Oh, my... this chapter absolutely killed me with its perfection.  I am absolutely besotted with William's confession, and you did a fantastic job on the poem.  Well done!

Wow... this story is making my heart ache... I wish I had my own William! He's soooo adorable! awww... I couldn't help but sigh... loving this fic an amazingly large amount :) Sorry i didn't review earlier chapters... I just couldn't stop reading!! I barely spared the few minutes for this one... but it was just too good, I had to say something :) excellent work.. curious about how "Spike" is going to appear tho....

Wow. Clever how you took the conversation with Cecily and made it Buffy... shows how things are the same, and yet how Buffy is changing things. If this was the night he was supposed to meet Drusilla, has everything changed?

Here's a creepy thought... what if the lack of Spike changed the timeline, and Buffy never ended up going back in time, and even though she wants to stay, she's changed things and she just disappears from this past world? That would defy all the laws of physics and the universe, but it'd be kinda cool...

Wow. Clever how you took the conversation with Cecily and made it Buffy... shows how things are the same, and yet how Buffy is changing things. If this was the night he was supposed to meet Drusilla, has everything changed?

Here's a creepy thought... what if the lack of Spike changed the timeline, and Buffy never ended up going back in time, and even though she wants to stay, she's changed things and she just disappears from this past world? That would defy all the laws of physics and the universe, but it'd be kinda cool...

Loved it :D

I have a bad feeling things are about to go horribly wrong somehow.

I'm so happy to see you posting again. I've been reading this story since I first started reading fanfiction. Thank you for continuing it. Are you going to finish your other one, Falling?

Sweet and gentlemanly William but I fear there may be a price to pay for that. Great Chapter

Lovely chapter. I can't wait for more. I'm dying to know where you are going to take this now. ; )

I'm enjoying the kinder, gentler Buffy and William without the attitude. Still with the effulgent though. The only word worse to try and rhyme would be silver.

I just discovered this story and am transfixed! I waited to comment until now because I was rushing from chapter to chapter devouring it. Naturally it will be in my favorites list so I don't miss a word. This is excellent!

I love time travel stories anyway and this one is a gem. I adore your William, he is as I imagined him to be. Buffy is really sweet in this story and sweet to him which is lovely. I adore the way you twisted the party and poem to fit your alteration in the time line. Naturally this will have an effect on his meeting with Dru and the future and I look forward to reading how you deal with that (and the possible complicaiton of Glory who may or may not be in the same era).

Excellent, excellent and please continue!

Kathleen

Love the poem

ah - sweet and sad and oh my god, I hope nothing happens to William on his way home!*bites nails nervously*

Yep, I'm totally in love with this story. This was gorgeous!! Ooh, and those William/Elizabeth scenes---talking about his feelings and the poetry---were just amazing! His confession was heartbreaking--for me--cause I kept seeing the actual one with Cecily, but then reading Buffy's reaction....I cried!! Oh, I just...I'm speechless now. More, please!!

I've been a bad girl, and read ahead on ff.net because I really wanted to know what happens. So, I won't give anything away, but I'll just say that this story just keeps getting better and better.

Your William is a very well developed character. He's exactly what one would imagine what Spike was like as a human. We saw a bit of William on the show, but you've fleshed out his character, giving him new depth. He's William, but you can see little vestigages of Spike, just as you can see parts of William in Spike on the show.

It's a very romantic notion that Buffy and Spike/William would have fallen in love with eachother no matter if they were human or demon, no matter the time or the place. It makes me all weepy...

Oh, that was lovely!! Something I always noticed about Victorian literature, or well, literature set in Victorian times, is that the build up is so much greater, so that when something like a kiss happens, it's as erotic and thrilling as more lascivious passages set in different times. Thank you for writing this ever-intriguing story. I cannot wait for what happens next! (Though I am hoping for more smoochies with the hot repressed Victorian gentleman)

Awwwwwwww....
But I'm sure that now you've made everyone happy.....some impening doom must surely be afoot....it wouldn't be Spuffy if the universe were not conspiring to ruin EVERYTHING. ;)

Please don't let Willow take her now. He won't know love again for over a hundred years. With his mother's love for him and her health failing, I seriously doubt that she would care about making their feeling's known, but now that she's falling for him and doesn't care about going back home, I have a feeling that this is when she will. Just worried that I'm right. Thank you for the update, it was perfect and I needed the distraction. Wonderfully done UB.

I've read this chapter about 16 times over, and each time I find new beauty in it.

Awesome. I loved cry-baby William. Surprised he didn't die of a heart attack when she kissed her neck.

Beautiful chapter. What will happen on his ride home I wonder. I hope he will not get sick. He still must encounter Drusilla and become Spike but I wonder how this will happen in your story. Please update soon.