I'm loving this story - your voices, dialog and characterization are all spot on. I know others have mentioned this before, but I especially love the false conclusions that the characters leap to with what limited information they have to work with. First it was their theories on how Spike could have gotten into Buffy's house, then it was Giles either gravely wounded or dead. But speaking of limited information that they have to work with, I'm rather frustrated with Spike for withholding his identity as future Spike from Giles.

I suspect that it's important to the plot that he do so, but it seems at best much more short-sighted than I'd expect of him and at worse out of character. He's afraid that telling Giles would completely overwhelm him with more information than he could handle and apparently, that he'd find the notion so preposterous that he'd never believe any part of his story. But to me, it seems that explaining to Giles that he's come from the future would be the quickest and easiest way to make his outrageous story comprehensible to Giles. Once Giles even considers, for the sake of argument say, that this Spike has come from the future, all the anomalies that he hasn't been able to reconcile with what he knows will make sense. Additionally, not telling Giles is dangerous, because contemporary Spike is evil and dangerous. I know he's in a wheel chair at this point, but it still seems dangerous to me for Spike to let the Scoobies believe that their contemporary Spike has changed his evil ways.

So, there is this nagging voice of skepticism in the back of my head raising objections to this one point, but the story's so good I just bat it aside and tell it to shut-up and let me enjoy the fic.