I think if he started hallucinating about Harmony, Spike would go try to hug a sunbeam.
Snerk.
Connie, I *really* like it. I think it's gorgeous. I have one or two little things that caught my attention:
Angel reached out to touch Spike's cheek, but Spike jerked back from the touch. "Look at ye, boy," Angel whispered. "What have you done to yourself?"
The sudden Irish inflection on Angel's part jerked me out of the narration.
And, I don't know, all the "boy"s Angel says to Spike? I can't get behind it. Has Angel ever called Spike "boy" onscreen? If it only happened in the flashbacks, if it happened at all, than I'd still shy away from having presentday!Angel call presentday!Spike "boy" *so* often so easily. I could understand him slipping back into an older Angel/Spike dynamic when he first sees Spike, but I think that he would be conscious of the different distance between them currently again after that initial shock.
"William." Spike subsided.
Xander blinked. "That's all it takes? Using his real name?"
I think I *might* want to reorder this to
"William."
Spike subsided. Xander blinked. "That's all it takes? Using his real name?"
But I don't know. That's not as elegant is it? It's just bothering me that an Angel line and a Spike action are on the same line of dialogue-- my brain keeps trying to read it as though Spike were saying "William", which of course doesn't make any sense at all.
But, Connie, I love it. *Very* ME.
[edited for formatting 'cause I'm a big dork.]