Epilogue
Ending as Happily as Life Allows
Just after the new year, Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, along with Miss Jane Bennet and Mr. Charles Bingley – who, without his sister’s interference, finally proposed to the only woman he would ever love – were married.
The celebration was only as lavish as Mr. Bennet and his two eldest daughters allowed, but Mrs. Bennet was still pleased with the decorations and her daughters’ wedding dresses.
The church, on the day of the ceremony, was filled with all their neighbors, many of Longbourn’s tenants, the Longbourn servants, and as many brownies as were able to fit into the empty space remaining.
Representing Darcy’s family were Georgiana and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam.
Robbie had proudly stood on Lizzy’s free side as her father escorted both her and Jane down the aisle.
Butterbell followed behind Lizzy, and Rowan proudly stood beside Darcy.
Both couples made the appropriate replies when needed but did not heed much more than necessary about the ceremony; they spent most of the time staring into each other's eyes and smiling.
After the ceremony, everyone made their way to Netherfield where the wedding feast was held. No one would ever mistake the layout offered as a breakfast because Mrs. Bennet spared little expense at the different dishes offered. Even Butterbell and Rowan found much that pleased their palates.
As soon as feasible, Lizzy and Darcy bid everyone goodbye and set out for London.
They planned to spend a fortnight at Darcy House before beginning the journey to Pemberley where they would spend the rest of the winter with Georgiana, who traveled there from Hertfordshire along with Colonel Fitzwilliam after they left the wedding celebration.
The lives of Mr. And Mrs. Darcy were filled with many joyful moments.
Within the first four years of marriage, Lizzy presented her husband with three charming little boys.
Of course, Lizzy feared she would not birth a daughter to carry on the family tradition of warding when she passed on.
Fortunately, one year later, she did give birth to two daughters.
Identical in every way, except the second born had a small birth mark on the left side of her torso.
Lizzy hoped one of her daughters would show signs of having a special affinity with nature’s power, but she knew nothing could be determined until they were older.
Before that time arrived, Lizzy gave birth to two more boys and one final daughter.
During their early years, none of the Darcy daughters showed any special ability, although all the Darcy children did have some ability.
The boys all possessed the ability to manipulate either the growth of plants or control of water.
Of the girls, one was able to help in healing, another was skilled at making a flower garden flourish, and the youngest girl could move the air around to do her bidding.
It was not until Jane, the youngest was nearly eight, that she began showing more ability using nature’s power, and that was when Lizzy began to train her to weave wards.
Jane was ten before her mother took her on her travels to reinforce weakening wards.
With time Lizzy knew her daughter Jane would become as skilled as her at creating wards, and when she was ready, Lizzy could remain home with her husband and allow her daughter to travel around the country.
As to the fear that a new Eliminator might make an appearance, Lizzy found four brownies, all from different areas around England who volunteered to monitor the de Bourgh family for any possible candidate for the role Alistair de Bourgh once undertook.
Of course, for the brownies' protection, Lizzy spent a few years perfecting the personal ward so these four brownies would not only be protected but also would not be seen by any humans unless they choose to be.
It was not until Jane’s birth that one of the four brownies returned to Pemberley to announce a new Eliminator might have been found. The boy was still young, but he was seen trying to misuse nature’s power to make his elder brother disappear from existence.
The brownies continued to watch him, but one day they discovered the boy had a brownie who faithfully followed him around, so they were unsure if that boy would ever want to eliminate other brownies.
Instead, they began watching other family members, and when Jane was five years old, they found a distant de Bourgh relative who came to England from France.
Not only did this relative hate the elves in France, but he disliked the brownies in England.
Through much observation, the brownies learned the man had discovered an old journal that once belonged to Alistair de Bourgh, which led him to even older family journals that revealed the methods used by past de Bourgh ancestors to discover a way of eliminating that which one hated.
This then was the man the four brownies continued to monitor.
By the time Jane was old enough to travel around with her mother, the man had still not perfected the ability to eliminate any living being.
The four brownies made a pledge to Lizzy and her daughter to continue to watch the man in case he ever did find a way to misuse nature’s power to make anything completely disappear.