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This is the original version of my first fic for you mocking pleasure. My previous entry here is the updated version.
Title Take Me
Rating PG because it sounds better than G
Summary What if Anya had latched on to Giles and not Xander an AU of the Prom with most of the cannon events left unchanged besides the pairing I added some GD 1 events to the prom.
Disclaimer not making anything off of anything that doesn't belong to me or that belongs to ME for that matter.
Archive if you want but let me know.
Feedback please let me know if you like this or not I have lots of ideas for more of this AU some I have already written should I keep posting or not?
Chapter 1 The Prom
“ I feel ill and overly emotional and you’re responsible, don’t try to weasel out of it like the evil man you are.”
“I beg your pardon.” Giles looked up to find the owner of the demanding voice glaring at him and recognized her as the girl who started the trouble with Willow’s alternate. Good Lord she couldn’t possibly be implying … Giles didn’t know how to react, was this prank of some sort dreamed up by Xander? He looked toward the library’s double doors and weighed the likelihood of someone coming in and overhearing their conversation against imprudence of being alone with the former demon / female student. There were rules against the later in both his occupations. Then he thought of how much he sounded like Wyndom-Price and the possibility of his idiot replacement coming in tipped the scales. “We should talk this over in private.” Taking Anya’s arm he led her to his cramped office and closed the door.
“No need to beg I don’t plan on hurting you I just want you to escort me to the prom. Hurting you can come later, if you do something that merits vengeance or you like that sort of thing. ” Anya put both hand on Giles’ desk and leaned forward giving Giles good view of her breast. “It’s all your fault that I’m human the other you destroyed my power center. No one will take me to this silly dance, so you have to take me, besides I can tell you’re going to be the only man there who will look both attractive and comfortable in formal wear.” This was said in a matter of fact tone without any hint of flirtation and to Giles astonishment all in one breath.
“ Miss Jenkins, this is not the time for jokes. The Ascension is scheduled for graduation day and we still have no idea how to prevent it.” Giles said rubbing the bridge of his nose. This ex-demon was turning out to be as annoying as his supposed replacement.
“There’s an Ascension coming! What are you doing sitting around reading dusty books with small print that obviously gives you headaches? Let’s get out of here.”
“What do you know about the Ascension and what is all this about you being ill?”
“I was there for an Ascension, about eight hundred years ago in the Kastka Valleys above the Urals, there was a sorcerer there who achieved Ascension. Became the embodiment of the demon Lo-Hash. I was there cursing a shepherd who had been unfaithful. His wife had wished that all his sheep would lie with... anyway I really wanted to go to the Prom and now we’re all going to die horribly so it doesn’t matter except that I wanted to dance with you so badly, not that you and I wouldn’t dance well together… ”
“The Ascension is on graduation day you will be able to attend the prom with a student as your escort. What is it with you children and your obsession with the bloody Prom?” Giles took a deep breath he could see that Anya was very upset and his fit of temper wasn’t helping.
“I’m not a child and you are the only male around here worth dating Rupert!”
Giles was flattered even if there was a possibility he was only the best of very poor lot. It was a long time since anyone had seen him as a attractive. “Regardless of your age it would be unsuitable for me as a member of the faculty to bring a student as my date, if you’d like me to, I mean I would pleased if you would save me a dance.”
“Alright but you have to gaze into my eyes and smile at me once too or it’s no deal.”
Giles laughed he knew there would be trouble the ex-demon had him chuckling and negotiating over formal dance in the face of an Ascension. “Come on Anyanka I hear Willow and Buffy in the other room.”
“Not too short, medium. And it had this weird, sorta fringey stuff on its arms.” Willow said as Giles walked in with Anya.
“What's that, a demon?” Giles asked.
Buffy replied for Willow, “A prom dress that Will was thinking of getting. Can't you
ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?’ Buffy turning back to Willow, “We'll get you a dress. You know, we should check April Fools.”
Cordelia said, “Don't go there! I shop there!”
“I myself am dipping into my road trip fund to procure a shiny new tux, so look for me to dazzle even if I’m going stag.” Xander chimed in his words trailing off at the end as he looked at Cordelia.
“Well, if you need a date we could go together but I’ve promised one dance to Mr.Giles” Anya said to Xander who looked at her a little oddly but agreed to go.
“And I will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion. Can we *please* talk about the matter at hand, the day of the Mayor's Ascension is fast approaching and very little of what to expect.” Giles was a little deflated at how soon Anya found a date, and with Xander of all people, it could have been worse at least the annoying prig of a watcher had his eyes glued solely on Cordelia. He was in no way jealous, he was glad that she referred to him as Mr. Giles Rupert would have been difficult to explain but the title stung just a bit.
“Well, what about the pages that Will stole from the Mayor's book? Xander said, “Look, she put her life on the line there, pal. Don't tell me they're useless.”
“ On the contrary, no, we, uh, we know the Ascension refers to a human transforming into a demon, the living embodiment of an immortal. And Graduation Day, our Mayor Wilkins is scheduled to do just that. Anya here may be of further help as she was once present for an Ascension.”
“Yes, Lo-Hash was ... It-it decimated the village within hours. Maybe three people got out. I've seen some horrible things in my time. I've been the cause of most of them, actually, but this...” Giles pulled out a chair for Anya who was trembling.
“Ahem, I'm sorry, but Lo-Hash was a four-winged soul killer, am I right?” Giles nods at Wesley in agreement and the younger watcher continued to speak ”I was given to understand that they're not that fierce. Of all the demons that we've faced...”
“You've never seen a demon.” Giles was the only one focused solely one Anya and to the librarian it seemed her eyes looked every year of the millennium plus she claimed.
Buffy raised her hand “Uh, excuse me? Kind of professionally, four years running.”
“All the demons that walk the earth are tainted are human hybrids like vampires. The Ascension means that a human becomes pure demon. They're different.” Anya explained. “For one thing, they're bigger.”
“Trouble is, we don't know which demon the Mayor is going to become” Giles said, “There are thousands of species.”
Buffy was out of her seat now pacing to get rid of her agitation. “Giles, we get it. Miles to go before we sleep. But especially if we're all gonna vaporize or something on Graduation Day, we deserve a little prommy fun. One night of glory, not to much to ask.
Giles watched the young people on the dance floor with parental like pride. Buffy had gotten her night of glory, and her friends at least got the fun to go with it. Now if he could only get rid of the thorn in his side he thought.
At that moment said thorn spoke up. ”Mr. Giles. I'd like your opinion. While the last thing I want to do is model bad behavior in front of impressionable youth, I wonder if asking Miss Chase to dance would...”
“For God's sake, man, she's eighteen. And you have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone. Just have at it, would you, and stop fluttering about.” Giles’ dilemma wasn’t quite so simple was Anya 18 she appeared, the innocent babe she sometimes seemed or every bit of the blood soaked 1100 years proudly claimed. It was all academic anyway Rupert Giles may have done some foolish things in this youth but he wasn’t stupid enough to become involved with the former vengeance demon.
As Wesley walks off to ask Cordelia to dance Giles spots Buffy and walks up behind her. “You did good work tonight, Buffy.”
“And I got a little toy surprise.” Buffy wants to say more but what she’s not sure she’s never been good at talking about her feelings and Giles knows how she feels anyhow
“I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious.”
“Every now and then, people surprise you.” Buffy said
Giles looks up and spots Angel entering the dance. “Every now and then” Giles takes her umbrella and leaves. Buffy turns to see Angel at the door. They meet. Giles looks on and smiles just a little. Perhaps, this once his slayer will get what she wants.
“You look good in pink, is that taffeta?” Anya has walked up beside Giles and she points to the umbrella as she speaks. Giles’s smile is now an ear to ear grin that makes Anya think making this man smile could be a great new hobby, not that he doesn’t look ruggedly handsome frowning over the pages of a book, but knowing she was the one that made him smile gave her a pleasant warm feeling in the middle of her chest that she liked very much. “You have a very nice smile but you’re supposed to be gazing soulfully into my eyes , we had a deal”
“I’ve always preferred Brown eyes Anyanka and yours are lovely, I believe this is our dance.” And so they danced and Anya was right they didn’t do badly at all.
Title Take Me
Rating PG because it sounds better than G
Summary What if Anya had latched on to Giles and not Xander an AU of the Prom with most of the cannon events left unchanged besides the pairing I added some GD 1 events to the prom.
Disclaimer not making anything off of anything that doesn't belong to me or that belongs to ME for that matter.
Archive if you want but let me know.
Feedback please let me know if you like this or not I have lots of ideas for more of this AU some I have already written should I keep posting or not?
Chapter 1 The Prom
“ I feel ill and overly emotional and you’re responsible, don’t try to weasel out of it like the evil man you are.”
“I beg your pardon.” Giles looked up to find the owner of the demanding voice glaring at him and recognized her as the girl who started the trouble with Willow’s alternate. Good Lord she couldn’t possibly be implying … Giles didn’t know how to react, was this prank of some sort dreamed up by Xander? He looked toward the library’s double doors and weighed the likelihood of someone coming in and overhearing their conversation against imprudence of being alone with the former demon / female student. There were rules against the later in both his occupations. Then he thought of how much he sounded like Wyndom-Price and the possibility of his idiot replacement coming in tipped the scales. “We should talk this over in private.” Taking Anya’s arm he led her to his cramped office and closed the door.
“No need to beg I don’t plan on hurting you I just want you to escort me to the prom. Hurting you can come later, if you do something that merits vengeance or you like that sort of thing. ” Anya put both hand on Giles’ desk and leaned forward giving Giles good view of her breast. “It’s all your fault that I’m human the other you destroyed my power center. No one will take me to this silly dance, so you have to take me, besides I can tell you’re going to be the only man there who will look both attractive and comfortable in formal wear.” This was said in a matter of fact tone without any hint of flirtation and to Giles astonishment all in one breath.
“ Miss Jenkins, this is not the time for jokes. The Ascension is scheduled for graduation day and we still have no idea how to prevent it.” Giles said rubbing the bridge of his nose. This ex-demon was turning out to be as annoying as his supposed replacement.
“There’s an Ascension coming! What are you doing sitting around reading dusty books with small print that obviously gives you headaches? Let’s get out of here.”
“What do you know about the Ascension and what is all this about you being ill?”
“I was there for an Ascension, about eight hundred years ago in the Kastka Valleys above the Urals, there was a sorcerer there who achieved Ascension. Became the embodiment of the demon Lo-Hash. I was there cursing a shepherd who had been unfaithful. His wife had wished that all his sheep would lie with... anyway I really wanted to go to the Prom and now we’re all going to die horribly so it doesn’t matter except that I wanted to dance with you so badly, not that you and I wouldn’t dance well together… ”
“The Ascension is on graduation day you will be able to attend the prom with a student as your escort. What is it with you children and your obsession with the bloody Prom?” Giles took a deep breath he could see that Anya was very upset and his fit of temper wasn’t helping.
“I’m not a child and you are the only male around here worth dating Rupert!”
Giles was flattered even if there was a possibility he was only the best of very poor lot. It was a long time since anyone had seen him as a attractive. “Regardless of your age it would be unsuitable for me as a member of the faculty to bring a student as my date, if you’d like me to, I mean I would pleased if you would save me a dance.”
“Alright but you have to gaze into my eyes and smile at me once too or it’s no deal.”
Giles laughed he knew there would be trouble the ex-demon had him chuckling and negotiating over formal dance in the face of an Ascension. “Come on Anyanka I hear Willow and Buffy in the other room.”
“Not too short, medium. And it had this weird, sorta fringey stuff on its arms.” Willow said as Giles walked in with Anya.
“What's that, a demon?” Giles asked.
Buffy replied for Willow, “A prom dress that Will was thinking of getting. Can't you
ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?’ Buffy turning back to Willow, “We'll get you a dress. You know, we should check April Fools.”
Cordelia said, “Don't go there! I shop there!”
“I myself am dipping into my road trip fund to procure a shiny new tux, so look for me to dazzle even if I’m going stag.” Xander chimed in his words trailing off at the end as he looked at Cordelia.
“Well, if you need a date we could go together but I’ve promised one dance to Mr.Giles” Anya said to Xander who looked at her a little oddly but agreed to go.
“And I will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion. Can we *please* talk about the matter at hand, the day of the Mayor's Ascension is fast approaching and very little of what to expect.” Giles was a little deflated at how soon Anya found a date, and with Xander of all people, it could have been worse at least the annoying prig of a watcher had his eyes glued solely on Cordelia. He was in no way jealous, he was glad that she referred to him as Mr. Giles Rupert would have been difficult to explain but the title stung just a bit.
“Well, what about the pages that Will stole from the Mayor's book? Xander said, “Look, she put her life on the line there, pal. Don't tell me they're useless.”
“ On the contrary, no, we, uh, we know the Ascension refers to a human transforming into a demon, the living embodiment of an immortal. And Graduation Day, our Mayor Wilkins is scheduled to do just that. Anya here may be of further help as she was once present for an Ascension.”
“Yes, Lo-Hash was ... It-it decimated the village within hours. Maybe three people got out. I've seen some horrible things in my time. I've been the cause of most of them, actually, but this...” Giles pulled out a chair for Anya who was trembling.
“Ahem, I'm sorry, but Lo-Hash was a four-winged soul killer, am I right?” Giles nods at Wesley in agreement and the younger watcher continued to speak ”I was given to understand that they're not that fierce. Of all the demons that we've faced...”
“You've never seen a demon.” Giles was the only one focused solely one Anya and to the librarian it seemed her eyes looked every year of the millennium plus she claimed.
Buffy raised her hand “Uh, excuse me? Kind of professionally, four years running.”
“All the demons that walk the earth are tainted are human hybrids like vampires. The Ascension means that a human becomes pure demon. They're different.” Anya explained. “For one thing, they're bigger.”
“Trouble is, we don't know which demon the Mayor is going to become” Giles said, “There are thousands of species.”
Buffy was out of her seat now pacing to get rid of her agitation. “Giles, we get it. Miles to go before we sleep. But especially if we're all gonna vaporize or something on Graduation Day, we deserve a little prommy fun. One night of glory, not to much to ask.
Giles watched the young people on the dance floor with parental like pride. Buffy had gotten her night of glory, and her friends at least got the fun to go with it. Now if he could only get rid of the thorn in his side he thought.
At that moment said thorn spoke up. ”Mr. Giles. I'd like your opinion. While the last thing I want to do is model bad behavior in front of impressionable youth, I wonder if asking Miss Chase to dance would...”
“For God's sake, man, she's eighteen. And you have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone. Just have at it, would you, and stop fluttering about.” Giles’ dilemma wasn’t quite so simple was Anya 18 she appeared, the innocent babe she sometimes seemed or every bit of the blood soaked 1100 years proudly claimed. It was all academic anyway Rupert Giles may have done some foolish things in this youth but he wasn’t stupid enough to become involved with the former vengeance demon.
As Wesley walks off to ask Cordelia to dance Giles spots Buffy and walks up behind her. “You did good work tonight, Buffy.”
“And I got a little toy surprise.” Buffy wants to say more but what she’s not sure she’s never been good at talking about her feelings and Giles knows how she feels anyhow
“I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious.”
“Every now and then, people surprise you.” Buffy said
Giles looks up and spots Angel entering the dance. “Every now and then” Giles takes her umbrella and leaves. Buffy turns to see Angel at the door. They meet. Giles looks on and smiles just a little. Perhaps, this once his slayer will get what she wants.
“You look good in pink, is that taffeta?” Anya has walked up beside Giles and she points to the umbrella as she speaks. Giles’s smile is now an ear to ear grin that makes Anya think making this man smile could be a great new hobby, not that he doesn’t look ruggedly handsome frowning over the pages of a book, but knowing she was the one that made him smile gave her a pleasant warm feeling in the middle of her chest that she liked very much. “You have a very nice smile but you’re supposed to be gazing soulfully into my eyes , we had a deal”
“I’ve always preferred Brown eyes Anyanka and yours are lovely, I believe this is our dance.” And so they danced and Anya was right they didn’t do badly at all.
