Okay. A little bunny invaded my brain while I was brain storming for Young Love. I thought about my William, the council and Buffy and I realized that this would probably happen if any of them were real. I own no one except William and his friends.
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Giles rubbed his eyes. Paperwork paperwork paperwork. That's all he ever got from the council. Though they weren't really on the best of terms it was so damn tedious. As much stress, anger and sadness that had touched him in his time as Buffy's watcher he missed it. At least that was interesting. He pushed himself away from the desk. 18 years. 18 long years since Buffy had disappeared from their lives without a trace. They tried everything they could to find her but she had literally disappeared off the face of the planet.
The ringing phone jolted him out of his thoughts. He picked it up and sighed. "Hello. Rupert Giles speaking."
"Hey Giles."
He fumbled with the phone as it almost fell out of his hands. "Bu-Buffy. Wh-what... Where are you? How have you been? What happened?"
He could hear her smile threw the phone. "I'm fine Giles. Where I am isn't really important but I promise when I have the time I will explain it to you." She sounded older. Wiser. "I just wanted to let you know something so you wouldn't have a heart attack."
"Why would I have a heart attack?"
"Well, I'm sending someone to you. You remember before I left? How I was going to have a baby?"
Giles felt his shoulders droop. He remembered that quiet well.
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18 years ago
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"Giles. You can't freak."
That was always a very bad sign. "What Buffy?"
"Promise you won't freak."
"I promise I won't freak."
"You are gonna freak."
"I will not. Just tell me."
"Are you ready for a shock?"
"BUFFY!" Giles yelled at her. He was a grown up. He could handle it.
"I'm pregnant." Giles froze. "Giles? Hello?" Buffy did a little hop backwards as Giles fell foreward in a dead faint. "I guess he wasn't ready for a shock."
///30 minutes later///
Giles blinked rapidly, coming out from his shocked induced fainting spell. "Buffy. Please tell me that was a dream. Please."
Buffy smiled softly and patted his knee. "Sorry Giles. But its true. But think of it this way," She seemed to perk up. "Your gonna be a grandfather."
He felt the dark flowers of unconsciousness pop in front of his eyes. Oh. Pretty pretty flowers.
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Present
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"Yes. I remember. I fainted twice."
Buffy laughed. It was a loud erupting laugh with an odd snort thrown in once in a while. She almost never laughed like that in public and few people had ever heard it. "Yeah. That was hilarious but about the baby. I had him."
"Oh. You had a boy."
"Yes. He's a teenager now and I thought it would be a good idea for him to meet his grandfather."
"Of- of course! That would be wonderful. Um, when is he coming?"
"Well he should be there right about-"
Knockknockknock
"Now. You two have fun."
"What?! Wait! Can't you tell me something about him. What he likes? What he doesn't? Anything?" Giles babbled into the phone only to get a dial tone. The knocking came again at the front door.
"Granddad! Open the door!"
Giles made his way between the stacks of books to the. "Hang on one second." He tripped over one "tiny" stack. "Bollocks!" He finally opened the door and stared at the teen standing in the rain.
He had a healthy tan, just like his mother. He had his father's eyes. He face was a good mix of his father and his mother. He never needed to ask Buffy who was the father. He didn't need to. His had long brown hair with streaks of black. He wore a black leather coat which was wrapped tightly around him as he stood shivering. A duffel bag sat at his feet. "Could please let me in. I'm wet."
"Of course. Of course." Giles moved out of the way. "Watch out for the books." He shuffled inside and shook his head, sending raindrops flying. "So..." He was pulled into a hug so tight it cut off all the words he was thinking of saying.
"Hey Granddad! Its good to meet ya'!" He pulled away, beaming. "I mean. Mom always said that you were a great guy. But its so great to finally put a face to a name." He looked around in awe. "My friends are never going to believe that I was here. So what do we do now?"
Giles looked around his small flat and than at this tall teen.
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"This is SO good!" William bit into the burger. "Whats this made of?"
Giles, though curious about the question, answered. "Cow I believe."
"Wow. I never knew cow tasted so good."
Giles shook his head as he stared at all the empty plates that crowed the table. "I never knew one person could eat so much."
The waitress sauntered up, a smile on her face. "How is everything?"
"Fine."
William turned to her, his glass in his hand. "Absolutely wonderful. This food is great." He handed her his glass. "Could you be a dear and get my another one of these?" Giles shook his head with a smile as he watched her blush and scurry away. "Girls." William smirked. "You gotta love them."
"So." A silence spread between them. "Tell me about yourself."
William wiped his hands on his pants and coughed. "Um... Lets see. I have a girlfriend and she actually has an internship at Wolfram & Hart. I have a close knit group of friends. I graduated top of my class with honors. I've already impressed my boss and he seems to like me." He thought hard. "What else. What else. I think that's just about it. What about you?"
Giles pushed his glasses up on his nose. "Well, I'm a Watcher. I'm also a librarian. I have no girlfriend or wife. I am not on good terms with the Council. And that is about it."
"You don't have much of a life do you?"
"No not really." Giles said laughing. "Mostly I just read."
The waitress placed a large, alcoholic drink by William. "This is from the ladies in the corner." William and Giles turned to look at the table. Three very drunk looking young women waved at them and than giggled. Giles shook his head at their behavior.
William pushed the drink back towards the waitress. "Could you tell those lovely young ladies thank you but I am curently in a relationship and it is not an open one."
///An hour later!///
Giles stared at the computer. The fastest way to alert Willow and Xander was threw email. But that meant he had to touch the damned thing. When he first moved there Willow had gotten it for him and now it sat on a desk, covered with dust, unused. He turned it on carefully. Things always seemed to go wrong with these things.
"Dear Willow and Xander,
I wish to inform you of something of great importance. Recently I have come into contact with Buffy's child. He is staying with me in London as of this moment and if you wish to make contact with him (I know he wishes to make contact with both of you as well as Dawn) just let me know and we can arrange it.
Sincerely,
Giles."
"Granddad!" William stumbled into the study. "I have a gift for you from home. Mom said you liked books so I got the textbooks from my classes for you. Thought you would find them interesting."
Giles' glasses fell right off his face.
"These are rare editions of long lost pieces of history!" Giles flipped threw its pages, inspecting the cover. "This is from the City of Atlantis!"
"That was my history one."
"'Feeding without killing off the populations'?" Giles raised his eyebrows.
William shrugged. "Honors class. Alternative Resources."
Giles inspected the rest of the books. All of them were beyond rare. To rare even for a price to be put on them. All of them literally the last of their kind. And he was using them as textbooks.
Life was so unfair.
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William is back! I own a couple of other characters but they're not going to be in here until next chapter.
Review please. I would really appreciate it.