yay u updated, im so happy. i love thi story and cant wiat to read more. i really hope that buffy doesnt do anything stupid and gets with spike soon, i cant wiat to see them together. also i think its so mean that merrick just left dawn for spike. i think its sweet though because i think that he should start to fall in love with her ( not romantic). also i think angel should rot in hell for first killing a horse just to make money and second that hes cheating on buffy, he doesnt deserve her. please update as soon as u can, cant wait to read more and see wat happens next with spike and dawn and holden and buffy. thanx

Author's Response: Thank you. Don't worry about Buffy and Holden. Poor Holden is just a means for me to push Buffy back into Spike's world. Which is going to happen in the next chapter. Fixed horse racing was rampant at this time. The concoction was actually a speedball and would kill the poor horse immediately. This becomes very important in the plot as Dawn becomes enamored of the Charger! Buffy isn't naive, she knows that Angel has a 'tootsie' in Chicago. This just might be Spike's ace up his sleeve to woo his Buffy back!!! Especially when he points out that he, Spike, was always faithful to Buffy. This is going to be important in the end! Thanks, spuf

Not usually a fan of "everybody's human" AUs, but this story is really cute. And I'm such a sucker for Dawn & Spike....

Author's Response: Thanks, I like AU's (all human) stories. I like vamp/slayer stories too, of course. I like writing Dawn as Buffy and Spike's daughter (I've got reasons, I heard this was supposed to be a plot line in the show if it had continued). I know Dawn isn't their child in this, but let's just say she'll come to mean alot to both of them. Thanks, spuf

good update

Author's Response: thanks, spuf

Oh, don't worry about the dialogue. That's a completely different kettle of fish. :-) I know what you mean about the spellcheck - it's a menace mostly, as folks pick the wrong words to replace the mispelled word with. Spell check has given us the 'wall scones' and 'Spike gave her a clam stair'. Those kinds of errors make a fic unreadable for me. A good beta is a must for any author. The best out there all have betas too. I hope to read your story soon. Take care.

Author's Response: Yeah, those tough guys in the Damon Runyum stories didn't have perfect diction, did they? Thanks spuf

Okay, this is a visit from the spelling nazi. Spufette, I love your story ideas and fell in love with an early story of yours on this site, but was frustrated to death by your complete indifference to spelling errors. So we had it out, and you said you'd get spellcheck, and I backed off to see what would happen but haven't read any more yet (I'm up to my eyeballs in WIPs so I haven't gotten to yours yet is all). So when I saw your story idea for this one - a long time fav movie of mine - I couldn't resist checking you out again. I was dismayed when I saw 'prologue' misspelled, but I actully did a spell check of your two chapters so far and found NO other actual mispellings, at least none that show up on spellcheck. This is such an enormous improvement from your earlier writing that I had to let you know how proud I am of you for getting that together, and I am really looking forward to reading some of your stories again now. Because your ideas are great, and I've wanted to very much. I'm gonna wait on this one til it's done because of all the WIPs I'm reading now and because I don't like starting stories out so slowly, a chapter every week etc. It's too hard to get involved that way (for me). So anyway I wanted to congratulate you on the improvement and make sure you knew folks were paying attention and appreciating your extra efforts. I am really looking forward to reading this one some time soon. Bye for now! :-)

Author's Response: 'Tanks!' Okay, I'm being a tough guy smart ass with that one, I admit it. I really mean 'thanks.' Seriously, I've got the feeling that spellcheck does not catch all of the errors in the fics. As far as some of the grammar for this fic goes? It's going to get a little rough in places because of the limited vocabulary of the characters. Words like ain't; oughta' and steppin' are not correct, I know. But, I'm not sure guys like Spike, Angel, Xander, or dames like Buffy or even Willow would use proper English? I understand about the WIP thing. I get a little antsy myself reading them and writing them. Anyway, thank you for your words of encouragement and this story will not be as long as some of my others. spuf

Very cute! Looking forward to more...

Author's Response: Thank you. I wanted to have Xander be a good friend of Spike's in this one. Yet, loyal to Buffy in his way. Buffy has a very good reason (at least to herself!) to have left Spike years before. spuf

awww how sad i cant believe that she left him. i really wat happened with parker and why shes with angel. i love this story and am so happy that u updated. i really hope that spike and buffy get together soon and that he becomes the man shes wants. also i hope that her and angel dont stay together long there not bent to be together. i think its so cute how xander and spike are friends in this and how they get along. please update as soon as u can, im dying to read more and find out wat happens next in this story.thanx

Author's Response: Yeah, she did leave him. In the actual movie, the original, the plot line only alluded to a past relationship between Bangels (Buffy) and Sorrowful Jones (Spike). Angel's character was named 'Big Steve' and Shirley Temple was 'Little Miss Marker (Markie).' Spike's character was a cheapskate in both 'Little Miss Marker' and 'Sorrowful Jones' and Buffy's character was pretty wild. I wanted to make the characters a little more updated and kinder in this ficiton. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Spoiler: Dawn and her dad 'Ted' show up in the next chapter. I hope to make it kind of funny, yet angstsy. spuf spuf