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1. Rebooting the Big Bad Vampire by voidslayerworks98

   Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Spike/Buffy Summers
   • Buffy Summers
   • Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
   • Rupert Giles
   • Willow Rosenberg
   • Xander Harris
   • Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
   • Joyce Summers
   • Harmony Kendall
   • Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
   • Tara Maclay
   • Anya Jenkins
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Romance
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Fluff and Humor
   • Romantic Fluff
   • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Season 4
   • Alternate Universe
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • do not feed this work into GenAI for any reason
   • no AI
   • Non-Graphic Smut

   Summary

   Starts at season 4, episode 6 then mostly goes off canon.

   Spike is captured by the Initiative and is fitted with a prototype chip that wipes his vampire consciousness, reverting his mind back to William Pratt. Clinging to the only memory left in his head, he seeks out Buffy.

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   English

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