#rupert giles ( threads. )

[vampswritings]

For deserting the Watcher's Council, Rupert Giles is cursed to spend his days as a swan, hopelessly drowning in his failures. Until he meets Jenny, a princess with her own reasons to run away.

Jenny’s skinny red-tipped arrow pierced through a widespread wing, the body that splashed into the lake was not a swan in the slightest. In the water, a man stood up, wet, gripping onto the dark red spot where the arrow stuck out of his pale shirt.   “Oh no, no, no - ” Jenny gasped. Loud, unladylike, and dropped her bow onto the ground. Her hands were too busy clapping over her mouth. "Shit."

Soooo I made a post joking about this Swan Lake AU, and then thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it some more before deciding to actually write it. Very au, far from most of the BTVS canon - but also very Giles/Jenny. If you enjoy them I hope you enjoy this :)

this could have been the longest thing ever if i let it, so think of it as a soft introduction to a 'could be a long epic one day' concept

[insufferablemonsters]

𝔯𝔲𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔱 𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔰 & 𝔡𝔞𝔴𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔲𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 @astormymind.

it  was  no  secret  that  rupert's  car  before  this  shiny  new  one  was  on  its  last  leg  and,  frankly,  dangerous  to  drive  around  in.  but,  it's  also  not  a  secret  that  he  had  chosen  this  car  for  specific  reasons  such  as  a  newer  version  and  'i'm  not  as  old  as  you  all  make  me  seem'.  of  course,  the  whole  new  shiny  version  of  himself  he  was  attempting  to  outwardly  portray  wasn't  exactly  fooling  anyone,  least  of  all  himself.  he  didn't  exactly  enjoy  the  way  this  car  drove,  despite  it's  seductive  appearances  and  lusty  crimson  color.  he  wanted  something  else,  more  his  real  style,  and  that's  why  he  thought  about  giving  it  to  dawn  once  she  achieved  her  driver's  license.  he  didn't  want  to  tell  her  yet,  though,  he  wanted  to  keep  it  as  a  surprise  to  her.  he  should  probably  consult  with  buffy  first  and  foremost,  after  all.

he  sat  back  in  his  seat  and  forced  himself  not  to  be  a  backseat  driver,  keeping  his  eyes  focused  on  the  road  and  keep  his  breathing  under  control.  his  eyes  rounded  out  in  fear  when  his  car  suddenly  jolted  forward  when  she  let  go  of  the  brake  too  fast.  he  braced  himself  with  the  door  handle  as  he  slowly  looked  over  at  dawn.  he  shook  his  head  lightly,  ❛  dawn,  please,  language  ...  ❜  he  stated  softly,  clearing  his  throat  nervously.  he  expected  hiccups  from  her,  so  he  kept  his  thoughts  to  himself.  he  chuckles  gently  under  his  breath,  ❛  yes,  well,  it's  beginning  to  get  on  my  nerves,  quite  frankly.  m'  glad  you're  enjoying  it  more  than  i  have.  ❜

[lokidokieokie]

Threads of Redemption

Summary: You were always the annoying vampire that got in the way of the Scoobies, so you could imagine their annoyance when they needed you to defeat a mutual enemy. All this changes, though, when Giles is put in danger...

Pairing: Rupert Giles x Vampire!Fem!Reader

Warning(s): typical canon-like violence, kinda enemies to lovers vibes (not really tho), staking, vampire things, witches, fighting (lemme know if I forgot anything)

A/N my sister has recently really got into Buffy the Vampire slayer, and I have completely fallen for a few of the characters...please bare with me while I explore my new obsession :)

The old factory reverberated with the echoes of battle as the Scooby Gang, joined by you, confronted a coven of powerful witches. Despite the occasional irritation and banter that coloured your interactions with the group, a sense of camaraderie had grown over time.

Giles adjusted his glasses, his gaze shifting between the looming threat and the artefact clutched in his hand. "Do be careful, Y/n," he warned, his voice tinged with concern. "Our adversaries are not to be taken lightly."

You smirked, flashing a playful wink. "Don't worry, Giles. I've got enough bite to match their bark," you retorted, revelling in the banter that had become customary between you.

Xander chuckled, joining in the exchange. "That's the spirit! Show 'em what you're made of."

Buffy interjected, her tone serious. "Alright, everyone. Let's stay focused. We need to protect the artefact and take down these witches before they cause any more harm."

As the battle erupted, the witches unleashed their malevolent magic, threatening to overpower the Scooby Gang. With each surge of power, the factory walls trembled, dust falling from the ceiling.

The group fought with unwavering determination, their efforts synchronised to counter the witches' onslaught. You, harnessing your vampiric strength, leapt into the fray, striking with deadly precision.

But as the battle reached its crescendo, a surge of dark energy crackled through the air. The witches, sensing their imminent defeat, resorted to a desperate act—a final attempt to decimate the lives of their adversaries.

In a blur of motion, one of the witches summoned a stake infused with dark magic, hurtling it toward the heart of Giles. Time seemed to slow as you registered the danger, your instincts overriding any thought of self-preservation.

With a surge of supernatural speed, you intercepted the stake, the wooden weapon piercing through your chest instead of Giles'.

Shock and horror contorted Giles' features as he watched you crumple to the ground, the stake protruding from your body. The Scooby Gang froze, their cries of disbelief drowned by the sound of their racing hearts.

Giles fell to his knees beside you, his voice choked with anguish. "No, no, this can't be happening," he whispered, his hands trembling as he tried to staunch the flow of blood.

His voice wavered with desperation, denial lacing every word. "You're fine. You're going to wake up any moment now, and we'll laugh about this," Giles pleaded, his gaze fixated on your lifeless form.

Tears welled in Buffy's eyes, her voice filled with sorrow. "Giles..."

But he continued, his voice trembling with a mixture of grief and denial. "Please, don't leave me," he whispered, his words barely audible. "I can't lose you."

The Scooby Gang watched in solemn silence, their hearts heavy with grief. The weight of the moment pressed upon them, the realisation of the sacrifices made in their fight against evil.

And then, in an inexplicable turn of events, the artefact clutched in Giles' hand began to emit a radiant glow. The Scooby Gang's attention shifted from their despair to the unfolding mystery before them.

Unbeknownst to Giles, the artefact possessed a hidden ability—one that defied explanation and transcended mortal understanding. It held within it the power to rewrite destinies, to defy death itself.

In an ethereal display, the glow enveloped your lifeless form, mending your wounds and reversing the irreversible. The stake within your chest disintegrated into dust, and colour flooded back into your ashen complexion.

With a gasp, your eyes fluttered open, meeting Giles' tear-filled gaze. A hushed silence settled over the group, broken only by the collective sigh of relief that escaped their lips.

Giles stared at you, a mixture of disbelief and awe etched upon his face. The weight of his grief lifted, replaced by an overwhelming sense of gratitude and wonder. It was a moment that reminded him of the extraordinary bonds forged in the crucible of loss and resurrection.

As the battle drew to a close, the Scooby Gang gathered around, their expressions a mix of relief and exhaustion. The dust settled, and a newfound calm settled over the factory.

You and Giles locked eyes once more, a tension lingering between you that had only grown during your time together. The near-loss had stripped away the barriers that stood between you, leaving only raw vulnerability and unspoken desire.

In that moment, guided by an unspoken understanding, you closed the distance between you. The world around you faded into the background as your lips met in a tender, passionate kiss.

It was a release—an affirmation of life and the unbreakable bond forged in the crucible of grief and resilience. It was a declaration that even amidst the darkness, love and redemption could be found.

When you finally pulled away, the intensity of the moment lingered in the air. The Scooby Gang watched, their eyes filled with a mixture of shock and disgust.

Giles' voice broke the silence, his tone filled with warmth and vulnerability. "I don't know what the future holds, but I do know that I don't want to face it without you," he confessed, his hand gently cradling your face.

You smiled, your heart brimming with newfound hope. "Then let's face it together, Giles," you whispered, intertwining your fingers with his.

And amidst the ruins of the battle, the Scooby Gang stood as a united front, ready to face whatever darkness lay ahead, their spirits rekindled by the threads of redemption that wove their lives together.

A/N ahhhh! I know that this is really random to post, but Giles is just...perfect! I'm not going to tag anyone, as this is not related to any of my previous content, but please, let me know if you'd like to be tagged in any of my BtVS fics!

[bcrncoldx]

𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑

i'll be dropping most pre-event threads and transitioning event threads. as always, please say who you'd like the starter from/for :)

bill weasley (3/5) — nora darhk, rubeus hagrid, fabian prewett carlisle cullen (4/5) — hilda teufel, jack shepherd, kate denali, garrett dale cooper (2/5) — evie o'neill, fliss mckinnon dís durin (2/5) — jem carstairs, silco drusilla keeble (3/5) — li lonnie, son yeonseo, garrett eloise bridgerton (2/5) — noah foster cora hale james norrington (1/5) — francis barton, lorelai gilmore owen sharma (3/5) — rintabo okabe, major lilywhite, will graham rupert giles (1/5) — naomi pierce sherlock holmes (2/5) — irene adler, twelve

[ao3feed-spuffy]

The Footprints Left Behind

by Willow9124

In the wake of an unknown attack on the American Frontier and the subsequent loss of contact with the friends they still had stateside, Buffy and Xander sneak into the country and begin a long, dangerous journey to find old friends and the source of the near apocalypse before it spreads throughout the rest of the world.

*This takes place post series and was written as part of the Elysian Fields 2022 Road Trip Challenge.

Chapter one excerpt; "“Street repairs have obviously gone to shit,” he half joked as the car slowly crawled forward to avoid any damage the deep holes could inflict.

“Along with the rest of the country,” she bitterly added. It was true, the American infrastructure was hanging by a thread. She looked out the window, noting how lifeless the countryside was now. Life across the pond was still bustling and chaotic and she had easily immersed herself in it after the collapse of Sunnydale. Her heart twisted at the thought of the barren wasteland her home country was quickly turning into.

Words: 1620, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Spike (BtVS), Buffy Summers, Xander Harris, Faith Lehane, Angel (BtVS), Riley Finn, Samantha Finn, Robin Wood, Rupert Giles, Willow Rosenberg, Dawn Summers

Relationships: Spike/Buffy Summers

Additional Tags: Road Trips, Angst, Dystopia, Explicit Sexual Content, Post-Series

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/42549522

[adventuriem]

[ blindfold ]   your muse blindfolding mine. / for giles uwu get ready old man

@caestillo. magnolia ;

          their... affair --- it was still something very new. something giles wanted to keep to himself until he knew exactly where it was going, but simply because life was too complicated already to add labels to it. especially with her. magnolia wasn’t human --- at least not ALL human. and giles was (once upon a time, but still) a watcher. he had a slayer under his care (not to mention all of her friends). 

          and while reason nagged at the back of his brain for him to make better decisions and stop this --- whatever it was --- before it went too far, he couldn’t. she was special. she was unique, bright, curious and intelligent. sensitive. and she had brought him back to life. 

          so of course, when she suggested something different, he just went along with it, and allowed her to blindfold him.  ❝ am i in for a surprise? ❞ he relaxed on the couch and just let it happen.

[voices-ringing-out]

@chokethelight​ said,  035. — Put my muse in a headlock. from Aaron Lancaster for Rupert Giles

      It had been Buffy that reported the break-in, during one of her nightly patrols. Giles had arrived as soon as he could, to a report that there seemed to be no vampiric activity in the building, or any noticeable activity at all. He had told her to go back to work and that he would take a look around, chalking it up to, perhaps, one of the teenagers from the school deciding it might be amusing to play a prank.

      Giles soon realised his mistake when he only just caught sight of a shadow beyond the edges of his vision, just as he turned on the lights, and found himself rendered immobile. An arm wrapped around his throat, pressing down hard enough to cut off his oxygen and make the world spin, his glasses dislodged and fallen to the ground. He grasped desperately at the arm grappling him, barely managing to get out what he was trying to say - “Wh-at do y-you want--?”

[glassmenagerieofmusesarc]

I talked to him about... things--like did he prefer milk or sugar in his tea. It’s how men talk about things in England!

[sinsoakedsaints]

@merrickwrites / smol starter call thing.

“If you’re gonna be the death of me, that’s how I wanna go.”

[tuppencetrinkets-a]

@chasingparamasturbatoryillusions  // giles for mulder via the magic box!  [BTVS/ATS SC.]

     “I can assure you despite -- despite what social media and centuries old mass hysteria might wish to prove otherwise -- the likelihood of such a creature as you describe actually existing is ... well, quite frankly, Agent, rather nonexistent.”  There were some truths that Giles was far from prepared to share openly with any government agency; he still had nightmares about the ‘research’ that had been performed upon the non-human entities such as Spike and Oz the last time the government had poked their nose where it didn’t belong.  “Of course, you are welcome to peruse and purchase as you desire,” he encouraged, at least, in part, “but I am afraid you will find that these texts here are far more for ... entertainment, than legitimate research.”

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, January 9

GILES: In this scenario, I am your mother? BUFFY: Wanna be my shiftless absentee father? GILES: Is there some sort of, um, rakish uncle?

~~Life Serial~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for a couple of new editors! Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more here.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Tender (crossover with Black Widow, Xander, T) by Vashti

5 times Rupert Giles bumped into Ms. Calendar during the summer of ‘97 (Giles/Jenny, G) by summers-maclay-lehane

Swinging of the Pendulum (Buffy/Angel & Dawn, T) by OveliaGirlHaditRight

The Sound of Music (Buffy/Angel, G) by OveliaGirlHaditRight

Maybe If I Tell Myself Enough (Buffy/Angel, G) by OveliaGirlHaditRight

"B" (Buffy/Faith, not rated) by secretlyasummers

Some stream-of-consciousness Buffy pov post Life Serial (Buffy, Spike, not rated) by disaster-vamp

Swinging of the Pendulum (Buffy/Angel & Dawn, T) by oveliagirlhaditright

Tender (crossover with Black Widow, FR13) by Vashti

[Chaptered Fiction]

Faith's Bus Station Adventure, Chapter 1 (Faith/OC, E) by LadiesWhoLunch

What Happens in Quarantine..., Chapter 14 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by bewildered

The Slayer and the Vampire, Chapter 11 (Spike/Buffy, PG) by violettathepiratequeen

Missing Piece, Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by incendie

The Tiger is Out, Chapter 64 (Spike/Buffy, R) by Cosmic Tuesdays

Daughter of Aurelius, Chapter 41 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Loup Noir

The Fairytale, Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Dusty

Chosen One, Chapter 15 (Spike/Buffy, R) by all_choseny

Deeper than Blood, Chapter 11 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Blackmysteria

Broken Chain, Chapter 3 (Connor, FR18) by McQueen

[Images, Audio & Video]

Manip: Our family (Spike/Buffy & OC, worksafe) by little-miss-buffy

Gifs: honey by Halsey (Buffy/Faith, worksafe) by buffysource

Artwork: BtVS lego minifigures (Spike, Buffy, Willow, Xander) by the brother of foolforbuffy

Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit” “Prophecy Girl” (Buffy, worksafe) by whatshisfaceblogs

Digital painting: A study of Tara (worksafe) by wvelyn

Manips: All the twists & bends (Buffy, worksafe) by slayersandprivateinvestigators

Artwork: BTVS Characters - Disney style (Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, Tara, Oz, Willow, worksafe) by antidam0n

Gifs: I don't damsel well (Buffy, worksafe) by scullys

Song and fanvid: Full of Faith (Faith) by Anthony Swan

[Reviews & Recaps]

btvs season 7 episodes ranked by fallingtowers

Buffy and Angel’s Romeo and Juliet-ness in the comics kind of drives me insane by oveliagirlhaditright

BOOM! Buffy the last vampire slayer #1 (continued) by Priceless and others

What would you rate Angel Season 6? by shonenhikada and others

Favourite fight scene in Buffy? by Lizcatherine and others

[Recs / In Search Of]

Spuffy and Spangel fic recs by trenchcoat-full-of-recs

Angel "meta" essays? (Does anyone know of any notable people/blogs that write this kind of material about AtS?) by cuddlyvampire

[Community Announcements]

A Year in Review at Elysian Fields

[Fandom Discussions]

Snowflake Challenge #5 (talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do) by sparrow2000

I just can’t buy that Buffy… could get anywhere near Northwestern acceptance by avoidingdestiny, girl4music, and others (multiple reblog threads)

i wish we got more scenes with faith and dawn by faith-thee-slayer

Re: Buffy and Shadowhunters crossover OTP by takaraphoenix

Confused by Twilight!Angel by oveliagirlhaditright

The scene where Angel was pretending to be Angelus in “Enemies” by oveliagirlhaditright

Buffy & Giles (a relationship that... is so devoted and at the same time so complicated and painful) by roselightfairy

Sapphic representation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three by sapphicpoetspost

Re: why Faith doesn't get Buffy's Valium 18th birthday demon murder surprise by herinsectreflection

Prophecy Girl made it seem like people they know getting brutally murdered... wasn’t a regular occurrence by millenialslayer

The Scoobies’ response to Harmony becoming a vampire by ex-vengeancedemon, girl4music

I'm wondering how Giles got to “school librarian” as a career by roselightfairy, jessannperreault, rachaeljurassic

Openly discussing Buffy being the slayer in front of Amy by EmEeeCee, thrasherpix

Buffyverse fanon discontinuity (continued) by multiple authors

Poll: Members of r/Buffy, when did you start watching BtVS? by Excellent-Durian-509

Who is the strongest? by nobodythinksofyou

Favorite Under-Explored Relationship? [AtS] by rednax2009

Was Cecily Spike's Vengeance Demon? by brentus86

Buffy working at DMP by leiamoonglade

I completely forgot Kal Penn was on the show by Monctonian and others

Anyone remember Buffy RP chat rooms? by spidersonthemoon

Team Angel Opinions? [Angel Investigations] by depressing_joke and others

Atmosphere on set by AiyanaPass

Further thoughts on Xander/Anya and Buffy/Angel by yourlibrarian, wayward, heterocosmica

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[ao3feed-thehobbit]

Mew's Mad and Marvellous Mashups

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3n70zdI

by The_Dimension_Crossing_Mew

Random crossover ideas that I originally posted on Spacebattles.com. The full thread is there under the same title. Some got spun off into their own stories or threads, and at least one has been posted here as one-shots, so not every threadmark there has been brought here. Characters and fandoms with be added as I go along.

1. Sun Scroll: Death Note/Okami 2. Agatha H. and the Bay of Capes: Girl Genius/Worm 3. Digidestined to Save This World: Digimon Adventure 02/MCU Avengers 4. Sub-Terrestrial Lifeforms: Tremors/Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Animaster Teaser: Animorphs/Worm 6. Animaster: The Rescue: Worm/Animorphs 7. Fox Fire: The Hobbit/Pokemon 8. It's Morphin' Time!: Worm/ Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

Words: 17766, Chapters: 8/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 大神 | Okami (Video Games), Death Note (Anime & Manga), Girl Genius (Webcomic), Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Worm - Fandom, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Tremors - All Media Types, Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, The Hobbit - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Yagami Light, Amaterasu (Okami), Agatha Heterodyne, Zeetha Daughter of Chump, Violeta, Uber - Character, Leet (Parahumans), Dimo (Girl Genius), Oggie (Girl Genius), Maxim (Girl Genius), The Avengers - Character, Chosen Children | DigiDestined, Omegamon | Omnimon (Adventure), Burt Gummer, Buffy Summers, Rupert Giles, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Queen Administrator (Parahumans), The Ellimist (Animorphs), Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver, Rachel (Animorphs), Bilbo Baggins, Fokko | Fennekin, Tairenar | Braixen, Mahoxy | Delphox, Theo Anders | Golem, Charlotte (Parahumans), Madison Clements, Aisha Laborn | Imp, Zordon (Power Rangers), Alpha 5 (Power Rangers), Rita Repulsa, Goldar (Power Rangers), Colin Wallis | Armsmaster | Defiant, Hannah | Hana | Miss Militia, Robin Swoyer | Velocity, Ethan | Assault, Battery (Parahumans), Baboo (Power Rangers), Finster (Power Rangers), Squatt (Power Rangers)

Additional Tags: Crossover, Multiple Crossovers

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3n70zdI

[lokidokieokie]

Masterlist

Hey! Below the cut are my somewhat decent fanfic writings. Enjoy :)

Last Updated: 28/05

KEY: 🎶 = Songfic | 💔 = angst | 💚 = fluff | 🌶 = kinda spicy | 🤗 = comfort

MARVEL

Loki Laufeyson

Series

Mischief & Trickery (ON HOLD) 💚

Medea Daegandottir, the Goddess of Trickery, loves spicing things up in the Asgardian palace. Adding her best friend Loki into the mix could only bring more chaos. What could possibly go wrong? The answer, many things

Debt Paid (ONGOING) 💔

A mortal woman’s debt to the Grim Reaper, Loki, is paid in a deal that could cost her everything.

Mini-Series

Into the MCU (COMPLETE) 💚

As an inventor, you try to create a device that allows you to shift realities. What happens when you land into the MCU?

The Price of Deception (ONGOING) 💔

After discovering Loki’s failed attempt at taking over Earth, his family confronts him and he must earn their forgiveness.

The Seduction Game (ONGOING) 🌶

As two deadly assassins, you and Loki are hired to kill each other. However, when you meet, you can’t resist using your seductive tactics on each other, leading to a dangerous game of desire and deception.

Oneshots

Three Words; Fifteen Letters; One Expletive 💔💚

You're Stuck With Me Now 💚

Drunken Words 💚

You Tell Her, Or I Will 💚

Accidental Confessions 💚

Close Quarters 💚

His Protector 💚

Heat Wave 💔

The Space Between 💚

Love's Debut 💚

Fortune Favours the Mischievous 💚

Love on the Line 💚

Shattered Dreams 💔

Drabbles

By Your Side 💚

Avengers Assemble...to Deal with Lokitty! 💚

Drunk and In Love 💚

Captive Hearts 💚

Healing the Enemy 🤗

Tom Hiddleston

Oneshots

Fanfiction 💚🌶

Almost too Late! 💚

I've Got You 💔🤗

Ever the Gentleman 💚🤗

Friends with the Green-Eyed Monster 💔

James Conrad

Drabbles

Campfire Confessions 💚

Benedict Cumberbatch

Oneshots

The "L" Word 💚

Doctor Strange

Series

Beyond the Pages (ONGOING) 💚

It was just your weekly trip to the comic-book store. While looking for a comic for your collection, you stumble upon an old-looking book, with an odd combination of symbols on the cover. You, being drawn to the weirdness of it, pick it up and open the cover. A strange force surrounded your person; and the next thing you knew, you were waking up on the steps of what looked to be 177A Bleecker Street. What had you gotten yourself into?

Mini-Series

The Great Escape (COMPLETE) 💔

Based upon a request

A Love Torn Asunder (COMPLETE) 💔 can be 💚

Y/n becomes pregnant with Doctor Strange’s baby, but Stephen is uncertain about their future together and leaves the reader with a hard decision to make.

A Spoonful of Sugar (ONGOING) 💚

Once, after a battle, you visited Stephen with some of your delicious home-made pastries to help him feel better. Eventually that became a ritual. 

Oneshots

You've Been Here All This Time? 💚

Oops...? 💚

Sleepy Realisations 💚

Tony Was Wrong. 💚

Practice Makes Perfect 💚

Bloodied and Bruised 💔

The Strange Approach 💚

The Ghost of Kamar-Taj 💚

Knight in a Sentient Cloak 💚

I'm Here, Whenever You're Ready 🤗

From the Pages of History 💚

Undercover Rhythm 🎶

Shattered Sanctum 💔

Drabbles

Forever; Endlessly 💔

Beyond the Broken Hands 💚

The Healing Touch 💚

An Apprenticeship with a Twist 💚

The Blip's Silver Lining 💚

A Clumsy Pursuit 💚

Sherlock Holmes

Oneshots

Under the Lamppost 💚

Drabbles

The Case of the Broken Hearted Stranger 💚

A Love that Defies Conventions 💚

The Second Anderson 💚

Crime and Chemistry 💚

Navigating the Grey Area 💚

Bucky Barnes

Oneshots

Healing Hearts 💚

Drabbles

Betrayal in the Shadows 💔

The Calm After the Storm 🤗

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Rupert Giles

Oneshots

Threads of Redemption 💔💚

Accidental Slumber 💚

Spike

Oneshots

The Dance of the Shadows 💚

[bcrncoldx]

𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑

under the cut is my list of muses! as always, please reply to this with who for/from! for now i'll be capping at 5 per muse and 4 per mun! any current event threads will be transitioned to post-event where possible, and i'll be dropping older pre-event threads!

bill weasley (5/5) — fleur weasley, astoria greengrass, mary mcdonald, lily luna potter, victoire weasley

carlisle cullen (3/5) — rosalie hale, embry call, alice cullen

dale cooper (1/5) — cyrus goodman

dís durin (1/5) — jem carstairs

drusilla keeble (2/5) — yennefer of vengerberg, victoria

edward reynolds (2/5) — jang yeo hee, peggy carter

eloise bridgerton (4/5) — noah foster, hyacinth bridgerton, edmund bridgerton, gregory bridgerton

owen sharma (3/5) — ahkmenrah, lorelai gilmore, evan speck

rupert giles (6/5) — angel, elliot alderson, willow rosenberg, buffy summers, anya jenkins, jenny calendar

sherlock holmes (3/5) — irene adler, alec lightwood, enola holmes

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Jenny/ Giles

Jenny Calendar, Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Cordelia Chase

Episode tag/ missing scene for ‘Ted’. References to child abuse, domestic violence.

After the mishap with the crossbow, Jenny and Giles stumble across Willow, Xander, and Cordelia. It turns out Jenny shooting Giles was the least worrying thing to happen that night.

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“J-Jenny?”

Rupert Giles’s voice was still a little shaky and, really, Jenny couldn’t blame him. She’d shot him with a crossbow. Of course his voice was a little shaky. She’d managed to snap off most of the bolt, leaving only the tip embedded in Rupert’s skin, and then she’d bundled him into her car- because his car was useless and besides, no way was she risking wrecking Rupert’s car as well as Rupert all in the span of one night- and had driven him to the hospital.

Rupert had, of course, insisted he didn’t need the hospital, and that it would make much more sense to go to his place and use his first-aid kit. But Jenny vetoed the plan immediately. For a start, she wasn’t sure Rupert had thought the plan through, and considering the pain he’d been in, there was a good chance he had been delirious when he’d suggested it. His plan not only relied on him having a fully-stocked first-aid kit complete with antiseptic, gauze, a needle and thread, and god knew what else they might have needed, but also on Jenny being at all competent at stitching him closed again. So instead, she’d taken him to the hospital and rode out the embarrassment as Rupert lied to the nurses about what had happened.

Thankfully, they lived in Sunnydale, and so the story of being out for a walk before being attacked by an assailant wielding a crossbow bolt wasn’t as ludicrous as it should have been. He’d been patched up, prescribed some pain relief, and sent on his way.

“Jenny?” Rupert tried again, startling Jenny from her thoughts. “I quite think you need to pull over.”

He sounded faint, and Jenny’s eyes went wide. Was he going to be sick? Had his wound been infected? Was he having a reaction to the pain relief he’d been given? She pulled over quickly.

“What’s wrong?” she demanded, as she hastily pulled on the handbrake and turned to look at him.

Rupert blinked, eyes bright from pain. “I- I, well, I’m quite certain I saw the children in the alleyway next to the grocery store.”

Jenny stared for a moment, brain frantically trying to unscramble the words. The children. Oh. It dawned on her. “What were Buffy and the children doing in the alley? I thought you were patrolling tonight?”

“I was,” Rupert said with a frown. “And Buffy wasn’t there. It was just Willow, Xander, and Cordelia.”

The two adults shared a look.

“We need to check it out, don’t we?” Jenny said after a moment.

“Completely,” Rupert agreed.

They got out the car, Rupert with a little difficulty, and made their way back down the dark street. Cordelia’s car was parked outside the grocery store, and Jenny realised she’d been so wrapped up in feeling guilty about shooting Rupert that she hadn’t even noticed it as she’d driven past. As they neared the alleyway, however, her thoughts turned quickly to the three children. Half-whispered, frantic voices drifted out from the alley, and the two adults shared another look.

“-want to go home,” Cordelia complained. “We’ve been at this for nearly half hour. We’ve been to three dumpsters! Isn’t that enough for you people?”

“Cordelia,” Willow responded in frustration, “we, we have to make sure Ted’s really gone. We don’t want anyone finding him and, and trying to put him back together.”

“I don’t think there’s a chance of that, Will,” Xander said with some humour in his voice. “I mean, Buffy had already done a good job of breaking him into pieces before we got there, and now you’ve broken him into even tinier pieces... All I’m saying is, it doesn’t even look like a body anymore.”

“Right,” Cordelia agreed, “and while I’ll never get over the nightmare of this night, can we all just agree we’ve done everything we can and we get to go home?”

Jenny and Rupert had gone wide-eyed at what they were hearing.

“Good lord!” Rupert exclaimed, and the voices in the alleyway suddenly went very quiet as he hurried forward.

Jenny followed quickly, and suddenly the pair of them were face to face with a wide-eyed trio of Cordelia, Willow, and Xander, all standing near a dumpster. Several pieces of what looked like computer circuitry were clutched in Willow’s hands as she blinked at the adults.

“What exactly is going on?” Jenny asked, already feeling she was going to regret asking.

“Buffy called!” Willow said quickly, face pale. “Ted- Ted came back! And, and he attacked her, and Mrs Summers, and then Buffy hit him with a frying pan, and, and-”

Xander quickly took over. “Ted isn’t human! Willow did, like, a tonne of research, and he has marriage licences dating back to the sixties. And we went to his house-”

“Which was really creepy, by the way,” Cordelia chimed in.

“Which was really creepy,” Xander agreed as he pressed on with the story, “and there were dead women in the closet, so we called the police-”

“And that was when Buffy called us,” Willow broke in. “She didn’t know what to do with the body, because it wasn’t really a body,  but it looked like one, and she didn’t want her mom thinking she’d killed Ted again, because then she’d call the police-”

Jenny held a hand up to cut the children off. “Ok,” she said as the quietened. “One thing at a time. I feel like I’m out of the loop, here. Who’s Ted? Wasn’t that the man the police thought Buffy had killed?”

Beside her, Rupert was pale, and Jenny hoped he hadn’t pulled any stitches.

“Ted was Mrs Summers’ boyfriend,” Rupert admitted quietly, and there was a strange look in his eyes that Jenny couldn’t pinpoint. “The impression I’d got from Buffy was that she wasn’t exactly taken by him, but she wouldn’t go into detail. The next I heard, the police were at the school asking about Buffy’s behaviour.”

“Buffy said she didn’t trust Ted,” Xander told the adults mournfully. “We didn’t listen.”

Sensing that she could quickly lose the children and Rupert to their melancholy, Jenny spoke up. “You three were researching this Ted?”

“Yeah,” Xander nodded. “I mean, Buff wouldn’t just attack someone for no reason, so we did a little more digging. And Ted was squeaky clean except for the weird marriage licences. The dates didn’t add up. Four marriages since the sixties was weird anyway for a guy who was only about forty, but the weirder thing was that no divorces had been filed.”

“So we figured he was murdering his wives,” Cordelia explained. “Like, a real, psycho serial killer. And that he was probably going to do the same to Mrs Summers if Buffy hadn’t stopped him. He’d even been drugging her. And Xander. Because Xander had been eating his cookies.”

“So you broke into his house,” Jenny concluded, crossing her arms and surveying the children with her best stare. All three of them shifting uncomfortably. “How did you know it was safe? Anything could have happened to you.”

Willow and Xander didn’t seem to have an answer to that, but Cordelia rolled her eyes. “Oh, please, Ms. Calendar,” she said, sounding annoyed. “He was dead.”

“Not dead enough to stop him from attacking Buffy,” Jenny reminded them pointedly.

Out the corner of her eye, she saw Rupert shift.

“What, ah, what exactly happened with Buffy?” he asked with a small frown. “You mentioned something about Ted not being human?”

Willow nodded quickly. “We didn’t even know until we got to Buffy’s,” she told the adults. “I mean, like Xander said, we knew there was something weird going on because of the marriage licences, but Buffy just called Cordy telling us to come over and that it was an emergency... When we got there, he was on the kitchen floor. There was motor oil leaking everywhere, and Buffy was trying to hack him up in case Mrs Summers woke up. I took over then, because we all know Buffy doesn’t know a thing about robotics, and-”

“I’m sorry,” Jenny interrupted, “are you telling me this man was a robot?”

Willow frowned. “Y-Yeah?” the redhead said. “That’s why Buffy called us in. We’ve been scattering all the machinery across town so nobody can reassemble him.”

“It’s taken ages,” Cordelia added in annoyance.

Jenny blinked, before stumbling forward. “Ok, you need to give me whatever you’ve got left.” She held her hand out for the pieces Willow was still holding.

Reluctantly, Willow handed over the final few pieces of Ted. Jenny frowned at them before slipping them into her pocket.

“We should really, ah, really go check on Buffy,” Rupert said, looking to Jenny as he spoke. “I know you’d probably rather go home, but I should check in on her.

Jenny nodded. “Sure.” She turned back to the kids. “You three are going to go straight home, am I clear? And next time...” She trailed off, sighed. “Next time, just call me or Rupert, ok?”

The three kids shuffled out of the alley, and the two adults watched as they climbed into Cordelia’s car and drove off.

“Shall we go check on Buffy, then?” Jenny asked once Cordelia’s car disappeared round the corner.

Rupert nodded, a small frown of concern creasing his brow. “Yes. Please.”

Jenny led him back to the car, and they headed off for Buffy’s house in silence.

 When they reached 1630 Revello Drive, there was a single, soft light on in the sitting room. Jenny followed Rupert up the path a little warily; she’d never had any need to go by Buffy’s house before. She didn’t even teach her.

But Rupert moved with the air of a man who was familiar with the house, and Jenny followed him up onto the porch. He knocked softly on the door, just loud enough that anyone downstairs would hear, but not loud enough to wake anyone upstairs. There was a long pause, before finally the door was cracked open.

Jenny felt like she’d been punched in the chest. She’d said before, when she’d found out Buffy was the Slayer, that she’d been surprised that somebody so tiny could be the Chosen One. And now, with Buffy’s wide eyes staring at her from the doorway, Jenny felt vaguely sick. If she’d thought watching this girl put on a brave face to walk to her death had been bad, seeing the tiredness and fear in her eyes now was even worse.

“Giles?” the girl asked, as though she wasn’t entirely sure she could trust what she was seeing.

“Buffy,” Rupert responded, and his voice was so soft it nearly made Jenny cry. “Can we come in?”

Buffy eyed the two adults carefully before stepping back and opening the door wider, allowing them entry.

Rupert stepped inside, and Jenny quickly followed.

“We saw Willow and Xander and Cordelia,” Rupert said quietly as Buffy led them through to the sitting room. “They told us about Ted.”

Buffy’s arms were wrapped around herself in a protective manner, and she gave the two adults a small, tight smile. “So you’re checking up on me, huh? I’m fine.”

“Willow said he attacked you,” Jenny spoke up, looking the girl over. There were shadowy marks on her throat and her cheekbone, and she frowned.

Buffy responded with a shrug. “And now he’s scattered in a dozen dumpsters across town. I guess I won this round, huh?”

Rupert was frowning at Buffy, however, and Jenny was a little relieved when she saw that he had apparently noticed the marks on Buffy’s skin as well.

“He hurt you,” Rupert noted, stepping forward hesitantly.

Buffy tilted her cheek so that Rupert could get a closer look. Apparently, she knew the drill, and frankly it made Jenny a little ill.

“He pinned me against the wall,” she admitted quietly. “By my throat. I don’t remember much after that, he knocked me out. When I came to, he’d knocked Mom out too. I cornered him in the kitchen.”

A shadow had passed over Rupert’s face, his brow furrowed in anger as he took in Buffy’s injuries. “You should have come to me the moment you were worried about him.”

“And said what?” Buffy asked. “‘Giles, I don’t like my mom’s new boyfriend’? I didn’t even know he was evil until he hit me that night, and the next thing I knew he was at the bottom of the stairs.” She lowered her gaze to the floor, brow furrowing. “I lost my temper, and someone ended up dead.”

Rupert looked uneasy then, and when he moved he winced. Moving forward, Jenny nudged him towards the armchair to sit for a while.

“Buffy, from what you said, he hit you,” Jenny said gently. “You were defending yourself. He intended to hurt you, and he would have continued to do that if you hadn’t stopped him.”

Buffy looked unconvinced though, and looked over to Rupert. “You don’t need to stay. I’m fine. Mom’s fine. I took her upstairs. She doesn’t even remember what happened.”

“That’s hardly the point, Buffy,” Rupert protested, before wincing as he shifted in the chair. “That man- that, that thing- hurt you. As Jenny said, you have nothing to feel guilty about. I only wish that I’d pushed harder when I became concerned you were hiding something.”

Buffy looked away, and Rupert’s eyes narrowed. “Why do I feel like you’re hiding something now as well?”

Jaw set, the blonde seemed to think for a moment before finally making her mind up. “Promise you won’t be angry?” she asked Rupert quietly.

Jenny frowned at the question, but said nothing.

“I won’t, Buffy,” Rupert assured gently.

Buffy swallowed, and moved to sit on the edge of the sofa instead. “He’d... Ted had already threatened to hit me. Before that night.”

Jenny watched as Rupert clenched his jaw, but he said nothing.

“It was when he and Mom took me and Xander and Willow to play mini golf. Ted caught me cheating, and he threatened to slap my mouth,” Buffy admitted quietly. She shrugged then, as though trying to downplay the seriousness of what she was saying. “I told Mom, but she accused me of lying. Thought I was making it up to get back at Ted. After that, I figured if I was going to get rid of Ted, I had to do it alone.”

Rupert seemed to take a moment to calm himself then, and Jenny shifted forward just a little more. She didn’t want to intervene if she didn’t have to, but it was a delicate situation.

“You really should have told me,” Rupert said at last, and Jenny could hear that he was doing his best to remain calm. “Buffy, I need you to understand something; you can come to me about anything, whether it’s about slaying or not.”

Buffy blinked at him then, wide-eyed as she processed the words. Apparently, Jenny realised, it hadn’t occurred to the girl that she could go to her Watcher for matters other than slaying. Rupert shifted himself forward in the chair, leaning forward with a wince so he could grasp Buffy’s hand in his.

“Promise me, Buffy, if anything like this ever happens again, you’ll come to me.”

Buffy nodded wordlessly. Jenny stepped in then, looking pointedly at Rupert before turning to Buffy.

“Maybe you should head up to bed. It’s been a long day,” Jenny said with a tight smile.

Apparently Buffy agreed, as she nodded and pushed herself to her feet. Rupert stood too, and moved to give Buffy a hug before she could leave the room. When Buffy pulled away again, she had a slightly shaky smile on her face, and Rupert smiled at her.

“Go on,” he said, nudging her towards the door. “Jenny and I can see ourselves out.”

 By the time Jenny was pulling up outside Rupert’s house, it was nearly three in the morning. She yawned.

“Did you, ah, want to come in?” Rupert asked, glancing over at her before he opened his door.

Jenny blinked at him, a little surprised, and Rupert apparently realised how his question had sounded.

“Not, ah, not for anything, you understand. I just... Well, it’s rather late, and my car is still back at the cemetery so if you didn’t mind giving me a ride to pick it up in the morning, you could-”

Jenny suppressed a smirk at his panic. “Sure, Rupert. I assume you’re offering me use of your sofa for a few hours?”

Rupert stammered again then. “Well, I, I could take the sofa,” he said quickly.

But Jenny cut him off before he could finish that thought. “You’re injured, Rupert. I shot you with a crossbow bolt-” She cut herself off abruptly, wide-eyed as she recalled the incident. “Huh. That feels a lot longer ago than a few hours.” She looked over at him, gave him a small smile. “It’s been a long night.”

“It has indeed,” Rupert agreed with a small smile of his own. “Should we head inside?”

Jenny’s smile widened.

“Lead the way.”

[ibboard]

Recently saw a huge long thread of “which character are you like”, and then Matt Mercer posted the link and his full results.

I was guessing some of the scores (”slovenly or stylish” or “disarming vs creepy”? What kind of scale are those?) but it’s probably not entirely wrong.

I don’t know the top ones, but Data, Simon Tam, C-3PO  and Ross Gellar probably isn’t far out, and I’m happy to see Giles in the top 25!

Everyone over 75% (which starts with Hermione)

Bernard Lowe (Westworld): 90%

Lane Pryce (Mad Men): 90%

Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place): 90%

Filius Flitwick (Harry Potter): 89%

Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 89%

Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory): 88%

Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity): 88%

Dr. Chan Kaifang (Space Force): 88%

Brian Johnson (The Breakfast Club): 88%

C-3PO (Star Wars): 87%

Dr. Marcus Brody (Raiders of the Lost Ark): 87%

Ross Geller (Friends): 86%

Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons): 86%

Felix Gaeta (Battlestar Galactica): 86%

Evan (Superbad): 86%

Peter (The Room): 86%

Thufir Hawat (Dune): 86%

Artie Abrams (Glee): 86%

Dr. Adrian Mallory (Space Force): 86%

Al Robbins (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 86%

Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor): 86%

Tom Hagen (The Godfather): 86%

Leonard Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory): 85%

Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory): 85%

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer): 85%

Timothy McGee (NCIS): 85%

Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina): 85%

David Rosen (Scandal): 85%

David Phillips (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 85%

Pope (Outer Banks): 85%

Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 84%

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby): 84%

Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): 84%

Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley): 83%

Ash (Alien): 83%

Jack Crawford (The Silence of the Lambs): 83%

Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe): 82%

Abed Nadir (Community): 82%

Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock): 82%

Donald Mallard (NCIS): 82%

Jimmy Palmer (NCIS): 82%

Ray Ploshansky (Girls): 82%

Linus Caldwell (Ocean's 11): 82%

Severus Snape (Harry Potter): 81%

Dexter Morgan (Dexter): 81%

John Munch (Law & Order: SVU): 81%

Jasper Hale (Twilight): 81%

Michael Bluth (Arrested Development): 81%

Kimball Cho (The Mentalist): 81%

Dr. Aaron Glassman (The Good Doctor): 81%

Dr. Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos): 81%

Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice): 80%

Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey): 80%

Miranda Hobbes (Sex and the City): 80%

Norman Wilson (The Wire): 80%

Peter Gregory (Silicon Valley): 80%

Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): 80%

Marty Byrde (Ozark): 80%

Geordi La Forge (Star Trek: The Next Generation): 80%

Dr. Eric Foreman (House, M.D.): 80%

Oliver Hampton (How To Get Away With Murder): 80%

Ellen Parsons (Damages): 80%

Preston Burke (Grey's Anatomy): 79%

Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons): 79%

The Narrator (Fight Club): 79%

Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica): 79%

Dana Scully (The X-Files): 79%

Walter Skinner (The X-Files): 79%

Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged): 79%

Johnny Rose (Schitt's Creek): 79%

Kenny Stowton (Killing Eve): 79%

Q (Tommorrow Never Dies): 79%

Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones): 78%

Cedric Daniels (The Wire): 78%

Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight): 78%

Ray Arnold (Jurassic Park): 78%

Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley): 78%

Donald Cragen (Law & Order: SVU): 78%

Randall Pearson (This Is Us): 78%

Jimmy Price (Hannibal): 78%

Caitlin Snow (The Flash): 78%

Capt. Oliver Queenan (The Departed): 78%

Varys (Game of Thrones): 77%

Principal Skinner (The Simpsons): 77%

Elsie Hughes (Westworld): 77%

Arthur (Inception): 77%

Dwight Schrute (The Office): 76%

Leo McGarry (The West Wing): 76%

Toby Ziegler (The West Wing): 76%

Jin-Soo Kwon (LOST): 76%

Dr. Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe): 76%

Richard Webber (Grey's Anatomy): 76%

Lucius Fox (The Dark Knight): 76%

Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1): 76%

Betsy Heron (Mean Girls): 76%

Robert Fischer (Inception): 76%

Alan Harper (Two and Half Men): 76%

Jonah Byrde (Ozark): 76%

Dr. James Wilson (House, M.D.): 76%

Janet (The Good Place): 76%

Captain Jim Brass (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation): 76%