A Twist in My Story: Chapter 12
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the_huffsterTitle: A Twist in My Story
Author: the_huffster
Pairing: Buffy/Giles
Rating: R
Timeline: AU
Synopsis: After giving up his life as Ripper, Giles seizes the chance to live a normal life and doesn't return to the Council. But years later when he meets first grade teacher Buffy Summers, he wonders if it's possible to really escape Destiny.
Author's Note: I decided to mess around with the years and make Giles younger just so it will fit with how I have this fic planned out. So please bear with me on the messing with years/ages.
Three months later
Rupert smiled when he heard the front door open while Addison looked up from the dolls she had been playing with, an excited look in her eyes.
“Nafan’s home, Daddy!” she said before dropping her toys and running to the front door. “Hi, Nafan!”
“Hey, Addie!” he heard his son laugh, no doubt returning the hug he was caught in. “Did you take care of Daddy?”
“Yep!”
“What happened to your dad?” Rupert’s smile grew into a grin when he heard Buffy’s voice.
“Daddy cut himself,” Nathan explained as the three of them walked into the living room, the six year old setting up his homework on the coffee table. “And he fell.”
Rupert shook his head as his son began working on his homework while his daughter went back to playing with her dolls, softly humming to herself. He gave Buffy a smile when she sat next to him. As soon as he noticed her gaze on the gauze wrapped around his forearm, he let out a soft sigh.
“Thank you for bringing Nathan home,” he flashed her a smile when she looked up at him. “You didn’t have to do that.”
“I had planned on swinging by your store to see you, but then Chris told me that you were home on bed rest,” Buffy answered, her hazel eyes taking in the bruise on his forehead. “So I said that I would take Nathan home instead of one of the guys doing it.”
“Thank you,” he said before leaning over and giving her a quick kiss, doing his best to keep back his wince at the pain his side was in.
“How did you hurt yourself?” she asked, lifting up the side of his shirt when she noticed his careful movement. “And don’t tell me that you’re fine, because this massive bruise on your ribs says otherwise.”
“I fell down the stairs last night,” he sighed, rolling his eyes when she gave his arm a pointed look. “My arm happened to catch a nail that was sticking out. Needless to say, that nail is taken care of.”
“And your head?” she asked as she lightly ran her fingertips over the bruised swell.
“It’s fine,” he told her. “I’m fine, Buffy. The only reason I had Chris take Nathan to school was because I fell early this morning and didn’t trust myself to drive. But I’m fine now,”
The teacher opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by Addison walking over and tugging on Buffy’s jeans. When they looked down, they saw the four year old holding out one of her dolls with a hopeful grin on her face.
“Wanna play, Buffy?” she asked, bouncing on her feet as she waited for the answer.
“I would love to, Addie.” Buffy giggled at the cheer the little girl gave before gently taking the doll into her hand and following Addison to where the rest of the toys were. “So, what are we playing?”
Rupert shook his head when he listened to his daughter explain the storyline- a bedtime story he had told her on countless occasions. The story itself was just a child friendly version of Slayers and Watchers that came out more like fairy tales. He watched in astonishment at how well Buffy interacted with his daughter, making it seem as if she had been doing this for years.
“Daddy,” Nathan’s voice pulled him from his thoughts as he sat on the couch next to his father, his homework in his lap. “Can you help me?”
“Of course,” Rupert smiled as he picked the paper up and began looking over it.
He gave a quick glance when Addison giggled and a grin made its way one his face, his smile dancing in his green eyes when he made eye contact with his girlfriend.
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Three weeks later
“Daddy!” Addison laughed as her father picked her up out of the water.
“On the count of three,” Rupert chuckled as he gently swung his daughter in his arms.
When he reached three, the four year old took a deep breath before she was tossed back into the water. Nathan laughed as he was splashed by his sister’s impact, his Bugs Bunny floaties helping keep him from going under the water while Addison was secured in her pink life vest. Rupert let out a bark of laugh as his children started splashing each other as Chris and Blake helped them back into the shallow end of the wave pool as the fake waves began to swell.
“Buffy!” Nathan called as his teacher entered the water, Jess and Trevor heading towards the deep end. “I can surf!”
Buffy laughed as Nathan ran ahead of a small wave before gliding across the surface, giggling as the wave caught up with him and carried him for a few seconds. Addison’s giggles soon joined her brother’s as Giles swept her along a wave when she tried to copy Nathan. The two adults carried the children into the shallow end up the pool, sitting down in the water that barely reached their waists.
Buffy leaned against Rupert’s shoulder as they watched the siblings chase each other in the small waves, Blake and Chris making their way back into the pool with the inflatable tube they had rented. Blake shook his head as Nathan asked if he could go into the deep end with them, glaring at his surrogate brothers before going back to splashing his younger sister. The group spent another ten minutes in the wave pool before getting out of the water, Nathan and Addison wanting to go run around in the play area near the lazy river.
“Hey, why don’t you two go around the lazy river and we’ll take the munchkins to the big fort in the center.” Jess suggested as they neared the entrance to the “river”.
“We promise not lose them,” Chris chimed in when he saw the hesitance in Rupert’s eyes.
Rupert looked at his children before looking at each of the four members that made up his extended family.
“Be good, you two.” He told Nathan and Addison, chuckling when they started dragging Jess and Trevor towards the wooden play area as they called for Blake and Chris to follow them.
“You guys can have this,” Blake handed the clear tube to them before chasing after the others, grabbing his boyfriend’s hand once he caught up with them.
“I wonder about the company I keep sometimes,” he muttered as he entered the lazy river, holding the tube still as Buffy stretched out on it.
“Hey!” she splashed him as he gently pushed the tube, folding his arms on the open space next to her before resting his head on his arms.
“You’re the exception, of course.” He grinned as he lifted his head and reached one hand out to rest on her thigh.
Buffy just rolled her eyes at his answer. He gave her thigh a brief squeeze before he disappeared under the water. She looked around for her boyfriend, her fingers gripping the inflatable tube in case he had any plans of flipping her over. The longer he stayed out of her sight, the more she began to worry. Just when she was getting ready to jump into the water, she felt a hand wrap around her ankle as fingers began tickling the sole of her foot.
“Rupert!” she shrieked when his head popped out of the water. “I swear, I will kick you in the face and not feel any remorse whatsoever.”
“Calm down, Buffy.” He chuckled as he placed a kiss just above her knee before returning to his spot next to her side.
“You don’t I like to be tickled,” she gave him a half-hearted glare as her hand ran through his wet hair.
“Well, it depends on the activity.” He gave her a suggestive smirk, chuckling she raised her eyebrow- as if daring him to continue with that line of thought. His smirk turned into a grin when he took her up on that dare. “I clearly remember a very different reaction a few nights ago…”
She smacked the back of his head when a passerby gave them a look, obviously having picked up on the tone Rupert was using. He just laughed as he readjusted his grip on the tube.
“Are you enjoying today so far?” he asked, turning his head to glare at the two teenagers who had bumped into him.
“Why? Did I do something made you think I wasn’t enjoying today?”
Rupert rolled his eyes at the grin she gave him. As the two floated down the lazy river, he listened to her talk about the many “adventures”, as she called them, she had with her class. Some of the more entertaining stories always involved Nathan and his friends, which didn’t surprise Rupert at all. They had started their second trip in the river just as Buffy began telling him what had happened the day before.
“I swear, I thought I was going to lose it.” She laughed, nearly falling out into the water. “The things Nathan and Hunter write for free write…it’s too much sometimes.”
Her laughter ended when she noticed Rupert just staring at her, a faint smile on his lips.
“Why are you smiling like that?” she asked him.
“Because I can,” he moved to where he was standing next to Buffy’s head, his smile growing as he looked down at her and moved his left hand to cover hers.
“What are you thinking about, Rupert?” Buffy turned her hand and laced her fingers with his.
“You.” He stated.
“What about me?” a smile danced in her hazel eyes as she adjusted her head to look up at him comfortably.
“Just…” he looked around as he searched for the right words. “How unbelievably amazing you are with the kids. How much they’ve come to adore you in the short amount of time we’ve known you. How lucky I am to be dating someone you adores my children the way you do,”
“Well, they’re pretty hard to resist.” Buffy smiled up at him. “They must get that from their father,”
“I love you,” he said without thinking, his eyes going wide once he realized what he had said. “I didn’t…um…that’s not…”
He stopped talking when he noticed the flash of disappointment, sighing as he focused his eyes on the water.
“That’s not how I wanted to tell you,” he explained. “I didn’t exactly picture telling you that I love you in a water park surrounded by strangers.”
“Nothing ever goes how you pictured it, huh?” there was amusement in her tone, which gave Rupert hope that she wasn’t mad at him.
“Apparently not,” he chuckled as he looked up and met her eyes. “But, I do love you Buffy. Which surprises me considering we’ve only been dating for five months.”
“Good,” she giggled at the confusion in his eyes. “I love you too, Rupert.”
A grin broke on his face before he bent his head and gave her a soft kiss.
Author: the_huffster
Pairing: Buffy/Giles
Rating: R
Timeline: AU
Synopsis: After giving up his life as Ripper, Giles seizes the chance to live a normal life and doesn't return to the Council. But years later when he meets first grade teacher Buffy Summers, he wonders if it's possible to really escape Destiny.
Author's Note: I decided to mess around with the years and make Giles younger just so it will fit with how I have this fic planned out. So please bear with me on the messing with years/ages.
Three months later
Rupert smiled when he heard the front door open while Addison looked up from the dolls she had been playing with, an excited look in her eyes.
“Nafan’s home, Daddy!” she said before dropping her toys and running to the front door. “Hi, Nafan!”
“Hey, Addie!” he heard his son laugh, no doubt returning the hug he was caught in. “Did you take care of Daddy?”
“Yep!”
“What happened to your dad?” Rupert’s smile grew into a grin when he heard Buffy’s voice.
“Daddy cut himself,” Nathan explained as the three of them walked into the living room, the six year old setting up his homework on the coffee table. “And he fell.”
Rupert shook his head as his son began working on his homework while his daughter went back to playing with her dolls, softly humming to herself. He gave Buffy a smile when she sat next to him. As soon as he noticed her gaze on the gauze wrapped around his forearm, he let out a soft sigh.
“Thank you for bringing Nathan home,” he flashed her a smile when she looked up at him. “You didn’t have to do that.”
“I had planned on swinging by your store to see you, but then Chris told me that you were home on bed rest,” Buffy answered, her hazel eyes taking in the bruise on his forehead. “So I said that I would take Nathan home instead of one of the guys doing it.”
“Thank you,” he said before leaning over and giving her a quick kiss, doing his best to keep back his wince at the pain his side was in.
“How did you hurt yourself?” she asked, lifting up the side of his shirt when she noticed his careful movement. “And don’t tell me that you’re fine, because this massive bruise on your ribs says otherwise.”
“I fell down the stairs last night,” he sighed, rolling his eyes when she gave his arm a pointed look. “My arm happened to catch a nail that was sticking out. Needless to say, that nail is taken care of.”
“And your head?” she asked as she lightly ran her fingertips over the bruised swell.
“It’s fine,” he told her. “I’m fine, Buffy. The only reason I had Chris take Nathan to school was because I fell early this morning and didn’t trust myself to drive. But I’m fine now,”
The teacher opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by Addison walking over and tugging on Buffy’s jeans. When they looked down, they saw the four year old holding out one of her dolls with a hopeful grin on her face.
“Wanna play, Buffy?” she asked, bouncing on her feet as she waited for the answer.
“I would love to, Addie.” Buffy giggled at the cheer the little girl gave before gently taking the doll into her hand and following Addison to where the rest of the toys were. “So, what are we playing?”
Rupert shook his head when he listened to his daughter explain the storyline- a bedtime story he had told her on countless occasions. The story itself was just a child friendly version of Slayers and Watchers that came out more like fairy tales. He watched in astonishment at how well Buffy interacted with his daughter, making it seem as if she had been doing this for years.
“Daddy,” Nathan’s voice pulled him from his thoughts as he sat on the couch next to his father, his homework in his lap. “Can you help me?”
“Of course,” Rupert smiled as he picked the paper up and began looking over it.
He gave a quick glance when Addison giggled and a grin made its way one his face, his smile dancing in his green eyes when he made eye contact with his girlfriend.
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Three weeks later
“Daddy!” Addison laughed as her father picked her up out of the water.
“On the count of three,” Rupert chuckled as he gently swung his daughter in his arms.
When he reached three, the four year old took a deep breath before she was tossed back into the water. Nathan laughed as he was splashed by his sister’s impact, his Bugs Bunny floaties helping keep him from going under the water while Addison was secured in her pink life vest. Rupert let out a bark of laugh as his children started splashing each other as Chris and Blake helped them back into the shallow end of the wave pool as the fake waves began to swell.
“Buffy!” Nathan called as his teacher entered the water, Jess and Trevor heading towards the deep end. “I can surf!”
Buffy laughed as Nathan ran ahead of a small wave before gliding across the surface, giggling as the wave caught up with him and carried him for a few seconds. Addison’s giggles soon joined her brother’s as Giles swept her along a wave when she tried to copy Nathan. The two adults carried the children into the shallow end up the pool, sitting down in the water that barely reached their waists.
Buffy leaned against Rupert’s shoulder as they watched the siblings chase each other in the small waves, Blake and Chris making their way back into the pool with the inflatable tube they had rented. Blake shook his head as Nathan asked if he could go into the deep end with them, glaring at his surrogate brothers before going back to splashing his younger sister. The group spent another ten minutes in the wave pool before getting out of the water, Nathan and Addison wanting to go run around in the play area near the lazy river.
“Hey, why don’t you two go around the lazy river and we’ll take the munchkins to the big fort in the center.” Jess suggested as they neared the entrance to the “river”.
“We promise not lose them,” Chris chimed in when he saw the hesitance in Rupert’s eyes.
Rupert looked at his children before looking at each of the four members that made up his extended family.
“Be good, you two.” He told Nathan and Addison, chuckling when they started dragging Jess and Trevor towards the wooden play area as they called for Blake and Chris to follow them.
“You guys can have this,” Blake handed the clear tube to them before chasing after the others, grabbing his boyfriend’s hand once he caught up with them.
“I wonder about the company I keep sometimes,” he muttered as he entered the lazy river, holding the tube still as Buffy stretched out on it.
“Hey!” she splashed him as he gently pushed the tube, folding his arms on the open space next to her before resting his head on his arms.
“You’re the exception, of course.” He grinned as he lifted his head and reached one hand out to rest on her thigh.
Buffy just rolled her eyes at his answer. He gave her thigh a brief squeeze before he disappeared under the water. She looked around for her boyfriend, her fingers gripping the inflatable tube in case he had any plans of flipping her over. The longer he stayed out of her sight, the more she began to worry. Just when she was getting ready to jump into the water, she felt a hand wrap around her ankle as fingers began tickling the sole of her foot.
“Rupert!” she shrieked when his head popped out of the water. “I swear, I will kick you in the face and not feel any remorse whatsoever.”
“Calm down, Buffy.” He chuckled as he placed a kiss just above her knee before returning to his spot next to her side.
“You don’t I like to be tickled,” she gave him a half-hearted glare as her hand ran through his wet hair.
“Well, it depends on the activity.” He gave her a suggestive smirk, chuckling she raised her eyebrow- as if daring him to continue with that line of thought. His smirk turned into a grin when he took her up on that dare. “I clearly remember a very different reaction a few nights ago…”
She smacked the back of his head when a passerby gave them a look, obviously having picked up on the tone Rupert was using. He just laughed as he readjusted his grip on the tube.
“Are you enjoying today so far?” he asked, turning his head to glare at the two teenagers who had bumped into him.
“Why? Did I do something made you think I wasn’t enjoying today?”
Rupert rolled his eyes at the grin she gave him. As the two floated down the lazy river, he listened to her talk about the many “adventures”, as she called them, she had with her class. Some of the more entertaining stories always involved Nathan and his friends, which didn’t surprise Rupert at all. They had started their second trip in the river just as Buffy began telling him what had happened the day before.
“I swear, I thought I was going to lose it.” She laughed, nearly falling out into the water. “The things Nathan and Hunter write for free write…it’s too much sometimes.”
Her laughter ended when she noticed Rupert just staring at her, a faint smile on his lips.
“Why are you smiling like that?” she asked him.
“Because I can,” he moved to where he was standing next to Buffy’s head, his smile growing as he looked down at her and moved his left hand to cover hers.
“What are you thinking about, Rupert?” Buffy turned her hand and laced her fingers with his.
“You.” He stated.
“What about me?” a smile danced in her hazel eyes as she adjusted her head to look up at him comfortably.
“Just…” he looked around as he searched for the right words. “How unbelievably amazing you are with the kids. How much they’ve come to adore you in the short amount of time we’ve known you. How lucky I am to be dating someone you adores my children the way you do,”
“Well, they’re pretty hard to resist.” Buffy smiled up at him. “They must get that from their father,”
“I love you,” he said without thinking, his eyes going wide once he realized what he had said. “I didn’t…um…that’s not…”
He stopped talking when he noticed the flash of disappointment, sighing as he focused his eyes on the water.
“That’s not how I wanted to tell you,” he explained. “I didn’t exactly picture telling you that I love you in a water park surrounded by strangers.”
“Nothing ever goes how you pictured it, huh?” there was amusement in her tone, which gave Rupert hope that she wasn’t mad at him.
“Apparently not,” he chuckled as he looked up and met her eyes. “But, I do love you Buffy. Which surprises me considering we’ve only been dating for five months.”
“Good,” she giggled at the confusion in his eyes. “I love you too, Rupert.”
A grin broke on his face before he bent his head and gave her a soft kiss.
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Date: 2011-08-11 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-11 10:39 pm (UTC)Still very curious to see what happens once Buffy's Slayer identity is revealed. Should provide an interesting contrast to the fluff in this chapter! ^_^
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Date: 2011-08-11 11:04 pm (UTC)But falling down the stairs disease is contagious, apparently. I mean, Buffy fell down and then next thing we know, Giles is taking a tumble. Lol
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Date: 2011-08-11 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-11 11:55 pm (UTC)