Memory Box by Grave Tidings

IsabellaDawn
05/03/2014 01:06 pm
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What is the title for part two? I really liked this story and want to find out what happened next.

06/20/2010 05:16 pm
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You must be a born romantic since this entire chappie had me both in tears and squeedom.

m.
12/10/2008 02:41 am
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I've fallen in love with your fic! (also because I too love 'the lake house'). This is beautifully written, excellent work! Can't wait to find part 2!

07/30/2008 04:46 am
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wonderful tale, thank you.

02/18/2008 02:40 am
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Very nice.  Buffy must love him if she lets him eat off her plate.

06/26/2007 10:32 pm
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awww, that was so great!!! i really loved this fic, and now i'm off to read the next one :)

05/25/2007 11:30 pm
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Yay and she really is there now. Loved the meeting. And Buffy still wears the ring, right? I wonder when Spike will notice it :-D And she kept the key. A good thing...
And good for Buffy to acknowledge her past, that she loves Spike now. The ring is even better with the secret meaning (puzzle ring). Loved the story very much.
I think I have to continue with the second part another day; thunderstorms don't like me today. (I'll try to add your LJ before I go). The thunder gets too loud now. Till then.

nmcil
04/10/2007 01:19 am
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I really love this story -

03/04/2007 05:05 pm
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OK I took your advice and I read it with all the graphics,, VERY COOL INDEED!

I really wasn't sure i would like this story, I have not seen the movie you based it on but I wasn't sure you know?

I LOVED the story and can't wait for part 2.

Thank you!

Onyx
02/20/2007 09:15 am
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This was a lovely, sweet story. I'll definitely be reading the continuaton.

nmcil
02/14/2007 07:29 am
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Wonderful story - I liked everything about it -

miranda82
12/08/2006 06:26 pm
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Just wanted to let you know that I really loved this fic! :)

lori
10/06/2006 11:23 pm
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I loved this story. Please continue this fic soon. Thank you.

10/05/2006 11:03 pm
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This was sooo well written. I absolutely LOVED it. I love that even after all of her confessions and her haste to get to him - that Buffy's courage runs out when she sees his home and feels him inside. To me that just makes it all the more real.
I also love that when Spike senses her, he wastes no time going out to her.
That rib-crushing hug was a great touch.
This was just a wonderful story from beginning to end. I am so glad there's going to be a sequel and HONESTLY CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT.

10/04/2006 07:03 pm
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just wow

10/03/2006 01:53 am
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Wheeeeeeee Must have sequel quickly. Love, love, love this. No "expected" punch in the nose for not contacting her, etc. Just the relief of a matured woman getting an unexpected second chance with the man she thought lost to her. Wonderful. The letters served well to "talk" before they even lay eyes on each other again. Sigh.....wonderful in every way.

Kathleen

maryperk
10/02/2006 11:59 pm
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Lovely. I love it.

Debris4spike
10/02/2006 11:31 pm
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Just loved it - of course they have to find each other - glad it was Buffy who made the moves.
Can't wait for the sequal ... Hurry, please!

Lynda
10/02/2006 07:22 pm
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This was one of the sweatest story I ever read and I am looking forward to part two.

10/02/2006 07:07 pm
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what an amazing fic. can't wait to read part 2!

10/02/2006 12:58 pm
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Oh, I loved the story form beginning to the end. There were even a few tears. Can't wait for part 2

Lou
10/02/2006 12:41 pm
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"Come on, Slayer. Let's go home." Can't tell you what a pleasure it is to read such a sweet, pain-free story. So well written too.

kim
10/02/2006 10:55 am
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Nice! It's funny how he keeps saying "still evil". More like "Still mischievous", or "still playful", or "still a boy". Just another typical male, now. :)
Love the new Buffy.

10/02/2006 09:39 am
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Thank you so much for this incredible fic. Hope you've already started on part two. This has been a treasure to read. Through the tears, revelations and eternal love. Thanks to "The Lake House" for your inspiration and sharing it with us.

Kat
10/02/2006 07:56 am
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What an amazing story. I cried. which is always fun. it was wonderfully written and I read it on the other page with the graphics so it was intresting to look at too. I didn't know how to review there so i came here to review. I would love to see part 2 when it comes out and I will defentially read it then.

Tamara
10/02/2006 06:03 am
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I read it all in one go and was absolutely delighted with it. Seeing that there is a part two made me both happy that it is coming and frustrated that I couldn't find it right now.

Carol
10/02/2006 05:44 am
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This was just terrific. I loved every bit of it. I'm happy to see there will be a part 2.

Typerbabe57
10/02/2006 04:24 am
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This is an awesome story--can't wait for part 2!!!

10/02/2006 03:39 am
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What a wonderful approach to a possible future. Makes my Spuffy heart sing!

10/02/2006 03:28 am
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Lovely story. I look forward to the next part.

10/02/2006 03:16 am
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This story was absolutely fabulous!!! Loved every word of it, especially the open and honest letters from Buffy to Spike. Their meeting was so tense and fearful, both wanting it so much, but still uncertain. Wonderful!!!

Do I understand correctly, there will be a sequel? Wonderful!!! I'm already looking foreward to it.

10/02/2006 02:28 am
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oh i love love loved this...can't wait for part two. I love that she was still wearing his ring. I knew she would be, but I was afraid you might have forgotten about it (you know how sometimes it's easy to lose sight of tiny visual details when writing something) I really wanted it to mention it again.

I loved all their conversation and how things came together for them again. This fic said everything that needed to be said between these two, although I know there is still more to come especially with giles and dawn and stuff, but this was just...wow. LOVED it. Can't wait to see more of your stuff.

06/20/2010 04:52 pm
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That took a little bit of time to sink in, didn't it?  I would have thought that Buffy would have exploded at the news (hee hee!)

07/30/2008 04:36 am
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wonderful read, thank you. took her long enough to figure it out.

02/18/2008 02:32 am
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Lovely - Can't believe he kept her in suspense so long

06/26/2007 10:27 pm
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oh goodie!!! so glad she's going to see him!!!! i can't wait to see their reunion, this fic is so lovely :)

05/25/2007 11:16 pm
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Now the letters turn more into love letters. ~ Love to read them. Oh Buffy thought Spike was dead? But he told he was undead (not more dead) like he was before. To know that should make her even more happy.
And keeping some gaslights sounds romantic. :)
Heh heh Buffy noticed that she can visit Spike when he lives in Kensington *g*

10/04/2006 06:54 pm
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oh wonderful I hope she finds him!

Lou
10/02/2006 12:26 pm
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Oh, fingers crossed! They deserve a break.

10/02/2006 08:36 am
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Go Buffy! Of course she'd want to go to him but he lives in between in #16, how will she find it? It's hidden by magic. I'm glad that she's still upset with Giles. He deserves it. Great chapter, thanks for the read.

02/18/2008 02:26 am
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Very touching that Buffy tries to write to her mother. 

06/26/2007 10:17 pm
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wow...very beautiful, this is making me cry, love, it's just too sad and sweet and tender..lovely job, pet ;)

05/25/2007 11:04 pm
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It's so bittersweet, these parts of Buffy's letters. Bittersweet (moving) because when Buffy wrote it she couldn't be really sure, she just hoped that Spike got the letters she wrote. ~ Oh and she is really lucky that she needs to use the pen to get the letters too Spike. Because she would have run out of paper very soon.

10/05/2006 10:58 pm
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I'm glad she finally realized how stupid and blind she was with regard to Angel/us.
Great job.

10/04/2006 06:48 pm
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wow powerful story!

Lou
10/02/2006 12:15 pm
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Amazing that she's admitting all her faults to him - I like this Buffy.

10/02/2006 07:36 am
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Yes! You said it all, exactly the way she should of. Everything including Angel, wonder why they haven't found out that he's dust. Someone has to know that all that went on in LA and that the CEO of one of the biggest law firms is nowhere to be found as well as his staff. Fantastic job, thanks.

10/02/2006 02:29 am
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wow. there is just too much here to comment on...but wow.

10/02/2006 02:06 am
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wow. there is just too much here to comment on...but wow.

06/20/2010 04:03 pm
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Wonderful!  Got my first fountain pen in 2nd grade.  That was a little rite of passage at my school.  We also had desk inkwells but we had bottles to place in the hole and we kids took care of our own ink.

02/17/2008 04:41 pm
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Lovely

06/26/2007 10:10 pm
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awww....so glad they've had a reunion of sorts...these letters are so sweet, this fic is simply amazing...beautifully done :)

05/25/2007 10:55 pm
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Buffy wrote for quite some time now. Like with a diary, telling Spike everything.
Spike let his jealousy show when writing back. Buffy didn't see that, she was only hurt. Good Spike wrote a second letter :-D
Loved the long letter Spike wrote back. (And if Buffy was writing for a year, were the letters all the one she sent, huh? Guess so.)
They do indeed talk more (personal stuff) in the letters then they did before. Buffy is letting Spike near her.

10/05/2006 10:56 pm
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I love Spike's request that she not wait until he's on fire to tell him that she loves him the next time.
Brilliantly written.

10/04/2006 06:42 pm
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oh excellant - i love this story

Lou
10/02/2006 12:09 pm
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Wow - she hasn't given him a hard time about anything yet!

10/02/2006 06:57 am
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It's so them. Their banter even through letters. I can totally see Dawn wanting to go to a Catholic school to feel safe. And eww, the Immortal hitting on Dawn? She should of cut off everything! Just love this fic, thanks.

10/02/2006 01:56 am
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hahahaha I LOVE spike saying that part about could she please tell him next time when the roof's not caving in and he's not trying to save the world? hehehe. Wonderful. I also really like that he believed her.

awwwww this is just so incredibly sweet.

06/20/2010 03:30 pm
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Very interesting that Spike would keep his home.  Very forward thinking of him.  But I love the impulsive side which showed through!  Spike perenially suffers from foot in mouth disease. 

02/17/2008 04:34 pm
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he wasn't certain where he could buy a new one. - an art store of course.  Oh boy, Spike shoots his mouth off. 

06/26/2007 09:43 pm
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lol..stupid spike...very dumb thing to do, should have read the letters first...poor buffy's going to get the wrong idea...but surely she'll write him back again, right? hope they dont just fall into their same old patterns here :(

05/25/2007 10:42 pm
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Oh ! The house is still there and Spike's protected by a spell. I guess the postman could see the mailbox because all the junk mails got delivered. And even Buffy's envelopes.
So he set up the rule not writing her back? I wonder if he can resist when he read the letters.
Spike was really furious when writing the first letter; I'm glad he read at last Buffy's last one. Oops.. seems the letter is already in the post. Hopefully Buffy won't be too upset now and rather be glad to get a letter. From Spike, yay :-D

10/05/2006 10:49 pm
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I love the way you're revealing the softer (more William) side of Spike; what with keeping the box all this time, and cloaking his childhood home. Great job.

10/04/2006 06:36 pm
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Oh no poor Buffy! *bites nails* I love this story!

Lou
10/02/2006 12:02 pm
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Dumbass!

10/02/2006 06:11 am
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OMG! He really is back and Angel's dust. Wow, and he's at home again, in England with Buffy. That was perfect Spike. Always impatient, leap before you think. This is a wonderful fic, thanks for sharing.

10/02/2006 01:44 am
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hehehe I love that spike just wrote that letter all hastily...he's going to have to write another one now. heh. also loved the cloaking spell. It seems like something spike would do...try to find a way to protect his childhood home.

07/30/2008 03:43 am
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very sorry i missed this tale when originally post. very good read, thank you.

02/17/2008 02:39 am
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Spooky and lovely.

06/25/2007 12:37 am
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oh man....this is too cool...i wonder if it's william or spike getting the letters...and if he'll write back...lovely chapter, pet :)

05/25/2007 10:30 pm
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A box full of surprises indeed! She even found her wedding ring (so to say because it was meant for her it is her ring in a way even if they never married).
And now I wonder if William's house still stands and who owns it. *sniff* Loved Buffy writing to Spike, telling him goodbye when she wasn't able to do it the first time around.
The letters really vanishes.. I wonder if it is caused by the box or the things Buffy used to write (the paper). That should mean she'll run out of it at one point.

nmcil
02/14/2007 05:58 am
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Oh, I love this story already - you have such a beautiful style and your Buffy voice is such a good combination of the Buffy from the series and a more mature and open-hearted young woman. You have managed to bring in a tone of an earlier time, when people did write beautiful words to one another - this is the perfect Valentine Day story - I hope you don't mind, but I will also try some graphics for myself - it so just happens that I am reading "De Profundis" now from a lovely 1926 Modern Library edition. Now, back to your story.

10/05/2006 10:47 pm
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This is sooo well written. I love the emotion that comes through in Buffy's letters. The closing "stupid vampire" made me smile. And I love the ps to William with the offer of an explanation.
Absolutely wonderfully done. I've never read a fanfic with this premise. Its very creative and (I say again) excellently written.

10/04/2006 06:30 pm
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oh wow amazing chapter! Amazing chapter!

Lou
10/02/2006 11:58 am
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Gorgeous -- a mystical postal service.

10/02/2006 05:50 am
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How comforting for her to have this to believe in. So exciting too! Anything to have some communication with him. If she knew where to look she would go and get him as he would for her. Wonderful chapter. Thanks.

10/02/2006 01:36 am
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i'm very much loving this story. It's very unique. (And yeah...know it's inspired by the lake house, but still, i've never read a spuffy story like this before, so in my book, that's unique. :)

It's very very well written. I LOVE that he had wedding rings ordered and that she's wearing hers.

The first letter where she says it hurts to breathe...I got a bit teary-eyed there. I love her ending that letter with "stupid vampire" And I love the second letter where she's testing it out and telling him that if he's in hell if he can let her know, she'll get him out. This is just so unbelievably sweet and well written. I really love it.

I also love that she wants him to write her back if he's william so she can explain what's going on.

This is just so great. I haven't gotten a chance to see the Lake house yet. But my mother said it was really good, so I may have to see it now.

04/27/2013 04:51 pm
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The pictures of Spike and Dawn made me laugh. The one of Buffy and Spike had me tearing up.

06/20/2010 03:01 pm
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I love, love The Lake House!   What a wonderful idea to cross over with Buffy! 

07/30/2008 02:39 am
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very good beginning. thanks for the fine read.

02/17/2008 02:32 am
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Wonderful story Grave - I actually own one of these boxes - it's mahogany with mother of pearl roses on the top.  The felt writing surface is still intact.  Spike never writes me any letters tho.

06/25/2007 12:19 am
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wow...this is awesome, i can't believe i've never found this fic before....this opening was gorgeous, and i'm looking forward to the opportunity to finish it :) thanx so much for this lovely fic :)

05/25/2007 10:20 pm
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Ah... after Sunnydale collapsed they were all going back to England, rebuilding the Council. So when Buffy wasn't really interested in her new flat, I wonder if that has something to do with missing Spike...indeed.
The box from Spike; this feels like if he is speaking to Buffy out of his grave (even if it sounds a bit weird, written down). Awe and now Buffy has some unforgettable pictures. I don't think she has saved a lot from Sunnydale.

12/03/2006 02:42 am
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Very beautiful and touching. Its a wonderful thought, that he could have saved some of the things that were most precious to him.

10/05/2006 10:44 pm
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This was a great beginning. Your writing is very visual. The description of the box was beautifully written. I could see it in my mind.
I'm definitely hooked. Can't wait to see where this goes.

10/04/2006 06:24 pm
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Wow that as a great first chapter!

Lou
10/02/2006 11:53 am
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It's a lovely thought that he'd have left something like this for Buffy.

10/02/2006 04:44 am
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This is a beautiful fic. The idea is incredible, the box, wonderful. All the photos left inside for her to cherish an dlater, a way to communicate with him. This is going to be a real tear-jerker isn't it. Thank you for posting it here. Good luck, thanks for the read.