Fic: Shadows and Echoes

Title: Shadows and Echoes
Author: hobgoblinn
Rating: FRC
Spoilers/setting: Post Season 5, "The Gift"
Characters: Giles
Summary: The past informs the present, or Vice versa. Challenge response for Wenchie's Monday Morning Challenge #59 Shadows (from 3/21/05) (See Note at the end, and information on where to hear the music that inspired this fic.)
Warning: Songfic, kinda. You tell me.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in the Buffyverse. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Strictly for entertainment, and no profit is being made. Please sue somebody else.
Distribution: If you're planning on asking me, I'm planning on saying "yes." Just let me know where it's going.
Word Count: 1,214

( Shadows and Echoes )

A/N The piece of music which inspired this fic is William Walton's "Set me as a Seal," for mixed chorus, tenor and soprano soloists. I've downloaded the anthem here for anyone who wants to get the full experience. This story was a fragment of "Summer" that I abandoned early on, then reworked for Wenchie's Challenge, but never posted. I recently ran across it in some old papers and revised it a bit. But this is mostly an indication of where I was 2 years ago, and it looks like I’ve come a ways since then. That’s kind of comforting.

By the way, I missed the socks memo. But I have it on good authority that young Rupert here is wearing socks during this interlude. Hope that counts.