Giles ficathon fic!

[wisdomeagle]

Title: "Prayers"
Fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Willow/Giles
Spoilers: Through S6
Rating: R
Summary: Willow calls out to Giles, but both of them end up learning something.
Notes: For maybedarkpink for the giles_ficathon. Her requests at the end
Words: 3925

Comments

[hermionesviolin]

> Prayer was frowned upon by the Watchers' Council, as words had power and giving power to any higher being was viewed as unwise.

LOVE this bit.

> At first he thought it was God, responding to his flimsy efforts at devotion, or perhaps Janus, rebuking him for his apostasy.

*cracks up* Though I'm not sure Janus has thought of Giles as a disciple of His (Its?) for a long time.

> words hat had

Typo: Should be "that"

Interesting idea, Willow feeling something wrong in her magic. But then . . . I didn't notice anything too wrong at the incense moment, but things were happening too fast, too vague (and not in a "A Sip of Tea" kind of way) and I thought, "She's brainwashing him," and I'd been worried ever since he first touched her, had actually expected "he had meant to great her briefly" to be followed with an explanation of fear given the whole mind-connection worry that opened the fic, and partly I'm just primed for this sort of reading having recently read Sophia Jirafe's "Axis Mundi".

> When he stood up that afternoon and faced her at the table, he felt Tara's counterpoint, lower, deeper, insidious and troublesome, drilling into his head. I'm under your spell. Head pounding, he grabbed Willow's hand, jerked her to her feet.

*LOVES*

And his realizing that something was wrong from the sheer normality of it all is so perfect.

> His voice low, he muttered, "Get out."

*loves and shivers*

> he kissed her roughly, and wished again that he could remember their first kiss, that he could remember why he'd started down this spiral in the first place.

*loves*

> He knew that Tess never stood a chance against the claims of Sunnydale; it had that effect on people.

*loves*

> The urge to run back immediately to comfort Anya and to advise Xander was so strong that he'd set out searching for Willow expressly so he wouldn't have to deal with the urge to be paternal in a place where his parenting was not needed.

Interesting.

BUFFY killed Warren? *wonders if Willow has been manipulating reality again* later: *is confused by "Since you tried to convince her it was okay to kill people?" [and guesses it relates back to "The Gift"] wonders later if it has to do with that foggy month Giles had, esp. given that the coven's aversion to him hints at potentially more than just his falling for/failing Willow*

And . . . I'm not entirely sold on the ending (on Giles deciding he really does love Willow) but so it goes.