Disclaimer: all the characters belong to Joss Whedon, not to me (unfortunately)
Authors Note: This is TOTALLY AU. Buffy, Faith and Kendra were all born in England, and Giles was assigned as watcher to all of them once they were discovered. The three are all 5, and live in a town in England owned by the watchers council.
"Buffy Anne Summers, you come back here now" Rupert Giles called to the 5 -year old potential slayer who was his ward. Tragically the childs mother and father had been murdered by a vamp when they tried to protect their child.
Giles had been in charge of keeping an eye on the child, ever since she was two and her prescence had been brought to the council's attention, which made her the youngest child ever on record identified as a potential.
After her parents' death Giles had been appointed as the child's guardian, and he was very attached to the girl. Except at times like these.
Buffy, although very strong and fast and with extensive weapons training despite her tender age, was nonetheless a typical 5-year old. She tended to run off at the slightest whim and completely ignore him when he told her to come back.
It just wasn't dignified for a member of the watchers council to chace after a child. However Giles had to do more than his fair share of just that.
Living in a small town owned by the watchers council meant that whenever he had to chase Buffy, he was almost certainly going to be seen by one of his fellow Watchers. He was certain every one of his colleages laughed at him behind his back.
"BUFFY!" he called again, to no avail of course. He sighed. And ran after the child.
Buffy looked behind her and giggled. Silly Giles was chasing her again. She loved playing chase with Giles. But he looked rather mad. She decided to be nice to him. It wasn't his fault he couldn't run fast after all.
She slowed down and allowed a puffing Giles to catch up with her. She never could understand why he got tired so easily. She could have run for ages.
Giles scooped the squirming Buffy up in his arms and carried her back to the little house they shared with some of the other young potentials and instructors. All the potentials had instructors, but only Buffy and two other potentials, Kendra and Faith, also discovered before age 5 had watchers. Or Watcher to be exact. Giles had somehow ended up in charge of the whole trio.
Oh of course the other Watchers, and older potentials helped out. But in the end it was Giles in charge of the three miniscule hellions.
Faith and Kendra came running out to greet their playmate and best friend. Giles smiled as he watched the three tumbling together on the ground. They looked like normal kids, not the powerful Chosen One one of them might one day become.
He smiled, thinking how sweet they looked, rolling around like a litter of puppies. But that illusion was shattered when the three of them jumped up and ran away, each of them going in a different direction.
*Oh well* Giles thought. *Here we go again* and started after Buffy