BtVS Triple Drabble: Unprepared

[badly_knitted]

Title: Unprepared
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Giles, Willow, Buffy.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Prophecy Girl.
Summary: Giles has access to so much information, but none of it is any help in this situation.
Written For: Challenge 357: Amnesty at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 272: Law/Lore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.

Comments

[cynthia2015]

"...but nothing in the books of Slayer lore tells him how to prepare for her death".

How can you be objective over that?

I know why the other watchers did it. It doesn't mean I agree with it.

[badly_knitted]

Yeah. Other watchers probably think of their Slayers as something disposable. One dies, the next is called. Giles sees Buffy as a young person who deserves to live a full life. He cares about HER not about what she can do. It makes him better than other Watchers.

Thank you!

[cynthia2015]

Yeah. The other watchers don't care that they'll start over with another Slayer. Even if it means time doing training from scratch!

BUFFY: See ... I've had a lot of people talking at me the last few days. Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I've finally figured out why. (looks Travers in the eye) Power. I have it. They don't. This bothers them.

In the words of Cordelia: Oh. And you're welcome.

[badly_knitted]

I think a Watcher only gets the one Slayer, or potential Slayer, to train, with no guarantee theirs will be the next one activated. Buffy slipped through the net so she came to her first Watcher untrained, whereas Kendra was trained from early childhood.