Chapter Four

Willow looked up at Giles. "When will I go home? Was that sposed to send me there? I'm not sure I want to go back. No I don't want to go back." She said as Buffy walked through the doors.

"Well I called Willow's mom and told her that she's sleeping over at my house tonight, so we don't have to worry about that. What is it?" she asked as she saw Giles look confusedly at her.

"We tried the potion idea and it didn't work. It also seems that Willow doesn't want to go home. She wants to stay here with us."

"Honey is that true?" Buffy looked down at Willow and grinned. Willow ran over to Buffy and jumped up into her arms. Buffy held her and kissed her cheek.

"Personally I wouldn't mind having Willow stay, would any of you?" As all the people nodded and agreed with her, Willow smiled. "Does that mean that I won't have to go back?" Willow asked. She wanted to stay it was fun here.

"Why do you want to stay?" Giles asked her, looking into her little face.

"Well, Xander is funny, Buffy is nice, you are smart and talk weird, and he (pointing to Oz) is nice. Can I stay? Please, Pleaseeeeee!" Everybody laughed.

Buffy dropped Willow to the floor and walked over to the window. It was getting dark. Night would be there soon. "We should wait until tomorrow to do anything more. There won't be anything we can do without a good night sleep. Angel can come and walk us all home. Just taking precautions so that we can keep her safe. We wouldn't want her to get changed." Buffy said the last part, because everybody stared at her.

As soon as dark came, Angel came and walked Buffy and little Willow home. Willow thought that Angel was mysterious, but nice. Before they got to Buffy's house though they ran into a group of vampires. Buffy and Angel fought, while trying to keep little Willow behind them. While they were fighting, a vampire grabbed Willow from behind them and put a hand over her mouth, so she couldn't make a noise.

Suddenly, the vampires that hadn't been staked ran away. It looked as if this had all been planned, because little Willow was gone. She hadn't made a sound and Buffy was worried. "Angel it's all my fault that she's gone, we have to go tell Giles." Buffy and Angel go to the library and tell Giles what had happened. Xander and Oz got called in and they thought about where the vampires could have taken Willow.

Meanwhile in the old warehouse, the vampires gathered around The Anointed One. "We have brought you the little girl you told us about master." One vampire told the little boy. He smiled at the vampires. "Can I see her? Bring her to me." The little boy wanted to see the girl who had been turned into an eight-year-old. She was supposed to be the smart one of the friends of the slayers'. The vampire left the room and brought in Willow. She struggled against him, but wasn't strong enough. She started to scream. "Let me go. I don't want to be here. They will all come look for me. They will kill you all." She was scared, and the boy was glad. She stopped screaming when she saw him.

Willow saw a little boy. Was he the one who wanted her, he was a kid. He couldn't be the one they were all scared of. No way. But it looked like it, because all the vampires were standing around him as if he was their leader. The vampire shoved her onto the floor in front of the little boy. "You will bring the slayer to us. She will come to save you and she will die. Tie her up." The boy told her this and she couldn't understand why he would do this. He was a little boy. A vampire picked her up and set her onto a chair. He tied her with rope and left her there. Everyone left the room. She was alone in the room with her hands and feet tied so tightly that she was getting rope burns.

Willow saw a knife on a table across the room. She wanted it to cut her rope. All of a sudden, the knife floated over and cut the rope. It took a few minutes, but when she was free, she ran to the door and ran out into the night. She wanted to go find Buffy and all her other friends.