Title: Archaic Amusement
Author: Froxyn
Rating: FRM (light)
Pairing: Buffy/Giles
Timeline: S5’ish, AU.
No Dawn, no Riley, no Glory…
Synopsis:
Author’s
Note: Bunny given to me by 4thderevko. Betaed by the wonderful wyvernwolf.
“You can’t honestly believe this
is a good idea.” Giles stated, his arms
crossed over his chest.
Buffy looked up as she tied the
laces of her rollerskates. “What’s wrong
with it? It’s rollerskating,
Giles…”
“I beg to differ. When one rollerskates, one does not normally
have to dodge objects being thrown in one’s path.”
She rolled her eyes, sliding her
feet back and forth on the wooden floor.
“Would you rather I bob for apples?”
“Bob for…what in God’s name are
you talking about?”
“It was either skate or bob for
apples in order to win.” She replied as
she carefully stood up.
“Be careful!” He groaned, reaching out to steady her. “Win what?”
“Thanks…” She said gratefully, holding on to his jacket
lapel as she balanced herself. “Don’t
even get me started on the ‘win what’ thing.
This is all
“How is this
“She entered the damn thing…then
she had to go and sprain her ankle, didn’t she?” She sighed and glanced towards the opposite
side of the room. “Maybe I should do the
bobbing for apples thing…”
“I still don’t understand why…”
“But, I don’t like bobbing for apples. It’s too…”
“…you have to participate in
this…”
“…wet. Apple bobbing is a wet sport. And…”
“…if
“…I’ll get really wet if I’m
bobbing…”
Giles stopped in the middle of
his sentence and stared at her. She looked
back at him, eyes wide at the realization of what she had said.
“Um, apples…bobbing for
apples. Bobbing…water…water splashes on
shirts…”
Giles unconsciously glanced at
her chest, inhaling sharply as he envisioned her standing before him in a wet
shirt. Wet from bobbing…
He closed his eyes and turned
his back to her. This was not the time
to picture her kneeling in front of him, her head bobbing up and down as she…
“Bloody hell.” He grumbled and walked off.
Buffy’s brow furrowed as she
watched him stride purposely across the room towards the door. When he pushed the door open, she finally got
her act in gear and took off after him.
As a Slayer, she could run fast.
As a Slayer, she could skate even faster.
He had just stepped out into the
sun, the door hadn’t even closed fully, when she sped out and grabbed his
arm. He stumbled forward as her momentum
carried him, knocking him into the back fender of his car.
“Buffy!”
“Why did you leave?” She asked breathlessly. “What happened in there?”
“Nothing.” He muttered, pulling his arm from her grasp
and then smoothing down the front of his shirt.
She didn’t fail to notice that
he was having a hard time actually looking at her. “Giles?”
“I just…” He shook his head and glanced at the
door. “Are you really going to do this?”
“Yeah, I am.” She replied, folding her arms over her
chest. “Do you really have a problem
with it?”
Giles took a breath and exhaled
slowly. “I think it’s an asinine thing
to do. I also think that you shouldn’t
stoop to this level of…archaic amusement…”
Buffy raised an eyebrow. “Archaic amusement?”
“I don’t understand how you
would find this ‘fun’. You yell at me
when I throw things at you.”
She stared at him, his pathetic
tone not sinking into her mind. “You throw
knives at me, Giles. They’ll be throwing things like…I don’t
know…soap suds or something. And if I
win, I’ll get – ”
“I don’t care what you’ll get,
Buffy.” He interrupted, trying to push
the thought of her covered in soap suds out of his head. “For God’s sake, Buffy…you are the Slayer…”
“I swear to God…if you go into
the ‘one girl in all the world’ speech…”
Giles straightened and narrowed
his eyes at her. “The Slayer’s Prophecy
states that you alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires,
demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the
swell of their numbers.”
“Giles!” She glared back at him, dropping her arms to
her sides.
“It does not state that you
rollerskate through a mob of unruly young adults who will throw soft toys and
soap suds at you. This is not what a Slayer does, Buffy.” He set his jaw, determined that he would win
this argument. “Therefore…this is not
what you will do.”
If he had actually been winning
the argument, he lost it with that one simple statement.
“It’s not what I will do?” She asked, her tone cold.
“No. This is not proper behaviour for a Slayer.”
“I see.” She replied, her eyes flashing as she turned
and skated back towards the door.
“Buffy!”
She stopped, the door handle in
her hand, and looked back at him. “I’m
going in there…I’ll win this competition…and then we’ll talk later about a
Slayer’s proper behaviour as compared to mine…Buffy, not the ‘Slayer’. Because those two behaviours are very
different. You’re more than welcome to
watch me win…but, if you’re not here, I’ll find you.”
Before he had a chance to
respond, she opened the door and rolled inside.
Giles tilted his head towards
the sky and closed his eyes. “Bloody hell!”
With a heavy sigh, he shoved his
right hand into his pocket and made his way back to the door. After only a moment’s hesitation, he pushed
the door open and re-entered the converted warehouse.
“Oh…dear Lord…” His eyes widened as he took in the scene in
front of him.
As two young men covered the
floor in the small rink with a layer of white, sudsy foam, Giles wondered if
the prize for winning the competition had anything to do with the adult film
industry. He loosened his tie and slowly
made his way over to the spectators’ benches.
He paused when he saw Buffy
skate around the outer edge of the rink.
Thankfully, she had not followed her fellow competitors who had stripped
down to bikinis. He was fairly certain
that he wouldn’t be able to handle that…not when looking at her now, dressed as
she were in a pair of denim shorts and a large, comfy t-shirt, made his cock
twitch in his trousers.
He jumped when he felt a gentle
tap on his arm. He looked down into the
smiling eyes of
“Hey, Giles…come to watch Buffy
win this for me?”
Giles cleared his throat,
glancing back at Buffy before shaking his head.
“Actually, I attempted to talk her out of this.”
“Not as such, no.” He answered softly, swallowing thickly as
Buffy bent slightly, placing her right palm on her right thigh. “I, uh…what is this competition for?”
“Oh…a new Mac. Mine is on its last legs…”
Giles looked down, his brow knitted
in confusion. “Mac?”
“Oh…”
“And by ‘on its last legs’, I
meant that it’s a little old…not that it actually has legs.”
Giles rolled his eyes at her
good-natured teasing. “Yes, I had assumed
that.”
She looked up to find Giles
staring at Buffy. She recognized the
unmistakable look of desire in his eyes.
“Well, that Scalipi demon just
kinda came out of nowhere and…there I was, skating naked. ‘Cause in the next round you have to skate
naked…”
Once her words permeated his
thoughts, he darted his eyes towards her in shock. “What?!”
When he visibly relaxed a little
and turned his attention back to his Slayer skating around the rink while
people took turns throwing harmless objects at her,
“Why don’t you tell her?”
“Tell who what?” He questioned, not taking his eyes off of
Buffy.
“Buffy…that you…” She paused for just a second. “What do you want? I mean, do you love her…or do you just want
to have sex with her?”
Giles lowered his gaze from
Buffy, but refused to look at
“We all see it, Giles.” She amended her statement when he turned his
eyes to her. “Except for Buffy…she
doesn’t see it.”
Giles cleared his throat. “Perhaps…she doesn’t want to see it.”
“Pardon?” He asked in a bewildered tone.
At that moment, Buffy looked
over from the interior of the rink…neatly jumping over a pillow that had been
thrown. Her concentration was broken by
the sight of
Her balance was lost when a
large plush Winnie the Pooh smacked into her shoulder.
“Out!” A voice boomed over the P.A. system.
Giles and
He slipped in the suds, falling
to his knees and sliding over to Buffy.
His hand tenderly touched her thigh.
“Buffy! Buffy, are you alright?”
She groaned and rolled her eyes,
lifting her head just enough to rip the helmet off. “Oh, never better.”
“What happened?” He asked, pulling her up to a sitting
position.
“I…” Her eyes narrowed when she remembered that
she was supposed to be angry. “What were
you and Willow doing?”
“What?” His brow furrowed in confusion at her sudden
anger. “Buffy…”
“She had her hands all over
you!”
“No, she didn’t.” He disagreed quickly. “She…”
He hesitated as his eyes darted down to her now very wet t-shirt…which
left little to his imagination. “Dear
Lord…”
She looked down and groaned in
frustration. “Great! Just fucking great!
“Grope?” His eyes darted back to hers. “
He bit his bottom lip, censoring
his words. She looked up as she slipped
her hands under the front of her shirt and refastened her bra.
“Because you…what?”
“Either kiss her or get off the
floor, man…we have other contestants waiting.”
The commentator stated over the speakers, amusement in his voice.
“Bloody hell.” Giles murmured.
Buffy’s eyes widened as she
watched Giles redden. “You want to? Kiss me, I mean?”
He swallowed nervously and
stood, extending his hand to help her up.
She glanced at his groin and smiled, the hard bulge in his now wet pants
impossible to miss.
“Guess you do…”
“Please, Buffy…just…let’s go.”
She took his hand, allowing him
to help her stand. As he led her from the rink, she glanced over at
Buffy stared after her, the
sudden realization of what
“We, uh…you should get out of
those skates…”
“Giles…”
“Thankfully you were wearing a
helmet…you could have sustained a horrible head injury in that fall.”
She smiled wryly, sitting down
on the nearest bench. “And you’d know
all about head injuries, wouldn’t you?”
He knelt before her, chuckling
softly as his nimble fingers pulled at the wet laces. “Yes, I would.”
She watched him as he gently
removed her skates, setting them to the side before looking up at her. She wrapped the jacket around her and smiled
nervously.
“I was struggling with the
thought of telling you my true feelings.”
He stated quietly. “That’s why
“Giles, we don’t have to – ”
“I wanted to kiss you…I want to kiss you. I want to do more than kiss you, Buffy. And that’s because…” He took a deep breath and then let the words
roll off his tongue. “I love you.”
He watched as her eyes began to
glisten, and he realized that the words felt wonderful. And so he moved to sit beside of her on the
bench, lifting his hand to brush a wet strand of hair back from her face.
“I love you, Buffy.”
“Can you take me home?” She asked, placing her hand on his thigh when
a flicker of sadness shone in his eyes.
“Because…I really want to kiss you and I’m pretty sure that I don’t want
our first kiss to be in front of a lot of people we don’t know.”
“Um…your home or, uh…mine?” He asked nervously.
She pretended to mull over her
options and then leaned into him, her breath warm against his skin as she whispered
into his ear. “I’ll let you decide…but,
keep in mind one thing…”
“Hm?” He murmured, his hands aching to touch her.
“I love you.” She whispered before she placed a soft kiss
on the warm skin right in front of his ear.
He gave a soft groan and then
stood quickly, grabbing her hand and pulling her up with him. She laughed happily and picked up her skates
before he led her towards the door.
Giles closed the door and rushed
around the car, sliding into the driver’s seat and looking over at his
passenger. He opened his mouth to say
something and then shook his head lightly, sliding his hand behind her neck and
pulling her to him instead.
The kiss started hard and
escalated from there. Within seconds,
his tongue was in her mouth and her hands were tugging at his tie. When he felt her roughly pull his shirt out
of his pants, he broke the kiss and rested his forehead against hers as he
fought for breath.
“Home…we need to get home…now.”
“Uh-huh…” Buffy agreed breathlessly. “If we don’t go soon, kissing isn’t going to
be our only first in this car…”
He grinned and pulled back,
sliding the key into the ignition and starting the car. The car roared to life and
She was sure that Buffy would
want to discuss certain things later…mainly the whole ‘ankle not really
sprained’ thing…but, she had a feeling that it would be a few days before that
conversation would take place. She smiled
and waved as Xander pulled up.
Xander raised an eyebrow as she
climbed into the car. “Well?”
“Operation
Buffy/Giles…success.”
Xander grinned and gestured to
the seat belt. “Buckle up, Will…Anya and
Tara gave me strict orders to get you back ASAP.”
The occupants of that car were too
caught up in one another’s kisses to notice anyone driving by. This time, it was Buffy who pulled away and
mumbled ‘home’. Giles swallowed and
shifted the car into drive.
He wouldn’t worry about breaking
any speed limits this time.
~ End
Bunny from
4thderevko is as follows:
Buffy is
planning to do something of which Giles disapproves. This is before they are
*together* in any way. It's something silly, like a wet t-shirt contest or a
sexy dance for a talent show... you get the idea ;) Giles doesn't like it. He
tries to stop her. She doesn't like that... Oh my! hehe :)
Random element: apples