Spike Fakes Having the Chip (Author's Choice) by Azure +14
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Categories: Season 4
Characters: Ensemble
Summary:

Spike, having run out of ideas on how to get Drusilla back and after the humiliation of losing the Gem of Amara, is desperate. He has an encounter with the Initiative (maybe he's captured and escapes prior to receiving the chip, or the chip doesn't work, etc.) and learns that they deal with behaviour modification, so he decides to go to the Scoobies and pretend he can't hurt people. Just because he can, really - it's either do this or go meet the sunshine or stake himself. None of those options are really his style, but he doesn't know what else to do, so why not try? It could be fun. And if it gets too annoying, he can kill the lot of them all at an opportune time, no big deal.

He helps out the Scoobies a little (demanding compensation, of course) and enjoys going out and causing the usual death and mayhem behind everyone's backs. However, he (inevitably) begins to fall in love with Buffy and eventually finds the whole white hat thing is actually not all bad, sometimes.

How does Spike faking the chip change the events of Season 4 (and potentially beyond)?

Must have the Scoobies finding out the truth, but when is up to you (even years into the future), as long as Spike successfully fakes it for a little while at least.