Chapter 20

Willow sat with Buffy in her expedition waiting patiently outside the school for the bell to ring. Laci had fallen asleep on the ride over, listening to Disney's greatest hits which Willow had put in the CD player for her. They talked a bit about Phoebe when Buffy's phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey Buffy!" came a rather excited British whisper from the other end. It took Buffy a while to recognize the voice.

"Drusilla?"

She giggled in delight and said "You caught me."

"Dru, you bad girl, where are you?" Buffy asked smiling. Drusilla was a good friend of Buffy, Prue, and Willow. She was only 16, but went out with their friend Spike who was 17 like them. She was extremely shy but once you got to know her you found the sweet little girl that was Drusilla.

"Spike and I both spent some time with Xander and Cordy over the time they were in Texas. We're coming home with them today, Spike and I," Drusilla explained. Buffy smiled.

"That's great Dru. Will we be picking you guys up too?"

"No. Spike's still got his car in the parking lot. Just hope nobody stole it while we were away. But we'd love to come over and see you tomorrow, wouldn't we love?" Spike's reply was tough to hear.

"What'd he say?" Buffy asked.

"He is very excited. Well Buffy the plane will be landing soon so send Wills and Prue my love. Bye for now," Drusilla hung up after Buffy gave her farewell.

"Will we see Dru soon?" Willow asked anxiously.

"Oh sorry Will. Yeah her and Spike are riding the same plane as Xander and Cordelia but she said they'd be by tomorrow. Willow nodded as Piper, Megan, and Amy climbed into the backseat.

"Hey guys," Buffy greeted cheerfully.

"Hey Buffy. Hey Willow, where's Prue?" Piper asked.

"She's at the hospital to see Phoebe. She squeezed the doctor's hand today," Willow replied.

"When will we get to go see her?" Piper asked.

"Soon," Buffy said.

"Very, very soon."

"Phoebe please say you can hear me," Prue replied tears falling down her cheeks. Prue sat at Phoebe's bedside hoping for the best. Phoebe made no movement. Just as Prue was about to give up and go home she had a sudden idea. She gently slipped her hand inside Phoebe's.

"Phoebe, if you can hear me...squeeze my hand," Prue whispered then waited patiently. A few seconds later Prue felt slight pressure on her hand. Phoebe had squeezed it. Prue was extremely excited but stayed calm.

"Alright Pheebs. I'm going to ask you some questions ok? Squeeze my hand once for yes and twice for no," Prue replied lowering her head. Phoebe squeezed her hand.

"Do you miss us?" she squeezed once. "Have you always been able to hear us like Doctor Bronze said?"

She squeezed twice.

Prue stopped for a minute to wipe her tears then asked hopefully "Can you open your eyes?"

Phoebe squeezed twice for no, leaving Prue's heart at the bottom of her stomach.

"When do we get to see Xander again?" Megan asked sitting on the floor of the living room with Piper and Amy playing the Nintendo with Oz and Andy. It was almost 3. Angel was upstairs taking a nap with Paige. Willow had put Laci to sleep up in her and Oz's bed and everyone else was in the living room.

"I'm going with Buffy and Willow to go pick him and Cordelia up in about 10 minutes," Prue replied hardly even trying to contain her excitement.

"Let me come!" Megan cried excitedly.

"No Mega-Moo," Buffy said sternly. "You have to stay and watch over things with Piper."

"Isn't that Uncle Oz and Uncle Andy's job?" Megan asked in a huff her arms crossed over her chest.

"I won the free man so I get to play next round!" Andy argued with Oz.

"No, I was the one that beat the monkey over the head with that coconut guitar so I get to play next round!" Oz snapped at Andy.

"That so did not count! See if I would have counter attacked the smurfs and replaced the coconuts with bananas you would have been dead right now!" Andy cried.

"Well if you replaced a coconut with your head it wouldn't make a freaking DIFFRENCE!!!" Oz screamed.

"No sweetie, it looks like that job is open for hiring," Willow shook her head getting over her giggle fit she was having with Prue and Buffy.

"Just think," Piper said.

"In less than an hour we'll have another one to add to the mix."