OY~!
Ye rilly know how tae spin yer yarn, aye?
And you did Schroedingers cliffhanger, where it's undecided if the open ending is better or the would be conclusion ending.
But Tony is still one of those people that should be kicked in the crotch daily. Amongst other things.

Kudos for such a magnificient duo.

HOLY FKKEN VOSTROYAN COWSTEAK!
It's canon, it's different, it's all tastes into one.
It's abso-fukken-greatly awesome.
And the worst is... I can understand Xander now. Holy FKK was that shit fkked up then.
And his 'father' is such a... ... ...tool.

Willow using magic to "fix" things usually pisses me off, but I've gotta say that in this instance? Go Willow.

Amazing fic, man.

Nice one, Willow.

Fantastic job fleshing out something that was only referred to a few times in passing in the series itself. I liked that, it being Sunnydale, of course there was hinky magic stuff involved, and I also liked that in the end Xander really was just a normal human guy with human parents. It makes it more tragic that they treated him so badly.

That was a superb story. I was impressed not only by what you included but by the details you left blank. Very well done.

Whoa.

Intense.

Xander is the most under-appreciated character in the show. I always thought his home life was even worse than this; which was why I always thought him as brave and strong as either Buffy or Willow. I love how you've made Tony despicable yet human at the same time.

Fuck! Does Willow want to make or break him. I really don't get if she wants to break him for retribution for Xander or heal him for...waht.

I realize that this is old, but I am just floored by how amazing it is. For a few minutes, I was sure that the vision Tony was seeing was the First. I was seriously depressed for those minutes. When I found out that it was Willow... well, relief just barely describes it. This made me so angry. So damn angry, and I just...

I don't know what to do with myself now. Thank you for writing this, but I need to go hit something. Tony Harris makes me beyond upset.

Thanks again.

Definitely a unique and interesting view point. It had me absolutely hooked. I was expecting them to find out some more about the supernatural than they did. Maybe get a clearer understanding of it, and their son's involvement. Poor Xander, but such an interesting interpretation of their relationship. Thank you for writing it.

This is fantastic! Great job and thanks for sharing.

Okay, so I don't know Tony. At all. He's not mentioned really and I haven't seen Hell's Bells, but from what I do know, the voice you used to tell his story has some definite 'wow factor' to it. Everything about him is so hateful, the way he plays the blame-game and scorns Xander.

I love how his hate's so isolated when it comes to Xander. How he seems to be friendly enough with other people (though he's not winning a Congeniality Award in The Past) but with his son, it's just this strong, pure disdain. It's made all the more tragic in The Future, especially when one of the people in their community mentioned how good they are with kids. That was beautiful.

Then, of course, there was eight year old Xander, which was the part (for me) that it was made clear that Tony had the potential to love Xander. He just never acted on it out of some self-defeating, stubborn nature that put it firmly in his mind that Xander was more parasitic than anything else. And the way he describes everyone who interacts with Xander (Willow, Spike, Buffy...) is gah! It's perfectly poisonous and can I just say that the words he used in reference to Cordelia were definitely on the nauseating side of things?

And well, Jessica...? She seems to me to be a bit of a bitch. She's civil to Xander, I guess, but she's no mother. When I read this, I couldn't help but think of the hell my mom'd raise if my dad said things that sounded half as bad to me. All her efforts to defend Xander, in my opinion, seemed to be too weak and a bit insincere.

There's so much I loved about this story but I don't want to write a book on it, so...I'll end on this. 1) Xander turning out to be his genetic son was, well, bravo. It felt like getting stabbed, in a very good and non-lethal way, even if I did expect it from all that 'already filled' talk. 2) Even though Tony's an asshole, you made him more than that. You made him a person with decent qualities (e.g his respect for 'till death do us part'.) Still an ass though.

Wow, just re-read this story. It really grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go. Thanks.

Great fic!

Does he or doesn't he? THis was awesome! A really unusual pov! And Willow there at the end! I love it!