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Do Not Disturb · Ch.17
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Lizzie sits relaxed on a low honey-colored stone garden wall in warm golden afternoon light, a sunlit manor house and flowerbeds behind her, her phone lying face-down beside her hand, a soft hopeful half-smile on her face.
Top: Lizzie's aunt Maddie and uncle Ed stroll a garden path, Maddie glancing fondly at Lizzie. Bottom: Lizzie sits on the stone wall, arms crossed, smirking; her phone rests face-down beside her.
Top: Darcy in a white shirt walks the garden path, gesturing toward a glasshouse, almost smiling. Bottom: Ed smiles and nods warmly with Maddie beside him.
Top: Lizzie and Darcy walk side by side down the sunlit path with a shy gap between them, glancing at each other. Bottom: a close-up of Darcy with a softened, almost-smiling expression.
Lizzie and Darcy stand close together on the sunlit garden path, turned toward each other in golden light, a fragile and hopeful charge between them.
Top: Lizzie's phone lies face-down on the stone wall, buzzing with vibration lines, its screen hidden. Bottom: Lizzie keeps her eyes on Darcy, refusing to look at the phone.
Top: the phone buzzes again more insistently on the stone wall while Ed glances over with mild concern. Bottom: Lizzie's smile falters and she turns toward the wall.
Close on Lizzie holding her phone in both hands, the phone's back to the viewer and the screen hidden, her face going pale and still as she reads. A silent beat with no dialogue.
Three stacked panels: Lizzie's stricken face, then her hands gripping the phone tighter with its back to the viewer, then an extreme close-up of her fearful eyes, as Jane's messages land.
Top: an extreme close-up of Lizzie's horrified, pale face. Bottom: Lizzie lifts one hand toward her mouth in shock, the other still holding the phone with its back to the viewer.
Lizzie stands frozen on the garden path, shoulders caving, one hand pressed to her chest and the phone lowered in the other, overwhelmed by guilt and fear.
Top: Darcy leans in with worry breaking through his reserve, reaching one hand toward Lizzie's shoulder. Bottom: Lizzie looks up at him, undone, eyes wet.
Top: a tearful Lizzie blurts out her news, one hand half-raised. Bottom: Darcy goes very still and pale, his jaw tightening at the name.
Darcy pulls back half a step into stiff formality, jaw tight and gaze dropping away, while a devastated Lizzie watches in the foreground and reads his withdrawal as rejection.
Three stacked panels: Lizzie snatches her bag as Maddie steadies her; Ed holds open a car door on the estate drive; Lizzie turns back for a broken goodbye toward Darcy, who stands alone in the golden light.
Lizzie sits in the car by the window, tear-streaked, looking back as the sunlit manor shrinks into the distance behind the glass; her phone glows in her hands with the screen angled away from view.
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Lizzie sits relaxed on a low honey-colored stone garden wall in warm golden afternoon light, a sunlit manor house and flowerbeds behind her, her phone lying face-down beside her hand, a soft hopeful half-smile on her face.
Top: Lizzie's aunt Maddie and uncle Ed stroll a garden path, Maddie glancing fondly at Lizzie. Bottom: Lizzie sits on the stone wall, arms crossed, smirking; her phone rests face-down beside her.
Top: Darcy in a white shirt walks the garden path, gesturing toward a glasshouse, almost smiling. Bottom: Ed smiles and nods warmly with Maddie beside him.
Top: Lizzie and Darcy walk side by side down the sunlit path with a shy gap between them, glancing at each other. Bottom: a close-up of Darcy with a softened, almost-smiling expression.
Lizzie and Darcy stand close together on the sunlit garden path, turned toward each other in golden light, a fragile and hopeful charge between them.
Top: Lizzie's phone lies face-down on the stone wall, buzzing with vibration lines, its screen hidden. Bottom: Lizzie keeps her eyes on Darcy, refusing to look at the phone.
Top: the phone buzzes again more insistently on the stone wall while Ed glances over with mild concern. Bottom: Lizzie's smile falters and she turns toward the wall.
Close on Lizzie holding her phone in both hands, the phone's back to the viewer and the screen hidden, her face going pale and still as she reads. A silent beat with no dialogue.
Three stacked panels: Lizzie's stricken face, then her hands gripping the phone tighter with its back to the viewer, then an extreme close-up of her fearful eyes, as Jane's messages land.
Top: an extreme close-up of Lizzie's horrified, pale face. Bottom: Lizzie lifts one hand toward her mouth in shock, the other still holding the phone with its back to the viewer.
Lizzie stands frozen on the garden path, shoulders caving, one hand pressed to her chest and the phone lowered in the other, overwhelmed by guilt and fear.
Top: Darcy leans in with worry breaking through his reserve, reaching one hand toward Lizzie's shoulder. Bottom: Lizzie looks up at him, undone, eyes wet.
Top: a tearful Lizzie blurts out her news, one hand half-raised. Bottom: Darcy goes very still and pale, his jaw tightening at the name.
Darcy pulls back half a step into stiff formality, jaw tight and gaze dropping away, while a devastated Lizzie watches in the foreground and reads his withdrawal as rejection.
Three stacked panels: Lizzie snatches her bag as Maddie steadies her; Ed holds open a car door on the estate drive; Lizzie turns back for a broken goodbye toward Darcy, who stands alone in the golden light.
Lizzie sits in the car by the window, tear-streaked, looking back as the sunlit manor shrinks into the distance behind the glass; her phone glows in her hands with the screen angled away from view.
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← Out of Office · Ch.16
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Still glowing from the warm afternoon at Darcy's estate, Lizzie does something she never lets herself do: she turns her phone face-down and lets herself simply be happy. For one golden hour in the gardens, with her aunt Maddie and uncle Ed nearby and Darcy unexpectedly gentle and open, she lets the fragile new thing between them breathe — and dares, for the first time, to hope. Darcy is changed here: courteous, almost shy, glad she came. The wall she convicted him behind is gone. Then the phone starts to buzz against the stone, once, twice, insistent, and she keeps her eyes on him — until she can't. When she finally turns it over, the day cracks in her hands: a wall of missed calls from Jane, and a truth arriving in fragments — Lydia is gone, nobody can reach her, she left the coast with someone. Then the name lands like ice water: George Wickham. Lizzie alone knows exactly what he is, knows she said nothing to protect him, and now her reckless little sister is out there with him. Undone in front of Darcy, she blurts it out — my sister, and George — and watches Darcy go very still and very grave, pulling back into a formality she reads as the door closing forever. She has to leave. A broken, rushed goodbye on the garden path, the Gardiners rallying around her, Darcy left standing in the golden light. In the car window, the warm house shrinking behind her, Lizzie holds the phone face-up and glowing now — she looked away for one afternoon, and everything fell apart.

Page 1

Scene: The warm, sunlit gardens of Darcy's country estate at golden hour. Lizzie Bennet sits on a low stone wall, looking off toward the manor house with a soft, almost-happy expression. Her smartphone lies face-down on the stone beside her, deliberately ignored. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. Caption: 'For one afternoon, I put the phone down — and let myself hope.'

Page 2

Scene: The estate garden path. Maddie and Ed Gardiner walk together while Maddie teases Lizzie, who sits on the wall with her arms loosely crossed. Visible characters: Maddie Gardiner, Ed Gardiner, Lizzie Bennet. Maddie: 'You've been smiling at that hedge for ten minutes.' Lizzie: 'It is a very good hedge.'

Page 3

Scene: The garden path near a glasshouse. Darcy, warmer and a little shy at his own home, invites the Gardiners to see it. Visible characters: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Ed Gardiner, Maddie Gardiner. Darcy: 'Let me show you the glasshouse — my mother planted it.' Ed: 'Lead the way.'

Page 4

Scene: The two of them fall a little behind the others on the garden path, tentative and warm. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Lizzie: 'I did not think you would come.' Darcy: 'Neither did I.'

Page 5

Scene: They stop on the path, facing each other, the new feeling between them crystallizing in the golden light. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy: 'I am glad you did.'

Page 6

Scene: The phone buzzes on the wall behind them, its back to the viewer. Lizzie deliberately ignores it, keeping her attention on Darcy. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet (with Darcy off-panel). Lizzie (thought): 'Not now. Whatever it is — not now.'

Page 7

Scene: The phone buzzes harder. Ed notices, and the mood begins to snag; Lizzie's smile slips. Visible characters: Ed Gardiner, Lizzie Bennet. Ed: 'Lizzie — your phone has been going off.'

Page 8

Scene: Lizzie finally turns the phone over to read. The viewer sees only the back of the phone; the screen is angled away. The happiness drains from her face. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. (No dialogue — a silent beat.)

Page 9

Scene: Jane's messages arrive in a rush, conveyed as captions. The phone screen is never shown. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. Caption: 'Jane: call me. call me NOW.' Caption: 'Jane: Lydia never came home from the coast.' Caption: 'Jane: nobody can reach her.'

Page 10

Scene: The final piece lands. Lizzie realizes who her sister has run off with. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. Caption: 'Jane: she left with someone.' Lizzie (whisper): 'George.'

Page 11

Scene: The private guilt crashes over Lizzie — she alone knew what George Wickham truly is, and she said nothing. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. Lizzie (thought): 'I knew what he was. I said nothing. And now Lydia.'

Page 12

Scene: Darcy sees Lizzie fall apart and steps in, his composure cracking with concern. Visible characters: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Lizzie Bennet. Darcy: 'What has happened? Tell me.'

Page 13

Scene: Lizzie tells him everything, and Darcy goes cold and grave at the name. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Lizzie: 'My sister ran off. With George Wickham.' Darcy: 'Wickham.'

Page 14

Scene: Darcy retreats behind his old guarded formality. Lizzie, watching, reads it as the door closing forever. Visible characters: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Lizzie Bennet. Darcy: 'Forgive me. I have kept you.'

Page 15

Scene: The rushed, heartbroken departure. The Gardiners rally around Lizzie while Darcy is left standing on the path. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet, Maddie Gardiner, Ed Gardiner, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Maddie: 'We will drive straight through.' Lizzie: 'I have to go.'

Page 16

Scene: A callback to the opening. In the moving car, Lizzie looks back at the warm house receding behind her. The phone is now face-up and glowing in her hands, but its screen is angled away from the viewer. Visible characters: Lizzie Bennet. Caption: 'I looked away for one afternoon. That was all it took.'

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