TITLE: Raped 4/6
AUTHOR: Anne
FEEDBACK: Oh yes please!
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One week later, in the library…

Buffy plunged on Giles, making him fall over heavily on his back. The Watcher let out a growl of pain when his head heavily hit the floor. He got up. Buffy was on her feet before him and without warning with a precise kick, she made the knife he held fly in the air. She took Giles by his arm and subdued him with a judo hold that he had taught her the same morning. Giles tried to get free but Buffy increased the pressure on his wrist. He roared.

"That's good, Buffy. Now release me."

She immediately complied. "Is the training finished, Giles? Can I go to join the others at the Bronze?"

Giles massaged his wrist and shook his head. "The training is not finished. And I would like you to concentrate instead of thinking of going to amuse yourself with your friends."

"You' re mean!"

She caught him by the collar of his shirt and kissed him, while making her hands go down towards his buttocks that she cupped.

"I'm looking forward to it being this evening." She said, moving back from him, sliding a hand in his trousers.

He growled. "Me too."

Her other hand came to settle on the bulge which deformed his trousers. With her palm, in a circular movement, she began to caress him, at first slowly, then quickly. Giles closed his eyes, threw back his head and moaned. His half erect penis was burning.

"Oooh… Buffy."

"I'm not sure that I'll be able to wait until this evening, Giles," Buffy said licking and nibbling his lips. "You do have a couch in your office, don't you? It's big and comfortable. And the doors are closed…"

"Ethan is here… somewhere in the stacks. And… "

"I want you!"

He stepped back, twice, flushed. "I want you too, Buffy. But-but we must train. I have to train you. You have to train. You need to be trained."

Giles went to the metal cupboard where he kept his weapons and took out two combat sticks. He threw one to Buffy who caught it and made several reels with it.

"Giles, you forgot protection equipment. I don't want to send you to the hospital. I want you in our bed tonight."

"I forgot everything at home." Giles said. "I should do without it, this time. En guarde!"

He raised his long combat stick and suddenly froze noticing the presence of a demon on the mezzanine.

"Slayer!" The demon yelled. "You're going to die!"

Buffy revolved and noticed in her turn the presence of the evil creature. It was blue and had gleaming red eyes.

She sighed. "If you knew the number of times a demon has said that to me. And I'm still here!"

The demon scolded, raised his right hand and stretched it out towards Buffy. Suddenly a discharge of energy came out from it. Giles jumped to the place in front of Buffy a fraction of a second before the flash of lightning touched her and he pushed her aside. The shock propelled Giles against the closed library doors. He collapsed.

Buffy wanted to rush the demon, but somebody did it before her: Ethan. The sorcerer beat the demon with all he had, making him move back under the assault of his punches.

Buffy rushed to Giles who was regaining consciousness and let out a shout of surprise. Her Watcher was younger by at least 20 years. She blinked. What had happened?

The demon waited for the human being to get tired then he beat him in his turn, lifting him in the air and throwing him against a stack. Ethan, half stunned, tried to get up. The demon hit him with an energy discharge and he lost consciousness.

"You're going to die, Slayer!" The demon growled holding its hand out towards Buffy again.

Another flash of lightning came out from it and came to hit Giles again. He'd just gotten up and had made Buffy a shield of his body. He cried out with pain and collapsed. Buffy rushed into the cage, just avoiding a new flash of lightning, took an axe from the metal cupboard and sailed it towards the demon as he went down the right stairs. The blade sank into its ribs and he died before touching the floor. She returned to Giles and opened her eyes wide in bewilderment discovering a little boy fainted in all the tweed.

"Giles?" She cawed.

Ethan came to kneel down in front of little Giles and smiled widely. "I didn't think I'd ever see him like this again."

Buffy blinked. Ethan was younger too. "Ethan, what happened? You've lost 20 years and Giles 40!"

Ethan nodded. "This demon killed its victims by making them grow younger. If it had touched you with its flash of lightning, you would have stopped existing, Buffy. Each discharge takes out 20 years."

"I hope there's a spell to transform you both into old men again?" Buffy asked.

Ethan laughed and embraced his small brother. "Personally, I love being younger by 20 years."

"I need a grown-up Giles."

"Sorry, Sweetie, your Giles won't be an adult for at least 12 years, I shall say."

Buffy quivered. "He's going to remain small?" < Oh no! Oh no! I want to be able to make love with him! >

"No, he's going to grow. In one year, he will be 7 years old, in two years, 9 years old, etc." He grinned, amused. "He has the body of a small boy but the mind of… Giles. Don't worry I'm going to look for a spell which will make an adult of Rupert again."

Little Giles opened his eyes and jumped noticing that Ethan was 20 years younger. Then he grumbled noticing that Ethan held him in his arms and that he had become again physically a child.

"Put me down!"

Ethan complied. "You were already very intelligent when you were 6 years old, but there, you are a gifted child."

Little Giles grimaced. Buffy knelt down before him and he looked at his feet, embarrassed.

"You're adorable, Giles, so cute!"

He blushed. "I'm sorry, Buffy. I can't be your Watcher anymore… until Ethan finds a spell which will make me an adult again." He glanced at Ethan.» But Ethan will."

Ethan jumped. "What? Me? A Watcher?"

"It will be temporary."

Buffy blinked. "Ethan has no Watcher's training, Giles."

Little Giles nodded. "It's true, but he's a sorcerer, an excellent one. He will teach you to use magic to attack your enemies and to defend yourself. He will be very useful to you, believe me."

Buffy nodded." Right."

"Hey! I didn't say that I'd accepted." Ethan said. "Right. I accept. Well, I'm going to bring you home. You can't stay here. You're really my little brother, this time."

*
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Giles' place 2 hours later…

Little Giles wearing a too big shirt had fallen asleep on Ethan's lap when Buffy entered the apartment bags in her arms. Using Giles' credit card, she had been able to buy clothes and shoes for a 6-year- old child.

"Ethan? Giles?"

"Here!"

Buffy perceived Ethan's hand stirring over the backrest of the couch. She put her bags on the floor and joined him. She smiled fondly when she saw little Giles curled up against Ethan, his head resting on his knees. He held his hand tightly.

"I'm happy the two of you are… friends again. By the way, why has Giles hated you for all these years Ethan?"

Ethan shook his head. "It's personal Buffy."

"Ethan, I want to know. Answer my question otherwise; I'll beat you to a bloody pulp. You choose!"

"I believed that you didn't want to beat me anymore because I was Rupert's brother."

"I changed my mind."

Right Giles began to put a certain distance between him and me when I began to worship Chaos."

Little Giles moved in his sleep and embraced a part of Ethan's waist with his small arms.

"I did nothing. I was possessed by a demon which used my body for…" He looked at little Rupert and swallowed hard.

"For?"

"To… rape Ripper's girlfriend."

Buffy was bewildered. "WHAT?"

"Ripper hated me because I had summoned a demon and allowed him to control me while he left his girlfriend with me during his absence. When I told him what had happened… he almost killed me."

"My God. You are a monster, Ethan."

He sighed. "Paula, Ripper's girlfriend committed suicide when she learnt that she was pregnant. She was terrified. She believed that she had a demon in her. She couldn't bear it." Pale he began crying. "But it wasn't a demon, no, it was a human being, my child." He wiped his tears with the back of his hand. "Ripper almost committed suicide after having to identify Paula's body at the morgue. I prevented him … He remained immobile, lethargic almost a week in a corner of his room then he left and joined the Council. He agreed to become a Watcher to be able to kill demons as many as he could. When I saw him again several months later, he was completely transformed. He had become Giles."

She sighed. "I have to do some more shopping. Watch him, please. And no magic, understood?"

"Yes, no magic."

*

When Buffy had left, Ethan lay down on the couch. He too needed sleep. Little Giles opened an eye, crawled on top of him and then continue to sleep, hugging his elder brother.

A few minutes later Ethan was awakened by a knock at the door. He made Rupert roll against the backrest of the couch and got up. He opened the door, revealing a big, brown, strong man, dressed in black.

"Good evening. I'm a friend of Buffy's. I didn't find her in the library so I came to see if she was here."

Ethan frowned. "Oh, I remember you. You're the vampire who killed Eyghon and saved Ripper."

"Yes, and you are Ethan Rayne, the sorcerer. Buffy spoke to me about you. May I come in?"

"Naturally, please do come in. Buffy shouldn't be much longer. She's gone shopping."

"Thank you." Angelus said, just before hitting Ethan hard in his face. "Thank you very much."

*

When Ethan regained consciousness, he was upside down suspended to the rail of the loft. His hands were tied. He tried to release himself by wriggling but didn't manage.

Angelus' laughter froze him to his bones. The vampire grasped the sorcerer by the hair and raised his head to show him little Giles, tied with ropes, gagged and struggling on the ground near him.

"Why did you transform Giles into mini Giles? Well, it doesn't much matter anyway."

He pulled little Giles up in a sitting position.

"You're not very good friends, you two, Buffy told me." He told little Giles. "Then you won't be sad if I kill the bad sorcerer?"

Little Giles exchanged a horrified glance with Ethan who tried again to release himself.

Angelus took a knife from the drawer in the kitchen and made a small cut, nick, just over the jugular vein.

"The blood is going to pass by more slowly than if I had split the artery." Explained Angelus to little Giles, petrified with horror. "He's going to remain conscious much longer, but naturally, it will not prevent him from dying, emptied of his blood." He took Ethan's gold watch, admired it one moment then slid it onto his wrist. "It seems that it takes nearly 10 minutes for a man to empty of his blood, we're going to verify that, you wanna see?"

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