A/N- Hi readers! Its been a year since I first started this story, and you've all been so helpful and supportive all this while. I loved writing this story, and I'm hoping you all enjoyed reading it too.

A year later

Elizabeth Bennet was walking down the aisle towards William Darcy, minutes away from becoming Elizabeth Darcy, and a whole host of thoughts were fluttering in her mind. One of them, of course, was delight that the great happiness she had desired for so long would at last be hers. And another was the wish that Jane was with her. Jane was attending the wedding of course, but it was not the double wedding that she had desired. Jane and Kitty had become married women together, their husbands unwilling to wait any longer to wed them.

Elizabeth smiled happily at the idea of the happiness Jane, Mary and Kitty had obtained. Her sisters, all married and very happy, looked on at her and wished her great joy and happiness. Well, all but one. Elizabeth quickly cleared her head of all thoughts of Lydia. She did not wish her memories of her wedding day to be tarnished by unhappy thoughts.

The reason that no Bennet could think of Lydia without feeling great sorrow, was that she was dead. Anne had done all that was to be done to help her heal, and everyone had been convinced that she was reformed, till one day Lydia ran away when no one had expected it. Her dead body was found outside an inn on the road to London a week later. No one knew exactly what had happened to her. This had happened only shortly after Jane and Kitty had gotten married.

But no, Elizabeth refused to think about it any longer. After a year long engagement, she was at last marrying the man she had loved. She would have a sister she had already grown to love dearly, and the mother she had always dreamt of. Anne Darcy and Georgiana Darcy were as dear to her as her own family, and William often joked that she was marrying him only for his family.

Jane and Charles Bingley were both smiling at the couple, glad that their friends were close to the bliss they had found themselves in the past year. For a few months they had lived in Netherfield and the Darcys' had considerately moved to live with the Bennets. That was till Charles found an estate in Derbyshire and moved to the country, and the couple lived very happily. It had been only a month ago that the young Miss Amelia Bingley was born to her doting parents. Elizabeth was aware of her niece wailing in the background, but she couldn't bring herself to mind. Not when Darcy was smiling at her charmingly.

Mary and Mr Collins were also present, and everyone was surprised to see the couple still happily in love and Mr Collins far more sensible than anyone remembered. During wedding preparations, Elizabeth had noticed very often how different her sister was, and how her character had matured and deepened into something quite beautiful. Despite their lack of children, the couple lived very happily.

Kitty and John Lucas spent a large portion of their time in London, and despite Elizabeth's fears, they remained faithful to one another. Unknown to all but Mary who had accidentally overheard a conversation, Kitty was increasing. John and Kitty expected their first born a few months later.

Anne and Georgiana, of course, were delighted with Elizabeth and Darcy's alliance. Georgiana looked up greatly to her sister-to-be, and Anne was looking forward to teaching Elizabeth the various duties of the Mistress of Pemberley.

Mr Bennet was largely indifferent to the proceedings, but glad that he would soon be free of his wife's nagging. Mrs Bennet, of course, was extremely happy to have all her daughters wed, and had reminded her husband of her sister Gardiner's prediction about Lizzy and William. This had finally caused Mr Bennet to admit to the prank he played when he had faked the letter. Though shocked, Mrs Bennet was by no means displeased.

Lady Catherine had no intentions to attend the wedding, being displeased by her sister's and nephew's actions, but Anne had easily persuaded her into being present. Despite everything, the two sisters did love each other dearly, and Lady Catherine could not stay away. Lord and Lady Matlock did not attend, but sent their best wishes through Colonel Fitzwilliam, who flirted a good deal with Charlotte all through the wedding.

Charlotte was pleased for her friend, of course, and was hopeful that the good fortune of the Bennet sisters would rub off on her and she would not end up an old maid. Colonel Fitzwilliam's attentions made her hopeful, of course, but she knew better than to set her eyes on the son of an Earl, even if it was the younger son. She was unaware, of course, that a silent pair of eyes admired her from afar, and would not know till Captain Denny requested for her hand in marriage couple of months later, an offer that she would joyfully accept.

Colonel Fitzwilliam, whatever he might say, did love someone- his cousin Georgiana. It would take many years for them to come together, but in the meantime each was content to admire the other from a distance.

Lady Catherine would find, only a few months later, that her daughter would marry her cousin. Not Darcy, as she had hoped, but the older brother of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who had loved his cousin for long, but could do nothing while Lady Catherine was flinging her daughter at another.

At present, Elizabeth was joyfully aware of the good wishes around her, but the most important of all present was William. She stood by his side as they took their wedding vows, and when she became Mrs Darcy, she knew she had all that she had ever wished for.

And it was all thanks to her mother, Anne Darcy.

A/N- And here ends this tale. I'm so grateful to everyone who chose to read this story to the end, without your support I might never have completed it; I didn't think I would ever reach the end when I had first started. I'm half sad and half satisfied that this story is now complete. I'll miss waiting for reviews after every update, and then starting working on the next update, keeping all the advice in mind. My writing would probably be as unpolished as it was when I began if it were not for you all. I'll still do my best to continue improving in other stories. And I hope you all will read them too. And now I'll ask you to review if you managed to read the end, just for old times' sake.