Summary: All Human AU. One day William "Spike" Pratt wakes up in an insane intuition, convinced he's a vampire. Meanwhile his girlfriend Buffy Summers is trying to comprehend how her boyfriend could do that things the police is saying he did and keep her life together.
Rating: T for some violence
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Chapter 1

2002

Spike awoke on a soft floor. He tried to stretch his arms but they were caught in something. At first he thought he was just wrapped securely in his blanket, but when he looked down he noticed a straightjacket. "Oh, you have to be bloody kidding me," he said. He stood up and pulled his arms away, but the restraints would not break. "Buffy," he yelled at the door of his padded cell, "Whatever kind of sick joke this is...cut it out!"

He was hoping Buffy would walk in through the door, wearing a sexy little nurse's outfit, and slowly untie him. Then he would pounce on her and he, the "psycho", would have his way with her. But Buffy did not walk through those doors.

"Bloody Hell," Spike shouted, "This isn't funny anymore." He tugged again at the straightjacket. He could not understand why it would not break. Didn't he have super strength?

He thought about this predicament some more. Perhaps this was more serious than he first thought. Perhaps some group, like the Initiative, had captured him. If so he was going to have to figure out a way to escape, and fast.

"Mr. Pratt." A woman with a white lab coat opened the door to the cell and walked in. Behind her were two guards. "I hope today you will come without a fight."

Spike stared at the woman. He wondered how the woman knew is former last name and why she was using it. Was it a taunt? But that, Spike realized, was the least of his problems. He had to figure out a way to escape. Even restrained he knew he was strong enough to kill the woman with no effort, and the guards wouldn't be that much harder either. The problem was the chip in his head. He if tried to hurt them it would send a flash of pain through his skull. Damn, that chip was getting inconvenient!

"Today?" Spike asked, "I don't remember us being formally introduced. And you are?" Spike nonchalantly leaned against a padded wall.

"William," the woman sighed, "We've been over this. I am Dr. Walsh, your psychiatrist."

"Psychiatrist my ass! I'll bloody kill you." Spike attempted to vamp out his face, but it wasn't working. "What have you done to me?" Spike asked mortified. First they put chip in his head that stopped him from hurting humans, now he couldn't even vamp out his face. If he couldn't at least look scary there was no way he would ever successfully mug a person again.

"Hopefully your medicine has started to work," Dr. Walsh said.

Spike lunged forward. Sure the chip would give him a killer headache but it would be worth it. How dare they try to tame him! Before he reached the doctor the guards pinned him to the ground. He was surprised at how weak he felt. He could not throw the men off of him. Whatever they did to him they must had subdued his strength too.

"I'll kill you!" he yelled, "I'll kill you all!"

"Ms. Summers?" the police officer, Riley Finn, said while standing on Buffy Summers' front porch said. He was the same police officer that had taken her boyfriend, William "Spike" Pratt, away only a few nights ago.

"What do you want, Finn?" she asked, not willing to cooperate.

"May I come in?"

"No!"

Finn sighed.

"It wasn't him," Buffy said, "It was the lunatic ex-girlfriend of his. This is exactly her style."

"Please, Ms. Summers, let me come in."

"You're wrong about William." Buffy had been dating Spike for only a few month but they were madly in love. And a few nights ago the police took him away and arrested. She knew he did nothing wrong and she would not allow them to continue to her harass her.

Finn stared at Buffy, waiting for her to step aside and invite him in. After a three-minute glaring match she sighed and walked into the living room. Without a formal invitation Finn walked inside and followed her into the living room.

"Your boyfriend is…not who you think he is," Finn said while taking a seat on the couch next to Buffy. He stared at her intensely. "We have the DNA proof."

"Killing people, that's why Drusilla did," Buffy said. Drusilla was Spike's ex-girlfriend who had been put in an high-security insane asylum for murder years before Buffy met Spike.

"Drusilla's been locked up for years," Finn said. "She's in an intuition. Besides there were…small differences between these killings and those."

"It wasn't William," Buffy said, "And nothing you tell me will convince me otherwise."