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Divorced Father Has Shit Wrecked By Local Librarian — More News At 10! by carryingstarlightinherwake
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
02 Oct 2025
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For Whumptober 2025, Day 2: "You've got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears." + "Accountability."
A collab fic with the amazing LadyW, who provided the art for this entry! Thank you, LadyW <3 Go check out her art here!
As nightmares are coming to life in Sunnydale, Hank Summers visits his daughter and has a one-on-one chat with her. Rupert Giles, meanwhile, decides to take matters into his own hands when Buffy's nightmares about her father (and the divorce) come true.
Suffice it to say, Hank learns VERY QUICKLY that he messed with the wrong mentor figure.
Or: A fix-it interlude for "Nightmares," wherein we get to see Hank get what's coming to him after he emotionally eviscerates his daughter, and where Giles and Buffy get to share a moment afterward, before the worst of the nightmares begin.
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- Part 1 of All You Need Is Whump - Whumptober 2025
- Part 5 of Collab Fics
- Part 1 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
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After the events of "Nightmares," Rupert Giles checks in with Buffy Summers, sharing a heart-to-heart where he realizes that the girl has been holding back more horrors than he ever imagined.
For Whumptober 2024. Collab with Citrus-Enby, who provided the illustration. Thank you, Adonis!! Check out their Tumblr Post here.
Prompts:
- 8 - Sleep Deprivation
- 13 - Team as Family
- 15 - Painful hug
- 20 - Shoulder to cry on; “It isn’t your fault”
- 26 - Nightmares
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- Part 3 of The Whumpening: Whumptober 2024 Edition
- Part 2 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
- Part 7 of Collab Fics
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The Only Responsible Adult In A 10-Foot Radius by carryingstarlightinherwake
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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Edited 1/7/2026: Now featuring art by gravitytrips! Thank you so much for the gift!!
Summer break, Sunnydale, California, 1997. In the gap between "Prophecy Girl" and "When She Was Bad," (Season 1 and Season 2), Giles finds himself helping Willow bring a fainted Xander to the hospital. While there, Rupert begins to put the pieces together relating to the Harris boy's home life, and in the process, realizes that he's on a collision course to becoming Team Dad.
For Whumptober 2025, with the prompts listed in the opening note.
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- Part 9 of All You Need Is Whump - Whumptober 2025
- Part 3 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
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Troubled Thoughts and the Self-Esteem To Match by carryingstarlightinherwake
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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For Slay-o-Ween 2025. Happy Slay-o-ween and Spooky Season, everyone!
My half of a collaboration with LadyWallace for her Day 5 Whumptober 2025 prompt entry, “My panic’s at the ceiling, but I’m face down on the carpet,” and "Quivering." Go check out her Tumblr, the link to the image, and her art overall here!
"I was a ghost, last night. So… That means that I died, doesn't it, Giles?"
In the immediate aftermath of "Halloween," Rupert Giles finds himself comforting Willow Rosenberg, who has had a concerning realization regarding their enchanted costume debacle.
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- Part 2 of All You Need Is Whump - Whumptober 2025
- Part 4 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
- Part 6 of Collab Fics
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Eaten From The Core And Out To The Skin by carryingstarlightinherwake
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
24 Oct 2025
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Rupert Giles has been AWOL for the last few days, which has made Buffy concerned about her Watcher. As she soon finds out, Giles is dealing with a monster of a problem. (Quite literally.) Will this Watcher and Slayer duo be able to remove the beastly curse he's been put under before it's too late?
Written as a part of Whumpmas in July 2025 and Whumptober 2025, with prompts for each event listed in the opening notes of each chapter.
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- Part 4 of 'Tis The Season For Whump! (Summer Edition) - Whumpmas In July 2025
- Part 4 of All You Need Is Whump - Whumptober 2025
- Part 5 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
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Libeccio's Back Room Weekly Mini-Fic Challenge - 4/20/24 - 4/27/24.
Prompt: "A character lets out shaky breaths because they're too exhausted to cry properly."In the immediate aftermath of the Cruciamentum and the encounter with Kralik, Sunnydale High's Librarian catalogues his faults while tending to his Slayer's wounds.
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- Part 4 of Taster's Assortment (Challenges from Libeccio's Back Room)
- Part 6 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
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Nothing To Do But Wait by carryingstarlightinherwake for Gravitytrips
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
14 Jan 2026
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A moment in Sunnydale Memorial Hospital, where Giles waits for news about Xander in the aftermath of the explosion.
Takes place in GravityTrips' "Where The Forgotten Lie" AU, which asks, among many things, "What if Xander and Cordie never broke up, and what if he didn't save the day in 'The Zeppo'?"
For Otherworldly Chemistry's 2026 Drabble Fest, using prompt 88, "Hospital."
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- Part 4 of Buffyverse Drabbles (2026 Otherworldly Chemistry Drabblefest)
- Part 18 of Gift Fics
- Part 7 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
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Clarity by carryingstarlightinherwake for Gravitytrips
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
31 Jan 2026
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As Buffy watches over a healing Xander, Giles joins her. Can the two of them begin to move forward from her Watcher's betrayal?
Takes place in GravityTrips' "Where The Forgotten Lie" AU, which asks, among many things, "What if Xander and Cordelia never broke up, and what if he didn't save the day in 'The Zeppo'?"
For Otherworldly Chemistry's 2026 Drabble Fest, using prompt 61, "Clarity."
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- Part 10 of Buffyverse Drabbles (2026 Otherworldly Chemistry Drabblefest)
- Part 8 of Team Dad Rupert Giles
- Part 20 of Gift Fics
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After the events of "Family" (Season 5, Episode 6), Tara wakes up after an unexpected nap in The Magic Box... with a blanket draped over her shoulders. Who could be the culprit?
Some wholesome found family fluff.
For Otherworldly Chemistry's 2026 Drabble Fest, using prompt 6, "Waking Up."
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- Part 7 of Buffyverse Drabbles (2026 Otherworldly Chemistry Drabblefest)
- Part 9 of Team Dad Rupert Giles