Appendix 1

Author's note:


I really, really hope you liked this. Please, if you could take just a moment to let me know what you think, I would be so grateful; I wrote this for you and what you think is very important! And I can't thank you all enough for your feedback along the way, it has meant the world to me and I love you all for it.

If you would like to know where I see Spike and Buffy going from here then go read my Season 8 Episode 1, you can get to it by clicking on my author name. I am off to finish Episode 2, 'Once More, From The Top'.

I thought I should credit some of my influences and references, so here you go:

Influences and References (inspired sub-heading, I know!)

· Obviously Buffy the Vampire Slayer…did you notice?

· The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)…everything comes with a price.

· Beauty and the Beast (Charles Perrault?)…the idea that you have to accept the monster before you can have the man…

· Bits of all sorts of Greek myths, especially Till We Have Faces, the CS Lewis retelling of the Psyche story. And of course The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by the same author.

· For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5 v 10 Speaks for itself.

References (or All the Buffy Episodes I Have Stolen Quotes From)

· Chapter 3: Something Blue.
· Chapter 4: Fool for Love.
· Chapter 5: Once More With Feeling, The Initiative, What's My Line Pt 1, Seeing Red, Checkpoint.
· Chapter 6: Fool for Love, What's My Line Pt 2, Checkpoint, Once More With Feeling, The Gift, As You Were, Intervention, Something Blue, more Intervention, more OMWF, Becoming Pt 2, more Fool for Love, Dead Things.
· Chapter 7: Something Blue, more Something Blue ('I am deeply shamed'…quite possibly my favourite Spike line EVER!)
· Chapter 8: Dead Things, Entropy, Intervention, and lots more Intervention (Spike's line at the end…did you spot it?)
· Chapter 10: Intervention, Lover's Walk, Crush, Wrecked, Fool For Love.

And if anyone is wondering, Whitby is a real place, it does feature in Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's a beautiful, extraordinary place, I have to say that because I was born there, and nearly all of the sights and places I mentioned are real. (Including the Dracula Experience, so I only hope no-one who has ever worked there reads this!!) And can I just say if you are ever, ever asked out for a pint of Yorkshire bitter, one summer evening in Whitby, by a blond, be-scarred, be-coated male of thirty-ish do not turn him down!!

Oh and finally, as well as Season 8 Episode 2 I have one more B/S fic in the making…it's a (are you ready for this?) BtVS – Sesame Street crossover, entitled 'Buffy vs The Count', in much the same vein as ' 'A Hairdresser Always Knows'…another one you should go read! Watch this space…

Love you all, and thanks ever so (another Spike line) for your support.

Anna.


Seagulls sea-saw
In the sweeping air,
Below, the houses huddle
In the narrow yards,
Sheltering under torn shawls
Of grey smoke.
Back bent and wind spent
Folk brave the bridge,
And everywhere is the sound
Of the sea.

from Whitby in Winter by Tom Stamp