The sense of betrayal and loss in this chapter was heartbreaking for both Spike and Buffy. The set up for this section of the story is angsty and vivid. I wasn't expecting Buffy to fall into "William"'s arms, but she's so close to the events of the past, while he's over a hundred years away, I can't see their coming together happening easily.

Willow defending her spell and the reality of the spell itself show her arrogant mishaps with magic are going to be a part of your storyline, too. I'm looking forward to how you're going to weave this tale around canon events..

Thanks for another entertaining chapter.

Author's Response: You're very right about that. No immediate falling into arms here. Thanks for the review. :-)

Call Angel? I do not fault the story, but what is that girl thinking. It is amazing to me how through all of their trying to help, they really don't seem to have any clue what they should be doing. Though I do forget that at this time, Spike was not hardly an ally, nor do they seem even willing to consider time travel. So much more drama to come, and I look forward to all of it.

Author's Response: Nope, you're right. They're pretty dimwitted at times. Thanks for the review. :-)

So glad you updated, I love this story!

Author's Response: It's great to hear that you do. Thank you! :-)

i think this is the best story in fanfiction history! and you retelling all of the experiences that spike went through and showed how he became a vampire over the years, just emphasized everything! i love where you are going with this! please please, update soon! i can't wait to read more!

Author's Response: Wow, thank you so much! It's great to know that you're enjoying the story that much. I've finished chapter 43; I'm just waiting for my beta. So, it will be up very soon. Thanks for the review. :-D

Omg that was a great chapter i cant wait until buffy and spikes first encounter now ^^ i'm totslly staying tuned dfor your next chapter great story !!

Author's Response: Thank you so much, Jane. :-)

okay, i just read all of this in one day. and im inlove! please update... Im fat and pregnant.. and this is all i have!!! lol

Author's Response: lol. Glad I could help keep you entertained. :-) And congratulations on the pregnancy!

Woah!!!!!

This chapter is just so full of everything. Don't know quite where to begin....love how Spike realizes who she is from the bracelet and all the feelings and thoughts he's goin through, poor Spike.

Amazing, you even threw in that Dawn notices Buffy's the mark on Buffy while helping her.....

I really feel sad for Buffy and Spike. I feel sad that it seems Buffy's lost the man she loved and wanted to marry and sad that now Spike, realizing who she really was along, now thinks she wasn't really in love with him, she'd just played with him..awww.

I'm so eager to see how things will turn out for Buffy and Spike. Will Buffy be able to love him now as the man he has become, Spike.....or will things not work out because she'd fallen so in love with him as William. Spike had already chained her up before she left, claiming his love for her and demanding she return it....but now that everything has been revealed as to who she is, William's Elizabeth, will Spike still feel love for her at all or will he feel the need to take revenge on her for thinking she'd played with him as William?

Man!!!!!! This chapter is so so so so awesome!!!!

The last thing I expected ever was that they'd call Angel!!!!! You're full of surprises. Thank You, I can't wait to see what will happen next...especially now that you've thrown Angel in to the mix.
You really did an awesome job on this chapter.



Author's Response: Yay, I'm glad to know that I'm keeping you guessing and that you liked the chapter. Thanks so much for the review! :-D

How perfectly reasonable - well, for a vampire not in tune with reason, but still - to feel betrayed by the girl he has just seen, who had looked at him with eyes from over one hundred years ago, with the eyes of Elizabeth. He doesn't know yet that the interim period when he first came to Sunnydayle up to when she disappeared, that Buffy had not yet lived the life of Elizabeth and was completely unaware. All he knows now is that it wasn't just a 'resemblance' thing: it was real. The Buffy he has been fighting with, blood and fists and spiteful confrontation, has been his girl, William;s girl, all along. For him, she had just been a memory dragged back by familiar features; for her there had been no connection ....... until now.

Oh, what tangled tales you weave ...... and how interesting is their next encounter going to be?

Lovely.

Author's Response: You're so right, Sue. Inasmuch as she loved William, Buffy also lied to him. She justified it by telling herself that she didn't want to burden him with the information, but now, for Spike, it feels like the worst sort of betrayal. He's held her on a pedestal for over a century, and now he's afraid that all those memories he held dear were just a sham. You're right ... bumpy waters are ahead. Thanks for the review. :-D

Come on Spike remember things remember how when she first met you as William she seemed afraid of you and didn't talk to you unless she had to. Come on she's seen you look dead'er, she freaked out that time you were late and out after dark, she almost called you Spi- on accident one time, she called you Frodo, she could not drive a car much less a horse, you knew she was sad. She was not out to hurt you in his human self do the math here boy. Sorry he seems so down I had to give him a pep talk.
Ok now I can stop poking at a fictional character and say how much I love this story in the way you tell it you bring them all to life. I just love how you have designed Spike and his innocence in William it is a real joy to read something where the writer knows exactly how to play him and his inner voice you just channel him so well.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I love William/Spike, so it pleases me to no end to hear that I'm doing the character justice. :-)

Reading this made my heart ache for both Spike and Buffy. I do not blame him for thinking Buffy could not have really loved him and was just messing with him as a sort of revenge. Is Angel really needed? I mean its not like they were still together or close at this point if anything I think if he turned up it push Buffy over the edge right now in one more person to the friends list that she'd have to pretend she was ok for and that is draining. But then you never know where a story will go but can I pinch Willow for saying his name when so much else is going on right now? Come on Willow don't you have a God of bad perms to track down?

Author's Response: lol. Well, you know how Willow got around seasons 5 and 6 ... she wasn't exactly a paragon of caution and humility. ;-) Thanks for the review!

"To think that he knew her at all.

He dropped his head into his broken hands and began to sob."


I loved these lines and had to cry too.

Please more?



Author's Response: I'm glad you liked the chapter. Thanks so much for taking the time to review it. :-)

Very touching new page S&B are both kinda raw in this very well written.

Author's Response: Thank you. :-)