season 5, joyce plays matchmaker after learning she may die

Seven Stages to Clarity by pfeifferpack

http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=36913

Summary: When facing eternity, a good mother will try to put all her affairs in order. That means getting real, seeing clearly and putting your own heart's desires on hold, your dreams in perspective, letting your brain control your advice. Now if only those you love will just cooperate! Joyce looks to her daughter's future as her own mortality becomes an issue and comes to some startling conclusions. Can Joyce convince Buffy to forget all that she has been telling her, all that everyone has been telling her, thereby easing Joyce's own worries before facing the hospital and possible death?
Setting: S5 and begins to go AU at the end of "Fool For Love" (written by Douglas Petrie). I am using bits of dialogue from that episode in the beginning of the story before it goes a very different direction.

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	season 5, joyce plays matchmaker after learning she may die

	Jillian162 Partaker	#1 \| Posted: 15 Jan 2013 21:51
		After reading A Mother Knows Best by angelic_Amy, I've been trying to find a fic from season 5. Joyce is told by the doctor that she may die and she realizes that she needs to find someone to protect her girls after she's gone and realized spike is a better choice than Riley.

	Jillian162 Partaker	#2 \| Posted: 15 Jan 2013 23:26
		Never mind! Its seven stages to clarity by pfeifferpack

	SMac Partaker	#3 \| Posted: 15 Jan 2013 23:55
		Seven Stages to Clarity by pfeifferpack http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=36913 Summary: When facing eternity, a good mother will try to put all her affairs in order. That means getting real, seeing clearly and putting your own heart's desires on hold, your dreams in perspective, letting your brain control your advice. Now if only those you love will just cooperate! Joyce looks to her daughter's future as her own mortality becomes an issue and comes to some startling conclusions. Can Joyce convince Buffy to forget all that she has been telling her, all that everyone has been telling her, thereby easing Joyce's own worries before facing the hospital and possible death? Setting: S5 and begins to go AU at the end of "Fool For Love" (written by Douglas Petrie). I am using bits of dialogue from that episode in the beginning of the story before it goes a very different direction.