Oooo, great mean Willow twist. Buffy should just line up her three so-called friends and kick ass.

uh-oh!
You DO like to keep us jumping, don't you? :)

wonderful chapter, thank you.

Suitably vile Xander - blood-boilingly so! Grrr. And as for Willow - I'm speechless. She's not as clever as she thinks!

just finished the update and this has truly been a challenging story to read and extremely good!
You are a powerful author and I hope you have a new story to start when this one finishes.

Wow! This chapter packed quite a punch. Love this new defiant Buffy who's willing to stand up for Spike and their relationship. And the Willow revelation - just awesome. Can't wait for more.

Hmmmmm......interesting turn from Willow there. I know I haven't reviewed in a while. I just caught up on the last 6 chapters. They were all very good. I am glad that Angel got beat down, he needed that, and so did Spike. I am glad that Buffy and Spike are finally working through this. I am VERY glad that Buffy stuck up for him against Giles and her friends! I can't wait to see the next chapter!

Ooooh..... neat.

Loving the bashing

Finally the truth about the tweaking! And those words sound very ominous for the future of our fave couple. Cant wait to see if there are any more repercussions or have the effects petered out.

I say kick all three out and keep Anya... possibly throw boiling acid at the assholes...

wasn't expecting that! this story has so many twists and turns, i just love it thanks

Oh thats nice. Like that wording doesn't have the possiblity of far reaching consequences. Dumb Willow. And good lord are her friends bigoted. I can't wait for the reaming to continue. Excellent chapter.

Oops.

Great chapter. I like this confrontation with all the Scooby gang. Didn't I understand that Spike's chip does not work anymore. So Spike can defend himself if he wants to.

OMG, I can't wait for more. Loved how Buffy finally stood up for herself and told everyone to back off and let her decide what was best for her life. Go team Buffy! So this spell, hope no more negative side effects happen, but this is Willow we're talking about. Guess I'll just have to wait for more. ^_^

Wow! Excellent explnation. Of course I would love to see Buffy pound Willow, Xander, and Giles into the ground for their arrogance and generally bad behavior, but I'm so glad to see Buffy taking charge and puttingthem in their places. Looking forward to more!

I guess none of the Scoobies will ever learn what they don't already know,or think they know.

Snort, and so it did didn't it! That Slayer turned on Buffy like a rabid pit bull! I really hope Buffy and her family make it abundantly clear that she is in her right mind and determined to be with Spike out of love and they need to accept it or get out of her life. GOD I hate Xander! Actually I only started to like him again on the show in S7 when he seemed to be actually maturing (that hand on Spike's shoulder in LMPTM as an example). He was such a bigot, rude even to Anya who he proclaimed to love. I digress....

Love the contained fury and protective determination Buffy is showing. Can't wait until Spike shows how fangless he's NOT and the control he does have. Scooby smackdown by the mated pair if only by implication.

Kathleen

Anya is right about how Xander always tells her to not say what she thinks yet he says whatever pops into his head.

I wonder if Willow will manage to get through the next chapter witout her blood being spilled.

That bitch!!! She hid those words????!!!

I'd be perfectly happy right now if Buffy cast those three out of her life and just kept Anya around. God, the destructive power of those idiots!!

God! that was awesome! That was one hell of a chapter. Love take control Buffy and Spike does too! I'm so excited about the next chapters. What they all will learn, but Willow spell was so bad. Sounded like something Giles would have wanted her to do. i know he didn't but it sounds like him. I hope Joyce shows up here soon, Buffy could use more support. Great read, thanks.

Oh that stupid girl. Granted if it takes finding out Willow deliberately messed with the spell to cause outrage amongst the Scoobies, then they are all pretty stupid. Not Anya, of course. She actually knows what she's talking about. She really needs to dump Xander.

oh, can someone please kick some willow ass, please, pretty please? Thanks for the great update

Great Chapter. I hate that it's ending in the middle of a conversation like this argh. But I was glad there was a chapter here to come back to. The only concern I have now is that Willow might try to do a spell to "fix" buffy so they can hurt spike. They all really need to just back off.