Writing sex can be hard.

I'm so trying to get a lewd pun out of that.

Writing TS takes a long time.

Well, it's canon. You could have them debating which breeds taste best. "Now, your common Norwegian brown, that's a bit salty." "That's because all the old fashioned dock rats are extinct now. That's what I was eating when I started this gig."

Just because it's canon doesn't mean it has to happen.

It could be Spike/Angel...

with the soul...

Oh, dear. Here we go.

Hook me up, please?

You did ask for this.

The story proper starts here, but the chapter is question is chapter three, here.

Am, it's marked. I'll curl up with it later, when I'm back.

I won't hold it against you if you don't give me any feedback. I wouldn't.

Oh, dear. Here we go.

shining up that pretty toaster I got from Am-Chau

Which? You have several which involve me being persuaded. A new religion is one thing. A plot bunny? That's just unkind.

Heh. Actually, just dove in and read chapter 3 (I need to head out, truly, so rest of chapters later on). Keep in mind (vide the astrology discussion in Angel a few days ago), I'm a Cancer, and we're domestically oriented, so I found myself grinning at the concept, and also weirdly charmed by it.

First off, a technical question: is that child's name Josie, or Joise? Because it's spelled both ways and I wondered if "Joise" was a take on her grandmother's name.

Tiny bits of feedback - things I liked, right off the bat: Spike's being chuffed that the boy was left-handed, his slip in calling his small imprint of Buffy "pet" (one of his words that I always associate with women about whom he has strong feelings, one way or another), and the lego graveyard. I can see him doing that. Also, you never really teetered over into sentimentality.

Questions/comments, totally in passing: Why didn't Buffy kiss him goodnight? I'd have expected that from her, in a big way. Was there a reason, something mentioned in the chapters I haven't read yet? And (mother of now-adult girlchild raising head here), I get the sense that child is very sharp indeed, and would expect her (at age four) to be more articulate and less babytalk. Joanna (mine) was reading her own at age 5 and that's not unusual at all for kids who have watched stuff "brought to you by the letters C and A, and the number 8" damned near from birth.

Other than that, she's a nice realistic little girl. she knows precisely where daddy's, er, fangover points are, doesn't she? And of course, she still pushes.

Which?

True enough. I might be able to start on the dining room suite any day now.

it's spelled both ways

Um. Yeah. I never did decide which was right.

Why didn't Buffy kiss him goodnight? I'd have expected that from her, in a big way.

Good question. Not answered in the previous chapters, so not going to be. scowls at back of brain which is muttering 'chapter four!'

you never really teetered over into sentimentality.

That's about the best compleiment you could give me for this.

would expect her (at age four) to be more articulate and less babytalk

In my defence: tired children tend to babytalk more. It's nearly bedtime.

And now I'm actually talking seriously about this fic. That wasn't meant to happen. Thanks for reading it at all.