giles_shorts | Entries tagged with giles and xander

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!”

foreverbooks

Title: Best Laid Plans…
Author: foreverbooks
Characters: Giles, Xander
Rating: FRC
Setting: Early in the series
Word Count: 85
Prompt: “Somehow, that wasn’t a reassurance” from
Littleotter73’s “A Slayer’s Constitution
Disclaimer: For fun only

Somehow, that wasn’t a reassurance Giles thought, staring at the squiggles making up the “battle plan”. “Explain to me again how all of this will help Buffy defeat a Hydra Demon?”

“Simple,” Xander replied, pointing to some of the marks. “We take up these positions. This lets Buffy get close enough to chop off it’s head. No more threat!”

“And after the body grows a new head, and the head a new body?” Giles asked with exaggerated patience.

Xander’s eyes widened. “They can do that?”

lycomingst

Title: Why Does That Not Surprise Me?
Author: lycomingst
Length: 100 words
Characters: Giles, Xander
Rating: G/FRC
Last Line Prompt: Why Does That Not Suprise Me?

"Why does that not surprise me?"

"Well, Giles, you study vampires and train Slayers. Why would anything surprise you?"

"Yes, Xander, my whole life is a magical mystery tour. I’m sorry that you will be unable to do any research this afternoon because you fell asleep during a math quiz and need to retake it. Sorry, but not surprised."

"It snuck up on me. One minute I was thinking about what “x” was and the next, Mr McBride was shaking my shoulder."

"Very unsettling."

"I can’t begin to tell you," Xander grinned. "Just don’t ask what I was dreaming about."

littleotter73

Title: White Elephant

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Xander

Rating: FRC

Word Count: 100

Prompt: Drums

A/N: Written for the Holiday Drabble Challenge at Giles Shorts

Giles could hear the drums of war beating in the air. As the Scoobies poured into the conference room, Xander placed his rather large gift in the center of the table.

“Behold! My offering for this year’s White Elephant Extravaganza!” he boomed proudly as Giles placed a small package on the table. “Your puny offering is unsatisfactory, Watcher!”

“Even if it is a twenty-four hour cloaking spell?”

Xander’s eye grew wide with interest. “Is it?”

Giles shrugged, his body language neutral. Never would he admit that the box contained two tickets to the symphony he was counting on stealing back.

Next Prompt: Chocolate

feliciacraft

*Waves* Hi everyone! I've missed all of you so much! :)

Author: feliciacraft

Characters: Xander & Giles

Rated: PG

Length: ~900 words

Beta: The fantastic All4Spike — thank you!

Summary: Rewrite of the scene from BtVS episode 4x17 "Superstar". With a simple incantation, Xander sets Giles's book on fire. Here, the rest of the scene goes a little differently. May contain gratuitous Star Wars references.

Disclaimer: Characters not mine, etc.
Feedback: Always welcome! Pretty please? :)

Too late, Xander slammed the book shut, extinguishing the flames that’d burst into existence upon his incantation. Judging by the acrid smell rising from the book before him, however, the damage had been done. Uh-oh.

“Good Lord!” Giles rushed forward and rescued the ancient text from his hands, tossing his glasses on the coffee table to bury his nose in the damaged spread for a very close inspection....

Continue reading...

angelus2hot

Title: The Guilty Culprit
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Rupert Giles, Xander Harris
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Summary: Giles knows Xander is guilty.
A/N: written for giles_shorts for the last line “It was you.”

“It was you.” Giles had known immediately who had taken his red sports car. He slowly turned around to stare at the red faced young man staring back at him.

Xander gave Giles his most innocent look as he stammered. “But I... uh...I didn’t touch....”

Giles quickly cleaned his glasses. “You parked it in it a different space.”

Damn. He had thought he’d been so careful. And then it dawned on him. “You were parked in that same exact spot. I made sure to check...” At the look on Giles’ face Xander stopped talking. He knew he had been had.

-

Current Mood: full
Current Music: Remind Me ~ Brad Paisley

angelus2hot

Title: Tempting Fate
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Rupert Giles
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: He really needed to stop tempting fate.
A/N: written for giles_shorts for the last line Maybe things would work out okay after all.

Maybe things would work out okay after all. The Master was dead, the Hellmouth lay silent once more and Buffy was on the way back to being her old self again. A relieved smile flitted at the corners of his mouth. Far be it for him to jinx it but he could dare say things were starting to look up.

“Giles, you have got to come quick. You are not going to believe this!”

Bloody hell! “Weapons?”

Xander nodded his head and followed Giles to the weapons locker. “Big ones.”

When was he going to learn to stop tempting fate?
-

littleotter73

Title: Strange Brew
Author: littleotter73
Characters: Giles, Xander
Rating: FRC
Prompt: Eggnog
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: For fun, not profit

Eggnog.

Giles eyed the punch bowl with something akin to the way he viewed the brews he’d kept in the Magic Box - with suspicion and contempt. It wasn’t necessarily the raw eggs that made his head swim - though he had his doubts - it was the sheer amounts of sugar and brandy he’d watched Buffy add to the mixture.

“Come on, G,” Xander slurred, clapping his hand on Giles’ shoulder. “You haven’t lived until you’ve had some of the Summers’ secret family nog. Try some.”

“No, no, I think not,” he replied quickly. “Diabetes and alcoholism… I’d sooner die a fyarl.”

protoneoromanic.livejournal.com

Title:Origninal Sins
Length: 288 words
Author:protoneromantic
Prompt: 7 (or 8) Deadly Sins

“Dear God, Xander! How did you manage it?” Giles gasped. “It's so tight, and yet, somehow it fits perfectly. Putting the olive oil just there was a particularly brilliant stroke. What I wouldn't give to be in your position right now!”

( Original Sins )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

Title: Fascination
Note: Not only does it use the last line from Distractions, it picks up where that story ends.

“We have to go.”

As if dragging Giles to his feet had been a sign, the remains of ancient scholars rose from their seats. Their clothes fell to dust, leaving behind bare bone. Xander grabbed a book and threw it. Giles winced but the closest corpse, apparently beyond caring about the preservation of ancient tomes, caught the book in one bony hand and tossed it aside.

“Over here.” Xander grabbed the edge of a table and shoved it onto its side. It wasn’t much but it was something of a barrier between them and the advancing hoard.

“Good Lord, they aren't acting like proper zombies at all.”

“Proper zombies? Giles, they’re dead and they’re moving. What more do you want?”

“You don't understand. Zombies have minds of their own. These … creatures are moving as one, as if they were controlled by a single mind, possibly by the library itself. This is simply fascinating.”

Xander eyed the scores of corpses between them and the door. “Giles, there's a time and a place for 'how fascinating.' This isn't it.”

il_mio_capitano

We still have a few days left in March so here's another one.

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

"Because you're mine now," the walls whispered.

Xander looked around the ancient library in alarm. At each reading desk he could see corpses of scholars bent over books. Different generations, different motives to their own perhaps, but all had rotted to husk and bone.

"Giles!"

"Mmmm. Just a minute, Xander." The watcher was already seated, scrolls of slayer prophecy at his elbows. A notebook and pencil in eager hands. "There's something about Buffy in here."

To his side, a desk invitingly held the complete early X-Men comics but Xander pulled Giles roughly to his feet.

"We have to go."

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?"

il_mio_capitano

Title: If Only…
Author: il-mio-capitano
Rating: FRC
Length: 100
Characters: Giles, Xander

“If only we had the keys we could go and warn Buffy.” Xander flapped his arms in frustration at the locked cop car next to them. “Just what do Watchers do anyway? Why couldn't you come with a Tardis or a flying carpet? We need magick in a hurry here, Giles!”

“It does seem to be something of an emergency doesn't it?”

“Enough with the tweed understatement!” But he stopped at the sound of an engine firing and Giles opening the passenger door for him. “Whoa?”

Giles shrugged and dropped the wires under the glovebox.

“It's a kind of magic.”

il_mio_capitano

Title: White Out
Author: il_mio_capitano
Prompt: snow
Length: 940
Characters: Giles, Xander. FRT

( White Out... )

katleept.livejournal.com

Working Title: Sorry
Author: Kat Lee
Character/Pairing: Giles, Xander, Buffy
Rating: G/K
Challenge: Victory
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 100
Summary: ( Buffy can't leave the boys alone. )

katleept.livejournal.com

Working Title: Saying Goodbye
Author: Kat Lee
Character/Pairing: Giles/Jenny, Xander
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge: Shallow
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 300
Summary: ( Sometimes, saying goodbye can mean so much more. )

il_mio_capitano

Title: Run For Your Life
Author: il-mio-capitano
Setting: Giles, Xander. Post Season 7 but the comics are pure heresy.
Prompt: Beatles: Run For Your Life
Rating: FRT
Length: 950

( Behind the cut... )

katleept.livejournal.com

Title: A Fresh Start
Author: Kat Lee
Characters/Pairing: Giles, Scoobies
Rating: G/K
Challenge/Prompt: A fresh start
Word Count: 423
Summary: ( She's brought a fresh start to them all. )

foreverbooks.livejournal.com

Title: A Fall Tradition
Author: foreverbooks
Characters: Core 4
Prompt: Pumpkin
Rating: frc
Disclaimer: They're not mine. I'm just borrowing them

"If I understand," Giles began, "this contest features competing teams whose objectives are to 'chuck' pumpkins the farthest?"

"Yep." Xander responded cheerfully, "A tradition combining our two greatest loves- pumpkins, and things going splat!"

"Hmm."

"C'mon Giles, give it a chance." Willow pleaded. "Some of them use catapults. They're not flinging rocks, but still, kinda' historical."

"Catapults were used for more than just breaching walls. Incendiary missiles, severed carcasses or-"

"Giles," Buffy interrupted "you're cute when you're all Watchery, but we're trying to get away from gruesomeness."

"It's on!" Willow squealed.

Ten minutes later, "Oddly enough, I'm quite enjoying myself." Giles admitted.

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Entries tagged with giles and xander

Drabble: Big Compliments

Drabble: Voiceover

Drabble: Best Laid Plans...

Drabble: Why Does That Not Surprise Me?

Drabble: White Elephant

Fic: The Accidental Spellcaster

The Guilty Culprit

Firstline Lastline: Tempting Fate

Drabble: Strange Brew

Original Sins

Fascination

Drabble: Distractions

Two Giles Drabbles

Drabble: If Only...

Ficlet: White Out (Giles, Xander) gen

Sorry (Giles, Xander, Buffy; G/K; Victory)

Saying Goodbye (Giles/Jenny, Xander; PG/K+; Shallow)

Ficlet: Run For Your Life (Giles, Xander)

A Fresh Start (Giles, Scoobies; G/K)

Drabble: A Fall Tradition

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