FF: Hers (Chapter 1 of 6)
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quaggyTitle: Hers
Chapter 1: After Which
Chapter 2: The Pact
Chapter 3: No Angel
Chapter 4: [Spoilers]
Chapter 5: I Rupert, You Slayer
Chapter 6: A Girl's Guide to Prophesy Readings
Show: BtVS
For:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
summer_of_giles (posted here)
Category: post-ep for 3.20 "The Prom"
Pairing: Buffy/Giles (if you squint)
Notes: This fic was one of my earliest plot bunnies. I'm so happy it's finally seeing the light of day. (Even if it's going to take me a while to post all the parts!
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Buffy was safe. That was the most important thing.
He had been able to reverse all of Catherine Madison’s spells at once, but in doing so, that meant his time was up. He had achieved the very thing that he had wished for all those years ago: “The power to defeat his enemies.” That was the bargain and that’s what he got. True, it was Buffy who had ultimately done the defeating, but since he was the one that saved Buffy, it counted all the same. He knew because he could feel it pulling him back. He felt it from the moment that he finished that casting, but the adrenaline had helped him resist the call. Perhaps too the very presence of his Slayer had weakened the demon’s hold.
But now that he was here alone in his darkened office? He didn’t need to look at his hands to know that he was fading from sight. But if he was going to be damned by a technicality, then he would use that technicality to grant himself a stay of execution. Because wasn’t this demonic demand now his enemy?
He finished the warding incantation, the strongest he knew. Power flared around him, leaving him whole and fully tied to this plane of existence. He wouldn’t be able to keep it up forever, but he bought himself a bit more time. Weeks, maybe even a month or two. Long enough to ensure that his Slayer was protected even after he was gone.
Because the most important thing was that Buffy was safe.
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Go to Chapter 2: The Pact
Chapter 1: After Which
Chapter 2: The Pact
Chapter 3: No Angel
Chapter 4: [Spoilers]
Chapter 5: I Rupert, You Slayer
Chapter 6: A Girl's Guide to Prophesy Readings
Show: BtVS
For:
summer_of_giles (posted here)Category: post-ep for 3.20 "The Prom"
Pairing: Buffy/Giles (if you squint)
Notes: This fic was one of my earliest plot bunnies. I'm so happy it's finally seeing the light of day. (Even if it's going to take me a while to post all the parts!
~~~~~
Buffy was safe. That was the most important thing.
He had been able to reverse all of Catherine Madison’s spells at once, but in doing so, that meant his time was up. He had achieved the very thing that he had wished for all those years ago: “The power to defeat his enemies.” That was the bargain and that’s what he got. True, it was Buffy who had ultimately done the defeating, but since he was the one that saved Buffy, it counted all the same. He knew because he could feel it pulling him back. He felt it from the moment that he finished that casting, but the adrenaline had helped him resist the call. Perhaps too the very presence of his Slayer had weakened the demon’s hold.
But now that he was here alone in his darkened office? He didn’t need to look at his hands to know that he was fading from sight. But if he was going to be damned by a technicality, then he would use that technicality to grant himself a stay of execution. Because wasn’t this demonic demand now his enemy?
He finished the warding incantation, the strongest he knew. Power flared around him, leaving him whole and fully tied to this plane of existence. He wouldn’t be able to keep it up forever, but he bought himself a bit more time. Weeks, maybe even a month or two. Long enough to ensure that his Slayer was protected even after he was gone.
Because the most important thing was that Buffy was safe.
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Go to Chapter 2: The Pact
