Oh my god... I haven't read "As I Lay Dying" in such a long time! Now I need to go back and read it, after reading your story... of course. Love your writing style, by the way. Keep up the awesome work and I can't want for the next chapters...

Author's Response: :D Thank you so much. I especially love it when people comment on my writing style, as that's also important. Anything Faulkner is brilliant. :)

good update looking forward to more

Author's Response: Thank you. :D

Well hi! Remember me? Wouldn't blame you if you didn't... =/

I've been a bad reviewer. But I've been truly busy; moving, turning 21, etc... Forgive me?

I will admit that when I first read the summary for this story, I said (out loud, at that) "A dragon? Really?" with a confused look on my face. Surely you can picture it. But since reading it, I've been hooked and trying to convince a fellow Spuffy shipper to read it as well. She's still hung up on the dragon thing though...

Anyway, my busy life if still busy, so I have to cut this short. So, to summarize: Love the story. ;)

Author's Response: omg liek of corse i remember u!!!1!! I stopped writing Black because you stopped reviewing. :( Heh, just kidding; I stopped Black because I needed a break from the chaos. But I definitely remember you as one of my most favoritist and bestestest reviewers ever. And yes, like I've stated several times in self-deprecating A/Ns, because of the dragon thing, I thought no one would read this at all. Behold my wrongness. Really, though, it's not going to be a terribly huge part of the story for quite a while, until the faraway climax and aftermath. It's just something to keep this from being a normal Spike fic and right now I'm just toying with ideas to flesh it out as I write a completely innocent Spuffy story. So tell your friend to join the ride. :D How'd you change your name? And, of course: thanks for reviewing. :D

I like this Spike, the perfect blend of maturity and fun-loving, plus being a friggen dragon is always awesome.
Look forward to more.

Author's Response: Thank you. Great to know that I'm on the right track. :)

I always felt that Xander never truly was in love with Buffy. I just thought he had a crush on her because she was the slayer. Almost the same thing with Angel. That is my opinion.

I'm so happy that Xander and Buffy never got together. Not because they just won't work as a couple. But because I didn't want Buffy to have every guy. I wouldn't have liked that. You can't have all the guys. I like to think myself as a very pretty girl. I hope that doesn't come out wrong. But even I know that not every guy is going to fall at my feet.

I think it is good that you won't continue the Xander being jerk to any guy that Buffy is interesting in. Xander deserves so much more. he really does. but xander was an idoit to not have married anya. Here is a woman who truly loved him with everything she had and threw it away.

As for spike. I adore that Spike is love's bitch. But to a point. I don't like seeing Spike where he is pathetic and leaves his pride at the door when it comes to love. He is better than that as well. Like Spike having friends that it isn't any of Buffy. Most of the time it is always Buffy's friends that he is friends with.

I like this Spike though. He seems so wise and smart..



Author's Response: Right, Xander was not in love with Buffy, but had an infatuation (not Spike season five infatuation, per se) with her for the first few seasons. From blatantly obvious moments in season one (mirror peeping, Xander still thought Buffy was "hot" as a vampire) to season two (seduction dance, checking her out in Killed by Death, withholding valuable Angel information) and then three (Earshot... he can't stop thinking about sex and Buffy) and then all those stares, loose comments, and hug attempts mixed in between. I'm not bashing him; I don't blame Xander for any of these things. I'm a guy, and if I was in Xander's position, I'd probably have the exact same feelings and do the exact same things. I can completely sympathize with Xander, so you don't have to worry one bit about my characterization being off. He didn't love her, yes. But if, say, at the beginning of season two, Angel broke it off with Buffy and a hurt Buffy went running on the rebound to Xander (who, at the time, had his arms wide open for her) do you honestly think he would have denied her and told her that he liked being friends with her? Being friends with beautiful girls has its upside, definitely, but you're down on the upside in that situation if you're single. I'm not dealing with post-high school Xander, remember, but the one that chuckled and agreed when Sid said Buffy was "nubile" in The Puppet Show. Now, Angel is an entirely different story that would take paragraphs to discuss, with all that ambiguity and emotionlessness. But, in Xander's case, I don't want his obsession to cloud up the story. It's there, and it might be a part of the story at one point down the line, but this definitely isn't a love triangle story. I want Xander and Spike to be friends, something relatively rare in canon. So, really, no worries. It's just that, when I rewatched seasons one and two, I saw this obsession that I just couldn't overlook in the story. And you're in for a REAL treat if you like a Spike with some semblance of self-respect and pride, a Spike who doesn't follow Buffy around making moon eyes at her, because that's what I'm writing. I mean, he might eventually do something like that in a funny way (wow, I just spoiled stuff there), but he's his own person in this story. He'll have his own friends, he'll do his own thing sometimes. Mature and experienced, wise and smart is the Spike I'm creating. Thanks for reviewing, and I do hope you don't take my Xander rant the wrong way. I don't want to start an argument, and I value your opinion.