Author's Note: Hey everyone! Thanks for the reviews so far! Don't worry Dizzie is going to be just fine I just want to set up the situation right so we can get an insight into their relationship and how this problem happened. Hope to get another chapter up this weekend or earlier on Monday!

Casual

At 1 o'clock Lizzy brazed herself to ring the doorbell of Jane and Bing's New York townhouse. She had been standing outside of it for 10 long minutes already and she was beginning to feel self-conscious of how silly she must look to the mere passerby. She dried her sweaty palms on her black dress. The black dress she took two hours to chose while getting dressed. "This is ridiculous" Lizzie thought, "Why am I so nervous? It is been a year…" and without wanting too, her mind traveled back to exactly a year ago.

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*****FLASHBACK *******

May 15th 2015

Lizzy walked out of the plane and into JFK Airport. She looked at her watch it was 6pm and she barely had slept. Bing had called her and Darcy at about 2am (California time) to announce the birth of their baby Jamie Bing. Jane had a fast labor and they didn't had time to call their families beforehand. Despite the late (or early hour depending of how you looked at it) Darcy and Lizzy congratulated the new dad and booked the first plane that could get them to New York that day. They soonest plane left at 10am and they quickly started making arrangements for their trip. At about 7am Darcy left their house to go sort some things at the office before the flight and promised he would meet her at the airport. But alas he didn't, five minutes before boarding started he called her apologizing for the delay and promising he would get on the next flight. Something had come up at the office and he needed to stay. Those sort of things had happened to much lately, so much that Lizzie felt she barely got to see Darcy. But she didn't have time to reflect on that. She needed to get out of the airport as fast as she could and get to know her new nephew.

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*****PRESENT TIME *******

- "Were you thinking of ringing the bell any time soon nerdy older sister?" - Lydia's voice brought Lizzie back to the present and she couldn't help but blush at the thought of how ridiculous she must have looked standing outside of Jane's house without moving.

- "I was just... Mmmm you know trying to remember if I..."

- "If you left the stove on by any chance?" – Lydia laughed – "Come one Lizzie we all know you are stalling"

- "Lydia I..."

- "It's okay sister the LI-DY-AA is here and she will run interference when Darceface shows up"

Lizzie didn't know what else to say but to whisper thank you as she rang the bell. Jane open the door and greeted her sisters with a big hug. All seemed good for a moment until she listened to a voice from within the house.

- "As I was saying, the market nowadays is terribly complicated and..."

Lizzie cringed at the sound of his voice but despite the look of pity in her sisters' eyes she took a big breath closed her eyes and walked into the house with a bigger sense of security that she actually felt.

- "Where is my favorite little man in the whole world?" – She said in a loud and excited voice.

Jane and Lydia looked at each other with worried looks and came in behind Lizzie.

- "Lizzie... how are you I didn't know you were going to be able to come with all your work in that small company of yours." – Said Caroline from the living room

- "You promised you would keep this civil" – Whispered Jane on Lizzie's ear, while putting her hands over her shoulder like thinking that Lizzie was going to throw herself at Caroline at any second. Though… in all honestly that was not too far from the truth….

- "I am always civil" – Said Lizzie without moving her mouth

- "Caroline how are you?"– said Lizzie with the most pleasant voice she could muster as she could feel Darcy's eyes all over her.

- "Oh I am just a little bit tired...Darcy AND I came here straight from the airport and I cannot but feel I look less than presentable for my little nephew's birthday...Well that was until you came in seeing you dressed so...casual...makes me feel like I am not standing out from the rest of the crowd with these... drags."

Of course what Caroline called drags were a perfectly ironed blouse and long skirt that looked like they came out from a fashion magazine (thought they probably were) her hair was perfectly ironed and combed and her make-up didn't have any faults.

"Of course" Lizzie thought "Caroline looks perfect after stepping of a plane while two hours just got me to look casual... this is off to a great start already"

- "Well...I am glad your flight went well."

- "When did you arrive to New York Lizzie?"

- "Yesterday"

- "Oh you are so lucky you didn't have any social commitments that would have made you stay on the city last night. However, I was not so lucky. Darcy AND I were at an awards show last night and I am glad WE didn't miss it given that I won an award."

- "Oh yes congratulations" – Lizzie looked around the room trying to find an excuse to get out of the conversation when she saw Jane walking towards the kitchen. – "Sorry Caroline it was great to catch up but I need to go help Jane." – she said as she left the living room as fast as possible without looking a single time towards Darcy.

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From: Gigi

To : Lydia

Lidya you need to do something

From: Lydia

To : Gigi

I am not sure what you want me to do. Is not like I can magically solve relationships.

From: Gigi

To : Lydia

You are a psychology student you surely can come up with something you know to make them talk about their problems.

From: Lydia

To : Gigi

That doesn't make any sense GG and anyway I mean is not like I know what happened... do you?

From: Gigi

To : Lydia

No William never talked about it nor to me or Fitz...I only know what I have already told you

From: Lydia

To : Gigi

ARGHHHHH your robot brother can be pretty annoying sometimes you know! With all his seriousness and fancy words and hiding his feelings.

From: Gigi

To : Lydia

He didn't used to ... for a while... That is not the point Lydia! The point is that this is the first time in almost a year that they had been in the same place. We have to do something! He is staying as a guest in Bing's house...there must be something you can do to make him and Lizzy spend some time together!

From: Lydia

To : Gigi

OKAY! I WILL TRY BUT CAN'T PROMISE ANYTHING I NEED TO GET SOME INFORMATION OUT OF HIM FIRST. Anyway I need to leave of people will wonder why I am on the phone instead of spending time with the adults. LY-DI-AA OUT!

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- "Lydia we said we wouldn't meddle!"

- "Jane! Please! Please! Please! Please! We ought to give it a try!"

- "Lydia this is none of our business even Bing agrees we shouldn't do anything and he is one of Darcy's best friends! You even said we shouldn't do anything weeks ago!"

Lydia and Jane were standing in the kitchen while Lizzie played with baby Jamie in the living room. Jane's kitchen was a big open white kitchen with an island on the middle. The countertops were made of black marble and all the appliances where made of stainless steel. It had a huge oven where Jane could bake whatever she dreamt of and a whole cupboard full of different teas from all over the world.

- "That was before I had new information..."

- "What kind of information."

- "What if I told you that the same day Lizzie arrived to NY and told us their relationship was over..." - Lydia paused knowing the next piece of information would bring bad memories back to life - "that same day Darcy arrived to their townhouse in San Francisco and found out that Lizzie had taken all her stuff and had moved out without telling him."

Jane winced at the thought. "Could Lizzie really have done that? Leave Darcy like Bing left me all those years ago?...No!'' she thought to herself "Lizzie wouldn't have done to Darcy what Bing had done to her. Not after seeing how devastated she had been for all those months afterwards"

- "It is true... Gigi told me... Whatever happened between them... Darcy wouldn't have lied about something like this..."

- "Did Gigi told you why Lizzie left?"

- "No. Neither does Gigi or Fitz know what happened or what triggered that."

- "Are you saying that Lizzie broke Darcy's heart without explanation?"

- "No! What I am saying is that if Lizzie did that... Lizzie loved...loves Darcy with all her heart...whatever reason she had to do this is much much bigger than whatever fight they could have had. And we need to figure out what it was."

- "I am still not sure about this... what if there is no way to fix this... It's been a year."

- "There is only one way to find out"

- "Hey! What are you guys whispering about? Bing says is time for cake!"

Lydia and Jane jumped at the sound of Lizzie's voice. Both looked at each other trying to come up with a fast excuse before Lizzie could realize they were talking about her.

- "I was just telling Jane about... mmm... Oh! cousin Mary called she said there was a pipe leakage in our apartment and it is all flooded! But.. All is right your computer is fine!" - Lydia added swiftly when she looked into Lizzie's panicked eyes - "I will just go to the apartment to pick up your suitcase and computer and a change of clothes and we can stay here with Jane until my landlord fixes the problem. Anyway you are leaving in two days."

- "And where is cousin Mary staying?"

- "With Eddie of of course! She barely sleeps in our apartment anyway."

- "Well but... I don't want to be a burden on Jane with Jamie and all and I can go to the apartment to pick up my stuff and check into a hotel."

- "NOOOO! ... I mean ... You can't... because... Jane needs... Jane needs help cleaning up after the cake and ... and... you won't see Jamie again for a few weeks so staying with her is ideal ... right Jane?" - Lydia looked pleadingly at Jane hoping she would play along.

- "Yes! Exactly you should stay here Jamie would love that!"

- "Ok... If you insist yes! Three sisters together like old times! I LIKE THIS PLAN."

- "Yes! Like old times... you have no idea how like old times this is going to be"