Yay, Xan and Spike! Terrific, exciting chapter and the voices are absolutely spot-on, as always. So nice to see that smug little git become a pile of dust. Hehe.

...she doesn’t know that you and I are slipping between the sheets together. I reckon she’ll have a bit more to say when she finds out that little titbit.

Good point, Spike. Buffy might trust him a little more since he helped save the day, but there's always that point to consider. *wibble*