Buffy buys blackout curtains and kisses Spike's blood stained mouth. This is definitely not slayer Buffy but..."did she really made her peace with my [Spike] wicked ways?"

Spike is just a little selfish. He has to feel as if she is hiding out from the world. If they at least talked about things, maybe it will be better. And she had no real issue with him when he walked in the door. Awesome chapter.

ACK! That was awesome. Can't wait for more!

Great update, I love this series!

This was a great chapter!! You would think for an vampire as old as Spike he would be a little less insecure!! Great, I will wait for more!

very good chapter, thank you. want the answer to spike's ending question nearly as much as he does.

AGH! Your cliffhangers kill me.

In a good way.

Spike is so terribly... vampiric... so different from much of the other fanfic out there. You're devilishly good at writing him, just as he's devilishly good at being... well, himself.

"He’s incredibly bendy. I’ve taken up yoga.

This just made me giggle!

Wonderful chapter. She is making peace with WHAT Spike is since she loves WHO he is it has to follow. I'd like him to stop killing as I am sure she would, but she does understand as best as she can. Maybe he could still hunt and eat but leave them living? Then again when you love you have to accept the person as they are or more on. I still would have to at least broach the subject (and offer to fill in any gaps with my blood too).

Lovely chapter.

Kathleen

It always seems with your chapters that I've just started reading, and than, the chapter is done. They are THAT good. You get so caught up in it. By the way, that's how I felt about my first place in London (St. Katherine's Dock) it could have been straight out of anyplace, USA.

An interesting question. Of course, with this Buffy not being a slayer, she very well might not have that need to destroy evil - but will she be able to handle living with it?
Got to tell you, I'm not usually big with the human-Buffy fics, but this one has intrigued me.

I think the latter is the answer to his question..Strange relationship. She knows he is a killer ..dancing on the edge of a commitment.

And what is that something "different" she wants.. a committed noncommitment? Sounds as if she is staying. Now what?

Enjoying.

Hmmmm....how IS she handling his diet, and means of obtaining it?
How're her morals and feelings holding up regarding his feeding habits? Will there be any ultimate change or modification in his dietary habits? Obviously he can't feed enough from her to matter.
Love the fic, and series. It's a slow burn, with subdued sparkage.
These days it's a rarity to read an unrepenatent Spike and a non-nagging, self-righteous, or grieving Buffy.
Thanks for the refreshing read.
~~K.~~
~~fyreburned~~
fyreburned@yahoo.com

oh. gah. this chapter was MADE OF WIN. and I love you for it.

Maybe, I think, maybe she’s just here for this. For a check-in, a top-off. Maybe you’ll do for her, and she’ll go back into the ordinary world and find her way again. She’s already been here much longer than our last interlude, nearly as long as our friendship in LA.

With a start, I realize that I’ll miss her. Miss her like a parent misses a favorite child, I insist to myself.
so much to love about that little passage. the vulnerability, the...ok, is it wrong to admit that I have a kink for the favorite child thing, even if he's kidding himself? ha. no, really. :)

and then the hopped-up blood-hot sex. god, yes. and the morning after. *flails*

this was a great thing to wake up to *skips off to breakfast*