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Tom Hayward’s Operational Guide to Yearning (While Being a Public Nuisance) by dbpn
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
22 Jul 2026
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Tom Hayward is a menace, a law school dropout, and an absolute public nuisance to the joint-task force.
Mary Bennet is a brilliant, ruthlessly efficient MI5 desk officer fighting tooth and nail to outrun the gossip of family nepotism.Locked away in a remote corner of the Thames House archives to track a phantom billionaire, they should be focusing on the data. Instead, Tom has made it his personal mission to elevate Mary's blood pressure through elaborate office warfare, and Mary is on the verge of filing a vetting request for his sanity.
An MI5/MI6 Espionage AU full of denial, overused fanfic tropes and of course, yearning.
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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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Mary Bennet leaves Longbourn after her father's death and moves to London, to build her own life and become a teacher, with the help of the Gardiners.
She meets Tom Hayward at a party and finds out they are neighbours.
Modern AU.
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"No pressure, no big conversation, no this changes everything." Tom Hayward's rules for a multi-day fling with his best friend were, in retrospect, the worst-negotiated rules in the history of Paris weddings.
Modern AU
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26 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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25 Jul 2026
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She came to Gardiner & Associates to prove herself. He told her, on day one, that she was probably there because of her uncle. He also mentioned attending Oxford. She has not forgiven either.
Tom Hayward is brilliant, obsessive, completely lacking a filter, and - inconveniently - one of the most rigorous people Mary has ever met. They're co-counsel on the same case. It's going to be a long few months.
An enemies to friends to lovers Modern AU
OR: Thomas Hayward has perpetual foot in mouth syndrome and Mary is losing her mind over it.Bookmarked by dbpn
25 Jul 2026
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Princess Mary, the third of King Henry and Queen Jane’s five daughters, had gotten away with sneaking into Leeds United matches with her Yorkshire-born nanny, Mrs Hill, since she was a tween. A team beanie, a scarf and some facepaint rendered her completely anonymous and free to dance like a lunatic, raucously sing the team songs, and hurl abuse at the refs in peace.
Since Leeds acquired a humble but dangerous young striker, Yorkshire born-and-bred Tom Hayward, her fervour for the team had only grown. Then came the day the tabloid press spotted Princess Mary in the crowd in her Hayward jersey and she became the subject of several viral TikToks and, of course, the ire of her mother.
A Princess/ English football hero AU 👑⚽️💖
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25 Jul 2026
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A TOBS Time Travel Tale:
1826: Mary Bennet wonders what her future holds. Turns out it will be significantly more futuristic than she could ever imagine.
2026: Tom Hayward does anything and everything he can to make it easier for her.
Also, everyone is American and lives in Philadelphia.Bookmarked by dbpn
24 Jul 2026