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Princess Mary, the third of King Henry and Queen Jane’s five daughters, had gotten away with sneaking into Leeds United matches with her Yorkshire-born nanny, Mrs Hill, since she was a tween. A team beanie, a scarf and some facepaint rendered her completely anonymous and free to dance like a lunatic, raucously sing the team songs, and hurl abuse at the refs in peace.
Since Leeds acquired a humble but dangerous young striker, Yorkshire born-and-bred Tom Hayward, her fervour for the team had only grown. Then came the day the tabloid press spotted Princess Mary in the crowd in her Hayward jersey and she became the subject of several viral TikToks and, of course, the ire of her mother.
A Princess/ English football hero AU 👑⚽️💖
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In which neither Tom nor Mary are allowing anything to get entirely out of hand… by everyl1ttleth1ng
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
12 Jul 2026
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“She’s going to make a full recovery,” she said warmly.
“Thank you,” said Tom, squeezing her hands, his heart feeling like it might burst with gratitude. “If it is alright with you, Mrs Gardiner, I’ll remain here tonight. That way you can call for me if I am needed.”
Mary’s aunt nodded fondly, perhaps understanding more than what Tom had spoken, and recognising that it would be fruitless to try to dissuade him.
A brief guide to this haphazard series:
Work 1: In which Mary Bennet is having none of it
1: Tom attempts to graciously step aside. Mary gets in his way
2: Ryder attempts to interrupt. Mary politely declines
3: Ryder swims out toward the boat. Mary tells Tom to seize the oars and row
4: Mary attempts to distract him with bird calls. Tom gets the conversation back on trackWork 2: In which Mr G is having none of it…
“Nope to Tom riding off on his horse.”Work 3: In which neither Tom nor Mary are allowing anything to get entirely out of hand…
“Nope to Mary waking and Tom not being out in the corridor stressily watching over her.” Putting a firm stop to all of that heartbreaking nonsense and restoring felicity wherever I go!Series
- Part 3 of Having none of it
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10 Jul 2026
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London, 1887
Tom Hayward is, by every account, a good man. He is also a complete fiction. A name stitched together to hide the criminal empire growing beneath London's respectable surface. Beneath James Moriarty's careful performance is a man losing his grip due to the one thing he never accounted for — the plain sister clever enough to discover the truth.
A TOBS/Young Sherlock Mashup AU
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09 Jul 2026
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What if when he sees me
I like him and he knows it?
What if he opens up a door
And I can't close it?
What happens then?Mary Bennet is a Master's student living with her best friend. She finds it hard to get out into the world. Ann is trying her best to fix that.
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08 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet and the Curious Case of the Junior Barrister by WickedSong
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
08 Jul 2026
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Mr and Mrs Gardiner visit Meryton and attend the Netherfield ball.
Their friend, a certain junior barrister, accompanies them.
OR: what if Mary and Tom met earlier, in the middle of another story?
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08 Jul 2026
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Maybe We Could Try (if you let me) by cadetcandito
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
08 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet spends her summer in London juggling a geology research competition, a part-time job at her uncle's jewellery shop, and a family convinced she should have chosen a more profitable passion than rocks.
While ostensibly helping Mr Gardiner with the jewellery shop's insurance paperwork, Tom Hayward soon finds himself inventing increasingly implausible reasons to visit Mary.
Amid mistaken assumptions and one infuriatingly well-meaning William Ryder, Tom and Mary slowly discover that to be loved is, perhaps, to be understood on one's own terms.
Or: The summer in which Mary Bennet finds love, and more importantly, finds herself.
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08 Jul 2026
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After Mr. Bennet’s death, Mary and her mother are forced to move to London together. Having accepted that she will never escape her mother’s clutches, Mary loses all hope of ever finding happiness. Will a friendship with Mr. Tom Hayward change all of that? Could she perhaps even find love? This is Mary and Tom navigating Mrs. Bennet’s disapproval and a forbidden love worth fighting for.
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06 Jul 2026
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What happens when one has several glasses of sherry, as well as a beautiful husband.
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04 Jul 2026
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She imagined a hundred scenarios, tried to believe that there was some way it might have played out differently, but there had been a dark finality in Mr Hayward's solemn gaze after speaking with Mr Ryder, and she was sure that was the crux of it.
I shall get to the bottom of it all, tomorrow, she resolved, they owe me that much.
What if Scafel went a little differently? What if Mary did not go gentle? What if she refused to let other people continue to make decisions for her? What if Mary made herself be brave?
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03 Jul 2026
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A week in the Lake District is a long time for things to go unsaid
Before Scafell, Mary spends the days with Tom exploring the Lakes
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03 Jul 2026
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Mary looked out across the garden again. Tomorrow, she would catch the bus to her faculty building, not a packed commuter train with a two hour journey ahead of her, instead from a home where she had been told she was most welcome.
For the first time since her father's death, she allowed herself to imagine the future without a sense of dread attached to it. London suddenly didn't seem frightening at all.
It felt, quietly and unexpectedly, like her real life was about to begin.
Mary/Tom Modern AU.
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02 Jul 2026
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and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils. by complimentandasmile
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
02 Jul 2026
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She didn’t feel like she could understand it fully, but she could sense the loneliness in it, not a bad loneliness as she so often felt as a child even in a house so full, but a quiet solitude, a good one, she hoped. She felt as if she was being seen in it, not young Mary, but her current self, who moved on her own to London, to stay with family she barely met in order to follow her dreams.
She also felt the power of nature, of living free. Of roaming through the fields and going home to something she loved, to reflect on her days, even if those were spent alone.
“This is a really good one,” she heard a low voice whisper above her shoulder and didn’t need to turn around to see who it was; she knew it.
or, Mary is a librarian, Tom is her favourite patron, and she decided poetry might be a good idea for her after all.
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02 Jul 2026
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I thought we were done with making assumptions, Tom.
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02 Jul 2026
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The year is 1995. Civilian use of the internet is in its infancy. Mobile phones are mostly still shaped like house bricks and only owned by very few. Friends is on TV. The girls are swooning over Chandler Bing and his neuroses or Hugh Grant and his floppy hair. Nonchalance is in. It’s harder than ever to be sensitive, grieving, love poetry, and have a head of unruly brown curls. And it’s harder still to find yourself wanting to worship at the cherry Docs of one Miss Mary Bennet.
A 90s Highschool AU
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though changed, no doubt, from what I was by Vellinae
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
08 May 2026
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Fathers were not permitted to be present at the birth of their children. That was just the way of things.
Unless of course - no one knew about it.(alternatively - I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, Regency Edition)
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Let 'Em In by dabeedan
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
11 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet spent years loving Tom Hayward quietly. Quietly enough that nobody noticed. Not Tom, who only ever saw his best friend's younger sister. Not Jane, who never realised how carefully Mary stayed out of the way.
University changed everything. By the time Mary returned, she learnt how to take up space; she became someone she finally recognised in the mirror.
Then she moved into the spare room of Tom’s flat.
Tom can't understand why the friend he remembers so fondly now keeps him carefully at arm's length. Mary can't understand why the boy from her past suddenly seems determined to learn every version of who she's become.
Some people grow apart. Others simply need to meet each other twice.
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01 Jul 2026
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Modern AU revolving around the friendship of Tom Hayward and William Ryder with plot points chosen from textposts or incorrect quotes
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30 Jun 2026
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The all-together awkward account of a miscommunication during Mr. and Mrs. Hayward’s first month of marriage by TroyandAbedAnytime
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
08 Jul 2026
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A story of yearning while married.
For Mary Bennet, thinking little of herself is a thing of the past. However, some things bring back old thinking. Her wedding night to Tom Hayward is such an event, which reminds Mary of her self-limiting beliefs. Due to a misunderstanding between the pair, things get worse and soon both Mary and Tom are longing for something in their marriage they are both too awkward to bring up.
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29 Jun 2026
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if it’s meant to be, then it will be by WickedSong
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
01 Jul 2026
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An engagement between Miss Mary Bennet and Mr William Ryder is formed in Derbyshire.
Meanwhile in London, the long-standing understanding between Mr Tom Hayward and Miss Ann Baxter comes to an end.
[Canon-divergence from episode 7 onwards]
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28 Jun 2026