Ugh. Okay. Seriously not the reassuring Giles thing she was going for. Or, you know, the 'not to worry I shall fix this' Gilesy thing she was going for. She had almost killed the man once, right about the time she had absorbed *all* the magic books - good or bad - in the old magic shop. Right about the time she almost killed Dawnie and Buffy, almost ended the words, didn't almost but most definitely killed a guy.
She had turned all potentials into Slayers and felt that power course through her body like the addiction it was. It had been so, so hard to reject it from consuming her whole. Though it was kinda nice to have Kennedy call her 'goddess' in *that* way. If only it didn't turn out Kennedy was scared of her power, her magic and in the end couldn't cope.
So how come people were looking at her like she was just a wee witch who could do nothing but mere parlour tricks? So how come her friends, who had been there with the whole murder killing streak, *especially* Giles who had been almost killed by her, acted like she was still cute little innocent Willow?
She wasn't. She hadn't been in a long, long, *long* time. With all this raw power, all the power she had been *trained* to use at the coven, she should have been able to put Angel's soul back inside him. Should have.
And now with Buffy pushing her away and Xander and Giles going their own way, Willow had never felt more alone. Or useless. Giles' 'whether you can perform magic or not' wasn't calming her down at all. In fact, it made her panic and not listen to the rest he was saying. Green eyes went impossibly wide, mouth started to open but nothing came out at first, just kept hanging open as she stared at him.
"You think I can't do magic no more too," she whispered, finally snapping her mouth shut only to chew her bottom lip to bits. "I knew it! It *has* gone all wonky haywire! Did someone take it away?" And that was the weird part. Willow knew it was still there, knew she still had the magic, but was convinced since she hadn't been able to help or figure out things with Angel something had to be terribly wrong.