OMG. That was brilliantly paced!! The soft, tender sex (and I'm kinda glad Spike was paralyzed because that was a very different sex scene than you normally get in season 2 Spander, and I loved it), and then that whole section where you intercut the two scenes... I was holding my breath and reading faster and faster. And then the end. EEK!! No, Xander, he still called you "love." And Spike is way too determined to let a little case of total panic stop him from pursuing his desires. Oh god... I will implode from need before you get home, I'm afraid.