Beyond This Life by Eowyn315

02/27/2007 05:30 am
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the slayer never was important to the scoobies as buffy. she was only important as the image they had of her(not tar, anya or dawn.) very good chapter, thank you.
I sometimes wonder if they'd ever have been friends if Buffy wasn't the Slayer. Not just from Buffy's perspective (since she probably would've stuck with Cordy and her crowd) - but would Xander's crush have been so intense for so long if she were just a normal hot girl? And would Willow have wanted to be friends with her if the fighting evil thing didn't give Willow's life purpose?

02/26/2007 11:37 pm
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Will someone just smack Xander please?! *G* This just reads so perfectly in character all round I can see it as what might have happened in canon.

Well done...looking forward to more.

Kathleen
Thanks! I wrote it intending it to mesh with canon - a fill in the blank between seasons.

Oh, and... *smacks Xander upside the head*

smlcspike
02/26/2007 06:22 pm
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SO Spike is against the bot,
Yep. Can't imagine him actually wanting to be around it, after losing the real Buffy.

02/26/2007 03:06 pm
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Excellent depiction of what probably would have been Spike's reaction to hearing that suggestion for the first time.
Thanks. I'm just all about the pain in this one. :-)

ella
02/26/2007 02:13 pm
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This has been a real positive surprise so far. I've never wanted to read fics about those 147 days, but now I decided to try - and I'm very glad I did!
Thanks for giving it a shot!

02/26/2007 12:21 pm
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If they had planned it, they couldn't find a better way to hurt Spike and destabilize Dawn than the Buffybot.
Oh, I know. I really wondered what they were thinking when I saw Bargaining. I mean, yeah, clever making it seem like Buffy's alive, but how much would it hurt the people around her?

02/27/2007 05:07 am
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spike sums up angel perfectly, "You’re a bleeding moron.” very good read, thank you.

dj
02/26/2007 04:03 am
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love this, like having angel and company there, he should have been there, hope scoobies take up for spike

02/25/2007 06:02 pm
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Great chapter.

time of change
02/25/2007 03:55 am
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Good chapter.
Thanks! And thanks for the rec to zanthinegirl. :-)

02/24/2007 11:14 pm
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"a hundred years of honing his brooding skills meant he was pretty good at internalizing suffering"--that is soooo Angel, in a Spike commentary sort of way.
Heh... that's Eowyn commentary, not Spike commentary, though I'm not surprised they sound the same!

02/24/2007 09:20 pm
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Oh a mature sensible Cordy! I liked that version and am delighted she's the one who came along (and won't that surprise the group!).

Poor Spike, it was sad that no one ever seemed to believe him capable of love even with mounds of evidence to the contrary. They all used Angel as the model of what a vampire was like and never seemed to notice that Angel was usually the exception to the rule. How typical of Angel to make it all about him! Really one of the reasons Angel and Buffy would never have worked out in the end....they both thought everything was about them.....there was the inevidable clash of the titan egos lurking for them at some point! LOL

Kathleen
Yeah, one of the things I liked about AtS was how much Cordelia matured... well, the first three seasons, anyway. We're not going to talk about the higher being/sex with minors/giving birth to demon spawn thing because that just make me angry...

Good observation about Buffy and Angel... it really makes me wonder how they stayed together for so long without killing each other... oh wait... never mind. ;-)

Tristan Charron
02/24/2007 08:25 pm
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I just read all three chapters and this seems like a wonderful story. The way you've painted Spike's grief is so poignant and I liked the way Angel and Spike's argument really stayed true to their characters. Nice Job!
Thanks for the review! Glad you're enjoying it.

smlcspike
02/24/2007 07:32 pm
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Oh I love it, A fight between Angel and Spike after all Spike is the better man for walking away twice.
Well, we all knew Spike was the better man. ;-)

02/27/2007 05:01 am
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angel is a tad dense. very good read, thank you.

zanthinegirl
02/25/2007 02:21 pm
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This is wonderful! Very touching look at their grief.

02/23/2007 04:16 am
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sunlight challenged? Now there's a PC term you don't hear every day.
Beats the heck out of "undead American" though, doesn't it?

02/22/2007 10:43 pm
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I'm guessing Angel won't react well to the fact that Spike is coming to the funeral.
Heh... you think?

02/27/2007 04:55 am
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they left spike there. red rushes to tell angel. the scoobies always had their priorities screwed up. good read, thanks.

smlcspike
02/24/2007 07:16 pm
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Looks interesting

02/22/2007 12:11 pm
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You nearly made me cry.
It was great how you portrayed how they reacted to Buffy dying.
Thank you!

02/22/2007 03:10 am
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Nice beginning. I liked Dawn's thoughts about the hospital; the inconsequential, mundane things our minds wander to in order to stave off things we don't want to, or aren't yet able to, deal with.
Thanks... that's what I really wanted this story to be about, the many different ways people react to grief (without being a repeat of The Body), and I can't imagine Dawn, being so young and losing so much of her family so close together, is really able to deal with it just yet.