The Journals of Rupert Giles: Volume 1 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"You have a fathers love for the child." -- Quentin Travers Buffy Summers is hip modern and pop culture savvy. Rupert Giles her Watcher is a stuffy Brit whose idea of bliss is a good book and a strong cup of tea. Odd as the duo may be though they have managed to avert their fair share of apocalypses. Plural. One thing they cant seem to conquer however is Buffys bad birthday luck. At eighteen Buffy is subjected to a Watchers Council Cruciamentum a test of her own non-physical wiles -- and of Giless attitude toward both his charge and his calling as well. And when the Slayerettes throw a surprise party for Buffys big 1-9 Giles finds himself feeling useless and out-of-the-loop-y. But it is at the Slayers twentieth birthday gathering that both Buffy and Giles are forced to re-examine the nature of blood ties and the definition of family -- or risk losing a mutual loved one more important to them -- and the fate of the world -- than either ever imagined....