That was fantastic. Hilary's explanation of Spike's 'condition' and most of all how Buffy mellows more and more by the minute. And yes I can't wait for the next chapter. ;)

that is the best view, when babies fall asleep on top of hunky men. Sigh
And it is amazing how you manage to bring in teen Dawn's tendencies to make herself known even though she is a mere babe. Very funny. Great story.

Very very hot and kudos for Spike for showing self control above and beyond the call of duty. Deserves an award for that i should think.
As I said, very good and I like the fact that you build hte whole alternate thing in just a couple of sentences in the first chapters.

I can't believe you have no reviews for this. Then again I could have been writing one for every chapter, but I was too busy finding out what happens next, so i hope you'll forgive me.
Right to the story, the good and the okay. I really like this story, it's well written and thought out, that much is obvious. The characters are very close to character and yet not, which is fitting seeing as this is AU and plays in a different time period.
I absolutely adore your little descriptions that hint at the show itself. My favourite would have to be when Buffy describes Spike as a demon in human form. Very cool.
My only problem with this is that I don't find teh Riley situation believable. It doesn't seem quite feasible that Buffy would string him along even though she thinnks he is boring and a hypocrite. But seeing as I have a string suspicion that he and the reverend will turn out to be the robbers I can see why you would have him around in a bigger capacity for a while longer.
Plus this is written so well that I can deal with the odd jarring note.
If I could rate this in stars it would get four out of five, cause writing the characters believably in a different time period is one of the hardest things you can do. Check out Lost in Time for another story that does that really well.

My mistake. You, of course have loads of reviews. In my defense whenever I looked up I happened to be at a chapter in which there were none.
Anyway, moving on. I really liked this story, altough I found the jumping about in the last few chapters a bit strange. Especially the two that are back to front. In one Rupert is already dead and in the next he dies. Bit confusing, but no big deal.
Here's another thing, even though we all know these characters, you do exposition so well that if you changed the names, you could sell this on the open market.

Author's Response: Thank you so much for your interest in my little drama. I missed my faux pas about Rupert! I have to admit, I've thought about publishing this before using other characters as this is somewhat based on my mother's family history. My mother is elderly and is very proud of her family (for the most part! LOL!) I originally posted this story on BS Central without benefit of spell check or beta and was not particularly happy with it. I did like the input I got from both sites and am very happy and proud of this story. Thank you again, spuf

Cool. And I can't wait to see Jenner and Faith interact. Gonna be interesting.

Wow!
Talk about exciting. Was on the edge of my seat the entire chapter. Can't wait to see what happens next. And how they get Connor back. They do get Connor back, right?

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! TWINS!
happa dance happy dance happy dance
I just love this. And yes, uhm, seriously hot

You know, I have to force myself to slow down and actually write a review, cause I am just too curious to see what happens next.
You know, your Buffy is genuinely terrifying in a bad way - veiny Willow times ten way. And the sad truth of the matter is that she is right. The others don't really care about Spike.
And I hope Xander is punched - cause he is just a git.

Oh dear, they really are in trouble...

Well, at least we know the grapevine works. That was hilarious. I almost fell off my chair laughing.

Okay, I am going to play a visual picture here, Buffy goes to school wearing Spike's red shirt and his jeans, and bumps into Angel on the way, who apart from having a great sense of smell is not really that stupid. It's is going to go down like a house on fire - lots of people screaming and calling the police and the fire brigade.
Seriously I really like this series and I can not wait to find out what Spike is going to say when he finds out what exactly is happening to his slayer and also when he sees the bite mark.