Last Resort | By : NeenaVarscona Category: BtVS AU/AR > Threesomes/Moresomes Views: 2641 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. |
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Rupert climbed out of the taxi but didn’t even consider giving the rude driver a proper tip. He’d spent over an hour at the hospital and he’d found the experience to be disconcerting to say the least. He knew many of the doctors and nurses very well, thanks to his fated profession, yet when they greeted him tonight, they’d been cold and distant. They barely touched him except when it was required for his treatment. By the time they released him he was beginning to feel like a pariah—ostracised unfairly by the world at large.
But he was home now, and the thought of being surrounded by family again was enough to dispel the misery of the last few hours. He imagined dinner would be waiting, and their guest of honour would be anxious to start the ceremony. They were probably worried sick about him, and he could almost see the cross look on Buffy’s face when he told her he’d forgotten to get the strawberries.
Dragging his luggage behind him, he went to open the door and found that it was locked. He took a quick peek through the little window in the door and saw there was a light on in the living room, but there was no one in sight. He rang the doorbell and waited, a knot of tension neatly tying itself in his stomach.
When the door was opened by a squealingly happy Dawn, Rupert’s nerves settled a bit and he allowed himself to smile. Dawn threw her arms around him and squeezed him hard enough to make him grunt.
“I knew you’d come back,” she said, her face bright and grinning as she let him go.
“I’m sorry if I had you worried—it’s been a most unusual day.” Rupert followed Dawn inside and set down his bag. He took off his jacket and draped it over a chair, wondering why he’d been so dressed up anyway. He felt as if he’d been wearing every piece of clothing he owned. “Where is everybody?” he asked.
“Buffy’s on patrol and Willow’s…out,” she answered, her vibrant smile quickly fading.
“Dawnie? Who is that you’re talking to? You didn’t invite any vampires in, did you?” Anya’s voice called out from the kitchen. A moment later the ex-demon came into the room and stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Rupert standing there.
“You’re back. But I thought…” she started. But before she could finish that thought, Rupert swept her up in his arms and began kissing her heartily. Anya could see no reason why she shouldn’t enjoy it, so she kissed him back, and she was really getting into it when Xander trotted down the stairs and caught them.
“What the…? Anya? Hey!” Xander grabbed Rupert by the shoulder and spun him around, intending on giving him an earful. But he ended up getting a mouthful instead.
Xander couldn’t have been more astonished if he tried. He had literally no idea how to react. If someone had pointed a gun at him and demanded to know what he would do if he suddenly found himself necking with Rupert Giles, he would have been shot, because he’d have been at a complete loss for words. Yet here he was, on the receiving end of an intimate and tongue-involving embrace with his former high school librarian. The Tweed Man unleashed. And why wasn’t he pushing him away, he asked himself? Why hadn’t he knocked him flat on his British butt already? And it was too late now, of course, because the kiss had gone on too long for him to believably pull off ‘disgusted and appalled’. The best he could hope for now was ‘bewildered and abashed’.
Rupert broke off the kiss, sighing happily as he affectionately ruffled Xander’s hair. It took a moment for him to notice the dumfounded stares he was receiving from all three of his companions.
Anya was the first to speak, addressing Xander: “Didn’t I tell you he was an amazing kisser?”
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When Giles awoke, he groaned loudly. Not because he was in pain, but because it hadn’t been just a dream. Buffy was still one apron away from full-frontal nudity, and Xander…
Giles groaned again.
“Rupert? Geez, big guy—you had us scared,” said Xander, helping him to sit up.
“Did you and I…did we just…kiss?” Giles stuttered.
“That’s good. Testing the memory is good,” said Xander. “I kissed you hello, then you spiralled with spectacular gracelessness to the floor. Ooh—and your eyes rolled up into your head…I thought that only happened in the movies!”
“You’re hurt. Are you hurt? Was there a demon, or a gang of trolls or something?” asked Buffy, hovering over him with concern etched on her face. “’Cause you haven’t looked this pale since, well, since ever. And why are you staring at me like that?”
“I’m sorry, but I’m having a hard time concentrating with you in that apron,” he said tactfully.
“You want me to take it off?” she asked.
“No!” he shouted. “I most certainly do not. What’s gotten into you?”
“Okaaay. Maybe we should start over here,” said Buffy. “Hello, my name is Buffy. And you are?”
“Rupert Giles,” he answered tersely, feeling the strain of constant befuddlement. “And I don’t know what this is all about, but if this is some sort of elaborate prank…”
“Hang on,” said Xander. “Rupert Giles?”
“Yes—Rupert Giles. Who else would I be?” he asked a little sharply.
“Well, unless there’s been a divorce we don’t know about, you would be Rupert. Just plain Rupert,” said Anya. “He does realize that he can’t divorce us unless we all consent, right? In which case we would retain full ownership of the Magic Box.”
Buffy rolled her eyes at the ex-demon’s tactless obsession with material possessions. There were other, more pressing, matters at stake. “Is this about Spike?” she asked, getting to what she felt was the heart of the problem. “’Cause you were totally on board with it this morning. You even offered to officiate, and we all agreed, and now the roast is in the oven. There’s no going back once the roast is in the oven.”
“Spike? What has Spike got to do with anything?” Giles asked. “All I know is that I was at the airport about to board my plane, then I was waking up in the supermarket car park, feeling very much like Alice through the looking glass.”
“What were you doing at the airport?” asked Buffy.
“Going back to England, as you know perfectly well.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. You weren’t planning a trip—not with the ceremony tonight,” said Buffy.
“That’s right. You wouldn’t miss Spike’s ceremony if it was the end of the world,” said Xander, drawing angry glares from the girls. “Sorry—did I just say something jinxy? I take it back—no end of the world. There, is that better?”
“What’s going on down there?” came the familiar sound of Willow’s voice from upstairs. Giles breathed a sigh of relief; if there was one person he could trust to make sense of all this it was Willow. “Who’s missing the ceremony?” she asked.
“No one,” Buffy answered menacingly, shooting a warning glare in Giles’ direction. “Everyone will be here, and everything will go without a hitch, even if I have to tie you all down and force-feed you the roast.”
Willow and Tara descended the stairs together, holding hands. Willow, too, had apparently just come from the shower and had neglected to put on clothing. But Giles hardly noticed. He was too overwhelmed at the sight of Tara.
“Oh, dear Lord,” he said.
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