Uh, brand new reader to your site, but I completely loved this. What's so good about this thinky-fic is that this is pretty much the same process I had with falling in love with Spike. I started watching Buffy mid season 6 (such a weird place to start) and I was all, "what's up with this Spike guy? He's not attractive at all." And then by mid season 7, I was just like SOLD SOLD. Also, do you mind if I add you to my flist, I love a good meta read.