Very entertaining story so far! Faith the puppet made me laugh when I remembered "Wee little puppet man!"

Puppet Faith has proven pretty popular :-)

This is my third time reading through the whole series and am only just now relising just how many quotes you have thrown in here randomly. Its not a bad thing, just odd that I'm only noticing now.

There are quite a few quotations in there but the Fic itself is so long you might not notice ;-)

The writing in this part was good and improved over the first part.
However, in places the story felt unfocused and like it was not going anywhere.

Also:
- What happened to the plans to fetch Drusilla to get her as a seer?
- What about Illyria's claustrophobia? It kind of faded to the background without getting any resolution.

>What happened to the plans to fetch Drusilla to get her as a seer?

It was intended to be a feature of the next story in the series.

>What about Illyria's claustrophobia? It kind of faded to the background without getting any resolution.

It's an ever-present background issue, not intended to be resolve. She still spends a lot of time out in the open air on the Hyperion roof as a result (many Illyria scenes occur up there in Compelled).

Still very much enjoying this whole series. I've recc'd it on my site and it's one that I'll definitely be coming back to again in the future. Your sense of humour meshes really well with mine and I've ROFL'd more than once. Having Faith become a puppet was inspired, for example, and had me in stitches (pun intended). :-)

Puppet Faith was definitely one of my best received ideas :-)

This is a superb story. I always wanted to go back and change things about season 7 and 5, but I really didn't even imagine doing it quite this way...

My only quibble is that you didn't have Illyria somehow save Tara. But real life means that sometimes we don't get everything we want. It might have seemed too pat if we avoided every death or bad thing... Unfortunately, in wars, people die.

Going back another season to alter the timeline and save Tara too would have been a bit too much work I'm afraid. Besides which the original idea that came to me for Compelled was just the first chapter with Illyria showing up and beating the tar out of Caleb, introducing changes before that would have thrown the scene in my head out of the window.

a very nice fic

A very welcome review :-)

I extremely enjoyed this fic. I can't wait to finish the next one. The Highlander reference made me fall over in laughter! It was so hilarious I couldn't contain myself. And was it my imagination was the word "polyglot" reference to the My Word Coach commercial or was it purely coincidental?

Love

Purely coincidental :-)

Thanks for the review.

this is really great. you totally channel the british and l just love the story and characters. they have lots of depth. i love how you are dealing with events to come like faith as a muppet. that was awesome!

Channelling the British is easy, I am one. It's doing Americans that's hard ;-)

Puppet Faith seems to be very popular, I did consider puppet Illyria but Faith was a funnier image in my head :-D

...she turned back to Fred. ‘So… um… have you considered dying your hair?’...

::Giggles::

::Continues reading the story::

I could easily imagine Fred's Mom saying that, glad you liked it :-)

A good continuation of the start of the series.

Glad you enjoyed Part II :-)

Yah, dinner is done and I've read to chapter 10. It is just as good as the last one.
Thanks for the hard work.
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You're welcome, thanks for the review.

Again well done and thank you for such a great story Tracey

You are indeed welcome, I trust you'll like the third story too :-)

Really enjoying this!

Thanks for all the hard work, much appreciated :)

You're welcome. Thanks for reviewing :-)

Oh God. When I said your story was real. I meant it was real. It’s the somber and acceptance of the mercenaries when they spoke of what they saw. It was like I was sitting cross-legged, hanging on every word, and hearing tale. It was very realistic. Stark, it’s sad, it’s wry, dry humor. You research your shite well. Not just your guns and tactics but your people and their history. It’s great. I also wanted to snuggle the Croation … but that’s just me :-D

On a lighter note: >>>Stephen held the collapsible sword aloft over his head and summoned the best Scottish accent he could muster. ‘There can be only one!’ he declared loudly before the two of them made a break for the door.

I got strange looks around me for that one. But that was good. Inspired.


I think that ending it with a corpreal Spike was VERY excellent note.

>Oh God. When I said your story was real. I meant it was real.

I try, sometimes I seem to succeed.

>I also wanted to snuggle the Croatian … but that’s just me

Yep, nobody else has expressed a desire to snuggle him to me :-p

>I think that ending it with a corpreal Spike was VERY excellent note.

I had a soft-hearted moment, the first chapter of "Destiny" demonstrates it was short lived...

Is it going to matter that he saved her?
With Lilah ya never know. With Lindsey it was easier to tell. Eve too. But Lilah, she just might help them to spite someone, or at least say it is to spite someone.

>Is it going to matter that he saved her?

At the very least I can see it playing on her mind.