diff --git a/doc/source/release.rst b/doc/source/release.rst
index af8c4bdf381e7..e40f9c2826f99 100644
--- a/doc/source/release.rst
+++ b/doc/source/release.rst
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - ``Float64Index`` with nans not comparing correctly
 - ``eval``/``query`` expressions with strings containing the ``@`` character
   will now work (:issue:`6366`).
+- Bug in ``Series.reindex`` when specifying a ``method`` with some nan values was inconsistent (noted on a resample) (:issue:`6418`)
 
 pandas 0.13.1
 -------------
diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 3251e59e53603..01bf5baf21161 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -1589,23 +1589,9 @@ def _reindex_axes(self, axes, level, limit, method, fill_value, copy,
 
             axis = self._get_axis_number(a)
             ax = self._get_axis(a)
-            try:
-                new_index, indexer = ax.reindex(
-                    labels, level=level, limit=limit, method=method,
-                    takeable=takeable)
-            except (ValueError):
-
-                # catch trying to reindex a non-monotonic index with a
-                # specialized indexer e.g. pad, so fallback to the regular
-                # indexer this will show up on reindexing a not-naturally
-                # ordering series,
-                # e.g.
-                # Series(
-                #     [1,2,3,4], index=['a','b','c','d']
-                # ).reindex(['c','b','g'], method='pad')
-                new_index, indexer = ax.reindex(
-                    labels, level=level, limit=limit, method=None,
-                    takeable=takeable)
+            new_index, indexer = ax.reindex(
+                labels, level=level, limit=limit, method=method,
+                takeable=takeable)
 
             obj = obj._reindex_with_indexers(
                 {axis: [new_index, indexer]}, method=method,
diff --git a/pandas/core/internals.py b/pandas/core/internals.py
index 761fd6b4af61c..5d96c8c3b64d1 100644
--- a/pandas/core/internals.py
+++ b/pandas/core/internals.py
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def reindex_items_from(self, new_ref_items, indexer=None, method=None,
             new_ref_items, indexer = self.items.reindex(new_ref_items,
                                                         limit=limit)
 
-        needs_fill = method is not None and limit is None
+        needs_fill = method is not None
         if fill_value is None:
             fill_value = self.fill_value
 
@@ -275,10 +275,13 @@ def reindex_items_from(self, new_ref_items, indexer=None, method=None,
 
         else:
 
-            # single block reindex
+            # single block reindex, filling is already happending
             if self.ndim == 1:
                 new_values = com.take_1d(self.values, indexer,
                                          fill_value=fill_value)
+                block = make_block(new_values, new_items, new_ref_items,
+                                   ndim=self.ndim, fastpath=True)
+                return block
             else:
 
                 masked_idx = indexer[indexer != -1]
@@ -3705,8 +3708,6 @@ def _reindex_indexer_items(self, new_items, indexer, fill_value):
 
     def reindex_axis0_with_method(self, new_axis, indexer=None, method=None,
                                   fill_value=None, limit=None, copy=True):
-        if method is None:
-            indexer = None
         return self.reindex(new_axis, indexer=indexer, method=method,
                             fill_value=fill_value, limit=limit, copy=copy)
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/test_series.py b/pandas/tests/test_series.py
index fde998c1ba230..4821c5b4d030f 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/test_series.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/test_series.py
@@ -4999,9 +4999,8 @@ def test_reindex_pad(self):
         result = s.reindex(new_index).ffill(downcast='infer')
         assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
-        # this preserves dtype
-        result = s.reindex(new_index, method='ffill')
-        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+        # invalid because we can't forward fill on this type of index
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, lambda : s.reindex(new_index, method='ffill'))
 
         # inferrence of new dtype
         s = Series([True,False,False,True],index=list('abcd'))
diff --git a/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py b/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
index 7e9433ac41ddd..2d4d8ccfa1a98 100644
--- a/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
+++ b/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
@@ -650,6 +650,28 @@ def test_resample_unequal_times(self):
         # it works!
         df.resample('AS', 'sum')
 
+    def test_resample_consistency(self):
+
+        # GH 6418
+        # resample with bfill / limit / reindex consistency
+
+        i30 = index=pd.date_range('2002-02-02', periods=4, freq='30T')
+        s=pd.Series(np.arange(4.), index=i30)
+        s[2] = np.NaN
+
+        # Upsample by factor 3 with reindex() and resample() methods:
+        i10 = pd.date_range(i30[0], i30[-1], freq='10T')
+
+        s10 = s.reindex(index=i10, method='bfill')
+        s10_2 = s.reindex(index=i10, method='bfill', limit=2)
+        rl = s.reindex_like(s10, method='bfill', limit=2)
+        r10_2 = s.resample('10Min', fill_method='bfill', limit=2)
+        r10 = s.resample('10Min', fill_method='bfill')
+
+        # s10_2, r10, r10_2, rl should all be equal
+        assert_series_equal(s10_2, r10)
+        assert_series_equal(s10_2, r10_2)
+        assert_series_equal(s10_2, rl)
 
 def _simple_ts(start, end, freq='D'):
     rng = date_range(start, end, freq=freq)