Season 4 AU. The Bates' marriage is in disarray following the house party. When an unexpected trip to New York beckons, will they discover that some oceans are simply too great to be crossed?

Everyone told him she was no one of any particular standing but when John Bates extended his hand to Anna Smith at the ball at the Bavarian Embassy he upset the order of things and they would either be torn apart in the coming storm or seek strength in one another.

Modern AU: Anna can't believe her good fortune when she lands an interview for her dream job...but when she meets the boss, she's not sure whether her luck is so good after all...

Anna Smith is the newest instructor at Downton Ladies' College and one of her students, Emmaline Bates, immediately identifies with her and they form a strong friendship. Little could either of them know, Anna will form a much stronger friendship with someone else. Someone like Emmaline's father, John Bates.

Sometimes our healing isn't at all what we thought it would be. Sometimes it goes much deeper. Will John experience an unexpected healing? Modern A/U

What the world teaches us only matters if we care to learn it. What could John Bates and Anna Smith learn when put to the test? Do they learn it together or alone?

After being assaulted at her previous place of work and finding herself alone, terrified, and living out on the streets with a five-month-old son, Anna Smith's path crosses with that of John Bates - valet to the Earl of Grantham at Downton Abbey. Is it just a coincidence that their paths crossed? Or could it be something else. Perhaps...fate?

John Bates, Army Captain, is on trial for the murder of Vera Bates.

WW1 AU, 1916. Sergeant John Bates has been severely injured in the line of duty at the Battle of the Somme and is sent to a rehabilitation hospital back in England where he meets Nurse Anna Smith. Will she be able to bring him out of the shadows? Will he allow her to help him on the road to recovery?

Anna Smith is a British Intelligence operative assigned to work in Ireland on a kidnapping investigation (Marigold Gregson). She is partnered with John Bates and his partner, Tom Branson, to find the perpetrator before he strikes again.

Banna AU: The year is 1957 and Anna Smith, district nurse and midwife, is devoted to her occupation and has her mind focused on it solely. That is, however, until a new G.P - doctor John Bates - comes along. The two form a friendship and attempt to keep things professional, but it is only a matter of time until their feelings start to change. What will happen? Find out here.

Anna Smith, with her son James, has been hired to instruct the children living on the estate of Lord Wuthering in Bombay.

When Anna Smith decides to take the summer-long research position to finish her PhD in oceanography in the South of France she never expects to meet John Bates, government auditor. When the summer ends, and both must return to their lives. The moment comes to both of them, in the darkest of their abysses, when they rely on the memories of one another and the hopes of making more.

John Bates- a single, eligible WWII veteran- returns to his adopted home of Guernsey and begins a relationship with Anna Smith, the local divorcee with a child, and it throws the whole community into a tizzy.

Modern AU: 'When Anna Smith moves to London to start a new job, she has no idea how much her life will change...'

Artist and illustrator John Bates is trying to paint an elusive butterfly. He expects it to be very difficult but he does not expect it to be more difficult to woo Anna Smith

After the death of her grandmother, DI Anna Smith goes to Snowy River, Australia for answers. She tells everyone she's retracing her grandmother's planned trip there when the reality is she's trying to discover her grandmother's origins. On her way she meets a bartender, John Bates, who provides clues about the tragedy surrounding the hauntingly familiar ranch there.

After his divorce and the death of his mother, John Bates seeks to fulfill his mother's last wishes and spread her ashes at Greener Pastures in Alberta, Canada. What he doesn't expect is for his mother's solicitor to inform him that she invested heavily in a ranch or that she made yearly trips there. Even more, he doesn't expect the ranch manager, Anna Smith.

Modern AU. If there was one thing John hated, it was the passing of Halloween.

John Bates is entered into a television singing competition by his twelve year old niece, a singing competition that is hosted by one Anna Smith...

John Bates, poor fisherman, pulled up his net one day and never could have expected what he saw inside.

Modern AU. When John Bates agrees to take care of Isis whilst his best friend is away, he doesn't expect his world to collide—quite literally—with Anna Smith. Cover image by annambates.

Dr. Anna Smith works at a private research firm. Tasked with delivering a research update to their chief investor, she travels to French wine country. There she meets John Bates, reclusive investor. Heavy snows trap them together in the house long enough to realize that they may never want to be apart.

Lady Ravensburg has lived her whole life knowing she had to marry for position, for fortune, and- if she was very lucky- for companionship. But when Anna was young she dreamed of someone else. She dreamed of the Illusionist, long before he was called that. He's always been John to her. Now, after so many years apart, Anna wants him to be John to her again.

Modern AU. If Anna had been told three years ago that the week of her sister's wedding would change her own life for good, she probably would have wondered what on earth they had been smoking. She had longed for more, it was true, but she would certainly not have believed that such a clichéd scenario would have brought her together with the man that she was in love with.

Could a series of unlucky mishaps for two lonely travelers end up being the very best luck of all? / Written for batesessecretservice's Banna April celebration on Tumblr ;)

Modern AU. The beginning of an affair of convenience and understanding. Anna Smith and John Bates are professionals who live on opposite sides of the globe. When they meet at a conference, things get personal too quickly, and they have to deal with the consequences of a seemingly casual relationship that neither of them was looking for. Prequel to So Long, Lonesome.

A "fill-in-the-blank" canon-style journey through Anna and Bates' courtship. I think of this as a "prequel" to A Meeting at Night and Homecoming, but each of the stories can stand alone. This is to be a multiple chapter fic, which began with a T rating and firmly MOVED UP TO A STRONG M AT CHAPTER 16.

Can lovers who were ripped apart in one life find each other and reconnect in the next? AU Anna/Bates reincarnation story. What would have happened if Bates had hanged? Romance with a heavy dollop of mystery as Anna and Bates's paths cross once again and they are inexplicably drawn to each other. Will they figure who they were in the past? And how does that affect their future?

'Another' Modern A/U: Moving to the north of England to put his past behind him, will Anna Smith prove to be John Bates's salvation?

Modern A/U- A one shot. John Bates and Anna Smith are set up on Valentines Day... the rest was left up to fate.

Bates negotiates his surrender under Anna's perceptive, healing touch. Follows our pair through much of WWI. Alternating POV. Ch20. The Final Chapter. Thank You! Sometimes predictions and promises just take a while. That's why it's good to be patient.