A/N: I know guys its long time since an update but one major excuse I have is that I live a little bit north of Houston and my power was out for four or five days. I know I always have an excuse when it comes to updating late but that was a major one. I'm really sorry and I am working on an update for all or most of my stories. Now for Chapter Four!

Forgive Me...?

Jane the Mastermind

Lizzy walked purposely down the hall toward Jane's set of rooms. As the bride of one of the most prodigious weddings this hotel had seen in a long time she was treated like a queen, given her own set of rooms and the car to call whenever she needed it.

Lizzy burst through the door, rounded the corner into her sister's sitting room and demanded "Did you know?"

Jane jumped and whirled from the mirror and stared at her quizzically, "Know what?" She asked almost dreading what she was going to say.

Lizzy stared at Jane for a moment then narrowed her eyes. "You did know didn't you!? I can't believe you didn't tell me he was coming! How could you do that to me?!" Lizzy yelled.

Jane winced. "I thought that the closure of seeing him again would help you forget about well you know." She said quietly.

Lizzy turned sharply and began pacing rapidly back and forth. "Closure." She hissed at Jane. "How can you expect closure to help me?" Then she sighed and sat heavily down on one of the many settees that the hotel had provided. "Jane what if him being here just makes it worse? I mean I haven't seen any of the girls or mom and dad for nearly two years now and then dealing with Darcy on top of that. I'm only one person after all." She stared helplessly at Jane. "I don't know if I can do this."

Jane sat down next to her sister and put her arms around her. "Honey, I know you, somehow you will force yourself through this with a smile on your face half the time and a glare the rest of the time." Jane pulled herself away and forced Lizzy to look at her. "Your so strong that sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to be the older sister. I forget that I'm supposed to be the stronger one. You can do this I believe in you."

Jane got up and pulled Lizzy to her feet. "Now come on we are going into town to shop and show Will Darcy what Elizabeth Bennett is made of!" she yelled triumphantly pumping her fists into the air. Lizzy laughed and let herself be pulled into the hallway.

"Jane, where are you taking me?" Lizzy asked laughingly as Jane pulled her from the hotel car. Jane just smiled and continued to pull her down the street.

" Jane come on we don't have time to go shopping. What we need to do is go back to the hotel. I'm sure that you have some small wedding detail to go over today."

Jane laughed. "Lizzy I have something to do everyday. Some color to choose, some lace to decide about. Today is for my maid of honor!" she said. Lizzy just rolled her eyes and let herself be pulled along the lines of the glass fronted tourist traps on both sides of the street.

Suddenly Jane stopped and pushed Lizzy through the door of a dimly lit shop that smelled strongly of musk. "Aha here we are!" Jane cried happily, clapping her hands like a small child. The image of a small child did not quite fit with the store Jane had forced her to enter. All around Lizzy there were racks and racks of every type of underwear imaginable. Lace, satin, silk, and even leather lined the walls in every direction she looked.

"You dragged me to a lingerie store!?" She cried.

"Not just any lingerie store, ma cherie. Your lovely sister dragged you into the very best lingerie store!" Announced a large, buxom woman who was gliding toward them from a back room.

"Antoinette!" Jane cried and rushed to hug the strange French woman.

"Janey dearest!" The woman cried dramatically and rushed to hug her as well. Lizzy winced waiting for the horrible sound of the large woman's , Antoinette's, breasts smacking Jane right in the face. When it never came she looked and saw that Antoinette was leading Jane to the back room speaking animatedly in French. Lizzy scowled she hated French. She had tried it once in college and ended up punching the idiotic teacher in the face when he yelled at her for not being nasally enough. She had switched to Italian which, she found, was much better.

Jane stopped suddenly and gestured to Lizzy still talking in French. Antoinette stopped and looked back her at before turning back to Jane. Then they were both advancing on her. Antoinette grabbed her and pulled toward some displaces in the back and describing each thing to her. Lizzy blinked and turned to stare helplessly at Jane. Jane laughed and then took Antoinette's hand.

"Darling I think you might be overwhelming my maid of honor. Perhaps you could just pick some things and send Lizzy to a dressing room."

"Of course. Anything for you ma cherie."

Lizzy stared aghast at Jane and began backing quickly toward the door. Neither Jane nor Antoinette were looking her way and she was so close to escape. Just a little bit farther to the door. She was almost there when Jane looked up.

"Oh no you don't! Get back Lizzy!" Jane cried and began rushing toward her.

"No I don't want any lingerie!" She cried and turned to rush out the door. She forced the door open and ran smack into some guy on the street. Lizzy fell hard, landing on her butt with a hard thump. She groaned and quickly got up; wincing at the bruise she knew was growing on her back side. Then she rushed over to the guy she had ran into.

"Oh my I'm so sorry are you alright?" She asked anxiously, bending over him.

He groaned and rubbed his butt as well before answering her. "Yes I'm fine and its okay you were obviously running from something horrendous." He looked up at her and smiled.

And Lizzy froze. He really hadn't changed a bit. He still was every bit as handsome and rugged as he was in high school. The only difference that Lizzy could see was his crooked nose. She smirked at little, proud of herself for that one flaw in his perfection, and forced her self to smile back at him.

He obviously didn't recognize her; she had changed quite a bit since high school. She had dyed her hair so many colors after she had left Meryton High and was currently sporting a long curly style in a dark burgundy color, upon Jane's request to have her hair sort of like it was in their childhood, and didn't even recognize herself sometimes. The only thing that hadn't changed was her bright, blue eyes and her fiery temper.

"It was horrible." She said trying hard not to snap at him. All the hatred she held for suddenly bubbling to the surface.

Then Jane, who hadn't changed since high school either, burst through the door of Antoinette's store and cried, "Elizabeth Bennett you will get back inside and try on everything dear Antoinette has picked for you this instant!"

"Elizabeth Bennett." Whispered an awed voice from behind her. Lizzy winced and forced herself to stare straight forward as William Darcy stood up from the sidewalk behind her.

A/N: Finally finished so tell me what you think! Love you all!!