The enormous amount of skipped territory still makes me feel like I should be reading those stories and getting back to this one later.

Yeah, I screwed up there. Going to try and fix it a bit but... well, you can never fix everything, as you probably know.

Thanks.

One of the best Xander and Willow scenes that I've read that actually shows how close they were meant to have been.

Wonderful chapter. Thanks for the humor today. I needed that. You are very clever with this, but it seems like there is a lot that is missing here. Will more of this be coming in the future? I hope so!

“The other thing? What other thing?” Buffy asked, now sounding more paranoid. “How many things are there?”

Kennedy wasn’t going to let that go. “More than are thought of in your philosophy, Buffy.”

Brilliant.

Yeah!!!!! This story is continuing!!! Vegas baby!!!!

This is good fic. But Tara, Buffy and younger Willow should have been eavesdropping on that conversation.

I can just see it now

"Embassy?" whispered Buffy
"Cargo Plane?" replied Tara
"60 FOOT LONG DEMON SNAKE!?!?!?!" shrieked Willow

Ah well. And now I've got my own plot bunny nibbling again. Gotta go.

Nice, but you seem to possibly be leaving ot scenes, put scenes in the wrong place, or not label the flashback. Hope to read more.

so what's the point of learning all those skills and then losing access to them.

Fun run down of the craziness that's become Xander & Kennedy's lives. I love the idea of watching this crew going to town in lovely Las Vegas. Should be a heck of a show.

So...there are now two Willows? Also, are they constantly being shadowed by a posse of 'justice' demons? I got the impression that ordinarily the W-word was only dangerous if there happened to be a demon around, and then only if you fit their particular clientele. I could be misinformed though, or this world could be different.

Sorry to take so long in reviewing, but I finally got the time needed to reread the previous story and then this, to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I'm enjoying the hell out of this one and all the changes - both explicitly and implicitly described - and am looking forward to seeing what happens next.

I loved the Xander-Buffy interactions and absolutely loved your version of a Tara who grew up with Xander supporting her. ;-)

Also loved the way Willow was introduced. ;-)

Great work, man, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

Thanks. This version of Tara's a bit of a 'what if', obviously, and it'll be both a bonus and a bummer at times.

A well written take on the changes if Xander grew up somewhere different.

Feels like I've walked in on the closing scene of a movie I missed the first and second half of.

Yeah, that's how this one started. I blame reading Gregg Sharpe's stuff of late, The Private Bets and a few others.

Okay, let me get this out of the way first... THANK YOU!!! I was worried we might never see this from you and man am I glad I was worried for nothing. I love what you're doing with the characters. Tara with a lifetime of Xander for confidence would be OC to the series but still feels realistic, same with Willow backsliding to Oz. Buffy and Xander also feel true to the characters. I think Willow appearing in the coffee shop is priceless, looking forward to where this goes.

I had to skim over the previous stories thinking I must have forget something, but nope I remembered your 2 stories fine. You just decided to just toss this story with no background, so it makes no sense. It's like watching the 8th episode in year 3 of a show without watching any of the previous episodes. Depending on the show it might be fine for some people, but useless to others.