissy?" she asked in her head.
"I want to see you," Rose whispered.
"Prissy, mummy loves you but she has to go see where Spikey's been. He just got home," Drusilla whispered then her prescence was absent again. Rose sat up and squeezed through the door into the hallway. The house was still. She could hear the TV on downstairs. She still wore he clothes from the other day. She was absent her shoes and as her hand rested on her neck she realized her locket was still gone too. She crept into the kitchen and peered into the family room where she saw Buffy with Willow talking to each other, Room Raiders on in the background.
"Excuse me for interupting Buffy," Rose said as polietly as she could entering the family room. Buffy smiled.
"I wondered when you'd wake up. Are you okay?" Rose nodded uneasily.
"I don't have any clothes to wear except for these. Do you think maybe we could go back to my other house later and get my stuff?"
"Sure Rose. This is Willow. I don't think any of us really got properly aquainted last night. She was the one that tracked you down and everything," Buffy said.
"Hey again," Rose said. Dru had told her about Willow. She was a witch along with her young daughter Kalani. Her boyfriend, Oz, was a werewolf. From Willow's point of view she was still shocked at how much Rose resembled her mother. Willow smiled.
"Want to go now?" Buffy asked her.
"Sure," Rose said wringing her hands together. As Buffy went to go get the car keys Willow went over and hugged Rose.
"Your safe with us," she assured her quietly. Rose smiled to herself and accepted Willow's warm embrace.
Under the Preschool
12:18 AM
"Where were you all night Spikey?" Drusilla whispered from her spot on the bed as Spike entered the crypt.
"Did you know Rose is living with the slayer?" he asked her shaking himself out of his trench coat. Drusilla nodded wearily.
"She's safe there."
"Dru do you realize what your saying?" Spike snapped quite annoyed.
"Rose is with the slayer. Do you know what she's capiable of? Do you know what she can do to her?" Drusilla wasn't intimidated by Spike's sudden outburst. Instead she said quietly.
"Prissy's no vampire Spikey. She's a mortal."
Spike made a noise that sounded like an angry growl before saying "Why you didn't let me sire her is beyond me."
"Angel wants her to live normally," Dru answered slinking behind Spike. She rubbed his ears and whispered "We still have Emily."