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Title: The Interview
Author: littleotter73
Characters: Dawn, Travers, mention of Giles
Setting: Season 5, Missing scene during Checkpoint
Rating: PG/FRT,
Word Count: 100
Previous line: Either way, Giles had appreciated the company.
A/N: il_mio_capitano has had some family issues come up, so I'll finish out the month as long as there is a last line to play off of.

"Either way, Giles had appreciated the company, I'm sure."

"What," Dawn spat. "Are you insinuating?"

"Never mind, child. Just the musings of an old man."

"I know what you are doing, you know. I am not stupid and I am not a child!" she barked. "You tried to do it before, you... jerk!"

Travers turned towards the girl. "Yes," he admitted. "Because he failed."

"Giles is the best Watcher ever and if you didn't hide away in stuff old England, you would know that!"

"Good day, Miss Summers."

"They aren't afraid of you," she declared, chin raised.

"We shall see."

il_mio_capitano

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.

il_mio_capitano

Title: Of Course It Is
Author: il_mio_capitano
Length: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Giles, Wesley
Notes: Sorry this took so long. I got locked out of my account

“No take backsies!” the creature snarled in triumph.

“No take backsies?” Giles said incredulously. “What sort of language is that for a six hundred-year-old Karagh demon?”

Wesley pulled at his sleeve. “I really think we should be moving along now. Our business is concluded. And it does have rather a lot of teeth.”

“No, there’s something fishy about this.” Giles stepped through the smoke and approached the demon. “It’s made of bloody rubber!” He pulled at the head and cloak and the creature collapsed to reveal its puppet master.

“Spike,” Giles said angrily.

The vampire gave a nervous grin. “Surprise!”

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

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: 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…”

will_conqueror1

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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littleotter73

So I am bringing it around full circle to close out March Madness. This drabble starts with the last active last line from foreverbooks' drabble 'Best Laid Plans...' (the 3 other drabbles used last lines from older drabbles that had fills) and ends with the very first prompt that started things off.

Title: An Airport Proposition

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles

Rating: FRT

Setting: Pre-Series

Word Count: 100

Prompt: “They can do that?” from foreverbook’s Best Laid Plans…

Disclaimer: Just for fun, not profit

“They can do that, you know,” Giles overheard standing in the queue while waiting to board.

“No!” exclaimed the companion.

“But the coolest thing? Immortality! Think of all the sex…”

“Oh man! If only…”

Giles rolled his eyes at the lack of originality.

“Imagine it!” the one dared as they headed off together.

Giles sighed, leaving the queue. Once in gents, he dusted the vamp and told the bloke to bugger off.

It certainly was an auspicious start to his journey. Staring at the plane ticket in his hand, Giles took a deep breath and handed it to the agent.

dhw

Title: Full Moon
Author: DHW
Length: 150
Characters: Giles
Rating: FRT
prompt: first line, last line

First line from Cap's Checking In - 'He was running away'

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He was running away. Beating a tactical retreat, as his father might have said. This was a library, for God’s sake. Naked men in the history section were well above his paygrade. Still...

“I beg your pardon?” he said.

“I need pants,” said the man. He was Scottish. And naked. Very, very naked. “Undercrackers. Kecks. Skivvies. The old scrote tote.”

“Who are you?”

Important enquiries first. It was the Watcher way.

“A better question would be what.”

“What?”

“See. Better. I’m a highland terrier. The name’s Wuffles.”

Well, that explained the accent. But not the rest of it, human-shaped and naked as the rest very much was.

“You don’t look much like a dog to me.”

“Full moon, innit?”

“You’re a…” Giles frowned. “Were…man?”

“Aye. Nasty encounter with a werewolf. Outside of the full moon, o’course. Thought he were just a man.”

“What happened?” said Giles, fascinated.

“I bit him.”

dhw

Title: Roots
Rating: T
Challenge: Home

A/N: Inspired by The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaimain.
Part of the Sanctuary universe (a prequel, of a sort, if you like), but can be read as a stand alone. All you need to know is that Giles has a magic garden left to him by his mother.

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If the months that followed her death had been strange, then the ones that followed her resurrection were more so. He didn’t stay in California. Couldn’t. Not after all had been said and done. It was all too surreal, watching the corpse that wasn’t walking, talking. Breathing. It was strange and wrong. After all, how could you grieve for the undead?

He couldn’t stay. So, he didn’t.

He simply made his excuses, as transparent as glass, and that was it; Giles returned to his shabby flat in Bath. To the post that had piled up in the box and the out of date milk in the fridge. To the answering machine filled with messages from his employer, his therapist, his aunts (none of which merited a reply).

And life went on. She lived, and so did he, in his own small, unassuming way. He made no new friends, nor reacquainted himself with any of his old ones. Instead, he sat in his arm chair and read until the sun dipped below the horizon, his escape from the realities of the day broken only by the occasional need for tea and to receive the greasy takeaways from the shop two streets over.

Christmas came and went, the new year beginning with more of a whisper than a bang. And in the spring, when the snowdrops were wilting and the daffodils just beginning to bloom, he let out his flat and left the city for good.

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littleotter73

Title: …And So It Begins

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles/Ethan

Rating: PG

Prompt: Sting’s “Shadows in the Rain”

Disclaimer: For fun, not profit.

The rain beat down in sheets as he made his way back to his dingy tenement. He’d woken up in his clothes again in an abandoned warehouse in the Docklands, reeking of magicks, reefer, and sex, trying to remember the name of the bloke he’d spent the night with. Stephen or Nathan. Keenan perhaps. Didn’t matter, he’d bolted before he woke.

A chill went up his spine as he noticed a shadow from the street lamp off to his right and pulled the stake from inside his jacket.

“Hello, Ripper.”

His eyes lit up in recognition. “Ethan! Thank the gods!”

littleotter73

Title: Gone

Author:

littleotter73

Character: Buffy (with mention of Giles)

Summary/Setting: Buffy stops by Giles’ apartment before heading to The Bronze at the end of Tabula Rasa

Rating: FRT

Word Count: 100

Prompts: Books and Tea

Disclaimer: Just playing in Joss’ sandbox.

He hadn’t lived there since the night she’d died, having first moved into her house to take care of Dawn, then back to England, and then to her couch, but she suddenly found herself at Giles’ apartment, staring at the ‘For Lease’ sign on the door.

It had been her haven, a place she’d felt welcome and cared for.

Letting herself in, she found it empty. Not one reminder that he’d lived there remained: no lingering smell of tea, not one book left behind. Giles was gone.

Her anger flared. Fuck this. She’d find welcome and refuge at The Bronze.

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...

littleotter73

Title: Waiting

Author: littleotter73

Characters: Giles, Buffy

Rating: FRT

Setting: Three weeks post Chosen

Word Count: 1001

Prompt: Getting On

Disclaimer: Just playing in Joss’ sandbox.

( A Watcher without a Slayer was a very pathetic thing indeed... )

dhw

Title: Unfinished Business
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: (Gen) Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Marathon
Summary: Some things are better left in the dark.
A/N: The lovely

quaggy was kind enough to point me here after we got talking about drabbling communities that were moving from LJ. Hope you don't mind me coming to play! =)

( Unfinished Business )

il_mio_capitano

Title: Showdown
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Characters: Jenny and Giles
Following on from It Doesn't All Suck Last line: Destiny had dealt her a solid.

Destiny had dealt her a solid pair of aces and Jenny wasn't going to pass up the opportunity. She stared provocatively across the card table at Rupert and tried to fluster him, but he drank his beer and stared back impassively - damn the man!

"Maybe we should make this hand interesting, English?"

"We have an equal amount of chips left," he said neutrally.

She slipped off her jacket to reveal more of her silk blouse.

"I'm prepared to go all in." She lent forward as she spoke and caught him looking. "And you'll have to call me to find out."

usedtobeljs

Thanks to

il_mio_capitano for the prompt!

My offering is perhaps a shade too long at 950 words for this community, but if you wish to read it --

TITLE: "Hands and Hearts" [link here]
AUTHOR: LJS
PAIRING: Giles/Anya
RATING: Teen, for a bit of bad language
LENGTH: approximately 950 words
SUMMARY: An AU early season 6, diverging from canon after "Flooded".
The prompt: "Here's our own hands against our hearts." – Much Ado About Nothing

katleept.livejournal.com

Title: Into Place
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character/Pairing: Giles, Buffy
Rating: PG/K+
Challenge/Prompt:

giles_shorts: Mask
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 539
Date Written: 6 November 2016
Summary: ( Giles' mask slips while he's alone. Early Days. )

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Entries tagged with rating: pg/frt

Drabble: The Interview

drabble: Lame Excuses

Drabble: Of Course it is

Drabble: A Cheeky Nod to a Fan Favourite Trope

Advent Drabble Challenge: Drabble: Choices (PG, Buffy,Giles)

Drabble: Conflicted

Ficlet: I, Buffy

Ficlet: The Visitor

The Eye of the Storm (Gen), T.

Drabble: An Airport Proposition

Full Moon

Roots (T, gen)

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Drabble - Gone

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