The Day He Said 'I'm Leaving'

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My first post here - so glad I finally joined this comm. Here goes:

Title: The Day He Said 'I'm Leaving'
Rating: Suitable for all
Fandom: BtVS/Harry Potter
Challenge: #032 - work/jobs/worst jobs
Words: 200
Summary: Many years ago in England, there was a House Elf who worked for a Watcher.


Things had been fine for many, many years. Dobby, a young and eager servant, had never aspired for freedom, had never wished for anything more than he had.
‘Serving Mr. Rupert Giles is easy,’ he would say when Giles’s visitors appraised him for his cookery, his cleaning, his humble smile. ‘It is easy because Mr. Rupert Giles is a good man, is a kind man, is a Watcher, and a good one at that!’
House elves are not brought up to feel resentment, so when Giles said he was leaving all that Dobby felt was sick. He’d be passed on to another family, somewhere that would take him willingly, and Giles would move to California and never come back.
The day he said ‘I’m leaving’, Dobby knew he’d never see his master again. He had heard, over time, the stories of Watchers. How they fought no matter what. How they risked everything for the welfare of the Slayer. How they died fighting, all of them, even the good ones like Giles.
Because life wasn’t fair or easy. It wasn’t fair that Giles had had to leave, and it certainly wasn’t fair that he had given his house elf to Lucius.

Comments

Hee!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh come on! Rupert was not perfect, but he was a decent judge of character and he would never have handed a defenceless (house-elves are defenceless against their masters/mistresses) creature to a vicious creature like Lucius Malfoy.
OK the crossover concept is fun but, if you want to try it, how about Dark Willow scrunching the Death Eaters?

Re: Hee!

[maddogs991.livejournal.com]

But remember now, this is the Rupert who was very good friends with Ethan Rayne, who is just a slimy a character as Lucius. :D

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

That's cute!
Here from btvs_hp_xovers, by the way, thanks for posting there.
Nicely put together, too.

[maddogs991.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it :D