Those were some ground breaking ideas... I loved the rape scene (gotta say that as a woman I'd naturally hate the guts of the scene like that, but it's spuffy we're talking here! & Spike, well... he's just so fine..). I absolutely adore your take on this, really brilliant, so far I only read justification-of-Spike theory (which is pretty obvious), but never such a twisted & smart way of presenting the bathroom scene. Spuffy is all mindfuck to me (which is why I love them so much) & you captured it so fine.
P.S. I loved the line that says how he in all his madness found way home..to Buffy - awesome.

Beautifully written and absolutely brilliant! I love the poetry, it very easily could have been written by Spike. And changing the pov for each of them gave a lot of insight into their feelings rather than just showing their actions. Nice job!