One of your best, and for emotionally depth and plotting, one of the best of anybody that I've read.

  This is possibly my favorite fic of yours, but how can I be sure really.  Off the top of my head the I know you series and Hearts Breaking Even stories spring to mind, but I do love the way the Bump series ended.

 This story is the last one of yours I've read, so right now it's my favorite.  Awesome job, and your hard work is always appreciated.

I just finished rereading this and its as wonderful as I remember it being.  You write a very believable more mature Buffy, Spike is sweet but also believable given his changed and changing circumstances.  Generally I enjoyed that it was a dynamic and not her/his fault.  And gratuitous Riley bashing!  Thanks for writing this.

I absolutely loved this story! I've been a fan of a lot of your work for serveral years now; really apreciate the time, effort and detail that you put into your longer works. Thank you!

So happy to have reached a perfect ending to this tale.  Perfect mates!@

A beautiful ride. I laughed and cried. Well done

This was one of the best stories I have read. Just the right amount of angst, lovely spuffy and a proper story. Thank you.

Congratulations on an outstanding work - I enjoyed it from the first chapter to the end.  Like most stories or novels that I have really enjoyed, I was sorry to come to the end.  I like your 147 days tribute to the series.  You probably would not want to revisit, but how I would love a follow up Christmas Story.   

This is one of the best written, most satisfying Spuffy fics I've ever read.  it's also the best romance novel I've ever read -- which isn't to reduce it to what romance novels are often considered to be -- rather that it is professionally written, well paced and extremely well voiced.  I love the way the relationship developed and how neither of them was perfect. 

I really was glad to see that no one was villified, though you did hold Giles' feet to the fire, and jusifiably so.  I think his character was really ruined in the last two seasons of Buffy and in his inaction in the Angel  episodes (though of course, he wasn't actually part of it).  I often wish that it had been handled differently in canon, but you addressed it with finesse.  I'll miss having this story to read now it's over, but fortunately you've written others, so now I have to go on to investigate what other treasures you've created.

Blue

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This whole story was my Sunday guilty reading and I LOVED it. Thank you- it actually made me cry when Spike ghosted away.

Can't wait to see what you write next! :D

 absolutely, absolutely  loved this story!

Thank you! A seriously incredible piece of writing.  I'm absolutely floored by the quality.  It really did have everything. Again, thank you! 

Miz Slaymesoftly, well, I probably owe you about a bunch of comments--decided to read your wonderful story (treat for me) instead and say thank you at the very end.  You have a real gift for the voices of the beloveds and nice pacing.  Love your Spike in his smarty pantness and your giggly Slayer is just darlin'.  Thank you for all the hard work in getting this writ and posted and wow--twas neato.  A very good read and kept my attention for the last 8 hours!  Thanks again.

Miz Slaymesoftly, well, I probably owe you about a bunch of comments--decided to read your wonderful story (treat for me) instead and say thank you at the very end.  You have a real gift for the voices of the beloveds and nice pacing.  Love your Spike in his smarty pantness and your giggly Slayer is just darlin'.  Thank you for all the hard work in getting this writ and posted and wow--twas neato.  A very good read and kept my attention for the last 8 hours!  Thanks again.

This... was an absolute delight to read. Thank you so very much for posting it!

This... was an absolute delight to read. Thank you so very much for posting it!

 That was wonderful. Stunningly written and utterly engaging. Just beautiful.

WOW, this is great!
I have been sick for the last one and a half weeks and I´m working my way through your storys, wich is not that easy as I am not a native speaker and my best friend by now is my dictionary.
I´m almost done and for some reason this one didn´t seem to be "right" for reading till yesterday evening. Then I startet and couldn`t stop until 4am when I was done. It made me cry so hard that i could barely see my iphone on wich I was reading the story.
I think you did a wonderfull job here and I would love to read more about the setting you imagined for this story, more about Dawn as a watcher, more about the Slayer School and all that. 
Mostly I really do not like when Spike becomes human, but the way you did it was just great. I like it that way. The sequel is great. too. 
I really hope you are not done yet with this whole universe and give us some more of it. It`s really good. 
greetings from Germany and sorry for the bad English
  

I enjoyed this story so much I read it three times exceptional use of fave characters so much so wish it would not have ended looking for more.

This has been a fantastic story couldn't stop reading till the end.  I have read several of your stories enjoyed them all.  You have the ability to take these characters and form story lines to fit them to a tee.  Great work/

wow! what a great read!  i totally enjoyed it...thanks for sharing!  any sequel? :)

Enjoyed the read - thank you.

(If I don't make my nano word count I'm blaming you! LOL!)

Interesting twist: A super human Spike - or is it Spike the Slayer now..?  Oh, the possibilities... As always, your mastery of all things Spuffy (& all the smokin' hot stuff therein) shines...

(& yes, this is a blatant plea for a sequel!! More, I say..! or beg, if needs be).

Bravo.

LCF

I absolutely loved it! You're a marvelous writer! Thank you so much for this.

great story. i loved the whole thing and hung on every chapter. it'd be great if we could get a sequel with life after human in the futre. maybe not on this site though i guess. but anyways. it was awesome and ended magnificently(sorry i can't spell). "There’s a poker chip on our bed, and it’s licking me"  i laughed so hard it took me ten minutes to get to the end of the story. :)

I loved all of it... except the porny parts, those I breeze through the dialogue.  I loved the angst, the spuffy, the grief and I really love the ending.  Weird how he doesn't like cats.

 I did see the end coming- and thank goodness I guessed right.  I really enjoyed it. Even the Spikeless chapters. I think they were neccessary to balance the story.  Thanks!

I'm glad the story ended up being longer than you anticipated.    I really enjoyed it.

This last chapter was just fabulous!  Loved every second of it.  The end, with Spike meeting the cat?  Really cute.  :)

Thank you so much!  I enjoyed every single line of this story.  It was beautifully written and expressed so many emotions.  I loved that they got a happy ending and look forward to reading anything else you may offer us.

wonderful read, thank you.

And what a story it was! I loved it, all the way through, as I think I successfully communicated this through my reviews! I'm sad to see it go, but the ending - soooo happy - is totally worth it. I'll be looking forward to your next endeavour.

Thank you - I can't remember when I have enjoyed a story more - yours are always so professionally written, and what a storyline!  I have read thousands of Spuffy fanfiction stories and this ranks right up there as one of the best.

Please, an epilogue? ;-)

Warm regards, Cheryl

grea great fic!!! are you wrting an epilogue????/ please please please dooo!!!!! :D

A great story with a happy ending ;-).Keep up the good work always.

This has been wonderful.  I mean it.  You've seamlessly mixed the more powerful emotional elements of the story in with bits of delicious fluff and humour.   And you kicked Riley up the arse.   Although I tend to get irritated with  millions of chapters, I'm quite sad this has finished.  You never kept us waiting for updates (I curse you others. You know who you are) and I thank you for the ride.  x   

My only regret is that now it's over. Oh well, you know what they say about all good things.  Thank you so much for sharing with us.  I loved it.

Oh Wow! Love the happy ending, although I'd really like to see Giles' & the Scoobies' reactions.
I'd have really liked to have seen Spike give that smug bully, Riley what he deserved too... The image of NakedSpike giving him a thorough thumping will be my fantasy for tonight... ;)

 What a fabulous ending to a fabulous story. It was truly torturous getting through the Spikeless chapters, but even they were great. Very honest and real. Although it would have been fun to see Riley put in his place a little more "aggressively," I did enjoy that scene.

Loved the whole thing.

It was a wonderful ride.  It's really a love/hate thing when a good story ends. 

An absolutely lovely brilliant amazing story. I'm sure I could think of more adjectives but that'll do for now. I loved every minute of it - the ups and downs and all. I'm so happy Spike was returned to her and now they can have something of a normal life together. I now look forward to your next treat for us.

Just wanted to say that I loved your story!! It was fantastic! Please keep up your glorious work!

This was a wonderful story and I enjoyed every word.

Story was good. It got boring imo in the Spikeless chapters but still good enough to read and this last chapter was actually how I kinda pictured it ending.

Oh this  was a wonderfful story.  and it would be great  to continue on in a sequel

A fabulous final chapter to fantastic story! Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us!

yay! spike's back, and riley's out!

but...but...but that can't be the end! 

i wanna see dawn and giles and the others find out spike's back! 

and i wanna see him kick the baby slayers' butts! (and riley's too, goes without saying, because it sounds like riley still hasn't got the message!)

and what will wolfram&hart do?  doesn't this break the original deal?

and how did spike get back anyway?

either a *very* long epilogue or a sequel is really needed, i definitely need more of this story :-)

Awesome ending, the only thing I wished for and didn't get was beating up on Riley.  Oh well I can always find Riley beatings.  This was a great read, looking forward to your next venture, wherever it takes you.

Loved this story from the first chapter, and it just kept getting better. Thank You for writing it!!!

LOVED this story.
Poker chip!!!  Oh my.  so funny!
great story.  I could say it over and over...

Always love a happy ending

SQUEEEE He came back human , but with all his vampire strength.. Loved Buffy's speech in this chappie about how she loved Spike when he was soulless, evil, souled , dead and a ghost . *sniffs* Lovely , beautiful story :)

Only one complaint.. Riley didn't get his ass KICKED by Spike !*evilgrin*

Can't wait to read more from you :)

Wonderful tie up.  I always love a human Spike maintaining extra strengths.  I don't think HE would mind like Angel did as long as Buffy loved him but it does make a future with her more doable.

Riley is such a wanker.  I like to think Spike will get his chance in my mental extension of this lovely tale.  If anyone deserved a take down by Spike it is Riley going back to the Initiative!

I can just visualize a confident, proud, naked Spike defending his own this way.  He is still Spike not reverted back to William and that makes sense as Spike was always a single personality that started with William and changed based on experiences and the confidence that came from physical strength.  He was never different personalities like Angel pretended to be.  There would be no reason for him to loose all that he had gained in growth over the century plus.  Buffy got the best of all possible results here.

Really love this story.  You took a very original story idea and wrote a first class tale that engaged the heart in every chapter.

Excellent.

Kathleen

I could murder Riley - he ruined what should have been an incredulous, ecstatic reunion.  I'm just going to ignore his ghastly presence.  And at last Spike and Buffy have a real life together.  Yum.

Yeah!
Always thought the Shanshu was a stupid idea if the recipient came back as a "normal" human.
And in Angel: After The Fall, when Illyria started having temporal flashback/flash-forwards, we DID see Spike fighting in an alley wielding the Scythe of the Slayers...