History
In 1880, William Pratt rushed from a party in tears after being rejected by the girl he loved. The vampire Drusilla found him in an alley and turned him. When he rose from the grave, the first thing he did was turn his mother to save her from her deadly disease. This proved to be a mistake. His mother hurled insults at him about how closely he clung to her and tried to have sex with him. William staked her before she could.
Dying was the best thing that could have happened to him. He reinvented himself as Spike. Instead of a soft poet that abhorred violence, he became a snarky, badass vampire that loved fighting and drinking and all the courser things in life. He even started talking with a less refined accent.
He terrorized Europe with Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla. Angelus did not approve of how rash and careless Spike could be, or of how much he doted on Drusilla. They clashed a lot, but ultimately Spike looked up to Angelus a lot. Then, in 1898, Angelus was cursed with a soul. Darla kicked him out, though Spike and Drusilla didn't know why. This was also the year that Spike and Dracula first clashed, starting off a rivalry that would span the next century.
In 1900, Spike killed his first Slayer. Xin Rong managed to slash his eyebrow with an enchanted sword, giving him his scar, but in the end, he won. He later described it as the best night of his life.
He and Drusilla set off on their own after that, leaving Angelus to his tortured brooding and Darla to rejoin the Master. Together, they caused lots of murder and mayhem as they traveled the world, having a great time.
In 1943, Dracula invited Spike and a few other vampires to a free virgin blood party that turned out to be a trap. Spike ended up on a Nazi sub that was then captured by US soldiers. Spike and the other vampires feasted until Angel showed up and convinced them to let the remaining crew live so they wouldn't drown to death. Angel made Spike leave the sub and swim to shore before they landed to protect the soldiers.
In 1977, Spike fought and killed the slayer Nikki Wood. She was more fun to fight than Xin Rong, and had a great coat. Spike took it from her after she died.
He rejoined Drusilla, and the two of them ended up in Prague, where Drusilla was tortured as an example to other vampires to warn them to stay away from the city. Spike freed her, and they went to Sunnydale together. They'd heard there was a Hellmouth and a Slayer there, and Spike thought it might help make Drusilla well again. Spike quickly took over leadership of the vampires there, killing the Anointed One and trying to kill the Slayer, though he wasn't successful. He was also reunited with Angel, and he finally caught on about the whole soul thing.
He captured Angel and used his blood to cure Drusilla, but in the process he was seriously injured to the point that he couldn't walk and needed a wheelchair to get around. And then Angel lost his soul.
For a while it was great. The three of them were a family again, though Darla wasn't around. But then Angel returned to his old girl stealing tricks. He constantly belittled Spike, making fun of him for the wheelchair and everything else he could think of. He flirted with Drusilla a lot and more, and she let him, which infuriated Spike. Jealousy, on top of the realization that Angelus and Drusilla could actually destroy the world, and that Spike didn’t want that to happen, led him to turn to his sworn enemy. The Slayer.
Buffy Summers was, of course, skeptical when Spike initially suggested they work together to stop Angelus, but she didn't have enough options that she could turn him down. Together, they fought Angelus, Drusilla, and the random vampire minions. Spike knocked out Drusilla and left for Brazil with her, leaving Buffy to finish Angel off.
But things had changed, and Drusilla knew it, even if Spike didn't yet. He'd worked with the Slayer, and though he would laugh at the very idea, he'd already started to fall in love. It was enough that Drusilla took to finding pleasure from other men. When Spike saw her with a Chaos Demon, he had to put an end to it, but Drusilla wouldn't stay with just him. He returned to Sunnydale a drunken wretch. When he learned that Willow was becoming something of a witch, he kidnapped her and Xander and tried to force her to perform a love spell on Drusilla. She agreed in order to postpone her death, but said she'd need ingredients she didn't have with her. Spike had cocoa with Buffy's mom until Buffy and Angel showed up all ready to fight. He pointed out that they'd never find Willow and Xander if they killed him, so instead they followed him to get the ingredients for the love spell. They stopped to fight some vampires, and Spike regained his confidence in himself, sending Buffy and Angel off to find Willow and Xander and leaving Sunnydale to win Drusilla back.
It didn't work. They got back together for a very short time before she left him again, this time for a fungus demon. Spike went back to Sunnydale searching for the legendary Ring of Amara, an item that would make him invincible. He found it, but Buffy kicked his ass anyway, took the ring, and sent it to Angel. Spike failed to take it back from Angel, and went back to Sunnydale.
Before he had a chance to start terrorizing Buffy, some secret government soldiers from the Initiative knocked him out and captured him. They put a chip in his head that rendered him incapable of attacking anything living. Again, he turned to his mortal enemy for help, offering information in exchange for them not staking him on sight. Still, he was depressed to the point that he attempted suicide until he discovered that although he was helpless against humans, he could fight demons all he wanted. He moved out and dedicated his life to making life hard for the Scoobies in non-violent ways. Sometimes, though, he'd help them, either because Buffy beat him up or they offered him money.
Spike was not happy with this arrangement. Even if he could still hurt demons, he couldn't hunt and kill like he usually did. And the Slayer was everywhere, making his life harder no matter what he did. He couldn't stop thinking about her, even when she wasn't around. Eventually he realized to his horror that he was in love with her.
He started helping without expecting money in exchange. He comforted her when her mother was going to the hospital and took care of Dawn and Joyce when Buffy couldn't protect them. He also took to stealing pictures of her and bits of her clothing and standing around outside her house. Eventually, Buffy caught on. She was disgusted and went to tell him that no, nothing could ever happen with them. Unfortunately, Drusilla had just decided to take Spike back as well. She zapped Buffy with a cattle prod, knocking her unconscious. Then Spike knocked Drusilla unconscious and chained both of them up. He declared his love for Buffy and offered to stake Drusilla to prove it. She wasn't impressed, and he threatened to let Drusilla kill Buffy if she wouldn't give him even the slightest bit of hope something might happen. Buffy stood firm, Harmony showed up and shot Spike with an arrow, Drusilla broke free and tried to kill Buffy, Spike stopped her, and Buffy uninvited Spike from her house.
Spike was desperate. Buffy was even less interested in him than before, and now all her friends and family hated him. He commissioned Warren to build him a robot Buffy that would love him. Glory, the season's Big Bad, had sent minions to watch all of Buffy's acquaintances for hints to who or what the Key was. They saw Buffybot protecting Spike above all else, decided he was the key, and kidnapped him. Glory knew immediately that he was not, but realized he might know who was. She tortured him while Buffy and the other Scoobies headed towards them to kill Spike before he could tell, but Spike managed to escape. Buffy pretended to be the robot and learned that Spike hadn't told and would rather die than betray Buffy and Dawn, she kissed him and told him that what he'd done was real, and she wouldn't forget it.
After that, Spike started helping more. Glory found out that Dawn was the key, and Buffy reinivited Spike in. She also made him promise to protect Dawn no matter what. During the final battle, Spike tried to protect her, but a demon pushed him off a tower, and though Dawn made it out safely, Buffy sacrificed her life to save Dawn and the world.
Spike was devastated, but he stuck around to keep his promise to Buffy. He protected Dawn and Sunnydale instead of leaving. The Scoobies brought the Buffybot back into commission to fool demons into thinking the Slayer was still alive. Though the robot had originally been Spike's, he could hardly stand to look at it because it wasn't Buffy and just reminded him that she was gone.
Then Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara brought Buffy back with a spell. She was not very happy to be back because, as she confided in Spike, she hadn't been in Hell like her friends had thought, she'd been in Heaven. They started almost being friends, but of course, Spike wanted more. He didn't really push her or tell her how much he felt until a demon turned Sunnydale into a musical and forced him to confess. After they'd beaten the bad guy and before the spell had worn off, the two of them kissed.
One kiss turned into two, and Spike wouldn't let Buffy forget it. He wanted her, and now it was clear she wanted him as well. She resisted until he learned that his chip didn't work on her. He claimed she came back wrong and they had a fight in an abandoned building that quickly turned into violent and passionate sex that destroyed the house.
Buffy again claimed that it wouldn't happen again, but she couldn't keep away. They started a secret affair that was emotionally difficult for both of them. He was in love with her, but she didn't feel the same way. She felt dirty and guilty about what the two of them did and refused to let them have anything more than sex. Eventually, she called it off because she realized she was using him and it was wrong.
Spike didn't want it to be over. He kept trying to get Buffy to sleep with him again, but she stayed firm. He started drinking and commiserating with Anya, who was similarly heartbroken over her recent break-up with Xander. They ended up having sex in the Magic Box. Unfortunately, their friends managed to hack into the spy cameras the three wannabe supervillains had put in the store right at that moment. Xander rushed down to kill Spike and Buffy followed him to stop him. Spike told Xander and Anya that he and Buffy had been sleeping together.
Later, Dawn showed up at Spike's crypt and told him how much he had hurt Buffy. Spike took that to mean Buffy loved him, and he went to her house to try and patch things up between the two of them. She said no, but he wouldn't listen, and he tried to force her to have sex with him. She kicked him across the room, and he finally got the hint that this time, no really meant no. Horrified that he had tried to rape the woman he loved, he left Sunnydale and went to Africa to undergo the Demon Trials and get a soul. He wanted to no longer be the type of man that could do something so terrible to someone he cared about.
He returned to Sunnydale, but getting a soul had taken a bigger toll than he'd expected. He moved into the basement of the newly built Sunnydale High and went crazy. His hair grew out, and he clawed at his chest to try and get the soul out. Of course, it didn't work.
He finally emerged to try and help Buffy with an evil that was coming. He didn't apologize, but insisted he had changed. Anya, now a vengeance demon, could see the new soul, but Spike attacked her before she could tell, and Buffy broke up the fight. Spike attacked her instead, but they were interrupted by the demon they'd been after in the first place reappearing.
The demon was a man under one of Anya's vengeance curses, and she managed to reverse it just before Spike impaled him, causing them both to scream in pain, Spike from the chip and the man from being stabbed. Spike went insane and started muttering to himself. He ran into a church, and Buffy went after him. He let on that he had a new soul, but he went back to his basement where the First Evil tormented him and made him crazy.
Eventually, Buffy got him to come out and move into Xander's spare bedroom. But people start turning up dead, and it's clear Spike's to blame. He denies it until he suddenly regains his memory. He moves into Buffy's basement and she chains him up. He tries to get her to stake him because he's done so much evil and thinks he'll do more, but she refuses, insisting she believes in him. The First Evil sent its servants, the Bringers to attack the Summers household and kidnap Spike. The First chained him up over the Hellmouth's and bled him, opening the seal and letting out one of the Turok-Han. The First tried to turn Spike against Buffy, but he wouldn’t cooperate, insisting that Buffy would come for him. Eventually, she does. He started helping Buffy train the new potential Slayers and met Robin Wood, the son of the second Slayer he killed, though he didn't know it. Wood knew what Spike had done, though, and planned to get revenge.
They figured out the trigger was a certain song Spike's mother had sung to him back when he was human, but Giles and Wood still thought Spike could be dangerous. Giles distracted Buffy while Wood brought Spike to a warehouse filled with crosses and played the trigger. Spike managed to fight through it in time to stop Wood from killing him. He didn't kill Wood, but he told Buffy that if he attacked again, he would.
The second Slayer, Faith, returned to Sunnydale and quickly won over the potential slayers by being more focused on having fun and less worried about working than Buffy was. Without exactly planning it, she wrested control away from Buffy, who left the house. Spike came back from a mission and found her gone. He punched Faith and left to find Buffy. He gave her a pep talk and explained all the wonderful things about her he loved, and she asked him to stay the night, just holding her. Spike later described it as the best night of his life.
Angel returned from LA, and Spike saw Buffy kiss him hello. He left angrily. She found him later and told him she'd made Angel go. She gave him a necklace with a talisman intended to be worn by a champion with a soul that was more than human. Angel had meant to wear it, but Buffy gave it to Spike. They went to the final battle, Buffy shared her power with all the potentials, and Spike channeled the power of the sun through himself and the necklace, immediately dusting the vampires they were fighting and causing an earthquake. Buffy's forces started retreating, but Spike couldn't leave. Buffy tried to make him go, but he told her to go, let him sit it out. Before he burned up, she told him she loved him, and he thanked her, but didn't believe him. Buffy ran to join the rest of the group while Spike combusted, taking all of Sunnydale with him.
Dying was the best thing that could have happened to him. He reinvented himself as Spike. Instead of a soft poet that abhorred violence, he became a snarky, badass vampire that loved fighting and drinking and all the courser things in life. He even started talking with a less refined accent.
He terrorized Europe with Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla. Angelus did not approve of how rash and careless Spike could be, or of how much he doted on Drusilla. They clashed a lot, but ultimately Spike looked up to Angelus a lot. Then, in 1898, Angelus was cursed with a soul. Darla kicked him out, though Spike and Drusilla didn't know why. This was also the year that Spike and Dracula first clashed, starting off a rivalry that would span the next century.
In 1900, Spike killed his first Slayer. Xin Rong managed to slash his eyebrow with an enchanted sword, giving him his scar, but in the end, he won. He later described it as the best night of his life.
He and Drusilla set off on their own after that, leaving Angelus to his tortured brooding and Darla to rejoin the Master. Together, they caused lots of murder and mayhem as they traveled the world, having a great time.
In 1943, Dracula invited Spike and a few other vampires to a free virgin blood party that turned out to be a trap. Spike ended up on a Nazi sub that was then captured by US soldiers. Spike and the other vampires feasted until Angel showed up and convinced them to let the remaining crew live so they wouldn't drown to death. Angel made Spike leave the sub and swim to shore before they landed to protect the soldiers.
In 1977, Spike fought and killed the slayer Nikki Wood. She was more fun to fight than Xin Rong, and had a great coat. Spike took it from her after she died.
He rejoined Drusilla, and the two of them ended up in Prague, where Drusilla was tortured as an example to other vampires to warn them to stay away from the city. Spike freed her, and they went to Sunnydale together. They'd heard there was a Hellmouth and a Slayer there, and Spike thought it might help make Drusilla well again. Spike quickly took over leadership of the vampires there, killing the Anointed One and trying to kill the Slayer, though he wasn't successful. He was also reunited with Angel, and he finally caught on about the whole soul thing.
He captured Angel and used his blood to cure Drusilla, but in the process he was seriously injured to the point that he couldn't walk and needed a wheelchair to get around. And then Angel lost his soul.
For a while it was great. The three of them were a family again, though Darla wasn't around. But then Angel returned to his old girl stealing tricks. He constantly belittled Spike, making fun of him for the wheelchair and everything else he could think of. He flirted with Drusilla a lot and more, and she let him, which infuriated Spike. Jealousy, on top of the realization that Angelus and Drusilla could actually destroy the world, and that Spike didn’t want that to happen, led him to turn to his sworn enemy. The Slayer.
Buffy Summers was, of course, skeptical when Spike initially suggested they work together to stop Angelus, but she didn't have enough options that she could turn him down. Together, they fought Angelus, Drusilla, and the random vampire minions. Spike knocked out Drusilla and left for Brazil with her, leaving Buffy to finish Angel off.
But things had changed, and Drusilla knew it, even if Spike didn't yet. He'd worked with the Slayer, and though he would laugh at the very idea, he'd already started to fall in love. It was enough that Drusilla took to finding pleasure from other men. When Spike saw her with a Chaos Demon, he had to put an end to it, but Drusilla wouldn't stay with just him. He returned to Sunnydale a drunken wretch. When he learned that Willow was becoming something of a witch, he kidnapped her and Xander and tried to force her to perform a love spell on Drusilla. She agreed in order to postpone her death, but said she'd need ingredients she didn't have with her. Spike had cocoa with Buffy's mom until Buffy and Angel showed up all ready to fight. He pointed out that they'd never find Willow and Xander if they killed him, so instead they followed him to get the ingredients for the love spell. They stopped to fight some vampires, and Spike regained his confidence in himself, sending Buffy and Angel off to find Willow and Xander and leaving Sunnydale to win Drusilla back.
It didn't work. They got back together for a very short time before she left him again, this time for a fungus demon. Spike went back to Sunnydale searching for the legendary Ring of Amara, an item that would make him invincible. He found it, but Buffy kicked his ass anyway, took the ring, and sent it to Angel. Spike failed to take it back from Angel, and went back to Sunnydale.
Before he had a chance to start terrorizing Buffy, some secret government soldiers from the Initiative knocked him out and captured him. They put a chip in his head that rendered him incapable of attacking anything living. Again, he turned to his mortal enemy for help, offering information in exchange for them not staking him on sight. Still, he was depressed to the point that he attempted suicide until he discovered that although he was helpless against humans, he could fight demons all he wanted. He moved out and dedicated his life to making life hard for the Scoobies in non-violent ways. Sometimes, though, he'd help them, either because Buffy beat him up or they offered him money.
Spike was not happy with this arrangement. Even if he could still hurt demons, he couldn't hunt and kill like he usually did. And the Slayer was everywhere, making his life harder no matter what he did. He couldn't stop thinking about her, even when she wasn't around. Eventually he realized to his horror that he was in love with her.
He started helping without expecting money in exchange. He comforted her when her mother was going to the hospital and took care of Dawn and Joyce when Buffy couldn't protect them. He also took to stealing pictures of her and bits of her clothing and standing around outside her house. Eventually, Buffy caught on. She was disgusted and went to tell him that no, nothing could ever happen with them. Unfortunately, Drusilla had just decided to take Spike back as well. She zapped Buffy with a cattle prod, knocking her unconscious. Then Spike knocked Drusilla unconscious and chained both of them up. He declared his love for Buffy and offered to stake Drusilla to prove it. She wasn't impressed, and he threatened to let Drusilla kill Buffy if she wouldn't give him even the slightest bit of hope something might happen. Buffy stood firm, Harmony showed up and shot Spike with an arrow, Drusilla broke free and tried to kill Buffy, Spike stopped her, and Buffy uninvited Spike from her house.
Spike was desperate. Buffy was even less interested in him than before, and now all her friends and family hated him. He commissioned Warren to build him a robot Buffy that would love him. Glory, the season's Big Bad, had sent minions to watch all of Buffy's acquaintances for hints to who or what the Key was. They saw Buffybot protecting Spike above all else, decided he was the key, and kidnapped him. Glory knew immediately that he was not, but realized he might know who was. She tortured him while Buffy and the other Scoobies headed towards them to kill Spike before he could tell, but Spike managed to escape. Buffy pretended to be the robot and learned that Spike hadn't told and would rather die than betray Buffy and Dawn, she kissed him and told him that what he'd done was real, and she wouldn't forget it.
After that, Spike started helping more. Glory found out that Dawn was the key, and Buffy reinivited Spike in. She also made him promise to protect Dawn no matter what. During the final battle, Spike tried to protect her, but a demon pushed him off a tower, and though Dawn made it out safely, Buffy sacrificed her life to save Dawn and the world.
Spike was devastated, but he stuck around to keep his promise to Buffy. He protected Dawn and Sunnydale instead of leaving. The Scoobies brought the Buffybot back into commission to fool demons into thinking the Slayer was still alive. Though the robot had originally been Spike's, he could hardly stand to look at it because it wasn't Buffy and just reminded him that she was gone.
Then Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara brought Buffy back with a spell. She was not very happy to be back because, as she confided in Spike, she hadn't been in Hell like her friends had thought, she'd been in Heaven. They started almost being friends, but of course, Spike wanted more. He didn't really push her or tell her how much he felt until a demon turned Sunnydale into a musical and forced him to confess. After they'd beaten the bad guy and before the spell had worn off, the two of them kissed.
One kiss turned into two, and Spike wouldn't let Buffy forget it. He wanted her, and now it was clear she wanted him as well. She resisted until he learned that his chip didn't work on her. He claimed she came back wrong and they had a fight in an abandoned building that quickly turned into violent and passionate sex that destroyed the house.
Buffy again claimed that it wouldn't happen again, but she couldn't keep away. They started a secret affair that was emotionally difficult for both of them. He was in love with her, but she didn't feel the same way. She felt dirty and guilty about what the two of them did and refused to let them have anything more than sex. Eventually, she called it off because she realized she was using him and it was wrong.
Spike didn't want it to be over. He kept trying to get Buffy to sleep with him again, but she stayed firm. He started drinking and commiserating with Anya, who was similarly heartbroken over her recent break-up with Xander. They ended up having sex in the Magic Box. Unfortunately, their friends managed to hack into the spy cameras the three wannabe supervillains had put in the store right at that moment. Xander rushed down to kill Spike and Buffy followed him to stop him. Spike told Xander and Anya that he and Buffy had been sleeping together.
Later, Dawn showed up at Spike's crypt and told him how much he had hurt Buffy. Spike took that to mean Buffy loved him, and he went to her house to try and patch things up between the two of them. She said no, but he wouldn't listen, and he tried to force her to have sex with him. She kicked him across the room, and he finally got the hint that this time, no really meant no. Horrified that he had tried to rape the woman he loved, he left Sunnydale and went to Africa to undergo the Demon Trials and get a soul. He wanted to no longer be the type of man that could do something so terrible to someone he cared about.
He returned to Sunnydale, but getting a soul had taken a bigger toll than he'd expected. He moved into the basement of the newly built Sunnydale High and went crazy. His hair grew out, and he clawed at his chest to try and get the soul out. Of course, it didn't work.
He finally emerged to try and help Buffy with an evil that was coming. He didn't apologize, but insisted he had changed. Anya, now a vengeance demon, could see the new soul, but Spike attacked her before she could tell, and Buffy broke up the fight. Spike attacked her instead, but they were interrupted by the demon they'd been after in the first place reappearing.
The demon was a man under one of Anya's vengeance curses, and she managed to reverse it just before Spike impaled him, causing them both to scream in pain, Spike from the chip and the man from being stabbed. Spike went insane and started muttering to himself. He ran into a church, and Buffy went after him. He let on that he had a new soul, but he went back to his basement where the First Evil tormented him and made him crazy.
Eventually, Buffy got him to come out and move into Xander's spare bedroom. But people start turning up dead, and it's clear Spike's to blame. He denies it until he suddenly regains his memory. He moves into Buffy's basement and she chains him up. He tries to get her to stake him because he's done so much evil and thinks he'll do more, but she refuses, insisting she believes in him. The First Evil sent its servants, the Bringers to attack the Summers household and kidnap Spike. The First chained him up over the Hellmouth's and bled him, opening the seal and letting out one of the Turok-Han. The First tried to turn Spike against Buffy, but he wouldn’t cooperate, insisting that Buffy would come for him. Eventually, she does. He started helping Buffy train the new potential Slayers and met Robin Wood, the son of the second Slayer he killed, though he didn't know it. Wood knew what Spike had done, though, and planned to get revenge.
They figured out the trigger was a certain song Spike's mother had sung to him back when he was human, but Giles and Wood still thought Spike could be dangerous. Giles distracted Buffy while Wood brought Spike to a warehouse filled with crosses and played the trigger. Spike managed to fight through it in time to stop Wood from killing him. He didn't kill Wood, but he told Buffy that if he attacked again, he would.
The second Slayer, Faith, returned to Sunnydale and quickly won over the potential slayers by being more focused on having fun and less worried about working than Buffy was. Without exactly planning it, she wrested control away from Buffy, who left the house. Spike came back from a mission and found her gone. He punched Faith and left to find Buffy. He gave her a pep talk and explained all the wonderful things about her he loved, and she asked him to stay the night, just holding her. Spike later described it as the best night of his life.
Angel returned from LA, and Spike saw Buffy kiss him hello. He left angrily. She found him later and told him she'd made Angel go. She gave him a necklace with a talisman intended to be worn by a champion with a soul that was more than human. Angel had meant to wear it, but Buffy gave it to Spike. They went to the final battle, Buffy shared her power with all the potentials, and Spike channeled the power of the sun through himself and the necklace, immediately dusting the vampires they were fighting and causing an earthquake. Buffy's forces started retreating, but Spike couldn't leave. Buffy tried to make him go, but he told her to go, let him sit it out. Before he burned up, she told him she loved him, and he thanked her, but didn't believe him. Buffy ran to join the rest of the group while Spike combusted, taking all of Sunnydale with him.