Need More!!!! Badly!!!

Author's Response: Soon. ;)

I want to step in and save William and at the same time I don't because I know this ll leads to him becoming the guy we all know and love but whoa the killing was perfect in how I thought he might go after those perple from the music hall and party. I don't really blame him for killing the guy who caused him grief now the poor blonde girl I felt bad for but not that Archie dude. Excellent chappie more when you can swing it!

Author's Response: As horrific as the murder of the blonde was, William did not plan it; he did it out of rage ang despair. The death of Archer was caculated, cruel, and something that will change William significantly in the days to come. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks. :)

First of all. Thank you for updating so soon. You made my day.
The dream almost made me cry. Poor William... and then he wakes up... to Darla and his "happy" un-life. No wonder he kills like he does. I enjoyed very much that Archer, did use the famous sentence of the railroad spike. He, he. Poetic justice indeed.
Now, beside that you´re a wonderful writer and your story couldn´t get much better... I was wondering about him, killing blonds.... when he does come to the future where he meets Buffy again, is he going to recognize her right away or is this going to happens later on? I would think that he wouldn´t recognize her. There is no reason for it. I mean, more than 120 years would have gone past and he thought Elisabeth was a normal human girl who died, right? And she, of course wouldn´t know who he is, because, the traveling to the past doesn´t happen until season 5...sooo. (?) Ohh, so many possibilities...!!!!!
I´m really looking forward to read about the missing years to come for the Scourge of Europe, specially if the two previous chapters are any indications of how the others are going to be... but to have them meet again..(sigh). And how you are going to handle everything...???. Really I can´t hardly wait!!!!!
Please update soon!!!!

Author's Response: One hundred and twenty years is a long time to remember every feature of a face, when you don't even have a photograph to go by. But we shall see what we shall see. Thanks for the review. :)

Another great chapter. I really like that you juxtaposed the two halves of William in this chapter with such skill. The way his relationship with Drusilla is developing also works well and fits your changes to the canon.

Update soon, please! :-)

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked that. Thanks for reviewing. :)

Angel mocking Williams style of killing and then directing him in more torturous ways of taking down your enemies and how he wanted to go along and make sure he was doing things right lol does that make him a tutor of evil? Sorry I had a laugh with the apple part and ^intimacy^ line Angel trying to make William more evil. After I read this I thought ok now what happens to William when he surpasses Angel in being evil? Or does Angel's soul come before that? This story is so solid I hate it when I'm reading something and then the story no longer has a good flow and your writing always has follow thru and you never get lost as the reader. I love this and love what you do with it please keep up the great work!

Author's Response: In School Hard, Spike did refer to Angel as his "Yoda." So, I just took that mentor reference and ran with it. ;) I'm glad you like where the story is heading, and thanks so much for your review.

He stroked the band with the pad of his index finger, tracing over the jewels like a blind man exploring something he couldn’t see.

“You were mine,” he whispered to it. He closed his eyes, summoned her image as easily as if he were looking at a photograph. He told her: “You were mine.”


This was so beautiful and hurt to read because you hurt right along with him and the love he lost.

Please more soon :)

Author's Response: I teared up myself when I went back to proof read that passage. When I was writing it...well...it just wrote itself. When I went back to study it with a critical eye, I was really surprised by how much it affected me. I love William, and I hate seeing him in that much pain. But romance is sometimes bittersweet, and I"m glad you appreciate that. Thanks for your review. :)

He is either in so much pain or inflicting so much pain on to anyone else I hope he leaves England soon or starts Slayer chasing. Dont get me wrong I love reading this I eat up every word I just feel so bad for him I want to invite him in for some cocoa and little marshmellows. :P
More please!

Author's Response: I know some of these passages are hard to read, but it's very important that we learn exactly how Spike's existence as a vampire began. It will play a significant role in what happens later on. I'm glad to hear that you like the story despite its darkness, and I hope that you continue to do so in the future. Thanks for reviewing. :)

Well you made me want to cry when he was holding the ring and talking to it like he was speaking to Elizabeth he is very much chasing a ghost and taking out his pains on the town he lived in. I'm always astonished reading this in how you out do your last page and you always do. Please more soon!!!

Author's Response: Thanks so much, SpikeDeb. I'm glad to hear that the scene held so much weight with you. Thanks for taking the time to tell me so. :)

The dream got me teary eyed and the brutal kills gave me chills I'm not sure if he is a illusion of a monster or a illusion of a man but your William story had bewitched me.

Author's Response: The dream sequence really tore me up when writing it, and I'm pleased to hear that it's resonated so much with the readers, too. Thanks so much for reviewing!

I'm not sure how to review this cause nothing I come up with is adequate and anything less sounds platitudinous so I will settle for perfection in reviewing this story. It's simply perfect.

Author's Response: What a wonderful thing to say, Bel Canto. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. :)

And William the Bloody has arrived!
Fantastic stuff here and the dream made me feel so sorry for him enen when he is doing his best to become the monster.
More please!!!!!!

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for reviewing. :)

It was really perfect you began this in a dream where when William dreams he is his former self and Elizabeth is there for him welcoming him back to her side. And that in his dreams he finds the happiness he seeks and can tell her his feelings it was really telling in how in his dream she wakens him from the nightmare his life has become and in his dreams he is with her again. Like he just goes through the days till he can sleep and for a few moments be with her and have the life they might have had together and how to steal your words here how desperately he wants to feel her again and begging her never to leave him again.
But like all in the best dreams just when you get to the good stuff in walks someone and takes it away.
Darla was good in her "And you are?" manners that part amused me. Darla was always a bit bitchy with a hint of manners and a roll of the eyes. And I really love the inner voice William now has in thinking to himself about his relationship with Dru and how he might care for Dru he holds back his passion for the one woman he truly loved. He looks after her much like he took care of his Mother for all those years. Even his introspective and inner voice of agony of missing Elizabeth takes shape in whom he kills. How going out into the night he goes after and kills blondes for them not being the one woman he seeks and how he blames the world for taking away the one woman who returned his love.
He is now going thru the motions of killing and putting on a face to be with this vampire family but it's not where he wants to be the only place he wants to be is in his dreams. And the when no one is looking he sneaks out his treasured items of Elizabeth and the symbols of his love for her and stokes the items like he's loving over his memories and still can't come to terms with why she is no longer with him or why this happened to them. It is like in those small moments he is at his most venerable and William moments where he's not having to hide his pain. It is like when he is awake or sleeping with Dru he's shut down completely and is numb from everything around him. And in odd moments he notices little things that creep into his numb world like how Dru is dressed and compares it to how dirty his life now is as to how it used to be with Elizabeth before.
The friendship with Angelus is just another tool for him to sink into the numb darkness with now learning to seek out and destroy everyone who hurt or looked down on his love for Elizabeth. Sort of like in killing those people he's killing the reasons Elizabeth left him and was taken away from him. But I'm interested to see once he is done killing his past what will he do with his future.


Author's Response: What interested me, in reading the reviews of the last chapter, was how quick some people were to assume that William was a complete monster now, or that he would quickly forget Buffy in favor of Drusilla. One of the things I love most about Joss' Spike is that, even at his most evil, he retained quite a bit of humanity. He took care of Dru when she was ill, and he never strayed from her even when she was straying from him. He's fiercly loyal to those he loves, and extremely dogged in his passion. Yes, he does evil things. Yes, my William (and Spike) have done and will do evil things. But that doesn't alter his love, nor will it change the spark of humanity that still resides in him. I'm glad you and other readers are able to see this and the importance of the shift in focus to him. Thanks so much for your review. :)

And now William becomes Spike. Can't wait to see more.

Author's Response: More is coming soon, I hope. Thanks for the review. :)