This is an amazing story and I can never thank you enough for sharing it with us. You are amazing and all of your stories are awesome. ❤️❤️❤️
Author's Response:Thank you as always!! I love when you're reading one of my fics. :D
I've said it before and I will say it again. Joyce is the best.
Hmmm, does Joyce know about them at this point? Either way great chapter!!
I like that it wasn't perfectly easy and that a little communication and effort was required to figure everything out.
Author's Response:Thank you! I liked exploring this slightly more difficult path with them.
I love this story with my whole heart.
Well deserved apology from Wesley there! This story is so freaking good!
Author's Response:A teeny redemption arc for him. I do love him on Angel. :)
It hurts so good! Bring the angst!!
Joyce is the best. Also you. You are the best! Love this freaking story!!
Author's Response:I love Joyce and love working her into stories!
I love this so much!
I hate the counsel with a fiery passion. I think you nailed their characterization here!
Author's Response:They're the WORST.
You're still amazing and this story is still awesome!!
You're amazing the story is awesome.
Two things. One is that HHG is one of my favorite radio serial/book/movies/things of all time. So kudos for including those references! Two, this is exactly how this Faith would react to that news from Buffy. But she can get over it in time I am sure (?). Angst!!
Author's Response:She can (spoiler alert haha). It was fun working bits of HHG in!
So good!
I am running out of new and interesting ways to say you are amazing and your story is awesome. So I'll just say you are amazing and your story is awesome. AS ALWAYS!
Author's Response:Thank you!!
This story is SO GOOD! I am loving it so much I am ready it when I should be getting some work done!
Author's Response:Haha. I accept no responsibility for making you miss work... :D
Whoa, great first convo!
Best Fuffy ever.
PLEASE may we have a sequel? I adore seeing these two happy together and Faith getting a family.
Author's Response:Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! I think the only way I'd do a sequel is if I came up with an organic way to circle back to Wishverse Faith. Several people asked me about her when I was posting Hypno, and I did briefly think about adding her in somehow, but ultimately I thought it might derail the story I was telling here. I have several other fics in the works right now, so I definitely want to finish those up before I add anything else to my to do list! I am currently working on a Halloween fic (fluffy, light on angst), so I should have that done by end of this month. Then I'll go back to my other long story I've mentioned before. :) But I hope this one satiated a bit of your "established relationship" craving, since B/F were together for quite a bit in this fic. :)
Oh I have t mentioned it before, but thank you for having Joyce around in this story; much like Dana from the L Word, I've never really gotten over her death. I loved Joyce so, so much.
That she's being so awesome here is wonderful, and now I want a spin-off with her and her sculptor. ;)
Author's Response:Ugh Dana. No, I can't think about that today and get all sad, haha. Putting it out of my mind. :) I love Joyce so much too, and I think the older I get the more I love her and understand her perspective (even without having kids, which I don't). She isn't perfect, but she does her best and her love for Buffy (and later Dawn) is so clear. Plus I think most adults (parents or not) who are reasonably compassionate human beings and see a teen going through what Faith was dealing with on the show would have intervened. It just doesn't make sense to me. But that's why we have fanfic I guess! To fix all these problems.
Of all the Fuffy I've read (a huge amount, especially from the lost but never forgotten 'buffynfaith.net') this was the most touching, most loving and most heartfelt I've ever seen these two.
It was perfect. I love, so much, that Faith accepted it and said it back and that Buffy isn't jumping to the worst conclusions every time.
Thank you xXx
Author's Response:That's high praise, indeed! Thank you so much! :) On the writer side, this definitely feels like one of those stories that was so well liked that I just don't see how anything else I write is going to top it, and that's a little nerve wracking as I move forward with writing, haha! But I'll keep trying my best. :)
Beautiful, sexy, sad and loving. Marvellous.
You made me remember and relive some of my best sexy memories, this was so emotional and well written.
Author's Response:Thank you! :) :)
This was everything.
Author's Response:Thank you! You've revealed yourself to be a Joyce lover so I'm thinking it was the Joyce and Faith birthday discussion that put you over the top. :D
Wonderful; I love it when they're playful with each other. I've loved this whole story. No big bad getting in the way, just healing, love and patience. Beautiful.
Author's Response:It was nice writing something plot free for a change! Nothing to focus on but Buffy and Faith (and the other characters) getting to where they need to be. :D
:'(
Author's Response:I know. But it can't be totally smooth sailing for them!
So sweet and so beautiful. Thank you for the best Christmas'memory' I've had in over 20 years.
Author's Response:Thank you! Glad it resonated with you that much.