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entranceway Application] Why won't you let me rest in peace?
"Let me rest in peace
Let me get some sleep,
Let me take my love and bury it,
In a hole six foot deep,
I can lay my body down,
But I can't find my sweet release,
So let me rest in peace!"
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Character Name: Spike
Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
Timeline: AtS 5x16: Shells
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"I died so many years ago..."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
London, 1880, a young man and aspiring poet named William Pratt, is unexpectedly put on the spot to share his feelings for the woman he loves by the woman he loves. He admits that his poems are about her and that he loves her, but she shoots him down, replying, "You're nothing to me, William. You're beneath me." He takes off from the gathering in a sorrowful fit of rage, heartbroken and shreds the poems he's written for her. Unbeknownst to him, those words will haunt him later on in his undead life. Drusilla encounters him in an alleyway, tears running down his face, and entices him. She tells him everything h wants to hear and offers him something better than what he has. Awestruck by her beauty, he's entrapped, though he tries to resist. In the end, she feeds on him with his consent of sorts. That's the night he was turned.
"Every day you wake up, it's the same bloody question that haunts you; Is today the day I die?"
In an encounter with Angelus, he learns of the Slayer and it became an obsession. He wanted to find a Slayer and he did. In 1900 he found his first slayer in China and fought her to the death. Her death. He feeds on her and Drusilla shows up and they have a moment. He's officially claimed one of Angelus' women.
1977, New York, Spike fights his second slayer, a lovely woman wearing a black trench coat. She fights him in a subway car and they dance for quite a while before he finally snaps her neck. He takes her trench coat as a trophy and it became one of his trademark features.
"Home, sweet home."
Spike is first seen crashing his car into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign in the dead of night. He steps out of his somewhat outdated car, he's wearing his signature black trench coat, smoking a cigarette, while wearing his "Vamp Face".
He walks in on some vampires talking about killing the slayer. One particular vampire was being haughty, claiming to have been around to see the crucifixion. Spike calls him out and addresses the boy known as the Anointed, offering to kill the Slayer for then, seeing as they can't seem to do it themselves. Drusilla walks in babbling her insane nonsense and after an affectionate moment in which Spike fusses over and takes care of Dru, he announces that they're moving in and challenges anyone that thinks they're stronger.
"If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock."
Spike creeps on Buffy to keep tabs on the Slayer and size her up if he can find her. He convinces another vampire to "go get something to eat" and as soon as he steps out, he claims he needs to use a phone because there's some guy out there trying to bite a woman. When Buffy reacts and runs out, he's pinpointed the Slayer and watches as she slays the vampire. He applauds her and congratulates her on her work then proceeds to tell her he will kill her on Saturday.
"I'm a veal kinda guy. You're too old to eat. But not to kill."
Instead of waiting, he barges into the school with a gang of vampires to kill her. Spike and his gang corner the students, teachers, and parents in different rooms while looking for Buffy. Xander fetches Angel, who grabs him and drags him inside, all vamped up. Spike greets him like a friend. He tells Spike that he's got the Slayer fooled with his tortured puppy act and Spike seems impressed. He learned much from Angel in his past and the two grew somewhat close with a common attachment to Drusilla.
Spike questions Angel's 'act' because he seems house broken, having not killed the Slayer yet despite having the opportunities. He calls Angel out and they fight, Spike shouting about how Angel was his sire and his teacher, upset over the betrayal. Angel bolts with Xander and Buffy and Spike square off. He taunts and offers her a quick death that she denies and they fight. He's about to deliver the finishing blow when Buffy's mother shows up and smacks him over the head with a fire axe. She demands he get the Hell away from her daughter and he does, running, but not before declaring with venom, "Women!"
He is made to explain his actions to the Anointed one and pretends to apologise and say he wouldn't do it again, but then just laughs and denies it all. He grabs the boy and locks him in a cage, hoists him up into the sunlight and fries him.
Halloween, Buffy and gang (most of them) along with a few other miscellaneous people were transformed into their costumes, leaving Buffy in the mindset of a noblewoman from 1778. Though Halloween isn't usually an interesting day for actual demons, Spike is convinced to take advantage of the spell and tries, yet again, to hunt the Slayer. The spell is broken by Giles just before Spike can bite Buffy and he, yet again, gets his ass kicked. There's a lot of that in his future.
An old friend of Buffy's trades her and a room full of people to Spike for a chance to become a vampire, but Buffy captures Drusilla and barters Drusilla's life for the lives of everyone in the room. His love for Dru is strong, giving him jealous fits when he finds out she's met with Angel in secret, and it's also enough for him to release every single victim for Dru's life.
Spike's intent on finding the cure for Dru's ailment. One of his little vamp minions is trying to read it and Spike translates it into gibberish, getting hostile. Dru interjects with some of her insane babbling and he snaps, but when she pouts, expressing her emotional hurt, he caves, apologising and trying to make it right. She foretells that it can't be translated because they need the key; it's in code. They steal a cross from the reliquary of duLac's tomb and Spike calls in the 'big guns' to take care of Buffy.
They find out Angel is part of the key to her cure and he finds himself in Spike's hands. He preforms the ritual to restore Drusilla, but Buffy and gang plus an extra Slayer interrupt and save Angel at the last second, however Dru's power has been restored despite the incompletion of the ritual. Though Spike is badly wounded in the end. Spike ends up wheelchair-bound with Drusilla caring for him, the reverse of what it's been until now.
Spike and Drusilla begin collecting the pieces of the Judge and assemble him despite the best efforts of Buffy and Angel to protect the piece they had. The judge turns to Dru and Spike saying they reek of love and affection for eachother. Spike barters with him by saying they were the ones that put him together. But when Angel shows up on Spikes doorstep again, the Judge tries to burn him and he's unharmed. Spike and Dru are ecstatic to find Angel no longer has a soul. He's Angelus again.
As time progresses and they move closer to their plan of destroying the world, Angelus is gradually moving back in on his woman. Who has been Spike's woman since Angelus was cursed with a soul. The bleach blonde vampire is growing increasingly irate and jealous with each of Angelus' advances.
Come Valentines day, Angelus works himself more and more into Dru's favour and less and less in Spike's. They fight over the fact that Buffy is still breathing. This argument happens several times until Angelus kills the gipsy Giles loves and the Watcher and the Slayer come for retribution, proving Spike right. Spike stops Dru from helping Angelus as Giles wails on him, revelling in seeing Angelus' abuse. Eventually he and Dru run, leaving Angelus to fight his battle alone while Spike's home burns.
They move, Angelus continues to piss Spike off with each insult about his wheeled condition and each advance he makes on Drusilla. He runs out on Spike with Drusilla, saying basically that Spike would just hold them back on this hunt to rid himself of the feelings left behind from the spirit possession. After leaving, Spike seethes, then stands from his wheelchair, showing his strength is back. However, he keeps up the act in front of Dru and Angelus.
"It's a big rock. Can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big."
Buffy lands herself in some trouble, a set-up of sorts, and with the cops after her, she's having trouble getting around and saving the day. When a cop makes her and goes on with the whole 'hands in the air' schtick, she thinks she's been caught. Until Spike clocks the cop and saves her with a, "Hello cutie." She wails on him a bit and he takes it like the immortal vampire he is. He catches her and tries to hold her to keep her from clobbering him any more. When she pulls out a stake, he surrenders calling white flag. She argues that they're mortal enemies and there are no time outs.
"We like to talk big, vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' It's just tough-guy talk. Struttin' around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world."
Buffy and Spike team up to stop Angelus so Spike can get Dru back. He's quite civil, they even slay a vampire together, and he gets invited into her house. He manipulates Angelus into keeping Giles alive, as that's the stipulation to keeping Drusilla alive. Buffy shows up to stop the ritual, Spike actually keeps to his word, though there's no surprise given how much he hates Angelus. He seriously clobbers him while mocking until Drusilla jumps him. He says he doesn't want to hurt her, but she hits him and he hits back, saying, "doesn't mean I won't." He sees Angelus about to kill Buffy, pausing with an unconscious Drusilla in his arms, even stating aloud that Angelus is about to kill Buffy, then shrugs it off and leaves.
Spike holds true to his promise to leave Sunnydale with Drusilla for good. At least, until he doesn't. He returns, in the same manner as his first introduction, driving right through the Sunnydale sign in his beater. Where before he was all bad ass and destructive, this time he falls out of his car with strewn bottles of booze, drunk as a skunk. He returns to their first home, the one that burned, sobbing and raging about Drusilla.
In a drunken stupor, he finds Angel and waits for him to walk away before slurring insults at the other vampire. Stating that he and Dru were happy before he came along and brainwashed her. Then proceeds to trip and fall, knocking himself out only to awaken partially in the sun, his hand on fire.
He walks in on Willow trying to preform a spell to erase her and Xander's feelings for eachother, knocking Xander out and kidnapping Willow to preform a spell for him. He wants Drusilla to love him again, sharing his sob story with Willow about Dru just leaving. She didn't even kill him, she just left and he's torn to pieces over it. Dru said he'd gone soft when he worked with Buffy. Then he goes to Buffy's mom, sharing his sob story with her, as well. Spike, Buffy, and Angel all go back to the magic shop to get the rest of the ingredients after he swore to release Willow and Xander after the spell is worked. He then attest, "I'm nothing without her." More moping ensues. He gives a lecture about love to the two that are squandering what they have.
"You're not friends! You'll never be friends. You'll be in love til it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate eachother until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends."
His former flunkies corner the trio and they all brawl, eventually fighting them all off with holy water and brute force. He announces, after the fight, that that was fun and he hadn't had a decent spot of violence in a while. He decides to forget the spell and leaves them with the mess.
He ends up looking for the Gem of Amara, which rids vampires of their weaknesses. He eventually finds it on Harmony's hand and uses it to fight Buffy. She tries to kill him and fails then he thrashes her, physically and mentally, taunting about her new boyfriend who's playing her. Buffy eventually kicks his ass and takes the ring, forcing him to flee.
Spike knows Buffy gave the ring to Angel, but he doesn't know where the other vampire is hiding it. So he tracks him down and watches him, narrating a scene comically as Angel and a woman share a conversation that he can't hear. Spike has him captured and pays someone to torture him for the location. He hunts through Angel's apartment when he won't reveal the location and ends up finding Cordelia and Doyle. He tells them if they want Angel to live, they'll find the ring. Oz helps fight off Spike and Angel is rescued. He then destroys the ring.
Our bleach blond vampire gets captured by the initiative, where they are said to run experiments on vampires and things. Spike pretends to drink the drugged blood dropped into his cell and when they come to get him, he fights back, getting free of The Initiative. He goes to the campus and attacks Willow, only to be faced with a searing pain in his head. They implanted an inhibitor chip in his brain that prevents him from causing harm to people via intense pain as a deterrent.
"I don't understand. This sort of thing's never happened to me before."
He shows up asking Buffy for help, but she refuses until Willow explains that Spike can't hurt anyone anymore. They let him in and tie him to a chair for safe keeping. They're attacked and Spike ends up full of arrows as he can't quite move to defend himself even if he could. But all's well that ends well and Spike just wants to be fed.
Later, they move him to the bath tub, in sturdy chains, while feeding him juice-box blood. Spike and Buffy are accidentally affected by one of Willow's spells that grants her the ability to change reality and make her will come true. By accident, she causes Spike to propose to Buffy and she accepts. They get all shmoopy and cuddly. They're freed from the spell mid kiss and freak out over it.
There's an earthquake that Buffy's certain spells imminent doom, but everyone ignores the warning. Meanwhile, Xander lectures Spike on being a freeloader and that he could fix the leak caused by the earthquake and do the laundry. So he tries and ends up shrinking his clothes. Xander reams him again, insulting him, telling him how harmless he is, and that he isn't even worth an ass-kicking. That actually affects Spike's already downtrodden mood, pushing him to take extreme measures. He tries to stake himself, rigging a stake to a coffee table, but Xand and Willow walk in just in time to distract him and make him miss. May the coffee table rest in peace... or rather, 'pieces'.
"Stuck in a basement, washing skivvies for a blighter I wouldn't've bothered to bite a few months ago."
So, they decide to take him with them on the little apocalypse adventure. During said adventure, they find the demons trying to preform the ritual to open the Hellmouth and end up in a fight. Under the impression that he can't hurt anything, he lets a demon smack him around until he gets to the point that chip be damned, he's going to hit this demon back. And lo and behold, no pain. He can hurt demons! This comes as a delight to him, finding new purpose in beating things up again. They stop the apocalypse again and save the day again.
"C'mon! Vampires! Urrrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them! For justice! And for the safety of puppies and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on!"
Giles gets all magicked into a Fyarl Demon and as such, can only speak the language of the Fyarl. Everyone's out to hunt him because they don't know it's him and they seem to think he ate Giles. He bumps into Spike, who gets all gung-ho about being able to beat up evil things, until Giles speaks and says Spike's name. Spike speaks Fyarl and as such, understands him perfectly. Giles asks him for help and Spike responds with, "And I'm supposed to just help you out of the evilness of my heart?" Giles offers him money and Spike agrees. He totes Fyarl!Giles around for a while and they banter back and forth until they're found by the Initiative and Giles offers him another hundred dollars for Spike to lead them on as he escapes. He agrees and does so with increasing glee until he crashes.
Giles pays up and Spike insists that's the last time he's helping the Scooby Gang. He's later attacked by the Initiative and pegged with a tracer in his shoulder. He goes to Giles for help and Giles turns the tables on him, forcing Spike to pay him for his efforts. Funny how it turns out to be just as much as he paid Spike. Eventually the tracer is removed and disposed of, just in time too.
Adam, the new Big Bad, a Frankenstein's Monster-type tank, teams up with Spike to kill Buffy, offering to remove the chip in his head for his help. He agrees to those terms and explains that killing Buffy is almost impossible. He's killed two slayers and he couldn't kill Buffy. But they decide to isolate her from her friends anyway. Finding himself with a gun, he tries to shoot Xander only to be stopped by intense pain when he merely aims the gun. This reveals the chip not only hurts him for hurting humans, but hurts him when he has the truthful intent to kill a human. From there, he continues to split up the group via emotional manipulation. Inevitably, everything goes wrong and Spike ends up on everyone's bad sides, narrowly escaping with his life.
He grows increasingly irritated with Buffy and even puts together a Buffy mannequin to practice clobbering her. But after more failed attempts to get the chip out of his head, Buffy visits him to stake him. He wants her to and tells her as much. She stops, confused by this, and they end up kissing passionately. Spike wakes to find the passionate moments with Buffy were just a dream. It leads him to a terrifying revelation; He's in love with Buffy.
"Oh God no. Please. No."
Buffy finds Spike lurking outside her house, creeping behind trees to spy on her. She punches him square in the nose then demands to know what he's doing there. He stutters and stalls but she cuts him off insisting, "Five words or less." He thinks briefly and counts the words out on his fingers as he speaks, "Out. For. A. Walk. ...Bitch." She doesn't buy it, but he shoots arguments at her saying her house is between here and other 'parts'. And he's outgrowing his 'burst into flames phase' so he can't go during the day. She says she'll cut him a break which insults him and he starts rambling on and on... and on, growing more childish as he prattles on, ending with "And, and I never liked you anyway. And, and you have stupid hair." With that, he turns and walks off. Buffy is left to notice about a dozen cigarette butts on the ground where Spike had been standing, indicating just how long he'd been there.
Scuffles happen, Spike keeps claiming to want Buffy dead, but can't seem to let her die, interfering with fights to save her life instead. He even fights to save her from invisible demons while she can't even see that he's helping. He also disproves the myth that Tara is actually part demon by hitting her and feeling the jolt of pain in his brain. He theorises that the reason the myth has been upheld is to keep the women of the family subjugated.
Buffy confronts him to demand he tell her how he killed the other two slayers because she's feeling vulnerable after getting stabbed by her own weapon. He regales his past to her for a price and afterwards, tries to kiss her. He's promptly shot down with the same words as dear Cecily used on him just before he was turned, "You're beneath me." And throws the money at him. He breaks down into another broken hearted rage. He returns to his crypt, collects a shotgun and loads it, ready to kill her despite the chip and Harmony's attempts to stop him. However, when he arrives, he finds her curled up on a step of her house. He approaches and clicks the safety, but when she looks up, tears running down her face, his rage dissolves. He asks her what's wrong but she doesn't want to talk about it, so he amends with, "Is there something I can do?" After an uncomfortably long hesitation, he sits next to her on the step and comforts her.
Spike is caught by Riley in Buffy's room sniffing her clothes. He tries to play it off as a predator thing, but Riley doesn't buy it. Spike taunts him about Buffy keeping things from him, like Joyce going into the hospital. He says that Riley can't keep Buffy satisfied and Riley kicks Spike out in broad daylight.
Spike tries desperately to wedge Riley from Buffy by flaunting every time he's with Buffy and Riley isn't. He even follows Riley to a vampire brothel where vampires feed on willing humans for the sexual thrill it brings them. Spike, of course, can't not tell Buffy because it was just too good to be true for him, knowing Buffy would react badly. Later, Riley taunts Spike asking if he really thinks he has a chance with Buffy, but he says he knows he doesn't. But a guy's gotta try.
"Shouldn't you be tucked away in your beddy-bye? All warm and safe where nothing can eat you?"
Buffy's little sister, Dawn, sneaks out and bumps into Spike who is keeping watch over the house like a good little guard vampire. They talk and she admits she's going to steal a book from the magic shop. Spike decides to tag along, reminding her how dangerous it is to be out at night. He helps her break in and she starts reading a book Giles hid from here that almost effectively told her that she was the Key and not real after all. Dawn was created by the monks to keep the Key safe, implanting memories into the lives of Buffy and her mother so that Dawn had always been around if not always present in Sunnydale. Even Dawn herself didn't know.
Later, Buffy storms Spike's crypt, jerking his coffin lid out from under him, all willing to maim him for being responsible for letting Dawn find out about the Key. But he defends himself verbally, insisting that if she had been honest with Dawn in the first place, none of this would have happened. And that Dawn was going with or without him, so he tagged along to protect her.
Spike comforts Buffy, telling her everything will be okay and that they'd find Dawn before it was too late. Buffy admits Spike had been right and that she should have told Dawn the truth from the start.
Spike spends more and more time with Dawn, regaling past scary stories and whatnot, but Dawn learns more about Spike the more he talks and not necessarily because of the words he's saying. Back with Buffy, she admits she has a crush on Spike, but it wouldn't work because Spike is in love with Buffy, to which Buffy was shocked. They go on a hunt together and Spike acts almost romantic towards Buffy the entire time until she confronts him about whether this is a date to him. He denies it adamantly then timidly asks her if she wants it to be. She's disgusted and shoots him down verbally, with no care for his feelings at all, saying he didn't have a soul so he couldn't feel love.
Buffy finds Spike's shrine dedicated to her and is again disgusted. Upon leaving, she runs into Spike and Drusilla. The latter of which shocks Buffy with an electric stick but Spike retaliates and both women end up tied up in some form. He offers to kill Dru to prove his love to Buffy and that she could just give him a sign that she might return his feelings in the slightest. And if she didn't, he would release Dru to eat Buffy. It all backfires and he loses all three women, Drucilla, Harmony, and Buffy. From then, he finds out his invitation into Buffy's house had been revoked.
To cope with Buffy's utter rejection, Spike has Warren build him a Buffy Bot with all the bells and whistles. She is designed to be utterly devoted and completely in love with Spike. They have little bickering fights that lead to sex. Lots of it. And, they're caught by Xander and Anya who are kind of disturbed by this. Xander confronts Spike, but they're attacked and Spike is kidnapped under suspicion of being the Key by the God Glory who wants to get home to hear hellish realm. Glory tortures Spike for information but Spike upholds his loyalty to Buffy and Dawn even if he's hated by them. He refuses to give Glory anything. The gang show up to end Spike before he can tell Glory anything, only to help rescue him instead.
Buffy trots into his crypt, acting like his chipper and horny Buffy Bot, asking him about why Glory tortured him and what she wanted. He told her she wanted the key, but she could never tell Glory who the key is because it would hurt Buffy if anything happened to Dawn and he couldn't live with himself seeing her like that. Buffy kisses him lightly and he realises she's not his bot. She thanks him for keeping Dawn safe and that she won't forget it. Dawn is shortly thereafter left in Spike's care for protection from Glory.
With Dawn abducted by Glory, they need to act quickly before the ritual is started. Once Dawn's blood is spilled on the portal, it will open and remain open until Dawn's dead. They prepare for the final showdown. Buffy and Spike have a heart to heart, sharing their equal respect for eachother. He tells her he knows she'll never love him, but he's grateful that she treats him like a man and not a monster.
During the fight, Spike, Giles, and Anya try fending off the hoards to no avail until things start getting desperate. Doc is on the platform with Dawn, preparing to bleed her before their window of opportunity closes. Willow inquires about Dawn telepathically to Spike, he confirms that someone is up there with her and she tells him to go, clearing the demons aside with a simple thought so he could pass and get to the scaffolding. He makes it up to the top and fights with Doc, who questions why he's doing this because he has no soul. Then he's thrown off the platform and plummets to the ground, failing. Dawn's cut and the portal opens. Buffy reaches her and tells her it'll be okay because they're of the same blood. Dawn doesn't have to die. Tears are shed and love is shared before Buffy throws herself into the portal, closing it and effectively ending her life before she even hits the ground.
Spike openly expresses his anguish over her death, but keeps true to his word and looks after Dawn now that she has no one left. He sticks with the Scoobies and fights evil with the cluster, babysits Dawn, and acts as a big brother figure to her, though he's still feeling guilt over the fact that he couldn't protect her on the platform. He's assigned to protect her while the rest of the Scoobies are at a meeting and tries to give her a pep talk about school. When she offers that he doesn't have to stay if he's bored, he declines and insists that he isn't leaving her to get hurt again.
Buffybot gets injured in a fight and finds her way back to Spike and Dawn, but is looking for Willow. He keeps her from finding Willow with her navigation glitching until Willow gets there to fix her. She comments that she doesn't think Spike likes her anymore because he won't even look at her when he's talking to her.
The Hellions find out Buffybot's not the real Buffy, they go to loot Sunnydale unknowingly interrupt a ritual to bring Buffy back to life. When they start hitting the neighbourhood, Spike starts freaking out over keeping Dawn safe. When she seems to neglect her common sense, he threatens to 'bloody thump' her. She panics and tells him they can't leave. He assures her they can't stay and that she isn't safe here. She expresses more concerns, fear evident on her face, and he promises to protect her, telling her no one will lay so much as a 'warty finger' on her.
The ritual actually works and Buffy is forced to claw her way out of her coffin and through six feet of dirt. She's disoriented about stepping into the street to see hell on earth ensuing. Looting, burning, and destruction. The Hellions destroy Buffybot and Spike and Dawn find her scraps only to realise the real Buffy is back again according to the bot. Dawn runs off while Spike's back is turned and he panics, calling out for her.
Spike hunts Dawn back down at the Summers' residence and finds her there. He reams her for running off, saying she scared him. He prattles on as Buffy walks down the stairs and she's pointed out. At first he thinks she's Buffybot and waves her off until he realises there was no way to repair her after being drawn and quartered. Sudden realisation hits him and he just stares, speechless. He can't find words for how he feels and instead just goes about fussing over her and her hands. He knows exactly why they're bloody, the horror of that setting in and giving them common ground. He starts tending to her injuries, talking with her until her friends arrive and he flees. He's confronted by Xander who he promptly tells that these things have consequences. He says there was a chance Buffy would come back wrong and Willow knew that. That's why she didn't tell him they were bringing back. She knew if Buffy came back wrong, they would have to kill what came back and that Spike wouldn't let them if there was anything of Buffy to it.
"Listen, I figured it out. Maybe you haven't, but I have. Willow knew there was a chance that she'd come back wrong--so wrong that you'd have--that she'd have to get rid of what come back and I wouldn't let her. Any part of that was Buffy, I wouldn't let her. And that's why she shut me out."
Buffy tells her friends that they brought her back from Hell and she was grateful, then heads outside were she finds Spike waiting in the shade. He admits that he was going to go inside with them until he heard the mushy talk and it made him ill. She says she wants to be alone, but he's penned in by sunlight on all sides only to have Buffy tell him she can be alone with him there. She lets him in on her secret that the rest of the gang can never know; she thinks she was in heaven and they yanked her out. She was happy and content, complete, loved. She knew her friends were safe and they dragged her out of that place and into hell. Spike's silently horrified by all this as she tells him her friends can never know and leaves.
Spike pops in and out of Buffy's life for a while, helping here and there, hindering some. Turns out Dawn is pocketing things from the Magic Box and ends up snatching a specific amulet that summons a musical demon quite by accident. She's unaware of this, but it affects the entire town, causing them to burst into song and spill their inner thoughts. Unfortunately, this little curse eventually makes them dance til they die.
"But you can make me feel like it isn't so..."
Buffy goes to pump Spike for information. He's happy to see her until she reveals that's alls he wants. He tries to show her out but instead breaks into song. His song tells her how he feels for her and that he doesn't want to be just a thing to her. If she can't love him back, he wants her to leave him alone and come back when she's ready to love him in return. Of course, it chases her off. But Spike finds the puppet and brings it to Buffy. It tells her that it was all Dawn and that Sweet wants her to appear before him. He says he's got her back since no one else does, but she uses his song against him, saying she thought he wanted her to stay away from him. So he pissily tells her to dance til she burns and leaves.
Despite saying they wouldn't help, they all still show up to help her, including Spike. Buffy begins to dance and sing with her backups. Her song reveals to everyone that she had been in heaven when they resurrected her. He comes in at the last minute before Buffy dances til she burns, catching her as she starts smoking.
"The day you suss out what you do want there'll probably be a parade. Seventy-six bloody trombones."
They beat the bad guy by outsmarting him of sorts and burst into one last song, "Where do we go from here" but Spike buggers off mid verse and Buffy follows him. He tries to turn her away, frustrated by everything in general, but she says she doesn't want to leave him. They break into a mini-song about their feelings and end in a kiss.
Spike wants to talk and Buffy wants to forget it ever happened, insisting that she will never touch him or kiss him again. That it had all been just a spell. She then proceeds to save his life a few times and laments her decision, saying it would be easier if she just stopped saving him. A memory spell of Willow's goes awry and it leaves the main cast completely devoid of any memories about themselves. Spike is being hunted by a shark-looking demon mafia guy for a payment of Siamese kittens and it brings trouble to the amnesiac cast. He and Buffy discover they're 'super heroes' and fight off the vampires whilst the rest of the gang escape and cast magic that really doesn't help much at all. Spike and Buffy end up working quite well together until they get their memories back and Buffy storms off in silence. Later on, they're found kissing heatedly in the back of the Bronze.
Buffy walks in on a mugging that she thought was a vampire attack. She's quite thrilled that it's just a mugging and taunts the humans as she gently defeats them. Spike jumps in last minute, thinking she's about to be attacked by demons, and clocks one of the muggers which sends him into a crippling migraine from the chip. She tells him off again and insists that they will never kiss a third time.
They get into another tiff about the kiss and Spike finds out that he can hit Buffy without the chip firing on him. He thinks he's cured and goes on an evil rampage only to find that the chip is still working just fine. He goes to the trio of idiots and demands they look at his chip, threatening Boba Fett with decapitation if they don't comply. He's told the chip is working perfectly and realises there's nothing wrong with him, but something wrong with Buffy.
He challenges Buffy to a fight and proves he can hit her. That it's just her. She came back wrong and they fight. Knock-down drag-out fight. They fight until they shag, bringing the building down around them. Then there's the morning after fight when Buffy realises she slept with Spike. A lot. She tears him down and runs her off.
Willow screws up with her magic addiction and gets Dawn in trouble causing Spike and Buffy to come to her rescue after continuous bickering about whether Buffy likes him or not. He tends to an injured Dawn while Buffy fights the baddie then takes her to hospital afterwards.
When Buffy finds herself invisible, despite her insistence that she will break her addiction to Spike, she confronts and molests him before revealing who she is. From there they proceed to have sex yet again only for Xander to interrupt. He can't see Buffy, so to him, it looks as if Spike's just humping the bed. He claims he's doing push-ups, bug Buffy keeps teasing him making it difficult not to react. When Xand leaves, Spike finally tells Buffy he's tired of her mood swings and whiplash behaviour.
Spike encounters Buffy at her new job and tries to convince her to quit, offering to take care of her and her money problems, but she refuses. Later, on her break, they have another nooner. They play this game for quite some time, rejecting him then drawing him back in at her beck and call. Later, he makes some slight headway with her after another round. They talk about home decor and Buffy admits that she likes him "sometimes" but that she doesn't trust him.
He knows he's being used by her, but he loves her enough to keep letting it happen. Even allowing her to take her frustration out on him by beating him to a bloody mess without a single hint of retaliation. It's shortly after that that Buffy realises what she's doing to Spike is wrong. Tara admits that she believes Spike truly loves Buffy, and if she loves him in return, that it's okay.
A little stint ending in some intimidation from Riley and the destruction of his underground crypt, Buffy admits she has feelings for him, but she could never love him. Because of that, it's over for good. Spike's confident she'll come back, assuming this is another of her little rejections that will turn around and become attraction once more. So, Spike does what every evil vampire with a crush does and flaunts a date around her to make her jealous. It works.
With Anya left at the alter and Spike rejected by Buffy, the two find solace in eachother, sharing their stories about their lovers. They realise they have more in common than they thought. One thing leads to another and they end up naked together. Unfortunately, there's a camera set up to spy on the place and Willow taps into the feed to see the two on the table. Xander grabs up an axe and tries to kill Spike. He goads Spike to fight back, but the vampire tells him he can't so Xand takes that as an excuse to try to stake him. Anya and Buffy intervene and Spike reveals that he and Buffy have been sleeping together, too. Leaving Buffy angry with him.
Spike shows up at Buffy's and tries to force her to see that she loves him. He's crazed and thinks he knows the truth, so he tries to show her what she wants, coming on way too strong with unwanted sexual advances. Buffy barely stops him and he seems to immediately realise what he'd almost done and it horrifies him. It's this event that causes him to make up his mind about something. Clem tells him things can change and he decides to make himself change for Buffy's sake. He rides out of Sunnydale with that very intention.
He ventures to a village where he meets a demon and wants to be returned to what he used to be. He's set through some dangerous and harsh trials to achieve this goal. The demon doesn't think Spike has what it takes, but Spike insists he will get what he came for. He defeats a powerful challenger for the first trial, ending up pretty thrashed himself with his victory. Another challenger down and he is covered in beetles, screaming in pain. When he successfully weathers all the tasks, the demon returns and Spike demands what he came for to give Buffy what she deserves. The demon places a hand on Spike's chest and returns his soul.
Spike is later found holed up in the School's basement, completely off his rocker. Partly due to the guilt what overwhelmed him after his soul was returned. He'd killed so many and done so many wrongs that it was wrecking him. But that wasn't his only problem, unbeknownst to everyone. Spike is left with a wicked little voice in his head that keeps belittling him and lecturing him. It flips between people long dead to deliver this speech. He's completely unkempt and the picture of a loony.
He does clean up, however, and offers to help Buffy in the next battle much to everyone's discomfort. He's left with threats if he harms Buffy again, feeling somewhat disconcerted by them. Anya notices the soul but he stops her before she can spill the beans, by starting a fight with her which is broken up by Buffy.
When they end up fighting the demon, Spike jumps in and goes for the kill with a pipe only for the demon to transform back into a human just before the attack lands. He impales the guy's shoulder, activating the chip, making him scream and tumble back into a chaotic mental state. He scampers off to the church and when Buffy finds him, he's draped over a cross, muttering nonsensically while sizzling. It's then that she realises he has his soul back.
He continues to hide out in the basement, acting insane and helping out in his brief moments of clarity. The voice keeps appearing to him, talking to him, making his condition worse. In some cases, his insane babbling does help the Scoobies find what they're looking for. He gets a message from a dying girl that has premonitions that he and Buffy tried to protect, saying "Someday she'll tell you."
Buffy decides Spike needs to leave the basement because it's making him crazier each day so she arranges for him to stay with Xander despite both parties disagreeing. He tells her it won't help and she counters that it's already helping because he's not talking to his imaginary friends anymore.
When a vampire shows up and says that Spike sired him, Buffy's sceptical because Spike can't hurt humans. But it's proven that it is, in fact, Spike's doing as he kills another woman from the Bronze while humming a soothing little tune. The others get suspicious and half confront him, but he brushes them off and goes to bed. Anya is assigned to vamp-sitting while the others have things to tend to. She's caught trying to snoop through his things and claims to want sex, trying to seduce Spike. He doesn't believe her so he rejects her advances.
Later that night, he's at the Bronze again, killing another victim while humming that song, only to snap out of it after the woman's dead and realises what he's done. The voice, disguised as Buffy, told him to do it and he did. He's been killing and turning people without even knowing it. Small blackouts in his memories disguise his deeds. When Buffy confronts him about it he denies it again. He goes out in search of answers and ends up staking one of his victims in the process while Buffy learns the truth. He gets a hold of Buffy on the phone and tells her he's remembering the killings. The voice lightly berates him for interfering, but that it will work out.
He's brainwashed into fighting Buffy and in the fight, tastes her blood. This reveals all of the suppressed memories, effectively sending him into a catatonic state of despair. When Buffy cleans up the vamp mess, she returns to him and he offers to let her stake him. Wants her to stake him, even but she denies him the death because she knows something's using him as a sleeper agent against his will.
In their efforts to help him, he ends up tied to a chair as he fights through withdrawal from all the human blood he's consumed. He was slowly on his way to recovery with animal blood when Buffy leaves him alone for a moment. The voice returns and has a small talk with him, which Buffy hears one side of, followed by the humming trigger. She returns to see he's changed, demanding blood. He breaks free and attacks Andrew. After knocking him out, they realise something evil is using him. While chained in the basement, robed figures broke in and attacked as a diversion to kidnap Spike.
The big evil messing with his head is revealed to be The First and sets about torturing Spike physically and mentally but he refuses to give in, insisting that if Buffy believes in him, he can do it. The more he refuses, the more the Ubervamp thrashes him. The First wants him to join their side, but he won't abandon Buffy's. He has illusions of escape but is left in the First's hands, in Buffy's form, telling him she won't come for him. He continues his mantra that Buffy will come for him. It's the only thing that gives him strength.
Later, what he assumes to be the First in Buffy's form kills the Ubervamp and comes towards him with a knife. He rejects her offer again, only to have Buffy cut away his bindings and free him. He clings to her, elated, knowing she would come for him. After his rescue, Spike begins helping Buffy train the potential Slayers. And is, yet again, another warrior at her side to protect her.
He agrees to be chained up in the basement until they can be certain The First won't be triggering him again, but as they talk, the chip misfires and sends Spike into excruciating pain. This happens more than once and at greater intervals each time. Buffy tries to contact Riley about the problem, unsure what to do. Unsuccessful, they decide to venture into the abandoned Initiative compound to find anything they can on how to fix or help Spike's problem. They're attacked and Spike's chip misfires again, leaving him useless in the fight for the most part. After she defeats the demon, Riley's team show up and tell her she was successful in contacting Riley. They were ordered to help her with whatever decision she made as Spike was now her responsibility. She's given the choice to repair the chip or remove it.
He has a little mishap, clobbering Giles and Giles inquires why Spike isn't in pain. Buffy reveals she chose to have the chip removed. A decision everyone else disagrees with strongly. But she insists it will be fine. He's changed. Later, Spike tells her that he's still under the First's influence so he's going to leave town. Buffy begs him to stay, saying she's not ready for him to be gone. At the same time, The First appears to Wood and reveals that it was Spike who killed his mother, the Slayer that was the original owner of his trench coat.
They try to figure out what Spike's trigger is and if it's still active so they preform a spell that makes a little stone thing wriggle into his head and dig it out. It does bring out the trigger, sending Spike into his awakened Sleeper self, hurting Dawn in the process. Wood then convinces Giles that Spike needs to be put down.
Wood tricks them into thinking he's going to help and instead tries to kill Spike. He activates the trigger with the song to make it feel like legitimate self defence, but Spike manages to snap out of it since he'd been faced with the memory that keeps the trigger active earlier and stopped just short of killing Wood. He promised that if Wood ever tried something like that again, he would kill him. And said that his mother apparently didn't love him enough to quit being a Slayer for his sake. But that his own mother actually loved him as much as he loved her. Buffy informs Wood shortly after that if he ever tries it again, she'll let Spike kill him.
He's attacked by Faith while chasing a demon that looks like an innocent woman, but Buffy pops up and she's informed that Spike's one of the good guys now. He and Faith bond over common ground, leaving Buffy a bit jealous.
Spike continues to fight by Buffy's side and agrees with all of her tactical decisions, completely devoted to her even when everyone else seems to be against her. She admits he's the only one she can count on. Giles then sends Spike away with Andrew to get him away from Buffy and the two discover a super-weapon. Spike reads the Latin, saying it's designed to be for what is assumed to be the Slayer.
There's a huge fight between Buffy and the rest of the gang while Spike is out. They end up dethroning her and she leaves. When Spike returns, they get dodgy about where Buffy is until he realise what happened. He lectures them hatefully for betraying her, getting into a physical fight with Faith, and leaves to find Buffy.
When he does find her, she's moping and depressed, trying to sleep in a bed owned by someone she kicked out of their own house. She tries to tell him off, insisting she's tired, but he argues with her and insists on staying. They get into a bit of a verbal tiff until Spike basically tells her to shut up and listen. It's his turn to talk. He's listened to her for a long time but she's never listened to him.
"I love what you are; what you do. How you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are: You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy."
He admits how he feels about her with perfect clarity, moving her with his sincerity. He tells her to make up her mind and he'll see her in the morning, but she asks him to stay instead of making him leave. They end up cuddling in bed for the entire night. You know, until Buffy skips out on him in the morning. It's Spike's speech that gives her the strength to return to the fight.
After getting the 'Scythe', they have another emotional and moving chat about their feelings in which Buffy returns the favour and makes Spike feel wanted and needed. She tells him the only reason she managed to get the Scythe and get back into the fight is because of him. Because of the strength he gave her. He admits that last night was terrifying. It was the best night of his very long life and all he did was just hold her. He doubts that she cares about him as much as she claims.
Later, he goes to help her fight Caleb and sees Angel showed up to do that for him. He hides in the shadows and watches her 'greet' Angel with her lips and warmth. The First appears to Spike again as the voice of Buffy and flat out says "That bitch." He goes off to mope.
He rage-hates on a punching bag with Angels face on it when Buffy finds him and gets huffy about jealous vampires since Angel could smell Spike all over Buffy. She asks if he smelled Angel too with his supervamp nose and he counters that he saw it with his vampire eyes. He then demands the amulet that Angel brought. She tells him it's only for a champion and hands it to him.
They enter the battle together, losing many in the fight with the Ubervamps in the Hellmouth. Buffy's wounded and Spike's amulet finally kicks in after a bit of a delay, sending beams of burning light at the enemies and surrounding area. It obliterates the vampires and seems to be destroying the Hellmouth itself while burning Spike up in the process. Buffy runs to his side telling him that's enough, that he can stop, but he tells her he can't. He wants to see the end. They hold hands and she tells him she loves him, just as the dying girl had said she would. He says she doesn't, but thanks her anyway for saying it. They evacuate and leave Spike to destroy the Hellmouth and himself with it.
Angel the Series:
Angel, now CEO of Wolfram and Hart's LA division, receives an envelope in the mail that, when he opens it, out spills an amulet to the floor. The very same used by Spike to close and destroy the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California. Not moments after that, but a form begins to reshape out of ashes and dust from the very energy of the amulet until it solidifies into a screaming, platinum-headed vampire with a soul. He's somewhat wild as he looks about the room at the faces, some familiar and some not so much, until he hears Angel and lunges for the other vampire. Spike passes right through him, as well as a desk to his own confusion as well as the confusion of the rest of the room. Turns out, he's dead. Deadder than before. Spike's a ghost, or something close to it, according to Fred's analysis. He's tethered to the Amulet that's tethered to Wolfram and Hart.
After the shock and horror of his situation sets in, and it's important to note that the first person he asks about is Buffy, he decides all he can do is haunt Angel. Which he gains a sick pleasure out of doing. He accompanies Angel to confront a Necromancer, being no more than a visual, snarky companion with no actual corporeal form. The Necro tells his butler to kill them, but he's quickly dealt with and Angel chooses to confront the Necro himself. Now, anyone could have told Angel--the VAMPIRE--that that was a bad idea, but no. He does it anyway and the Necromancer decides to tell him how dumb that was by controlling his body and beating him around a bit before letting him go long enough for Angel to bankrupt the guy with a word. This makes said Necro none too happy, as one might guess. When Angel leaves, Spike is yanked from Angel's side, mid sentence, by the Necro for a one-on-one chitchat.
"A spoon?! That's just... Well. Okay, that's more... disappointing, really."
Spike returns to Wolfram and Hart in time to hear Angel, Gunn, and Wes talking about him and his form. That they couldn't make him real again, so the only other thing to do was to grant his wish to pass on. Wes states that if they take the Amulet, which is indestructible everywhere but on hallowed ground, and destroy it, it would release Spike and allow him to pass on. Angel states that he'd need to sleep on the answer. So, that night, Spike visits Angel in his room and tells him of the bargain the Necro tried to strike with him. He was offered to be made flesh again if he betrayed Angel. Angel asks him if he accepted and Spike is affronted that Angel even has to ask.
"I know you can't help, but could you maybe not root for the other team?"
They go to the cemetery, hallowed ground, to destroy the amulet, but just as Angel's about to do so, he clocks himself in the head with the very weapon he chose to destroy the amulet. Spike tells the Necro that he cut it a little close and that he'd almost been lost. The Necro tells Spike he's using him, but he will get what he wants in the end and Spike's just fine with that. Angel wakes on the Necro's alter as he explains that Spike will be put in Angel's body so he can undo the damage to the Necro's bank accounts then he'll be given flesh. As he goes through the process of putting Spike in Angel, suddenly Spike's spirit stops inside the Necro's body before he reaches Angel's and controls the Necro. This having been their plan all along, to allow Angel to defeat him without being mojo'd by the Necromancer. Spike gets a few hits in on Angel before Angel decapitates the Necromancer and all is well, if a bit ghostly and obnoxious.
Spike confronts Fred, telling her that every time he fades out of view, he's sucked into Hell. That he feels like he's straddling a chasm that's trying to drag him down. So she offers to help find a way to bring him back to life so he doesn't get dragged down. He flirts with her a bit, but she's more interested in the fact that he is worthy of saving rather than the fact that he's interested in her. The gang is a little busy day by day and not much progress is made on Spike's problem, which is kept between him and Fred, until he starts vanishing more frequently and for longer periods of time. Fred goes into a panic when he starts claiming there are other ghosts that are haunting him, but no one else can see them. He's frantic and yelling at the other ghosts before he disappears entirely, but to him, he's still there. They just can't see him anymore. He's dragged into a horror movie in which he becomes the haunted rather than being the spook himself. The other ghosts tell him the Reaper is coming for him and that he is going to hell. He claims he isn't scared, but he gets increasingly frightened by the fact that he just might be about to meet his actual eternal torment, despite having saved the world.
Meanwhile, Angel and his team are trying to figure out just what's haunting Spike. A medium is called and killed by this spirit, which alarms them all even further, so they hit the books. Whilst in the shower, Spike visits Fred and realises he can write on the steamed glass, leaving her the name "Reaper" so she can aid in their search. They immediately find the culprit, a mass murderer whose blood was used to deconsecrate the ground so Wolfram and Hart could be built there. He tortures souls and turns them over to hell in order to escape being drawn in himself. Spike being next in line. He goes about the torture while Fred goes about a ritual to give Spike his body back in order to save him. But as the ritual commences, the Reaper starts killing Fred, giving Spike a choice; regain his body or save Fred. Spike saves Fred and knocks the Reaper into the circle, bringing him back to life so he can't torture people anymore. He's imprisoned for eternity while Spike is still a ghost. Fred recognises the sacrifice he made to save her life and the lives and souls of others, saying that he just proved he was worth saving.
Since then, he'd learned to interact with objects and touch things and people in the real plane if he wants it hard enough. He still isn't alive, but it's better than nothing, he guesses and he uses his new powers on and off for the group.
To his surprise, as he's irritating Angel, Harmony announces that he has a package and that it's heavy. He asks who the heck would be sending him mail and how they would know he would be here of all places. Neither has an answer so he has her open it for him. There's a flash but the box is empty.
"Well that was a slap and a tickle."
He goes to bitch at Angel just because he can and they can't stop him, except... he hits the doors like a brick wall an lands on his back clutching his nose. Door opens and they both realise he's solid again. The phones start going nuts and the computers start freaking out but all Spike cares about is that he's solid. Down side to all this is that people start crying blood and trying to kill eachother. Must be Tuesday. They're told it's the universe unravelling because there are two champions in the world now and there's only room for on. That they have to figure out which one is the one in the prophecy before the universe implodes. So they go on a wild goose chase to find a magic goblet of Perpetual Torment. On the way, Spike and Angel fight it out to make it to the cup before the other, both wanting to be the champion. Spike kicks Angel's ancient ass and drinks from the cup only to find it's Mtn Dew. They realise they've been had and storm back to HQ, but they're too late to stop the snake in the grass that tricked them.
Lindsey comes to Spike in astripper bar and tells him his name is Doyle and that he has visions. He tells Spike he's the champion and he should be out there being a hero. Spike originally declines but Doyle talks him into it and gives him a very nice apartment to live in. So he does go about being a vigilante, acting on Doyle's premonitions. Angel feels jealous and threatened by Spike's deeds and irritated that Spike thinks they sold out to Wolfram and Hart. He's sent to kill the creature messing with Angel's head and leaves.
A psycho slayer in a mental institute breaks out now that all the potentials have Buffy's power due to Willow's spell while they battled the First. She kills most everyone that gets in her way, having been tortured as a little girl by a psycho killer. She begins having Slayer visions and gets them confused with her memories, thinking Spike was her torturer. She eventually knocks him out while they're fighting using a needle and medication that was used on her. She cuts off his hands and tries to kill him but Angel shows up to save him. During that incident, Spike is faced with memories of the slayers he's killed as they surfaced in Dana's memories, leaving him to feel remorse for their deaths.
Spike's told by Doyle that Cordy (who just woke from a coma) is evil and sends him to kill her before she can harm anyone. She's been told that while she was catatonic Spike became a good guy, more or less. So when she sees him in the hallway, she greets him but he attacks her, biting her neck.
"I thought he had a soul!!!"
He pulls back having only barely broken the skin and there's a bit of a tiff before Angel shows up and freaks out a bit. He says he was told she was evil, but that was a taste test. After tasting her blood, he could tell she wasn't evil.
"I thought she didn't!"
Spike explains about his supporter with the visions named Doyle. They ask about him and he reveals that the man had his hand chopped off and was covered in tribal tattoos. This reveals to them that the Doyle he spoke of was actually Lindsey somewhat impersonating one of the deceased gang. Lindsey sets off the failsafe to kill Angel and they all go to stop him. Spike volunteers to take out the room full of zombies so the others can go on ahead. In the end, Angel gets a phone call while talking to Cordelia who was telling him she had to leave now. The call tells him that Cordelia just passed away on the table. She never woke from the coma. He turns and s he's gone.
Fred breathes in a 'virus' thing from a sarcophagus that appeared in her lab, falling deahtly ill. Spike and Angel set about to save her, trying to find a way. When they find out there's a guy in England that can help, they set off for the Deeper Well. On the flight there, they chat casually with slight reminiscing and Spike suggests they go see a show after they save Fred. Angel says that he can't lose her and Spike insists they won't let her die, not her. They make it to England and locate a weird hole in a tree. Angel inquires if that could be the entrance to the Deeper Well.
"Either that or Christmas Land. ...Do you ever have any fun?"
After killing off its guards a man named Drogyn appears to them and Angel seems to know him. He tells Spike not to ask him any questions because Drogyn cannot lie so he hates questions. Eventually they get the information they seek out of Drogyn for curing Fred of her infection which turns out to be an ancient demon named Illyria the Merciless. It's hardening Fred's skin and liquefying her organs to turn her body into a shell for it to inhabit. He tells them that there is a way to stop it. Draw it back to the Deeper Well, which is the sort of prison for ancient demons that pierces right through the centre of the earth to the other side. The catch is that Illyria will kill everyone from Los Angeles so the Deeper Well as Its dragged back to its prison. Tens of thousands of people will die for Fred's life. The pair of champions can't condemn all those people and make the gut-wrenching decision to allow Illyria to take over and kill Fred.
"There's a hole in the world. Feels like we aught to have known."
On the flight back home, Spike tries to get drunk on little bottles of Jack, insulted that anyone would make bottles that small. They get home and inform everyone about most of what happened at the Deeper Well, but neglected to tell them that they decided not to save her. Spike, grasping at straws, says Fred's soul's still out there and that they can find it. Angel says they will and they'll bring Fred back.
They end up fighting Illyria and later Spike says he couldn't even tell she was right in front of him. She had no scent. That maybe Fred was actually gone. Completely. They eventually realise Spike's right. Fred's soul was obliterated when Illyria took over. There was no hope of saving her.
Later, in Angel's office, Spike asks Angel if his offer to pay for his trip back to Europe is still open. Angel says it is and asks if Spike is leaving. He says he isn't. He feels like his place is here, with them, doing good for the world.
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Third-Person Sample:
Fred. Cordy. They were... and now they're... But Fred. He'd cared for her. The one who offered to help him re-corporalise before she even knew him. She was a warmth, a kind soul, a friend. A beautiful, brilliant woman. And now, she wasn't just gone, but obliterated. Completely erased from every plane of existence and all because some demon bitch--bastard--whatever It was--decided to crawl it's way back into the sun. A sun that warmed the hearts of everyone she shined upon, but now that sun was out and everything was just so cold. Everyone was just so cold. And yet, here he was, deciding to stay with Angel and his gang of goonies to fight the great evils that slither into their dimension from the belly of the beast as it were.
Spike had stepped out of Angels office and into... "Bollocks." He whirled around to find the doorway he'd just stepped out of but it no longer lead to Angel's office. A portal? Some misplaced dimensional gateway? Into what, Hotel California?
Then, like a brain-freeze, he was overwhelmed in a quick burst. Images, memories, faces, names, they all flooded back into his head far too rapidly. He staggered then stilled as the dust settled, leaving the wreckage visible to him. Clear as day. He could see what had been there before, like a demolished building in reverse. Wonderland. The mansion to be more precise. He'd stepped from Angel's office and through the front doors of the mansion seamlessly. "Oh, now isn't that just a kick in the-- Oh bollocks." He really couldn't afford to be off on holiday while Hell on Earth was bound to start happening back home. Even if he already knew time stood still back home while he was here. Or rather, it would be like he'd never left.
First-Person Sample:
[He's bloody, bruised, worn, confused, and completely misplaced. He'd stepped out of Angel's office and into the mansion. It'd taken a hot minute before his memories of Wonderland resurfaced. He set about hunting down his room, grabbing his mobile, and then decided to address his fellow captives. Things are different now. He's different now.
So, he opens the feed, looking decidedly less irate than his first broadcast months ago. Wonderland's network is greeted by the platinum blonde Brit. Blood that had run from his ear down the side of his face was dried and flaking. Various cuts mar his face, various patches and streaks of dried blood contrast with his pale skin. But does he seem to care? That would be a big, bloody NOPE. Or maybe he's forgotten it's there and can't exactly see himself in a mirror to be reminded.]
Gooooood morning, Viet--wait. Wrong movie. Don't know how long I've been gone but, Ol' Spike's back. So! Tell me lads, lasses, and not-so-gentle-demons, what did I miss? Anything special? See, for me, I've been through quite a bit since I went all disappear-y. Been months back home but it looks like it's only been a week or two here s'far as I can tell.
C'mon now, don't be shy! Not like you lot have anything better to do in this hell dimension where time's on holiday.
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Third-Person Sample:
He'd been keeping to himself lately doing his brooding vampire thing, not that it was unique anymore. He knew some had been coming and going. Some had returned after having been absent for quite a while and yet here he was, still here. Still drifting. Cordy and Faith were regular in and outs enough that he just kept his distance. You never knew when one of them would come from and that was a bit of a scary thought what with a slayer being among that number. She could pop back in, stake in hand, and dust him without asking any questions. Without even knowing he was on the opposite side of evil now.
At the same time, there were constants that remained unchanged. Angel, unfortunately, was one of them. On the brighter side, there was Simon and Cami, always around for a drink and a chat. Both were good conversation and both were good drinking mates. He had a bit of an embarrassing psychotic breakdown during an event and no one even questioned it, which was a relief. How does one explain that yeah, once upon a time, they'd been controlled by a big bad and used to kill people without even knowing it? That had been a long time ago, and yet Wonderland dredged that thought up so easily. What if it decided to bring in one of the many big nasties buried in his memories? What then? They only had half a team here and none he trusted his back to. Cami wasn't a fighter and he wasn't sure he wanted to test Simon's combative skills.
He could just see it now; a cave full of uber-vamps pops up and the defenders of the mansion were Muppet Man, Prom Queen, and Fugitive She-Hulk. Wonderland was done for. Then again, they did have their own flavour of heroes from other worlds. They'd need a good thorough run-down on uber-slaying 101, but they might do the trick if they all worked together. If Wonderland was good at one thing, it was forcing you to work with people you wouldn't trust as far as you could throw them. Then again, he could throw some of them pretty damn far... Maybe they weren't so bad off after all.
First-Person Sample:
[The feed opens go show his bright, pasty face and those soft baby blues. Spike might be a little bit on the grumpy side, or maybe he's just being his usual mouthy self. Who knew?]
Right. That was. ...a thing. And you lot thought my kind were the bloody monsters? Yeah, we take a nibble at your neck not a bite out of your face! --er, well, not anymore. I don't. On a special diet of not-human blood courtesy of the kitchen's fine cuisine. Human blood makes me... well. Gives us a high. Gotta detox off it and I've been clean for a while. That's-- [He huffs and rolls his eyes. Getting off track there, Spike-o.] --not my bloody point! My point is... I don't even remember what my point is. Just. Bugger off.
[Aaand Mr. Moody ends the feed with less dignity than he started.]
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Let me get some sleep,
Let me take my love and bury it,
In a hole six foot deep,
I can lay my body down,
But I can't find my sweet release,
So let me rest in peace!"
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Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
Timeline: AtS 5x16: Shells
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"I died so many years ago..."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
London, 1880, a young man and aspiring poet named William Pratt, is unexpectedly put on the spot to share his feelings for the woman he loves by the woman he loves. He admits that his poems are about her and that he loves her, but she shoots him down, replying, "You're nothing to me, William. You're beneath me." He takes off from the gathering in a sorrowful fit of rage, heartbroken and shreds the poems he's written for her. Unbeknownst to him, those words will haunt him later on in his undead life. Drusilla encounters him in an alleyway, tears running down his face, and entices him. She tells him everything h wants to hear and offers him something better than what he has. Awestruck by her beauty, he's entrapped, though he tries to resist. In the end, she feeds on him with his consent of sorts. That's the night he was turned.
"Every day you wake up, it's the same bloody question that haunts you; Is today the day I die?"
In an encounter with Angelus, he learns of the Slayer and it became an obsession. He wanted to find a Slayer and he did. In 1900 he found his first slayer in China and fought her to the death. Her death. He feeds on her and Drusilla shows up and they have a moment. He's officially claimed one of Angelus' women.
1977, New York, Spike fights his second slayer, a lovely woman wearing a black trench coat. She fights him in a subway car and they dance for quite a while before he finally snaps her neck. He takes her trench coat as a trophy and it became one of his trademark features.
"Home, sweet home."
Spike is first seen crashing his car into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign in the dead of night. He steps out of his somewhat outdated car, he's wearing his signature black trench coat, smoking a cigarette, while wearing his "Vamp Face".
He walks in on some vampires talking about killing the slayer. One particular vampire was being haughty, claiming to have been around to see the crucifixion. Spike calls him out and addresses the boy known as the Anointed, offering to kill the Slayer for then, seeing as they can't seem to do it themselves. Drusilla walks in babbling her insane nonsense and after an affectionate moment in which Spike fusses over and takes care of Dru, he announces that they're moving in and challenges anyone that thinks they're stronger.
"If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock."
Spike creeps on Buffy to keep tabs on the Slayer and size her up if he can find her. He convinces another vampire to "go get something to eat" and as soon as he steps out, he claims he needs to use a phone because there's some guy out there trying to bite a woman. When Buffy reacts and runs out, he's pinpointed the Slayer and watches as she slays the vampire. He applauds her and congratulates her on her work then proceeds to tell her he will kill her on Saturday.
"I'm a veal kinda guy. You're too old to eat. But not to kill."
Instead of waiting, he barges into the school with a gang of vampires to kill her. Spike and his gang corner the students, teachers, and parents in different rooms while looking for Buffy. Xander fetches Angel, who grabs him and drags him inside, all vamped up. Spike greets him like a friend. He tells Spike that he's got the Slayer fooled with his tortured puppy act and Spike seems impressed. He learned much from Angel in his past and the two grew somewhat close with a common attachment to Drusilla.
Spike questions Angel's 'act' because he seems house broken, having not killed the Slayer yet despite having the opportunities. He calls Angel out and they fight, Spike shouting about how Angel was his sire and his teacher, upset over the betrayal. Angel bolts with Xander and Buffy and Spike square off. He taunts and offers her a quick death that she denies and they fight. He's about to deliver the finishing blow when Buffy's mother shows up and smacks him over the head with a fire axe. She demands he get the Hell away from her daughter and he does, running, but not before declaring with venom, "Women!"
He is made to explain his actions to the Anointed one and pretends to apologise and say he wouldn't do it again, but then just laughs and denies it all. He grabs the boy and locks him in a cage, hoists him up into the sunlight and fries him.
Halloween, Buffy and gang (most of them) along with a few other miscellaneous people were transformed into their costumes, leaving Buffy in the mindset of a noblewoman from 1778. Though Halloween isn't usually an interesting day for actual demons, Spike is convinced to take advantage of the spell and tries, yet again, to hunt the Slayer. The spell is broken by Giles just before Spike can bite Buffy and he, yet again, gets his ass kicked. There's a lot of that in his future.
An old friend of Buffy's trades her and a room full of people to Spike for a chance to become a vampire, but Buffy captures Drusilla and barters Drusilla's life for the lives of everyone in the room. His love for Dru is strong, giving him jealous fits when he finds out she's met with Angel in secret, and it's also enough for him to release every single victim for Dru's life.
Spike's intent on finding the cure for Dru's ailment. One of his little vamp minions is trying to read it and Spike translates it into gibberish, getting hostile. Dru interjects with some of her insane babbling and he snaps, but when she pouts, expressing her emotional hurt, he caves, apologising and trying to make it right. She foretells that it can't be translated because they need the key; it's in code. They steal a cross from the reliquary of duLac's tomb and Spike calls in the 'big guns' to take care of Buffy.
They find out Angel is part of the key to her cure and he finds himself in Spike's hands. He preforms the ritual to restore Drusilla, but Buffy and gang plus an extra Slayer interrupt and save Angel at the last second, however Dru's power has been restored despite the incompletion of the ritual. Though Spike is badly wounded in the end. Spike ends up wheelchair-bound with Drusilla caring for him, the reverse of what it's been until now.
Spike and Drusilla begin collecting the pieces of the Judge and assemble him despite the best efforts of Buffy and Angel to protect the piece they had. The judge turns to Dru and Spike saying they reek of love and affection for eachother. Spike barters with him by saying they were the ones that put him together. But when Angel shows up on Spikes doorstep again, the Judge tries to burn him and he's unharmed. Spike and Dru are ecstatic to find Angel no longer has a soul. He's Angelus again.
As time progresses and they move closer to their plan of destroying the world, Angelus is gradually moving back in on his woman. Who has been Spike's woman since Angelus was cursed with a soul. The bleach blonde vampire is growing increasingly irate and jealous with each of Angelus' advances.
Come Valentines day, Angelus works himself more and more into Dru's favour and less and less in Spike's. They fight over the fact that Buffy is still breathing. This argument happens several times until Angelus kills the gipsy Giles loves and the Watcher and the Slayer come for retribution, proving Spike right. Spike stops Dru from helping Angelus as Giles wails on him, revelling in seeing Angelus' abuse. Eventually he and Dru run, leaving Angelus to fight his battle alone while Spike's home burns.
They move, Angelus continues to piss Spike off with each insult about his wheeled condition and each advance he makes on Drusilla. He runs out on Spike with Drusilla, saying basically that Spike would just hold them back on this hunt to rid himself of the feelings left behind from the spirit possession. After leaving, Spike seethes, then stands from his wheelchair, showing his strength is back. However, he keeps up the act in front of Dru and Angelus.
"It's a big rock. Can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big."
Buffy lands herself in some trouble, a set-up of sorts, and with the cops after her, she's having trouble getting around and saving the day. When a cop makes her and goes on with the whole 'hands in the air' schtick, she thinks she's been caught. Until Spike clocks the cop and saves her with a, "Hello cutie." She wails on him a bit and he takes it like the immortal vampire he is. He catches her and tries to hold her to keep her from clobbering him any more. When she pulls out a stake, he surrenders calling white flag. She argues that they're mortal enemies and there are no time outs.
"We like to talk big, vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' It's just tough-guy talk. Struttin' around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world."
Buffy and Spike team up to stop Angelus so Spike can get Dru back. He's quite civil, they even slay a vampire together, and he gets invited into her house. He manipulates Angelus into keeping Giles alive, as that's the stipulation to keeping Drusilla alive. Buffy shows up to stop the ritual, Spike actually keeps to his word, though there's no surprise given how much he hates Angelus. He seriously clobbers him while mocking until Drusilla jumps him. He says he doesn't want to hurt her, but she hits him and he hits back, saying, "doesn't mean I won't." He sees Angelus about to kill Buffy, pausing with an unconscious Drusilla in his arms, even stating aloud that Angelus is about to kill Buffy, then shrugs it off and leaves.
Spike holds true to his promise to leave Sunnydale with Drusilla for good. At least, until he doesn't. He returns, in the same manner as his first introduction, driving right through the Sunnydale sign in his beater. Where before he was all bad ass and destructive, this time he falls out of his car with strewn bottles of booze, drunk as a skunk. He returns to their first home, the one that burned, sobbing and raging about Drusilla.
In a drunken stupor, he finds Angel and waits for him to walk away before slurring insults at the other vampire. Stating that he and Dru were happy before he came along and brainwashed her. Then proceeds to trip and fall, knocking himself out only to awaken partially in the sun, his hand on fire.
He walks in on Willow trying to preform a spell to erase her and Xander's feelings for eachother, knocking Xander out and kidnapping Willow to preform a spell for him. He wants Drusilla to love him again, sharing his sob story with Willow about Dru just leaving. She didn't even kill him, she just left and he's torn to pieces over it. Dru said he'd gone soft when he worked with Buffy. Then he goes to Buffy's mom, sharing his sob story with her, as well. Spike, Buffy, and Angel all go back to the magic shop to get the rest of the ingredients after he swore to release Willow and Xander after the spell is worked. He then attest, "I'm nothing without her." More moping ensues. He gives a lecture about love to the two that are squandering what they have.
"You're not friends! You'll never be friends. You'll be in love til it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate eachother until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends."
His former flunkies corner the trio and they all brawl, eventually fighting them all off with holy water and brute force. He announces, after the fight, that that was fun and he hadn't had a decent spot of violence in a while. He decides to forget the spell and leaves them with the mess.
He ends up looking for the Gem of Amara, which rids vampires of their weaknesses. He eventually finds it on Harmony's hand and uses it to fight Buffy. She tries to kill him and fails then he thrashes her, physically and mentally, taunting about her new boyfriend who's playing her. Buffy eventually kicks his ass and takes the ring, forcing him to flee.
Spike knows Buffy gave the ring to Angel, but he doesn't know where the other vampire is hiding it. So he tracks him down and watches him, narrating a scene comically as Angel and a woman share a conversation that he can't hear. Spike has him captured and pays someone to torture him for the location. He hunts through Angel's apartment when he won't reveal the location and ends up finding Cordelia and Doyle. He tells them if they want Angel to live, they'll find the ring. Oz helps fight off Spike and Angel is rescued. He then destroys the ring.
Our bleach blond vampire gets captured by the initiative, where they are said to run experiments on vampires and things. Spike pretends to drink the drugged blood dropped into his cell and when they come to get him, he fights back, getting free of The Initiative. He goes to the campus and attacks Willow, only to be faced with a searing pain in his head. They implanted an inhibitor chip in his brain that prevents him from causing harm to people via intense pain as a deterrent.
"I don't understand. This sort of thing's never happened to me before."
He shows up asking Buffy for help, but she refuses until Willow explains that Spike can't hurt anyone anymore. They let him in and tie him to a chair for safe keeping. They're attacked and Spike ends up full of arrows as he can't quite move to defend himself even if he could. But all's well that ends well and Spike just wants to be fed.
Later, they move him to the bath tub, in sturdy chains, while feeding him juice-box blood. Spike and Buffy are accidentally affected by one of Willow's spells that grants her the ability to change reality and make her will come true. By accident, she causes Spike to propose to Buffy and she accepts. They get all shmoopy and cuddly. They're freed from the spell mid kiss and freak out over it.
There's an earthquake that Buffy's certain spells imminent doom, but everyone ignores the warning. Meanwhile, Xander lectures Spike on being a freeloader and that he could fix the leak caused by the earthquake and do the laundry. So he tries and ends up shrinking his clothes. Xander reams him again, insulting him, telling him how harmless he is, and that he isn't even worth an ass-kicking. That actually affects Spike's already downtrodden mood, pushing him to take extreme measures. He tries to stake himself, rigging a stake to a coffee table, but Xand and Willow walk in just in time to distract him and make him miss. May the coffee table rest in peace... or rather, 'pieces'.
"Stuck in a basement, washing skivvies for a blighter I wouldn't've bothered to bite a few months ago."
So, they decide to take him with them on the little apocalypse adventure. During said adventure, they find the demons trying to preform the ritual to open the Hellmouth and end up in a fight. Under the impression that he can't hurt anything, he lets a demon smack him around until he gets to the point that chip be damned, he's going to hit this demon back. And lo and behold, no pain. He can hurt demons! This comes as a delight to him, finding new purpose in beating things up again. They stop the apocalypse again and save the day again.
"C'mon! Vampires! Urrrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them! For justice! And for the safety of puppies and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on!"
Giles gets all magicked into a Fyarl Demon and as such, can only speak the language of the Fyarl. Everyone's out to hunt him because they don't know it's him and they seem to think he ate Giles. He bumps into Spike, who gets all gung-ho about being able to beat up evil things, until Giles speaks and says Spike's name. Spike speaks Fyarl and as such, understands him perfectly. Giles asks him for help and Spike responds with, "And I'm supposed to just help you out of the evilness of my heart?" Giles offers him money and Spike agrees. He totes Fyarl!Giles around for a while and they banter back and forth until they're found by the Initiative and Giles offers him another hundred dollars for Spike to lead them on as he escapes. He agrees and does so with increasing glee until he crashes.
Giles pays up and Spike insists that's the last time he's helping the Scooby Gang. He's later attacked by the Initiative and pegged with a tracer in his shoulder. He goes to Giles for help and Giles turns the tables on him, forcing Spike to pay him for his efforts. Funny how it turns out to be just as much as he paid Spike. Eventually the tracer is removed and disposed of, just in time too.
Adam, the new Big Bad, a Frankenstein's Monster-type tank, teams up with Spike to kill Buffy, offering to remove the chip in his head for his help. He agrees to those terms and explains that killing Buffy is almost impossible. He's killed two slayers and he couldn't kill Buffy. But they decide to isolate her from her friends anyway. Finding himself with a gun, he tries to shoot Xander only to be stopped by intense pain when he merely aims the gun. This reveals the chip not only hurts him for hurting humans, but hurts him when he has the truthful intent to kill a human. From there, he continues to split up the group via emotional manipulation. Inevitably, everything goes wrong and Spike ends up on everyone's bad sides, narrowly escaping with his life.
He grows increasingly irritated with Buffy and even puts together a Buffy mannequin to practice clobbering her. But after more failed attempts to get the chip out of his head, Buffy visits him to stake him. He wants her to and tells her as much. She stops, confused by this, and they end up kissing passionately. Spike wakes to find the passionate moments with Buffy were just a dream. It leads him to a terrifying revelation; He's in love with Buffy.
"Oh God no. Please. No."
Buffy finds Spike lurking outside her house, creeping behind trees to spy on her. She punches him square in the nose then demands to know what he's doing there. He stutters and stalls but she cuts him off insisting, "Five words or less." He thinks briefly and counts the words out on his fingers as he speaks, "Out. For. A. Walk. ...Bitch." She doesn't buy it, but he shoots arguments at her saying her house is between here and other 'parts'. And he's outgrowing his 'burst into flames phase' so he can't go during the day. She says she'll cut him a break which insults him and he starts rambling on and on... and on, growing more childish as he prattles on, ending with "And, and I never liked you anyway. And, and you have stupid hair." With that, he turns and walks off. Buffy is left to notice about a dozen cigarette butts on the ground where Spike had been standing, indicating just how long he'd been there.
Scuffles happen, Spike keeps claiming to want Buffy dead, but can't seem to let her die, interfering with fights to save her life instead. He even fights to save her from invisible demons while she can't even see that he's helping. He also disproves the myth that Tara is actually part demon by hitting her and feeling the jolt of pain in his brain. He theorises that the reason the myth has been upheld is to keep the women of the family subjugated.
Buffy confronts him to demand he tell her how he killed the other two slayers because she's feeling vulnerable after getting stabbed by her own weapon. He regales his past to her for a price and afterwards, tries to kiss her. He's promptly shot down with the same words as dear Cecily used on him just before he was turned, "You're beneath me." And throws the money at him. He breaks down into another broken hearted rage. He returns to his crypt, collects a shotgun and loads it, ready to kill her despite the chip and Harmony's attempts to stop him. However, when he arrives, he finds her curled up on a step of her house. He approaches and clicks the safety, but when she looks up, tears running down her face, his rage dissolves. He asks her what's wrong but she doesn't want to talk about it, so he amends with, "Is there something I can do?" After an uncomfortably long hesitation, he sits next to her on the step and comforts her.
Spike is caught by Riley in Buffy's room sniffing her clothes. He tries to play it off as a predator thing, but Riley doesn't buy it. Spike taunts him about Buffy keeping things from him, like Joyce going into the hospital. He says that Riley can't keep Buffy satisfied and Riley kicks Spike out in broad daylight.
Spike tries desperately to wedge Riley from Buffy by flaunting every time he's with Buffy and Riley isn't. He even follows Riley to a vampire brothel where vampires feed on willing humans for the sexual thrill it brings them. Spike, of course, can't not tell Buffy because it was just too good to be true for him, knowing Buffy would react badly. Later, Riley taunts Spike asking if he really thinks he has a chance with Buffy, but he says he knows he doesn't. But a guy's gotta try.
"Shouldn't you be tucked away in your beddy-bye? All warm and safe where nothing can eat you?"
Buffy's little sister, Dawn, sneaks out and bumps into Spike who is keeping watch over the house like a good little guard vampire. They talk and she admits she's going to steal a book from the magic shop. Spike decides to tag along, reminding her how dangerous it is to be out at night. He helps her break in and she starts reading a book Giles hid from here that almost effectively told her that she was the Key and not real after all. Dawn was created by the monks to keep the Key safe, implanting memories into the lives of Buffy and her mother so that Dawn had always been around if not always present in Sunnydale. Even Dawn herself didn't know.
Later, Buffy storms Spike's crypt, jerking his coffin lid out from under him, all willing to maim him for being responsible for letting Dawn find out about the Key. But he defends himself verbally, insisting that if she had been honest with Dawn in the first place, none of this would have happened. And that Dawn was going with or without him, so he tagged along to protect her.
Spike comforts Buffy, telling her everything will be okay and that they'd find Dawn before it was too late. Buffy admits Spike had been right and that she should have told Dawn the truth from the start.
Spike spends more and more time with Dawn, regaling past scary stories and whatnot, but Dawn learns more about Spike the more he talks and not necessarily because of the words he's saying. Back with Buffy, she admits she has a crush on Spike, but it wouldn't work because Spike is in love with Buffy, to which Buffy was shocked. They go on a hunt together and Spike acts almost romantic towards Buffy the entire time until she confronts him about whether this is a date to him. He denies it adamantly then timidly asks her if she wants it to be. She's disgusted and shoots him down verbally, with no care for his feelings at all, saying he didn't have a soul so he couldn't feel love.
Buffy finds Spike's shrine dedicated to her and is again disgusted. Upon leaving, she runs into Spike and Drusilla. The latter of which shocks Buffy with an electric stick but Spike retaliates and both women end up tied up in some form. He offers to kill Dru to prove his love to Buffy and that she could just give him a sign that she might return his feelings in the slightest. And if she didn't, he would release Dru to eat Buffy. It all backfires and he loses all three women, Drucilla, Harmony, and Buffy. From then, he finds out his invitation into Buffy's house had been revoked.
To cope with Buffy's utter rejection, Spike has Warren build him a Buffy Bot with all the bells and whistles. She is designed to be utterly devoted and completely in love with Spike. They have little bickering fights that lead to sex. Lots of it. And, they're caught by Xander and Anya who are kind of disturbed by this. Xander confronts Spike, but they're attacked and Spike is kidnapped under suspicion of being the Key by the God Glory who wants to get home to hear hellish realm. Glory tortures Spike for information but Spike upholds his loyalty to Buffy and Dawn even if he's hated by them. He refuses to give Glory anything. The gang show up to end Spike before he can tell Glory anything, only to help rescue him instead.
Buffy trots into his crypt, acting like his chipper and horny Buffy Bot, asking him about why Glory tortured him and what she wanted. He told her she wanted the key, but she could never tell Glory who the key is because it would hurt Buffy if anything happened to Dawn and he couldn't live with himself seeing her like that. Buffy kisses him lightly and he realises she's not his bot. She thanks him for keeping Dawn safe and that she won't forget it. Dawn is shortly thereafter left in Spike's care for protection from Glory.
With Dawn abducted by Glory, they need to act quickly before the ritual is started. Once Dawn's blood is spilled on the portal, it will open and remain open until Dawn's dead. They prepare for the final showdown. Buffy and Spike have a heart to heart, sharing their equal respect for eachother. He tells her he knows she'll never love him, but he's grateful that she treats him like a man and not a monster.
During the fight, Spike, Giles, and Anya try fending off the hoards to no avail until things start getting desperate. Doc is on the platform with Dawn, preparing to bleed her before their window of opportunity closes. Willow inquires about Dawn telepathically to Spike, he confirms that someone is up there with her and she tells him to go, clearing the demons aside with a simple thought so he could pass and get to the scaffolding. He makes it up to the top and fights with Doc, who questions why he's doing this because he has no soul. Then he's thrown off the platform and plummets to the ground, failing. Dawn's cut and the portal opens. Buffy reaches her and tells her it'll be okay because they're of the same blood. Dawn doesn't have to die. Tears are shed and love is shared before Buffy throws herself into the portal, closing it and effectively ending her life before she even hits the ground.
Spike openly expresses his anguish over her death, but keeps true to his word and looks after Dawn now that she has no one left. He sticks with the Scoobies and fights evil with the cluster, babysits Dawn, and acts as a big brother figure to her, though he's still feeling guilt over the fact that he couldn't protect her on the platform. He's assigned to protect her while the rest of the Scoobies are at a meeting and tries to give her a pep talk about school. When she offers that he doesn't have to stay if he's bored, he declines and insists that he isn't leaving her to get hurt again.
Buffybot gets injured in a fight and finds her way back to Spike and Dawn, but is looking for Willow. He keeps her from finding Willow with her navigation glitching until Willow gets there to fix her. She comments that she doesn't think Spike likes her anymore because he won't even look at her when he's talking to her.
The Hellions find out Buffybot's not the real Buffy, they go to loot Sunnydale unknowingly interrupt a ritual to bring Buffy back to life. When they start hitting the neighbourhood, Spike starts freaking out over keeping Dawn safe. When she seems to neglect her common sense, he threatens to 'bloody thump' her. She panics and tells him they can't leave. He assures her they can't stay and that she isn't safe here. She expresses more concerns, fear evident on her face, and he promises to protect her, telling her no one will lay so much as a 'warty finger' on her.
The ritual actually works and Buffy is forced to claw her way out of her coffin and through six feet of dirt. She's disoriented about stepping into the street to see hell on earth ensuing. Looting, burning, and destruction. The Hellions destroy Buffybot and Spike and Dawn find her scraps only to realise the real Buffy is back again according to the bot. Dawn runs off while Spike's back is turned and he panics, calling out for her.
Spike hunts Dawn back down at the Summers' residence and finds her there. He reams her for running off, saying she scared him. He prattles on as Buffy walks down the stairs and she's pointed out. At first he thinks she's Buffybot and waves her off until he realises there was no way to repair her after being drawn and quartered. Sudden realisation hits him and he just stares, speechless. He can't find words for how he feels and instead just goes about fussing over her and her hands. He knows exactly why they're bloody, the horror of that setting in and giving them common ground. He starts tending to her injuries, talking with her until her friends arrive and he flees. He's confronted by Xander who he promptly tells that these things have consequences. He says there was a chance Buffy would come back wrong and Willow knew that. That's why she didn't tell him they were bringing back. She knew if Buffy came back wrong, they would have to kill what came back and that Spike wouldn't let them if there was anything of Buffy to it.
"Listen, I figured it out. Maybe you haven't, but I have. Willow knew there was a chance that she'd come back wrong--so wrong that you'd have--that she'd have to get rid of what come back and I wouldn't let her. Any part of that was Buffy, I wouldn't let her. And that's why she shut me out."
Buffy tells her friends that they brought her back from Hell and she was grateful, then heads outside were she finds Spike waiting in the shade. He admits that he was going to go inside with them until he heard the mushy talk and it made him ill. She says she wants to be alone, but he's penned in by sunlight on all sides only to have Buffy tell him she can be alone with him there. She lets him in on her secret that the rest of the gang can never know; she thinks she was in heaven and they yanked her out. She was happy and content, complete, loved. She knew her friends were safe and they dragged her out of that place and into hell. Spike's silently horrified by all this as she tells him her friends can never know and leaves.
Spike pops in and out of Buffy's life for a while, helping here and there, hindering some. Turns out Dawn is pocketing things from the Magic Box and ends up snatching a specific amulet that summons a musical demon quite by accident. She's unaware of this, but it affects the entire town, causing them to burst into song and spill their inner thoughts. Unfortunately, this little curse eventually makes them dance til they die.
"But you can make me feel like it isn't so..."
Buffy goes to pump Spike for information. He's happy to see her until she reveals that's alls he wants. He tries to show her out but instead breaks into song. His song tells her how he feels for her and that he doesn't want to be just a thing to her. If she can't love him back, he wants her to leave him alone and come back when she's ready to love him in return. Of course, it chases her off. But Spike finds the puppet and brings it to Buffy. It tells her that it was all Dawn and that Sweet wants her to appear before him. He says he's got her back since no one else does, but she uses his song against him, saying she thought he wanted her to stay away from him. So he pissily tells her to dance til she burns and leaves.
Despite saying they wouldn't help, they all still show up to help her, including Spike. Buffy begins to dance and sing with her backups. Her song reveals to everyone that she had been in heaven when they resurrected her. He comes in at the last minute before Buffy dances til she burns, catching her as she starts smoking.
"The day you suss out what you do want there'll probably be a parade. Seventy-six bloody trombones."
They beat the bad guy by outsmarting him of sorts and burst into one last song, "Where do we go from here" but Spike buggers off mid verse and Buffy follows him. He tries to turn her away, frustrated by everything in general, but she says she doesn't want to leave him. They break into a mini-song about their feelings and end in a kiss.
Spike wants to talk and Buffy wants to forget it ever happened, insisting that she will never touch him or kiss him again. That it had all been just a spell. She then proceeds to save his life a few times and laments her decision, saying it would be easier if she just stopped saving him. A memory spell of Willow's goes awry and it leaves the main cast completely devoid of any memories about themselves. Spike is being hunted by a shark-looking demon mafia guy for a payment of Siamese kittens and it brings trouble to the amnesiac cast. He and Buffy discover they're 'super heroes' and fight off the vampires whilst the rest of the gang escape and cast magic that really doesn't help much at all. Spike and Buffy end up working quite well together until they get their memories back and Buffy storms off in silence. Later on, they're found kissing heatedly in the back of the Bronze.
Buffy walks in on a mugging that she thought was a vampire attack. She's quite thrilled that it's just a mugging and taunts the humans as she gently defeats them. Spike jumps in last minute, thinking she's about to be attacked by demons, and clocks one of the muggers which sends him into a crippling migraine from the chip. She tells him off again and insists that they will never kiss a third time.
They get into another tiff about the kiss and Spike finds out that he can hit Buffy without the chip firing on him. He thinks he's cured and goes on an evil rampage only to find that the chip is still working just fine. He goes to the trio of idiots and demands they look at his chip, threatening Boba Fett with decapitation if they don't comply. He's told the chip is working perfectly and realises there's nothing wrong with him, but something wrong with Buffy.
He challenges Buffy to a fight and proves he can hit her. That it's just her. She came back wrong and they fight. Knock-down drag-out fight. They fight until they shag, bringing the building down around them. Then there's the morning after fight when Buffy realises she slept with Spike. A lot. She tears him down and runs her off.
Willow screws up with her magic addiction and gets Dawn in trouble causing Spike and Buffy to come to her rescue after continuous bickering about whether Buffy likes him or not. He tends to an injured Dawn while Buffy fights the baddie then takes her to hospital afterwards.
When Buffy finds herself invisible, despite her insistence that she will break her addiction to Spike, she confronts and molests him before revealing who she is. From there they proceed to have sex yet again only for Xander to interrupt. He can't see Buffy, so to him, it looks as if Spike's just humping the bed. He claims he's doing push-ups, bug Buffy keeps teasing him making it difficult not to react. When Xand leaves, Spike finally tells Buffy he's tired of her mood swings and whiplash behaviour.
Spike encounters Buffy at her new job and tries to convince her to quit, offering to take care of her and her money problems, but she refuses. Later, on her break, they have another nooner. They play this game for quite some time, rejecting him then drawing him back in at her beck and call. Later, he makes some slight headway with her after another round. They talk about home decor and Buffy admits that she likes him "sometimes" but that she doesn't trust him.
He knows he's being used by her, but he loves her enough to keep letting it happen. Even allowing her to take her frustration out on him by beating him to a bloody mess without a single hint of retaliation. It's shortly after that that Buffy realises what she's doing to Spike is wrong. Tara admits that she believes Spike truly loves Buffy, and if she loves him in return, that it's okay.
A little stint ending in some intimidation from Riley and the destruction of his underground crypt, Buffy admits she has feelings for him, but she could never love him. Because of that, it's over for good. Spike's confident she'll come back, assuming this is another of her little rejections that will turn around and become attraction once more. So, Spike does what every evil vampire with a crush does and flaunts a date around her to make her jealous. It works.
With Anya left at the alter and Spike rejected by Buffy, the two find solace in eachother, sharing their stories about their lovers. They realise they have more in common than they thought. One thing leads to another and they end up naked together. Unfortunately, there's a camera set up to spy on the place and Willow taps into the feed to see the two on the table. Xander grabs up an axe and tries to kill Spike. He goads Spike to fight back, but the vampire tells him he can't so Xand takes that as an excuse to try to stake him. Anya and Buffy intervene and Spike reveals that he and Buffy have been sleeping together, too. Leaving Buffy angry with him.
Spike shows up at Buffy's and tries to force her to see that she loves him. He's crazed and thinks he knows the truth, so he tries to show her what she wants, coming on way too strong with unwanted sexual advances. Buffy barely stops him and he seems to immediately realise what he'd almost done and it horrifies him. It's this event that causes him to make up his mind about something. Clem tells him things can change and he decides to make himself change for Buffy's sake. He rides out of Sunnydale with that very intention.
He ventures to a village where he meets a demon and wants to be returned to what he used to be. He's set through some dangerous and harsh trials to achieve this goal. The demon doesn't think Spike has what it takes, but Spike insists he will get what he came for. He defeats a powerful challenger for the first trial, ending up pretty thrashed himself with his victory. Another challenger down and he is covered in beetles, screaming in pain. When he successfully weathers all the tasks, the demon returns and Spike demands what he came for to give Buffy what she deserves. The demon places a hand on Spike's chest and returns his soul.
Spike is later found holed up in the School's basement, completely off his rocker. Partly due to the guilt what overwhelmed him after his soul was returned. He'd killed so many and done so many wrongs that it was wrecking him. But that wasn't his only problem, unbeknownst to everyone. Spike is left with a wicked little voice in his head that keeps belittling him and lecturing him. It flips between people long dead to deliver this speech. He's completely unkempt and the picture of a loony.
He does clean up, however, and offers to help Buffy in the next battle much to everyone's discomfort. He's left with threats if he harms Buffy again, feeling somewhat disconcerted by them. Anya notices the soul but he stops her before she can spill the beans, by starting a fight with her which is broken up by Buffy.
When they end up fighting the demon, Spike jumps in and goes for the kill with a pipe only for the demon to transform back into a human just before the attack lands. He impales the guy's shoulder, activating the chip, making him scream and tumble back into a chaotic mental state. He scampers off to the church and when Buffy finds him, he's draped over a cross, muttering nonsensically while sizzling. It's then that she realises he has his soul back.
He continues to hide out in the basement, acting insane and helping out in his brief moments of clarity. The voice keeps appearing to him, talking to him, making his condition worse. In some cases, his insane babbling does help the Scoobies find what they're looking for. He gets a message from a dying girl that has premonitions that he and Buffy tried to protect, saying "Someday she'll tell you."
Buffy decides Spike needs to leave the basement because it's making him crazier each day so she arranges for him to stay with Xander despite both parties disagreeing. He tells her it won't help and she counters that it's already helping because he's not talking to his imaginary friends anymore.
When a vampire shows up and says that Spike sired him, Buffy's sceptical because Spike can't hurt humans. But it's proven that it is, in fact, Spike's doing as he kills another woman from the Bronze while humming a soothing little tune. The others get suspicious and half confront him, but he brushes them off and goes to bed. Anya is assigned to vamp-sitting while the others have things to tend to. She's caught trying to snoop through his things and claims to want sex, trying to seduce Spike. He doesn't believe her so he rejects her advances.
Later that night, he's at the Bronze again, killing another victim while humming that song, only to snap out of it after the woman's dead and realises what he's done. The voice, disguised as Buffy, told him to do it and he did. He's been killing and turning people without even knowing it. Small blackouts in his memories disguise his deeds. When Buffy confronts him about it he denies it again. He goes out in search of answers and ends up staking one of his victims in the process while Buffy learns the truth. He gets a hold of Buffy on the phone and tells her he's remembering the killings. The voice lightly berates him for interfering, but that it will work out.
He's brainwashed into fighting Buffy and in the fight, tastes her blood. This reveals all of the suppressed memories, effectively sending him into a catatonic state of despair. When Buffy cleans up the vamp mess, she returns to him and he offers to let her stake him. Wants her to stake him, even but she denies him the death because she knows something's using him as a sleeper agent against his will.
In their efforts to help him, he ends up tied to a chair as he fights through withdrawal from all the human blood he's consumed. He was slowly on his way to recovery with animal blood when Buffy leaves him alone for a moment. The voice returns and has a small talk with him, which Buffy hears one side of, followed by the humming trigger. She returns to see he's changed, demanding blood. He breaks free and attacks Andrew. After knocking him out, they realise something evil is using him. While chained in the basement, robed figures broke in and attacked as a diversion to kidnap Spike.
The big evil messing with his head is revealed to be The First and sets about torturing Spike physically and mentally but he refuses to give in, insisting that if Buffy believes in him, he can do it. The more he refuses, the more the Ubervamp thrashes him. The First wants him to join their side, but he won't abandon Buffy's. He has illusions of escape but is left in the First's hands, in Buffy's form, telling him she won't come for him. He continues his mantra that Buffy will come for him. It's the only thing that gives him strength.
Later, what he assumes to be the First in Buffy's form kills the Ubervamp and comes towards him with a knife. He rejects her offer again, only to have Buffy cut away his bindings and free him. He clings to her, elated, knowing she would come for him. After his rescue, Spike begins helping Buffy train the potential Slayers. And is, yet again, another warrior at her side to protect her.
He agrees to be chained up in the basement until they can be certain The First won't be triggering him again, but as they talk, the chip misfires and sends Spike into excruciating pain. This happens more than once and at greater intervals each time. Buffy tries to contact Riley about the problem, unsure what to do. Unsuccessful, they decide to venture into the abandoned Initiative compound to find anything they can on how to fix or help Spike's problem. They're attacked and Spike's chip misfires again, leaving him useless in the fight for the most part. After she defeats the demon, Riley's team show up and tell her she was successful in contacting Riley. They were ordered to help her with whatever decision she made as Spike was now her responsibility. She's given the choice to repair the chip or remove it.
He has a little mishap, clobbering Giles and Giles inquires why Spike isn't in pain. Buffy reveals she chose to have the chip removed. A decision everyone else disagrees with strongly. But she insists it will be fine. He's changed. Later, Spike tells her that he's still under the First's influence so he's going to leave town. Buffy begs him to stay, saying she's not ready for him to be gone. At the same time, The First appears to Wood and reveals that it was Spike who killed his mother, the Slayer that was the original owner of his trench coat.
They try to figure out what Spike's trigger is and if it's still active so they preform a spell that makes a little stone thing wriggle into his head and dig it out. It does bring out the trigger, sending Spike into his awakened Sleeper self, hurting Dawn in the process. Wood then convinces Giles that Spike needs to be put down.
Wood tricks them into thinking he's going to help and instead tries to kill Spike. He activates the trigger with the song to make it feel like legitimate self defence, but Spike manages to snap out of it since he'd been faced with the memory that keeps the trigger active earlier and stopped just short of killing Wood. He promised that if Wood ever tried something like that again, he would kill him. And said that his mother apparently didn't love him enough to quit being a Slayer for his sake. But that his own mother actually loved him as much as he loved her. Buffy informs Wood shortly after that if he ever tries it again, she'll let Spike kill him.
He's attacked by Faith while chasing a demon that looks like an innocent woman, but Buffy pops up and she's informed that Spike's one of the good guys now. He and Faith bond over common ground, leaving Buffy a bit jealous.
Spike continues to fight by Buffy's side and agrees with all of her tactical decisions, completely devoted to her even when everyone else seems to be against her. She admits he's the only one she can count on. Giles then sends Spike away with Andrew to get him away from Buffy and the two discover a super-weapon. Spike reads the Latin, saying it's designed to be for what is assumed to be the Slayer.
There's a huge fight between Buffy and the rest of the gang while Spike is out. They end up dethroning her and she leaves. When Spike returns, they get dodgy about where Buffy is until he realise what happened. He lectures them hatefully for betraying her, getting into a physical fight with Faith, and leaves to find Buffy.
When he does find her, she's moping and depressed, trying to sleep in a bed owned by someone she kicked out of their own house. She tries to tell him off, insisting she's tired, but he argues with her and insists on staying. They get into a bit of a verbal tiff until Spike basically tells her to shut up and listen. It's his turn to talk. He's listened to her for a long time but she's never listened to him.
"I love what you are; what you do. How you try... I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are: You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy."
He admits how he feels about her with perfect clarity, moving her with his sincerity. He tells her to make up her mind and he'll see her in the morning, but she asks him to stay instead of making him leave. They end up cuddling in bed for the entire night. You know, until Buffy skips out on him in the morning. It's Spike's speech that gives her the strength to return to the fight.
After getting the 'Scythe', they have another emotional and moving chat about their feelings in which Buffy returns the favour and makes Spike feel wanted and needed. She tells him the only reason she managed to get the Scythe and get back into the fight is because of him. Because of the strength he gave her. He admits that last night was terrifying. It was the best night of his very long life and all he did was just hold her. He doubts that she cares about him as much as she claims.
Later, he goes to help her fight Caleb and sees Angel showed up to do that for him. He hides in the shadows and watches her 'greet' Angel with her lips and warmth. The First appears to Spike again as the voice of Buffy and flat out says "That bitch." He goes off to mope.
He rage-hates on a punching bag with Angels face on it when Buffy finds him and gets huffy about jealous vampires since Angel could smell Spike all over Buffy. She asks if he smelled Angel too with his supervamp nose and he counters that he saw it with his vampire eyes. He then demands the amulet that Angel brought. She tells him it's only for a champion and hands it to him.
They enter the battle together, losing many in the fight with the Ubervamps in the Hellmouth. Buffy's wounded and Spike's amulet finally kicks in after a bit of a delay, sending beams of burning light at the enemies and surrounding area. It obliterates the vampires and seems to be destroying the Hellmouth itself while burning Spike up in the process. Buffy runs to his side telling him that's enough, that he can stop, but he tells her he can't. He wants to see the end. They hold hands and she tells him she loves him, just as the dying girl had said she would. He says she doesn't, but thanks her anyway for saying it. They evacuate and leave Spike to destroy the Hellmouth and himself with it.
Angel the Series:
Angel, now CEO of Wolfram and Hart's LA division, receives an envelope in the mail that, when he opens it, out spills an amulet to the floor. The very same used by Spike to close and destroy the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California. Not moments after that, but a form begins to reshape out of ashes and dust from the very energy of the amulet until it solidifies into a screaming, platinum-headed vampire with a soul. He's somewhat wild as he looks about the room at the faces, some familiar and some not so much, until he hears Angel and lunges for the other vampire. Spike passes right through him, as well as a desk to his own confusion as well as the confusion of the rest of the room. Turns out, he's dead. Deadder than before. Spike's a ghost, or something close to it, according to Fred's analysis. He's tethered to the Amulet that's tethered to Wolfram and Hart.
After the shock and horror of his situation sets in, and it's important to note that the first person he asks about is Buffy, he decides all he can do is haunt Angel. Which he gains a sick pleasure out of doing. He accompanies Angel to confront a Necromancer, being no more than a visual, snarky companion with no actual corporeal form. The Necro tells his butler to kill them, but he's quickly dealt with and Angel chooses to confront the Necro himself. Now, anyone could have told Angel--the VAMPIRE--that that was a bad idea, but no. He does it anyway and the Necromancer decides to tell him how dumb that was by controlling his body and beating him around a bit before letting him go long enough for Angel to bankrupt the guy with a word. This makes said Necro none too happy, as one might guess. When Angel leaves, Spike is yanked from Angel's side, mid sentence, by the Necro for a one-on-one chitchat.
"A spoon?! That's just... Well. Okay, that's more... disappointing, really."
Spike returns to Wolfram and Hart in time to hear Angel, Gunn, and Wes talking about him and his form. That they couldn't make him real again, so the only other thing to do was to grant his wish to pass on. Wes states that if they take the Amulet, which is indestructible everywhere but on hallowed ground, and destroy it, it would release Spike and allow him to pass on. Angel states that he'd need to sleep on the answer. So, that night, Spike visits Angel in his room and tells him of the bargain the Necro tried to strike with him. He was offered to be made flesh again if he betrayed Angel. Angel asks him if he accepted and Spike is affronted that Angel even has to ask.
"I know you can't help, but could you maybe not root for the other team?"
They go to the cemetery, hallowed ground, to destroy the amulet, but just as Angel's about to do so, he clocks himself in the head with the very weapon he chose to destroy the amulet. Spike tells the Necro that he cut it a little close and that he'd almost been lost. The Necro tells Spike he's using him, but he will get what he wants in the end and Spike's just fine with that. Angel wakes on the Necro's alter as he explains that Spike will be put in Angel's body so he can undo the damage to the Necro's bank accounts then he'll be given flesh. As he goes through the process of putting Spike in Angel, suddenly Spike's spirit stops inside the Necro's body before he reaches Angel's and controls the Necro. This having been their plan all along, to allow Angel to defeat him without being mojo'd by the Necromancer. Spike gets a few hits in on Angel before Angel decapitates the Necromancer and all is well, if a bit ghostly and obnoxious.
Spike confronts Fred, telling her that every time he fades out of view, he's sucked into Hell. That he feels like he's straddling a chasm that's trying to drag him down. So she offers to help find a way to bring him back to life so he doesn't get dragged down. He flirts with her a bit, but she's more interested in the fact that he is worthy of saving rather than the fact that he's interested in her. The gang is a little busy day by day and not much progress is made on Spike's problem, which is kept between him and Fred, until he starts vanishing more frequently and for longer periods of time. Fred goes into a panic when he starts claiming there are other ghosts that are haunting him, but no one else can see them. He's frantic and yelling at the other ghosts before he disappears entirely, but to him, he's still there. They just can't see him anymore. He's dragged into a horror movie in which he becomes the haunted rather than being the spook himself. The other ghosts tell him the Reaper is coming for him and that he is going to hell. He claims he isn't scared, but he gets increasingly frightened by the fact that he just might be about to meet his actual eternal torment, despite having saved the world.
Meanwhile, Angel and his team are trying to figure out just what's haunting Spike. A medium is called and killed by this spirit, which alarms them all even further, so they hit the books. Whilst in the shower, Spike visits Fred and realises he can write on the steamed glass, leaving her the name "Reaper" so she can aid in their search. They immediately find the culprit, a mass murderer whose blood was used to deconsecrate the ground so Wolfram and Hart could be built there. He tortures souls and turns them over to hell in order to escape being drawn in himself. Spike being next in line. He goes about the torture while Fred goes about a ritual to give Spike his body back in order to save him. But as the ritual commences, the Reaper starts killing Fred, giving Spike a choice; regain his body or save Fred. Spike saves Fred and knocks the Reaper into the circle, bringing him back to life so he can't torture people anymore. He's imprisoned for eternity while Spike is still a ghost. Fred recognises the sacrifice he made to save her life and the lives and souls of others, saying that he just proved he was worth saving.
Since then, he'd learned to interact with objects and touch things and people in the real plane if he wants it hard enough. He still isn't alive, but it's better than nothing, he guesses and he uses his new powers on and off for the group.
To his surprise, as he's irritating Angel, Harmony announces that he has a package and that it's heavy. He asks who the heck would be sending him mail and how they would know he would be here of all places. Neither has an answer so he has her open it for him. There's a flash but the box is empty.
"Well that was a slap and a tickle."
He goes to bitch at Angel just because he can and they can't stop him, except... he hits the doors like a brick wall an lands on his back clutching his nose. Door opens and they both realise he's solid again. The phones start going nuts and the computers start freaking out but all Spike cares about is that he's solid. Down side to all this is that people start crying blood and trying to kill eachother. Must be Tuesday. They're told it's the universe unravelling because there are two champions in the world now and there's only room for on. That they have to figure out which one is the one in the prophecy before the universe implodes. So they go on a wild goose chase to find a magic goblet of Perpetual Torment. On the way, Spike and Angel fight it out to make it to the cup before the other, both wanting to be the champion. Spike kicks Angel's ancient ass and drinks from the cup only to find it's Mtn Dew. They realise they've been had and storm back to HQ, but they're too late to stop the snake in the grass that tricked them.
Lindsey comes to Spike in a
A psycho slayer in a mental institute breaks out now that all the potentials have Buffy's power due to Willow's spell while they battled the First. She kills most everyone that gets in her way, having been tortured as a little girl by a psycho killer. She begins having Slayer visions and gets them confused with her memories, thinking Spike was her torturer. She eventually knocks him out while they're fighting using a needle and medication that was used on her. She cuts off his hands and tries to kill him but Angel shows up to save him. During that incident, Spike is faced with memories of the slayers he's killed as they surfaced in Dana's memories, leaving him to feel remorse for their deaths.
Spike's told by Doyle that Cordy (who just woke from a coma) is evil and sends him to kill her before she can harm anyone. She's been told that while she was catatonic Spike became a good guy, more or less. So when she sees him in the hallway, she greets him but he attacks her, biting her neck.
"I thought he had a soul!!!"
He pulls back having only barely broken the skin and there's a bit of a tiff before Angel shows up and freaks out a bit. He says he was told she was evil, but that was a taste test. After tasting her blood, he could tell she wasn't evil.
"I thought she didn't!"
Spike explains about his supporter with the visions named Doyle. They ask about him and he reveals that the man had his hand chopped off and was covered in tribal tattoos. This reveals to them that the Doyle he spoke of was actually Lindsey somewhat impersonating one of the deceased gang. Lindsey sets off the failsafe to kill Angel and they all go to stop him. Spike volunteers to take out the room full of zombies so the others can go on ahead. In the end, Angel gets a phone call while talking to Cordelia who was telling him she had to leave now. The call tells him that Cordelia just passed away on the table. She never woke from the coma. He turns and s he's gone.
Fred breathes in a 'virus' thing from a sarcophagus that appeared in her lab, falling deahtly ill. Spike and Angel set about to save her, trying to find a way. When they find out there's a guy in England that can help, they set off for the Deeper Well. On the flight there, they chat casually with slight reminiscing and Spike suggests they go see a show after they save Fred. Angel says that he can't lose her and Spike insists they won't let her die, not her. They make it to England and locate a weird hole in a tree. Angel inquires if that could be the entrance to the Deeper Well.
"Either that or Christmas Land. ...Do you ever have any fun?"
After killing off its guards a man named Drogyn appears to them and Angel seems to know him. He tells Spike not to ask him any questions because Drogyn cannot lie so he hates questions. Eventually they get the information they seek out of Drogyn for curing Fred of her infection which turns out to be an ancient demon named Illyria the Merciless. It's hardening Fred's skin and liquefying her organs to turn her body into a shell for it to inhabit. He tells them that there is a way to stop it. Draw it back to the Deeper Well, which is the sort of prison for ancient demons that pierces right through the centre of the earth to the other side. The catch is that Illyria will kill everyone from Los Angeles so the Deeper Well as Its dragged back to its prison. Tens of thousands of people will die for Fred's life. The pair of champions can't condemn all those people and make the gut-wrenching decision to allow Illyria to take over and kill Fred.
"There's a hole in the world. Feels like we aught to have known."
On the flight back home, Spike tries to get drunk on little bottles of Jack, insulted that anyone would make bottles that small. They get home and inform everyone about most of what happened at the Deeper Well, but neglected to tell them that they decided not to save her. Spike, grasping at straws, says Fred's soul's still out there and that they can find it. Angel says they will and they'll bring Fred back.
They end up fighting Illyria and later Spike says he couldn't even tell she was right in front of him. She had no scent. That maybe Fred was actually gone. Completely. They eventually realise Spike's right. Fred's soul was obliterated when Illyria took over. There was no hope of saving her.
Later, in Angel's office, Spike asks Angel if his offer to pay for his trip back to Europe is still open. Angel says it is and asks if Spike is leaving. He says he isn't. He feels like his place is here, with them, doing good for the world.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Vampire:
- Super Strength
- Speed that can almost be missed by the human eye
- Enhanced hearing, sight (especially night vision) and sense of smell
- Fangs
- Super healing abilities
- They're also very resilient.
- Siring: Is said to be compared to sexual gratification. Requires the victim to be drained to near death, then fed the sire's blood for them to change.
Weaknesses:
- Stake to the heart
- Decapitation
- Holy water
- Crosses
- Sun
- Fire
- Invitation: Vampires must be invited into an owned residence. If there is a sign up that says some variation of 'all are welcome', they can enter. Public places are also open to them. Once invited in, they can return indefinitely unless a spell is cast to reset the invitation.
- Starvation: Going without feeding for too long begins to effect the vampire's health. Weakening them, making them look ill, gradually sapping the undead life out of them.
Third-Person Sample:
Fred. Cordy. They were... and now they're... But Fred. He'd cared for her. The one who offered to help him re-corporalise before she even knew him. She was a warmth, a kind soul, a friend. A beautiful, brilliant woman. And now, she wasn't just gone, but obliterated. Completely erased from every plane of existence and all because some demon bitch--bastard--whatever It was--decided to crawl it's way back into the sun. A sun that warmed the hearts of everyone she shined upon, but now that sun was out and everything was just so cold. Everyone was just so cold. And yet, here he was, deciding to stay with Angel and his gang of goonies to fight the great evils that slither into their dimension from the belly of the beast as it were.
Spike had stepped out of Angels office and into... "Bollocks." He whirled around to find the doorway he'd just stepped out of but it no longer lead to Angel's office. A portal? Some misplaced dimensional gateway? Into what, Hotel California?
Then, like a brain-freeze, he was overwhelmed in a quick burst. Images, memories, faces, names, they all flooded back into his head far too rapidly. He staggered then stilled as the dust settled, leaving the wreckage visible to him. Clear as day. He could see what had been there before, like a demolished building in reverse. Wonderland. The mansion to be more precise. He'd stepped from Angel's office and through the front doors of the mansion seamlessly. "Oh, now isn't that just a kick in the-- Oh bollocks." He really couldn't afford to be off on holiday while Hell on Earth was bound to start happening back home. Even if he already knew time stood still back home while he was here. Or rather, it would be like he'd never left.
First-Person Sample:
[He's bloody, bruised, worn, confused, and completely misplaced. He'd stepped out of Angel's office and into the mansion. It'd taken a hot minute before his memories of Wonderland resurfaced. He set about hunting down his room, grabbing his mobile, and then decided to address his fellow captives. Things are different now. He's different now.
So, he opens the feed, looking decidedly less irate than his first broadcast months ago. Wonderland's network is greeted by the platinum blonde Brit. Blood that had run from his ear down the side of his face was dried and flaking. Various cuts mar his face, various patches and streaks of dried blood contrast with his pale skin. But does he seem to care? That would be a big, bloody NOPE. Or maybe he's forgotten it's there and can't exactly see himself in a mirror to be reminded.]
Gooooood morning, Viet--wait. Wrong movie. Don't know how long I've been gone but, Ol' Spike's back. So! Tell me lads, lasses, and not-so-gentle-demons, what did I miss? Anything special? See, for me, I've been through quite a bit since I went all disappear-y. Been months back home but it looks like it's only been a week or two here s'far as I can tell.
C'mon now, don't be shy! Not like you lot have anything better to do in this hell dimension where time's on holiday.
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Third-Person Sample:
He'd been keeping to himself lately doing his brooding vampire thing, not that it was unique anymore. He knew some had been coming and going. Some had returned after having been absent for quite a while and yet here he was, still here. Still drifting. Cordy and Faith were regular in and outs enough that he just kept his distance. You never knew when one of them would come from and that was a bit of a scary thought what with a slayer being among that number. She could pop back in, stake in hand, and dust him without asking any questions. Without even knowing he was on the opposite side of evil now.
At the same time, there were constants that remained unchanged. Angel, unfortunately, was one of them. On the brighter side, there was Simon and Cami, always around for a drink and a chat. Both were good conversation and both were good drinking mates. He had a bit of an embarrassing psychotic breakdown during an event and no one even questioned it, which was a relief. How does one explain that yeah, once upon a time, they'd been controlled by a big bad and used to kill people without even knowing it? That had been a long time ago, and yet Wonderland dredged that thought up so easily. What if it decided to bring in one of the many big nasties buried in his memories? What then? They only had half a team here and none he trusted his back to. Cami wasn't a fighter and he wasn't sure he wanted to test Simon's combative skills.
He could just see it now; a cave full of uber-vamps pops up and the defenders of the mansion were Muppet Man, Prom Queen, and Fugitive She-Hulk. Wonderland was done for. Then again, they did have their own flavour of heroes from other worlds. They'd need a good thorough run-down on uber-slaying 101, but they might do the trick if they all worked together. If Wonderland was good at one thing, it was forcing you to work with people you wouldn't trust as far as you could throw them. Then again, he could throw some of them pretty damn far... Maybe they weren't so bad off after all.
First-Person Sample:
[The feed opens go show his bright, pasty face and those soft baby blues. Spike might be a little bit on the grumpy side, or maybe he's just being his usual mouthy self. Who knew?]
Right. That was. ...a thing. And you lot thought my kind were the bloody monsters? Yeah, we take a nibble at your neck not a bite out of your face! --er, well, not anymore. I don't. On a special diet of not-human blood courtesy of the kitchen's fine cuisine. Human blood makes me... well. Gives us a high. Gotta detox off it and I've been clean for a while. That's-- [He huffs and rolls his eyes. Getting off track there, Spike-o.] --not my bloody point! My point is... I don't even remember what my point is. Just. Bugger off.
[Aaand Mr. Moody ends the feed with less dignity than he started.]
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