Title: Underneath It All
Originally Posted: December 27, 2016
Prompt: Mask
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Mask
Pairings: post-series Buffy/Giles
Notes: Though you can read them read separately, I prefer to think of this drabble as set in the same post-series future as "Keep It To Yourself" from the previous chapter.
His mask slipped. He'd always been so careful. He never once wavered, not even when the subject was some pillock who didn't realize how lucky he was that Buffy should even look his way, let alone consent to date him. But they'd been talking about something so completely innocuous that he hadn't been on guard. He knew Buffy caught his slip, slight though it was. So here he sat, on a knife's edge, waiting to see how she would respond. Slowly, she began to smile and Giles, in awe, realized that Buffy had been wearing a mask of her own.