Trials for Joyce by ginar369
Chapter: Chapter 1

10/23/2012 04:13 am

interesting start and nice that you cut off the posibility of Buffy being the Champion.

I wanted Buffy to see that Spike could do good without that all important soul.

bernie
09/26/2012 03:14 pm
Great start  Seems like it will be a great story.  Can't wait to read more.
Thank you so much! I hope it meets with your approval!

09/24/2012 02:20 pm
I'm liking this very much and look forward to more.
Thank you so much for reading. I hope you continue to enjoy it.

Eyghon
09/24/2012 09:10 am

That's a very novel and interesting turn of that horrible "Joyce death" part of BTVS, I'm hooked. You're doing great, looking forward to more.

Joyce's death always got to me. By season 5 she had adjusted to the slaying and could have probably been a good influence on them. Thanks for reading!

Resef
09/24/2012 07:08 am
This is an awesome premise! I can't wait to see where this goes.  The Riley interaction in this little what if story will obviously be different, and I wonder how his little jealous problem that he has around this time will play out when Buffy allows Spike to be her Champion.  Even if this is for Joyce it will be almost like Buffy is choosing Spike, or saying she trusts him more to do this.  I also like that however vaguely this premise brings light on the good side of Angel.  Its refreshing as a lot of Buffy/Spike stories love to make Angel the bad guy and so they focus on all the bad that he has to control.

I hope you upate this soon as I am excited for this story.
Just a word of warning! It is a challenge response so there are certain things that had to happen and Angel being a jerk was part of it. (I do have an idea for a story where Angel is actually decent to Spike and helps him! But it's only in outline stages yet.)

As for Riley, I never liked him. Ever. Besides his attitude towards women, the fact that he could walk past those cages and see sentient beings in pain and it didn't bother him in the slightest, he actually went out and captured more to be tortured! Well lets just say I wanted to beat his corn fed face in.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it.

Curtis
09/24/2012 02:20 am
Great start, I have always asked myself why Spike wasn't more involved when this happened. I look forward to seeing how this goes.
Thanks. Well I did play with the timeline a bit. But I think after 'Crush' Buffy wouldn't have appreciated his help. So at least here Spike keeps his mouth shut about his feelings for her for now.