Giles owns a third-wave coffee shop and bean roastery. His loyal staff thinks he should start dating again. He thinks it would be a disaster. He's right. Featuring Oz, Anya, Tara, Xander, Willow and the incomparable Ethan Rayne in supporting roles.
6381 words; reading time 22 min. 2015/07/19

Giles, Buffy, and Xander drink to fallen friends in a remote motel room.
4995 words; reading time 17 min. 2008/06/01

Power and life. Mages and Slayers. And what Giles did during his months away.
21596 words; reading time 72 min. 2006/12/24

Giles emerges from his shell after Scooby encouragement and a little manipulation from Oz.
7580 words; reading time 26 min. 2006/06/04

Giles and Buffy dally in a stone circle.
2838 words; reading time 10 min. 2008/08/25

Buffy stands at the edge of the pool at the Hyperion. She's got a hole in her side, and a hole where Sunnydale used to be.
4121 words; reading time 14 min. 2007/12/01

Giles needs some reassurance. Buffy tells him to shut up. Watcher/Slayer pillow snark.
1684 words; reading time 6 min. 2010/01/25

The power's out at the Hyperion Hotel and the heat is rising.
2425 words; reading time 9 min. 2007/08/21

Buffy's still got a hole in her side.
7438 words; reading time 25 min. 2008/03/02

Giles is cleaning his pistols. Buffy has some questions.
1181 words; reading time 4 min. 2008/12/04

Giles has just shown off his PPK. He has a few other ways to show off.
2485 words; reading time 9 min. 2008/12/14

Toast racks are abused; bathrobes are stolen; crosswords are left undone.
3649 words; reading time 13 min. 2010/04/11

Giles has an engagement ring in his pocket, but he's stuck in interminable meetings. His scheme to wriggle out of them might have just backfired on him. Oh dear.
5810 words; reading time 20 min. 2011/09/29

Dark magic has been unleashed, and a price must be paid. By whom?
8194 words; reading time 28 min. 2006/08/26

Willow has wagered more than she can comfortably lose, and the conflict has gone hot.
6107 words; reading time 21 min. 2007/09/30

New Year's Eve: champagne, sarcasm, and sex.
2548 words; reading time 9 min. 2008/05/27

Giles and Jenny have a nice church wedding.
2405 words; reading time 9 min. 2007/12/26

Giles breaks the news to Buffy.
426 words; reading time 2 min. 2007/11/26

What happened when Xander got thrown out of his house just minutes after he turned eighteen.
14772 words; reading time 50 min. 2006/12/01

Once again, Xander distracts Giles from the nerve-wracking business of waiting.
2537 words; reading time 9 min. 2008/06/30

Giles and Xander shower after a messy patrol, and things get messier.
1701 words; reading time 6 min. 2008/06/30

Xander and Giles discuss the relative merits of the back seat and the front seat of the typical American automobile, among other things.
3813 words; reading time 13 min. 2008/06/30

Giles clears the way for future fun. Xander decides he's a bad, bad boyfriend.
2485 words; reading time 9 min. 2008/07/26

Apocalypse has been averted, at a price, and now there's all the time they need.
2702 words; reading time 10 min. 2006/12/12

Eggnog is dangerous. Very dangerous.
1974 words; reading time 7 min. 2006/12/24

Xander shows Giles the best way to spend an hour locked in your office.
1165 words; reading time 4 min. 2008/03/10

A day in the life of Xander Harris, Watcher.
6704 words; reading time 23 min. 2007/04/06

The Watcher cooks. Xander watches.
2581 words; reading time 9 min. 2007/01/28

The Head of Council enjoys cross-referencing, baking, and many other relaxing hobbies.
2997 words; reading time 10 min. 2007/04/06

But Xander doesn't drink!
369 words; reading time 2 min. 2011/03/27

Malcolm's first date with Clara, and his first time doing a lot of things. He's as nervous as he ever gets, not that he's admitting it.
4331 words; reading time 15 min. 2015/08/16

The morning after: Clara persuades Malcolm to take a holiday. He isn't sure how to do those.
4357 words; reading time 15 min. 2015/05/09

Holiday mornings, with coffee and croissants and a man wearing her tag.
2533 words; reading time 9 min. 2015/07/12

Malcolm is returning to London from self-imposed exile on a remote island, but a storm has delayed the ferry. To his annoyance, somebody else is also stuck waiting for the same ferry. She had better not be a reporter.
7788 words; reading time 26 min. 2015/01/18

Malcolm doesn't do things in a sensible order.
182 words; reading time 1 min. 2015/05/13

Clara has to break some news to Malcolm.
794 words; reading time 3 min. 2015/05/13

They're in their right minds again, and Clara wants to do it again. Malcolm wants to as well, but he wants things he's afraid to admit.
6850 words; reading time 23 min. 2016/06/24

Malcolm attempts to cope with a reminder of mortality. Jamie has an entirely different way of coping
3898 words; reading time 13 min. 2016/09/03

Perhaps now he dares.
742 words; reading time 3 min. 2016/12/03

Another fake crisis, another late night, another pointless self-immolation. Malcolm wants to be done.
4063 words; reading time 14 min. 2017/06/06

One go, that's the agreement. He gets one go with someone else. Jenna is not surprised, somehow, when he tells her he'd like it to be her.
4029 words; reading time 14 min. 2016/01/05

It happens again, this time because he's trying to comfort her. But this time, there are consequences.
9120 words; reading time 31 min. 2016/07/23

It's his wall this time, darn it. Peter is going to paint it and nobody's going to beat him to it.
7721 words; reading time 26 min. 2015/08/29

Things are much clearer now that he's sober.
8537 words; reading time 29 min. 2017/05/28

All of time and space, out there in a blue box. Where do they go first, and what do they do? The Doctor shows Clara a wonder.
4917 words; reading time 17 min. 2015/02/14

Hiding in a storage closet again? Clara knows how to pass the time.
1005 words; reading time 4 min. 2015/04/04

The Doctor is ready to try it at last.
666 words; reading time 3 min. 2015/12/25

There’s some karaoke. And hypervodka. And consequences.
12085 words; reading time 41 min. 2016/05/01

The Doctor thinks he knows when it happens.
737 words; reading time 3 min. 2015/11/08

The Doctor doesn't entirely enjoy his condition.
868 words; reading time 3 min. 2016/03/20

They run out of the house, through the snow, and into the TARDIS. And then...
725 words; reading time 3 min. 2015/07/27

Two sentient stellar beings, in close orbit around each other, exchanging plasma, in an epic romance that had taken millennia to consummate. One would envelope the other in a few million years, and then they would burst outward in a supernova, bringing their love to a spectacular end. Their light and their love would be ash, but not now, and not any time soon. Today, now, in the glory days of their love -- or so the Doctor described it -- their names swirled across their surfaces as sunspots, dots and whorls in the plasma. The written language of stars.
5990 words; reading time 20 min. 2016/12/03

For once an encounter with an advanced civilization was not going to end in war, catastrophe, disaster, or even a pell-mell run toward something or away from something. It was just a lovely thank-you ceremony for the two of them, that's all, followed by a lovely night high up in a tree house. With one bed. Wait.
5577 words; reading time 19 min. 2014/11/06

The Doctor will do whatever makes Clara happy, even when it puzzles him. So will Danny.
2695 words; reading time 9 min. 2015/07/27

Rose Tyler likes to visit an odd painting in the National Gallery, because its title mentions Gallifrey. One day she meets a stranger there.
1895 words; reading time 7 min. 2015/10/04