"...Hello?"

Giles had nearly jumped out of his skin when you spoke. Then again, when he realised that he'd been caught reading "Devils in Daylight: How to Spot Rogue Daemons".

Surely interacting with one's colleagues would be a regular part of the school librarians' job, but you were the first person he'd seen here besides Buffy and the others in an age.

"I'm just here to pick up the textbooks?"

You added. Of course - you'd required new ones. The textbooks were for some painfully ordinary subject. Sensible. He doubted the teacher of such a mundane subject would care for his taste in literature.

"Yes.. yes of course. Just over there."

He replies weakly, gesturing to a box in the corner while smothering the cover of his chosen book with a nearby form. Hopefully, you hadn't noted the title.