Title: The Hug
Author: Shannon
Rating: G
Pairing: W/G
Disclaimer: Not mine, they belong to Joss Whedon, ME, UPN, WB, FOX
Distribution: My site http://magical-worlds.us/musings/ and my LJ (shannon730)
Word Count: 200
Author’s Notes: This is for Elisabeth. Tried to get it done yesterday for her birthday but couldn’t get five minutes of quiet to write anything.

This is set during Doppleganland in Season 3.



He’s hugging me. If I knew what was going on I would be thrilled. It isn’t that it doesn’t make me happy but they’re all acting so strange. Which brings me to why he’s hugging me? I wouldn’t have thought I’d care, Goddess knows I’ve thought about it enough. I’ve dreamt of Giles doing more than hugging me a thousand times in the last three years.

Okay, so they thought I was dead, a vampire. That explains the hug, sort of. I didn’t think he’d be that concerned. I knew he cared, three years of fighting vampires together and all. I just hadn’t expected him to be… He’s usually so reserved, so British. Not that it means anything, it was just a fatherly hug right? I’m just reading more into it.

*****

I shouldn’t have hugged her. She’s a student. The relief of finding out that she wasn’t dead, wasn’t a vampire was just too…

Hugging her was a mistake. The others can’t know that Willow is different. That I don’t see her as a child, she isn’t like they are. They can’t discover that the grief and the hug were anything other than that of a teacher, or a father.

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