I'm pleased you enjoyed the Spike and Angel One Tree Hill discussion - it was such fun to write.

That's very cool that the chapter surprised you in a good way! That's awesome to hear! For this story I wanted S&X to have the sex but then have things go back to the way they were, or so it seems. But it does end up instigating changes. And I thought it was important to see what Spike's up to because in some ways it's more exciting than Xander's life and in other ways not (OTH watching!).

Yeah, that was definitely a flashback type of moment. Thanks for you lovely comment! *g*