I love Spike as he's the vamp who learned better but I was never too crazy about the Xander I saw on TV. When I first enocuntered BtVS fanfic at the beginning of S6 I was into Spuffy as was canon but when she mistreated him so I felt she wasn't worthy of him and so I drifted into Spangel where the Sire Childe relationship made sense. Eventually though it riled me as the fics tended to make Spike so childish. I then found Spander where the 2 bois are equals (for the most part) and the Xander of fanfic has really grown on me thanks to all the great writers out there.

Someone told me that ME had plans for Xander to turn gay until Seth Green decided to leave and then Willow was the one to be made gay. I wonder if Seth had stayed with the show if ME might actually have paired Spike And Xander? Somewhere out there is a parallel universe where that happened and I would love to be able to peek in. Until them the fanfics will have to suffice.

Shakatany