Drabble a day - 6 - Giles (gen) for dbassassin
Title: Finding Comfort
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Prompt: For dbassassin who requested Giles (BTVS) - gen - satchel
Summary: Just after the final battle of Sunnydale, Giles wonders if he should offer comfort. Instead, he’s the one who seeks it.


The leather was worn and old. He’d thought to grab the satchel and fill it with a few things he thought might be useful during their escape...if they managed to escape...if he managed to get to the school bus...

Now, as he rubbed the back of his hand against it, he thought about simpler times when he had acquired it. Not simpler, not really. Nothing about his early twenties with Ethan and Dierdre and Randall was, even if it was tempting to think so. He was still losing those he cared for.

Looking up, he wondered what he could say to Xander. He was, after all, the oldest one, the responsible one. He should make a speech of some sort, offer comfort to the newly called slayers.

He was never very good at comforting anyone.

Buffy was, of course, the exception. Somehow, she found him comforting, but he wasn’t always sure if it was because she was so good at deluding herself and believing that he was on her side. He always was though. Maybe that was sufficient.

Settling in again, he leaned on the window and could make out the orange brightness of a new dawn. Seeing that was enough.