maggie2

We don't know if she knows if he's alive. If she does know he's alive, we don't know how it developed that she knows but is still in Scotland. (And no, I'm not protesting that they're not together). We need to know why they aren't together. As I was telling Eowyn, nobody writing post-Chosen fanfic would think they could tell a story about Buffy without knowing in their minds whether their Buffy knew that Spike wasn't dead and without knowing in their minds how their Buffy felt, either about Spike's apparent death, or about his return. Even the most ardent anti-Spuffy would have to tell us about how Buffy heard Spike was back and said "I'm glad that idiot had enough sense not to get in touch with me". We are looking at a Buffy sitting out their feeling lonely and horny and we don't know if she's mourning a dead lover, or if she has options she's chosen for one reason or another not to take. Remember the cover of Buffy as an incomplete jigsaw puzzle? This is one of the missing pieces. And there's just no way that Spike was of so little weight in Buffy's life that Joss thinks it's a matter of indifference to Buffy's character such that we don't need to know just why Spike isn't in her life now.