I am in the midst of reading this story, I can't believe I've missed it completely! Just wanted to say that I love it :)

as confused and concerned buffy is, i'm glad she didn't rush to embrace giles' plan. good chapter, thank you.

I like how you aren't following a lot of fics of Giles being the indignant, huffy parent-figure saying Buffy shouldn't lower herself to consorting with Spike, and instead have him be a practical, heartless Watcher idea of using Spike's feelings-- it gives Buffy an excuse to be nice to Spike in front of him without Giles jumping on her and yelling. I get the idea that the Gem allows Spike to father children, but I'm looking forward to seeing Willow explain that and anything else that might come with it! Great writing.

I certainly hope that Buffy will not toy with Spike's feelings for her.  That would be all kinds of wrong.  I hope that Buffy does not live in the land of denial for long and develops a backbone.

Poor Buffy!  Not only stuck in the hospital, but doing homework too!  I like Willow's rosy outlook too - its sad that she seems to lose it later on in the show, albeit for good reason.

lovely chappie. loved giles and joyce's visit. buffy's either in serious deep waters of da Nile river there, or is actually convincing herself that spike stil cant father children even when he has all his bodily functions!!!!! anyways, loved it!

Being in hospital certainly isn't helping Buffy's thought processes.

if buffy or anyone else talks about spike's plan to kill her one more time, i'm gonna have to go into your story and beat them all senseless.  what part of he doesn't wanna kill her do they not get?  it's wrong of giles to have buffy toy with his feelings just to get the gem back, i hope she doesn't go through with it.  i really don't like your buffy, she annoys the hell out of me.  i wish that just for once she could give into her feelings and not care about what her friends think.  i'm really hoping that things get better before i pull my hair out.