Disclaimer: As usual, don't own it…

A/N: Drum roll please…here's the date! Hope you enjoy it!

Lizzie and Darcy almost sprang apart when they heard Jane enter the kitchen. Jane paused when she saw them both standing there and a look of confusion passed over her features, but it was quickly replaced with a look of joy.

"Me and Charles are dating!" Jane said like it was the most amazing thing ever.

Lizzie looked at her like she had sprouted a second head.

"I thought you already were," she said, tentatively.

Jane laughed and pooh-poohed at Lizzie. "No, silly. He just asked me today to be his girlfriend."

Now both Darcy and Lizzie were looking at her like she was crazy. "He actually asked you to be his girlfriend?" Lizzie asked, still not understanding what the amazing news was.

Jane looked at Lizzie, then at Darcy. At that moment, realization dawned on her face. "Oh, I'm so sorry Lizzie! I completely forgot! Tonight's your date!"

"Jane, it's fine. It doesn't really start for another few hours," Lizzie said with a wave of her hand. "I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole 'Charles asked me to be his girlfriend' thing."

"Today he asked me if it was okay to consider ourselves dating. For each of our sakes. He didn't want me to be uncomfortable if I was referred to that way. Or something like that," Jane said, still smiling.

Lizzie nodded like she understood, although she really didn't. She stole a quick glance at Darcy and figured that he probably had a look similar to hers. She glanced back to where Jane was and saw that she wasn't there anymore. She then heard a door shut and realized she went to her room to give her and Darcy some privacy.

"Well, Will…that sounded redundant…I'm going to go get ready. It shouldn't take me that long. The T.V. is in there and if you want something to drink, help yourself," Lizzie rambled.

Darcy nodded his head and watched her leave the room. He then made his way to the den to watch some T.V. while he waited.

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Lizzie didn't take too long to get ready. What took so long was trying to figure out what to wear. She didn't want to come across as too casual or too formal. So, she was torn. She also couldn't get the "almost kiss" out of her head. She was sure that if Jane hadn't come in at that moment that her and Will would have ended up kissing. In some ways, she was disappointed. She wanted to know what it would be like to kiss him. But, she didn't want to seem like she was too easy. She was worried that if she kissed him too soon, if in fact, it did come to that, that she would think she was incredibly easy or something.

She huffed in frustration. Her mind was still on this train of thought when Jane knocked on the door and walked in.

"Just coming to make sure you haven't jumped out your window," she said, trying to be funny. "Will looks a little nervous. I think you should hurry up."

"I'm ready. I just can't decide what to wear," Lizzie said sounding bewildered.

Jane stifled a smile and looked at what Lizzie had on her bed. She sifted through her cloths and almost immediately pulled up a dress. She held it up to Lizzie and said, "This is what you should wear."

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Darcy felt like he had been sitting on the couch for hours when he heard someone coming down the hall. He turned around on the couch and was speechless. Lizzie was wearing a red wrap dress that hugged her in all the right places and had her hair down and had curled it a little more that what it normally was.

He felt his mouth go dry. He closed his mouth and swallowed. He then realized he was sitting down still and stood up. He almost fell over upon standing because the coffee table was somewhat close to the couch. He quickly steadied himself and looked at Lizzie again. He saw that she was stifling a giggle. He nervously smiled at her and walked towards her. He stopped when he was a few feet away and said, "You look beautiful tonight."

Lizzie blushed at his words. She saw that Darcy had offered his arm and she took it. They made their way out of the apartment and to where Darcy had parked his car, a GTO with racing stripes. He opened the door for her and handed her in and then walked around to his side.

They passed the car ride in companionable silence, one of them breaking it periodically to ask the other person a question.

Eventually Lizzie got curious and asked, "Where are we going?"

She couldn't tell where they were going and it seemed like they had been going for forever.

Darcy just smiled in response. He had no intention of telling her. He wanted it to be a big surprise. He also thought she would like it because the sun was just starting to set and what he had arranged would work perfectly.

The next few minutes passed with Lizzie pestering him about what they were doing and with him refusing to say. She had just given up the fight when they arrived at their destination. The only problem was that Lizzie couldn't really see anything. The only thing she could see was trees, and a lot of them.

Once Darcy parked the car he turned to her and said, "Ok, I'm going to need you to trust me."

Lizzie looked at him weird. "Why? Is this where you take me into the woods and kill me?"

"No, I just have to blindfold you for a few minutes until we get to our actual destination."

Lizzie thought about it and slowly nodded her head. She knew he wouldn't intentionally hurt her, but she was still nervous about the whole being blindfolded thing.

They both got out of the car and Darcy walked her over to an open air carriage. He handed her in and then followed her up. Once they were seated, he got the blindfold out and put it on her. When he was satisfied that she couldn't see anything, he told the driver to drive on.

They rode for about five minutes until they stopped. To Lizzie, it felt like five incredibly long minutes because she couldn't see anything. She felt the carriage shift as Darcy got down and then felt him guiding her down the steps and onto the ground. He then took her hand and walked with her towards their destination.

She had to walk up a few flights of stairs to get to their destination, so she wasn't quite sure where they were or where they were going.

Once they stopped, he whispered in her ear, "Are you ready?"

She nodded that she was and the blindfold was lifted. She blinked against the bright light. Once her vision had adjusted, she gasped. They were standing on the roof of one of the buildings in London with a few of most of the city. The sun was just going down over the western side and if she looked to the eastern side, she could see night fall.

"I guess you like it?"

In response she hugged him really tightly and said that she did. After a few moments, he extracted himself from her and led her to the table he had had set up on the roof.

For Lizzie and Darcy both, dinner passed very quickly. Lizzie couldn't remember a time when she had ever been so at ease with someone that she didn't know that well and Darcy couldn't remember ever being so enchanted by a woman.

What neither of them realized was that they had never felt these emotions before. By the time they finished dinner, it was getting to be quite late, so Darcy said he would drive her home, unless there was something else she wanted to do. She said there wasn't and then added, "I need to get back anyway. I have a meeting with my editor tomorrow morning dealing with one of my books."

The ride back was spent a little differently than the ride there. They each were thinking about the other person and wondering what would happen when Lizzie was dropped off. They also kept trying to steal glances at the other person when they thought they weren't looking.

By the time they arrived back at Lizzie's apartment, they were both thoroughly nervous. Darcy handed her out of the car and walked her up to the door of her building. She told him that he didn't need to go in with her.

They stood awkwardly on the steps for a few moments. They had already made plans to see each other in a few days, so they couldn't talk about that, thus they were both very uncomfortable.

They eventually started to slowly inch towards each other until they were so close that their noses were almost touching. Darcy lowered his head towards Lizzie and Lizzie raised her face and closed her eyes in anticipation of what was to come. Just as they were about to kiss, someone laughed.

Lizzie jolted as if she had been shot, as did Darcy (because Lizzie had bumped him when she jerked). Lizzie had jerked because she recognized that laughter. It was something she had hoped to never hear again. Unfortunately, she wasn't so lucky.

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update. These classes are killing me. So, I probably won't be updating as often in the next month or so unless I can get ahead with my reading. And, I apologize if the date isn't what you thought it would be. I couldn't really think of anything good to put there that involved dialogue, so I just skimmed over it. But, I hope what I put there is up to snuff. I covered almost two pages! As always, please read and review.