callmekitten
07/11/2009 04:43 am
 what an ass!  and what a cruel thing Emma turned out to be.

Emma is not so much cruel as needy and self centered.  I didn't intend to hurt William so much as use him as her escape.  She loves him in her own way.  Not as much as she loves Angelus, tho.

Joyce
02/18/2009 06:24 pm
Oh, poor Emma.   She is the saddest vampire I've seen since that guy on Angel.  Very well written.
I think I may have made her a little too pathetic.  She used to be fun and free and Angel tramped her down.  Thanks for reviewing.

IT
02/16/2009 07:24 pm
Just caught up with a few chapters - wow, good work!  And an evil cliffie, as well.  You're really putting Spike throught the wringer, but I guess he wants his story told.  Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much - next chapter tomorrow.  Maybe. 

nmcil
02/03/2009 06:05 am

Great Update - very exciting how you bring his confrontation with past love and hope together with his new family of vampire jailers.  While we always knew that Emma was using him, it's hard to have him finally understand the reality of their relationship.  William was totally innocent and clueless and Emma was so desperate to find her own freedom.  NICE the way poet, dreamer, William comes right back, still longing for his lost dream and hope with Emma - it was heart breaking to hear him speak of the life they could still have, but turned to the nighttime blackness of the vampire life. 

kudos on another wonderful ending line -

William/Spike's essential character hasn't changed and running away (becoming a vampire) hasn't changed things for him.  He's only switched jailers and become violent and talks back.  I'm not sure how he's going to come out at the end of the fight.  Thanks for reviewing.

pfeifferpack
02/02/2009 04:18 pm
OH I can so see this!  I can also see that this could cause him to really embrace the evil, dark side too.  He's got another woman who wants Angelus (GOD....then BUFFY too....are they ALL idiots?).

I can also see Angelus wanting to be rid of Spike and using this method to get him.  Funny....it never occurred to me that Emma had been turned even though I suspected Angelus of killing her.

"He preferred someone honed by a hard life on the streets, someone who would put up a fight. " This is how I always saw the character too.  He didn't go for the easy kill but preferred to have to take a chance that he might not survive (another reason he sought out Slayers).....it made more of a challenge.

Excellent peek of those first years with the rest.  Sounds dead on too.

Kathleen
Yes, by this point Angelus is probably more than tired of Spike causing trouble, stirring up the local stake handlers, not to mention sharing the girls.  Sadly, Harmony appears to be the only female that really cared about Spike.  Too bad she was oh so stupid.  Thanks, as always for taking time to review.

Brett
02/02/2009 06:42 am
Holy crap! I hope spike beats the living piss out of Angelus. No wonder Spike hates Angel(us) so much.
He's going to try and personally I wouldn't want Spike coming after me with a broken bottle in his hand, even if I was a vampire.  Thanks so much for reviewing.

02/02/2009 12:45 am
Brilliant chapter.  Could family life get any grimmer for poor William?  Really well done.
Thanks for reviewing guest and in answer to your question - yes! Yes it can! 

All4Spike
02/01/2009 11:15 pm
Oh, poor Emma. Yet another victim of Angelus' cruelty.
Mmmm, so far.  Thanks for reviewing.

Cordykitten
02/01/2009 10:59 pm
And there I thought we would have seen the last of William/Emma. But at last for all it is worth she warned him.
She isn't terrible - she liked William.  She wanted to use him, of course, but she didn't want to be mean to him, which was more than he got from Cecily or Drusilla or Buffy, either.