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summer_of_giles2009-07-31 02:26 pm
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Drabble: Patience (Giles/Xander, all audiences)
Thanks to the mods for this wonderful community! I was inspired by the free-for-all day and wrote this Giles/Xander drabble (exactly 100 words!).
Patience
Giles glances at the clock. It’s now four hours and seventeen minutes.
It was four hours and thirty-one minutes when last he checked.
That’s improvement. Although slight.
He eyes the clock again. No change.
He fleetingly wonders whether time has stopped – perhaps as part of a nefarious spell – but then it counts down by another minute.
He really shouldn’t have agreed to Xander’s ridiculous request to not meet him at the airport.
He stands up, throws on a coat.
Xander’s at the door, grinning. “I got an earlier flight.”
Giles smiles back.
At least he’s not the only impatient one.
Patience
Giles glances at the clock. It’s now four hours and seventeen minutes.
It was four hours and thirty-one minutes when last he checked.
That’s improvement. Although slight.
He eyes the clock again. No change.
He fleetingly wonders whether time has stopped – perhaps as part of a nefarious spell – but then it counts down by another minute.
He really shouldn’t have agreed to Xander’s ridiculous request to not meet him at the airport.
He stands up, throws on a coat.
Xander’s at the door, grinning. “I got an earlier flight.”
Giles smiles back.
At least he’s not the only impatient one.