Okay, I have to get on my other computer to do the recs (shuddup!), which I will do, because I TOTALLY CAN, because I'm a big big geek. But let me answer all your Spikey questions right now. You're in the middle of Season Three? That would be immediately post-Becoming/II. ACATHLA. Yeah, whatever.
Answer: Yes. Spike gets his soul. IN SEASON SIX. At the end. But fanfic had him soul-wanked from about the first minute, because James Marsters took what was supposed to be a one-off character and made him multi-dimensional. [It's not his fault Joss Jossed the dimensions right out of him.] Even before Spike Got His Soul, though, he acted as though he had one: Drusilla, and then Buffy, and always Joyce, were the objects of his affection (Joyce in a totally platonic, I-ate-my-mum-will-you-be-nice-to-me kind of way).
Let me know what kinds of happy!fic you want to read--dark happy!fic, light fluffy happy!fic, Vampire happy!fic, which pairings, etc. Shuddup again. :D
Re: The Buffyverse
Answer: Yes. Spike gets his soul. IN SEASON SIX. At the end. But fanfic had him soul-wanked from about the first minute, because James Marsters took what was supposed to be a one-off character and made him multi-dimensional. [It's not his fault Joss Jossed the dimensions right out of him.] Even before Spike Got His Soul, though, he acted as though he had one: Drusilla, and then Buffy, and always Joyce, were the objects of his affection (Joyce in a totally platonic, I-ate-my-mum-will-you-be-nice-to-me kind of way).
Let me know what kinds of happy!fic you want to read--dark happy!fic, light fluffy happy!fic, Vampire happy!fic, which pairings, etc. Shuddup again. :D