Two Giles Drabbles

[il_mio_capitano]

I'm feeling good this morning so there are two drabbles. I'm possibly being a bit too competitive.

Title: Sacrifice
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Rating: FRT
Characters: Giles, Xander

"If we'd been having sex, none of this would have happened."

Though his hands were tied uncomfortably behind him, Giles twisted to look incredulously at his similarly bound friend."Well not together, obviously," Xander continued. "I just mean if either of us had any kind of social life, we wouldn't be in this mess."

Giles looked to where the high priest was preparing his sacrificial alter and conceded the point.

"I suppose there are better ways to spend a Saturday night. Did Buffy give you any kind of timeframe for when she'd be joining us?"

"I thought you called her?"

Title: New life
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Rating: FRT
Characters: Giles, Travers, A bit of Faith


He booked the next flight out to Sunnydale but Travers intercepted him.

"A monstrous resurrection. It is your duty, Rupert, to take whatever is out there and put it back in the bloody ground!"

"Not if it is really Buffy."

Travers oozed, "Then I'm sure Faith will eagerly take the opportunity to set matters right."

Giles could only smile. He'd anticipated that move already and phoned the jail. 'Yeah, Mr Stuffy Butt rang, but we're five by five here, G.'

"Faith isn't terribly interested in Council offers." He savoured his advantage. "What's the matter, Quentin? I thought you called her?"

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

The second one is delightful. Love that Giles (and Faith) are a step ahead of Travers. :)

[il_mio_capitano]

Thank you. The second one was hard to write. Mainly because I thought it would be cute to end on the same line. Probably over-reaching but never mind, they both just about work.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Yay for ambition!

Did Buffy give you any kind of timeframe for when she'd be joining us?"

"I thought you called her?"

HAH! That sounds about right for these two.

The second one has a scenario I'd never imagined - or seen anyone write, but damn Travers is a creep here. You do not mince words *pun intended* where he's concerned. But also incredibly stupid - how could he even imagine Faith would want anything to do with the council at that point?

[il_mio_capitano]

To be fair to Travers, I wouldn't be too keen on having a zombie slayer on the payroll either. Still, his attempt to threaten Giles by having Faith released was misjudged. He underestimates them both I think. Faith doesn't need his help to get out of prison, it's ner choice to stay. And Giles isn't so stupid that he wouldn't check in with her.

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for reading.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

a zombie slayer on the payroll either

You mean metaphorically? As far as I can tell from canon, Buffy was never "on the payrol" to start with. (I assume Slayers were taken care of by their Watchers in the past and died young enough so it wasn't an issue. But Joss kind of sucks when it comes to financial issues and any understanding of the working class anyway.)

By the by, have you read clockwork_hart1's lovely rewrite of Checkpoint, where Anya pipes up and insists on a salary for Buffy? http://clockwork-hart1.livejournal.com/16507.html

He underestimates them both I think.

TOTAL agreement.

Faith doesn't need his help to get out of prison, it's ner choice to stay.

And she certainly wouldn't choose to repeat her actions in This Years Girl/Who are You (much less S3.) She's moving beyond bloodlust or vengeance.

That's the thing about Travers, he doesn't bother to really KNOW who any of these people are.

[il_mio_capitano]

Yes, metaphorically. The Economics of Slaying are pretty fraught. I suspect the entire policy of making a teenage girl a slayer is partly based on financial exploitation of a minor.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I suspect the entire policy of making a teenage girl a slayer is partly based on financial exploitation of a minor.

YES - as well as the fact that women and children were literally the legal property of men, whoever was their "guardian" at a given time. A boy might declare his independence and strike out on his own at age 18 (or whatever the age was in any give period); a female "adult" was always a considered a minor.

I'm surprised that neither canon or fandom explore that very much, it seems like such a rich topic for consideration.

[il_mio_capitano]

Oh I could do something on that totally. I might have a muse.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

YES!!!

(Kwritten has done a lot with the buffyverse and finances recently in her "finding a balance" verse and I'd rec it to you because her stories are wonderful - but not so much Giles-friendly, so I won't do so here unless asked.)

[lynnylou.livejournal.com]

These are both great I love how you ended both of the with the same line.

[il_mio_capitano]

Thank you. I thought it might be fun to finish on the same line.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

These are both awesome although I like the first one a bit better. I like how you took the sex line and turned it into a completely non sexy situation.

Also kudos for taking the two separate threads of ending lines and joining them back together. ;-)

[il_mio_capitano]

Thank you. I prefer the first one too though I'd love to have written it more fuller. Giles and Xander being useless are comedy gold.

[protoneoromanic.livejournal.com]

Yes! Just when I had feared that the mystical forces surrounding the line of the drabbles had been irrevocably destabilized, you stepped into the breach like a goddess to save the day! Good on ya.

[il_mio_capitano]

Thank you. It was surprisingly hard work. I didn't want to sacrifice the joke last line of the Xander one. So then I had to make the second one fit.