Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You made my entire week with this lovely long response!!
Like there is Giles' family history and background that comes through with his Slayer grandmother and his accelerated healing. And then there is a supernatural/magical element to his healing that if Buffy is near him during recovery, it accelerates his recovery. And that is a cool element to explore, but it's also almost a throw away element in here: as in everyone knows that, so it's just a factual mention.
Yes, this fic was a chance to slip in a lot of my headcanons and personal explanations for what could be otherwise consider plot holes. (How did Buffy go from nearly dying to jumping off of tall building onto moving buses? Giles gets bonked on the head far too much to not have any medical repressions and seems to heal really quickly from serious injuries. Maybe there's a reason?) I liked presenting it sort of off hand, because, of course, Buffy would know all this already. :-)
And we learn that they have always been there for one another during those times they needed patching up and that they just fall into that pattern despite having gone through an extremely complicated patch in their relationship.
To be honest, I really enjoyed exploring this side of their lives, the normal every day stuff, rather than the big flashy apocalypses. The practicalities of bandaging wounds, of doing laundry, of figuring out sleeping arrangements. And I like presenting their relationship as being able to withstand the events of the past few months without a big, overly dramatic conversation. Because they've been having these small, unassuming conversations all along, so their relationship is in a very healthy place.
Everything is just organic between them. The barriers that existed because of Sunnydale are gone. Something new can be born from that. And it is beautiful
Thank you for this. I aiming for that and desperately hoped that I had succeeded.
Oh and Giles regularly singing to Buffy during her recoveries from various injuries, and then when he'd tended to her after her jump from the tower... you might have just shattered my heart.
That ending was one of the first parts that I wrote and I haven't changed it much since then. Just a little bit of going back and forth about whether or not Giles should actually kiss Buffy or just leave it with another forehead kiss. (And then I wrote the part about him accidentally feeling up her boob and my quandary seemed rather pointless!)
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Like there is Giles' family history and background that comes through with his Slayer grandmother and his accelerated healing. And then there is a supernatural/magical element to his healing that if Buffy is near him during recovery, it accelerates his recovery. And that is a cool element to explore, but it's also almost a throw away element in here: as in everyone knows that, so it's just a factual mention.
Yes, this fic was a chance to slip in a lot of my headcanons and personal explanations for what could be otherwise consider plot holes. (How did Buffy go from nearly dying to jumping off of tall building onto moving buses? Giles gets bonked on the head far too much to not have any medical repressions and seems to heal really quickly from serious injuries. Maybe there's a reason?) I liked presenting it sort of off hand, because, of course, Buffy would know all this already. :-)
And we learn that they have always been there for one another during those times they needed patching up and that they just fall into that pattern despite having gone through an extremely complicated patch in their relationship.
To be honest, I really enjoyed exploring this side of their lives, the normal every day stuff, rather than the big flashy apocalypses. The practicalities of bandaging wounds, of doing laundry, of figuring out sleeping arrangements. And I like presenting their relationship as being able to withstand the events of the past few months without a big, overly dramatic conversation. Because they've been having these small, unassuming conversations all along, so their relationship is in a very healthy place.
Everything is just organic between them. The barriers that existed because of Sunnydale are gone. Something new can be born from that. And it is beautiful
Thank you for this. I aiming for that and desperately hoped that I had succeeded.
Oh and Giles regularly singing to Buffy during her recoveries from various injuries, and then when he'd tended to her after her jump from the tower... you might have just shattered my heart.
That ending was one of the first parts that I wrote and I haven't changed it much since then. Just a little bit of going back and forth about whether or not Giles should actually kiss Buffy or just leave it with another forehead kiss. (And then I wrote the part about him accidentally feeling up her boob and my quandary seemed rather pointless!)