Title: From the Darkness into the Light
Author: Dark Topaz
Email: R (just to be safe)
Pairing: D/Willow
Genre: VHD/ BtVS
Disclaimer: anyone familiar I don't own
Feedback: Yes please
Summary: At the showdown with Glory while they lost a slayer they gained a hunter and more.
Author's Note: Takes place during Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and season five of Buffy, Tara and Willow didn't start dating. the writers block has been broken

Willow held her head in her hands with her newly lengthened hair draped around and over her face. She listened as every one argued around her both Scoobys and, as she had come to call them, Hunters alike. She looked up to see Buffy lying unconscious on the couch in front of her. She could still see in her minds eye how they had nearly lost her.

Everyone stared in horror as Buffy's body plummeted from the tower to the ground below. Only to have the horror turned to shock as she body started to slow down five feet from the ground and stop barely a foot from the ground.

Willow released a pent up breath as she felt her spell catch and hold Buffy's body.

" Meir, could you get her down." Willow called. She kept her eyes on Buffy's floating form as she watched Meir's shadowy form glide closer. And behind her she could hear the others all around her. She could her Xander and Anya arguing in the background.

Which they where still now, actually when are they not arguing, but right now it was being more destructive then it normally would. " Will you two please be quiet." She pleaded. ' I wish I could gag those two.' She thought only to watch in shock as her hair shot out and wrapped around Xander and Anya's mouth. " What in the world?" Willow gasped as she stared at her hair in shock.

" I don't believe it." Mashira laughed. " I should of known she wouldn't of just died. She would of found of found a way to survive."

" Who?" Giles asked as he looked up from where he was trying to unwind willow's hair from around Xander and Anya's heads.

" Charlotte" Mashira got out shakily. " She was a matter manipulator. She could manipulate any part of her body from her hair to her very skin. She could also merge with insentient objects plants, buildings, or vehicles it made no differences she would merge with them and manipulate them."

" I remember that she joined with a tree and created all of these vine spikes." D said quietly from his corner.

" She was hit by lightning wasn't she?" Willow asked.

" Took all of the energy I had left to direct it but yes the tree she was joined with was struck." D said in response to the curiosity that he believed was coming from Willow.

" If she doesn't get a hang of that we are headed for interesting times." Lefty mumbled into the chair arm that D had a death grip on.

" What was that?" Dawn asked from behind him.

" It is a sentient parasite." D replied without acknowledging her in any other way.

" That answers so much." She said sarcastically as she scooted around him and head for the couch that held her sister.

" This is getting us no where." Giles said as he gave up on trying to unwrap Willow's hair from around Xander's head. " You Mashira, you spent time with this Charlotte woman."

" Yea." Mashira replied warily.

" Then help Willow get control of her hair." Giles snapped.

" Yes, grandfather." Mahsira yelped as he jumped up and headed over to where Willow was sitting and starting to panic.

" Grandfather?" Giles asked all of the wind shocked out of his sails.

" Term of respect for a leading elder." D explained as he focus his gaze on where Mashira had crouched behind Willow and was whispering in her ear.

" Ah, I see." Giles said somewhat mollified. They all stared as Willow's hair unwound itself and pulled itself back to hang loosly hehind her.

" There that should do it for now." Mashiera said as he pulled away from her. " But I would highly suggest that you practice you control."

" You asked about her getting hit by lightning earlier?" D asked bringing Willow's attention to him.

" Yes, I saw in a vision just before, or was it while I was changing." She trailed off only to shake her self. " Never mind that, anyway she told me that she would see me again in nine months."

" Nine months, what could she possible mean by nine months." Giles mused as he sat down on the cornor of couch next to Buffy's head. " Willow exactly what was your deal with the Goddess?" he asked.

" Ah shoot." Willow said as fully realized what was ahead of her.

" Ahh, guys in the intrest of my mental health can we change the subject." Xander asked. Which earned him glares from both Giles and surpriseingly D. " I mean Slayer, Hellmouth who will guard I am just saying." Xander rambled as he held his hands up defensively.

" The Slayer's powers have been destroyed." A deep voice issued from Willow. " The balance has been restored but do not worry my children. You shall need not worry about the mouth of hell for it shall be in the charge of my daughter and her allies." the voice continued.

" Good, then we don't need to be here Xander lets go have orgasams." Anya stated as she slapped her hands against her knees decisively. " Would you mind asking Willow if we could borrow a room who ever you are?" she asked as everone in the room stared at her in shock.

" Not now Anya." Xander exclaimed red faced.

" Why are you having trouble getting it up again?" she asked innocently.