Drabble: Career Opportunities

[il_mio_capitano]

So I had this idea overnight and had to write it. Apologies to littleotter73 for stepping on your toes.

Title: Career OpportunitiesAuthor: il-mio-capitano

Comments

[feliciacraft]

Well, I'm glad the answer is not television! :)

I was thinking about this too, incidentally, the fact that there's a whole Watcher Council built around/for just the one girl in every generation.

Good to see a different spin with that first sentence!

[il_mio_capitano]

Or his corroding liver? Yeah.

Pleased you liked it.

[ljs]

That's a powerful piece.

[il_mio_capitano]

Daddy isn't quite nice here, I think. Possibly due to bitterness at his own minor role in the Council, who knows?

[littleotter73]

Being a spy would be far more entertaining than being a grocer. Maybe on par with being a fighter pilot.

I totally see Giles as an inquisitive and precocious child. Not sure I see Dad as being mean. I would think he would want to instill a little excitement if his son had no choice but to join the council.

Anyway, I liked it. :)

[il_mio_capitano]

Thank you. He's a child in the sixties so I'm sure he totally wanted to be Sean Connery/James Bond. In reality he's more Michael Caine/Harry Palmer.

[il_mio_capitano]

Lol. Poor little Giles. Those two careers tell us how young he was. He had no concept of relative ambition, just two things that appealed to him, regardless of complexity or glamour.