There's no place like home...

[resurrected_b]

Can I say how much a couple of months in the 19th century makes a girl appreciate modern plumbing? I really tried not to run us completely out of hot water. After the initial shock of us poofing back into my own house (and figuring out that it wasn't still my birthday party, even though a lot of the same people were there), the first thing on my

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[_dawnie_]

I still can't believe my sister's back. She's been gone for what feels like forever. I wander into the room she's currently sharing with Faith, since the door's open and I can see her looking for something in a dresser drawer. "Hey, sis," I say.

[resurrected_b]

I rummage through my drawers, looking for my admission to the last semester of school, wondering how much I'm gonna owe considering I disappeared after the first two weeks. I can't really believe we were gone for an entire three months, and I had no income the entire time except the stipend from the Council, and those checks were in the pile of mail, never deposited.

I turn when I hear Dawn. "Hey, Dawnie," I say, limping away from the dresser and sitting down on the bed. "Y'know, it's pretty damned inconvenient having your life put on hold for three months," I complain, although I guess I should be thankful there wasn't any big badness here while we were gone. "Guess it probably wasn't any picnic for you, either, huh?"

[_dawnie_]

Well, let's see, I had sex for the first time while you were gone and one of my best friends went all wonky because of a magic spell and I slacked off at school some and... I move to sit down next to her. "It was okay, I guess. I'm sure it was a lot easier for me than it was for you." I pause. "I missed you, though."

[resurrected_b]

"I missed you, too. You...everybody. It just got so unreal after a while." I shake my head to clear the weird 'this is your life' journey through time. "Must have been weird for you with all the houseguests here." I look around the room. It hasn't really changed, even though I know Faith's been staying here. It's like she stayed overnight, not like she moved in.

"And now we still have to figure out where Giles and the rest of them are. Sounds like Tara has a plan for getting them back, though."

[_dawnie_]

"Oh, sure," I say enthusiastically, sitting up and tossing my hair back. "Most definitely!"

It might be time for a change of subject. "So what did you guys do the whole time you were gone?"

[resurrected_b]

I roll my eyes and laugh. "You mean besides bitch at each other?" I joke, but I am worried about why Cordy didn't come back with us. "We got stuck in Victorian London, where Cordy proceeded to impersonate some Lady something-or-other until she got one of her visions and they committed her." I shudder. Bedlam was worse than that hell dimension I was in that time--at least it smelled worse.

"And there was this crazy vamp there..." I break off; I don't exactly wanna go into detail on how she left the bodies to my baby sister.

[_dawnie_]

"Wow, I never thought about them having vamps back then, but of course they did." I think I'm having a duh moment. I roll my eyes at myself. "You can't get away from them anywhere, can you?"

I smile at her.

[resurrected_b]

I smile a little. "Pretty much not. Ooh, had to fight a bridge troll, too, and ran into a really skanky demon that was an old love interest of Anya's. So yeah, it was pretty much like now, except with corsets and no indoor plumbing. Nothing like those Jane Austen movies."

I wrinkle my brow. "I wonder where the others went? Giles and Angel and them?" I really hope they went somewhere more peaceful than what we'd been through.

[_dawnie_]

I'm not as worried now that she's back, but I don't want to say that because it sounds bad. So I just stand up from the bed and stretch, pondering finishing up my English homework. Not that I want to, but you know.

"Why do teachers have to give homework during the last few weeks of Senior year?" I ask. Yeah, so it's a rhetorical question.

[resurrected_b]

"Omigod, Dawnie, how many weeks 'til graduation? Did I miss your prom? Do you have a date for prom?" I'd totally spaced that she was a senior, about to graduate, and sheesh, I'd nearly missed it!

[_dawnie_]

"I think graduation's like, mid-June. Something like that."

I turn around so she can't see my face, ostensibly glancing out the window, and say, "No, I don't have a date." Because my boyfriend's older than you are and he'd get fired from his job and maybe worse stuff if he brought me to Prom.

[resurrected_b]

She turns around, which makes me think she must be bummed about it. "Aww, I'm sure someone'll ask you. Guy's'd have to be crazy not to want to take you out." Not that I have a whole lot of extra cash to blow on a prom dress for her, but we'll work something out. "Or you can do what I did, go stag. Well, mostly that was 'cause I had to stop some hellhounds from attacking first, but it was still fun."