A world where buffy was never a slayer, and dawn was never the key. Buffy was just a girl who saved her sister's life.

And her mother's if you want to get technical about it. :)

I'd really like to see more stories in this 'verse. Maybe from Buffy, Dawn, and Faith's POVs as the story progresses. This one-shot as some awesome potential that would be a pity to waste without continuing it in some form or another.

I do intend to add more to this verse, but it seems a shame this story isn't good enough to stand on it's own.

Thank you for taking the time to review!

This is good. I would love to see more of it. It actually makes sense, that is somewhat rare of Hamilton crossovers that I've found interesting.

Thank you. I'd hoped to already have more written, but alas real life and the muse are fickle things. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it and hopefully the next story will be as believable as this one. Thank you for taking the time to review!

I'm not always a fan of switching out slayerdom for some other aspect, but I kind of love this. Great scene! Thank you.

Well I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's always nice to know people liked something even though it's not their usual cup of tea. Thank you for reviewing!

Intriguing story!! Nice to see Joyce taking care of her girls. And would like to see this story continued!!!

Thank you. I think Joyce had a lot of faults, it's one of the reasons I enjoyed her character so much, but she was always fabulous with her rebounds.

There might be more, but not at the moment. Thank you for reviewing.

That was really good. I hope there will be more to this, because it really should be continued. You did very well with this story, and I think you could make a series out of this. Kudos, yo.

Thank you! I've plans to continue it but my muse ran away for about a year so nothing came really got updated in that time. Hopefully she sticks around and I can continue all the stories that were place on hold. Thank you for reviewing!

Any chance you've decided to add more to this 'verse? I would love to see more of it. I love Joyce and "her girls" type stories.

I will be adding more to this 'verse. It's slow coming since my muse has been MIA for quite awhile now, but it is coming. :)

A really interesting beginning! More would be appreciated.

I'm sorry to say, but I don't have any plans currently to continue this storyline. I might in the future, but for now it's complete. Thank you for taking the time to review.

This is really intriguing...I hope you get inspired to write some more in this verse!

Thank you. There might be more, but I have several other WIPs I need to complete first. Thank you for taking the time to review.

This seems pretty interesting. I look forward to the next chapter!

Thank you, but this story is complete. I might come back to it someday, but for the moment there are no other chapters planned.

I love stories with Joyce as the main character. There's so few and even fewer that are lengthy and/or multi-chaptered. I think you've done well on her personality and would love to see where this goes.

Joyce is definitely an underused and sometimes under-appreciated character. I've always liked how she was a far cry from perfect, but I've always thought that made her more real. Though I'm not sure if this story will be continued since I have a fickle and odd muse. Thank you for taking the time to review.

Not many people can write Joyce in such a believable manner as you do. I really enjoyed your fic, the way you had Joyce explaining what happened to Micah - it felt real. I could feel the emotional stress within it.

I'm really glad you decided to include Dawn in this, and you managed to make Hank not be a bad guy, which not many people are able to do and keep him in character. Overall, I really enjoyed this one-shot and would love to read more. I would love to see Joyce with Faith, Buffy and Dawn as a family, I would love to read some more about this verse.

To see Joyce grieving would be (as bad as this sounds) lovely to read. I would love to see how Joyce saw her relationship with Hank in this verse.

I do wonder how you dealt with the slayer powers and the differences between the Buffy verse and the Anita verse. Anyway, I would love to read some more, even if they're just snap shots into this verse!

I would love, especially, to see how the four girls reacted, with emphasis on Faith, Dawn and Buffy! but, we'll see how that goes, eh? Anyway, good luck on continuing!

Thank you. I have a soft spot for Joyce and I think she's one of the few characters on BtVS that really does have spectacular comebacks after her often knee-jerk, and very human, reactions to stressful situations.

Dawn's a versatile character and I'm curious as to her reactions now that she's a were and I've never thought of Hank as a bad guy. He did some questionable things, but he was never shown to be hateful towards his children when he had *actual* screen time. He was actually quite the opposite and appeared to be a caring father and I think Joyce would remember and cherish those memories above any fights or disagreements they had.

This story is an AU and does not deal with the Slayer aspect at all. Thank you for reviewing!

interesting, although I can never imagine Buffy being quiet and just letting her ass get kicked...

Thank you. As for Buffy, well, this story is told from Joyce's perspective so the audience doesn't actually know what's going on with Dawn and Buffy. Though truth be told I can't imagine Buffy keeping her mouth shut either which explains the bruises, but keeping in mind the fact that she's not the Slayer and a newbie shifter against a pride of werelions with a thirteen year old sister to worry about I think she'd do her best to avoid conflict.

I love this! I've never read a Joyce fic before and I love it. I wonder if you're planning on continuing this story though?

Thank you. I think Joyce is an under used and under appreciated character. I do have plans to continue this story, but the when remains to be decided.

I've just re-read this. It's one of my favourites.

I like how you have portrayed all the characters, including those that the characters only mention; Buffy, Faith and Dawn.

With Buffy, it's very cool to see a non-slayer Buffy trying to protect her family like that and even sacrificing herself for them. Goes to show that it's not being a Slayer that gives her that courage and instinct, that it was in her all along. Very nice.

I can see Faith clearly in my brain pan. Her protectiveness of Dawn and the willingness to be there with Buffy, who I can imagine being very resistant to whatever the pride is putting her and Dawn through.

I can see a lot of Buffy in Joyce. Well it's probably that Buffy takes after her mother a lot.

I'm gushing, so I'm just gonna press the Submit Review button now.

Thank you. I think insipid cheerleader or not Buffy would still care about her family and try to protect/save them the best she could during an emergency. I can see Faith bonding with the new outcasts because I don't believe she'd be a willing participant in tormenting/torturing a thirteen year old and she'd respond to Buffy trying, and probably failing, to protect her sister.

Joyce was always shown to be pretty fantastic at recovering from shocks. She might not do so well during the actual event, but she rallies with the best of them. Thank you for taking the time to review, the gushing was much appreciated. :)