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You'll see, you're almost there. Nevermind said: They were never officially together. Buffy was never sure of what to think about it all. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Related Clubs. Cookies help us bring you Fanpop. Posing as the Buffybot, the real Buffy bestows a kiss and her trust on her knight errant.

The groundbreaking musical episode in Season 6, which has since inspired countless imitations across many genre series, features beautiful ballads from the entire cast, but perhaps none as meaningful as the ones exchanged by Spike and Buffy.

After Dawn releases a demon who makes everyone unable to stop dancing and singing, Spike reveals to Buffy how tormented he is being in love with her, and she reveals how painful it is to have been pulled from heaven.

They realize they're two lost souls that might be able to find happiness or at least feelings worth living for in each other, and they share their first "real" kiss at the end of the episode. A fan favorite across the entire series, this early Season 6 episode explores what happens to the Scoobie when one of Willow's spells goes wrong and robs them of their memories.

Their process of piecing together their personal histories makes for some hysterical role reversals. Not knowing their history both improves and complicates Buffy and Spike's relationship, especially in lieu of the kiss they shared at the end of "Once More With Feeling. With the sexual tension building in several previous episodes, it finally erupts in the middle of Season 6, when two unstoppable forces collide to quite literally bring down the house.

Spike and Buffy get physically intimate for the first time, and the episode proves their relationship will be very different than what she had with Angel. Buffy and Spike's lovemaking is violent, demanding, and destructive, and causes a house to collapse.

They aren't concerned with the ramifications of their animal passions, which sets the tone for their affair, which Buffy conceals from her friends out of shame. She could have sex with handcuffs, but she also had to hide her relationship with Spike and feel intense shame and wonder, Why do I let Spike do those things to me?

This particular moment of reflection comes after one of the most startling moments in the series. Buffy and Spike seemingly have anal sex in the balcony of a nightclub only several feet from her friends. The very act of this is shameful to Buffy, and writer Steven S. DeKnight's script describes her as "wracked with guilt.

On Sex and the City , Miranda was already enjoying the thrills of public sex, and George Michael was making tongue-in-cheek references to his "lewd behavior" arrest in his '98 single "Outside. Buffy was always a series about that blonde girl who is often killed in horror movies finally being able to defend herself. Whether it's the horny teenager who gets hacked to pieces in a slasher film, or Mia Farrow impregnated with the child of Satan in Rosemary's Baby , for a long time horror wasn't devoted to the joys of female pleasure.

In that moment, the illusion of Buffy as an undefeatable heroine was lost for me. Initially, the dream featured Spike attempting to force Buffy to kill him in the hopes that he wouldn't have to exist in her world anymore; he even tore off his shirt in order to give her a clear shot with her stake.

The dream concluded with them passionately kissing and led Spike to realize, much to his horror and confusion, that he had fallen in love with a Slayer. Spike became a much more active participant in the Scooby Gang, jumping into several fights to give Buffy assistance regardless of whether or not she wanted it. Buffy sometimes took out her anger and frustration on Spike; he went along with it, as it allowed him to spend time with her.

His story revealed his fixation with Slayers to Buffy, who had him replay his battles with the two Slayers in great detail, fights he related to "dances. Spike was visibly hurt when she told him that he was beneath her, as this was first said to him when he was turned down by Cecily as a human.

Equipped with a shotgun, he went to her house with the goal of killing her, but upon finding her on her back porch in tears about her mother's illness, cast aside his feelings of anger and humiliation and comforted her for the first time. Before his departure, Riley rightfully assessed that Spike had fallen in love with his girlfriend after he caught him sniffing Buffy's clothes in her room.

Spike took great pleasure in informing Riley about Joyce's illness, which Buffy had neglected to tell him about. Riley confronted Spike soon afterward, but Spike only taunted him about his relationship with Buffy. They drank together and discussed their separate situations regarding the Slayer.

Riley asked Spike if he really thought he had any chance with Buffy and Spike responded with self-deprecation, stating that he knew he didn't but that he had to try anyway. Spike believed his situation was better than Riley's, who was close to Buffy but never had her completely.

Riley left Buffy and Sunnydale behind soon after. Later, when Dawn snuck out of the house on Buffy's birthday in order to go to the Magic Box , Spike, who was standing vigil, decided to go along in order to protect her from any possible threats. He helped her break into the store, but he ended up partly responsible for Dawn discovering her identity as the Key.

Upon learning of Spike's involvement, Buffy immediately confronted him in his crypt. She attacked him, but Spike turned the tables on her by informing her that he had only accompanied Dawn to keep her safe.

He also remarked that they should have just told Dawn earlier because she was bound to find out sooner or later. When Dawn ran away again during her identity crisis, Spike was quick to join the search party. Buffy tearfully admitted to Spike that he had been right; Spike then made an awkward attempt to comfort her, stating that Dawn, being a "fourteen-year-old hormone bomb," would have eventually snuck out anyway.

He assured Buffy that they would indeed find her little sister. Following this adventure, Drusilla arrived in Sunnydale with burn scars after she and Darla were immolated by Angel, with the aim of rebuilding her relationship with Spike and reuniting their family.

She convinced Spike that despite his chip he was still a killer and let him feed on the blood of a woman she killed. Dawn, who had developed a crush on Spike, perceived his feelings for Buffy. She casually mentioned it to Buffy, who confronted Spike but was knocked out by him and Drusilla before Spike then turned against Drusilla.

As Spike revealed his feelings to Buffy who was chained up in his crypt, she quickly and harshly rejected his advances, and Spike, not willing to give up without a fight, wanted her to witness him killing Drusilla, his once forever love.

His plan failed, however, when a jealous Harmony intervened and a fight ensued between the three vampires and the Slayer. After Harmony and Drusilla left Spike, Buffy destroyed his shrine, then had Willow revoke Spike's invitation into her house.

Following the sudden death of Joyce Summers, Spike attempted to pay his respects by leaving flowers at Buffy's house, as he regarded her as the only person in Buffy's life who had ever treated him decently.

Xander immediately suspected he was merely attempting to take advantage of a painful situation to score points with Buffy, and couldn't be convinced otherwise until Willow discovered that Spike had left the card for Joyce completely anonymous.

When Dawn attempted to resurrect Joyce, Spike helped her but assured her that he didn't want any credit for it, as Buffy would "drive a redwood through his chest" if she found out he was involved. He was badly injured by a Ghora demon when they attempted to steal one of its eggs in order to perform the spell. Their efforts proved worthless when Dawn raised her mother as an assumed zombie , then broke the spell before the results were revealed.

In the midst of his obsession, Spike had Warren Mears make the Buffybot , a robot created in Buffy's likeness that was programmed to love and obey Spike. He briefly used the robot as a substitute for what he couldn't have with the real Buffy, but he was soon captured by Glory's minions , who had mistaken Buffybot's attention to Spike as if him being the Key.

Though still thoroughly disgusted, Buffy lost much of her disdain for Spike after learning that he had refused to reveal the true identity of the Key to Glorificus , even under intense torture. She realized that he had laid down his life to protect Dawn, something she wouldn't have thought possible of him. She was ultimately very moved by his unexpected sacrifice, and as a reward, kissed him and told him that she would never forget what he had done for her. Buffy's trust in Spike grew immensely from there, a prime example being when she left Dawn with him in his crypt after Glory "brain-sucked" Tara.

While there, Dawn tearfully blamed herself for Glory's attacks on her friends including Spike's torture at Glory's hands and believed herself a lightning rod for pain. Spike consoled her as best he could, telling her that as a vampire, he knew a thing or two about evil, and she wasn't it.

When Buffy later joined them, believing that she had managed to talk Willow down from taking vengeance on Glory, Spike quickly pointed out that Willow, being a very powerful and angry witch, would not be so easily reasoned with regarding someone she loved being hurt, causing Buffy to immediately rush to her rescue. Buffy knew that Spike was the only person besides herself who stood any chance at protecting Dawn against Glory. Spike ultimately accepted that Buffy would never love him, and settled for having her trust; he said that though he knew he was a monster, she treated him like a human being.

During the final battle, he tried desperately to save Dawn from Glory's minion, Doc , who was attempting to draw Dawn's blood as part of the ritual. Spike was easily outmaneuvered and fell off a thirty-foot tower, where he was unable to assist Dawn further; this would remain one of his deepest regrets after Buffy's death in the battle.

Upon setting eyes on her lifeless body, he collapsed in sorrow and wept openly. During this period, Spike officially joined the Scooby Gang as he fought at their side, [75] [33] keeping track of the number of days since Buffy's death.

Spike remained unaware of the Scoobies' plan to resurrect Buffy until after the event; he returned to the Summers' residence in search of Dawn, only to discover Buffy alive-and-well days after her death. Unable to confide in her friends about being torn from Heaven due to guilt, Buffy began to go to Spike for comfort as a confidant. Their physical relationship began after the demon Sweet cast a spell that caused them to share their true emotions through song.

Buffy had begun to crave the ability to "feel" again, and expressed that she wanted "the fire back. Their mutual desires clashed in the alleyway behind the Bronze, where they kissed. Though Buffy denied the act at first, their tension was finally consummated when Spike discovered that his chip no longer stopped him from harming the resurrected Buffy.

He initially thought that it had stopped working, and attempted to feed on a woman, only to be shocked with pain. He then extorted the band of geeks known as the Trio to assess his chip, who told him that it was still completely functional; Spike came to the conclusion that it was Buffy who had changed, rather than the chip.

He showed her, claiming Buffy had come back from heaven "wrong. Although the already dilapidated house crumbled down around them, they didn't notice and allowed the moment to unfold. Buffy initiated their relationship partly as a way to punish herself, and partly as a means of connecting to life again. Buffy instituted much of the violence and sex between them which Spike happily took, and threatened to kill Spike if he ever told anyone about their time together.

Both members remained unsatisfied with their continued sexual acts; Buffy was very ashamed of her dark desires, while Spike craved the love, trust. When Buffy believed she had killed a human, Katrina Silber , Spike tried to fix the problem by dumping the body into a river before Buffy could confess.

When he revealed what he did and attempted to prevent her from alerting the police, a guilt-ridden Buffy took out her frustration on Spike and beat him thoroughly. Shortly after Buffy's ex-boyfriend, Riley, returned to Sunnydale in search of a Suvolte demon egg smuggler, Spike egotistically informed him of his relationship with Buffy after Riley caught them together. Though Riley pretended not to care, he did accuse Spike of being the smuggler under the alias of "the Doctor.

Spike subsequently tried to make her jealous by bringing a date to Xander and Anya Jenkins ' wedding. And after Xander left Anya at the altar, Spike got drunk with the one-again vengeance demon at the Magic Box. He and Anya were able to relate easily as each had recently been abandoned by their loved ones. They sought brief solace in each others' arms where they were caught on camera and seen by the Scoobies. Xander tried to kill Spike in a jealous rage but Buffy stopped him in time and her secret relationship with Spike was revealed as a result.

After witnessing Buffy's clear jealous reaction to his sexual liaison with Anya, Spike came to believe that he still had a chance to win her back. His attempts proved worthless, however. After being lectured by Dawn, he lost control of his obsession and cornered an injured Buffy in her bathroom. He made sexual advances towards her, and when she refused him, he grew desperate and tried to rape her. After Buffy fought him off, Spike was shocked at his own behavior and tried to deny he would do anything, but he was violently reminded that the demon portion of his being still existed.

In tears, Buffy dared him to ask why she could never love him, but he quickly fled her house. He returned to his crypt in shame, to then left Sunnydale for the first time in nearly three years.

He traveled to a remote location in Africa in seek of a legend. There, he underwent the Demon Trials , a series of brutal physical and mental tests, to prove his worth to the demon shaman in exchange for what he asked: to be what he once was, what Buffy deserved.

After his completion of the trials, the demon shaman restored his soul. With the returning of Spike's soul came a conscience filled with guilt, both for the sins he had committed throughout his life and his more recent attack on Buffy.

He couldn't bring himself to see her for some time, and took shelter in the basement of the newly constructed Sunnydale High School. There, he was tormented by both the First Evil and his soul, appearing to be losing his mind; he forced Buffy to leave when she discovered him, but he allowed her to see that he had tried to scratch out his own soul in self-contempt.

During a moment of clarity, he helped Buffy to track down a Sluggoth demon created by Anya, during which time Buffy came to realize what had happened to him during his missing weeks. Buffy, touched by his efforts, asked him why he had fought for his soul. Spike replied in partly cohesive mutters: "For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would never… To be a kind of man. And she shall look on him with forgiveness and everybody will forgive and love and he will be loved.

Because Buffy insisted and because he had nowhere else to go, Spike once more became a reluctant roommate with Xander. Spike initially had no memory of his actions; after discovering what he had done, he expected Buffy to kill him, but Buffy refused to do so, and instead took him to her house.

In the Summers' residence, he suffered from human blood withdrawals, remained vulnerable to the First's influence, and was willingly confined with ropes. She told him that she believed in him, a statement that would sustain him later through his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the First and its minions. After Buffy rescued him from the First, Spike helped her to train Potential Slayers by sparring with them.

In the meantime, his chip began to malfunction, causing him intense pain and threatening to end his life. To the dismay of Giles and her friends, Buffy showed her lasting trusted in Spike by ordering the Initiative's operatives to remove the chip from his head for good, telling him that he had the potential to be a good man. She also took Spike's side when Robin Wood attempted to kill him in retribution for the murder of his mother, Nikki Wood, the Slayer Spike killed in New York in the late '70s.

Ironically, by trying to kill Spike while he was under the influence of the First's programming, Wood freed Spike from the hypnotic trigger the song "Early One Morning," that Spike's mother once sang to him.

The song evoked Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior after he turned her. Finally able to address these issues, Spike realized that his mother had always loved him, a knowledge that freed him from the First's control for good. Afterward, Spike bit Wood and left him heavily hurt, letting him live out of respect for Nikki. Spike assured Buffy that he had given Wood his last chance and that he would kill Robin without hesitation if he so much as looked at him the wrong way again.

Buffy was supportive, stating that she would let him do it; both she and Spike knew that they had no more time for pointless vendettas. Spike shows his love and admiration for Buffy by restoring her confidence in herself. Spike remained loyal to her when the other Scoobies and the Potentials removed her from her position as their leader, when he criticized them for treating Buffy with so little respect after all she had done for them.

He even brawled briefly with Slayer Faith Lehane before leaving to find Buffy. He tracked her down in a house that had been left abandoned when its owner fled Sunnydale, where Spike offered emotional comfort and unconditional love, helping restore Buffy's battered confidence and will to fight. His words had also restored the depressed Buffy's self-belief, and allowed her to trust her instincts, follow her hunch about the secret weapon being at the Vineyard, and helped her win back her role as leader of the army after Faith accidentally led the Potentials into a near-fatal trap.

Spike returned with her. When Angel returned to Sunnydale to help with the battle against the First, Buffy gave him a "hello" kiss; Spike witnessed this from a distance and overheard Angel tell Buffy about the magical properties of a mystical amulet that was to be worn by a Champion during the final fight.

Later, Spike was hitting a punching bag with a self-drawn picture of Angel on it. When Buffy came to see him, Spike told her what he had seen and that he wanted to wear the amulet, as it was meant for a being who possessed a soul but was more than human. Buffy explained that the amulet was meant only to worn by a true Champion, then handed it to Spike.

They slept in each others' arms again during that second night. In the midst of battle, the amulet suddenly activated and began emitting a channel of mystical sunlight through his body. The sunlight destroyed all of the Turok-Hans and began to collapse the cavern containing the Hellmouth. Buffy went to him and pleaded that he accompany her to the surface, telling him that he had done more than enough, but Spike decided to stay to finish the job of closing the Hellmouth.

He told her that he could feel his soul. Buffy locked fingers with him and declared that she loved him. He answered: "No you don't, but thanks for saying it. As he burned and crumbled to dust, Spike reveled in seeing how it ended. He died closing the Hellmouth and saving the world. Spike appeared in Los Angeles 19 days after his apparent death in Sunnydale.

When Angel opened the package, the amulet fell out and Spike materialized from a cloud of dust. At first, he complained about being brought back, stating dramatically: "Can't a man die in peace without some high almighty deciding it's not his time?

Spike's connection to the human world was unstable and caused him to dematerialize at random, increasingly frequent intervals.

As his disappearances became more regular, a terrified Spike confided in the Winifred Burkle that every time he vanished he was being transported to Hell.

He feared that despite his status as a Champion, he would still be damned for all eternity for his past sins. He asked Fred to save him, and she promised to find a way to make him corporeal again. Although Fred successfully created a machine to corporealize Spike, when Spike was forced to choose between his body and Fred's life, he faithfully threw away his opportunity in order to save her life. Despite Angel's continued lack of confidence in Spike, Fred later told him that she believed him "worth saving.

Just as Spike began to grow accustomed to his ghostly nature, a mysterious package arrived for him in the mail; upon opening it, a flash of light restored his body. Eve soon arrived with an addition to the Shanshu Prophecy that stated that the existence of two corporeal ensouled vampires would complicate the outcome of the prophecy, and perhaps even destroy the fabric of reality.

She told Angel and Spike that an extended translation of the text revealed that, in order to restore balance, the two must compete to drink from the Cup of Perpetual Torment. The winner would be bestowed with great responsibilities and pain before ultimately having his past washed clean, allowing him to live as a human again.

Spike, who desperately wanted to defeat Angel, traveled to the abandoned Nevadan opera house where the Cup was said to be kept. Upon his arrival, Angel engaged him in a duel for the Cup.

The two vampires fought with fists and fangs, but, in the end, the deep roots of their century-old rivalry proved far more important to the battle's outcome. In anger, Spike threw Angel against a pile of crosses and told him that, in the end, he was still a monster. Angel countered by saying that Spike was no different, but Spike denied any similarities between them, saying: "You had a soul forced on you.

As a curse. Make you suffer for all the horrible things you've done. Me, I fought for my soul, went through the demon trials, almost did me in a dozen times over, but I kept fighting. Because I knew it was the right thing to do. It's my destiny. Their battle culminated with Spike revealing his resentment toward Angel for making him the monster he became; he justified that although Drusilla had been the one to turn him, it had been Angelus's influence that had truly destroyed William Pratt and had forced Spike's more savage persona to develop.

In the end, Spike defeated Angel for the very first time in their long history. Angel later noted that Spike had possessed a far greater desire for the Cup, and was able to overcome Angel's superior strength.

Spike succeeded in drinking from the Cup, but the prophecy turned out to be a sham. The liquid in the Cup was merely Mountain Dew. Although Spike was then a corporeal vampire again and no longer bound to Los Angeles, he chose not to go to Europe in search of Buffy.

He revealed that he wanted her to remember him as a hero who died to save the world. He mockingly simulated a phone call between him and Buffy, stating: "Hello, Buffy, it's Spike.

I didn't burn up like you thought I did. How are things? Angel's old enemy Lindsey McDonald subsequently chose to take advantage of Spike's desire to do good by pretending to be the late half-demon Doyle and persuading him that he was destined, like Angel before him, to "help the helpless.

As a Slayer, Dana was burdened by dreams and memories that were not her own and mistakenly believed Spike to have killed her family she was confusing other Slayers' memories with her own. She captured and drugged Spike, and cut off his hands. The experience caused Spike to more deeply examine the nature of the evil within him; he later told Angel about Dana's misconception that he had murdered her family, and said: "And I'm supposed to do, what, complain, 'cause hers wasn't one of the hundreds of families I did kill?

Spike then pointed out that he and Angel were innocent victims too, "once upon a time. Spike's relationship with Angel became even more acrimonious after the showdown with Lindsey, and Angel contemplated the possibility of Spike leaving Los Angeles after a petty argument over whether cavemen or astronauts would win in a fight. Their relationship greatly improved after Spike officially joined Angel's crew.

When Fred became infected with the essence of the Old One , Illyria , and Spike worked alongside Angel and the others to find a cure. He officially joins Team Angel in her honor. The two develop a unique bond, though Illyria actually seemed to think of Spike as her "pet. At some point, Spike was tricked into admitting himself to the Mosaic Wellness Center , a rehabilitation clinic where supernatural beings could be cured of their demonic nature, by the parents of one of Spike's victims; [] in reality, Mosaic was a maximum-security prison from which inmates were unable to leave.

As it turned out, Spike had a reputation as a "boogeyman" at Mosaic, with inmates telling stories about him to scare each other. During his time in Mosaic, Spike befriended Beck , a pyrokinetic teenager, and Betta George , a Splenden beast ; this friendship nearly killed Beck when the vampire Wiseau stabbed her with a stake as a message to Spike.

Spike was the first to vote for Angel's plan to wound the Senior Partners by taking out the Circle of the Black Thorn and going out in a blaze of glory. Before Angel's team entered what could very well have been their final battle, Angel gave them the day off and told them to do whatever they wanted. Spike chose to go to an open mic poetry slam at the McTarnan's bar, where he drank to gather courage and recited the completed version of " My soul is wrapped in harsh repose ," the poem he had written before his siring.

After he finished reading, Spike received tumultuous applause from the audience. The following day, he single-handedly rescued an infant and destroyed the Fell Brethren, and then joined Angel, Illyria, and a badly-wounded Charles Gunn in the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel , where the four survivors prepared to meet the apocalyptic wrath of the Senior Partners, as a way of going out in a blaze of glory.

After the fall of Los Angeles into a hell dimension, Spike and Illyria were separated from Angel and began watching over a group of rescued humans and demons, residing at Happytime Studios amusement park.

One such civilian, Jeremy Johns — despite Spike's resistance — became Spike's right-hand man and friend. In hell, Illyria soon began randomly changing back into her Fred form, which left her confused and physically vulnerable, so Spike was forced to often urge her to remain as Illyria in order to protect her. While wandering the city, Spike encountered a dragon [] and considered killing it until it telepathically told him that he should mount it.

Unknown to him, this figure was Angel. Meanwhile, in Spike's absence, the civilians were kidnapped by a group of demonic warrior women. After leaving the law firm, Spike encountered one of the women and commandeered her truck in order to rescue the hostages. Together, Spike and Illyria fought with the demon women; their leader used life-draining magic on the hostages to turn them into zombies and knocked Illyria and Spike unconscious. Spike woke up in chains in a dark room, where the demon leader, Non , told him she couldn't absorb the powers of a vampire but was keeping him alive for his connections.

To keep him company, Spike was left with his zombified wards fallen around him. He was eventually approached by one of Non's lackeys, a Maria "Spider" Harley , whom he had previously met when he took her truck.

While he was tied up, the two had a short-lived sexual relationship. Non attempted to bargain with Charles Gunn, then a master vampire, to return Spike to him in return for a partnership; however, Gunn beat her instead, leading her to decide to kill Spike, Illyria, and Jeremy. The following day, Non brought Illyria and Spike to be executed, but the axe shattered when she attempted to behead Illyria.

Illyria broke free and started killing members of Non's army. As the battle broke out, Illyria remarked to Spike that he had slept with Spider, then forcefully kissed him, claiming to be his priority again.

Non then prepared to kill Jeremy, but Angel's son, Connor , appeared suddenly and stopped her. In the midst of the fight, Spike discovered that Non's Sadecki demon, Noelle , was controlling her flock of female warriors, so he instructed Illyria to kill her.

During the confrontation, she once more reverted between Fred and Illyria, but, after much encouragement from Spike, she was able to gather herself and kill the Sadecki. The women were free from the mind control, so Spike was able to attack Non. After taking a beating from Spike, she began to use the last human hostage — Jeremy — to regain some of her power. Illyria realized this and horrified Spike by killing Jeremy. Though upset, Spike took advantage of the situation to killed Non.

After defeating the vampire Hugh Hefner , Spike had their headquarters at his mansion. Spike partly chose to keep the girls with him in hopes that they would cause Illyria to remain on guard, thus making sure she wouldn't transform into Fred so often. He buried Jeremy's body, and told the other lords of Los Angeles to stay away from him. Later, Spike and Connor met up again and began their crusade to save the remaining humans in Los Angeles.

Spike eventually adjusted to Los Angeles' new status as a literal hell on Earth. It was eventually revealed that their position was a facade; Spike and Illyria were secretly rescuing humans and benevolent demons and evacuating them into the care of Connor , Nina Ash , Kate Lockley , and Gwen Raiden.