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1. Lest This Bond Be Broken by Dynapink

   Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   05 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Rupert Giles/Buffy Summers
   • Buffy Summers
   • Rupert Giles
   • Original Characters
   • Depression
   • Marriage of Convenience
   • Fake Marriage
   • Older Man/Younger Woman
   • Post-Series
   • Slow Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Angst
   • Therapy
   • Forced Intimacy
   • roman catholic priest
   • Absolutely no religious conversions!
   • no comics
   • Summer of Giles 2023

   Summary

   A year in the life: a "quietly retired" Watcher, a depressed Slayer haunted by an elemental, and a marriage of convenience which is neither convenient nor a marriage.

   Series

   • Part 3 of Thirty-ish

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   75,421

   Chapters:

   14/?

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