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04/09/2013 03:20 pm
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Great Story :) Loved it :)
Thank you.

k

01/05/2012 02:04 pm
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I read your replies to the other reviews. Okay so I'll go along with your theory that she was thinking this but didn't have the time to acknowledge it or verbalize it until the very end. But that makes me even more confused. She knew that the battle against the First was the end all be all of yearly apocalypse. For me at least I would have tried to work thru all that stuff in my head and then tell the people that were important to my real feelings. Telling people you care about them is important, that's not the kind of thing you leave for the last minute.  For Buffy it was her standard cop-out, World endage. Whenever she didn't want to think about something, especially her feelings and emotions she would use any excuse to get out of it.She always hated doing the introspective thing. In a way I think she liked playing dumb, she liked just being pointed at a target and told to kill. She didn't have to think then, it made it easier on her. She could coast thru life never really looking at her life or making any decisions. Glad to see she didn't take the easy way out this time.

08/09/2011 01:26 am
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Phenomenal.   I love the way she just builds up her energy at the end...  finally she's figured it out.  I love it.  I only wish you'd done a scene with her and Spike... if only for a moment where she walks down the stairs and he KNOWS why she's there... but you can't have everything.  This is the next best thing.

Blue
That's what I was going for.....as she was stating facts to Giles she was actually working it out herself until the epiphany finally boomed loud enough for even Buffy to hear.  I imagine Spike had been listening to the entire thing in amazement.  Thank you!

k

aBuffy Convert
06/27/2009 11:27 pm
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O.K. I am absolutely in love with your version of things Buffy.
Thanks for a wonderful story!
Thank you.  Glad you enjoyed the story and hope you like my others as well.

Kathleen

05/16/2009 01:14 am
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Fantastic!  
Thank you!  Glad you enjoyed it.

Kathleen

05/14/2009 10:36 pm
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Kathleen -

NICE WORK - love your Buffy voice - really enjoyed this Spuffy Variation.  Sounds like I should add a Spffy Variations Section for my gallery site.
Oh thank you!  I've worked on these stories any spare time (haven't had much) and never had a harder time because it was so piecemeal instead of blocks of writing time!    OH I do hope you add that section.  I LOVE your art work.

We have one more extra large job this month and that is this Sunday....then May SHOULD free up to "normal".....are you going to be in town?  Maybe we could FINALLY get back together? 

Thank you for the lovely review and so glad you think I had Buffy's voice right.

Kathleen

All4Spike
05/12/2009 03:28 pm
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This is WONDERFUL! I love her thought processes as Buffy comes to realise she loves Spike and that he's The One as she defends him to Giles. If only.....
I always thought she was FEELING this...it showed in her actions.  She had no time to give it the thought it deserved.  By having Giles push I MADE her think about it and I believe she would have really had this light bulb moment if she had.  She did but it was as she was losing him....I just gave it to her earlier when it might have made a difference.  Thank you!  k

sin_amatic
05/12/2009 04:31 am
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Brava!!!!!   So many valid points...  Thank you for acknowledging Spike's effort to change and the lack of support he was denied.
It used to gall me too hear them constantly picking on him because I came from a 'verbally' abusive household.  Maybe because of it I believe in "encouragement vs discouragement."

If only Joss and Marni had let Buffy have a "backbone and a clue" and maybe a small dose of empathy, we could have all avoided "dysfunction junction." 

Instead, we need brilliant works like this to express the "what could have been" or "should have been" scenarios to comfort us.  Oh, an let me say, "I love how you handled the _bathroom_ incident."   Neither victim nor innocent and no explanation too those who couldn't fathom the tangled mess which lead up to it. 

Once again "Brava!"

Shelby  

So glad you liked the story (and so sorry about the home you grew up in.....I was lucky but my mom had a similar situation growing up!).  WORDS hurt far worse than physical harm in many cases and do not heal as well.  A broken bone will mend and you will "remember" the pain but nasty put downs will eat your soul.  I hated how casually they verbally staked Spike after he got that chip!  You could see them hit with his facial expressions even if he replied with empty threats of tearing their throats out when the chip was gone.  We later saw that William had his share of it too. 

I think Buffy was feeling all of this but did not have time with all that was going on to really think about what she was feeling and what it meant.  I'd like to believe that had she done so she wouldn't have waited until the very end to put it in words and Spike would have had a reason to believe.

Thank you again!  k

Niori
05/12/2009 04:01 am
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Take that Giles! You tell him Buffy! lol
Thanks!  Giles needed a wake up call.  k

05/11/2009 08:40 pm
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Wow - a Buffy willing to think straight is a rare treat!
Thank you....I think she was FEELING this but had no time (with the world saving) to actually think it through.  I gave her the time and reason.   k

Buffy Convert
06/27/2009 11:03 pm
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     I loved those words "...Buffy decided to play stupid...having successfully hidden her intellect for years." I loved your discription of Robin as "drool-worthy, upstanding & heartbeat- positive";in a completely different category: I love the fact that you know what a hyphen is for. Hurray! They are so misunderstood in today's world.(Sorry; my inner Grammarian is as dificult to control as Spike's libedo)
Thank you!  Yes hyphens exist for a reason LOL. 

Robin was a seriously good looking man and an interesting character.

I appreciate your reading and commenting.

Kathleen