Nice story. Though a bit unrealistic. I mean fighting cocaine addition is a hard painful process, and Spike didn't seem to have too much troubles with that, for the exception of one slip.

awww oh em geee(OMG) amazing

I must say thank you to Francheska (Spelling) and Mac for saying absolutly everything I was going to say. I, as well, never leave an unconstructful (Is that a work?) review. There are some authors out there that are just terrible and I am speechless by how bad everything is. And then there are those that are so good, I'm left speechless. But, for this story, I have to agree with Mac. It's a pretty original idea and you're a great writer, but it did move a little bit too quickly and a lot of needed detail was left out. Also, how Buffy and Spike handled that fact that they could get STD's was very immature. Buffy will walk away from him for doing drugs, but she hears that he sleeps around and doesn't remember a condom? But, otherwise, I must say that the story was good and I read it in one sitting. Also, your grammar was great. It has real potential and I rate it a C+-Average. ~Ashley K.

Author's Response: Thank you for your review! I appreciate the fact that you left such a detailed one LOL I don't know if I ever addressed it or not, but I seriously wrote this fairly quickly and decided to post it just to test the waters before posting my two other babies that I'm fairly proud of ("A Fevered Dream" and "More Than 7 Minutes"). Also, it was before I started posting my other fics, the ones I really put work into LOL, which are under a different name on the site. The point of the story wasn't so much to delve into drug use and the ramifications of sex, but more to cover the romance between two people who probably shouldn't have hooked up in the first place:) But thanks again and I hope you enjoy the other fics if you read them!

I really enjoyed this story, keep up the awesome work!

Ohhh, I get it. Only offer glowing praise when reviewing, rather than point to any issues that might have arisen or offer constructive criticism. I assure you I am quite relaxed, but I stand by my problems with the story. It's well written, but too rushed for the subject matter dealt with and Joyce is completely unbelieveable in this story. And the STD attitude is the most irresponsible thing I've read in a story since, well, ever. I am not advocating that characters shouldn't say and do stupid things, but when the stupid thing is likely to result in death for that character it perhaps should be commented upon by another character - or at least disavowed by the author in a note - in passing. What I will not do is offer a review that is dishonestly glowing when in my opinion glowing praise is not appropriate. I do offer an opinion only to let the author know what may be a problem and corrected in future, or at least addressed. If a story is just horrible all round or an author appears to be just terrible or possibly just an idiot, I don't bother. This author is obviously a good author with interesting ideas and I enjoyed the story. But there are some issues there bear mention. That's all I'm saying. If an author doesnt' ever get honest feedback then all those glowing reviews become nothing but noise, meaningless. I'm not gonna give a meaningless review.

great chapter!

I liked the happy ending. I picked up on the Joyce thing...sad but classy. Thank you for sharing your story. Look forward to more from you.