Plans for a sequel?

And I really should thank you - you're the person who alerted me to the existence of this site in the first place (from your bio on FF.net) and now I'm an enthusiastic contributor and visit near-daily.

Not so much plans as an allowance for the possibility. I have other projects I want to play with first.

You are quite welcome, and I'm glad that I've helped bring fresh blood to the site.

Interesting chapter but I don't think you meant to repeat Riley's line near the end of the chapter. Be interesting to see where the Rosenbergs go from here.

sigh - I'm not sure just how that line got duplicated, but it has been singlefied (is that a word? well.... I think the meaning makes it....)

As for the future of the Rosenbergs.... that's a very good question.

Now where are you going with this? I thought it was just about finished. It is not that i don't want more but it had reached a natural stopping point, perhaps it would have been better to start a sequal?

Great story so far. The last two chapters have been a bit chaotic, I was wondering where our heroes were, though with Sheila paging Willow I hope they show up in the next chapter.

That was just awesome. Willow standing up to her mother and being completely coldly logical.....I loved it. I liked how you showed how she was a bit emotional near the end but covered it up so she wouldnt seem weak to her mother.

Willow telling her mom to get a clue seems to be very popular : )

I was trying to show that it was a difficult thing for her to do, even if she didn't want her mom to see that it was hard.

I am not generally a Willow fan, but...Dang! Go Willow! I have been wondering for years about where Child Welfare was concerning Willow's parents. Of course, I was also wondering the same about Xander's parents. Probably the Chief of Police wasn't the only member of officialdom besides the Mayor who wasn't on the side of Light.

We know that the police were working for the Mayor, and therefore crooked. There were scenes that suggested that Snyder was taking orders from him as well, though we were left uncertain how much Snyder knew. It is very plausible that Mayor Wilkins also had his squeaky clean and sanitized evil fingers in on child welfare as well.

At least, that makes more sense than everybody really being that clueless for that long.

Great story,
keep up the good work.

Thank you.

Go Willow !!!

Thinking about it I don't think I've ever read a fic before that has Willow lay things out for her mother like that, so it's about time :)

Excellent fic, thanks for sharing.

With the Sheila that I had so far in this story, the confrontation was inevitable. And this Willow wasn't about to just calmly take it - she's been fighting demons, helping rescue a frightened mutant from evil scary agents, and working to uncover a government project under her very own school - the last thing she's about to take is her absentee mother telling her she's irresponsible : )

I hadn't seen anything else where they had a talk like this either. We'll have to see how that works out.

I'm glad that you're enjoying it.

Wow - I really wish they'd had a scene like the second part on TV. Or some other explanation of Willow's lack of parental presence.

Glad that you enjoyed.

About flipping time some-one gave it to Shelia Rosenberg between the eyes, not sure that Willow that Willow in season four really had the backbone to do it. I reckon that Willow never really came to terms with herself until season 7 really though at that point the shows writing was so uneven as to make character assessment difficult.

Sorry, rambling off the point, you are entitled to give Willow a bit more backbone than in the show a lot more has happened and at much higher stakes that in the show. I was never happy with the way Joss portrayed the initiative, they were not dangerous enough. I think you are doing a better job.

Joss & Crew wrote Willow as they needed her to carry out whatever plot of the week they wanted. I try to write Willow (and everyone else) as plausibly semi-consistent for a given story. Granted, this Willow isn't the same as the Willow in the Coffee series or the Willow in Family Tree, but the Willow in part 12 should match the Willow in part 39 and the Willow in part 70, with some allowance for her growing/maturing as the story progresses.

As for the stakes, I like to try to make the danger sensible for the situation, not fluctuating by Joss's whim.

hey, good story so far :-)

Too bad there wasn't any Willow this chapter, as i want her talking about who raven is and all that :D

maybe sheila should get a clue...

love the fic, dahling, hope you update soon :D

Cool.

I don't know why i have so much trouble reading your fic usually, maybebecause it is kina slow and without super power- yeah i am easily satisfied :/

good initiative plot, and intriguing, wondering if mystique already impersonated Tara or if that's in the future...

Quite a good story so far :-)

wondering though, as the remolucation of buffy made her not normal for spike chip detector, why isn't a mutant power the same? mmh...

Good old Sheila. She knows all about the evils that her government is perpetrating upon its populace, but she's *still* completely oblivious about her daughter.