Prologue.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that family is the most important factor in ones life.
We all know the ending of Pride and Prejudice, we know that Elizabeth Bennett became Elizabeth Darcy but we know nothing of the life that was to come. After one year of a blissfully happy marriage Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy became parents to one Bennett Richard Darcy who bore an uncanny resemblance to his father even at such a young age, with his dark raven locks and his piercing blue eyes that could have even Lady Catherine De Bourgh melting, as he grew he had the same sense of freedom and adventure of his mother yet the calmness and aristocratic behaviour of his father when he needed it, he learnt the duty of the Darcy name and what it meant to be the heir but lets not get too far ahead shall we. As a child he was pampered by his mother and protected by his father, he learned to love music just as much as his aunt and learned to laugh at his uncle Richard just as much as his mama did. Bennett Darcy was a child that knew his family would always be there for him no matter what he got himself into.
By the time Bennett turned the age of two he had a little baby sister named Clarissa Jane Darcy otherwise known as Claire or Clary she had her mothers brown locks and her fathers blue eyes and had an air about her that would invite people in. Clarissa grew up having adventures with her brother, learning to play the piano forte and you would often find her either divulging secrets in her diary or in the library being carried off to a different world. Everyone who knew Clarissa Darcy would say that she was going to be a flighty young lady with her reading so many books and having so much attention, yet she never did show any sign of that attitude, no Clarissa had her feet firmly on the ground but she held an imagination so bright no one could endure to put it out. She was loved by everyone in her family and even more so by her brother who made a solemn vow that he would always protect her and care for her, Bennett was the best older brother Clary could have ever asked for. She knew that her family was everything that she needed.
Oh yes the shades of Pemberley were indeed polluted but not in the way dear old Lady Catherine thought they were to be. Pemberley was filled with laughter and joy and the escapades of the mischievous Darcy children who you would never see apart. They held many balls and all that attended complemented the Darcy couple and how well they had raised their children, whilst still managing to be surprised at how a little country woman with no money or connections could have changed the once very proud Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam loved their children and watched them grow and learn but it soon came to the time when Bennett was to be sent off to school. At the age of seventeen Bennett Richard Darcy went to school to study business just like his father and for the first time in their lives Ben and Claire were separated. This is where my story begins, a story of love, hurt, betrayal, conflictions, doubt and most importantly family.