AN: LW= Little Willow, DW= Dark Willow

Chapter 1

Dark Willow: Woah Gilsey that was some nice mojo you worked
but it's useless. You can't hold me.

DW tries to use a time travelling spell herself, but to her
surprise it doesn't work.

DW: Damn Giles what do you want me to do here. Bore myself to
death or what. Well luckily my other powers work. Pretty well.

While thinking about ways to escape the power of Giles' spell Dark Willow is disturbed by a toddler with red hair.

Toddler: Hey you wanna play with me and my dolly.

Even in her current state of mind Dark Willow would never hurt child. She changes her eyes back to green and let some of the black vanes disappear.

DW: Who are you?

Toddler: I'm Willow Anne Rosenberg and who are you? Your hair looks kinda funny.

DW: Doesn't matter who I am.

Little Willow: It does. Daddy forbid me to talk to strangers.

DW: Okay Smarty. I'm Anne. So how old are you?

LW: Eightish

DW: Do you know a boy named Xander

LW: Yeah he saved my life when I broke the yellow crayon. Do you know him?

DW: Yeah I know him. You should look after him. He might need you one day

LW: I'll do. So why is your hair so black.

LW tries to touch some of DW hair when she kneled down.

LW: My Daddy had black hair to but I said I put all the
white there cause I'm such a troublemaker.

Before the rambling goes on DW interrupts her younger self.

DW: It's magic

LW: There's no such thing as magic

DW( smiling) That's what you think now but believe me there
is. Wanna see a trick.

The dolly that Willow the toddler held in her hands starts to shift and turn and begins flying in the air.

LW: How did you do that?

DW: Magic

LW: But in my fairy book magic is all white and sparkely not dark

DW: Shall I tell you a story?

LW: Only when you carry me home I get sleepy when it's
story time. And it must have a happy ending.

DW lifts her up and walks home while talking to LW

DW: There used to be a girl. With her best friends she
fought monsters and demons and grew up to become a powerful
witch. But she wasn't happy. The guy she had been with just left
her.

LW: Was she sad?

Little Willow was already dazing of.

DW: Yeah she was pretty sad. But she found another friend at
that time; another witch. They did some nice and beautiful
spells together like floating a rose and other cool stuff you
could do together.

LW: Did they fall in love with each other don't wanna hear the
end if not.

Dark Willow was a bit surprised at that but continued the story,
her story.

DW: Yeah they fell for each other. But then a demon queen came
along and stole the other witches mind. The girl was so sad that
all she wanted was to hunt down the demon queen for hurting her
beloved and freeing her mind.

LW was falling asleep very fast but she still managed to ask
questions.

LW: Did she make it?(yawn)

DW: Yeah. But

LW: Good end of story sleep now.

They already reached the Rosenburgs' house but Dark Willow didn't dare to enter. She hadn't been here for a long time even before college she tried to spent more time elsewhere than in the house of her parents. Her parents' house just didn't felt right. Certainly she used to live there but she had more lonely times than happy times there. At one time she felt safe there but that changed after Angelus. At that time she wasn't only lonely she felt unprotected and no spell or uninviting could cure that feeling. She was really happy when she could leave and live with Buffy in their dorm room. But when Spike succeeded in entering her dorm room intruding her private area once again the feeling was back. With Oz leaving her, live became lonely once again. Then Tara appeared. Tara didn't only managed to make her feel loved. With Tara she felt safe even safer than with Buffy for Buffy always seemed to be at patrol or with Riley or both...on patrol with Riley.

When Glory came and took Tara away from her Willow realised didn't only wanted revenge for Tara she wanted to give Tara and her other friends the safety she needed the most. She felt like all she did was watch the others protect her while she was to willing to recline and take what they had offered. With this thoughts in her mind she started to gain powers to protect them and take Tara back from where Glory imprisoned her. It was time for her to stand on her own. And now she was the most powerful witch in the western hemisphere and if she couldn't get her everything back she sure would make the world more bearing by killing all who had been responsible for her death.

As soon as she was out of this time shift she would start by making Jonathan and Andrew pay for their crimes. That was what she thought of arriving here but things kinda changed when she met her younger self. Some of the anger seemed to vanish and a few red streaks appeared in her hair. They weren't many but they were noticeable.

After a while Dark Willow levitated up to her former bedroom and leid her younger version in her bed. She took a look around and realised for the first time that her room never really changed. The only things that were added later were the computer and the fishtank. She looked around a bit more and started to vanish again