I love Xander's "I have a really bad idea." Hilarious, and so in character.

Do you see this face? It's the resolve face, you fix this now! Great chapter, btw. Lots of twists and turns. I bet we haven't seen the last of Richard.

Good thing I did not get all comfortable with my satisfaction in that last chapter, huh? I said it before...you are not afraid to take me or your story right to the edge. Yeah...I pretty much knew that Spike not having a memory of everything back in Sunnydale would be a big problem. I have noticed that he seems to be getting most of the really bad bits back too. He has none of their last moments together to balance out some good with all the bad. I never connected the Dawn thing with the Buffy thing. You dropped the bomb on me when Spike confessed. I did not realize that you had me that close to the edge. Sneaky. Wow...add that to the mix with the possiblity of Spike having to bite Dawn plus a small window of time to fight the big brewing evil. Yikes! Things are getting tense. I am glad that you stuck with your muse...I like an edge to my stories. Many thanks for & a grateful goodbye to Richard. Smart Buffy. I guess Buffy won't be..."sleeping with that sexy vampire" or "going to have sex with Spike again" or "let him make love to her like he always wanted, let him hold her afterwards while she slept"...any time soon, huh? Tease. Guess there will be fallout in the next chapter that I am so eagerly waiting for too, huh? Evil.