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• Professional Life by ProtoNeoRomantic for lisianpeia

  Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Mar 2020

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Rupert Giles/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Faith/Buffy one-sided
  • Angel (BtVS) & Rupert Giles
  • Rupert Giles
  • Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
  • Buffy Summers
  • Faith Lehane
  • Balthazar (BtVS)
  • The Eliminati
  • Principal Snyder
  • Xander Harris
  • Original Vampire Characters
  • Angel (BtVS)
  • Odd Couples
  • Rare Pairings
  • Developing Relationship
  • Getting On Each Other's Nerves
  • Gay/Bi Relationships
  • Watchers
  • Slayer-Watcher Relationship
  • Watchers' Council (BtVS)
  • Secret Relationship
  • Closeted Character
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Self Confidence Issues
  • Fussy Englishmen
  • Comparative Traffic Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Really thin excuses to spend the night
  • Episode: s03e14 Bad Girls
  • Summer of Giles 2018
  • Morning After
  • Spite
  • Passive-aggression
  • Struggle for Dominance
  • Wesley is clueless
  • Giles is smug about Wesley being clueless
  • Wesley is smug anyway
  • interruptions
  • interruptions in the middle of (or just before the middle of) sex
  • Faith is the Real Slayer
  • Buffy is the Real Slayer
  • Giles is a wreck
  • Wesley is a mess
  • Faith has issues
  • Faith's issues have issues
  • Emotional volatility
  • Resentment
  • defensivemess
  • Bisexual Male Character
  • Bisexual Female Character
  • Faith is bi
  • Walking In On Someone
  • Fear of Discovery
  • fear of exposure
  • Double Life
  • Giles gets knocked on the head
  • Snyder has no idea what's happening but he doesn't like it
  • Anal Sex
  • Anal Fingering
  • Unsafe Sex
  • Simultaneous Orgasm
  • Ejaculation
  • lost clothing
  • Semi-Public Sex
  • oblique references to AIDS epidemic
  • Top Giles
  • Bottom Wesley
  • Oral Sex
  • Sort of Canon Compliant If You Squint
  • Guilt
  • Fear
  • Aftermath of Torture
  • Canon Dialogue
  • Threats of Rape/Non-Con
  • Car Accidents
  • incarceration
  • Faith worships Buffy
  • Slash

  Summary

  Giles and Wesley try to forget both their differences and their failed attempt at romance so that they can work together to help the Slayers; in other words, to keep things professional. That lasts all of eighteen hours.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Lives in Common

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  27,296

  Chapters:

  18/18

  Comments:

  21

  Kudos:

  51

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  1,516