Season 6 Spike- it's the one I know best, and he's just- he's not the sort who dishes out advice, you know?

well, he might. He kind of liked having Dawnie bounce stuff off him(not her naughty stuff, just stuff)

S6 Spike was all about giving advice to Buffy. IJS.

Ahhh! Special hell!

Spike talking to Dawn is an idea. Not sure it'll work, but it's an idea. And I could try him talking to Buffy, too. That might help. *hurries off the try things out*

Actually, I think that writing a Crazy!Spike version would be funny .. ..

If you can keep your head
while everyone else is running around without a hall pass;
If you can take the cane of the Master
Without dropping your slate ....

And I enjoyed Angelus-If very much, Am.

I put the Buffy (first verse) and Spike (last section) parts together, made a few changes for the voice, and I think I've got something presentable. Comments please.

If – Spike speaking to Buffy.

If you can keep your stake when all about you
Are using theirs and needing help from you;
If you can trust yourself when Giles doubts you,
And save the bloody world again, too;
If you can die, and not be killed by dying,
Or, being resurrected, don’t deal in magics,
Or, being shagged, don’t give way to shagging,
And keep practising old time blows and kicks;

If you can live- and not make life your master;
If you can love - and not make love your aim;
If you can meet with me and old Angelus
And treat us two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear me swear and cuss
And not put me- or someone else- in plaster,
Or watch the Scooby gang break and split open,
And not just stop for brood and mopin’;

If you can turn all your friends into one group
And risk them in one more Apocalypse,
Which you might lose: and yet you stoop
And help up some poor man with bloody lips;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,
To fight long after all hope seems to be gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”:

If you can work with devils as with angel,
And sleep with me, though it’s many nights too few,
And have sex, not missing that we don’t snuggle;
If you can live, though it’s the hardest thing to do;
If you can look, and find it’s a man not a vamp you see,
Without starting to pout or get huffy,
I’m all yours as is everything that’s in me,
And- which is more, you’ll be a Hero, Buffy!

Authors Notes: I suspect he may be drunk, hence the rhyme scheme in stanza 2. I also suspect that Buffy is nearly as bad as effulgent when you’re trying to find rhymes, hence the slightly silly line (which I know is off-metre as well).

Edited for spelling.

Cereal: Yay! I'm learning HTML and it makes the world go round (or at least the poem look readable).

That was cool. Spike would be proud, I think.

I don't that Spike would be proud. Human William might have been pleased with it. But I'm glad you liked it.