so afraid, our buffy.

I love this story, the dialogue is wonderful, the interactions superb. Keep it coming!

"A/N: Beware! I posted Chapter 35 only 3 days ago, and you need to read that first! These two chapters were always in my head as one, and my intention was to post them together, but it didn't quite happen that way.... Oh well."

Don't let it worry you! If you can't pull and combine them, no one will think the worse of you for that. Just keep doing the voodoo you do so well. :)

Wow, powerful stuff.  Maybe in time Buffy will see how hard Spike is fighting for her, she certainly lets everyone else off lightly -- except herself of course.  Anya is in particularly good form at the moment, long may it last.

Pretty damn powerful. Some nice confrontations managed, there, and excellent, characterful dialog.

You have me crying for poor Buffy and Dawn. Thank goodness for Anya's common sense, for Buffy actually makng a ecision and stickin gup for herself and Dawn and chucking Willow out (at last) and for Xander finally accepting that WIllow has gone too far. Looking forward to the next developments...