Re: FIC: The Slayer And The Witch - Chapters 7-9/?

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi, Stef, still catching up here&

Strong work, particularly in part 9 (7 was mostly intorducing the Angel
problem and 8 Buffy making her announcement). Nice work showing that
Angel's problem isn't with his body, it's with his soul. The
temptations of Shanshu are what got him into all that trouble in Angel
S2, after all.

Also nice to see Willow tear into Tara for abandoning her. The
on-screen Tara we see is meant to grab our sympathies, but I've got
enough Tara-basher in me to note that "32 days without magic" line in
"Dead Things" and realize it means that during the worst month of
Willow's life, Tara didn't see her at all, not even once. And that
pathetic "if I did call, she wouldn't hang up on me" line in "As You
Were" seems to bespeak that Tara DID hang up on Willow in the past. So
let's hear it for emotional abandonment, the one thing that anyone who's
ever met Willow would know would hurt her the most.

Having said that, of course Tara has issues of her own with the break
up, and Willow is far from innocent (you even have her properly admit
she was too hard on Tara). But I must just confess to a certain joy of
seeing Willow give a little back, instead of being the groveling puppy,
begging for a bone, she's been on-screen.

The Angel/Spike confrontation was strong emotionally, but Spike acts
like Angel knows about the B/S affair, and Buffy doesn't seem to have
told anyone about that. (Or did it not happen in this fic? I'm trying
to recall a reference.) Of course, not to do an impression of a B/Aer,
but even I figure that if Angel ever does find out about B/S, Spike's
going to get hit with a lot more than just two punches&

OTOH, nice little touch with Spike not knowing about Doyle's death.
Indeed, why would he?  

And even more enjoyable was seeing Spike with those mystic objects at
the end. Not over a general "evil Spike" issue or anything, but because
it just seems a very realistic touchSpike's not used to being this
held in check, and having a couple of magickal aces up his sleeve seems
like a very in-character response to his physical limitations.

So, onwards and who knows, one day I may even get current on this thing
:)

Dan