This is a little plot bunny that I've been messing around with in my head. What would happen if before Lydia had a chance to run away from Brighton with Wickham something came between them?

Well this story has already has been posted but I have received some requests that it be posted into shorter chapters and also I have a response to abyssgirl. I am very proud of this story, it is well written with a well developed plot. The fact that it is written without dialogue does not make it an outline but is a different style of writing that is more difficult than a story with dialogue. I am reposting this story not rewriting it as I'm sure that the rest of my fans would prefer for me to write new content for my other story than to rewrite a story that you are the only reviewer that has a problem with the style of writing.

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While Lydia Bennet was on her way to Brighton to fulfill her dream of flirting with as many officers as possible while hopefully returning with a husband for all of her sister's to be madly jealous over Mr. Darcy worked extensively in London to avoid coming home with a bride of the ton. It was a difficult feat for the incredibly wealthy and handsome young man but he was obsessed with finding the right bride … namely the only woman to turn him down for his arrogant and proud behavior. Elizabeth Bennet was beautiful, intelligent and independent enough that she always stood out in a crowd for the right reasons. She had claimed his attentions the moment he saw her walking in Meryton upon his arrival and she was fully capable of keeping his attention although he had a few very inconvenient setbacks that kept him from making the incredible woman his wife. The debacle at Rosings at least taught him the importance of giving the right impression to the friends and relations of the woman he wished to make his wife.

Unfortunately his only option for making a positive first impression was the only relations of Miss Elizabeth that lived in London and even with all his resources he could not find a single acquaintance that could introduce him to their family. He despaired of ever being able to make their acquaintance and thus have a few people that were willing to put in a good word for him with Elizabeth that would be sincere enough to make an impact on her opinion of him. But maybe there was another way …

Lydia Bennet was having the time of her life and was amazingly bored at the same time. Unlike she had believed before leaving Longbourn for the seaside the officers were actually dedicating a lot of their time to training. Leaving the poor girl to occupy her time with dinner, tea parties and shopping with the ladies from the region and the occasional spouse of a senior officer. Unlike when the officers were in Meryton parties were few and far between. There were not even the small gatherings for supper and cards that her aunt Philips used to throw every few days to amuse her while the officers were busy and she did not have enough money to spend to her heart's content without at least one officer supplementing her income with baubles and the little gifts that she was used to. Even more dreadful was the fact that the senior officer's wives often did not have time to lavish Lydia with attention!

As the youngest of the party she was almost treated like the unwanted child of the old General who was in charge of the camp. It wasn't in a good way either, she was either ignored or sent to fetch different materials for the older ladies to complete their embroideries or bonnets or whatever project they were working on. Some of the ladies even patched the uniforms of their officer husbands! Lydia found this absolutely deplorable; mending was servant's work. The wives of officers had much better things to do, like throw extravagant balls and shop for the latest fashions. Obviously they were all involved in some elaborate joke designed to lure her into a sort of boredom and then to surprise her with the parties that were the reality of being married to an officer that spent his days going to fight in glorious battles and defeat some evil villain out of a storybook before returning to his wife a rich man with stories that would make his wife swoon with joy.

All she had to do was find a husband and then return to Longbourn triumphantly to rule the house as the only married woman of all her sisters. Finally she'd get the respect and admiration of her father and all of her sisters as they were forced to defer to her the youngest of them all. That would show them, they would beg for her assistance to get husbands after she came home with a war hero. She just knew it. It had never occurred to her that upon her marriage she would be leaving the family home and then would spend the rest of her life following her penniless husband and working her fingers to the bone doing physical labor to manage her household without servants since a soldier without sufficient rank could not afford servants even to the level that Lydia was accustomed to at Longbourn.

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Well there is chapter one of the reposted story. It might take the entire month of September but the whole story will be reposted. Please review I love to hear what my reviewers think of my ideas.