Title: Death Brings Clarity Trilogy
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Pairing: Buffy/Giles
Categories: Angst, Drama, Romance, Action/Adventure, Family, Crossover (towards the end)
Length: Super Epic (300,000+ words)
Warnings: Kidnapping, Torture (not explicit - nothing worse than the show)

Author on LJ: jkphilips
Author Website: Her Stalwart Standing Fast

Summary: Post-“Gift” epic. Giles has a moment of clarity, but it’s too late. How he deals with Buffy’s death and how she comes back to him.

The Slayer is dead.

She leaves behind her friends, her sister, and her Watcher.

He should not be so surprised. He has read the Watchers’ Diaries, whose pages all end so abruptly. He has been raised and guided towards this destiny since the age of ten. And so he should have known that this moment was inevitable.

But she was not like the others. And in the end, she did not die like the others. Not cut down by her foe in battle, his Slayer sacrificed herself to save her sister and the world. And he is left alone, empty, a lifetime’s purpose lying dead atop the rubble before him.

But there is another who can understand his pain, a dark power who will not let this Slayer rest in her grave. And though he believes he has already lost everything with her death, he will learn that he still has more to lose…

Review:

This is one of my all-time favorite fics, from any fandom. It's another BtVS 'Classic'. One of those must reads that grabs you by the heart and soul and doesn't let up until it's over. It's not a total angst fest, the fic is so long that the angst is able to be spread out a bit. You get a few intense spots where the angst and drama is almost overwhelming and a long stretch where things are calm before more angst and drama breaks out. A lot like the show actually.

There is an optional NC-17 rated scene in chapter 1 'book 2', however if you prefer to keep the R rating that chapter has been written without the explicit sex scene as well.

Forgive me if I missed any warnings. It's been quite awhile since I had a chance to read this.


Death Brings Clarity Trilogy