forbiddenawards along with the marvelous "The Giles Thing" by 
drsquidlove and "Sometimes A Cigar" by allyndra. And then firefly124 fangirled it! My weekend is made!Many thanks to
shitsu_tonka for the prompt (Angel? to be shouted at? hmm!) and to emmessann for the beta ("get Buffy out of this story" in more diplomatic terms, which was exactly right).Then when I re-scanned it (as my species of OCD moves me to do) I edited out an Americanism in Giles-speak. Sigh. We conjugate "to get" differently from our cousins. And we give "different" a different preposition, too. Among a myriad other small things to get right. If I get 50% of them right in a story, I feel like I'm doing okay. Thus I come right back down to earth.
Either two short stories or one longer one for
spring_with_xan later today. I was the king champeeeeeen of procrastination yesterday, so I'm still frantically typing today.And speaking of
spring_with_xan, check out nwhepcat's ficlet yesterday, written to my promptlet: "Roadside Assistance". I nurse a secret passion for the Citroen. Though if Tony Head had had his way, Giles would have been riding a bike with a sidecar in the early seasons. I think... that needs to be written. 