I gotta say, thought Spike was gonna end up, well not getting screwed I suppose, but the ending was a nice way to tie the knot on what started this entire debacle. I can appreciate that, cause up until that paragraph, I was pretty sure Spike and his part in the story were being sidelined at the end. Conclusions are magic.

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Thanks. I originally intended for Spike to get lucky in the end. But then I remembered the confrontation he and Twilight had with the vines, so I had to scrap the idea..

7932844 Always a hard choice to make, but natural progression demands it. You'd have to do like an epilogue if you really wanted to go there in order to keep the flow of the story right.