Summary: Lizyel (Lizzy) is a fantastic streamer that hides her face, but her voice charms everyone who hears her. Pemdarcy (Darcy) is the best author that publishes a lot of stories but he is really private and nobody knows really who he is. Both love what the other is doing, but what happens when they really meet and secrets of more than one generation came between them? UA. Modern. Darcy/Lizzy. (There is magic and secrets in this universe)

Characters: Darcy/Lizzy, Jane/Bingley, Mr/Mrs. Bennet, Uncle/Aunt Gardiner
Backstory 1 Characters: Uncle Gardiner, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Grandfather Gardiner, Aunt Gardiner, Collins Senior, OCs
Backstory 2 Characters: Mr. Wickham, Georgiana Darcy, Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Darcy Senior

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Friendship

Rating: K

Author note: English is still not my language.

So... the first chapter was how Darcy received and thought about the stream of Lizyel. Now... you know what it is going to be, right?

Magic is hidden from normal folks. That's why it's treated as "fairy tales" here.

Author's note (for our imperial friends) 4 square meters = 43 square feet.


Chapter 2 ~ Chapter: Edelweiss Ch51 by Pemdarcy

When I look at the moon, the full, beautiful moon, it tells me a story of poignant, undying love. Like we find only in fairy tales. Personally, I'm too old to believe in all this rubbish. Souls linked at the first contact? Who is silly enough to believe your destiny is written in the stars? We are making our own history. Or, more accurately, our past and our family, all our errors and failures, shape who we are.

While saying that, I must admit though, that it is nice when it's in any of Pemdarcy novels. I clearly have a soft spot for them. It's... I don't know how to clearly express it. I feel a connection with the characters. I have an alert each time a new chapter comes in, and I don't exactly jump on it... but... I maybe stop everything I'm doing to be able to enjoy the chapter? Except if I am streaming, of course. The current story in progress is Edelweiss, about a nymph that was transformed into a flower by an evil witch and the nymph/flower tries to fight back and helps her people against the witch. But being a flower makes everything... complicated.

The new notification about the new chapter (Chapter 51 of Edelweiss) blinks into my view. I'm overjoyed. That's something really nice about Pemdarcy, they are really steadfast and never miss a deadline. With everything that changes every month in my life, that's nice to know some things are stable and ground me.

Another notification blinks. A message from my sister. "L. Will be late. Work to do. At L with K. J." She will stay at the library with Kate. Nice to know I will have to reheat the pizza and eat it all by myself. She has been working from the library more and more this last month. Could it be that I overstayed at her place? It's been... three months that I live here. I'm studying completely remotely and working on my stream also only from her home. Technically, I just need good internet. I should begin to look at other places I could live in. What was easy here was that I already knew Collins could not find me. No idea if that's because we are abroad, or because he is just stupid that way. The problem with another place would be that I would have to pay rent and pray that he will never find me again. And pay for everything else. Paying for the pizza is already close to pushing me to bankrupt each week. Streaming does not make a living. Maybe I should make a concession and find myself another job.

And see people in real life? And risk meeting someone who will speak to Collins about me?

Nah. I will continue to search online, purely remote workplaces, where I don't have to show my faces. But I should do something for dear Jane. She is maybe worried for me? She shouldn't and she should just make sure she works hard at her management school. I don't want her to fail her chosen profession. Even if, before she left Meryton, I would never believe she would try to work in that field. That's what 3 years without any contact with your big sister does to you. She said she left Meryton to study art. And she's majoring in management and economy. She's still the same girl, but... there is something deep inside her that she never shares. I'm not her confidant anymore.

Should I close that hope too and just move on? Is that growing up? Fearing for your life and your sanity that one of your long-estranged cousins will maybe found you and that would be very bad? Making sure you have enough to eat on your table each day without running into too much debt? I don't want to. I want to stay as a younger sister. I want to stay a child and never have to worry.

Enough wool-gathering, if I'm not working, I should just enjoy the chapter. One meter from my desk to my bed, and I lay on it. My room is not a lot, just 4-square meters, but that's enough to have my desk, hosting my laptop with a good headset, and of course my bed. There are also layers of towers of books and reference documents I sometimes use for my streams. And there is a much smaller tower for all school-related books and notebooks.

As I open the application and read the first word of the new chapter, my heart stops. "This chapter is dedicated to Lizyel. Enjoy!". I stay stunned, my eyes glued to the one line in italics and on the left just before the chapter even begins. That's... I...

Pemdarcy dedicated something. For me.

Me!

I can't believe it.

I close the application. Open it again, open the story. The same line is here.

Yes, two days ago, I was reading one of my favourite chapters of the previous one named Mark and the Dragon. But... But there is no way Pemdarcy knows I was reading it. I remember that I send them a message about acknowledging that I would read and cite everything about them, and linking my profile. That means so much to me.

The chapter is intense. Very good, very sharp. The external world disappears as I'm reading. When I finish, though, I can't believe how they pulled it. It's... it's a masterpiece. Just the best chapter I have ever read. And I just want to believe that soul linked together at a first contact really exists. That when you met your significant other, you KNOW you are meeting him. That would be just so simple.

But... hey, that's a fairy tale. And it's good that at this part in the story Edel met someone who will understand her because flower-human language miscomprehension is really bad. So I'm happy that she knows even if that human may transform into a goat, he won't eat her. Never. Because they are destined together.

My enjoyment of the chapter has nothing to do with the first sentence I read. Nothing at all. It's just a masterpiece.

That night, when I close my eyes, I get the fleeting feeling I got all along with my reading. Someone somewhere had been thinking enough of me to dedicate a chapter of a novel I liked. To me. It... it feels like someone wanted me. Like they could understand me. I suppose that's how Edel felt when Arthur picked up the flower pot and her petals and his finger touched for the first time.


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