#eventually i will write this fic but for now. headcanony post

[jennycalendar]

i see your “jenny-lives” au and raise you a “jenny’s a college professor in s4″ au

highlights:

giles, finding literally any possible reason to wander onto campus: buffy i think you left your scrunchie in a graveyard last night. do you w *loses track of what he’s saying because jenny walked by*

jenny, not putting two and two together: i have seen that man in like 17 faculty meetings and i have no fucking idea what subject he teaches

the scoobies have literally never seen giles have a crush before bc s2 didn’t happen, so their reaction is MUCH more extreme

buffy: oh my GOD i didn’t even know giles COULD be into women!

willow, a little prickly for No Reason Nothing At All: so did you think he was into men? would you have a problem with that?

buffy: I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT IT AT ALL, WILLOW, WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO YOU THINK I AM

xander: he knows ms. calendar’s WAY out of his league, right?

giles, in the car the whole time, seriously fucking regretting his offer to drive his kids to the 7-11 to get slurpees: yes, xander. well aware.

jenny showing up at one of giles’s espresso pump nights and him missing like five chords in a row

she laughs so hard she cries. it’s definitely a win

maggie walsh sitting buffy down and being like “why the fuck is your dad popping up everywhere on campus. does he have separation anxiety” and buffy being torn between “oh my god does everyone think giles is my dad” and “i would rather die than explain to my psych professor that my dad has a crush on my best friend’s comp sci professor”

hush is ADORABLE

giles, who had been planning to ask jenny out, spends so much time erasing what he wants to say to jenny and finally is holding up a sign that just has a heart on it, about to pass out

jenny just kinda skips over and gives him a kiss on the cheek

giles himself being much less prickly and bitter (never lost jenny, after all) but still in that empty-nester phase of “all of my children are gone”

jenny, really shitty at comforting people: i mean, rupert, it was bound to happen, right? you can’t expect them to want to hold your hand forever -- oh god oh fuck please stop crying

giles spending a ridiculously long time angsting over how to tell jenny about the supernatural until angel rolls into town and gives jenny a solid handshake when he sees her

he and jenny worked out a way for her to watch him under the table. the scoobies never knew about this until Literally Right Then And There

xander thinks it is so fucking funny that buffy’s socially inept ex-boyfriend has more of an in with jenny than giles and literally will not let giles live it down

spike ruins at least three of giles and jenny’s dates by yelling loudly from the bathroom.

at least two of these dates were about to get spicy before both of them remembered that there was a vampire in the bathroom.

very disconcerting for all parties. (spike has Heard Things.)

this is, of course, after giles has explained to jenny in detail why he has a vampire in the bathroom, because before he knew about her connection to angel he came up with a LOT of inventive reasons as to why she couldn’t come to his house.

his apartment has flooded nine times. jenny’s counted. she’s an agent of chaos tho so she doesn’t care if people keep secrets (and also she thought he got cute when he was flustered about how badly he was lying)

jenny, about to throw down with maggie walsh over capturing a teenage werewolf: It’s Broadsword Time :)

giles unfortunately hasn’t known jenny long enough to understand that no one should give her keys to the weapons cabinet. that backfired

definitely a few episodes where unemployed giles is watching talk shows with jenny snuggled into his side. like that just happens. ridiculous soft energy.