When Dreams Fall

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Title: When Dreams Fall
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: Teen
Characters: Rupert Giles
Concrit: Please, in comments
Summary: Rupert's reaction when he first learned he was to be a Watcher.
Setting: pre-series

Rupert was ten the year he was told about the Council, the Watchers, and the Slayer. He was told that if he was very diligent he might be assigned a Slayer one day. The words were supposed to be encouraging. All he'd planned to do and all he'd planned to be was gone, just like that.

Rupert left the house and wandered, eventually finding himself near the woods. The leaves, once red and gold on the trees, had turned into a dull brown after they'd fallen to the ground. Soon they'd decompose and fade into nothingness, just like his dreams.

Comments

[littleotter73]

Oh man, I want to hug young Giles and make the hurt go away!

Very evocative!

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Excellent. That makes me so happy! ;-)

[il_mio_capitano]

Very nice indeed. Poor baby!Giles.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I tend to think of autumn as more of a time of loss than as a harvest time. It must be because I grew up in the suburbs rather than out on a farm. ;-)

[katleept.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Giles! Beautiful wording, especially the end which was almost prose like!

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you. *huge grin*

[randigiles]

I love young Giles stories, whether they be shorts or novels. You take on his reaction is both beautiful and heart tugging.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This is, I believe, my first time writing young Giles. ;-)