Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Title: Kairos
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: G
Notes: Character: Giles


Since word came down that he'd gotten the long-awaited Watcher assignment not much had gone right.

There'd been the god-awful plane ride. The Academy's budget didn't run to first-class and California is an infinite distance away when one is stuffed in a chair like a pimento in an olive.

California was hot; Sunnydale was dull and dusty. His cover as a librarian was ludicrous; these children didn't read. His footsteps were the only sound he heard in this room.

Then she came in. He knew her immediately. In that moment everything in his universe righted itself. His mission had begun.