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still_grrrTitle: Keep Your Anger Caged
Author: Laura Sichrovsky
Rating: PG
Word Count: 688
Prompt: 034 – BtVS – The Mayor
Characters: Giles and the Mayor
A/N: I always wondered why Giles took such a chance attempting to skewer the Mayor in the library. What if there was more to it? What if he was goaded into it?
Rupert Giles sighed deeply as he put a book on the top shelf in the bookcage. He’d spent the last four hours researching the Ascension and he was tired. It was well after midnight and he knew he should go home and get an hour or so of sleep before he had to be back here, but he couldn’t help hoping that the information they needed would be in the next book; or the next; or the one after that.
Giles was so wrapped up in translating book titles that he didn’t notice anything odd until he felt someone staring at him. He turned just in time to see the door to the cage close. He went to it, looking at the man standing just out of reach. He felt a ripple of fear run through him, but he pushed it down and faced his enemy.
“Now, Mr. Giles, that was just plain careless,” the Mayor said, smiling. “Maybe this is why you aren’t the Watcher anymore.”
Giles glared at him.
“Hey, I wasn’t judging. To be honest, I preferred facing you. That Wyndam-Price just isn’t up to your caliber.” He took a step closer, his eyes glittering as he looked at Giles. “But I’m not worried. You were the one who raised her, who trained her. When your girl faces mine, yours will be the voice she hears in her head. In all likelihood, it’ll be the last thing she hears.”
Giles lunged forward against the bars, knowing the door wouldn’t give, but hoping nonetheless.
“Oh really now,” the Mayor said, his smile getting even bigger. “You could at least try to be a threat.”
“And you could play fair by letting me out,” Giles grated, throwing his weight against the door again. But a door that could hold a raging werewolf every month wasn’t likely to give under the assault of one frustrated Watcher.
“I don’t know why you’re upset with me,” the Mayor said conversationally. “Do you think this is how I wanted everything to turn out? Okay, it’s mostly how I wanted it to go, but I still don’t see why you have to cause so many problems. Everything was going fine here in Sunnydale. We had a prosperous, happy town and then you have to come here and bring…her. It’s bad for business, you know. Tax revenues have dropped eighteen percent since you arrived and our nighttime tourist industry is all but gone. I’m having a devil of a time luring business owners back. After all, what self-respecting demon wants to set up in a town with a Slayer?”
Giles looked at him incredulously.
“Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?” he asked, his tone slightly bewildered. “You are evil. And your folksy American charm doesn’t change the fact that you are going to become a demon.”
“Ahh, figured that part out, did you?” The Mayor took a step closer, though he remained maddeningly just out of reach. “It doesn’t matter, really. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. No, I don’t want your pity. I simply wanted you to understand that you are completely alone in this fight. No one is going to help you, no one wants you to win. Right now your only ally is a vampire. That would be ironic if it weren’t so wrong.”
“So you are trying to frighten us off? Talk us into giving up?” Giles made no attempt to hide the disdain in his voice.
“Oh no. No, I don’t want you to leave. That wouldn’t be very sporting of me, would it? Just remember this conversation after my Faith has gotten rid of the Slayer problem. You can train her, teach her, heck, you can even love her. But in the end, when she faces off with my girl, when she faces off with me, you are going to be just as helpless as you are right now. Well, have a good evening, Mr. Giles. I’ll see you at graduation.”
With that, the Mayor walked out, leaving Giles standing in the bookcage, impotently pounding at the bars.
The End
Author: Laura Sichrovsky
Rating: PG
Word Count: 688
Prompt: 034 – BtVS – The Mayor
Characters: Giles and the Mayor
A/N: I always wondered why Giles took such a chance attempting to skewer the Mayor in the library. What if there was more to it? What if he was goaded into it?
Keep Your Anger Caged
Rupert Giles sighed deeply as he put a book on the top shelf in the bookcage. He’d spent the last four hours researching the Ascension and he was tired. It was well after midnight and he knew he should go home and get an hour or so of sleep before he had to be back here, but he couldn’t help hoping that the information they needed would be in the next book; or the next; or the one after that.
Giles was so wrapped up in translating book titles that he didn’t notice anything odd until he felt someone staring at him. He turned just in time to see the door to the cage close. He went to it, looking at the man standing just out of reach. He felt a ripple of fear run through him, but he pushed it down and faced his enemy.
“Now, Mr. Giles, that was just plain careless,” the Mayor said, smiling. “Maybe this is why you aren’t the Watcher anymore.”
Giles glared at him.
“Hey, I wasn’t judging. To be honest, I preferred facing you. That Wyndam-Price just isn’t up to your caliber.” He took a step closer, his eyes glittering as he looked at Giles. “But I’m not worried. You were the one who raised her, who trained her. When your girl faces mine, yours will be the voice she hears in her head. In all likelihood, it’ll be the last thing she hears.”
Giles lunged forward against the bars, knowing the door wouldn’t give, but hoping nonetheless.
“Oh really now,” the Mayor said, his smile getting even bigger. “You could at least try to be a threat.”
“And you could play fair by letting me out,” Giles grated, throwing his weight against the door again. But a door that could hold a raging werewolf every month wasn’t likely to give under the assault of one frustrated Watcher.
“I don’t know why you’re upset with me,” the Mayor said conversationally. “Do you think this is how I wanted everything to turn out? Okay, it’s mostly how I wanted it to go, but I still don’t see why you have to cause so many problems. Everything was going fine here in Sunnydale. We had a prosperous, happy town and then you have to come here and bring…her. It’s bad for business, you know. Tax revenues have dropped eighteen percent since you arrived and our nighttime tourist industry is all but gone. I’m having a devil of a time luring business owners back. After all, what self-respecting demon wants to set up in a town with a Slayer?”
Giles looked at him incredulously.
“Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?” he asked, his tone slightly bewildered. “You are evil. And your folksy American charm doesn’t change the fact that you are going to become a demon.”
“Ahh, figured that part out, did you?” The Mayor took a step closer, though he remained maddeningly just out of reach. “It doesn’t matter, really. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. No, I don’t want your pity. I simply wanted you to understand that you are completely alone in this fight. No one is going to help you, no one wants you to win. Right now your only ally is a vampire. That would be ironic if it weren’t so wrong.”
“So you are trying to frighten us off? Talk us into giving up?” Giles made no attempt to hide the disdain in his voice.
“Oh no. No, I don’t want you to leave. That wouldn’t be very sporting of me, would it? Just remember this conversation after my Faith has gotten rid of the Slayer problem. You can train her, teach her, heck, you can even love her. But in the end, when she faces off with my girl, when she faces off with me, you are going to be just as helpless as you are right now. Well, have a good evening, Mr. Giles. I’ll see you at graduation.”
With that, the Mayor walked out, leaving Giles standing in the bookcage, impotently pounding at the bars.
The End
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