You have the man in a holding pattern. Now you're about to jar him out of it, with something so disruptive that his life can't continue as it was. Think of it in those terms: he's an object at rest that just been smacked by an unbalanced outside force. He's now going to be in motion, whether he wants to or not, whether he is comfortable with it or not.
Try writing some of this from his point of view. It might be horribly painful, but I think it might jar something loose in your head. That scene where he talks to Ellen's mother: oh boy, Giles would have quite a lot going on, wouldn't he? Even if it doesn't make it into the story, the exercise might be useful.
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Date: 2006-11-05 04:10 am (UTC)Try writing some of this from his point of view. It might be horribly painful, but I think it might jar something loose in your head. That scene where he talks to Ellen's mother: oh boy, Giles would have quite a lot going on, wouldn't he? Even if it doesn't make it into the story, the exercise might be useful.