Hey all! i hope you all enjoy this! some of you have been asking for Elsie and Ella's relationship to be tested...so hope you all like it.

thank you soo much to Hogwarts Duo for being the amazing person she is!

PART ONE

Elsie smiled as she saw Ella coming in from school Shadow following along side of couldn't wait to introduce the newest housemaid to her girl. Anna was a wisp of a girl, but Elsie believed that they would be fast friends. Elsie had quickly bonded with the girl, and Anna had already taken on the ladies maid duties for Lady Mary and Lady Edith (little miss Sybil was still to little to care much what she wore. Sybil was Ella's and Elsie's shadow around the house when she escaped her tutor).

Ella changed in the scullery and grabbed and apple from Beryl, kissing the cook's cheek. Elsie was so excited, because now that Anna had been hired, Ella could just be a half maid. More days could be spent at school and with friends, being the young woman she was meant to be!

Ella came into Elsie's office and stopped short to stair at the blonde haired girl sitting in front of her mama. She smiled at the girl who turned and absorbed the name her mama introduced. This was the third Anna that had worked at the house. She took her duties from her mama who was in housekeeper mode and went on to show Anna the rest of the house and how things were done.

She went home that night and her papa showed up before her mama. (this had never happened before) Charles explained that Elsie had stayed back to make sure things had gone okay with Anna. Ella's brow furrowed and he shrugged his shoulders not knowing the purpose, but knowing that Elsie would be home in a bit and Ella should get ready for bed. He bent and kissed her forehead and she wrapped her arms around him in a hug. She fell asleep that night with no goodnight from her mama, which had also never happened.

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Over the next few weeks Ella had been able to be more studious and to further train Shadow (who was growing like a weed!). On the days Ella worked she noticed that Anna had inspected her work (like Ella had been doing it wrong! This young chippy was just starting, Ella had experience!) She noticed that her mama and Anna had become close and would be laughing a lot like it was a joke just between them. Ella and Elsie had gone into town and Elsie had bought a pretty embroidered handkerchief for Anna. Her mama hadn't done that for her when she first came.

Ella noticed that Anna was often in her mama's sitting room. Sitting, chatting, asking about the books. Elsie had always told Ella that she was too young to look over the books.

The last straw was when Anna scolded her about Lady Sybil's bed. Ella had made it like Sybil liked, with her dolly (named Helen) tucked in, but not too tightly. Anna had come to find her and asked her why she didn't make it right! She was going to report her for this, because it wasn't the first time he had to go along and fix this.

Ella had stomped off and ran into her papa first. She stormed about how Elsie was favoring the new maid, and how she was trying to tell her how to do her job. She raves about how she knew what Lady Sybil liked! That she knew it better than this new chippy!

Charles had sighed and told her to calm down and told her that the new girl was just trying to assert her authority.

Then Elsie had come through and motioned for Ella to come with her. She reprimanded Ella for not cleaning Sybil's properly. Ella explained but Elsie was having none of it. She told her that if she didn't want to do her job properly she could just quit. Ella had looked at her mama and then stood to stalk to the door.

"Well, I guess I better quit because it is clear that you and Anna don't care about anything other than routine. I know that Lady Sybil like to have dolly Helen tucked into her bed. I also know that she likes her teddy bears sitting at her tea party table ready to play. She also like me to leave a peppermint in the teacup in front of the teddy that you gave her. But she took all of that away. Anna doesn't care about Lady Sybil. All she knows is Mary and Edith. And you're so blind because of that new girl you don't even see what your doing! You haven't even kissed me goodnight in three weeks! So I quit." Ella cried and walked out of the door. She changed into her school clothes and walked out the servants entrance. Shadow jumped up at her mistresses snap. She went into the house and retrieved her letter paper. She sat at the table and poured her heart out in a letter to Robb. Tears slipped down her face and smudged some of the ink. She made herself some lunch and then walked into town. She saw her mama and Robb's mother taking their usual tea together. She rolled her eyes and kept going to the post office. She milled around town a bit and them watched as her mama met with Anna to walk back to the big house. Ella gritted her teeth and saw green. She ran back home an packed a bag.

If her mama liked Anna so much, she could have her. Ella was going to visit Robb in London and she was only leaving a note for her papa to find.

let me know what you think! part 2 will come soon!
Much love
Samantha