KEEP UP THE STORY IT'S REALLY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!

Author's Response: Thaaaanks! =D

I love this story! Please keep writing!

Author's Response: Thank you.

Oh yea! Closet luvin!

Author's Response: Closets are just the beginning.

More Please soon!

Author's Response: More came. And more from that soon.

Great update! Don't sweat the lack of reviews it's the holidays! Please update soon!

Author's Response: Yeah, I'm starting to realize that. ^_^ Thanks!

This was a really good chapter. Spike was brillant in teaching that class. He's right, live life how you want to.

Author's Response: Definitely cliche, but I felt it related to Buffy's situation. Maybe even his own.

can't wait to see what happens next!!!!!!!!!! :D

Author's Response: ty

Buffy's homelife is really messed up! Spike's confused if Buffy's background should change his confusing feelings for her! Heck I think I'm kind of confused about them also! Can't wait to read more! Loved it!

Author's Response: Hehehe... everything's confusing, which is why things are about to get worse. :(

aww
i like it tho =)

Author's Response: Thanks!

After about three tries, I finally found my pulse. Phew!

Hi.

I'm glad Spike is pushing her not to give up on her life. I'm also glad he's not just saying to hell with everything she's done to him and making with the wild hot monkey sex. There's too much they need to sort through before that (sadly) can happen. As sad as her past is, it's not an excuse to torture William the way she did.

And she better not do anything to mess up Spike's painting plans!!

Really good chapter, looking forward to more. =)

Oh, and Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, etc, to you too. ;)

Author's Response: Haha. :) Yeah, if things weren't cut and dry, black and white before, they sure as hell aren't now. Before I had the whole love to hate her thing going, and I still have that angle (thankfully; I can fully relate to that). But now I have introduced a boatload of plot points and it's hard even for Spike, who was steadfast at screwing over Buffy, to actually do it. Thanks for reviewing! ;)

Haha you took the words right out of my mouth- confusing! BUt in a good, plot-building, driving crazy wiht anticipation way! Lol, great couple of chapter, I really like how it's playing out between them and how it seems that it's not just going to be a quick and easy solution. The work out scene was written very well, though I felt a few elements were over emphasized. I must say I learnt a few things though lol. I'm really interested to see what you come up with next,t his story is a great read!

Author's Response: Thank you! Comments like these make my day, even if it is Christmas and I get presents. :) Quick and easy isn't on the foreseeable horizon; it's gonna get bad and angsty before it gets better. The exposition puts everything in a bind. As for the workout scene, I really just wanted to set up everything in class so I didn't have to be detailed when I wrote about it in the future. I always use my rage in workouts, so I figure why not have Spike do it? He probably has a lot of stuff to brood about. ;)

I completely agree with just another reviewer. People are going to start feeling so sorry for Buffy about her life that people are just going to forget about what Buffy did to Spike.

Anyways, keep up the good work. I look forward to more.

Author's Response: Not going this way. It might seem like I am, and the tutoring chapters DID kind of focus on the bad that is Buffy's life. But I'm mostly setting up for later here, not for the now. The now is plagued by the past.

hey! just saying i love your story, and I love the whole new spike thing. just a word of caution, dont make buffy all of a sudden start being all good, or something, or make her horrible life too horribel, so its unbelieveable. also, dont let spike just throw away everything buffy did to him, because no matter what her lifes like, i doesn't make up for that, and i know alot of people would be bothered if he just passed it all off. Ill keep reading! love it !

Author's Response: Thank you for commenting; it was very insightful. I would like to hear what others have to think about this, too. Definitely not gonna just forget about the past. It might be temporarily shunned so we can have some Spuffy (lust Spuffy and not love Spuffy), but it will probably be a burden on their relationship until this fic ends. By the end, I hope their joking about it. Lots of angst from it, though, might even be a summer-ender. But now... yeah, definitely not gonna let Spike forget. He might show sympathy for her, he might date her, but he will never forget, and it will be the looming grim reaper on their relationship. As for the horrible life... that's where I'm going, I know it's cliche, but it's the only thing I could feasibly think of. I don't plan on having Buffy be "good" at first, in fact I think her mask at school is quite an endearing plot point. But she will, eventually, take the mask off, after the appropriately powerful events have taken place. Thanks again for the review.