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Two chapters in one day?? I am getting good. How do you like it?? This is basically a filler chapter so you know exactly what goes on when Will finds out who Liz really is, and they meet again. Oh, I'm going to start writing my new chapter immediately, I'm so stuck on this!

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Tom Finds Out

"Hello!" he stuttered, for once in his life lost for words.

Georgie Bennett was standing there absolutely stunned. She'd come to the house and hoped to see Thomas Bennett and meet some famous people, but nothing had prepared her for meeting Thomas Bennett Junior.

"I Uh..." she turned bright red. So did he.

"You, uh... er... better come in" he said, opening the door wider, just in time as Jane came through from the kitchen

"Come in, Come in, it's nice to see you. You are...?"

Georgie swallowed "I'm Georgina, and my Mom, Dad and Hilary, my sister are just behind me, trying to sort out the car, I think they left their car keys in the car and locked the door"

Jane laughed, a pleasant laugh, not at all condescending, and Georgie warmed to her immediately.

"Get Tom to help you, he can open a car door in twenty seconds flat"

"Really?" Georgie turned her gaze on him, wide-eyed "I thought only like chavvy boys could do things like that."

Jane laughed again, not just a polite laugh but a real deep laugh, throwing her head back. "Tom, just go and show her."

Tom removed a safety pin from his pocket and headed off in the direction that Georgie took him.

"So" he said

"So??" asked Georgie

"Well, how old are you?"

"I'm thirteen, you?"

"I'm the same" Tom said, walking more briskly "What's your family like? Are they all as nice as you?"

"No!!" Georgie laughed "You need to be very careful around Mom and Hilary, they are both absolutely psycho about boys and getting the rest of us married off"

"Are you and Hilary the only kids?" Tom was determined to keep the conversation going, and it appeared to be the only thing to say, as they walked.

"No, I have twin brothers, Will and Charlie, too!" Georgie kept giving Tom sly sideward glances to see if he really was as handsome as she'd first thought. She wasn't disappointed

The names Will and Charlie stuck in Tom's brain

"Oh boy, I sure hope your brother isn't Will Darcy" Tom joked, fully expecting her to say - 'Who's Will Darcy?'.

He was completely unprepared for her reaction. She grabbed him by the arm and wheeled him around to face her.

"How do you know??"

"Is he coming?" Tom had to know

"I'm not sure, why? How do you know him? What's going on?"

"I have a good friend, who, if Will talks to you, you may know. Liz Regan??" Tom was very aware of her hand on his arm, but did nothing to brush it off

"Oh. My. Gosh. Her."

"Yes"

"How did you know that my Will is the Will you know?" Georgie squinted at him

"Well, your brother said something really horrible about my sister to somebody called Charlie, and hearing the names together, I put two and to together"

"Your sister??" Georgie's ears pricked up

"No, no, no, no, no" Tom said far too quickly, assuring Georgie that he was lying "I meant my sister's friend"

"Which sister??" Georgie probed

"Um, Jane" Tom decided that saying Elle might raise a few questions, especially as both nicknames are a form of Elizabeth.

"That had better not be the Jane that is going out with my brother Charlie." Georgie quipped to take the edge off the moment, with a joke

"Um, do you mean your brother Charlie is going out with a Dr. Jane Carter or something??" Tom had to ask

"NO WAY!!" Georgie screamed "That is practically impossible. Yeah! How comes our families all know each other??"

Tom was astounded. "This is sooo cool" he said "How comes you know about her as well?"

"Tom - your sisters take on different names at work don't they?" Georgie was surprising astute, causing Tom to be the one to stop walking

"How do you know?"

Georgie tapped her head "Women's intuition" she laughed, and Tom joined in.

"I cannot wait until we acquaint them with the facts!!" Tom said excitedly, grinning from ear to ear

And that was how Mrs. Darcy pounced on them

"Georgie, what are you doing? I thought I told you to go off and invite yourself in and find a place for us at the table and tell everyone we're here and ask if they know who the girl is that Will knew all those years ago"

"It can't be..." Tom thought to himself, completely aware that Georgie was thinking exactly the same thing.

"I found someone who can help us. Mom, may I present Thomas Bennett Junior"

"Oh! Well!" Mrs. Darcy turned to Georgie "I must say. You have been busy"

Tom didn't like that insinuation, and he thought that Georgie was a little better than that

"Ma'am" he gave a little bow, as he'd been taught to do to horrible people "Which is your car?"

"That Volvo over there" Mrs. Darcy pointed in a voice that plainly said "What can you do about it?"

Tom calmly walked over to the car and bent down by the keyhole. A few seconds later, he pulled the door open and handed Mrs. Darcy her keys.

"This was on top of them" he handed her a few packets of white powder that was on the passenger seat. Mrs. Darcy blushed and turned away from him

"Mr. Darcy??" She screamed, making Tom grin at her old-fashioned way of addressing her husband "Come here, I've got something of yours"

Georgie began to hurriedly lead Tom back toward the house, as she had no wish for him to see her father in his state or work out what the packets were for. Tom was very sheltered.

What no-one noticed as they were going back to the house, was that Tom had pinched one of the white packets so he could 'investigate' it.

No-one could have dreamed what the consequences would be...

I liked my cliffhanger so much that I decided to be nice and add another one!