giles_shorts | Entries tagged with giles and buffy

Title: Lame Excuses
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Giles, Buffy (Joyce in spirit)
Previous line: Buffy would kill him if she ever found out

Buffy would kill him if she ever found out. Giles knew that for certain as he tidied his apartment frantically. She was due in five minutes and he was still hung over. His records were either on the floor or in the wrong sleeves. There were spillages, bottles, cigarettes ends, and burns on his rugs. An alarming smell of weed too. He didn’t remember buying that, but then he didn’t remember buying kahlua either.

Just as he grabbed some underwear off his turntable, Buffy opened his door.

“My God, Giles. What happened here last night?”

“Burglars?” He wasn’t very convincing.

littleotter73

Title: A Cheeky Nod to a Fan Favourite Trope
Author: littleotter73
Characters: Buffy, Giles, mention of Willow
Word Count: 100
Previous Line: Giles was the king of sarcasm.

Giles was the king of sarcasm, but Buffy could give as good as she got. As a result, they hadn't been on speaking terms for days and this had the Scoobies ducking for cover. Nothing was right when Watcher and Slayer were at war.

So leave it to the witch to intervene, locking them up together until they made up.

Giles furiously jiggled the door handle.

"You're the magic man," Buffy taunted. "Magic us out!"

"I've already tried," he growled. "She's too clever by half!"

After scanning their makeshift prison, their eyes met in horror.

There was only one bed!

il_mio_capitano

Title: Stuck With You Too
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Previous Line: Ah yes, problem solved

“Ah yes, problem solved,” Giles said confidently from under the hood.

Buffy sat behind the wheel with crossed arms. “You said that two hours ago.”

“Just try her once more.”

She turned the key to deafening silence.

“Ok. Let me try something else.”

“Giles, I want to go to college next year.”

“Where are you thinking of applying?”

“But I can’t go if we are still stuck here! Can’t we call someone?”

“Oh Excellent idea. Why didn’t I think of that hours ago?” He replied. “Do you have a phone?”

Buffy sulked in defeat. Giles was the king of sarcasm.

il_mio_capitano

It's been far too long since we've played First Line Last Drabbles. So let's countdown to Christmas and cheer what has been an extraordinary year.

Basic rules:
1. Drabbles are 100 words (although cheating is slightly allowed - especially by me)
2. The first line of a drabble must begin with the last line of a previous drabble
3. Otherwise no continuity is expected
3. Must involve Giles however slightly because, hey, we are Giles_shorts

Right then. I shall begin

Title: Choices
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Buffy, Giles
Rating PG for goo

Waving her crossbow, Buffy backed the two versions of Giles against the wall.

“It’s me,” Giles One said. “The other one is the demon.”

“Rubbish,” Giles Two pleaded. “It scanned my memories; don’t believe a word it says.”

Giles One removed his glasses. “Then look into my eyes. Remember how I was the only one who could look at you this way?”

Buffy smiled then blasted a bolt straight through his head. Giles One collapsed into green goo.

Real Giles released his breath. “Well, that could’ve gone badly wrong. What gave him away?”

“He looked too smug.”

“Good to know.”

littleotter73

Title: Work/Life Balance

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles and Buffy

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Last Line: Give him time

“Give him time,” Giles counseled as Buffy sighed in annoyance for the third time in thirty seconds. “Prophecies are precise, but demons are notoriously bad at telling time.”

“It would happen to be 'meet a demon for info night' tonight,” Buffy grumbled.

He handed her the cup of tea from his flask. “Do you have somewhere to be? The Bronze? A date?”

She shifted her weight and looked down at her feet. “I need to study for an exam tomorrow.”

Sometimes it was hard to believe she was still just a high school student. “Go home, Buffy. I’ll handle this.”

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.”

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!”

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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…”

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: 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.

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Title: Fall
Author: il_mio_capitano
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Length: 100
Rating PG

Previous Line: Retirement after.

“Retirement? After all I’ve been through?”

Buffy took his hand.

“Giles, that’s rather the point.”

“But Glory is still out there. And The Master, he will rise again. We need to get back to the library and research –“

“Giles!” She squeezed his hand and fixed him in the eye. “Come back to me.”

“Oh.” He stopped and looked around the sunny patio and at the autumn trees turning golden. “I did it, again didn’t I? He ran a hand self-consciously through his grey hair. “Sorry. One too many blows to the head.”

“It’s OK. I’m still here for you.”

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.”

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Title: I, Buffy
Author: Will_conqueror1
Rating: FRT
Pairing: Buffy/Giles
Summary: Buffy asks Giles for a favor in order to help her reconnect with her dad.
Word Count: 1000
Notes: Written for Giles Shorts and the “Marriage of Convenience/Fake Dating” trope prompt. I may follow this up with another, longer, fic for Summer of Giles this year.

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littleotter73

Title: The Visitor

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Buffy

Rating: FRT

Word Count: 1000

Prompt: Tropes - Time Travel

Disclaimer: Just for fun, not profit.

A/N: Many thanks to il_mio_capitano for the sanity check

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dhw

Title: The Eye of the Storm

Author: DHW

Word Count: 1,000

Challenge: Tropes - Time Travel

Rating: T

A/N: Thanks to Quaggy for helping me Americanize the bits that needed Americanizing (see, I even spelt it with a ‘z’). =D

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quaggy

Title: Great Expectations
Author: Quaggy
Word Count: 100
Last line prompt: “He'll be the one laughing.”
Pairing: B/G

He'll be the one laughing at Buffy’s wedding, that’s what he always thought. And why wouldn’t he be? His Slayer would have beaten all the odds and been able to have that normal life she so craved. Yet, here he was with actual tears falling, far happier than he ever could have imagined. But then he never imagined he’d be the groom.

“Giles, don’t cry. You’ll make me cry too and that’ll mess up my make-up,” Buffy whispered, as she reached up to dry his tears. He caught her hand and kissed it.

“Well, we can’t have that,” he grinned.

littleotter73

Title: A Slayer’s Constitution

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Buffy

Rating: FRC

Setting: Early Season 1

Word Count: 100
Prompt: "For a moment, his heart stopped." from harmony033's drabble Missing

Disclaimer: For fun, not profit

For a moment, his heart stopped. She’d just taken a blow that would’ve stopped a charging rhino, and it felt like several lifetimes passed before Giles got his legs moving. This couldn’t be it. It was too soon. They’d just started their partnership not long ago.

Upon his approach, Buffy popped up. “Is that the best you’ve got, hot shot?” she quipped, dodging the molten metal the monster spewed in her direction. “Sword, Giles, now!”

Without hesitation she dispatched the demon. Noting his concern as she rolled her right shoulder, she said, “I’ve taken worse.”

Somehow that wasn’t a reassurance.

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Title: Saying it with Flowers
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Rating: FRC
Following on from DHW’s The Lambeth Lothario

“And they say romance is dead,” quipped Giles nervously, torn between the incongruity of a seven-foot demon carrying a large bouquet of red roses, and his own practical need to back the hell away.

“Looking…for…Slayer.”

“That would be good, about now,” Giles admitted, his voice an octave too high.

The demon smiled with sticky teeth as Giles felt the thud of brick wall at his back, cutting off any further retreat. The roses were discarded to reveal a blood-stained hunting knife.

“Looking…for…Slayer.”

Buffy’s voice rang out like a bell behind them.

“You found me.”

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Title: More Strange Moves
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Buffy
Rating: FRC
Following on from Strange How the Knight Moves

She may not have the upper hand for long, but it was worth it for the look on Giles’s face.

“Buffy, you do realise I'm just going to take your knight with my queen and then it will be checkmate, don't you?”

“What? This is a stupid unrealistic game! Who ever heard of horses going in L shapes? I mean, when am I ever going to have to fight knights that go round corners?”

“Actually I had an uncle who was a bishop and he always walked diagonally.”

Buffy couldn't help herself but smile.

“Why does that not surprise me?”