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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    After six months of almosts, Mary Bennet and Tom Hayward are finally together.
    But Mary has never been in love before, and discovering that someone wants her is one thing; believing she deserves to be happy with him is another.
    As summer ends and autumn begins, Mary and Tom begin the strange, exhilarating business of being a couple, and she begins to discover that love isn't something she has to earn by becoming someone else.
    Elsewhere, Will Ryder is beginning to realise that Caroline Bingley likes him. The problem is that he may be starting to realise he likes her too. He's just going to need rather a lot of help figuring that out.

    Or: what happened after the six months of yearning in happiness hit her! A work in progress.

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    09 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    After Mr. Bennet’s death, Mary and her mother are forced to move to London together. Having accepted that she will never escape her mother’s clutches, Mary loses all hope of ever finding happiness. Will a friendship with Mr. Tom Hayward change all of that? Could she perhaps even find love? This is Mary and Tom navigating Mrs. Bennet’s disapproval and a forbidden love worth fighting for.

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    09 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 38

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    Mary drew her awareness to the way her shoulders relaxed and her heart rate slowed as she dutifully performed the sham effort of joining the back of the long line to the counter. It didn’t seem to matter that she was always dressed in unflattering bright blue scrubs, or that she wore a garish surgical cap featuring Bluey characters, Tom reliably caught her eye, gave her a slow, admiring wink, and set about prioritising the order he knew by heart over the demands of all the other waiting customers.

    Dr Mary Bennet, paediatric trauma surgeon, knew of only one source of reprieve for the heavy burden she daily bore in the operating theatre - the kind eyes and easy charm of the Irish barista at Cup & Clover, the hospital café.

    (Someone who has worked for all he has and made a success of himself would surely be far more attractive to a current-day career woman than some manchild with a trust-fund.)

    Hence I give you the Surgeon/Barista AU you never knew you needed.

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    07 Sep 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 5

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    “Our happiness is in our own hands.” - Mary Bennet

    Charlotte and William try their hardest to be the spouse the other person wants, with mixed results. It is a challenge to overcome the reality of a true marriage of convenience.

    *rated M for content in later chapters*

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    04 Sep 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 29

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    Lizzy accidentally sends her arrogant, standoffish TA a saucy photo meant for Wickham.

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    02 Sep 2026