Ficlet for Summer-of-Giles: The Watcher's Night Off (Rated G)

[feliciacraft]

Several things happened last night: 1) I freaked out at the realization that today would be free posting day at summer-of-giles, something I'd personally requested from the mods (due to my commitaphobia in signing up to own a whole day in the first place), 2) Asked my wonderful flist for very (literally) eleventh-hour prompts and received help

Comments

[sparrow2000]

That was beautifully intimate. So many lovely lines, but this one especially got to me "silence shattered, and joy surged"

Just lovely.

[feliciacraft]

Aww, thank you. I've read your writing--you're too kind!

I feel like Giles seals so much of his feelings, his losses behind a wall of silence, because he's surrounded by kids, really, in a land not of his own, away from family and friends. There needs to be an outlet, and moments where people just listen to him, even if his emotions have to be expressed indirectly, through music.

[il_mio_capitano]

Very beautiful!

[feliciacraft]

Thank you! And I've got you to use that lovely icon a second time! Yay! :)

[feliciacraft]

Thank you, Danna! I wanted to give Giles an emotional outlet, because he suffers through deeply personal losses on the show, too, and doesn't really have anyone to help him cope (the way that everyone wants to help Buffy). So I imagined him pouring out his heart to strangers through music.

[tei_lj]

yaaaaaaaaaaaas!

Giles' emotional/artistic side is tragically underrepresented in terms of actual scenes. We know it's there... but so little about it...

[feliciacraft]

Thank you! Agree with what you said. Even the Watcher needs a life and an emotional outlet.

Thursday, July 2

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