What if Jane and Elizabeth had not been in Meryton to meet Wickham? What if they had spent some additional time with Darcy and Bingley that day instead? And what if in a moment of weakness, or courage, Darcy allowed Elizabeth to glimpse his growing feelings for her? How might all of their paths have been different from the story we know and love?

A second glance at Elizabeth, and Darcy felt an immediate pull. In a library one evening, his guard dropped, and he couldn't help himself. It was not a lady's imagination that led a rapid jump from admiration to matrimony skipping over love, but it was rather the heated actions of both. Deep feelings tend to get in the way when hidden and can undo the potential for happiness.

When his proposal was a flop and a half Darcy wrote a letter hoping to clarify some matters, but Elizabeth isn't going to take it without justification. "What have you written that has not already been said?" Another confrontation of inflamed emotions will change their path to HEA. With a fine line between love and hate, the middle of connection could happen before it has begun.