Hello everyone, sorry for the delay but I have started working a new fic...I know I still haven't finished A Start but I have begun writing this new fic and I am really excited for it! Okay this chapter deals with really nothing. It is just a filler chapter I suppose. Also during my time away from writing this story I have been reading a regency era fic about Darcy/Elizabeth called Sanguine and it is really good, I suggest you all check it out. Anyways on to the story...you should know that I never liked Jane's Character...so sorry.
The circumstances which placed William Darcy and I apart was nothing compared to the storm which had befallen on the relationship of Jane and Charles Bingley.
You see my dear readers, Jane and Charles were getting married three months after I left. And when that month came, nothing happened. Mostly because Charles Bingley was found dead in his apartment at 10 am in the morning. It appeared to have looked like a silent death and a muffled gunshot was taken to the head by a surprised Charles Bingley.
You see, Jane had never suspected that Charles Bingley was a gambler and that particular night he had taken from a man who hated to loose, and who really needed the money for his daughter, who was now entering into her second remission of lung cancer. Charles loved to gamble indeed, he had nothing to loose. And so it was, that the terrorist with a reason had followed a smiling Charles Bingley home that night and shot him in cold blood in his own bed.
That morning, Jane had arrived at her fiancé's house in bliss, they were getting married in four days. She went up to his room and screamed. There in the white bed was a pillow with a red circle on Charles Bingley's head. She ran to the phone and immediately called the ambulance. She stood there in shock. He's gone, she thought as her heart pounded in her ears and her eyes watered.
The ambulance came and asked her questions, they then loaded up a lifeless Charles Bingley into the ambulance and Jane was left to wallow in her sadness as her family crowded around her.
This all took place two days ago and no one had thought of calling Lizzie about the horrible news. And so it was that I rung up the Bennet house in my still unknowing world. I was surprised at a crying Jane as she answered her mobile.
"Jane sweetie, what's wrong?" I asked sweetly wondering if her and Charles had had a row.
"You don't know yet, why has no one told you the news?" She said confused and still sniffling.
"What news dearest? Jane, what is wrong?" I asked alarmed, they couldn't have broken up the engagement.
"It's Charles-he wa-he was, oh I can't do this!" Jane screamed and I was met with silence and the faint sound of footsteps. I heard my mother's voice.
"LIzzie dear, you don't know yet, I am sorry, It is just so terrible." Mother said.
"Mom, please tell me the news." I said alarmed.
"It's Charles, he was murdered two days ago." Well, shit the bed it's a tragedy.
"Oh no. I am coming home right now." I told her alarmed as I got up from the picnic table I was sharing with my students as we played with shapes and named them.
"Oh no honey, everything is fine here. We got everything under control. I know how happy you are with those students of yours. We don't need anymore people fussing over Janie. Everything is fine." She said.
I don't know what hurt me more the fact that they didn't notify me of the news immediately or the fact that my mother said they didn't need me. "Okay well can you pass me to Jane?" I asked.
"No she needs alone time. Here is James." She said and James said a small "Hi." as I was passed to him.
"Are you okay?" I asked
"Yeah it's just Jane. I think she is still in shock, but she will get over it...over time." He sighed.
"Right, well. Have you been in contact with Will?" Will hadn't called me for two days. It has been about a two months since the whole fiasco with James and my avoidance with the real world back home.
"Yeah he is here now. He is doing the funeral arrangements. We talked and he seems better than he was before. He misses you though, in all this tragedy he misses you." James said as he sighed again.
"I just can't believe it. Charlie is gone. He is gone, oh my gosh! He was murdered." I said in shock.
"Yeah everyone can't believe it. The Bingley family doesn't know whether to cry or actually believe it. That is what happens when you think someone will always be on this earth. They suddenly go missing." James was a smart boy.
"Yeah well, I have to get back to my class. Lunch is over and they are waiting for me back at the class. Bye James Love you all." I said as the line cut off.
I went back to the class in a daze. Charles was murdered. I quickly taught my students the lesson and soon the bell rung. One of the students, Maik came up to ask if I was okay. I smiled at him and said it was nothing. I then dismissed the students home and went to find John.
I found John spinning his students around in the merry go round. All the children were laughing and screaming "Faster!" John suddenly looked at me frowned at my sad expression and said goodbye to his kids.
"What's wrong Liz?" He said as he grabbed his messenger bag.
And so I told him the long and dreadful story, and he hugged me. He told me everything would work out in the end. I pulled him closer to me, I liked John's hugs.
We soon went back to our "Quarters" and we opened the door to our room mates yelling over a board game. They all looked to us and smiled and asked if we wanted to join in. John and I declined and I went to make food.
As we ate everyone wanted to know why I wasn't telling them one of my stories and I simply said I was tired. John soon told them of the time one of his siblings chased him into a pig pen and the pig trampled him in the ribs which caused him to go to the hospital. We all laughed when he said he now had an awesome scar for the ladies, as he put it.
I went to my room when my phone rang, it was Will. We talked about Charlie and funeral. He said he was missing me. I asked him to come to Thailand in five months so we wouldn't have to be apart for a whole year. We would spend four months together in beautiful Thailand. I should explain, the project gave us four months out of the year to be with the students if they had any questions to ask or if they didn't understand a lesson. The eight hour school day was cut to four hours and the teachers had time to actually see Thailand.
"When we are reunited again, I am never letting you go." He said through the phone.
"I will be happy to be with you, I have missed you a lot." I said to him. In five months we will be together.
"Five months." He sighed.
"Goodnight Will, I miss you." I said as I lay in bed.
"Goodnight Lizzie, I miss you too." He laughed softly and the phone went silent.
Will and I were going to be fine. This tragedy is a tragedy. Charlie is gone, Jane is sad. I cried into my pillow. Why everything had to go wrong, I didn't know.
Well, there you have it. Apologies for the deaths. It just happened as I wrote the story. As I said before I am letting this story walk on its own. Any comments? Would you like to see something happen in this story? Review please:) And no, John and Lizzie will not have some sort of love affair. John and Lizzie are just really awesome friends. Consider John as another Charlotte.