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Trying to Tread Water by Taradactyls
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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What Fitzwilliam Darcy Knows of Yearning by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
31 May 2025
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It's thinking about Darcy
desperately yearningrunning into Elizabeth at Pemberley hours.A self-indulgent tumblr post musing on Darcy's emotions about just how much he must have felt running into Elizabeth again at Pemberley, uploaded here as someone wished to add it to their bookmarks <3
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Beneath the Surface by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
01 Mar 2025
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The smutty 'Trying to Tread Water' companion fic that people did ask for.
Though their marriage was in name only, offered in the dark hour of her father’s life fading and Mr Collins not listening to her refusals of him, as Elizabeth and Mr Darcy became closer they were always going to learn to understand each other – and themselves – better, growing both as individuals and a couple. Some things are inevitable.
And, sometimes, when the inevitable happens, it also gets heated…
Chapters are labelled with where you need to be up to in Trying to Tread Water to prevent spoilers for the main story. Everything here is expanded and bonus scenes from that fic.
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Dear Lady Catherine by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
18 Jan 2025
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Following the Netherfield Ball, Mr Collins happily gossips in a letter to Lady Catherine that her that her nephew may be on the verge of matrimony… to Miss Bingley. He overheard his cousins talking of the lady’s attentions and quite misconstrued everything. Lady Catherine, as incensed as she could ever be, goes to confront her nephew in London… and arrives in the middle of the ‘Why You Should Not Marry Jane Bennet’ intervention.
Yelling ensues. And maybe more than one instance of self-reflection.
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In which Mr Collins has the sacred duty of sharing gossip he wasn’t supposed to know; Lady Catherine is of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use; Miss Bingley learns what all her attempts to secure Mr Darcy’s affections have amounted to; and Mr Darcy himself is full of pride and confronted with his hypocrisy.
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A Losing Hand by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
14 Jan 2025
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Mr Darcy is falling in love with Elizabeth Bennet, and he is not best pleased about it.
Mr Darcy's pov of that enlightening card game in Chapter 8 of Pride and Prejudice when they discuss accomplished women.
Darcy could only look at her – the light challenge in her gaze, the slight smile that accompanied it. He could debate with her all day.