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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      F/M
  Fandom:
      Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer
  Relationship:
      Rupert_Giles/Buffy_Summers, B/G
  Character:
      Rupert_Giles, Buffy_Summers, Watchers_Council
  Additional Tags:
      Dreams, Wet_Dream, Prophetic_Dreams, Not-So-Prophetic_Dreams, the_chosen
      one, Power_Dynamics, It's_About_Power
  Series:
      Part 28 of Patch_Works
  Stats:
      Published: 2014-03-14 Words: 425
****** Epiphany ******
by MyEvilTwin_(ProtoNeoRomantic)
Summary
     Giles has a dream... and suddenly, he sees!
  This work was inspired by
      Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are? by ProtoNeoRomantic
“You were moaning in your sleep,” Buffy said worriedly.
Giles smiled, he looked smugly ecstatic, as though he’d just won an
intellectual battle, or given her an orgasm. “Yes,” he said, his smile
persistent and audible, “I had a dream.”
Buffy sat up and cocked her head to one side, surprised and intrigued. “What
did you dream?” she asked.
“I dreamt,” he declared joyfully, triumphantly, “that we were making love and
that I moved inside you and it felt wonderful, and then I came. Which… the erm…
last part of that was not terribly far from a dream come true, I'm afraid,” he
added, his smile taking on a slightly embarrassed quality, “which seems a bit
silly for a man my age, but there you have it.”
“That’s it?” Buffy asked, “That’s your dream?”
“In its entirety,” Giles acknowledged, his smile becoming triumphant once more,
“And that is by far the most interesting dream I have had in a year or more!”
“I’m sorry,” Buffy said, “you lost me somewhere. I mean, I guess you had to be
there, but that seems like a pretty ordinary dream.”
“Precisely!” Giles declared, brimming with electrified contentment, like a
newly saved soul. “'I haven’t got a destiny.'” He laughed merrily, almost
madly. “'I’m destiny free! Really!'
"Don’t you see? It’s you; it’s all you; it’s always been you; it’ll always be
you! You dream prophesy! You slay demons with the spritsitory of a renaissance
poet tossing off a sonnet! You rise from the dead to triumph over the scions of
Hell and make the world safe for humanity! And I, once in a great while, am
actually able to be of a bit of assistance with a quick translation, a little
background information or a well-placed crossbow bolt. I have a sacred duty,
only and so long as I have sworn to you that I have!
"Buffy, you are the Chosen One and you have chosen me; the Council are nothing
but men as I am, a mere institution that happens to exist because of the
choices that generations of mere men have made in response to something greater
than themselves, no holier than the bloody Vatican! They have noright to punish
us! What they call ‘discipline’ is nothing but the impudent threat of a mob to
use brute force against their betters and we’ve every right to resist them by
every means at our disposal!
"Buffy, you are the thing that Darkness Fears! Let’s grab these self-important
little Pharisees by the balls and show them why!"
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