I am an awful person. I am so sorry for taking so long. College is kicking my ass though that is not really an excuse. I hope people still read this.

Georgiana was walking into the ballroom when she heard her brother shout out Lizzy's name. Georgiana raced towards the crowd that was already forming, the Colonel's wrist trapped in her strong grip.

Lizzy was unconscious in her brother's arms, her body limp and pale.

"Oh god!" She gasped, breaking the relative silence. Several people turned to her in surprise. William looked up at her voice. She noticed with alarm that he looked quite similar to Lizzy in pallor. "William, what happened?"

"She just collapsed," He whispered, looking lost.

"Alright, clear away. Give her some room" The Colonel spoke, pushing a few people back. "Carlson, fetch a doctor. Darcy, let's get her upstairs, alright?" Her brother merely nodded, his hand gently tracing her cheekbone.

"She will be fine William" Georgiana announced. She rested a hand on her brothers shoulder. "We need to get her upstairs" She hinted. He nodded, standing easily with Lizzy in his arms.

"Take her to my usual room. Aunt had it made up for me earlier, in the hopes that you would allow me to stay over with her" Georgiana told them. "I shall ask her to prepare two" She stressed this word with a small smile for her brother "more rooms for you and I"

"Thank you love," He whispered as he left her at the bottom of the staircase. The guests were all still watching in fascination.

Vultures.

The elder, married couples looked either bored, or slightly concerned.

The younger, eligible ones looked almost happy.

Nearly everyone showed no signs of worry of her sisters fainting spell. Georgiana supposed that they did not realize she was pregnant, and fainting itself was not so serious. Still, it infuriated Georgiana.

"Georgie?" Her cousin was in front of her now. She looked up at him. She broke then and there, collapsing against him in sobs.

"Oh, look the second set is starting!" She dimly heard her uncle announce. "Come on, nothing to see here, let us enjoy the evening"

The society turned around then, returning to the ballroom, the doors shutting behind them firmly.

"Oh Georgie, shush" The Colonel soothed, patting her back. He sat her gently on the stairs. "Lizzy will be fine, you must believe that"

"It anything happens to her, I fear William will never be able to go on" She admitted. "Did you see the look in his eyes?" She questioned.

"Georgiana, dear, Lizzy is not your mother" He knew where his cousin was going with this. Will had done the same thing weeks before.

"But-"

"No. That is the end of the discussion. Come, we shall join Will's pacing outside her door. The doctor will come out, Lizzy shall be awake, and mortified, and it will all have been a simple case of too tight laces or some other female nonsense" Georgiana laughed despite herself.

William meanwhile was indeed pacing out the door. The doctor had entered the room a several minutes ago.

He was worried.

He was beyond worried. He was completely lost.

"Will?" His sister's quite voice brought him out of his morbid thoughts. She had tears in her eyes, but none had tracked down her cheeks yet. Without another word, she wrapped her small arms around him, clutching tightly at him.

"It will be okay Will," She whispered over and over against his neck.

It took nearly a half an hour for the doctor to finish his examination. He came out of the room, and was immediately bombarded by both Darcy's. The Colonel quickly grabbed his young cousin and dragged her away from the door.

"Patience Georgie" He squeezed her shoulder in a comforting manner.

"How is she?" Will asked anxiously. "And the babe?"

"Both are well" Everyone visibly exhaled. Georgiana sagged against her cousin. Will smiled briefly.

"Then what caused her to faint?" He asked, "Is she ill?"

"She was overtaxed, most likely from the combination of the warmth in the ballroom and the exertion of dancing. She is also fairly dehydrated. She needs rest sir. Has she been under a lot of stress recently?"

He nodded silently.

"Well, eliminate that stress, until the babe is born at the least. I suggest you have a few days rest, and then leave London for the countryside. London society is no place for her condition"

"Thank you doctor," He whispered. "May I see her?" The man nodded. The Colonel volunteered to see him out.

Meanwhile, Lizzy was having the most wonderful dream.

She was outside of Pemberley, she recognized the gardens in the distance and the stone deck on which she was located. She wore a silken dress of the palest green. It made her eyes sparkle in the bright sunshine. She was sitting calmly in a wooden rocker chair, gently rocking a sleeping child in her arms. She would estimate the child to be a little over a year old. A door slammed somewhere in the distance, causing the babe to stir.

"How now my little Anna?" She cooed at the child as she fret in her lap. She cuddled closer to her bosom and scrunched up her small face. Her eyes slowly blinked open. They were a startling shade of green, neither emerald nor jade, yet gorgeous without a doubt. She recognized them as her own.

"You miss your papa do you not child?" A voice asked from above her.

"William!" She cried, standing and throwing herself into his babe was securely tucked between the two. "Oh, how I missed you!"

"I am here now love, and liable to never my family again" The babe now rested contently in her fathers strong arms. "She has grown in the past fortnight" He murmured, smoothing the girls dark curls. She rewarded him with slobbery smile.

"Papa!" Another voice called from the maze of bushes, racing up the small stone steps to the deck. A boy, around four years of age, came panting up, covered in mud and holding a squirming pup. "Look, papa! Hunter had her litter!" He presented the muddy pup to his father to noticed the blue of his eyes, and the dimples of his cheeks, a miniature of her husband indeed.

"Bennet, go greet your father properly" The little boy must have been confused on the proper greeting as he launched himself at his fathers legs, almost knocking the man over. His father simply laughed. He picked the mud covered lad up and swung him about with the little girl still safely tucked under his other arm. In the end, the only one mud free was his wife.

He whispered something in young Bennet's ear, and the boy raced to hug his mother. She took it in stride, laughing as the child smeared mud cross her cheek.

Later, she found herself soaking in a tub, William behind her, rubbing her shoulders.

"She has two more teeth" William noted as he worked. "Two more teeth since I last saw her"

"They grow fast" She agreed. She smiled impishly at him. "Just as this one shall" She moved his hand to her slightly raised abdomen. His eyes widened, and a large smile appeared on his face, dimples and all.

"Oh Lizzy" He plucked her from the tub easily, embracing her tightly. "Lizzy, Lizzy, Lizzy"

"Lizzy, wake up Lizzy, please love" The voice from her dream whispered. She found herself incapable of opening her eyes. They went heavy with lead, too heavy to open properly. "Please Lizzy, please wake up"

The voice sounded so deject and sad that she tried harder. It was dark she realized, only a candle burned in the corner of the mysterious room. She recoginzed her husbands presence to the left of her.

"Will?" She croaked, her voice still laced with sleep.

"Oh, thank heavens Lizzy" He was at her side in a second, kissing her forehead, her cheeks, everywhere.

"What happened?" She managed.

"You fainted at the ball" He whispered softly. She gasped.

"And the babe?" Tears were already welling behind her eyes, she knew that fainting during this stage in pregnancy was bad.

"All is well" He told her. "The babe is fine, healthy even"

"Truly?" She asked, sitting up more.

"Truly" He replied with a smile. She flung her arms around him then, pulling him closer.

"It is to be a boy" She told him about her dream, to which he smiled and laughed. "We shall be so happy"

"As long as I have you, I am happy"