Can't say anything else other than WOW!!! That goes for all your other stories too! I don't know if you'll even read this as it's now 2012 and you finished in 2008 but I just had to congratulate you on making me be able to imagine these as actual Buffy episodes (Minus the incredibly hot sex of course. Thanks James for getting the kit off even though I've seen footage since saying he had to as SMG had a clause in her contract that she wouldn't do nudity). Don't you wish they would have made it even more of a late night show? Each year it was on we were growing up with it so would have been great. Or they could have made a pg version and edited it for kids and left the full version for adults. Anyway, great imagination and not too out there like some other authors and thank god no miracle babies so far!

I wish you would reply as I just wanted to ask one question:
Are you a Brit who lives in the states? It's just the way you describe things and phrases that Spike uses are so like I would especially the fact that you know Pratt over here means idiot so it is a very unfortunate surname to be saddled with.

Anyway as Spike might say "Cheers Love!" Thanks for making this Brit Girl very happy but now sexually frustrated too :-) x

If you ever read this my email address is bezziemate@gmail.com. I would love a reply if you can.

That was gut wrenching, complicated and delightful... though not at the same time...  ;-)

Peace,

Blue
http://www.tthfanfic.org/authors.php?no=12717&list=profile

 

wow...just...wow.  im floored. what a rollercoaster!  you've an amazing talent ... keep up with it!

This story was absolutely amazing!  I loved how all the insecurities and issues we were left with at the end of the two TV shows was brought out in this fic and resolved so beautifully.  It took a hell of a ride to get to the beauty, but that was what made it so great.  You put so much thought into writing this; it's very obvious.  The writing was beautifully crafted.  I'm so glad they got their happily ever after.  This is how Joss should've made it.  Thank you so much for writing this story.  It brings a wonderful closure to all that was left in tatters on the shows.

Miz Herself, I was so smitten with this story in the spring.  Almost couldn't convince myself to re-read it in case I was not as over the moon as I was--silly me.  I just spent a fabulous revisiting of the fine world you created, with all the hundreds of feelings all over again.  Cried my eyes out over the last two (or 20) chapters, man, what you put together is just total--it's brains, body, heart and soulful high.  Yeah, I'd say you kicked some and took names!!  As soon as I can breathe easily again, I'm going to think thank you to the nth power again.  Ta darlin' girl, Youse some kind of wonderful, you writer you!! 

Absolutely amazing!

Very good.  I really liked your characterizations.  Thanks for writing.

Thank you so much for this excellent story - it was wonderful to read both the journey that Spike and Buffy both had to pass through to find themselves and each other  - it was a hard path for them as it was for you -

Wonderful to see them truly united at last.  Your Spike and Buffy characterisations are truly superb, warts and all.  A tour de force that will be a pleasure to return to.

i sad to see it end but happy with the ever after.

*stands up and applauds*

Great story - love how Spike pinched the champagne. 

I saw this as finished and I had to read it again before I read the last chapter.  I am at once happy and sad.  To say I love this story seems to be a weak description of my feelings.  This is THE BEST post NFA fic I have ever had the pleasure of reading - along with one of THE BEST SPUFFY fics I have ever read as well.

You have written Buffy and Spike so beautifully, I have tears in my eyes.  Those tears are also because the story is over...I'm going to miss the excitement of coming to the site and reading another well written chapter that has me so engrossed that I am panting for the next installment. Typically I do not read a story unless it is finished, but you had me hooked and trying to wait (...patiently...) for the next chapter.

Thank you for giving me some much needed escapism from my hum-drum life and giving me what could be described as closure for this Spuffy Lover.  Not that I am going to stop reading Spuffy...but, this is how I would have liked to see it end for Buffy.

Can we hope to see any further peeks into this Wonderful Life that Buffy and Spike have made?  Maybe the possibility of that child they discussed earlier?  They would make such a pretty baby...this Spuffy girl can only hope...

~ Amy

Your characterisations of Spike and Buffy in Distance are so well-defined, so well-choreographed that really, very few words can really express to you how great this story makes me feel.  Ok, so the fantastic ending helped, I admit it, but even so, even when you were having trouble way back, even then you caught something with these two that stuck, worked and when you very bravely pulled the plug, returned with the revamped (!) continuation well, it just got better and better.  With this story, that appears way beyond canon you have acknowledged this timescale and evolved both Buffy and Spike; not just because of their further experiences but because, really, they should always have been clicked back together.  Angel Series 5 - that ridiculous chapter in Rome when they came virtually within feet of each other and she was completely unawares ......well.  And you've put that so, so right.    Did I say that words could not express.......  ? I lied.  I needed to wax lyrical because your work should be applauded, and here is my verbal handclap.   If there was a button for the perfecto way in which I could have hoped that they would someday be...... then you, with your story, has just pressed it.

Bravo.

A lovely end to a beautiful story. It's been a rollercoaster but I've loved every minute.

Lovely happy ending. Thank you very much. :-))
I hope you write something more soon....

So sweet!  Have loved this fic from beginning to end (and even the little recant in the middle!)...and I am so sad now to see it end...I wish we could see more of these Pratts now and then...windows into their world.  Thank you so very much for this journey...I, and I know I'm not alone, jumped, literally, when I saw an update from you was posted (after frequent visits to the site "watching the pot boil" so to speak)...I will miss not having that thrill of another chapter from this story and you.
I sincerely hope you will be writing and posting more fics here or some accessible Spuffy site again soon...VERY soon!
I'm also wondering if you will every incorporate any of the elements from the portion you recanted into another fic, developing the ideas more??? There were some interesting  and luring ideas there (and I sure am glad I saved that version to disk as well).
And again, thanks! For the entrancing read, to share your journey writing it, and for Happy Pratts we never got to have or see.
~~Kara~~
~~fyreburned~~
fyreburned@yahoo.com

Fantastic ending.

And Buffy really should know better than to think Spike would forget any anniversary.

loved - loved - loved it! it was perfect and gorgeous and wonderful! thank you.

Excellent ending; loved every word! Wished there was more!

loved  "Practice." fine tale, thank you.

Miz Herself, goddess bless you and this wonderful story

"soft slow seductions he seemed to invent on the spot, as lordly and controlling as they were tender" 
"his lordly nudity"  "You join us together now." 
Think you wrote some other story that his nudity was as regal as kingly robes...bad paraphrase, great concept!!

'Cakes, m's some powerful words--Spike's so much more as her strong lover--His take on their lives, that she could be the boss in front, while he was the boss in their world.  Wise man, wise woman to balance themselves in this way.  Been waiting for this story to come to fruitation and it has delighted and tormented me every step of the way.  You do reader hold 'em real fine.  Thank you so so so--you done right by us and your story.  We'll be ready when you go again!! 

Ah, it's been a long, hard ride hasn't it?  But here's our happy ending. And theirs.  I suspect this one will become one of your fics that everyone considers a "must read" and that goes on HDs all over the world to be reread and savored again and again.  

A happy ending.. loved it .. and I am sure she punished him well.. LOL .. and did it have a white picket fence?

*applauds wildly*  LOVE love love this story; you always give a good happy ending, but still keep them in character; I love the ones where Buffy realizes what she has in Spike.  Amazing story; can't wait to read more from you!!