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Title: Parenting
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles' parents
Length: 100
Rating: FRC
Previous line: “He reminds me of you.”

“He reminds me of you.”

“Rupert?” Henry Giles looked at his wife in disbelief. “Are you serious? Which part of dropping out of Oxford, mixing with ne’er-do-wells, engaging in wild orgies, raising demons and then having wild orgies with them…” He paused to wipe his brow. “Which part of that do you imagine we have in common?”

“Well obviously none of that, although he regrets dropping out of Oxford.” She took his hand. “My point is that at his age, you were frightened of failing too. Your mother had high expectations.”

“It made a man of me.”

“Give him time.”

littleotter73

Title: The Watcher

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles and Buffy or Giles/Buffy

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Last Line: You’re very handsome.

“You’re very handsome, aren’t you?” Buffy cooed as she dropped to her knees in front of the object of her affection. Reaching out, she picked up the little bundle and gently petted the soft, fuzzy head and velvety ears. “Are you mommy’s boy?”

Around her several other puppies rumbled and tumbled about, but she’d only had eyes the one who’d sat and watched patiently as his siblings played before taking advantage of an opportunity to pounce on his pack.

“Are you sure, Buffy?” Giles asked.

Snuggling the pup to her chest, she smiled. “Oh yes. He reminds me of you.”

il_mio_capitano

Title: Big Compliments
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Rating: FRT
Characters: Giles, Spike, Xander
Previous line: “He’s SuperWatcher!” (Thanks Otter!)

“He’s SuperWatcher!”

“He’s super wanker more like.” Spike slipped out of the shadows and grinned at them.

“What are you doing here?” Giles asked.

“Mostly listening to Harris saying how bleeding marvellous you are. Oh, and Buffy said something about a sick elephant demon that needs killing?”

“Sycophant demon,” Giles clarified.

“Isn’t he just the best!” added Xander.

“A Suck-up Squid? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. What does it look like?”

Giles pointed to the lurking twenty-foot creature.

Spike gulped. “You’re a right big bugger, aren’t you?”

“And you…” The demon stretched a playful tentacle. “You’re very handsome.”

littleotter73

Title: Voiceover

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles and Xander

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Last line: He was a man who knew how to forge a signature.

A/N: I changed the line to present tense

“He is a man who knows how to forge a signature and how to how to pick a lock. He’s a man who knows how to hot wire a car and heroically dabbles in magicks-“

“Do shut up, Xander, your running commentary is beginning to sound like my eulogy,” Giles instructed as they wandered down the alley towards the last place Buffy’s lizard demon had been spotted.

Undeterred, Xander continued, “He’s a man who brews tea to perfection and then forgets its there all while solving the most complex supernatural prophecies known to man and demon alike.”

“Xander-“

“He’s SuperWatcher!”

il_mio_capitano

Title: Negotiations
Author: il_mio_capitano
Rating: FRC
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Snyder
Previous line: “I knew I had been served decaf!”

“I knew I had been served decaf!” Principal Snyder spat the coffee out in disgust. “Now, why are you in my office and not teaching?”

Giles kept his cool. “Because I’m here to ask if you’ve signed my requisition order.”

“More books? They haven’t read the old ones yet. We’re a school not a book club.”

A stray fantasy crossed Giles’ mind of stuffing the pompous little man into one of his desk drawers, coffee and all. Ripper would have done so, but Giles was not a violent man. He was a man who knew how to forge a signature.

Notes: There probably should be a colon rather than a full stop on those last two lines, but I figured that would be a harsh line to leave Otter as a starting part.

littleotter73

Title: Selective Hearing

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles and Buffy

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100
Last Line: Tell me in the car

“Tell me in the car,” she growled, her temper flaring as she slammed the door of the ancient Citroen behind her. Tugging on her seatbelt, she asked,, “Do you have any idea how seriously creepy it looks that the school librarian shows up and tells me I have to leave?”

“Yes, well, had you actually listened to me earlier, you would have skipped the Bronze altogether and we’d be at the cemetery now waiting for Cecil Bautista to rise.”

He had a point.

Crossing her arms over her chest, she huffed, “Evil barista? I knew I had been served decaf!”

il_mio_capitano

Title: He Really Should’ve Opened with That
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Rating: FRC
Length: 100
Previous line: “I… uh… there’s a prophecy…”

“I… uh… there’s a prophecy…”

Buffy had been heading out the door when he’d stammered his warning. She looked at him coldly.

“Is it the one about a school librarian found bludgeoned to death amongst his books?”

“Not unless there’s a sequel…” She didn’t look amused, so he continued, “I mis-translated it originally, I thought it was Earth’s Mother was under threat, but of course, that makes no sense…”

“Giles,” she interrupted. “While at least one of us is still young and pretty.”

“It’s actually Slayer’s Mother...”

Buffy grabbed two axes from the weapon’s locker.

“Tell me in the car.”

littleotter73

Title: Conflicted

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Buffy

Rating: FRT

Word Count: 100

Last Line: Do you have any other talents?

“Do you have any other talents, Giles?” Buffy purred as he massaged away the tension in her back.

He swallowed at her implication and cleared his throat. “I brew a wicked cup of tea,” he answered dryly.

She made a noise that was just shy of orgasmic as he worked out the knot between her scapula and spine. “Tell me something I don’t know,” she sighed appreciatively.

“I-I think we are done here.”

Buffy turned, clutching her loose bra to cover herself up. “Wait, what?”

His face reflected both regret and apology as he retreated. “I… uh… there’s a prophecy…”

il_mio_capitano

Title: Auspicious Beginnings
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Rating: FRC
Characters: Giles (and yes of course it’s Ethan)

It was time for last orders. He stood and fumbled in his jeans pocket for a pound note.

“My round,” he mumbled but his new friend put a hand on his arm and sat him down again.

“No, I’ll get them in.”

“VerykindofyouI’msure,” Rupert slurred.

Two pints and whisky chasers appeared in front of him almost immediately. “As if by magic!” he solemnly declared. “Cheers!” Rupert felt a childish need to show off and drained his glass.

“Not exactly by magic, dear boy. Although you do seem to have made that disappear rather quickly. Do you have any other talents?”

littleotter73

Title: Time

Author: littleotter73

Character: Giles

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Last Line: She had a point

She had a point. She wasn’t his Slayer no matter how much she looked like her and, as good as the programming was, there was always something off. Something… not quite Buffy. So, with the bot’s training complete, what the hell was he still doing there?

Sunnydale would be safe until the next Slayer showed up. It wasn’t his concern. The Faith question was between Angel and the Council. He honestly didn’t care.

He was tired. He was lost. And he just couldn’t handle the ghost of her in every corner nor the visual reminder before him.

It was time.

il_mio_capitano

Title: Looking Ahead
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles, Anya
Length: 100
Rating: FRT
Previous line: “The way I see it, our mission’s only just begun.”

“The way I see it, our mission’s only just begun,” Anya said ominously.

Giles looked aghast. “But we’ve just spent 8 hours decorating the Magic Box for Halloween. What more is there to do?”

“We need to be ready for the next wave. We should put a few of the expensive Grampus items out near the till. Customers will snap them up.”

“But it’s only just October,” he pleaded.

“Exactly. There are bored people out there, people who want nothing better than to spend their money on Christmas crap to make their lives seem less worthless.”

She had a point.

littleotter73

Title: The Time Between

Author: littleotter73

Rating: FRC

Characters: Giles, Buffy

Word Count: 100

Last Line: You’re on your own.

“You’re on your own now, Buff,” she muttered, watching the new Slayers scatter towards their hotel rooms. It wasn’t as if she wanted to hang out with them, their youthful exuberance and general excitement after defeating the First was understandable, but she was tired, injured, and to be honest, she was was on the verge of collapse.

Giles spoke softly as he emerged from the shadows. “I wouldn’t say that.”

“Mission’s done, you can go home again,” she sighed.

“Now where’s the fun in that?” he asked, his eyes sparkling. “The way I see it, our mission’s only just begun.”

il_mio_capitano

Title: School Supplier
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Willow, Xander, Jessie, Giles (in spirit)
Rating: FRT – for the bad accents
Previous line: "He's British!"

“He’s British!”

In Willow’s opinion, she’d left the best part about the new librarian till last. Her friends merely stared at her until Xander said, “Pip, pip, I say is it tiffin time?”

And Jessie added, “What oh, old bean. Where’s my monocle?”

“He’s not like that,” Willow complained as they laughed. “Well, he is a bit like that, but he’s really nice and he’s brought loads of old books.”

“God forbid this school buys anything new,” said Xander. “What are we going to do with crusty old books?”

“Er.. read them?” Willow suggested.

“No thanks. You’re on your own.”

littleotter73

Title: Presumption

Author: littleotter73

Rating: FRC

Characters: Giles, Buffy, Dawn

Word Count: 100

Last Line: Giles blew on his tea calmly

Giles blew on his tea calmly, which didn’t reflect the inner turmoil he felt witnessing the unfolding drama between his Slayer and her sister as their argument escalated. Of course, he tried to stay out of it.

“Giles,” Buffy whined. “A little help here?”

“Ugh! You can’t always pout at him and get your way!”

He rolled his eyes. “Now, Dawn-“

“You always side with her!”

“Yes, well, I have to agree. Dating vampires is strictly prohibited.”

“Wait! Is that your objection?“ Dawn scoffed at them. “He’s not a vamp!”

“He’s rather pale,” Giles noted.

“Hello! Pot, kettle! He’s British!”

il_mio_capitano

Title: Manners
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Rating: FTC
Previous line: “Call yer Slayer off!”

“Call your Slayer off!”

Having just poured tea from his thermos, Giles was in no mind to do so. Besides, the Armani-suited vampire had been particularly disruptive all over town, and well, it was a vampire.

“Bring her to heel, Watcher!”

“Hey,” Buffy objected. “What is it with you city boys and the patronising crap?”

She launched into a further frenzy of assault, combining it with a diatribe on sexism, entitlement, privilege, and how his stupid hair sucked. It was clearly not going to be a night of plunge and move on.

Oh well. Giles blew on his tea calmly.

littleotter73

Title: The Ace Up His Sleeve

Author: littleotter73

Rating: FRC

Characters: Giles, Spike, and Buffy

Word Count: 100

Last Line: Are you looking at next week’s TV guide?

“Are you looking at next week’s TV guide?”

Giles pointedly ignored him, totally exasperated. His unwanted houseguest yammered on nonstop all day like a kindergartner high on sweets and puppies.

“Oi!”

He leaned forward in his chair, reading from the digest. “Will little Timmy wake in time to defeat-“

Spike rattled his chains. “Don’t you spoil Passions for me, Watcher! I’ll-”

“Patrol was lame,” Buffy grumbled, entering the apartment. “Wait! Giles, is he… threatening you?”

A feral grin spread across his face. “Why, yes he is.”

“Rupert!” Spike begged as Buffy stalked closer, stake in hand. “Call yer Slayer off!”

il_mio_capitano

Title: I Have Many Skills
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles, Xander, Buffy
Length: 100
Rating: FRC

“Because it’s Xander. That’s the prophecy of the True Warrior.”

Giles looked up from his book to see his young friends staring open-mouthed at him. Xander had been particularly annoying up to that point so Giles focused on him. “I’m sorry, but it speaks here of a great warrior who will fight for truth and righteousness. The fate of the world rests with the one called Xander.”

The boy who’d dripped pizza all over the books looked pale.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Giles deadpanned. “I meant to say Xena.”

Buffy narrowed her eyes.

“Are you looking at next week’s TV guide?”

littleotter73

Title: The Sophisticated Palate

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Xander, Dawn

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Last Line: I’m still here for you

“I’m still here for you, Giles,” Xander stated in support, “but I have to agree with the ladies, corn and prawn is really weird, and we’re from California: home of the weird and wacky delicious pie.”

Giles sighed the heavy sigh of a man who had long suffered at the hands of his young friends and tucked into his pizza as they stared on in fascination.

“Have an open mind,” he groused.

Xander’s pizza arrived loaded with every almost every topping imaginable, including eggs.

Giles tossed his utensils in disgust. “How is that not weird?”

Dawn shrugged. “Because it’s Xander.”

littleotter73

Title: After

Author: littleotter73

Rating: FRC

Characters: Giles and Buffy

Word Count:100

“It’s the first time I’ve seen you smile in a long time,” Giles noted, handing Buffy a cup of coffee.

“Yeah, well, things have been pretty shitty up until recently.”

“Understatement of a lifetime.”

“Or two.”

Raising his mug in salute, he asked, “So what now?”

She shook her head. “No clue. Still kinda reeling.”

“Sabbatical?” She looked receptive, so he pressed on, “Retirement, perhaps?”

“Whoa there, partner, that’s crazy talk!”

“A bridge too far,” Giles agreed. “Disneyland?”

“Sure, why not?” Buffy laughed and leaned into his shoulder. After a beat she said, “Maybe after.”

“After?”

“Mouse first. Retirement after.”

il_mio_capitano

Title: Retail Therapy
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles, Andrew
Rating PG
Length: 100

Previous line: Our mission isn’t done

“Our mission isn’t done yet, oh Tall One.”

Giles looked at Andrew and found himself wondering if anything were to happen to the boy, would anyone really miss him? Could he go back to the house, claim some sort of accident or run-in with the Bringers, and whoops, sorry, no Andrew?

“I’ll get the first aid supplies, you get the make-up and um, personal hygiene items for our Potential Red-shirts.”

If fact, would Giles even need an excuse? Would anyone even ask him what happened?

“Looting must agree with you, Mr Giles. It’s the first time I’ve seen you smile.”

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Entries tagged with last-line-first-line challenge

Drabble: Parenting

Drabble: The Watcher

Drabble: Big Compliments

Drabble: Voiceover

Drabble: Negotiations

Drabble: Selective Hearing

Drabble: He Really Should've Opened with That

Drabble: Conflicted

Drabble: Auspicious Beginnings

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