Lovely
CH1
A/N: This is my first ever Fanfic so please be gentle! I Just thought that there are too few fics on this pairing (although the few I have seen are awesome) so I thought I would have a shot!
Lovely, he called me lovely. The very phrase that was intended to stop me from hoping that we would "take out together again" only succeeded in making me blush at the compliment.
"Honestly Edith!" I berated myself "You aren't some simpering school girl, speak to the man!"
But what to say? The truth? It would not be the first time I tangled with trouble over something as simple as outing the truth, in fact that is how I lost him the first time around. Well not again. "If you think I'm going to give up on someone who calls me lovely…"
I could have screamed when the butler chose that moment to interrupt. All I wanted to do was sit there for the rest of the day and convince him that he was not old or crippled or any other self-deprecating phrase he would pin on himself, not in my eyes. What my sisters saw as age I saw wisdom and experience. What my family mistook for a dull mentality with lack of interest I saw a soft, kind sense of humour now not unlike my own.
I was cruel before the war, sulking alone in the shadows, in hindsight I am no longer surprised that few people actually enjoyed my company. My time with the wounded war veterans at Downton altered me for the better; I wanted to prove that to him. Prove that now I am a better person, worthy of the wonderful man I know him to be. No I would not give up on him.
"I'm afraid you must"
But I will not my dear, you will see
A/N 2: I would love to see if anyone actually reads this! If you have and have any advice for me or even just want request I stop writing for the sake of humanity then I will gladly accept the criticism haha.' I do have a second chapter of the same scene from Strallan's perspective, any thoughts?