Re: Fic: Please Understand (part 1/?) W/T/B NC17

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Mmm, I love all these parts, too...

Liked the shout-out to VampXander's line from "The Wish" (although I was
less fond when it got repeated in the dialogue; smacked a little too
much of Season 6 bankrupt writing), and positively giggled at the bit
with the lady cop. (If she's that hottie from "Becoming, Part 2", she
can stop by anytime!)

And I liked Buffy deliberately including the "I love you" to Tara and
Willow giving the smackdown to Buffy's "I'm so grateful" talk. Yeah,
some sacrifice by W/T, there.

Also liked the bits about the secret fondling "that we never did" and
Buffy's appreciation for Tara's hidden qualities. Of two minds about
that last line, though: you get clever points for the shoutout to
Tara's cut "Evil's...good" line from "Seeing Red", but much beloved
though that was by W/T 'shippers (for accompanying Willow-diving
content), I never liked the line itself, as it was a blatant set-up for
BadHairWillow's coming appearances. (See also my non-appreciation for
Buffy's "you never stop coming through" set-up in "Normal Again".)

But aside from that, much fun.  

Dan

PS--I absolutely loved the "Halloween" reference and Willow dealing
with the "Dawn wasn't really there" factor, but I'm too lazy to check:
did you have Buffy tell W/T about Dawn in an earlier chapter (didn't
happen until "Blood Ties" in canon) or was this a slight twisting of
continuity?

PPS--Transcripts are at Psyche ( http://www.studiesinwords.de/ )
Synopses can be found at many sites (try Peripheral Visions or The
Sunnydale Slayers, which I'm too lazy to find the address for, but a
decent search engine should turn them up a.s.a.p. anyhow--just enter
the name of the site and some character names and you'll be fine)