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Tom Hayward’s Operational Guide to Yearning (While Being a Public Nuisance) by dbpn
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
17 Jun 2026
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Tom Hayward is a menace, a law school dropout, and an absolute public nuisance to the joint-task force.
Mary Bennet is a brilliant, ruthlessly efficient MI5 desk officer fighting tooth and nail to outrun the gossip of family nepotism.Locked away in a remote corner of the Thames House archives to track a phantom billionaire, they should be focusing on the data. Instead, Tom has made it his personal mission to elevate Mary's blood pressure through elaborate office warfare, and Mary is on the verge of filing a vetting request for his sanity.
An MI5/MI6 Espionage AU full of denial, overused fanfic tropes and of course, yearning.
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17 Jun 2026
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Mary Bennet leaves Longbourn after her father's death and moves to London, to build her own life and become a teacher, with the help of the Gardiners.
She meets Tom Hayward at a party and finds out they are neighbours.
Modern AU.Bookmarked by Afflictedbythenotknowing
17 Jun 2026
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Mary is a 20-something, living with her aunt and uncle while she finishes study in London. Finally, she relents and allows them to set her up on a blind date with her uncle's young colleague. This is not Regency England and dating is a warzone of ghosting and situationships, could this guy really be as wonderful as her aunt and uncle say he is?
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14 Jun 2026
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In which Mr Edward Gardiner is having none of it by everyl1ttleth1ng
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
10 Jun 2026
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I’ve written:
Nope to Ryder at the summit
Nope to Ryder even interrupting
Nope to Ryder swimming out to themNow I give you:
Nope to Tom riding off on his horse because Mr Edward Gardiner is having none of it.Series
- Part 2 of Having none of it
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08 Jun 2026
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It wasn’t as if Mary was moving to another country, London was barely an hour and a half drive from her childhood home. It would be a bit longer now that her mother was moving into Jane’s guest house, but even then it really shouldn’t have been such a big deal. It wasn’t like her mother liked her very much anyway.
Mary sighed again, and her uncle looked into the rearview mirror to ask “You alright back there?”
There was concern in his eyes, something she never seemed to find when it came to her mother. They looked alike, but in moments like this it was obvious how different they were.
“Yes, just nervous.” Mary responded.
Her aunt reached back from the passenger side to give her hand a tight squeeze.
“It’s normal to be nervous, Mary.” She smiled, “But trust me, you’ll thrive here.
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Or: Mary Bennet decides to move to London and just so happens to meet a handsome Irishman who works with her uncle... who knows what could happen?
Modern AU
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06 Jun 2026