Pride & Prejudice Variation
Four Days of Fair Weather
What If · Before the Ball · Early Revelations
The Premise
Do you recall that before the Netherfield ball, there were four days of rain and nobody could go anywhere? Just after Wickham's sorry tale. This variation changes that — what if there were four days of fair weather instead?
Four days of fine weather mean more walks, more encounters, more time for Elizabeth and Darcy to simply be in each other's company before the whirl of the ball, before Wickham's poison takes full hold, before everything familiar unfolds. A small meteorological change — and everything familiar transforms in ways no one could have foreseen.
What if Elizabeth and Darcy had more time to understand each other before society's expectations, family pressures, and Wickham's machinations intervened? How would that change what each of them saw in the other?
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Chapter 1 — Preparations and Prejudices
Friday, 22nd November — Longbourn
Mrs. Bennet awoke unusually early, for the sun, streaming with uncommon brightness through the chintz curtains, would not allow her the pleasure of slumbering longer. A real ball, at Netherfield! Her mind quickly reviewed her daughters' wardrobes to see what needed to be done. No mother in the neighbourhood could compete with her when it came to her daughters.
Already she could picture the table groaning beneath a profusion of dishes, Mr. Bingley seated beside Jane, Caroline Bingley obliged to admire the silver candlesticks from London, and Mr. Darcy — well, she would find a place for him too. The vision was so pleasing that she clapped her hands together in bed, to the astonishment of Mr. Bennet, who muttered from his own pillow that he hoped such early industry would not ruin his breakfast.
At that very moment, the parlour door opened, and Elizabeth stepped in, her cheeks bright with the freshness of an early walk. "Lizzy! Out already? And in the damp morning air! When will you give up this unladylike behaviour? Look at you, your nose and cheeks red as a ripe apple."
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"A fun story — a weather what-if changes Lizzy and Darcy's timeline for their romance. Thumbs up."
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Characters
- Elizabeth Bennet
- Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
- Jane Bennet
- Charles Bingley
- Mrs. Bennet
- Mr. Bennet
- George Wickham
- Lydia & Kitty Bennet
- Mr. Collins
- Charlotte Lucas
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