Marriage of Convenience

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Sorry for disappearing so completely at the weekend yet again. Hoping to catch up later today, including with the stories posted so far on plot_wout_porn, which is running for the whole of this week.

My contribution is Marriage of Convenience
Setting: Some indeterminate time after Something Blue in BtVS season 4, and things have taken rather a different turn to how they did in canon.
Rating: PG-13 at most.
Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Beta: Beta'd by dwyld, to whom many thanks.

Comments

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this. Snarky, fun, and you keep Spike evil. (I've read too much SB fic that really doesn't). Also, very good Willow voice.

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Thanks, Maggie. I'm glad you enjoyed it - and thanks very much for reading.

[kidcyclone.livejournal.com]

Sorry to take so long to respond, but I have had company all last week and only just got a chance to sit down!

I'm so glad you finished this, and posted it. I love the whimsy and your dialogue is brilliant. As you know, I'm not very into Spuffy, but I do love how you portray them together. Your Buffy is so fun to read- bold and irreverent and yet with some vulnerability deep under the hard shell that makes her very human and relateable.

And I love your Spike, of course. Although I did keep thinking of Giles determining to take him in hand. *blush*

Thank you for posting this, it is great fun, light hearted and really a mood lifter to read.

[kidcyclone.livejournal.com]

I also meant to add-- thank you so much for keeping Spike soulless and evil, and for the glimpse of the foreshadowing conversation between him and Buffy about him possibly getting back his soul! I like that idea so much better than canon.

And I loved the mention of Dru as maid of honour and Angel as best man! I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at that wedding. You have so many hilarious little asides throughout the whole story.

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I have to say that my favorite part is the thought of Joyce and Clem running off together though! I think I could ship them easily.

I'm sort of tempted to write a fic about the wedding, but I suspect it probably works better this way. I'm sure Spike and Dru had loads of fun. Not so sure about everyone else.

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Thanks so much. I'm glad you liked it. Several people have stepped outside their comfort zones to read it, and I'm very grateful for that.

Poor old Giles! I'm not sure this version of him is quite up to doing what you're imagining him doing with Spike. :) Some other version, though, yes definitely.