Edward's here, finally :)

I love what you did to Asher!
I'm really enjoying reading this version of Buffy.
I didn't want to read this story because I don't like Anita Blake, but a friend recommended it and now I'm hooked.

Hi
I really love this piece, I love how you show Buffy´s fragile humanity cracking through her armor, just in tiny glimpses of a moment, and how you portray the ephemeral glow Buffy has when she is at her best, (and when the show was at it's best). A shame that Buffy seemed to forget that about herself. I guess it is a huge compliment to Micah that he sees it so clearly

I'm so sad this story is over because I LOVED it. It was beautiful and sad and hopeful all at the same time. I'm really impressed by where you took the plot and how you intertwined the Buffy universe with the Anita Blake one (even if it was mostly Anita Blake characters). Brava!

I realized after I wrote the review that I meant P&P's companion peices that weren't in 1st person POV. It was getting late, sorry!

No problem.

Cheers.

Lovely. I like how you mixed bits of action in with the over-arching character development plotline.

Also, I could tell that your sense of individual POV has improved greatly over the course of this piece. (You bounced around in heads a lot in Purge and Pray.) Excellent work.

I'm glad you like my stories and thanks for all those reviews.

To answer your earlier question, Old Soldiers is set where the sequence of the series implies, after Buffy leaves Dawn and sometime before Lunar. As for Purge and Pray, well, that's a lot newer than Lunar, so not really a development, besides, P&P is all written in Anita's first person POV, so there's only her jumping around to account for, in the end.

Thanks again.
Cheers.

Very nicely done. I'm fairly new to the Anita Blake series, but I've read enough of both it and fan fiction to truly enjoy this story. It was brilliantly done. The perfect mixture of the two verses. I also love the "Merging" that you mentioned and how well you handled that. I like that Buffy was so broken but healing without even realizing the latter, too. Another nice touch was the way the pairings worked out. The fact that everyone was reasonably content or happy at the end and that things really had the chance to work out for the best.

Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed it greatly.

Zari

Thank you! It was a very wonderful story.

I'm just re-reading this story and ran into some confusion. Anita remarks about Caleb touching the vampire marks on Buffy's neck that she sometimes absentmindedly rubs...but at the beginning of this story, you mentioned that all of Buffy's scars had been left in the grave, including Angel's bite mark? What vampire mark does Anita see? :)

Eeep, better late than never, huh?

If you want the PR version: Spike's marks, given to her after her resurrection. If you want the truth, I wrote the first couple of chapters, stopped working on the story for almost a year and then got back to it. I simply forgot about the no-scars bit. But don't tell! :)

Very good story.

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Marvelous!

Thank you for this story, and the enjoyment I had reading it.

Truly wonderful chapter!

Well done!

*claps heartily until his palms sting*

Yes, I'm satisfied!

*sits back, looks content for a few seconds*

Huh, I do satisfied as well as you do content! ;p

Wow!

Buffy's sppech/tirade to the SHA was just... stirring.

And see last review for comments on your so-called innocent looks.

Good chapter!!

"*whistles innocently* Who, me?"

Ha! You couldn't carry an innocent look in a bucket, girl!! lol

And you do the stereotypical small town sheriff very well. Sure you've never been to the South?