Lizzie called him just as he was about to leave the office.

'Don't forget the forms!' she called quickly before hanging up. Sighing, he ran to the elevator, before taking it to the second floor and grabbing the forms. It only took him about half an hour to get back to the apartment, he had just missed peak hour traffic, but it had been starting to build.

He brought the stack home and laid it carefully on the kitchen table.

'Lizzie, I brought the documents, I thought we could go over them tonight after dinner, or is that guy coming over tonight? um… Robert Johnston, to talk about the building?'

He called as he came in. Lizzie came out of the lounge room and smoothed her dress.

'Will, I'd like to introduce you to Robert Johnston, that is tonight, you were right, we can go over that tomorrow night.' She gestured to the squat man standing next to her.

'Robert Johnston' He said, offering his hand. Darcy shook it.

'William Darcy, now I hear Mr Johnston-'

'Please, call me Robert, everybody else does' Robert said, taking the glass Lizzie offered him.

'Robert, I hear you work in engineering'

'Yes, but I happen to own the building your wife found for your company or whatever' He took a swallow.

'Please, Mr Johston, Lizzie is not my wife-'

'yet'

'Mr Johnston, this project is not mine, this company that we are looking to set up is going to be run by Elizabeth, we are not married, and have made no plans to do so, if you are going to continue to treat her like she does not deserve I'm going to have to ask you to leave and we shall find somewhere else to plant her company!"

'My apologies William' he said, almost sounding sincere.

'Please, call me Darcy, I believe you are here to talk business with Lizzie, please do so with no hesitation.' William's hand shook as he fumed, before walking into their bedroom to change out of his rather formal attire.

When he came out again, he had taken off his jacket, and loosened his tie. He liked that tie, Lizzie had given it to him it was blue, and Darcy liked blue.

'This is a lovely apartment you have here Miss Bennet, and (I'm assuming) Mr. Darcy. How long have you had it?'

'Well this has been Will and his sister, Gigi's for a while now right? Um… Gigi moved away from college and then moved back here with Will afterwards. And then of course Gigi is in Sanditon now, testing a Pemberly Digital Product, you might had heard of it, Domino?'

'Oh yes Domino! In Sanditon! I know Mayor Parker, we go way back, how is he?'

'You should see for yourself, he's in some of Gigi's Domino video's on the Pemberly Digital YouTube site.'

'I see. Lovely Wife, very pretty, or so I hear, never actually met her, makes a great potato soup, or so I hear.'

'Oh yes, Gigi commented on that last time Will called her' Lizzie said, while Darcy served the food.

'Shall we sit? Will can bring it over!' Lizzie said, enjoying the look on Darcy's face.

They sat and ate in weighted silence, until finally (Robert Johnston had finished and nearly liked his plate clean) he announced that he would be off and that was the end of that.

'Thank you, for before, with Robert and the whole sexist view on the world thing' Lizzie said, leaning on the door frame.

'Anything to protect a lady such as yourself from the snarls of sexist pigs' he replied, leaning on the other side of the door.

'But you do it too' Lizzie said, crossing her arms.

'I-I what? I am not a sexist individual? Have you seen the top half on my staff?'

'Don't get me wrong, you do it differently, you don't insult women by placing them in stereotypical roles, you insult women by implying that, that, that they can't save themselves, that you need to step in and save them from pigs like Robert. You do it by helping'

'Well what was I supposed to do? Let him continue?' They were almost yelling now.

In a moment, Lizzie was silent, and then, in a whisper she replied: 'you were supposed to let me do it myself. I can hold my own Darcy, I'm not some innocent flower you need to protect, this girl's got her own balls' She frowned and left.

Darcy sighed and grabbed his coat. He needed a walk.

He marched out of the apartment and nodded angrily at the overnight guard.

'Evening Mr Darcy, looking troubled. Anything I can help you with?'

'Tell me John, does your wife ever get mad because you defended her against some misogynistic piece of crap?' He ran his hands through his hair.

'All the time. All I have to do is think back to when I didn't know her. And then think about why I married her. Works pretty well for me. Why what's on your mind?' John replied, glancing at the security cameras.

'Lizzie just had a fit because I got mad at a man who treated her like I'm sure he treats his dog, or a slaves if he has any.'

'Ah, I know the type, just giver her time, you'll understand each other soon enough.' John Glanced at the screen again.

'Thanks John, I'm gonna take a walk, I'll be back within an hour' Darcy left. He trudged through the blackness, thoughts streaming through his brain. He found a park he used to frequent when he was younger and cleared the dew of the swing and sat. He thought about seeing Lizzie for the first time, making her hate him, seeing her at Bings, seeing her at his Aunt Catherines, telling her how much he loved her, watching her videos, seeing how much she hated him, kissing her again, and again, again, his whole life in her smile. He smiled and got up before making his way back to his building. He nodded happily to John and caught the elevator back up. He smiled. Planning on reminding Lizzie how much he loved her. He burst into the apartment planning to do that, but it was dark. He turned on the light and found a note on the table.

Will,

Gone to visit the family, should be back for tomorrow night, we need to talk.

Lizzie

Sorry I'm so incredibly late, but I clean forgot about it and then it was so harrd. So I avoided it and this is the result. Sorry if it sucks. Please review, I like it when you review, or you know, I might hide and stop writing which is bad because now I actually have a plot to start or something.

Peace out!