Agree with your take on vampires, sex and power. 

Was hard to read, kept in code with what else I've ever read about vamps so that part was cool.  I 'm back to thinking Buffy is a hard hearted wretch--holding him off when she could have made contact before.  Angel is major prickdom as usual for my thinking.  Thanks for all your hard work--it's been a very inviting story. 

spike can try all he wants to say it wasn't rape, but his reactions say otherwise...spike has always been much more human than most vampires, and his reactions are as well....he's gonna need her to be much more understanding than she's been up til now, though, if he's gonna get past this...