Yay! A Snape fan! :-D Yes, I had to throw in Vampire!Severus as I was bummed out after he was killed off in Deathly Hollows. Ironicially, I'm on a Snape kick right now. I've been visiting snarryficfind a lot lately in search of Harry/Snape fic. Oh, and, of course, it's great that you were also excited about Spike! He was a lot of fun to write!