ice cream for freaks: buffy and angel fanfic recs

Giles

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The Boys
by Aura
Spike, Giles
Vignette; Character Study; season 5

Spike reluctantly plays babysitter after Giles is injured, and gets to hear about Ripper's past. Sharp, cool dialogue. I love this line: "think you could kill yourself in some runny way, and aim the blood into bottles?"

A Day in the Life
by Halrloprillalar
Spike, Giles
Humour; Vignette; S4
If I wish really really hard it will be canon that Spike and Giles talked about the Beatles and had a jamming session in season four. It will.

The Flat in Bath
by Jayne Leitch
Character Study; Angst; Afterlife
Giles arrives at his new flat, and thinks about what he's left behind. Depressed the hell out of me.

Grim Reality
by JK Philips
Buffy, Giles
Darkfic; Normal Again

Going AU from Normal Again, Buffy didn't get the antidote in time. With Buffy catatonic and her friends and sister dead by her hands, Giles has to try and bring her back to the real world.

Jean Grey is Dead on the Moon and I'm Not the Man I Used to Be
by Maddog
Giles, Xander

Vignette; Character Study; Angst; post Dirty Girls
Okay, I'll admit I saw the title and thought "I don't care if it was written by drunken monkeys let loose on a typewriter, I'm reccing it." Lucky for me, it's actually good. Giles visits Xander in the hospital, something I'd have liked to have seen on the show.

Ophelia
by Aura
Character Study; S1
Ficlet. 'Poor Giles. He works with teenage girls, but he doesn't know a thing about them.'

Sleeping Beauty
by AC Chapin
AU; Angst; Season 2/3

Sad, sweet story as Giles keeps watch by his Slayer's grave. Elements of B/G.

Soda (Soft Drink Remix)
by Meg
S6
Sweet, poignant and funny look at Giles in England, writing up a report in a bookshop cafe and trying not to think about Sunnydale.

Soldier
by Branwyn
Darkfic; S5
It's a dirty job, but...

The Waking
by Mad Poetess
Giles/f
'When he was eight years old, he carved his name into her skin with a penknife. She was green and wet with spring, and the cut burned deep, bled clear. When she'd finished screaming, she thought, 'So this is love, then.' I've read this three times and it keeps getting more beautiful. Told from a very unusual point of view, it takes us from Giles's childhood until after Chosen.

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