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, Miss Bingley

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

Chronology: (C is for Chapter)

- 5 years ago: Ed and Mina met. Ed loses all his previous identity and memories.
- 3 years ago: Jane quits her family to study art abroad. Never went back since (switch studies for Management and Economy since never explained why)
- Between 3 years and now: Jane meets Mina / Mina take Jane as a protege.
- ? months ago: Something happens with "Collins" and Lizzy flees and comes to live with Jane.
- 2 months ago: Georgiana is kidnapped by Wickham
- C1: Tuesday: Lizzy streams.
- C2: Thursday: Darcy publishes chapter 51
- C3: Saturday: Lizzy streams. Speaks quickly about a "double death". Lizzy meets Mina and Ed.
- C4: Sunday: Darcy publishes chapter 52. Darcy moves to Lucacity to follow Wickham/Georgiana's trail. Miss an assassination attempt.
- C5: Sunday: Lizzy streams. Darcy "meets" and insults Lizzy and Jane.

Author note: English is still not my language.

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Chapter 6: Kate's letters

"Dear Will,

You will never receive this letter, but my therapist insists that's a good idea to rant, and not simmer in my anger, that it leads to some hurtful part of my past. Since then, I always take the pen when angry, sad, or depressed. And I feel better.

So, Dear Will,

I'm not happy at all with you. Jane is my good friend and even if I hadn't met Lizzy before, I can say that she is far from what you accused her to be. That was callous and totally inaccurate. You should be ashamed. I know my brother and me, we are, for you. If you didn't want to come for my birthday, you could just say it, you know? I wouldn't take it badly... Or more accurately, I would take it way less badly than what I did... with your stupid nose in the air, like I'm superior to you, I was... I couldn't look my friend in her eyes.

Jane is the most gentle soul. And I could see that you were wearing her down. I won't be surprised if she will refuse to hang out with my friends, now. So thank you, Will. Oh, and that's sarcasm if you couldn't grasp. I don't care that what you were doing on your phone was so important.

IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY!

You agreed to come because you were in the same city, and you needed a change of air. Okay, so come, and let your worries elsewhere. Somewhere I'm not.

You know, Will, at one point, I had a crush on you. When we were younger, the first time you come to my home. I was fourteen, you were sixteen. You were dashing and super handsome, not awkward like a lot of boys I knew. You were confident and I wanted nothing more than to have you come to my birthday. But we changed. I tried maybe too hard to become who I believe could be your friend and your girlfriend.

Nine years later, you're still someone I hold dear, but that's not something that will continue if you continue with that attitude. I'm not stupid. I didn't get the beginning of Lizzy's stream, and that's one of the few she didn't make available. But I get enough to know she's furious against you.

Your world is not like one of your novels, Will. Yes, I know about it too, most of the time I'm not speaking, I do something you should do sometimes: I listen. Yeah, surprising, I know. That was again a trick from my therapist.

When I think about it, it's so strange that this is the first time I write one of my ranting letters to you, Will. Maybe because you did pass a border. An invisible one about something I think is unpardonable. However, you know that... You are the one that created the need to have my therapist. I wanted so much to be the girl, to be the woman you wanted next to you that I destroyed everything that I cared for. Without you... I may have forced my obsession over someone else. Or maybe not. We will never know. Never forget, it's totally fitting that when I finally get around to having a friend that is not put up by my unfriendly ways, you came and manage to endanger that relation.

If Jane wants nothing to do with me anymore... You will pay, Will. I can assure you that. I have no idea what I will do, or even how I can do it. It's still very hard to pronounce the words that you are a bad man, impulsive and reckless, and most importantly, that you do not care one iota for what your friends are feeling. I do get that you do not know Jane and Lizzy. You know me and my brother, but you decided we were not worthy of having your good opinion and that you will be the Bear Will for the whole of the evening we spent together.

Thank you, Will, I believe it helps to get over my last birthday where my grandmother died, and the one before where Louisa had told everyone some lies I do not even care to write down while I believed her to be my best friend. She was, in fact, not at all my besty.

Well done, Will, well done. I've spent too much time pitying myself. I'm now one year older, wiser? I'm not sure... As you are the oldest of us, I'm sure I don't want to age, I risk catching whatever bug of growing up that makes you grumpy, insensitive and callous. I don't want it, I'm already someone selfish, I don't need to add more defects to my character.

Your - still angered - friend,

Kate Bingley"

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I finish the letter and let it dry on my desk. Getting up, doing some exercises help reduce the pressure. I feel like I can finally let go of the crush and my impossible expectation of Will's character. I'm... just a bit disappointed. That's better I expect, as I have to see him in half an hour, because my brother is too much a gentle soul, and can't have a word wrong with him for too long.

I reopen the letter and add a post-scriptum: "Oh, and Will, please excuse me to have at one time wanted that your father dies quicker. I'm sorry, that was uncalled and very callous on my part. For my defence, I was still very infatuated with you and sixteen. Nobody is wise at sixteen. Sorry nonetheless. That does not excuse you, tho. I will await excuses, and I think I will never have them. Because I'm not sure you saw what you did as wrong."

I sigh and close the letter, before putting it away in the box, with every other letter for my therapy. I mark a note in my bullet journal that I did write a letter today, with anger toward disappointment as the reason.

Disappointment is better than anger, right?


Okay, when I said that Kate was a bit invasive, I meant it. She wanted that everyone knew that she could be a bit... overbearing, or impulsive, but she was already working on her character because she knew it was imperfect. What do you think? Is this Kate Bingley relatable? Could you be her friend, even when she may still speak a bit too much in anger, and hold a ressentiment ten times her size? I think she's becoming more interesting than I gave her credit for in the beginning.

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Colleen S: Of course it is. Some parts changed to be in tune with this setting. But I will follow most of the action, or at least that's my plan. Thank you for your review! I appreciate that very much!