Just ran across this while searching for something else, and I loved it! Particularly that spirited and wry line, "you might have been-I wasn't," which I suspect was the cause of Darcy's patronage. I'd love to see it continued, but then it couldn't really get any more revealing and vivid than this first encounter. Thanks for posting it!

THIS IS ADORABLE! I squealed when Darcy saved him and at the end. It never occured to me to llok up fics about how Darcy and Bingley became friends. And now there arn't enough to be read

I love this explaination for how those two estimable men met. Ah, brotherly love!

Thanks for writing!

oooh cute :) well as cute as 2 boys and one of them beat up can be ;)

so cute

That was fantastic. I love the whole idea.

If I am remembering canon correctly, Bingley was 25 and Darcy was 28, so I think this would be about right. Poor beat up Bingley...

Very nice imagining of that first encounter. Bingley was such a milksop that the bullying seems quite reasonable, and Darcy would have been primed to lead, even by the age of 15.

Well done!

- Deandra

Awww! This is so adorable! I bet this is exactly how they would have met! 5 gold stars!

Sweet!

Gee, I thought Bingley and Darcy were pretty much the same age. Never mind...that was really good, charming, GOOD.

That was sweet!

Delightful and well thought out! ;)

Yes! Just as I had imagined!