6 Works by Lilghostgal
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
He said she had been lonely. That she had confused it. That things had "blurred a bit".
He was wrong. He knew he was wrong when he said it.
Mary Bennet is not waiting for him... She's just... Also in Keswick, apparently.
Modern AU
OR: Our girl Mary Bennet tries to have an Eat Pray Love journey.
-
Tags
Summary
When a letter from Mrs. Bennet casts doubt on Mary’s capacity to be loved, Tom makes the mistake of trying to carry it alone.
Mary, meanwhile, spends one evening remembering exactly what it feels like to be the problem.
They work it out…….. but not gracefully.
-
Tags
Summary
Mary had done her research.
This was, she felt, the most responsible approach. She had always believed that the correct response to an unfamiliar situation was thorough preparation, and she had applied this principle consistently throughout her life - to London, to the Lake District, to the question of managing a household, to the correct way to address a letter to a barrister’s chambers, to approximately anything and everything she had ever encountered that was new. There was no reason to treat this occasion differently simply because the literature was somewhat more difficult to obtain and considerably more… varied in quality.
She had obtained it anyway. Through methods she was never going to describe to anyone, including Tom, including Mrs. Gardiner, including her journal, she had acquired and read several relevant texts over the course of the weeks between engagement and the wedding, and she had formed, from this reading, a set of conclusions.
The primary conclusion was: Tom would know what he was doing.
*Tim Robinson voice* You SURE about that?!
-
Tags
Summary
A few weeks into her marriage, Mary receives a letter from a dear friend.
-
Tags
Summary
Mary had, of course, warned him, in her careful and precise way, that her sisters were coming to London in a fortnight and would very likely call on Tuesday. She said this the way she said most things - directly, without embellishment, and as though the facts spoke sufficiently for themselves. Tom had nodded and thought: sisters. Yes. He had older sisters that he was very fond of. He found himself quite confused at the undertone of dread Mary seemed to have as she anticipated the visit. “I understand sisters very well, my dear!”
It turned out, he did not understand the Bennets.
-
Tags
Summary
Tom Hayward thought he knew what it meant to wait in uncertainty. He had sat outside sickrooms before. Had listened to muffled, somber voices behind doors that would not open for him. He had learned that particular shape of helplessness that came from being close enough to hear pain, but not close enough to stop it. He had thought, at that time, that it was the worst kind of distance. He was wrong. This was worse.
Tom's thoughts as he waits outside Mary's delivery room.