I need my Spike to at least have his illusions of independence.

My Spike? Might love unwisely and too well, but he's always his own man.

Now, I'll own up to sometimes finding the violence sexy (a la Fool For Love, in the train sequence), and sometimes finding the predation sexy (it's a vampire thing. Hey, I make no brief for my weird vampire fixation.) But slavery? Not sexy at.all. to me.

I don't particularly care for torture stuff in my fic, either, but don't mind it when it actually serves the story (rather than just being gratuitous shocking stuff).