HERE TO WATCH GIRLS, CHAPTER Ten: Curve (10 OF 14)

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Title: Here to Watch Girls
Author: ProtoNeoRomantic
Betas: Gilescandy & porkwithbones
Rating: Mature (work as a whole bordering on NC-17, but really just because of that one chaper a few chapters back)
Paring: Giles/Willow, Giles/Buffy, Giles/Cordelia, Giles/other female characters
Word Count:  1732 (this chapter)

( “How can you *not have* a computer?” Willow asked for perhaps the tenth time as Giles drove the car past her parents' house and around the block. “I have to deal with the dreadful thing in the library,” he mumbled, his response having grown progressively less polite with each iteration. “Why on Earth would I want one in my home?” “Oh, I don't know,” Willow countered as he pulled to a stop on the cross street and parked in front of a neighbor's house, less than a block away but well out of sight of the Rosenberg's front door and windows. “Maybe in case of an emergency?” )

HERE TO WATCH GIRLS, CHAPTER Eleven: Twist of Bait (11 OF 14)

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Title: Here to Watch Girls
Author: ProtoNeoRomantic
Betas: Gilescandy & porkwithbones
Rating: Mature (work as a whole bordering on NC-17, but really just because of that one chaper a few chapters back)
Paring: Giles/Willow, Giles/Buffy, Giles/Cordelia, Giles/other female characters
Word Count:  1652 (this chapter)

( “♫ Now the heat of the summer/ It hits just like your head against the pavement... ♪” The music thumped inside Rupert's already thumping head, making the few lines he managed to pick out of the cacophony seem all too apt. Although, compared to the grinding, almost mechanical noise of the last number (with lyrics as deep as half full and half empty glasses, no less), this monotonal soliloquy (backed by the comparatively subdued thrum of drums and guitar) was an almost physical relief. On stage, the band members continued to throw themselves about as if in a state of religious ecstasy. For them, it probably amounted to that. )

HERE TO WATCH GIRLS, Chapter Twelve: Old Reliable (12 OF 14)

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Title: Here to Watch Girls
Author: ProtoNeoRomantic
Betas: Gilescandy & porkwithbones
Rating: Mature (work as a whole bordering on NC-17, but really just because of that one chaper a few chapters back)
Paring: Giles/Willow, Giles/Buffy, Giles/Cordelia, Giles/other female characters
Word Count:  1630 (this chapter)

( “*Now* can I call an ambulance?” Willow pleaded, not for the first time. Nor the tenth. “No!” Giles ground out between clinched teeth. “I'm fine!” he lied transparently. “We need to keep—nuhg—working.” )

HERE TO WATCH GIRLS, Chapter Thirteen: Helpless (13 OF 14)

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Title: Here to Watch Girls
Author: ProtoNeoRomantic
Betas: Gilescandy & porkwithbones
Rating: Mature (work as a whole bordering on NC-17, but really just because of that one chaper a few chapters back)
Paring: Giles/Willow, Giles/Buffy, Giles/Cordelia, Giles/other female characters
Word Count:  1093 (this chapter)

( The ambulance rushed along the street, sirens wailing. Strangers were poking at Rupert's scrotum and asking him odd questions, which he gamely tried to answer to the best of his ability. It was remarkable how little he cared. They'd given him something on top of what he'd already taken and everything had gotten very vague, even his sense of dread at the prospect of losing The Good Fight and/or his testicles. In fact, it suddenly struck him as rather funny that if, at some point in the future, someone told him he 'didn't have the balls' for something-or-other, they might literally be right. )

HERE TO WATCH GIRLS, CHAPTER Fourteen: A Welcome Change? (14 OF 14)

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Title: Here to Watch Girls
Author: ProtoNeoRomantic
Betas: Gilescandy & porkwithbones
Rating: Mature (work as a whole bordering on NC-17, but really just because of that one chaper a few chapters back)
Paring: Giles/Willow, Giles/Buffy, Giles/Cordelia, Giles/other female characters
Word Count:  2162 (this chapter)

( “...And that's when Buffy pulls the stake out of her sleeve, and just jabs it into him! Right in the heart!” Willow went on, enraptured by the drama of her tale and the glory of its hero, “And she says! She says! Do you know what she says!?! 'It's in about nine hours, Moron!'” Willow physically jumped for joy, actually clapping her hands in excitement. Giles smiled. It was nice to see her being genuinely cheerful again, not just forcing it for his sake. )