~Willow~

"Tarah"

(Flashback to 5 Years ago)

"The elders are going to do what?!" Mom screeched at the top of her lungs. As usual, she was bitching about elders.

"They're giving Wyatt and Chris a whitelighter." Dad explained to her for the fifth time today.

"Why do we even need a whitelighter?" Chris asked. "I mean, Wyatt is half whitelighter and I'm half elder, so why do we need a whitelighter?"

"Because Chris," Dad started. "You guys may be part whitelighter or elder, but you boys still need guidance", and neither of you can heal yet, so you need a whitelighter." All of a sudden someone orbed into the room, a girl with long brown hair.

"H-h-h-hello" And apparently a stutter, too. "I'm T-Tarah"

(flash forward)

~Willow~

"Tarah? how, what, when…..?" I could tell everyone was looking at me, but I was just way too surprised to care at the moment.

"How do you know Tarah, Willow?" Wyatt asked me

"She was my girlfriend, then she died..." I started telling, Wyatt but Buffy interrupted me, noticing me starting to tear up.

"This guy, Warren, tried to kill me a few years back, but when he shot me one of the other bullets hit Tarah and killed her. Tarah and WIllow had just made up after a long fight that broke them up for months." She then looked down, and stopped speaking so Xander finished.

"She turned evil after and tried to end the world, but we stopped her and she learned to control her magic." Everyone had a worried look on their face, until he said I was better, but I couldn't be 100% sure because I was too busy looking at Tarah.

"I thought you were dead" I said to Tarah, quietly.

"I was." She said back to me, not looking in my direction. "The Elders made me into a whitelighter."

"Oh.." Was all I could say to her.

"Wait," I heard Dawn say. "Whats a whitelighter?"

"Well-" Paige started, "A whitelighter is like… a guardian angel for witches and future whitelighters. They guide and teach-"

"Actually-" A man interrupted her. "I'm surprised you, being a powerful witch, haven't had one before. By the way, my name's Leo Wyatt. I'm Piper's husband."

"Okay, so why do I not have a whitelighter then?"

"I don't know," Leo told me. "Maybe we should ask the elders." As he said that, Paige came into the room, she must have left earlier...

"If you want, I'll go to the elders and ask, I have to go up there anyways…" Leo agreed and with that, Paige was gone in a swirl of bright lights.

~Paige~

Why didn't Willow have her own whitelighter? I mean, once I was found, I had a whitelighter right away. Well, it doesn't help that he was my brother-in-law, so either way I would have had one, whether I needed one or not. Though, even Wyatt, Chris and Melinda got a whitelighter when they got old enough, and with Willow being as powerful as she is...I'm pretty sure they should have known about her. "Kyle." I called out once I saw him. I remember when we first met, and how we started dating. He was just so obsessed with chasing after the Avatars, but I guess that if he wasn't, we wouldn't have been able to change the world back to the way it is now.

"Hello Paige, you're looking well." He told me.

"Why thank you Henry, how wonderful of you to say so." I said dramatically, like I usually do.

"What brings you here, Paige?"

"Actually, we met someone today, and she's a witch, a very powerful one I might add. But get this; So far, from what I've heard, she has no active power. She tried to end the world a couple years ago and she has no whitelighter, in fact, she doesn't even know what one is."

"Really? That doesn't sound like something that would happen. We would know by now if she was one." He told me. looking as confused as ever.

"Well, that's what's going on…so what are you going to do?"

~Willow~

So, we've now been sitting in the home of the Charmed ones for a few hours. I'm not exactly sure, it's just been such a rush from when we first got here, to when Tarah orbed in, and then Paige left, and that was hours ago. We're all doing different things, Buffy is out patrolling at the moment, I think she took Giles and Phoebe with her. Xander called Andrew and now he Andrew and Wyatt are all being nerds upstairs, and Piper is in the kitchen with Melinda and Dawn cooking something. As for me, at the moment I'm falling asleep with Tarah on the couch. I've been closing my eyes on and off for the past half hour. Then I think I'm about to fall asleep, so I close my eyes and I wait for sleep to completely take me over.

I don't know how long it's been, but it's morning. I can tell because of the light coming in through the windows, and it doesn't help that I fell asleep in the sun room. I'm about to get up when all of a sudden I feel someone underneath me. It feels familiar, like I 've felt like this before. I look down and I see something that shocks me. Tarah…then it all comes rushing back to me, everything from last night; Meeting the Halliwells, finding out about whitelighters, Paige orbing up to them, whoever they are exactly, and Tarah coming back. "Is this real life?" I ask, looking at Tarah, she looks up at me smiling. All of a sudden someone orbs into the room, and when the orbs clear Paige is standing there.

"What did they say?" Buffy asks her, I look back wondering when she got back.

"Well," She began. "I talked to Kyle, and he said that they didn't even know anything about Willow."

"So, what does that mean?" I ask her impatiently.

"The elders are giving you a whitelighter, they say you know her."

"Um. Who is-" I was cut off by someone orbing into the room, and once the orbs cleared Darla was standing there.

"Darla?!" We all yelled at once, wondering what the hell she was doing here.