Challenges

Feel like writing Ganya but coming up blank? Try some of these challenges on for size.

Challenge #1 -
Set - Post 'Tabula Rasa'
Premise - What if 'Tabula Rasa' hadn't ended where it did? Giles/Anya go home together and spend one perfect night together. They wake up the next morning in each others arms, the spell broken... Giles says he's still leaving, that he can't stay and they should forget... What does Anya say? Does she forget? Go through with the wedding?

Challenge #2 -
Set - Post 'Amends'
Premise - Anya has just been turned human, she goes to D'Hoffryn and realises that he's not going to give her powers back. Deciding that someone has to keep her, she goes to see Giles and tells him that since it's her fault she's living here, then he has to keep her, teach her about this world. Giles agrees, reluctantly, finding out that he did have a hand in what happened to her and a sort of strange friendship is born.

Challenge #3 -
Set - During 'Selfless'
Premise - Instead of Willow finding out about what Anya did in the fraternity house, what if Giles had been the one to find out? He goes to survey the remnants of the Magic Box and finds Anya there, sitting amongst the rubble. He tells Anya that it's not safe for her to be here and conversation ensues... Does Giles tell Buffy about what's happening? Does he help her himself?

Challenge #4 -
Set - During 'Hells Bells'
Premise - While Xander's out being all pondery, Anya gets a surprise visit from Giles. She asks if he's come to give her away and Giles tells her that's the very thing he's come to put a halt too... (Simple fic, but a nice one!)

Challenge #5 -
Set - Post 'Hells Bells'
Premise - If Giles had been there for the wedding, how differently would everything have played out when Xander left her? Completely stolen from Friends but... What if Giles had gone on honeymoon with Anya instead of Xander at her request, her logic being that he probably still has his things packed and they can get away together...

Challenge #6 -
Set - Post 'Hells Bells' (or even 'Chosen' if you choose to ignore the death)
Premise - Anya left Sunnydale after the not-wedding and didn't come back. Six months later, Giles runs into her somewhere (could be anywhere, just not Sunnydale), where Anya's miserable and as big as a house... Anya's pregnant, to Xander, only she couldn't face going back to Sunnydale and telling him what happened so she made a new start, somewhere else...

Challenge #7 -
Set - Anytime prior to "Tabula Rasa" (meaning Giles and Anya still work at the Magic Box together)
Premise - During a slow day at The Magic Box, Giles tries to help Anya get over her insane fear of bunnies. Bonus points if you can explain how the fear began.