Darcy sat up all of Wednesday night talking to Lizzie. At least, that's what Gigi told Fitz the next morning as she swallowed her morning allotment of coffee. It felt like only a few seconds, and a lifetime to Darcy. They talked about everything, from 'how was your day today' to the price of carbon emissions on the planet. She teased him and he tried to tease her back. It was a good night.
He did however regret it in the morning. His alarm woke him up at 7, a mere 5 hours after went to bed. He stumbled downstairs to have breakfast and decided to get an extra strong coffee from his closest coffee shop as well. Extra tall, extra strong, extra caffeine. Lizzie was lucky she didn't have any classes on the Thursday morning. Darcy wished he didn't.
He got into Pemberly Digital at close to 8:30. Gigi was with him and immediately went off to gossip with neighbors on the 2nd floor. Darcy went off to his 4th floor office. Within half a minute of him actually sitting down at his desk his phone rang, and so began his long day of work.
It was Lizzie. Calling to ask him if they could please push back their phone call until 10 seeing as how she was going out to Dinner with Charlotte and a few of her other friends. Darcy, reluctantly said yes. He was interested to see what Lizzie's friends thought of her.
At 9'oclock he had a meeting with a few of his senior employees, so after the phone call, he made his way over to a conference room to meet with them. He couldn't stop smiling. In fact, most of the employees at Pemberly Digital had noted how much happier Darcy had been since he had been back. He smiled more, he took jokes, he tried to make them. That said they could also see that this was not where he wanted to be.
That's why, in his meeting with George, and Hank and Bernie and Kate he was asked, no instructed to take leave for 2 months. They felt as though he had been 'too stressed recently' and that 'the company was changing it's position slightly and he needed time off to evaluate the situation' he reluctantly took it.
Lizzie got home from her afternoon class at 5 o'clock It didn't leave her much time for a 6:30 dinner time. She placed her keys on the drawers and made her way up to her room. Before kicking off her shoes and dumping her bag by the foot of her bed. It was a few seconds before she realized that someone was actually lying on her bed. Darcy was lying on her freaking bed! In her defense his shirt did kind of match her bed spread.
'Darcy! William, Will… hey' He sat up as she sat down and they greeted each other in the usual fashion.
'you know, you can call me William if you want. Or not… whatever. Also, didn't you have a dinner to get to?' Lizzie stood back up in surprise.
'Right I did, I can cancel, I mean you flew all the way to see me I don't need to see Charlotte. I'll call her'
'No it's fine, I just had to see you and let you know that I won't be calling tonight. The seniors have given me two months off to 'reevaluate the company' or something. If you wanted to know, or reach me or whatever, I'm staying at this hotel here' he handed a business card with the name, the address and several phone numbers on it.
'Come with me tonight, the girls won't mind, I'm pretty sure Bethany is bringing her fiancé Rob, it'll give him someone to talk to' she moved closed to him and pulled on his tie.
'Thanks Lizzie, but I'm just going to go back to my hotel, you can reach me there should you wish it. However, I will wait to meet your friends.' William lay beck on the bed and waited for Lizzie to have a shower.
When she came out, Darcy had never seen her looking so beautiful. She was wearing the same blue dress she had worn to the Gibson wedding. Her hair was arranged to the side, much the same as on her birthday. Darcy moved to stand behind her in the mirror.
'You were wearing this when we met' He bent down and kissed her neck.
'Yes, I believe you called me decent enough, but not pretty enough to tempt you, would you like to reevaluate your original thesis Mr Darcy?' Darcy continued to kiss her neck, moving up to kiss a line down her jaw.
'Oh yes please' Not bothering to explain his 'better she hate him' idea he turned her around and kissed her again on the mouth. Relishing in the taste.
'Oh how I wish I could have done that that night. Elizabeth Bennet, you are not decent enough Lizzie you are not pretty enough to tempt me. Never have I ever seen anything so beautiful in my life. Your very existence tempts me, the smell of your hair, and the taste of your lips on mine. Lizzie Bennet I am the one who is merely decent enough to be even thought of by you.'
Before Lizzie could respond, there was a knock at the door, probably the girls. Lizzie reapplied her lipstick and Darcy whipped it off his lips and they made their way downstairs.
