I'm wondering what they did to make Spike forget everyone so completely.  Nothing is showing which is amazing considering his previous obsession.

Well done!

 Oh this is so painful! I just want him to be better!

This is SO awful. 
Your writing of Spike's mental state is amazing. 
I hope Willow's hacker abilities work better than some of her magic did in the show.  Then agail, that was her more "stable" talent in the show - didn't tend to go all weird with unintentional results.
Interesting that he does't even know his name.  Some amazing upgrades to that chip. 
And what's the Initiative doing right now?  They've lost their prize experiment, after all.  I'm hoping there is no tracking device imbedded in the chip...or anywhere else on Spike, for that matter.

Awww... poor baby... stripped even of his own identity, even that of his Inner Self; fear of his own name, his persona in his own mind.  How terrible for him!  Mabel, it's SOOO up to you to "make it better" for him!  He still has inner thought processes, yet his is fearful and stripped of the concept of self as an entity, a named entity, expecting the worst from humans... I get that they were able to mute his speech, and to do this with negative reenforcement...aka pain and torture... (not from the chip as I'd thought?)  so that he apparently learned not to use this function--- but HOW did it carry over and result in his inability to recognize the written word (something OH so important to his inner William, and to Spike), to be unable to conceptualize letters of the alphabet and words? What happened to cause this?  I can also understand that with the torture and cruelties heaped upon him, his human-vamp mind, his vampire-hybrid body, his primal demon, even, enough to cause a personality or psychotic break with reality...enough to break him---apparently ALL of him ----enough that he was totally maleable and his will had packed up and left town!!!  I guess I just don't quite grasp the barely functional non-questioning (for the most part, but actually doing so a bit with thoughts of his fears and doubts) persona (per se) that he has retained or developed for day to day functions----and this persona does not recognize things or even himself from prior times and situations....hmmmm....oh, Mabel, what a mess...but I trusts ya---I know you've gotta haul him outta this hole and "make it better"...Make it ALL better.  You've sucked me in again, Mabel, into another of your fics! (Naughty wench!)  And why're you posting this only (???) here (tho' I luvs the BSV !) and not on a couple other of your usual haunts??? Folks hangin' there are being deprived of this tremendous fic! Keep up the great work and MORE soon!
~~Kara~~
~~fyreburned~~

Brilliant idea for the Scrabble board for communication!
You've gotta come forward with the memory stuff soon! I'm biting my nails to nubbins trying to figure out how he suppressed his memories!
Awesome job so far and I can't wait for more!