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    Trying to Tread Water by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works  

    04 Oct 2025

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    The marriage of convenience fic no one asked for.

    The morning after the Netherfield Ball, while Mr Collins is proposing to Elizabeth, Mr Bennet collapses. With her father unconscious and apparently near death, her mother pressuring her to marry Mr Collins, and the gentleman himself ignoring her protests, suddenly saying 'no' is not so easy. Faced with poverty and homelessness if she continues refusing, the gossip soon reaches Netherfield that she will have to marry Mr Collins. Just as Mr Darcy is about to mount his horse and follow Mr Bingley to London, never to return, he overhears the servants talking. The thought of Elizabeth married to a fool like Mr Collins is unbearable to him, and he resolves to make her a better offer. But, when she refuses him, he finds that he's willing to do anything for love - even marry her without the hope of being with her.

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    06 Jan 2025

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    don't call me baby unless you mean it by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  

    17 Dec 2022

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    “You’re going to give me at least 30 minutes minimum access to the hotel room alone so I can find some random yahoo here and have some well-deserved sex tonight,” Lizzy demanded.
    Darcy already knows he will regret this:
    “What about me?”
    “What ABOUT you?” Lizzy rolled her eyes.
    “I mean,” Darcy continued, hoping his voice sounded even— the one in his head certainly did not, “what if you had sex with me tonight?”

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    20 Dec 2022

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    Long Road From Ruin by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  

    12 Jun 2024

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    An unexpected twist of fate brings Mr. Darcy to a place he never imagined himself patronizing and where he once again crosses paths with Miss Elizabeth Bennet. She too had been brought here by an unforeseen and cruel twist of fate. Now they must strive to overcome the pain and taint of ruin to find happiness and a future in an unforgiving society who thrives on scandal.

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    17 Dec 2022

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    In Praise of Her Conceited Independence by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen  

    12 Mar 2020

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    A daring rescue at Ramsgate changes the course of events for our dear couple.

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    14 Aug 2022

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    A World In Lilac Hues by

    Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms  

    03 Oct 2022

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    It began, as so many dreadful things do, at a party.

    Elizabeth Bennet’s first impression of Fitzwilliam Darcy is… unfavourable. Her second and third impressions are hardly any better. He’s aloof and haughty and casually insulting, yet she keeps catching glimpses of something deeper in his character. Which is the only possible explanation for why she can't seem to get him out of her head.

    Free-spirited artist Elizabeth is everything Darcy disapproves of, yet he finds himself captivated by her... and quite desperately attracted. Try as he might he can't stop himself from wanting her, or being drawn back again and again as she works on a mural for his new offices. He can't seem to stay away from her, or stay out of his own way in his attempts to connect with her.

    When the consequences of Darcy’s actions bring the sexual tension between himself and Elizabeth to a head they both think that will be the end of it. Yet circumstances and their own desires keep bringing them together and slowly, gradually, they learn to see beyond those first impressions and forge an understanding—a new, tender understanding that comes just at the moment when Elizabeth’s family finds itself facing a terrible crisis.

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    24 Jul 2022