very good read, thank you.

Ouch - that was awkward.  I hope it doesn't affect the progress they're making.  I'm really liking how you keep focused on Buffy and Spike.

Stop teasing! I love the romance of the story, and the tenderness and hesitancy of th character feels truly authentic.  HOWEVER, these last couple of chapters feel more like extracts.  Mere episodes are frustrating because the plot of a short, serialised story is one of the most important aspects.  Have you read 'Tales of the City' etc by Maupin? Excellent example of serialised hooks.  Bring on the beef, and keep the chapters tighter and tauter.  Sorry to seem critical, but it all stems from a desire for more.  Reward your reader, don't tease her! 

She needs to think....why did he just assume he was rebound guy (after all he just lost Dru and the hundred year history there....if anyone MIGHT be a rebound it would be Buffy!).  This should tip her off that Dru and Angelus were more than a brief thing and that Angel/us had always been a barrier, Spike had always been the "convenient substitute"...couple that with remembering how he treated Dru (like giving up all his own desires to save her from Buffy when locked with the vamp lovers for example) and she'll see how without the soul Spike can and did love.

I do go on!  LOL  You are writing this perfectly I do not mean to presume in any way!

Love the way they are dancing around each other.  Very in keeping for the time and circumstances.

Typical Angel to not even write a note but make certain he marked his territory with the postcard.

Love Joyce and her easy move into family to include Spike.

Kathleen

Two updates - woohoo! :)

And Angel ruins the moment again!  Without even being there!!  Wanker. 

But it's a promising start.  Buffy just needs to realise that she doesn't need a rebound guy, she needs Spike.  And Spike just needs to realise that he needs her, too.  So now, all they really have to do is pack their bags and leave Egypt!

Great updates, thanks!