Had to giggle over this line: why did Buffy run off from Spike, nearly four years before? (Silly Buffy!) - especially the last part! I don’t know if I know the film with Shirley Temple – I don’t recognize the English title. But it sounds like a lot of fun with Dawn as a pawn! Buffy was a fool to let William go (run away from him)… wonder what the reason was.

Okay, this is a visit from the spelling nazi. Spufette, I love your story ideas and fell in love with an early story of yours on this site, but was frustrated to death by your complete indifference to spelling errors. So we had it out, and you said you'd get spellcheck, and I backed off to see what would happen but haven't read any more yet (I'm up to my eyeballs in WIPs so I haven't gotten to yours yet is all). So when I saw your story idea for this one - a long time fav movie of mine - I couldn't resist checking you out again. I was dismayed when I saw 'prologue' misspelled, but I actully did a spell check of your two chapters so far and found NO other actual mispellings, at least none that show up on spellcheck. This is such an enormous improvement from your earlier writing that I had to let you know how proud I am of you for getting that together, and I am really looking forward to reading some of your stories again now. Because your ideas are great, and I've wanted to very much. I'm gonna wait on this one til it's done because of all the WIPs I'm reading now and because I don't like starting stories out so slowly, a chapter every week etc. It's too hard to get involved that way (for me). So anyway I wanted to congratulate you on the improvement and make sure you knew folks were paying attention and appreciating your extra efforts. I am really looking forward to reading this one some time soon. Bye for now! :-)

Author's Response: 'Tanks!' Okay, I'm being a tough guy smart ass with that one, I admit it. I really mean 'thanks.' Seriously, I've got the feeling that spellcheck does not catch all of the errors in the fics. As far as some of the grammar for this fic goes? It's going to get a little rough in places because of the limited vocabulary of the characters. Words like ain't; oughta' and steppin' are not correct, I know. But, I'm not sure guys like Spike, Angel, Xander, or dames like Buffy or even Willow would use proper English? I understand about the WIP thing. I get a little antsy myself reading them and writing them. Anyway, thank you for your words of encouragement and this story will not be as long as some of my others. spuf