DAMN that was a good chapter. :o Hilarious in its own way, and just purely the essence of Spike. :) Always looking forward to more from you!

Author's Response: Thanks, Devin. As always, I appreciate your taking the time to review. I'm glad you liked the chapter -- hilarious was just what I was going for. :)

YAY! I understand that we have to go through the turning of William into Spike, but I can't help fantasizing about what happens when we see Buffy again. Anyhow, you do credit to a backstory that Joss never revealed, and I think it's awesome. Your writing is wonderful, and your smooth evolution of characters is perfect. Waiting for more.

CT.

Author's Response: I completely understand wanting to see Spike/Buffy interaction. I'm wanting to see it, too, and I'm the author. lol. But you're right, this part is necessary, and I'm glad you're finding it enjoyable even without Buffy's presence. Thanks for taking the time to review and let me know. :)

Very funny. Looking forward to more. Please update soon.

Author's Response: Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

Yey! An update, written beautifully as usual. I really enjoyed William's transformation into the working-class Spike; you handled it very well. I wonder how long it will take him to realise that, despite what he appears to be wishing, William is still a part of him.

Update soon, please! :-D

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked it. Thank you. :)

I love the irony of the way Spike torments Angelus with a bitter teaspoon of rebellion. Angelus who plans, schemes and stalks his victims and is used to being feared and obeyed. He broke Drusilla and in a way I think that by turning William she is inadvertently paying Angelus back for the crimes he commited against her. She cultivated a man who had so much potential to be her dark knight to be the strength that she never possessed to throw in the face of her daddy. She is a naughty child and has delivered a challenge to Angelus that may break him instead. Love the characterizations which we barely saw a glimpse of in the TV show. Looking forward to more chapters.

Author's Response: Your insights into the characters' motivations are a pleasure to read. Thank you for taking the time to review. :)

I almost feel sorry for Angelus. (Giggles) He really created a monster.... He, he.
Spike is such a rebel teenager... And it´s understandable that he doesn´t want to be William any more.
Don´t get me wrong. I love William, and I understand very well why Buffy was so in love with him. But try to see it through Spike´s eyes: William was a looser, who didn´t have any real friends, who was bullied by his peers if not ignored and who couldn´t even protect the women he loved. Not Elisabeth nor his mother. He couldn´t even protect himself as a fledging from Angelus´s "lesson"... So what better than to create a new "persona" who is the total opposite to William. Who isn´t afraid of anything, damn the consequences?
All this is what I get out of reading your story so I hope I´m not to far away from your view of William/Spike.
I can´t say it enough. This is really the best portrait of Spike I have read. Can´t wait to see what happens next.
I Angelus going to tell him about the Slayer?


Author's Response: lol. Angelus certainly has his hands full now, doesn't he? I agree with you completely on Spike's reasons for trying to suppress his "William" side. Although we know he will never be able to completely destroy that vulnerable part of himself, he is learning to hide it, to give a coat of armor. If he didn't do this, he would never have been able to recover from the events of the last chapter. I'm glad you like the story and I'm very flattered that you think it's so good. Thank you for the review. :)

More please love it.

Author's Response: I'm so glad that you do. Thank you. :)

heheehe pissed off angelus is hilarious! i can't wait to read more! update really soon?

Author's Response: Hopefully not too long. I'm going to try to have the chapter ready for posting by Friday, if the Muse behaves herself. Thanks for the review. :)

It's wrong that I'm charmed by cheerful mass murdering Spike, isn't it. Yup.

But I do admire how you're navigating the continuity/discontinuity between his human and vampire selves.

Author's Response: No, it isn't wrong at all. I first fell for Spike when I saw him in "School Hard," when he was still an evil killer. It isn't real life, so we're entitled to like him even when he's bad. ;) I'm glad you liked the chapter and thanks for reviewing. :)

FIRST EWWW, spikes showing affection for dru and is starting to care for her, i dont like it. second SPIKE IS SOOOO STUPID!!!! i cant believe that he keeps getting into fights with mobs and that now he and all of them have to face a huge mob. i love this story and am so happy that u updated. i really hope that they make it out of this in one piece and that if dru gets hurt it doesnt bering spike and dru closer together. also i hope that everything works out well and that he keeps williams love for elizabeth until they meet again. please update as soon as u can, im dying to read more. thanx

Author's Response: I'm sorry you don't like the Spike/Dru interaction, sarah g. He isn't in love with her; what he feels for her isn't romantic or passionate. But she's his sire and literally the only sympathetic member of their little "family." I think it's only natural for him to develop an emotional connection to her. At the moment, they're friends and partners. Spike feels affection and concern for her; he wants to protect her. But if you notice, his very reason for forgiving her for destroying his book was the memory of Elizabeth ... the realization that, had he been placed in a similar situation with Elizabeth, he would have wanted to lash out in the same way. I can promise you that at no point in this story will Drusilla become more important to Spike than Buffy has been, but that doesn't mean he will hate Drusilla either. There are different kinds of love in the world, and Spike is capable of each and every one of them. Thanks for the review. :)

Fris than nothing: GRAET STORI!!!
Now, i read this storie twice, i’m thinking this spike it’s gona a develop a diferent personality from the spike from the original cannon, because, the original never experimernt real love, only from his mother, no from cecily or drusilla, he always be jealousy from the atentions betwen drusilla and angelus (her daddy) he really loves dursilla!!! Many of the conflics betwen thems comes from this. But this spilkes had the oportunity of enjoy real love, love and be love, he already had evrything he deram about, but unfortunately he lost’ it, this factor most afect the develop of his personality and caracter!!!!! For best? For worst? Thats depens of you, but if i lost somthig so bigger, i become bitter and hopelessly, his relationship whit drusilla most be afected too, now he most see her like a palid refleccion of what love, pasion and belogin means!!!
p.d. sorry for my english, im a good reader but not very well writting, sorry, my thin it’s the spanish


Author's Response: Don't worry about your English, anabel. I appreciate the review . I'm so glad you like the story, and I hope I can continue to make each chapter enjoyable for you. Thanks so much for taking the time to tell me what you think. :)

I love the atmosphere you're creating here with the development of Spike... and of course I'm desperately wanting to know what happened to Buffy and what the situation is back in the future... but of course that is exactly what you intended isn't it?

Impatiently awaiting more updates....

Author's Response: Yep, that's exactly what I intended. I'm evil like that. :P I'm glad you like the story, even without Buffy. Thanks for reviewing!

rape is never a easy topic to put into a fic but you made it fit the story and you did not make it over the top or go into to of hardcore details. it seems William is trying to find himself and this allthough being horrible to happen to anyone will be a unlife changing event for him to move past from. I'm not sure how he will face the other now or if he will take all of his hiding habits and personality changes he has been hiding for so long from everyone else and just no longer care and get into everyones face with it. I am looking forward to the fall out effects from this happening to him. Great story does not seem to be rnough to cover it but great story.

Author's Response: I feel that the effects of the rape are more important than the details of it, so I did strive not to be too graphic in that respect. I know it was hard to read, but I'm happy to hear you understand why it took place and that it won't stop you from reading in the future. Thank you so much for the review. :)