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Drabble: Goodbyes (Giles)
Goodbyes
He's not good at goodbyes; that's why he left a note and slunk off to the airport alone, or so he said. The truth is it's not so much goodbye as the moment after - the turning away, the steps, the being alone but still under the other's eye. The liminal stage, one might say.
If he'd confessed it to Buffy, she would have said 'My god, Giles, are all British people so thinky or is it just you?' Or would once have said - such flippancy had died with her mother.
He wants to leave as Joyce did, without being watched.
He's not good at goodbyes; that's why he left a note and slunk off to the airport alone, or so he said. The truth is it's not so much goodbye as the moment after - the turning away, the steps, the being alone but still under the other's eye. The liminal stage, one might say.
If he'd confessed it to Buffy, she would have said 'My god, Giles, are all British people so thinky or is it just you?' Or would once have said - such flippancy had died with her mother.
He wants to leave as Joyce did, without being watched.