I love this story! Thank you for delving into all the friendship aspects of the Scooby high school to adulthood dinamics. I love that Buffy and Spike have a Joyce aproved friendship at their core.
Telly time! Nice interaction between the two of them.
Hahaha, I love Buffy realizing Angel is boring. One of the reasons I never understood Bangel, they never seemed happy to be around each other.
Great update. So happy to see Buffy standing up for what or who she wants. You can really feel Giles' dismay and conflicting emotions for Spike.
Well geeze if it's a vampire instincts issue you'd think Giles would realise the obvious easy answer and get Spike to teach Buffy how to deal with said instincts since he's, y'know, a vampire and knows what it's like.
This is an amazing story. The dialogue is fantastic and the characterisation is so believable and realistic. It's well plotted and paced. I love this cool more relaxed accepting Buffy and Spike with very little effort is sweet and sexy as hell. I'm concerned about twitchy Buffy but can't wait to see what happens.
I LOVE that Buffy acknowledges Spike as one of her best friends.
This is a great chapter. 🦄
Ok, I know just about every Spuffy writer and fan loves the long, explicit sex scenes, but I like the more coy thing you've got going on here. Their relationship feels like the sex isn't a world-shattering step forward, but rather just a natural progression of their relationship. It's laid-back, it's comfy, and I really dig the vibe. To describe it another way, the slow, steady, loving relationship that's built between Buffy and Spike in this fic feels like the way falling asleep in a favourite blanket on a perfect night feels.
I love Anya. She's always so blunt and way more observant than people give her credit for. I agree with the part of Buffy that she's arguing with. It was very sweet. Spike checking in on her and seeing if the way is clear for him to court her.
I love this chapter. It's good to see some actual good advice from Jonathan, and a break from the canon habit of Riley cheating on Buffy and another man urging her to just forgive and forget.
I love how much this chapter says about the relationship between Buffy and Spike without Spike even being in it. Excellently done.
Love this. 🌈
I love this chapter. I hated it in canon, how Buffy was encouraged from her justified anger and told to just forgive Riley. He had to know something was off with Buffy. Faith had never met Riley before and had no idea how Buffy interacted with him. They flirt and have sex in completely different ways. Even if he didn't immediately think that she'd been body swapped, he should have thought drugs or some kind of demon mind control or something.
Spike is the only one currently treating her with respect. He doesn't treat her like a child or a pet. She's Buffy.
I love this chapter. Both of them worried about each other and falling asleep in exhaustion after talking about all they've been through. The relationship built up between them here feels more real and so much deeper than a lot of fics I've read that have them mired in sexual tension and then boinking as soon as the writer can get them to it. Well done.
Love this chapter. Buffy and Spike just interacting in her bedroom and it not going beyond the thought of smoochies is a beautiful thing. It shows just how deep their relationship is. It's more than just physical attraction. And I love them figuring stuff out, including that the chip is likely partially magic. They both have brains and know how to use them, a fact so many fanfic writers seem to forget.
I love this chapter. It's all homey and comfortable. I know most people are all about the Spuffy sex, but I love the stuff like this the most. Just the two of them, comfortable and hanging out, teasing and banter
Love this. Great chapter. 💚
Excellent chapter. I love the dynamic you have between the two of them. They're perfectly in character. And I absolutely love the comments about Dru.
So many people writing Spuffy stuff have Dru as some idiot crazy person that Spike just put up with. No. He loved her, and he had a lot of sweet moments with her. And even though she could be confusing and nonsensical to most, he usually understood exactly what she meant.
I'm reminded of the time in canon when Dru was talking about Acathla, and Angelus was all excitedly asking if she'd had a vision. Spike points out that, no, she just read the damn newspaper. He knows she's smart and that she can interact just fine with the "real" world. And she amused that he had to point that out to Angel.
The relationship you're building between Spike and Buffy has the feel of the best parts of the Sprusilla relationship. They get each other. They can laugh with each other and be silent with each other. And they can dance together in the living room.
Stubbornly gullible Buffy, how I love thee, but you also frustrate the hell out of me!
have enjoyed reading this so far. love that she is able to talk to spike without the scoobies intervention or remarks to cloud her judgement. can't wait for the next chapter.
I love the dynamic building between Spike and Buffy. They're so them. None of it feels forced, just like what it would be in canon if they had started talking during season four.
I love this chapter so much. When done right, and everyone in character, Spuffy is a couple who can just hang out and enjoy each other's company. Excellent job.
Buffy is starting to get a bit cluey! I like it. This chapter was very sweet the way that Buffy recognised Spike's lonliness and allowed herself to create a way to continue something they are both enjoying. If only she'd twigged to Riley being not on her wavelength a lot earlier.
Another excellent chapter. Normally, I tend not to be a huge fan of present tense stories, mainly because it makes everything feel too rushed. You keep things at just the right pace and give us time in Buffy's head. You also do a really good job of giving us her voice.
I love that this addresses from the beginning one of the first big red flags that was wrong with Buffy being interested in Angel. Anyone that can't laugh a little has issues, yet Angelus laughed. **Shudders**
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