*gg* Than first my thanks goes to Beanbeans :) So Spike fits in better than Buffy? Understandable because - as you said - Spike is helpful with the horses, but Buffy feels like an outsider. But the time together does them good it seems. They are getting to know each other not only better, the have to work together.. And Spike caring for her a lot . :).

Author's Response: Yes, beans deserves a lot of credit. She asks me all those hard questions and forces me to look at things in a different way. I'm very lucky to have her as a beta!

Author's Response: Yes, beans deserves a lot of credit. She asks me all those hard questions and forces me to look at things in a different way. I'm very lucky to have her as a beta!

how i just love this fic!!! too bad you don't update often enough :S but if this is the result...it's well worth the wait!! ;)
thanx so much!! as always you did a fantastic job!!

Author's Response: Thanks so much....trying hard to update as often as possible. If I'm late and you see my muse, give him a kick, won't you?

Lovely... at last they're communicating without bile. Probably better that you keep Kate out of Buffy's sight, UB. That way the green eyed goddess will stay away and Spike and Buffy can get on with solving the mystery of the coin and their current predicament, and there might be time for some 'making hay while the sun shines', please?!

The Spike/Buffy dialogue is great... you've even got Buffy's halting uncertainty when she's trying to reign in her inner bitch, which she really mastered in S7... and this Spike reminds me of the S7 Spike too... hopefully that bodes well for future chapters.

Great chapter. Thank you.

Author's Response: Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm so pleased you think I'm handling Buffy well -- a character that I love to write, but don't often feel I've got down as much as Spike. I really appreciate your comments

So glad to see a couple of new chapters :) It was really novel to see Spike as the placating, level-headed one--and even more so with Buffy giving in so easily. It seems that they both know that if they work together they have better chances of getting out sooner.
Thanks for sharing!!

Author's Response: thank you for commenting!

Yeah - tell me Buffy isn't jealous! *g* They have a lot of work to do - Buffy don't sees them togehter - but maybe that's part of the deal :) We'll see if the coin will bring news when the banker has a look on it.

Author's Response: :)

{Chuckles} Buffy is definitely not cut out for frontier life. Too much city, modern, California girl in her. Loved th update.

Author's Response: Ain't that the truth! LOL

This is so slow,could you please speed it up.It is taling forever.Its a good story,we just need more of it.We have to wait to long in between chapters.It was such a long time that I forgot the name of this Fic.So please update this more often,I do think you have a good story here,I relly do!" just give us more,at a faster pace!'

Author's Response: I'm sorry the updates aren't as close together as I'd like -- but, gotta wait for the muse to be in the mood, and RL gets in the way too.

Hey. Just caught your reply to me for chapter five only a couple of minutes ago. Oops, my bad for taking so long to check back for a response. You asked me if I ever thought about being a beta reader. Heh, noooo. Sorry, but I'm just a flunking college student. Don't think I'm qualified to help anybody out in the grammar and punctuation department. So the only thing I can do really is give feedback on plot and character development. Don't think that alone would be good enough. And to be honest, I'm way too picky than I feel I have a right to be. Thus I always try to hold back on my full opinion because I don't want to piss anyone off. As for the latest chapters, I'm really happy with where you've been going with it so far. Yes, especially with the most current "dilemma" of poor horny little Spike. :D Go you, for coming up with another obstacle that'll keep the couple we really want to see getting it on from, er... getting it on. LOL. I'm a total dark fic girl, but it's really refreshing to see someone do the romance genre some justice.The over fluffy Spuffy stuff, my eyes, they bleed. Ick. So most of the time I rather just go to the other extreme. I probably wouldn't be so addicted to the miserable fic, if there were more Spuffy writers out there who keep things as balanced as well as you do. Yikes! I talk too much. Forgive me for rambling on like that. ::sheepish grin::

Author's Response: Oh, I love con crit.... I realize not everyone is going to like the story, but it's interesting to me to see WHY they don't....is it something that I as writer need to work on? or just a difference in taste. As for betas, I have several and some only do the plot and character thing, so don't let that keep you from helping some writer out. Most writers worth their salt want to grow in their craft, and you can't do that unless someone is telling you want you did wrong, as well as what you did right. And thanks so much for the comments about dark fic.....I'm definitely a writer of the fluffy variety, but it means a lot that you like the fic enough to read it even though you tend to steer towards the darker stuff.

What Spike lusts for Katie, how could he, bit annoyed now, but still interesting chapter.

Author's Response: Spike is, after all, just a guy..... LOL

I love jealous buffy. Can't wait for more of this very intriguing tale.

Author's Response: Yes, jealous Buffy is fun, isn't she?

For a man who knows so much about love, it's amazing how blind he is to the ways of jealousy. I guess the women in his life never loved him enough to be jealous., Such foolish women!

Author's Response: Very foolish, indeed!

Nice rewrite. Enjoyed it before, but I still enjoy it now too.

Author's Response: Thanks so much!

Oh I like hte revised version. . . even if I agree with Buffy about the prairie ho-bag. . . *giggles* What a description. That was loverly. OH, please, this was on of the fics I missed the most. . . can't wait for more.

Author's Response: Thanks so much, that's very sweet. I think, now that I feel back on track with this fic, it will be updated more regularly. I appreciate you reading and commenting