Change Partners and Dance by dreamweaver
Chapter: Chapter 5

05/14/2009 05:47 am
very good read, thank you.
This chapter had to stay close to canon too, but now it'll start to swing off with Season 2.  Thank you for hanging in there!

Dreylin
05/13/2009 05:07 am
This story's got great energy.  I'm loving every bit of it!
Oh, thank you!  I'm so glad you like it!

05/13/2009 12:59 am
Oh my God!, I`m so happy to see a new story from you again!
This was just perfect. I can`t wait for your update!
Thank you!  I'm so glad you like it!  Updating every day.

05/12/2009 09:34 pm
Oh yeah!  He finally realized what has happened! 

LOVE that he did the right things unlike Angel.  This is just exactly what Spike would have done (even telling her to destroy the bones).   Have a feeling he'll deal with the annointed one before he goes too.  He KNOWS he wants her and likely loves her.....oh my!

I think she has an inkling of her own feelings as well.

Loved every word, her fight with Darla, the gloating over Angelus, the realization that Jenny won't have to die, the fight with the Master....all of it!  Excellent.

Kathleen
Angel should have told her to destroy the bones, but of course he didn't.  Squanders every opportunity to really help.  Spike wouldn't.  Oh, I'm so glad you're liking this!  I was worried because the fic's so close to canon.  But now it will start to veer away.

05/12/2009 08:21 pm
Oooo. Very exciting! I was worried that Buffy taking the crossbow on patrol would provoke Spike into a real attack. But he is already too involved, isn't he? Lovely re-do of Darla's death. I wonder if Spike would've done it if she hadn't been so cruel about Dru. He was already provoked by the unfairness of the Glocks, but that seems to have been the last straw.

The "Prophecy Girl" twist was very good. Spike's epiphany:

He didn’t want to kill her. What he wanted was for her to really be...his...And that was an appalling thought!

Is leading him to an uncharacteristic retreat. Powerful stuff. I wonder what he'll find as he licks his wounds?
He was too involved and just stayed away from her since he can't kill her.  He'd have killed Darla just to prevent her hurting Buffy, but the Glocks and Dru made it easier to tell himself otherwise - until that epiphany hit him.  :D

All4Spike
05/12/2009 07:22 pm
Love the way you've twisted it all, making Buffy a much more confident skilled fighter and with the attraction to Spike instead of Angel. I wonder if he's going to deal with the Annoying one before he goes...
Looking forward to the next installment...
She's the Slayer; she shouldn't have been running away from the Three!  It bothered me.  I'm so glad you like the change!

Belle
05/12/2009 03:27 pm
Woooooooooo! Excellent chapters! Awwww they're getting to close. Can't wait for the next addition!!
The romance is going to start heating up! :D