how hard would it have been for barnabas or julia or jeff or professor stokes to just say "look vicki things are a bit 'hot' right now.why not leave collinsport for a few weeks."?
having her wandering around like a sitting duck at collinwood didn't make any sense.
Well, Stokes tried to scare her into leaving town when she was next in line to suffer the dream curse, but Jeff (what a bonehead) managed to talk her into staying at the Evans cottage instead so they wouldn't be apart. I imagine she would ignore the Professor again now-- refusing to go so she could be close to Jeff, who flat out told her in this ep that he wasn't budging for at least a week. Maybe Julia or Barnabas should have at least tried, but I doubt
anyone could have talked Vicki into leaving Collinsport at this point unless Jeff went with her.