Spike before being Spike was
William, a shy young fellow who liked to write poetry and lived with his mother
in London. Anne loved her son very much and
appreciated his poetry a great deal — she though
it was magnificent. William loved his
Mum back and used to say he would always look
after her. By 1880, Anne was very sick —
coughing up blood — and her physician were [Dr.
Gull]. Her favorite song was Early One
Morning, which she used to sing for
William.
William was infatuated with
beautiful Cecily Addams (or Underwood), and at
parties, he would stay all by himself writing
poems to his beloved, while the other guests had
fun and talked about the most recent news: a
rash of mysterious disappearances sweeping
through London. According to William, he
preferred not to think "of such dark, ugly
business at all. That's what the police are for.
I prefer placing my energies into creating
things of beauty."
My heart expands
'tis grown a bulge in it
inspired by your beauty, effulgent
Nicknamed William"The
Bloody", because of his bloody awful poetry,
when William had finally the nerve to reveal
his love to Cecily (and that the poetry he
writes is all about her), he ended up being
humiliated, as she says to him he is beneath
her.
The young man, deeply hurt, ran in despair
through the streets of London, with tears in his
eyes, tearing up the sheets with the poetry he
had written to Cecily. It was in this state of
mind that he ran into evil, mad vampire
Drusilla, and was sired by her.
After having been bitten by
Drusilla and became a vampire, William returned
to his house and, out of love for his Mum, sired
Anne for her to live forever.
When he first met vamp Mum,
William got very happy to see that Anne was
healthy, that she wasn't that fragile old lady
anymore. However, he soon realized she wasn't
the nice lady she used to be, either. The demon
he had set lose tore into him, saying very nasty
things who shocked him. With a broken heart,
poor William had to dust his mother eventually,
after she tried to "have a go" with her own son,
act that left him very traumatized. A hundred
years had to go by for him to understand that
his Mum loved him with all her heart and those
horrible words had been said by a demon, not
Anne.
William took the nick "Spike" because,
according to the Watcher's Journal, of his
liking for torturing his victims with railroad
spikes. Maybe William heard what a guest at the
party had said about his poetry: the fellow
rather have a railroad spike through his head
than listen to it.