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By Kat_the_VampyreRating: PG (eventually NC-17) Wes/Will Buffy/Giles
Spoilers: Season 3
Distribution:The Willow Shippers Resource Center, the new Buffy/Giles Relationshippers, anyone else want it? Just ask.
Note:Faith isn't around just for the reason that it'll work better if she isn't!
Dedication:To Mark and Kath who have reaffirmed my believe in relationships. If those 2 don't work out the human race is doomed!
"It would be best if you had no further contact with the slayer."
Giles started to protest I'm not going anywhere, but, maybe it would be better for Buffy if he did. A Fathers love, ha! But, Travers might be right, it was inappropriate. And how could Buffy trust him now after this? One injection and everything was ruined. She said it herself 'I don't know you'.
Giles looked Travers in the eye and then looked at Buffy, she turned away from him, hiding a tear that Giles couldn't see. In that moment Giles made the hardest decision of his life, harder than leaving his family to come to America, he left Buffy, he left his life, and he left his love. In one second his world dissolved.
Travers smiled, "I knew you'd see sense. And, well, since now I have extra return tickets back to England you can come with us."
Giles just looked at him, with blank, dead eyes. He stood there for several minutes, the other two began to feel uncomfortable. Travers was considering making some random and pointless comment just to break the silence but Giles broke it himself by suddenly turning on his heel and walking swiftly out the door.
Once at his house he wasted no time but started throwing clothes onto his bed ready for packing, not letting himself pause incase he gave into his feelings and ran back to the library to tell Buffy that he couldn't do it.
*****
Sitting in his London apartment, Giles watched the rain falling against his window, as it always appeared to do. It seemed to Giles that he spent most of his spare time, where he once would have been enthusiastically researching, staring into space thinking of sunny Californian days and his young friends that he had left behind to fight what by rights should be his battles.
Worse than these thoughts was the knowledge that Wesley Wendan-Price was now 'in charge' of his Buffy. The man was incompetant and cowardly, Giles had only met him briefly before he went out to the new world to meet the slayer, but that was all the time he needed to know it would be no good. At least Buffy had the other scooby's, Willow especially, she would make a good watcher one day, even if she wasn't so certain at the moment. she'd been doing a good job with Buffy in the last few weeks, he hadn't been in contact, that would have been much to difficult, but he there were ways of getting information.
*****
"May I help you"
Willow spluttered at the sureality of being asked that question in her library. When Giles had left he had passed Buffy's care over to Willow untill a new Watcher could be brought out from London and snyder had temporarily passed on his Librarians duties as well sue to the impossibility of hiring willing staff at a school were death is a more common occurance than bad grades.
"Excuse me! I think I should be asking you that question." she replied indigantly, pulling herself up to her full height which was still considerably shorter than him.
"Ah. You must be Willow Rosenburg, yes? I am Wesley Wendan-Price, I've been assigned to watch over the slayer, Buffy Summers.
"Oh" Willow was lost for words, she'd thought it would be longer and although she wasn't a particularly willing watcher she now found that she didn't want to give up the care of Buffy, especially to this pompous twat.
"Well, I'm willing to let you help me in certain respects relating to the slayer however it must be remembered that I am the one in charge." Wesley continued on blind to Willow's feelings. She was about to explode and yell at this stupid Brit to get the hell out of her library, when Buffy came strolling in. Buffy looked at willow,
"New Watcher?"
"New Watcher