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Fateful events trap Wentworth under a roof with the two women he most wishes to avoid in the world. He chooses to meet this challenge with all the grace of a bull in a China shop.
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- Part 8 of Crossroads
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28 May 2026
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Tom Hayward and Mary Bennet were very happy to be engaged, even if the Gardiners had decided that they had to be chaperoned at all times now.
But it was quite fine, they were going to be married in a few weeks, they could tolerate it and behave themselves. Couldn’t they?
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Or in which Tom pulls an Anthony Bridgerton and after repeating “I am a gentleman” multiple times his restraint finally snaps.Bookmarked by allaysu
13 May 2026
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we should move somewhere beautiful by starryeyedwoman
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
03 May 2026
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“What did Mr Hayward actually say, Mr Ryder?” she huffed, all worries about being rude out of the window. Mr Ryder had the decency to look ashamed as he spoke.
“He said that he would be in need of a wife for the chambers to take him seriously for promotion. It’s a question of status as much as anything, you understand. Tom said that…well, that it didn’t much matter who the wife was as long as they were vaguely tolerable.”
Mary felt her nose twitch. Her hands had balled into fists under the table in her lap.
“...Vaguely tolerable?”
aka: ryder is getting a bit desperate, so he tells a white lie to dissuade mary from tom. naturally, it only brings them closer (after a few tears are shed)
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03 May 2026
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This afternoon was supposed to be the moment he would make his proposal – and this time it would have been a proper proposal.
It unsettles him – to think that Miss Bennet has accepted Tom’s proposal without knowing the change to his circumstances, without knowing what he is now willing to offer.
In which Mary and Tom do finish their conversation on top of Scafell. William Ryder, nonetheless, is not to be deterred.
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- Part 2 of Scafell Variations
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28 Apr 2026
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And Tom had just a second to decide. Because he could sit and wallow and sulk as Ryder ruined his plans as he seemed so intent to do. He could allow Ryder to join them, to no doubt return to his vigorous efforts to charm Mary, to remind him of all the ways in which his friend might be a better husband to the woman he loved than he would be.
Or he could seize what little time he had left.aka: what might have happened if mr thomas hayward snapped and decided nothing would get in his way on the lake with miss mary bennet
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27 Apr 2026

