Oh, no! S_EB, you *are* evil, as is this cliffie!!! But you said it would be!!! Well, nothing brings out The Slayer like the hardwired urge to be Mama Bear when one of her of baby cub is in danger... and then if/when she finds out that 'Papa Bear' is there after all and has been treated like ... and then, bring in Auntie Willow... hooo-ieeee! They don't know the meanin' o' the word 'bloodshed' YET... 'least I'm putting my money on that theory!!! Wait... I think I see... up in the sky... it's the TREE Signal! It's a job for 'Super-Hacker-Willow'!!! Time for her to brush up both of her kinds of mojo! I'm gonna bet there will soon be some fit hitting the shan... LOL... can't wait for more, but guess I'll have to, huh? And, please... just let Spike EAT Mark, 'k? 'Cos, damn, a dead dog doesn't deserve to have to be subjected to such as he! And maybe let Spike, or Cam & Craig take a metal baseball bat to his joints first (tenderize him up for Spike nice & proper-like...), 'k?
And, IF Spike makes it thru these latest humiliations & tortures, or 'character challenges', and has two grey cells left to rub together, he's now got a crumb of a clue about the fact that something has been done to him further, to his memory(-ies), and with the type of being that Spike is, he will worry with that crumb, and pick at it, pick it raw, over and over again, til he unravels and then starts to piece things together or dig them out of his brain. Like a dog with a bone, he will gnaw and worry with it til he totally has it if at all possible. He won't stop. He won't let go. So, onward we go along on his Hero's Quest ?
~~Kara
(...and oh, gawd, tell me Cam is just in a pod, for restraining purposes (and not to be hunted) and isn't blinded or maimed either? 'Cos, again, damn, they don't EVEN wanna think about what will happen to them if they have done something like that to a Slayer's Child...I mentioned death, destruction, bloodshed, chaos, obliteration brick by brick, cell by cell by tissue, blood or bone cell, right???)

Author's Response: Hee! I did warn you about the evil cliffie :D Just finished chap 23 and that has an evil one too! :D Thanks for taking the time to comment - appreciate it.

Okay at the end of this chapter I let out a very teen-sounding "NO WAY!!!" lol

Author's Response: Hi Brittany - I wish I'd been there to hear it :D He's in big trouble!

You certainly live up to your moniker in this chapter. Waht happeened to Spike is really horrible. Now Cam is captured. I hope this is the beginning of the end for the Initiative. I guess now Buffy will have to be told what is going on.

Author's Response: I certainly do and probably will a few more times yet - but trust me and think of the ending od Tracker :D