Drabble: Confessions of a Bibliophile

[quaggy]

Title: Confessions of a Bibliophile
Author: Quaggy
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Rewind Prompt: Books (His Favorite Things)
Notes: Been working on this since the prompt was first posted, but I was always a little over. Finally got it down to 100 words. Cross-posted on my own page and here on Ao3


Ethan stopped teasing him about poking around bookshops after he’d brought home that old spell book. And if anyone asked, the poetry was to impress girls. But, in reality, he could no more abandon his books than he could stop breathing. The musty smell as he walked through the bookshop door, the triumph of a successful hunt, the joy in an unexpected treasure, the comfort of a paperback in his back pocket, they were all a part of him.

Ripper had left behind everything that had to do with Rupert Giles, but he took his love of books with him.

Comments

[dragonyphoenix]

Ooh, this is lovely. This seems so truly Ripper. Great story!

[quaggy]

Thank you so much! As a bibliophile myself, I can't imagine Giles not loving books no matter what period of his life it was

[foreverbooks]

Great story! I love the idea of Giles stubbornly holding on to this one part of himself, no matter what anybody else thought.

[quaggy]

Thank you! I think a love of books becomes so ingrained that he'd never leave it behind :-)

[littleotter73]

This is beautiful! We take our comfort and loves with us. It's who we are. I totally see Ripper taking refuge in book shops and saving up any money he has to buy a book... or lifting the one he wants if he doesn't have the money. ;) I imagine he haunts the occasion library too.

[quaggy]

Exactly. And, even today, there are so many places to pick up used books in London. I think Ripper never be able to resist the call!

[double_dutchess]

Oh yes, I'm sure no one could tear Giles away from his books, even as Ripper.

(Here via Buffyverse Top 5.)

[quaggy]

Once a bibliophile, always a bibliophile :-)

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[yourlibrarian]

We are what we love :)

Re: Here from buffyversetop5

[quaggy]

This is true! :-)