Prelude

This fic has been around for a while.

It originally started being written for the It's The Writers, Stupid! Ficathon… back in January. And it was hard. Mostly because, at the time, I’d written a total of five fics, none of which had much dialogue in them. Plus, I’d never written Giles before, and I had no idea how to write Joyce.
So I gave up.
The half-written mess of story got saved on my computer, and ignored for months. And then good__evil decided to have a month of Joyce, followed by a month of Giles. And I already had this semi-coherent fic sitting there...
Thankfully, I now actually have some idea of how fics like this work. And I also have a fantabulous beta, in the form of dreamincolor.

So, finally, after six months, here’s my Joyce and Giles fic. Hope you like it.


( broken dishes, Chee-Zee Chips, and a necklace )