Thank you for all the reviews. I liked this story when it started now I've gone off it a bit but have finished it liked I planned. I hope to tie up a few loose ends in this chapter like the quotes I had put in. Thank you for reading.
When the new heir arrived at Downton Abbey Edith tried her hardest not to hate him for taking Patricks place, for falling in love with Mary and not even noticing she was there. She gradually grew to accept him. She had tried to pretend like it had never happened and then it wouldn't hurt as much. Edith would finish reading the letter many months later.
Do not think of this as a final goodbye, our final goodbye. A bittersweet parting for it is not. It is a farewell and I will see you soon for I am sure I will. A temporary goodbye. One I hope is full of happiness, excitement, time and love for that is all we can wish for the ones we leave behind. For I can not may the lord carry you safely home and watch over you and protect you from harm. I want you to know that you will always be my Edith and I will find my way home back to you whether that be in life or death.
Yours always,
Patrick
And if somewhere somehow Patrick was alive and had survived and whether or not this would be his first but not his last goodbye letter to Edith she would realise that no matter how may people stood in their way, how much time stood between them, how far the land or how wide the oceans she would always be his Edith and he would always be her Patrick.
The end
I wanted to leave to open for you to decide with P Gordon really was Patrick.
Thank you for reading.