| The Buffy and Spike Timeline |
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| 2001- |
| Buffy dies to save the world and Dawn |
| 2001- |
| Buffy is brought back to life by Willow |
| 2001- |
| Buffy and Spike share their first real kiss |
| 2001- |
| Buffy and Spike secretly get together |
| 2002- |
| Riley returns with his new wife , then leaves, but his return makes Buffy think of her future and she breaks up with Spike |
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| 2002- |
| Buffy attempts to rape Buffy, prompting him to leave town to find himself and gets his soul returned to him for Buffy |
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| 2002- |
| Spike returns to Sunnydale and Buffy learns he has a soul |
| 2002- |
| Spike is haunted by The Frist which makes him start killing again, but he can't remember any of it; Buffy takes him in |
| 2002- |
| Giles brings potential slayers back with him to Sunnydale for Buffy to train |
| 2003- |
| After Spike has been taken by the First, Buffy comes to his rescue |
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