Love Joyce housing the undead English patient. And Buffy's elaborate introspection. Very nice.

Author's Response: I wanted to explore what could happen if Buffy really started thinking! Thank you!

Such a slight adjustment in Buff's attitude makes for a much more believable plot. I always hated how callous she was towards the newly chipped Spike. You also seem to have picked up on the same points I did at the time, such as Spike saying 'did we win?', thus demonstrating his identifiction with the Scoobies. Points the writers then totally ignored.
Looking forward to whee you're going...

Author's Response: Her callousness both here and when he gets his soul - I hated that. It made Buffy small. Sometimes I wonder whether the writers were really aware of what they were actually doing. The 'we' thing is a case in point - they wrote it but didn't seem to see what it meant.

Love the start :) Reading the secret thoughts of both of them too, the secret attraction that they both don't like; Buffy talking to him when she was worried.
And she was right, he did listen.
Good for Buffy to see Willow's problems, now that Willow is just at the begin of playing with magic.
Seems as if Spike will move now :))
~ Looking forward to more.

Author's Response: I'm so glad you liked it! I was worried that since there wasn't much change from canon in this chapter that people might be bored.