ficlet: Giles' Hairy Fit

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Title: Giles' Hairy Fit
Author: Ozma914

Summary: Post Chosen: Giles starts to wonder if some kind of Slayer dress code might be in order ...

Rating: G
Warnings: silliness
Disclaimer: I own practically nothing except my Mac and my Buffy comics.
Characters: Giles, Robin, Rona, Vi, Chao-Ahn, OC Kara

Inspired by my daughter; maybe I should have let her read it, first?

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Giles, his eyes bugging out, shoved his glasses on. “My Lord, what have you done?”

The girls stopped chattering and stood still, having naively expected a more positive reaction. “This is our first real patrol since we got to Chicago,” Rona explained. “We thought we should do something to mark the occasion.”

“Mark the occasion?” Giles shook his head. “Rona, you have a sacred calling. There’s no time for this kind of ... shenanigans.”

“We didn’t think it would be a problem,” Vi said in a small voice.

“Really.” Giles stalked across the gym, examining each in turn. Rona’s hair was now pure white, contrasting wildly with her chocolate skin, but she looked the most normal. Chao-Ahn’s was a bright yellow. Vi’s was a shocking pink. “You didn’t think this would be a problem? The vampires will bloody well see you coming from the other side of the cemetery!”

“Maybe that will attract them,” suggested Kara, whose formerly brown hair had become orange. “Like a fishing lure.”

“Like a --” Giles’ face also turned color, to an alarming shade of scarlet. “Robin won’t be willing to even take you out, looking like that.” Giles whirled around to march toward the door, but stopped short when Robin walked in.

“Is the Hair Patrol ready to go?” Robin asked with a grin.

His hairless scalp was striped blue. Electric blue.

“We look like a team, now.” Robin swept past a gaping Giles, then opened the weapons cabinet. “Choose your poison, group. Giles, we’ll be back by dawn -- give or take a hair.”


END

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I'm betting those spectacles were cracked right through with the polishing that time. Hee!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'll bet afterward Giles was trying to decide if he had somehow become uncool, or if the world had moved away from true coolness into something that's just -- odd.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

So cute. Giles would, of course, be appalled but I liked that Robin was right on board.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I think Robin was one of those cool teachers who was also tough, and who gained the respect of his students. After all, the school district thought he could get a handle on Sunnydale High!

As for Giles, I suspect that's just the kind of thing he would have done as a kid, which is exactly why he's horrified by it now; he's in denial!

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

Giles has forgotten that Robin was a principal in an American high school, has he?

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'd say so! As I say above, I think Robin was the "cool but tough" teacher who understood the kids, but could also keep them under control. I picture Giles as having been one of the wild teens, who keeps himself tightly controlled for fear the Ripper will come out someday and everyone will see he's not the calm, collected adult he practices being.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! Like you need a reason to dye your hair an odd color at that age-- mine went through several not-found-in-nature shades about then, though my folks reacted about as well as Giles!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

My daughter colored her hair orange by accident, but she's also put in blue and other not natural colors, at times. The more wild colors were always temporary dies, though. To me the interesting thing is that, if kids had been dying their hair when Giles was a teen, his group would have been exactly the kind to do it!