Firsts; "First Impressions"

[sparklebutch]

Title: First Impressions
Fandom: Buffy
Ep: Halloween
Characters: Willow, Ethan, Giles
Challenge: Firsts; from anidada.
Summary: First time she met him.




"Giles..."

She enters the shop and immediately feels something is wrong. Giles is looking around him, at the costumes, but Willow moves to the back of the shop because that's where it's coming from, and that's where she feels it. That's where she sees it.

"Janus," Giles says. "Roman mythical god."

It's not much of an explanation. "What does this mean?"

"Primarily the division of self. Male and female, light and dark..." He sounds like he already knows what he's gonna find here. Willow thinks about division; about having two different wants inside. About men and about women. About what she wants. Who she is. The statue's eyes glow an unnatural light.

And a scary man walks calmly into the circle of light and talks.

"Chunky and creamy. Oh, no, sorry, that's peanut butter." He smiles. She's nervous. He doesn't even look at her.

Just at Giles.

"Willow, get out of here," Giles says and the urgency in his voice frightens her. "Now."

She's curious. She wants to know, wants to understand. She wonders who this man is. "But..."

"Now!"

She takes one look at Giles and leaves. She hurries down the street to warn the others, and all along she thinks about this man. Who he is. What he is, that made Giles so angry, so worried. She knows magic when she sees it, dark magic, she thinks. Powerful magic. Whoever this man is, he's not safe, he's not nice.

And she thinks he's kinda gay.

Comments

[leetal.livejournal.com]

Awww, yay! :)

(see, that is all I have to say... let me know if you don't want these. :) )

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I'm good with the comments, if that's what you mean. When I'm loved by hundreds of thousands, I'll let you know if I change my mind ;)

[leetal.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
You are loved, you know :)

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

*hugs*


...I don't want to be loved for my personality, I wanna be loved for being fearsomely talented at many things.

[leetal.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the things I love you for are talents...
you are wicked creative, funny, really good in making a killer point in few words etc. That is part of art.

And if you want people to *only* like you for your art, you need to get rid of you personality, darlin'.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Well, I tried to replace my personality with a seething pool of venom, but no one seemed to notice...


Anyway. Thanks for the generous ego-stroking. I don't really need it, but it's always pleasant. *smooch* :)

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Well, I tried to replace my personality with a seething pool of venom, but no one seemed to notice...

*Smirks* You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?

Loive this by the was - and the Cassandra/Methos one - but my favourite was to be the Willow/Ethan ficlet,...lurverly....and yes, I'm pretty crappy at the feedback thing, too....

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

And spelling, Apparently...

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I glad at any feed I get :) However jumbled ;)

Thank you :)

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

*grins* Oh Ethan. Bringing out the gay, even in girls!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

He frowns and says it's not a compliment ;)

Me, the formula of w/t=g/e just makes me happy.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

*big grin* I love this, it makes everything that follows in canon take on a whole new meaning.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

And your icon colours it all prettily :)

I love drawing the connections there, with Willow and Giles and all that.

[murielle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it! It's so Willow!

"And she thinks he's kinda gay."

Perfect! ;-))

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Wheee thank you :)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

*smile*

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

:)