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Tom is a professor at Oxford.
Mary is library director.
Romance ensues.
A tale as old as time, fraught with the perils of teaching, library work, and the pains of staying curious.
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14 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet and the Curious Case of the Junior Barrister by WickedSong
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
08 Jul 2026
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Mr and Mrs Gardiner visit Meryton and attend the Netherfield ball.
Their friend, a certain junior barrister, accompanies them.
OR: what if Mary and Tom met earlier, in the middle of another story?
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11 Jul 2026
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“I have spent my life on the outside of things. But with you, I'm right in the middle of it all.”
The Other Bennet Sister told through Mr. Hayward's POV - exploring the ways Tom is unexpectedly drawn into the middle of things - including his own life.
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09 Jul 2026
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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 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet: young, in love, and happy with her aspiring lawyer boyfriend, Tom Hayward.
Modern AU and follow on from Baby we was making straight A's <3
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- Part 2 of feel like i’ve been hypnoticized
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07 Jul 2026
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Mary has never shared a bed in her life. And for the past three nights, she finds herself lying awake watching her husband sleep, instead of sleeping happily beside him as she should be. She consulted chamomile. Tom notices. He has a theory about it. And perhaps a remedy or two.
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- Part 1 of Botanical Texts of Mary Hayward
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07 Jul 2026
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The Bingleys Need A Barrister by SimpleHoneyBadger14
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
14 Jul 2026
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Tom Hayward is invited to Netherfield to help a new client purchase the estate. Upon Tom's arrival to Netherfield, he meets Miss Mary Bennet and their story goes from there.
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07 Jul 2026
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A wedding night in which two virgins discover that the distance between theory and practice is, in this particular arena, catastrophic — and that it does not matter in the slightest.
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- Part 1 of A Course of Study
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06 Jul 2026
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Tom Hayward meets Mary Bennet without ever having a romantic understanding with Ann Baxter. While their early interactions will stay the same, no romantic ties with Ann Baxter mean there is nothing holding Tom back from pursuing Mary, other than his own insecurities. This story will explore what changes and what stays the same when Tom and Mary are able to grow their feelings for one another freely. How will their romantic feelings develop differently? How will Mary’s confidence in herself grow? And how will one William Ryder continue to make a nuisance of himself.
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06 Jul 2026
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A job that cuts all ties — no family contact, a new city, a handsome paycheque? Mary signed up without a second thought.
She just didn’t realise she’d also be signing away her life to a man she only knows as John.
John Smith.
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05 Jul 2026
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Let 'Em In by dabeedan
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
11 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet spent years loving Tom Hayward quietly. Quietly enough that nobody noticed. Not Tom, who only ever saw his best friend's younger sister. Not Jane, who never realised how carefully Mary stayed out of the way.
University changed everything. By the time Mary returned, she learnt how to take up space; she became someone she finally recognised in the mirror.
Then she moved into the spare room of Tom’s flat.
Tom can't understand why the friend he remembers so fondly now keeps him carefully at arm's length. Mary can't understand why the boy from her past suddenly seems determined to learn every version of who she's become.
Some people grow apart. Others simply need to meet each other twice.
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04 Jul 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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03 Jul 2026
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If it's only love, it's only you by moonlitwriting
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
14 Jun 2026
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Mary Bennet thought she had accepted her future. She had not expected Thomas Hayward to return.
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03 Jul 2026
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Thomas Hayward reassures his wife of his undying love for her.
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03 Jul 2026
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till heart with heart in concord beats by sapphicbecca
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
02 May 2026
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Three days after Mary Bennet became engaged to Tom Hayward, she received a letter. It contained a short note, and, curiously, a poem, copied out in Tom's hand.
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or: four times Tom sent Mary a poem during their engagement period, and one time he shared a poem once they had been wed.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet has spent her whole life trying not to be ungainly. Tom Hayward has spent his whole life accepting that he is.
When Mary Bennet lands the internship of her dreams at The Woodhouse Post, she is certain her efforts will finally pay off. That is, until Tom Hayward, the award-winning political journalist, knocks her off her feet. Literally.
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Tom is a walking hazard & Mary overthinks way too much.
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03 Jul 2026
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Mary looked out across the garden again. Tomorrow, she would catch the bus to her faculty building, not a packed commuter train with a two hour journey ahead of her, instead from a home where she had been told she was most welcome.
For the first time since her father's death, she allowed herself to imagine the future without a sense of dread attached to it. London suddenly didn't seem frightening at all.
It felt, quietly and unexpectedly, like her real life was about to begin.
Mary/Tom Modern AU.
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03 Jul 2026
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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 Sidmare
02 Jul 2026
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Yet *another* take on that first night. Sigh.
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30 Jun 2026
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The unravelling of tom hayward by Murder_shesnored
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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Tom Hayward is a sensible man with a sensible engagement and a sensible plan.
Mrs. Gardiner has stewed pears and other ideas.
"Will you come, or will you sit in your rooms all summer reading contracts and pretending that is the same thing as living?"
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28 Jun 2026