Chapter Three

Buffy brought little Willow to the library. Thank god Giles was working today. He was sitting at the table reading a book. He looked up when she came in. "Buffy who is that?" he said as soon as he saw the little girl standing next to her. She was cute, and had red hair like Willow's. The girl walked up to him. "My name is Willow. I'm eight years old. What's your name?"

My god he thought, what happened. She was a little girl. "My name is Giles, Willow."

"Willow, honey why don't you sit here and draw." Buffy said to the little girl, bringing her up to the table. She got out some colored pencils from the counter and got some paper that was sitting in a pile next to Giles's open book. Willow got up on a chair and sat down and started drawing.

Buffy and Giles went into his office and closed the door. "What happened, Buffy?" "Well me and Xander found her. She told me she was going to do the spell you told her not to, then she was going to meet us for lunch. We saw her running past us and Xander said it looked like Willow when she was little. So we just knew that it was her. We ran after her into the park. We talked her into coming with us here. Xander went to get some munchies for us. Giles what are we going to do? How do we change her back? If the older Willow were here she would know what to do. It's not fair that the person we need the most right now is the one we have to save."

Giles thought for a minute. "You say she was doing the spell I told her not to do right? All we have to do is get the potion that she made and find what she did wrong. That would mean that we have to see the list that she made of the ingredients and see what she didn't put into the potion yet. Let's call Oz and have him go over to her house and meet you there. Both of you can look around her room, and bring the potion and the ingredients that she hasn't used, back here."

Buffy and Giles came out of his office. They had already called Oz and Buffy was leaving to go meet him at Willow's house. Willow was drawing, but it was getting boring. She saw Buffy leave and saw Giles sit down across from her and read his book. She wanted Xander to get here, so that she could have her cookies. She wanted to go with Buffy, because Giles was too something. She couldn't think of the word that described him. She was bored. All of a sudden, Xander came in the door carrying a box of donuts and a bag of cookies. He smiled at Willow.

"Hey Willow, whatcha been doing? I brought some donuts and cookies for all of us." She wasn't bored anymore; Xander was here and could entertain her. "Xander, can I have some of both? I have been drawing and it's been boring. Can you tell me a joke? I want to hear a joke."

"Sure buddy, you can have two cookies and one donut. Can I see your drawings? Then I'll tell you some jokes."

"This is a picture of me, Jesse, and you. You are Xander all grown up, aren't you? Well this is me alone in my basement, after daddy axdently locked me in there. He didn't know I was there."

"Willow I am Xander all grown up. You are right. Now this is a new joke that I just thought up. There was a man.........

Buffy and Oz got the stuff that Giles asked them to without any trouble. They brought it into the library, as they walked in they heard little Willow laughing at a joke that Xander had told them a week ago. Obviously he had told her a lot of his jokes, because Giles looked like he was ready to stab him with the pencil that was in his hand. "What is going on in here? Xander you gave her too much sugar, soon she'll be jumping off the walls." Buffy said as she looked into the bag and box of goodies.

Oz went over to Giles and placed the cauldron in front of him. Buffy brought over the rest of the ingredients that Willow hadn't used, and set them beside the cauldron. She reached into her pocket and brought out the list and gave it to Giles. "Hey Willow, what have you been doing sweetie?" Willow got up and brought up the two pictures to Buffy. She smiled and hugged Buffy around the waist, as she told her what each picture represented.

A little later

Giles and Oz were setting up there own cauldron and checking Willow's list to make sure they were doing it right. Buffy went to tell Angel about Willow. Xander was keeping Willow occupied with books he had brought from home. Willow was reading and sitting in Xander's lap as he wrote down jokes to tell her later, when they could talk out loud. Right now they needed to be quiet, Giles and Oz were trying to concentrate.

"Okay, I think we've got it. Come here and stand their Willow." Giles said as he pointed to a spot in front of the cauldron. Willow got up and stood where she was told. "Throw this in." Giles gave her an ingredient and she threw it in. There was a huge puff of smoke and when it cleared little Willow was still there.

"I wonder what we did wrong?" Giles asked out loud as he scratched his head.