Very interesting, and enjoyable. It was a bit simple, and some of the preliminary paragraphs were packed a bit too densely to make it flow, but you hit your stride near the middle. Buffy's feelings were captured very well without any overly dense descriptions, which was impressive. The dialogue was able to clearly convey it without smothering the reader. I liked the line "If you really loved me, you would kill me." It worked very nicely.

The ending felt a bit awkward and stilted starting with "And that's how...", but Spike's ending lines and description was good, although the idea of him crying in front of the rest of the gang is a bit far-fetched.

Overall, well done.

That was really good! (If slightly dark)

Buffy's thoughts are heartbreaking.

This is a very impressive story beautifully written, and very moving. Thanks so much! My only suggestion would be to go over it once more for spelling it's so hard to catch small things when you've read it so many times yourself, I know, but a few small errors (like "stars" for "stares" and "could of" instead of "could have are a bit distracting. But top notch work I can't wait to read your other stories...

I'm working my way through your stories, you have a flair for BTVS darker edge. Wonderful story, I had these sorts of senarios of suicidal Buffy banging around my head this season too. Great job. You seem to understand the strange attraction that these two characters have. Great insight!

This was a really awesome story. The words you used were just beautiful.

Zero, liked your advice and gave it a try. Tell me what you think. H.

Ouch. Truly gut-wrenching, and beautiful use of the language. I could do without the poem it's an excellent piece, but I'd rather read it all at once (say at the end of the story?) instead of having it fed piecemeal and letting it interrupt the flow of the story itself. Just a suggestion. This is a great piece of fiction, and I hope you'll continue to share more gems like this one in the future.

wow! amazing! i'm speachless!

sick and perfect and hypnotic. i adore margaret atwood, too. thanks for posting this; after 'bargaining, pt. 1', this scenario suddenly seems a likely possibility, no?

what a great piece! concise and clever and pragmatic getting to the heart of the psychological issues, and still maintaining a nice hold on description and visceral stuff. i liked this a lot, hope you write more. good job.