An Antique Roman series
Ethan Rayne and Rupert Giles have been friends, enemies, and lovers since they were schoolboys. But when Ethan descends upon Giles on a very strange Christmas week, things work out differently.
In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. Behind her stands her Watcher. He's the one in the tweed and the glasses, translating strange prophecies from Latin for her.
Ethan Rayne and Rupert Giles have been friends, enemies, and lovers since they were schoolboys. But when Ethan descends upon Giles on a very strange Christmas week, things work out differently.
Giles and Buffy travel to the desert to find a weapon that might help them defeat Glory. They find a weapon, and the story begins.
A kinky revision of season 4, in ten parts, each in seven chapters. BDSM and other entertainments among consenting adults are depicted. Kink levels and the associated ratings are high; the emphasis is not on the plot. See the header on the first story for warnings.
Religion, conspiracies, history, magic, artifacts buried deep, Watchers and Slayers. And the story of Rupert Giles, who wants to serve a Slayer.
Giles rebuilds the Council in England. To Xander's eternal surprise, he's a Watcher now too. A sweet post-Chosen AU.
The enjoining spell the Scoobies used to defeat Adam has surprising and life-changing after-effects.
A long hot summer in the Hyperion Hotel, after Sunnydale collapsed.
Giles's Uncle Charles died in the explosion that destroyed the Council of Watchers, but he left Giles a few legacies. Life-changing legacies.
Giles arrives in Sunnydale after Buffy has been resurrected, and he knows that something is wrong. A post-Flooded AU of season 6.
After the fall of Sunnydale, Rupert Giles is with the new Slayers in Cleveland, fighting demons on the new hellmouth. They have no money, but they have each other. Most especially, Giles has Xander. But the year of fighting the First has scarred all of them.
Giles acquires a strange artifact, and makes the acquaintance of a consulting dectective and his biographer.
Europe worships the old gods, while the New World and the Middle East are the bastions of Christianity. Slayers are touched by the gods... and sometimes so are Watchers.
Watchers aren't what Buffy thought they were. A season 4 rewrite.
Giles/Jenny, various ratings, ending up with a different pairing to be revealed.
The timing is going to be tight, but they should be able to deal with the demon and get back home before the heat starts. Giles is sure of it. Famous last words.
A thunderstorm after a long day of heat.
Giles has broken his wrist. The left one. The assault on his dignity commences.
The apocalpyse stone says Buffy's the one the prophecy is about, only this time instead of dying she has to have sex. Some people think that's worse.
Xander gets his first serious piercing. Giles has opinions.
Giles is wearing jeans that are as old as Buffy is. She can think of nothing better to do with them than unbutton them.
An ancient order of knights makes Giles an intriguing offer, but both the Order and the Council seem to think he has to give up Buffy first. Buffy has her own opinion about that.
The business cards say "Supernatural Investigations & Curse-breaking". They don't say anything about being rained on, soul-sucked, shot at, snowed on, or fed dangerous spicy drinks.
But Xander doesn't drink!
Buffy and Giles get stuck in an elevator. Buffy's pissed off. So is Giles.
Xander's carelessness with magic artifacts might have got him into more trouble than he can reasonably escape, even with Giles's help.
The best way to wake up?
A moment of being all Poe together in a cemetery.
Giles introduces Wesley to Sunnydale High library policy.
Buffy has run away to seek an ordinary life. Giles finds her, and tells her she can have it. That should be the end of the story.
Giles accepts Ethan's offer of a drink. He remembers what happened last time but can't bring himself to care anymore.
Giles has just enough money left for a train ticket home.
The morning after firing a gun in a tiny room.
Buffy finds the box Giles has hidden in the back of his closet, the one with the Council's tools.
Tonight it's strong drink and desperate sex, and tomorrow they ride away. A post-"Gift" AU.
Xander can't sleep the night before the big battle against the First. He needs somebody for a last night on earth snuggle.
Giles has erred and requests punishment.
The Watchers and Slayers Society is about to hold its annual holiday party. Giles and Faith are half a world away.
Some of the things Xander likes best about his girlfriend Buffy.
Ethan's in the hands of the Intiative.
Giles has a surprise for Xander.
Parker wasn't enough for Buffy. She needs more. She's not normal.
A Watcher has many duties and is trained to perform them well.
Willow has misbehaved. Xander proposes a fix, and to his surprise, Willow consents.
A Scooby signs up for NaNoWriMo.
Xander's convinced it's Hellmouthy, but probably it's just the flu.
Giles and Buffy dally in a stone circle.
Giles, Buffy, and Xander drink to fallen friends in a remote motel room.
Giles brings Willow back to the coven, where Ethan is waiting.
Giles and Xander attempt to figure out what happened in Willow's last moments on the cliff. Something strange, that's for sure.
Xander takes steps to make sure he remembers what he needs to.
Roses, history, tea, and decisions.
Giles's flat in Bath has a guest room.
Rupert is taken shopping in London by his grandmother.
Wesley's in Cleveland, cleaning up after Merrick's career. He thinks he doesn't have a Slayer.
Rupert and Ethan are bored, wishing for adventure, and expecting never to find one. And then a police call box appears in the most unlikely of places.
There's a vampire problem in London. In about 400 years.
Wesley’s waiting when Giles arrives with Willow.
Giles wonders if he's achieved escape velocity. Probably not.
Xander flees to the place Scoobies go when they can't be near the Slayer any more. But the Hellmouth has a few last kicks in the gut to land before it's done with everyone.
Somebody's been set up. Who? Only Xander knows for sure.
Only true love's kiss will wake her. But who's her true love?
Words spoken and unspoken. Giles learns.
Power and life. Mages and Slayers. And what Giles did during his months away.
What happened when Xander got thrown out of his house just minutes after he turned eighteen.
What was that vampire doing with a knife? That wasn't fair.
Or, Because Watchers and Slayers belong together. Quentin Travers got a lot wrong.
Buffy gets the flu. Giles has bromides.
Giles and Xander on patrol
Push the broom.
Giles is in love.
Ripper's thinking clearly for the first time in years.
Giles has a lot of pills to take.
Giles in Nashville.
Giles emerges from his shell after Scooby encouragement and a little manipulation from Oz.
Giles sings the Buzzcocks.