At Last

[snickfic]

Title: At Last
Author: snickfic
Character: Giles
Word Count: 640
Rating: G
Spoilers: Through BtVS 1.12 "Prophecy Girl"

A/N: Written for the Giles round of genfic_minis a little while ago.

( Giles had been looking forward to this since the morning of that first day at Sunnydale High School, when a smirking senior interrupted Giles’ survey of the grimoires to ask for Penthouse. )

Business as Usual Chp 33

[lilachigh.livejournal.com]

Title: Business as Usual
Author: lilachigh
Rating: PG
Summary: The continuing story of Agnes Pringle, the lady who ran the tearoom in the Sunnydale garbage dump that Spike refers to in The Replacement.




Business as Usual

Chapter 33 Goodbyes




Agnes was up to her elbows in flour when she heard footsteps on the stairs. She continued kneading dough, quite aware that it was Dawn Summers who was coming down into the kitchen basement. Agnes hadn’t seen the young girl for some days now; she’d coped with the Saturday morning trade by herself as there had been no sign of Spike or Andrew, the young man who sometimes helped out in return for cooking lessons. Even Clem, her favourite demon friend, had deserted her it seemed.

But then the Slayer was back in Sunnydale and a lot of the easy ways of the past couple of months when people, demons and vampires had seemed to survive, with only the occasional blood bath, had been swept aside.

Nancy, one of the vampire children whom Agnes sometimes looked after, had offered to help in the tearooms, but there was only so much china you could afford to lose to breakages before your profits for the week vanished into splinters.

“Hi, Agnes!”

“Hello, Dawn. It’s very nice to see you again.”

Dawn slid onto a stool at the table and helped herself to a handful of raisins from the bowl. “You’re making Fat Rascals.”
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