heart breaking chapter - I was hoping it would not come, but you did such an excellent treatment with it -

excellent chapter - I really like your version of this horrendous event in Buffy's life - it reads very real and would have been, if spuffy had been part of the series, a heartache but a great Buffy-Spike relationship realization of one aspect of Joyce's death. 

God, poor Buffy!  That was absolutely heartbreaking to read.  You really captured her shock and complete despair.  I hope she's not going to blame herself for not being there.  At least she has Spike to help her though this as long as she doesn't try to push him away.  I would love to see Spike move into the house to take care of Buffy and keep her from being alone.  Maybe this will keep the Scoobies from overreacting to her involvement with Spike if nothing else.

Thanks for the update.

I wonder how long the scooby truce will last.

At least Spike is there for her.  I wonder how the Scoobies will react.  Looking forward to more.

How very sad --so glad Spike was there for her.

So now the "pro-us" influence is gone. Now what's Buffy going to do?