Description: A chronological journey through the highs and lows of the Bates and Anna storyline, with the edition of a very special ingredient...
Warnings: Set post-Series 6 but with no spoilers.
A/N:So here is my first fanfic! The plan is to tell the canon Anna and Bates storyline from Series 1 right though to Series 6. I'd love to know what you think so please do leave me a review. The story starts post-Series 6 and will then go back to Series 1 and continue chronologically from there.
Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer: Anna, Bates and Downton Abbey all belong to Julian Fellows and are not my intellectual property. I'm only borrowing them for a bit and I fully intend to give them back!
Preface
There is never any note. We need no words; the action itself is enough. Enough to express everything we feel, have felt and are sure to feel. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but, I reckon, that a gift of love, love of the purest and deepest kind, must be worth far more.
Especially to the receiver. Especially to me.
In all our years together, Mr Bates and I have suffered and wept but also smiled and laughed. It's the laughter I enjoy the most. As I guess any sane person does. But we've learnt to help each other through the pain and the hardships. His little gift in times of struggle, always the same, never changing, has always reaffirmed his love for me and help me remember that there is always hope. When hope ends, love dies.
But I know our love will never die. It is the only thing I can be sure of. The only thing that never changes. Well, our love and the gifts of chocolate…