This was really good. I wonder why you got only a few reviews over the years for this story. Maybe there are to many of them so the good ones are just hard to find.

Oh, I liked it a lot. The ending was very well done. I'm so sick and tired of the perfect happy ending.

Good job.

Ciao.

Well. That ended rather . . . . unexpectedly.

I'm not quite sure I liked the ending. IT jsut seemed too rushed, for my tastes, and I honestly doubt that Willow would so easily make love to someone who had raped her repeatedly. I Woudl have liked to see what happened i nteh future, you know, like a short epilogue or whatever.

I liked how you showed the difference between Spike/William/then future Spike, and I liked the interaction between Willow and William.

Hmm, you're twisting the timeline a bit. That's intresting. I feel extremely bad for Willow. I cannot imagine what it would be like to watch WIlliam die and unable to do anything about it.

Can I just say I love Drusilla? She is awesome. As a cahracter, and also, how you write her. I can totally see her doing that i nteh pub. That was jsut hilarious, and so her.

Okay so I was wrong about the ball thing, and the year thing makes more sense now after this chapter.

But it is now 5:05 am and I have to get up . . . . soon . . . and thusly, I think I shall go to bed. But I will return to your story when I can.

Anyway, this was a great cahpter, I loved the sex scene, it was tastefully done, and erotic too.

I just realized something. I thought, in the first chapter, that it was 1875? ANd now it is 1879? Was William joking, or has she been there for several years, or did I read it wrong? Spike was sired in 1880. I assuem that he will be sired at the ball on New Year's Day.

Anyway, I think the mention of his parents is great. Usually people describe them as overly kind, and it's nice to see a change.

Great chapter.

(Sorry if I seem weird--it's 4:30 am and I'm a bit tired.)

I ahve to agree with William in that I liek poetry better when it rhymes and has rhythm.

I love the poetry lessons--that is something I really have never read before. I love it.

I love the irony in this chapter a lot, especially about how William feels about her friends. It was funny.

I also like how you wrote Willow in this chapter more than you wrote her in the last one.

Great work!

I really liked how you had Spike in the beginning, really strong characterization, and that was really good.

I think this is a very interesting plot. It's been done ebfore in the spuffy catgory, but never as well written, or with as good a reason as in this one.

I like how you've painted William, and I like the mention of Chloe. Giving him a past makes him more realistic.

I think I would enjoy it a lot mroe if Willow sounded more like herself, instead of forcing teh elegant speech. I mean, I really understand why you did that, it makes sense, but it just doesn't feel like her.

I like this story.

God lord woman!

I nearly cried during this whole damn story and the ending set me off in a fit or rage and sarrow!

Beautiful story, you proved that love doesn't always conquer all and it is the cold reality. I loved how you captured Willow and William's relationship in the story to switch over to Spike and Willow's. Ah I adore your skills as a writer.

God DAMN, woman. Cor blimey, I swear to God you've made me all twitchy and spastic now, I hope your bloody well pleased with yourself.

ANYWAY. The story was fantastic, overall. It was hard deciphering some of the scene changes and I have to admit, the characterization was a bit iffy at points but ...that was still really, really good.

Oh, hell.

So Willow died? She didn't go back to the future?

You..he..she, how could you do that?! I don't even know how to review this. It was very well written and held my attention the entire time but that ending was so tragic! Ugh, I can't stand sad endings. You should change the genre to Angst so there's some warning.

excellent w/s fic... except... she's preggers...isn't she?

aw that was so great...i almost cried in the end there...this was a really really beautiful story...

I will now re-enact my reaction to the ending of this fic:

"GOD DAMN IT. I just invested like, an hour in this story and it's it's...GAH. -shakes her laptop back and forth- Why can't people write a story with a resolution?!

-pauses in her shaking of the laptop- Okay, beating up Adam is not a healthy way of dealing with this.

GAH. But but skfdhlkasjhdf!

Six chapters! I stuck through the crappy first chapter, the bad characterization in the second chapter, it finally got to be somewhat decent in chapter three, I started to care by the time it comes to an end and then!

"I'm going to kill the man I love and then poof myself."

...

GAH

-rakes her nails across her scalp and tries to control the twitch in her eye- That's an hour of my life I'm not going to be getting back, you realize.

-deep breaths- Okay, okay! I'm looking at it objectively, I'm looking at it objectively. I hate the author but admire the fact they managed to get such a rise out of me. -TWITCH-"

In short, you're like one of my favorite directors. I LOVE the fact you shattered my ordinary sense of disaffected cool and got such a rise out of me--professionally, I admire that beyond belief-- but as a reader, I still want to throttle you.

Yes, that was a compliment. No, I do not give them often. Treasure it while you're getting it.