A lot got added to section one, because after I wrote it in September I realized I wanted to say a whole lot more with it. The trouble is I didn't have time to edit the additions to make sure they got across what I wanted to, and now it just feels like extranous material. Oh well.

So, my take.

This makes me so happy! You got what I was trying to do.

1. It wasn't supposed to be what Spike thinks of them so much as what Spike thinks would fix all their problems. Which it totally would, but they wouldn't *do* that.

2. Well, I kept pushing you to make Buffy more alpha in that scene ;o)

5. By the time I got done with this I want him to be too!

Thanks so much. It's always so great to know that someone gets what I'm trying to do, even when I convolute it up terribly.