Nothing the Same, Book 4, Epilogue

[orchidluv]

This could probably use a final edit/proofread, but I want to post it tonight, so...  Over the next couple weeks, I will be going back through Books 3 (because I started but didn't finish) and 4, proofreading, tweaking, and re-posting so the chapters are linked internally.  No major changes, just a little clean-up.  Then the series will be

Comments

[lit_gal]

That was an utterly brilliant end to an absolutely wonderful story. You really have done a wonderful job of keeping everyone in character as you twisted the world to create something unique and believable and so much more satisfying than canon. Thank you.

[orchidluv]

Thanks, sweetie. I'm pretty amazed myself at how far the characters have come from where they started out.

[rowanlyn_mirrim]

Thank you so much for having written this story. I haven't quite been reading from the beginning, I think I started reading when you where on chapter 20 of book one or so.
I'm sorry I didn't comment more frequently but be assured that I read every chapter as you posted them.

Have a great spring.
TFW
Kelly

[orchidluv]

Thanks, hun. We all mean to comment more than we do, and I am definitely guilty as charged. I'm so glad you've enjoyed this and really appreciate that you liked it enough to keep reading with my slow pace of updating.

*sends hugs*

[yanagi_wa]

Superior work in every way. sorry to see the end. How will I get my Spander fix now? *g*

[orchidluv]

I'm sorry to see this end too. I'll miss the boys. *g*

[kaayadei]

Awesome fic!
I love that both Buffy and her mom survive! I hope you write more (if not in this universe than maybe in another?)

[orchidluv]

It's funny. I wanted to have Joyce live because I liked her so much, but I hadn't really thought it through how much things would change if she were alive during the last part of Season 5. I was really surprised at how much a difference it made - at least in this 'verse.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this. I have a couple stories in the works that I'm waiting to see how they pan out before posting them (I really don't want to start posting something that fizzles out, so I won't post them until I'm sure they are going to work out) but they aren't spander and aren't in this 'verse. All Buffy stories though. So, we'll see how they work out. Thanks for commenting,

[anyssia]

Oh God, it's the end O.ô

It feels so strange to be reading the last chapter of this series and yet so great!

I loved and and the way you turned everything was so seamless and logical, it felt like a 'true' story!

(I'm not exactly clear, it's 3.00 am and I just forced myself to read 'till the end even though I was getting cross-eyed for the last ten chapters or so ^^)

That being said, now that I finished one huge epic, I'm off to read another: Yanagi Wa's 'Ulterior Motives'. I learned that she finished it some time ago and that is another great story that I still need to catch up to.

Anyway, whatever happens, rest assure that 'Nothing the Same' will stay in my top ten of very long epic worth settling down for a week for another re-read!

It was wonderful reading all those ideas of yours and I hope we'll still get to read your next stories, even if I'm sure that your kind of relieved that this one is finally done ;p

See you!

[orchidluv]

It sure turned out way longer than I ever dreamed, way back when after I got bit by the plot bunny of 'what if Xander didn't get over Jesse's death so easily'. When I started Book 1, I figured maybe 10 chapters total! Who knew? It's been a wonderful ride and I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this.

Thanks so much for the compliment of staying up half the night to finish reading it. I've done that myself with many other author's stories and am just tickled to have done it to a reader. *sends hugs*