The day Buffy returned was one of the best days of Giles's life in Sunnydale. And her friends are just as happy she's back as he is.
Somehow, though, he missed the problems brewing under the surface until he's driving back to Buffy's home to find a raging party, zombies, and a friend group fraying at the seams.
When did his job description expand to include repairing the interpersonal relationships of teenagers?
AU/Fix-Fic of Dead Man's Party
Summer of Giles 2024
Words: 11176, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English
- Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: Gen
- Characters: Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers, Xander Harris, Willow Rosenberg, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, Cordelia Chase, Joyce Summers, R. Snyder (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Relationships: Rupert Giles & Buffy Summers, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne/Willow Rosenberg, Cordelia Chase/Xander Harris, Buffy Summers & Joyce Summers, Scoobies (BtVS) & Buffy Summers
- Additional Tags: Fix-It, Summer of Giles 2024, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family, Drama, Family Drama, No Bashing, Guilt, Reconciliation, Confrontations, Giles goes Papa Wolf on the Scoobies, Buffy has someone in her corner, Catharsis, the Scoobies get reprimanded for their behavior for once, Episode: s03e02 Dead Man's Party (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), POV Rupert Giles, POV Buffy Summers, Complicated Relationships, Eventual Fluff, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence