summer_of_giles | Drabble: Righteous Anger

Title: Righteous Anger
Characters: Giles & Buffy
Rating: G/FRC
Word count: 200
Last line / first line: "I wasn't talking to you."
Notes: This was the first drabble idea I had and the last one I finished. It's a double drabble which is kind of cheating, but since I'm posting this under the wire anyway, it's not like anyone can play off of my last line. I'd like to offer a gigantic thank you to

littleotter73 for all her help today when I went on my drabble writing jag. Without her as my beta, I would never have had such quick turn around. Thank you so much, dear! This one is for you!

"I wasn't talking to you. Ever."

“Buffy, please…”

But she had already stormed off. Giles closed his eyes in pain. Buffy’s animosity too closely mirrored those last terrible days in Sunnydale. But things had changed dramatically since then and Giles had too much to lose now. So, he followed her.

Her office door was unlocked, which he took as a good sign. She was facing the window and she did not turn around as he approached.

“You can’t tell me that you want to spend the rest of your life with me and then try get yourself killed in the next breath,” she told him, her rage barely contained.

“I wasn’t trying to—“

“No!” she cried, spinning around to confront him. “You took on a Grosserhässlicher demon by yourself! What the hell were you thinking?”

“I was thinking you were trapped on the other side of the door he was guarding!”

“I wasn’t!”

“I know that! Now! Buffy, I promise you, I wasn’t taking any needless risks. There’s no power on this earth that could drag me away from you.”

“You really thought I was still imprisoned?”

“Yes.”

“That Big Ugly demon didn’t stand a chance, did he?”

“No.”