The Glitter Jungle:
Fiction:
A New Man
Don't chicken out. Giles/Ethan
"Who's Maggie Walsh?"
"Oh, she's awful." Giles ranted drunkenly. "She said I was an absent male role model. Absent my ass. I'm twice the man she is."
Ethan nodded, but he wasn't paying full attention. It was now or never, and the booze gave him courage.
"You know, you're really very attractive."
"Hmm?" Giles wasn't sure he heard right. And Ethan was nervous. What if Ripper will decide to thrash him again? What if this was the wrong thing to say?
He almost thought to chicken out. Do what he always did, take a step back, pretend he was talking to the waitress. Pretend he never meant Ripper.
Instead, he repeated his words, resting his hand on Rupert's.
The watcher smiled.