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.
- C6: Monday: Kate is writing letters for her therapy.
Author note: English is still not my language.
Hey, as I wrote some time ago, at the beginning of the first chapter, I believe, I will go on holiday to my parents' place. My schedule may be a bit chaotic (they also are in the European timezone) but I will try to have three chapters per week as I did until now.
Happy reading!
Chapter 7: Writing Chapter 92
I couldn't believe the nerve of the man. He managed to know exactly how to have me on edge. It's been a hell of a day: first, his assassination attempt, second, his disdain of my protections. The knowledge he was looking at me, and plotting, again and again, does nothing to calm me. How do I know? The sheet of paper I found in my hotel room when Mina let me change for dinner with Charles and his sister. I promised before finding the letter.
"I know where you are." That's all that it was saying. I could recognize his cursive everywhere, he didn't have to sign it. I didn't want to touch it, but I had little choice. Letting it here would be worse. The letter itself wasn't so much, but the meaning he could enter the protection I always put everywhere, that was worrying. I also know very well that was the effect he was going for. It wasn't helping at all that I still fell for it.
The dinner with Charles and his sister was unnoticeable and I didn't remember anything of it. I tried to have Reynolds analyze the letter, and nothing, no new clues were coming out of it, making me jumpy and... yes, scared. What would be the next move of Wickham? How could he do something more powerful than what the last day had been all about? I'm really scared. Knowing that I'm not protected, I don't want to do anything I use to do to relax. That means no Lizyel streams until I have resolved the crisis.
Work, work, and just work. That's depressing. Could I still associate with Mina and Charles? Thinking back, yeah, Wickham already knew them, we hang out together as children and teenagers. He knows that I'm very loyal to my friends. But by careful planning, I can let him believe that nothing changed recently in my life. Georgiana didn't know about Lizyel. There is no way I will let that vile reprobate know about my one love. He would see it as a challenge to ruin her. She is fiery, but even she would be overcome by his darkness. I can't imagine a future without her. Better have a few days or even weeks without listening to her than risking a life without her in it.
I will have to give the change. To not let my inner thoughts be available for the shadows that observe. I do not know in what forbidden knowledge Wickham has dabbled since our shared years. I just know that I swear to uphold the value of freedom and protection since I took after my father. And that it was our last falling out. The oath and his version of the facts conflicted. That's the last time I ever thought he could be right. The oath can't lie. I can't say the same for a human.
I'm resolved, the next time Mina or Charles get me to be social, to get away from my work, as I know they will do, I will be ready. I won't add new people Wickham can hurt. Not anymore.
Not five minutes after I resolve this, Mina send me a message asking if I am still available for tonight. I answer that yes, of course (I haven't forgotten about it... No, not really. It just slips my mind). No new lead on my case, I have no reason to think something will happen between now and in four hours. I plan to go to the liquor store to pick up some good wine, as I recall her horrible taste, and add half an hour to the transport to get to her place.
I must say that I'm curious to meet her... what is his name? Ah. Edwin. I think the name is befitting someone just found. The story of Inspector Thomas is still really fresh in my memory, and not helping me to stay calm about Georgiana's prospect. The Inspector was a fey who had the gift of believefulness. By speaking with people, he could know if they believe something to be true. It didn't matter if it was really true or not. He was a very good asset to the faery community until his little brother got kidnapped and Thomas had to lay low for fear of his brother. His brother's name was Edwin. My father had a lot of business with him, and I went over it when I inherited the business. Since Inspector Thomas's disappearance, knowing the truth and helping people of faery's blood has been really difficult. We are losing a lot more than we are helping. I know that. My dream is to find someone who has inherited a similar gift and have them help the faery cause again.
The best defence is not protecting, it's attacking. We need to know who are our enemies. And for now, even if I know Wickham is my enemy, I doubt he is for all the faery blood. There is something else in the making that I can't understand. I'm full of dread for the future, and I can't help but think that I'm a poor replacement for my father.
I manage to write some more chapters in Edelweiss, closing the story toward the end, at chapter 92. It would be nice to close it with a full round number, like 100. Will I be able to get there? Not sure. It will be the question for another time. It's time I get ready for the evening with Mina and her Edwin.
My first reaction is to be disappointed when I discover that there are two other young women with us. Why everyone wants to correct my singleness by throwing whatever young lady they think will be great for me? It's two sisters, and there is something weird going on. When the youngest one speaks for the first time, I realize that she is Lizyel.
I've found my love, the same day I swore to myself I will do nothing to put her in danger. I look meaningfully at Mina, but she just shrugs at me. What should I do? What could I do? The only thing I'm sure of is that while I don't have resolved Georgiana's case, I should not be paying her any attention. When Wickham will be defeated, I will be able to get to know her.
I finish my evening in a much higher spirit than yesterday, and I can't thank enough Mina for her idea.
I hope you liked it. No Darcy didn't hear her talking last time because he was too obsessed over Wickham's threat. And he can't understand that she hates him when he believes that he just met her...
Thanks for the reviews: liysyl
