Yeah, I'm coming at this one sort of blind. I stopped reading at Chapter 10 and just now read the last two chapters after reading this discussion, so I'm not real clear on what her goal is with this story. I think I've figured out though that my issues with this fic all tie back to the fact that I was happy with canon, and this feels almost like a more highbrow version of some of those "Here's how S6 would've gone if Buffy weren't such a bitch! Plz revu!!11" fics. I don't buy into the submissive Spike she's saying existed in S6. I don't buy into the Buffy who wasn't emotionally invested in S6 Spuffy that she sees. I don't buy into the idea that soulless Spike was capable of making the same choices as souled Spike. And so, of course, I'm not going to buy into a fic that corrects all these assumptions.