Oh thank you so much for the thoughtful and wonderful feedback lady!! You touch on so much of what I was trying to develop.

And your reading of the Giles/Tara was inspired, and I think is actually a really lovely way to think about their relationship, given Tara's history that we do have and the way she might explain things to herself too. On the other hand, I was very much thinking (when i wrote it) about the way in which Giles might be scary to Tara for many reasons, but that if they were ever to have a relationship that worked that she would have to find a way to reconcile and understand those scary parts of his character.