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Tom has an issue. He may or may not have accidentally told people that he has spoken for Miss Bennet, even though they are only friends. He blames this on the fact that she deserves much more than to be courted by the available suitors of London, and not of the strange feeling he gets from thinking of her with another man.
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Mary is determined to help her friend out when she hears of how Mr Hayward needs to be engaged to be married in order to be able to advance in his career. She understands how a solid home-life is important for a barrister, and so she steps up to be his pretend fiancé. It has nothing to do with the flutters she gets in her stomach when he looks at her for too long. Or any time at all really.Bookmarked by idleutopia
20 Jun 2026
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Mary and Tom are book editors in Bloomsbury, skilled at untangling narratives but utterly clueless when it comes to their own.
Modern AU.
Mary closed her eyes and took a breath, trying to ignore the fire that had begun to burn in her chest.
“So, it’s a compromise for you?” she said, her voice trembling with a brittle, rising anger. “You offer me ‘security,’ and in exchange, I devote my life and every waking hour to your whims and travels?”
“I never said—”
“Yet you made it perfectly clear."Bookmarked by idleutopia
19 Jun 2026
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It wasn’t as if Mary was moving to another country, London was barely an hour and a half drive from her childhood home. It would be a bit longer now that her mother was moving into Jane’s guest house, but even then it really shouldn’t have been such a big deal. It wasn’t like her mother liked her very much anyway.
Mary sighed again, and her uncle looked into the rearview mirror to ask “You alright back there?”
There was concern in his eyes, something she never seemed to find when it came to her mother. They looked alike, but in moments like this it was obvious how different they were.
“Yes, just nervous.” Mary responded.
Her aunt reached back from the passenger side to give her hand a tight squeeze.
“It’s normal to be nervous, Mary.” She smiled, “But trust me, you’ll thrive here.
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Or: Mary Bennet decides to move to London and just so happens to meet a handsome Irishman who works with her uncle... who knows what could happen?
Modern AU
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19 Jun 2026
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Mary Bennet has returned to Pemberley to care for her sick mother. She has no problem to admit how much she's missed her sisters, but she finds herself reluctant to admit how much she'll miss Mr. Hayward. The days come and go on the Estate, calm and uneventful, until the very subject Mary doesn't allow herself to think of appears on their door during a storm.
Or: Thomas comes to Pemberley instead of William.
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- Part 1 of Lines Composed
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12 Jun 2026
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Relationships between colleagues are frowned upon. It was precisely how they had ended up here: Mary seated stiffly behind her desk on a Friday evening while Tom crouched beneath it, hidden hurriedly from Will Ryder.
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Modern AU Tom and Mary getting frisky!
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12 Jun 2026