There was fast-forwarding. Last chapter was June 2014 for Jane's wedding but this one takes place in April 2015.

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Darcy was out to lunch with a potential investor and former colleague, when the man's cell phone rang and interrupted their conversation. He signaled that he had to take the call and walked away. When he returned, he explained that it was his wife.

"She gave birth a couple of weeks ago. Baby number three."

"Congratulations. I have a seventeen month-old daughter myself."

"Really? Is your wife pestering you for another one yet? That's how old our others were when she started wanting another one."

He was about to say that he wasn't married, but a switch flipped in his mind.

"Actually we're not married yet. We're engaged."

"Oh, really? I had no idea. Congratulations. How long have you been engaged? My wife and I waited a couple of years.

"Not very long. We just recently got engaged.", he said aloud. "A few moments ago actually…", he thought to himself.

"Wow. I bet everyone is excited for you. I'm sure your employees have been congratulating you left and right in the hopes that you'll give them some time off to celebrate your marriage."

"Nobody knows yet. You are the first one I've told.", he said honestly. "Literally the first one. Not even Lizzie knows we are engaged. It will only be true if she says yes…"

"I am honored. I won't tell a soul.", joked the man while zipping his lips and throwing away the key.

When they were done eating, Darcy walked his lunch guest to the parking lot. "Lunch was delicious, Darcy. Thank you. I look forward to doing business with you."

They shook hands and Darcy half-sprinted to his car so he could go home to retrieve his mother's ring. He'd always known he'd use that ring to propose to his future wife and now the moment had come. On the way there, he called Gigi.

"Hello?"

"I think I am going to do it, Georgiana.", he said nervously.

"Do what, William?", she asked, confused.

"I want to use Mother's ring to propose to Lizzie. Today."

"Whoa! Really?! How exciting! She's totally going to say yes!... Wait a minute… Why today?"

"Because I am tired of having to correct everyone when they ask me about my wife! I hate having to say that she is just my girlfriend. Girlfriend and boyfriend sound so… temporary. Lizzie and I are going to spend the rest of our lives together and I think we need a status that conveys that."

"I see… Well, Mom's ring is perfect. It's impressive without being overwhelming. I'm sure she'll love it."

"I hope so…"

"Good luck, big brother! Text me when you guys are engaged!"

"Bye, Gigi. Love you."

"Love you, too!"

He raced to the house, picked the ring out from his mother's jewelry box in his parent's bedroom, and got back in his car so he could drive to Lizzie.

She and Aaron were out interviewing people at a park that was kind of far. The whole drive there Darcy was contemplating whether or not he should do it. He wanted desperately to be able to call Lizzie his wife but he remembered that he was the one that said they should only get married when their lives became stable.

"We are stable enough, are we not? We are both doing well in our careers, Isabella is happy and healthy, and Lizzie and I still love each other. We have been dating for over two years now. I think it is time. Hopefully she agrees…"

He parked and then he called Mr. Bennet.

"Darcy, what a pleasant surprise. How are you doing, son?"

"Mr. Bennet, I have called to ask your permission to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage."

"Well I hardly think my approval will affect Lizzie's answer. She's the one you have to ask.", he teased. He knew Darcy was doing what is customary of a man, but he couldn't let the opportunity to bother him pass him by.

Darcy rolled his eyes. The Bennets were lovely people but sometimes they got on his last nerve. "Mr. Bennet-", he started seriously.

"Thomas, Darcy. Thomas. Why all the formality?", Mr. B interrupted.

"Because I want to marry Lizzie!", he declared passionately. "It wouldn't be right if I didn't ask you if I could."

"And if I say no?"

"What?"

"If I say I don't want you to marry my daughter will that stop you from asking her?"

"... No."

"Then you're not asking for my permission. You're letting me know."

Darcy sighed impatiently.

Mr. Bennet laughed. "Go ahead, my boy! I'm sure she'll agree. Francine and I would be honored to be your in-laws."

"Thank you, Thomas. I'll let you know how everything goes."

"I have a pretty good idea of how things will unfold. You will ask and pull out a ring. She'll say yes and cry and you kids will kiss and everyone lives happily ever after."

"That is the plan."

"Well afterwards no need to call me. Just call the house so my wife will pick up. I have to prepare myself for the aftermath."

At the end of their conversation, Darcy sat in the car for another minute and took a deep breath before exiting.

He fumbled with the ring while he searched for his beloved.

"Over there by the fountain…", he thought as he spotted Lizzie's auburn hair shining in the sun and Izzy's stroller right beside her. Aaron was standing nearby, too. He was recording.

As he approached, he saw that Lizzie was talking to somebody. "She is working. Maybe I should wait until she's done…"

He watched from afar as she finished interviewing the person and shook their hand. "That's my cue…"

Darcy dashed over to Lizzie and was behind her before Aaron had a chance to alert her. Lizzie was talking to the camera, making little notes for herself for when she had to do a costume-theater version of the story, when Darcy kneeled down to give Isabella a kiss on the cheek.

"Da-da!", she said excitedly, her blue-green eyes lighting up at the sight of her father. She had been busy playing with some toy that was attached to her stroller and she went right back to it when Darcy turned his back to her.

"Whoa! Will?! What are you doing here?", Lizzie asked full of surprise.

He grabbed her face and kissed her passionately. She was confused at first but very quickly kissed back with equal vigor. Her hands ran through his hair and his hands left her face to pull her closer to him.

They kissed until neither had any breath in them and when their lips parted, Darcy tilted her chin up so that he gaze into her eyes.

"I love you."

She giggled. "I know… I love you, too…", she replied in earnest but still with some confusion. She knew he was a private person and he would rather wait until they were alone or in a secluded area to make out with her, so she was taken aback by his PDA.

He grabbed both her hands with both of his and started his speech.

"I know you do. And I feel honored that you chose me to share your life with. You are an amazing woman and I am sure you could've picked any man and he would've fallen head over heels for you like I did."

"Well, you kind of knocked me up. So I'm stuck with you…", she joked.

"I am serious, my love… I know we haven't properly discussed it in a while, but Lizzie, I want to marry you. It pains me to have to say that you are my girlfriend and I cringe whenever I hear you call me your boyfriend. We are so much more than that. Those titles do no justice to how we feel about each other... I do not think our love can be properly labeled, but the titles that even begin to come close to what we feel about each other are husband and wife. So…"

He got down on knee. He took the ring out of his pocket and held it up in front of her.

"...I would love to be your husband… but that can only happen if you do me the honor of becoming my wife… Elizabeth Bennet, will you marry me?"

Lizzie's mouth was open in awe and her eyes were watery from his words. She was choked up and couldn't say a word. The woman with a communications degree who made her living off of talking to a camera was speechless.

"Lizzie?"

She nodded yes very slowly and stuck out her left hand so he could place the ring on her finger. As the ring slid up to its new home, tears started falling from Lizzie's eyes.

"Yes. Yes, I will do you the honor of marrying you, William Darcy.", she said as she sniffled and wiped the tears away.

Darcy got up and hugged her as tight as he could. He lifted her off the ground and spun her around.

"You, Ms. Bennet, have made me the happiest man in the world.", he admitted before sitting down with Lizzie on the edge of the fountain. He felt immense relief and his heart felt like it was about to burst with joy.

"Well, I don't think I could've said no in front our audience. How embarrassing it would be to have to tell Izzy that I turned you down in front of her when she was a baby!"

"Not as embarrassing as it will be when she watches the video of the first time you rejected me."

They both laughed. "But wow, Will, I am truly surprised. I didn't wake up today expecting to get engaged. Marriage hasn't crossed my mind in months. I guess I got comfortable with the way we were."

"I didn't wake up today knowing I would ask you either. I was at a business lunch and the man started talking about his wife and he asked about my wife and I just decided right there that you weren't going to be my girlfriend anymore. I just knew we were ready to do this. So I told him you were my fiancée."

"How presumptuous of you, Mr. Darcy. How did you know I'd say yes?", she asked. For a very brief moment, Lizzie was taken back to his first declaration of love. He had also assumed then that she'd respond positively to him. But this time around everything was different and he had every reason to believe she'd say yes. She was brought to the present when he started answering her question.

"Well, for one, it would have been really awkward to sleep in the same bed tonight. And we've had enough awkwardness in our relationship to last us multiple lifetimes, so you would've wanted to avoid that."

She laughed. "Touché."

"And two, we are doing well. We said we'd get married when everything was stable in our lives and now is the perfect time. You are working at something you love and you are making money doing it. Our daughter is healthy and she can walk on her own and talk a little so we can even involve her in the wedding. I think we should do this now before some other obstacle arises."

"You are absolutely right, babe.", she declared. "Let's get married soon. Before the summer is over."

"That sounds great. It will give Miss Woodhouse ample time to plan a wedding."

"You remembered I wanted her to plan it for us? Wow, Will, you've got a great memory."

"Nothing you say is unimportant, my love."

Aaron cleared his throat. He had recorded the whole thing.

"Oh! I'm sorry Aaron! I got kind of distracted."

"Yeah, getting engaged will do that to you.", he joked. "Congratulations, Elizabeth. Darcy. So I guess we're done for the day?"

"Oh! Yes. You can have the rest of the day off. Tell the guys at the office, too."

"Okay, lovebirds."

Lizzie rolled her eyes at him and she and Darcy waved goodbye.

"Okay. So first order of business: let's tell everyone. I'll call my parents, my sisters, and Charlotte. My mom will tell everyone. You call Aunt Catherine and Gigi and Fitz. Jane will tell Bing. Bing will tell his parents. Aaron will tell Caroline. Is that everyone? I'd like to tell our people before we tell the internet."

"Yes. Everyone that is important to us will know within a couple of hours. You can tell the internet tonight after we go out for dinner. My two lovely ladies and I are going out to celebrate our engagement."

After coming home from the restaurant, Lizzie and Darcy kicked off their shoes in the living room. Isabella sat smashing a toy on the floor so that it would keep lighting up while her parents watched television.

Lizzie snuggled up close to Darcy and stared at her ring. She and Darcy spoke with Emma earlier and they set the wedding date for a Saturday afternoon in July. They wanted to get married right there in San Francisco, so everyone would have to come to them. They gave Emma some general ideas and she said she'd get back to them with some options.

Isabella got really cranky and they realized it was past her bed time. Together they got their baby girl ready for bed. As soon as she was in her pajamas, Isabella knocked out.

Lizzie and Darcy both shared a moment of disbelief. They had been parents for almost a year and a half but they still were amazed at their beautiful daughter and how she came to be.

"I'm glad Will proposed. It's best that we get marriage out of the way now before other things get in the way…", Lizzie thought.

Izzy was still small but she was becoming more independent. Lizzie missed the way she used to fit in her arms. She was going to talk to Darcy about removing her birth control. She definitely wanted another baby.

They left the nursery and headed to their bedroom. Lizzie hadn't stopped playing with her ring since her new fiancé had slipped it on her finger.

"Your mother would've been okay with you giving me her ring?"

"Of course. It belonged to my father's mother and she gave it to him so he could propose to my mother. I'm sure she would've given it to me to propose to you. It is a Darcy family tradition."

"Thank you. It's beautiful.", she commented.

Darcy smiled at her and said, "Well, the phone calls have stopped. I assume that all of our family and friends have received the news."

"Yup. Time to share it with the rest of the world."

"How are you going to do it?"

"A picture is worth a thousand words, babe."

She retrieved her cell phone and told him to take a picture of them.

"Come on. Let's do it while we still look good. I'm dying to wash the make-up off my face."

Lizzie leaned into Darcy and put her ring-hand on his chest so it'd be visible in the picture. They smiled genuine 'We just got engaged' smiles.

"Do you like this picture?", she asked him.

He nodded yes and started fixing up the bed for them.

Lizzie posted the picture to Twitter with no caption since it was pretty obvious with the ring and all.

Darcy immediately retweeted it and turned off his notifications. Lizzie did the same thing. Whenever they uploaded a vlog or posted big news, they always turned their notifications off because so many people would tweet them.

Lizzie and Darcy changed into their pajamas and did their whole bedtime routine before settling in for the night.

"You know, Lizzie, when we agreed that I would be the one to propose, I had always imagined proposing at night with our families present and maybe violins playing in the background or something romantic. Something planned and with a lot of thought and effort put into it. But I could not wait any longer. I hope you can forgive me for such a spontaneous proposal."

"There is nothing to forgive. It was heartfelt and unexpected and I wouldn't have traded it for any other way.", she reassured him.

"I will make up for it with our honeymoon.", he added.

"I had completely forgotten about that! What are we gonna do? Are we taking Izzy with us? Where are we going?", Lizzie asked question after question as she twirled the ring around again.

"All very appropriate questions but you will receive no response for them tonight. We've never taken an actual vacation since we began our relationship. With the pregnancy and work we haven't had the time to escape. But now we will. Our honeymoon will be our first official vacation and I will plan it. It will be a surprise. You can be in charge of our next vacation."

"Deal. But can I at least have a clue?"

"Fine. You get one: Get a passport.", he replied coyly.

"So basically we could be going anywhere in the world that is not in the United States. That really narrows it down."

Darcy shrugged while trying to suppress a smile.

Lizzie smiled and rolled over to kiss him. Darcy welcomed her mouth on his and pulled her to him. Lizzie straddled Darcy and when it was clear that they were going to go beyond kissing, Lizzie reached over to side table and turned on the lamp.

She took off her top and went back to Darcy's lips. His hands felt their way up from her bottom to her breasts and back down to her waist so that he could flip them over.

He removed her underwear and shorts in one smooth move and did the same for himself.

He was on top of her and ready to go but before he entered her he admired her swollen lips and excited eyes.

"I want to have another baby.", Lizzie blurted out under his still-penetrating stare. That had been at the back of her mind for a couple of months now and with their engagement, she thought it'd be a good idea to put the idea out there.

He tilted his head a little in confusion but then answered, "Okay."

He wanted more children too but he wasn't sure why she was bringing it up at this particular moment.

"Okay? That's it?", she asked.

"Yes, okay. I want more kids. A total of five, remember? We can make that our goal on our honeymoon.", he said before kissing her neck. "But right now we can perfect our technique."

Lizzie laughed. "For a man that used to have a hard time expressing himself, you sure do have a way with words."

"Yes.", he said kissing her again and nuzzling her neck with his nose. "Does that sound like a plan?"

"Mmhmm.", she answered, distracted by his touch. She pulled Darcy down to her and they proceeded to express their excitement about their engagement.

The next morning when Lizzie and Izzy arrived at the office, Aaron and the few other employees Lizzie had working for her were waiting for her.

"Morning, guys. What's up?", she asked, setting Izzy in her playpen.

"We wanted to show you this.", they said and then congratulated her before they left the room.

"Hmm?", she wondered as she walked to her computer.

She clicked play on a video and teared up. It was Darcy's proposal. She had completely forgotten that Aaron had been recording her when Darcy showed up.

She emailed it to Darcy with a short "I love you, future hubby." and decided that she was going to keep that video to herself. That was a very intimate moment and she felt it would lose some of its value if she shared it with the internet.

So there you go, guys. Lizzie and Darcy are getting married next chapter. And then an epilogue. Neither of which are written lol. You all must hate me and my inconsistency! When I started this fic, I had no idea where I was going with it and that it would take me so long! But here we are.

Thank you so much for reading! I know there are some stories that I follow that I wait months for new chapters so I know how it feels to wait and I'm sorry!

But it feels nice to know that the end is near. Writing this has been a learning experience.

Stay tuned for the Darcy-Bennet wedding. Will Lizzie take Darcy's last name or will she do both their names, or will she keep her own for her business career? What do you guys think Lizzie would do? I ask because I wanted to include that conversation in the next chapter. Any suggestions would be welcome, really.

Thanks again!

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