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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—”
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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?
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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
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"Are you alright, Mary?"
Mary nodded. Mrs. Gardiner didn't say anything. Mary sighed and shook her head, burying her face on her hands. She took several deep breaths, trying to keep herself from crying, and felt Mrs. Gardiner's hand rest on her shoulder.
"It's about—Mr. Hayward," Mary said, straightening up and tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear.
Mrs. Gardiner nodded, her gaze sympathetic.
"I am worried," Mary started, carefully choosing her words as she struggled against the tears pricking at her eyes, "that I—that he—that we do not feel the same way about each other," she finished lamely, ducking her head.
"Oh, Mary," Mrs. Gardiner said, her voice filled with kindness. Mary choked back a sob and buried her face in Mrs. Gardiner's shoulder, shaking as she tried to fight back her tears to no avail.
OR: Tom Hayward is trying his absolute best to keep Mary from feeling the least bit uncomfortable around him. Mary, however, is worried that his lack of direct affection signals a deeper lack of emotion towards her. They talk it out.
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11 Jun 2026