What a lovely thing to say. Thank you!

Thank you so much. It was actually really hard for me to stop it from degenerating into something violent and angry, so I'm very, very glad to hear you felt it could have gone the other way! It was always really important to me that this story not include sex: I find I need a heroic suspension of disbelief to swallow Buffy and Spike falling into a healthy relationship - or bed, for that matter - within five years of Seeing Red. This story was also at least partly inspired by wanting to see what they would be like once they'd grown up a bit. The TV series did the growing up theme incredibly well, but that meant they could never really get there and be grown-ups. These people have done that.

Thank you!

There was an abandoned arc in the Angel comics where Charles Gunn was an unsouled vampire trying to do good, but then time was set back so he was never turned.

I'm being purposefully vague here about who Charlie is, but it struck me as highly likely that, at the very least, they'd know one other vampire that, like Harmony, basically didn't change at all post-turning.

There will be one last chapter for the last 6 questions. There may also be a sequel, because I wrote vast swathes about the loft in edit #3,000,002....

I have, in fact, been working steadily on this chapter since long before I posted the last one. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for loving it.

Thanks so much! I'm very glad you decided to read it too, and even gladder you took the time to review.

Exactly what I was going for :) Thanks for your review

Thank you! I always felt like they'd need a few years of just *being* before they could start to deal with anything, because it was hard and bad and awful, even if there was love there, too.

This is my cheery fic, honest ;)

I've always felt uncomfortable with spuffy stories set within 1-2 years after Seeing Red, and struggle to believe anything under 5. They had to make a friendship happen first, before anything else could, and they both had to grow up. So, this.

Thanks! I only started writing it a week ago - wait a bit before you get too disppointed!

Thank you! Set 2 is almost done; Set 3 is in the works.

All 36 questions are publicly available by googling "Dr Aron's 36 questions to fall in love".

Thank you so much!