So fantastic!thank you for sharing

Lovely story! Well written! I loved how raw spoke was when it came to emotions. The part several chapters ago, where buffy’s On the ladder in the crypt and she moves her hand and he tenses up, turning his head slightly because he thinks she is going to slap him... I felt that part. I love your descriptions and I appreciate how different this story is compared to other spuffy fics. Great job.

Omg this is without a doubt, one of the best fics I’ve ever read. So good! Got me dead center right in the feels.

Omg I seriously cried, this chapter was so heart-wrenching.

That was... quite something? Amazing? Incredible? Fantastic?
The way you portrayed Willow.. selfish, arrogant, rude, irrelevant. That is how I felt about her throughout the majority of the series after she got her powers.
I love how you portrayed Dawn. I always thought she has so much more potential than the series showed. She was smart and she was cunning and her relationship with Spike was very important.
I'm not overly I'm love with your Buffy, I still think she was very out of character when she was in the past, bug that is just my opinion.
Your Spike was... pretty perfect in the majority of your story.
Thank you for writing this story. It made me very happy to read it. (Perhaps I would have loved an ending where she did end up pregnant but that is way unrealistic for Buffy). Thank you!

Wow. Seriously the best Buffy/Spike fic I have read. It was truly amazing

Wow. This story was absolutely fantastic.
When I first started reading, I was surprised and amazed at how consistent you were with your characterization of William. Even as a human and his insecurities, once or twice I thought “he’s acting an awful lot like spike...” and then the fact that you brought it back up when Buffy was trying to figure out if William was still there...Just perfect. It doesn’t feel like a single thing you’ve written in here wasn’t for a reason. This relationship felt so believable in that it was absolutely imperfect and that even though they have a happy ending, there is so much more to go through. The arguments and thoughts said in the story were very consistent AND believable to what the characters may actually say in those situations.
When Buffy was transported back to her time, I was skeptical of the POV change to William’s story but this was the best direction. I really felt for him and his struggles and it improved upon that argument that Spike was still William...just older and experienced.

You’ve done a really great job. I hope that after some time, I forget this story so that when I come back, I can re-experience it all again!

Oh my god...you almost had me there! I thought after all this struggle, it was really going to end. I’m so happy for them!

“Gutter slang talking leather clad idiot” I LOVE this line haha

This is getting ridiculous! I almost wish you weren't this talented with your writing because God damn I am never gonna sleep at this rate! Almost but not really...

I'm literally crying for Spike right now and I need to go to sleep so I can study for finals and finish my project and I will definitely do just that! After one more chapter...

I really liked the fact that none of the characters was perfect, but that they still tried to do good. And the way past events always managed to influence the future, the whole consistency of the plot, was very well done. Quite enjoyable!

I'm honestly screaming right now. I usually wait to write a review until I've finished reading but I couldn't control myself. This story is phenomenal. Your writing is pure brilliance.

Hey, I finished your story in just 2 days and an amazing story like this deserves all the reviews and awards it has already and also for me to take some of my time to write my review for it too.

First of all, let me just say I love how much work and thought you put into it! Phew 68 chapters! That deserves all the respect but what deserves even more respect is that you actually finished it! So congrats and thank you for writing an amazing Spuffy romance.
I'm going to review part by part.

I love the idea of time travelling stories. I'm only in one other fandom where I read fanfiction and this is my second but I know from my first fandom how good it could be and how messy it could get if it's bad. Fortunately you did everything right. I had no complains. It felt real while we were with Buffy in the past. Her experience and her feelings. Most of all I could feel Buffy falling in love with William and them falling for each other. It is so beautifully written. There was always that feeling of dread in the back of my mind of what's to come but it was still written so well that it made me forget about what's coming. You put so much thought in their love and romance in this part and I loved every second of it. I could totally imagine Spike as human like this, it didn't feel OOC. I loved Spuffy with Anne, and all the scenes they shared and the bond between them. It's really tragic how all this ended so badly.

Which brings me to Part two. I have to say I didn't enjoy this part as much which is to be expected I think. And no, it isn't because Buffy wasn't in it at first. I had no issues with it. But the brutality of it and violence were my issue. It was probably necessary, I could feel it in your writing that it was your idea but still I couldn't help but feel like at times it was just too much. It just felt too sad to watch William go through this and do all these things. It completely took me out of Part one. By the end of it I felt so confused because I felt like Spike should suffer for all the things he did but at the same time I felt even worse for feeling this after reading things like him being raped. All in all, it just left me feeling depressed.

As for Part three, I had mixed feelings, some parts I enjoyed, some I didn't. I think you did a great job in keeping Spike well Spike but still making sure to keep him as William as possible but with perhaps heighten characteristics. At the beginning I just couldn't blame Buffy for feeling wrong and disgusted and like he isn't the same, because I felt the same way. With Buffy adjusting and accepting some facts I was going through the same with her too. When Buffy was trying to understand him, forgave him and gave him a chance I was right there with her step by step. So again, great writing in convincing me to along with character to move from point A to point B.
Once they got together, I have to say some things felt off for me. For the first part I just said "You put so much thought in their love and romance in this part" which at times I just didn't feel in this one. It was heavy on angst and climax of the story that it somehow got lost. And this part needed it the most because it was so complex. Instead it just felt like they're going through the motion and we couldn't really see them functioning as a vamp/slayer couple. This is also where Buffy kind of lost me. Thinking and saying all those horrible things about him just felt like 48590 steps backwards and I wasn't there with her at all. I think she overreacted, didn't even give him a real chance in the first place, just waiting for him to screw up so I could totally understand why Spike felt like this because I felt it too.
But I did like the first parts where Buffy was loving and understanding and standing up to her friends. I just wish some parts of last 10 chapters or so were done with more care and more romance.
I was still rooting for them so hard to make it. I loved the ending, I wish you would've done more of a time jump though but reading Spike be so happy and content was so worthy it. And him, Buffy and Dawn as a family was the most precious ending.

Special mention deserves parts of last chapters which dealt with Spike not having/having a soul. Honestly I think the show lacks a lot in explaining this and overlooking the fact that Spike was the only vampire without a soul who felt "normal" who felt real love, guilt, sadness... All other vampires looked like real monsters without any feelings or connections to human parts. Not to mention Angelus who was worse of them all. I don't why they wrote Spike like this but then completely ignored it because he had to get his soul back or he was worthless. Not saying he wasn't bad, because he is, but he's not evil like 99,99% of BTVS vamps (at least not later). I think you dealt with this part sooo well. The fact he wanted his soul back in the first place says enough about him. The same could be said in the show too, which was ignored too. And I like the fact you didn't give him his soul back after all because it proved the point.

Speaking of Buffy' friends, they're all terrible throughout the whole story...Couldn't they give Buffy and Spike a break? Seriously. I felt it was a bit OOC for her to be so disconnected from all of them. They had no understand for her whatsoever, not just about Spike but literally everything, money, rent, time travel etc.. I can even understand Giles, Anya and Xander but I think Willow was OOC. Their friendship is my fav from the show and I just couldn't imagine her acting like this with 0 understanding, and I doubt Tara wouldn't be encouraging her to be better and be more understanding. So that's my one complaint when it comes to others. My favorite was Dawn of course. I loved loved loved her. I swear just her presence and words helped me go through some parts where others were acting like complete idiots. Spike's and Dawn's friendship was beautiful and done way better than it the show. In the show it was so good and it could've been better but then it kind of got ruined and lost which made me sad. It had potential and you delivered it here.

This review is way too long. But I just had to get it all out because good or bad, your story gave me so many feelings. And this is only 2nd Spuffy fic I read so far but I can already say it'll be one of my favorites.

Thank you for writing this story. It truly was perfect in every way. Your story line was good and credible, you characterized everyone very well, and you succeeded in writing things I would have loved to see in the show, and that I loved to read, without making it too cliché. You stayed quite realistic, you did not succumb in the idea that being a vampire is "cool" and that with just a bit of love, everything can be okay. You showed that it is not that simple, that people needed to work to make a relationship work, that it was not only about loving the other, you had to really want it. The beginning of the story was great, you recreated the Victorian area with skills and good knowledge about this time period, which was really interesting (especially for a French reader who doesn't know much about British history) ! I dreamt of this period while reading about it, because it first appears quite romantic, and in the same time, you underlined all the restrains and hypocrisy one had to use at this time which makes it no so appealing anymore. In fact, throughout the story, you made your reader see that things were never just "black or white", that it's more complicated that that. Then, the evolution of Spike was well thought and well written, I found that it sounded real. And finally, the reunion in the present was so well managed... You made me feel so much emotion in the last party of your story : going from admiration, pain, fear, disappointment (because the characters are so human, and humans can be disappointing...), and hope. Your story was filled with so much interesting themes and subjects (Buffy's rise of independence / reflections about morals and soul / material difficulties in life etc.) that I could go on and on about it ! This was not only a moving fanfiction, but also a clever one. This is the kind of story that changes you when you read it, a story that makes you question things about your life, that makes you see your relationships differently. I fell in love with your story, so, once again, thank you. (Ps : sorry if I made English mistakes !)