This is a great premise for an AU fic. I'm so curious about Joyce and Agatha and how they're wrapped up with Spike ... and if Buffy is just an ordinary girl or if there's something else going on. Reading more now ...

spike has it bad, whatever it is. aunt aggie is a joy (so far.) very good read, thank you.

simply brilliant!! i am very intrigued, cant wait to know what happens next!!

Very exciting. What's wrong with Spike? Can't wait to find out.

Yeah there might be a concern or two there.

WONDERFUL amazingly good start to the story. I very much look forward to it all.

I have lots of questions, but I'm living in hope that you'll answer them soon. :) Please, update soon!

What an original story, I love Aunt Aggie already. I hope it was Angel that Joyce was involved with and not Spike, Angel is the one who leaves someone for their own good. I really hope that Buffy is a slayer, so she is Spikes equal. Keep writing this wonderful fic, and I will keep reading :)

I just had a thought. The princess in the story is Joyce's mother or grand mother. And the pale knight did not leave the princess, she died. Interesting we have Great Aunt Aggie, but no grieving parents for Joyce. Does Buffy look like this person, or does she share their slaylinage and it calls to his demon.....you've really intrigued me with this one.....I just hope if he was romantically involved he can convey to Buffy his love for her is different and not because....well you know....LOL

Please don't tell me that they are father and daughter, I am writing one but I want a love seen because I think they have the right cemestriy in this fic.

Damn, next chapter please, like yesterday........

Wonderfully vivid, powerful writing. I particularly love the way you have expressed Buffy's grief. The following lines really captivated me:

"Three times. Aggie had mentioned Joyce’s name three times in the last five minutes. Yet the world hadn’t ended."

The last couple of scenes up the intrigue and I am now clamouring for more!

A little too late for Mandy to try to become a friend for Buffy on her last day there... it doesn’t sound as if Buffy leaves too many good memories there behind her.
Agatha is far more nicer to her, more like a family member than Hank treats her. I wonder if Joyce learned to do her chocolate from her.
Heh heh… that’s because Buffy thought Spike was a dog. He doesn’t like to be up early? Mmmh (reminds me of a certain vampire). As does the sent thing and Buffy’s head feeling heavy and her mind foggy. Like the eye contact caught them in a thrall. Huh, Spike doesn’t want to get touched by Buffy? He’s acting weird. *nods* And he definitely is a vampire.... And tempted by Buffy. More than a normal human? Seems so.
Looking definitely forward to read more :-D

I definitely want to get to know more of the Buffy-Joyce-Agatha-Spike triangle... mmmm... square :P

Interesting story so far. But, please tell me Spike & Joyce weren't a couple, that would just be icky.

*pouts* That's all? I could read this all night! It's great. Spike's an old friend of the family huh? Is Agatha a retired slayer? Got to twenty-five and got to live out her life? Bet Spike was there the whole time, what fought by her side? Knew Joyce as a little girl? Is Buffy to become a slayer after all? Is that what he smells in her blood? Is that why he wants to kill her? His demon knows what she is? This is going to be fantastic. Wonder what Agatha's going to say about all of this. Can he stay there, all the while wanting to kill her? Hoping that you will be able to update regularly? So good, thanks.

Great note. ; ) I loved the chapter. Their meeting was rather explosive wasn't it? But my favorite part would have to be Aggie hitting Spike with the newspaper. Just priceless. Can't wait for more.

Questions? Yeah I'd say i nave a question or two, like what the heck is going on?!?! lol.

Very interesting story! I'm quite curious as to what all you have in store. :) More please!

Thoroughly engrossing start here despite the circumstances still being so mysterious. The scene with Mandy & Buffy in the bedroom, and later with her *swallows in order to be able to say the word past the bad taste in her mouth* 'father' was so very banal in its reality that it throws the strangeness Buffy's found herself surrounded by in Sunnydale into even greater contrast by comparison. So...questions. Is Spike what I think he is (i.e. VAMPIRE)? What's Buffy (e.g. human relative/descendant, Slayer, potential/destined mate, future dinner item)? Who's Aggie (e.g. the woman in the story Joyce told in the first chapter, a descendant of said woman, no relation whatsoever to her but fortunately some kind of relative to Buffy)? Oh and most importantly - WHEN are you gonna update again, lol? *smiles brightly*

Okay. That was not nice. I like it, and I want to read more, so post more. And no more cliffhangers, yeah? I suppose that's too much to ask for....LOL!