If two people love each other, why can't they be together? An AU based on canon and written for MM Celebration Day. Thank you, Patsan! All credit toJulian Fellowes for creating these wonderful characters and Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens for bringing them to life.

Following the fallout of the fire, Carla has hit the self destruct button. Tw for references to suicide and eating disorders

A lot can happen in eight months, people change all the time. When Nick travels to Devon to get his wife back is he going to like what he finds or have they both changed too much?

S2 AU with elements of canon. Repeated meetings and misunderstandings forge a rocky path to be traversed.

Two unlikely survivors—a soldier and a singer—meet in a night club as London falls under siege. Matthew/Mary AU set in WW II. Part 1 of "In Love and War", a collaborative effort with piperholmes and queenlovett.

Modern AU. Mary is an up and coming actress on the cusp of global stardom. Matthew is a photographer getting back into the game after a long absence. They meet on a shoot for Rolling Stone magazine, things go from there.

The years have come full circle & we see Mary & Tom together at the Abbey reflecting on tragedy, timing, and second chances as middle-aged versions of themselves. Not a very action heavy piece, but just something that has been on mind for about a year.

Bernie Wolfe and Serena Campbell are in love, but though their love is simple, life has a habit of making things a lot more difficult than they need to be.

You will always be eternally the only who I belong to

Tease, Dinner, Champagne...Hmmmmmmm...

she was taught not to talk to speak to strangers but could this stranger put her back together.

A meeting of kindred spirits through the hearts of children. Modern AU.

forever will never be long enough for me to feel I've had long enough with you

Home from the hospital, Carla tries to forget about the problems she's dealing with. It's not not that hard with Nick there to help her. Happiness for a little while longer is all she wants.

you know it can get hard sometimes, it is the only thing that makes us feel alive

The more you push the further they go until you're left all alone. Carla's thoughts on those who have tried to love her and those she's pushed too far. Do old habits die hard?

Carla's thoughts on the newest man to break her and let her down.

Modern university AU. Mary is an Oxbridge reject with a past, Anna and John are in the friendship zone, Sybil has a secret life out of school, Matthew and Lavinia are stuck in a rut, and Downton is owned by the National Trust. Drama and hijinks naturally ensue. Chapter 25: Over the summer holidays, Matthew and Mary navigate their new relationship.

You walk away to ease his pain and your guilt and any sanity either of you kept but you'll never know how he copes when you leave your home for another. Or perhaps, how he doesn't.

* What if Mary had trusted Matthew with her secret and immediately accepted his first proposal? An alternate universe starting from episode 1x06, interwoven with canon, that spans from 1914 - 1971. [M for sexual content, wartime violence, racial slurs, character death (but Matthew/Mary and Sybil/Tom end happily!)] [STEAMM]

"The bed isn't cold tonight; it never really is these days." (See to me first, continued!)

"Simple, he made it seem. Maybe it was. Maybe it could be."

He is just a person but he is my person.

You've got your peace now but what about me?

Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever dream.

They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing.

Carla & Nick have a spooky Halloween night in...

Modern AU — Grey's Anatomy, ER, House MD and all your favorite Downton Abbey characters (including the dead ones!) Kind of a Chelsie heavy tale but there's plenty of Cobert, Banna, Richobel and Baxley tossed in for good measure. Lots of medical drama, cussing and even some sexytimes. Stays close to canon in terms of major events, just transplanted into a modern setting! Spoiler-y?

He didn't have a favourite mug before but he does now.

A day in the life of Narla. Yet another Nick and Carla one-shot. Reviews would be greatly appreciated:)

- and you will still be beautiful

Nick and Carla one-shot. Just an idea I've been toying around with! Considering turning this into a longer fanfic so let me know what you guys think! YouTube: TheCorrieClub. Twitter: @thecorrieclub.

She can only presume he has grown tired of her already. Tired of normal, their normal, her normal.

"What's that song? You know that I'm no good."

"I hope you like long stories." Carla tells Michelle and Nick about Tracy's confession.

Carla & Nick one shot following on from the moment that Nick admitted to Carla that he wanted to be with her (Rated M for sexual content).

He wants to be the best she's ever had.

Why risk it all for something that could be nothing. But then why not risk it all for something that could so easily become everything? Nick tells Carla how he really feels.

Mary and Matthew's lives intersect, mold, and shape together. Time is connected through nonlinear building blocks. Their infinite love is the common link. The essence of their journey together is perspective. "Time is an illusion." – Albert Einstein

She has yet to explain black holes to him; how they collapse and collapse and collapse, literally ad infinitum, because time slows as it approaches the singularity to the point that a black hole never fully collapses into a black hole.

Exiled from Downton Abbey over a scandal, Lady Mary Crawley is ruined. Meanwhile Matthew Crawley has lived a content life in Manchester with his parents, Dr. Reginald Crawley and Isobel Crawley. Before the Earl of Grantham changed his life, his eldest daughter did. An AU story in a different place with different results; created by Willa Dedalus and Apollo888.

Theirs is no clichéd love story (they are damaged and broken and too complicated)

Modern MM. See this as a very late submission for the MM AU day! I don't want to give too much away here, but let's just say that Matthew and Mary are once again at odds...

The twenty-first century descendants of the Crawleys, now without titles, but ruling the new elites with far more power and wealth than Mary and Matthew could ever have imagined. Consider it the AU S55.

Mary and Matthew meet at the wedding of William and Kate in 2011. Matthew is a lawyer, who has recently started his own firm, while Mary is a woman, distantly related to prince William with a very modern scandal

Exploring the steps, moments, arguments and changes that come with falling in love with your best friend. A Modern AU journey with Matthew and Mary for MM Tribute Day. The sequel to Breaking Bread.

The honeymoon we never got. Both Mary and Matthew have lived their lives and are now starting out to live a life together. But what ghosts from the past will tag along, and how will their eyes be opened?

**NOW COMPLETE!** Every year, the Grantham Foundation has a charity auction, and this year, the Crawley sisters are putting themselves on the auction block! For one night, they will a lucky gentleman's dinner date. So who will win that dream date? Modern AU for STEAMM Day! (Sybil/Tom, Edith/Anthony, Mary/Matthew)

Banter, teases, revelations and discoveries over a series of meals. A Modern AU journey with Matthew and Mary for M/M AU Fest. The first story in a series that continues with Shifting Sands.

Out flew the web and floated wide- the mirror crack'd from side to side.

Every morning, Mary and Tom take a walk. Largely canon-compliant through to the 2013 Christmas Special. Disclaimer: Downton Abbey belongs to ITV and Julian Fellows, I just wrote this for fun with no copyright infringement intended.

He will understand this moment only from the perspective of his future self. Until then, Matthew will try to make things right only as he knows how from the present. But maybe it's Mary who has the answer. Post-2.08 AU, Christmas Special never happened.

It was an ends and means thing, calling Alice. The world span on. - I've decided to turn this into a series of one shots where the end justifies Alice's means.

Missing scene one shot set in series three. An insight into this time in Mary and Matthew's marriage, which went unseen but was interesting to explore. Shadowed in loss they find their personal happiness in the spring and share a loving moment. Spoilers.

M/M Modern AU. Mary Crawley: daughter of a great British political dynasty, keeper of her dysfunctional family's secrets and the woman holding the UK Government together with her bare hands, meets Matthew Crawley: politically inexperienced but with the power to make or break all she stands for. Power, romance and scandal ensue. NOW COMPLETE.

Summary: Sybil has always lived her life in the shadow of two women. Canon through to the S3 Christmas Special, AU after that. Disclaimer: Downtown Abbey belongs to ITV and Julian Fellowes, I just wrote this for fun with no copyright infringement intended.

Modern AU in which Mary is a grad student in Chicago and Matthew is a hedge fund investor/ part-time lawyer/ multi-millionaire who is in need of a nanny to care for his 5 year old daughter. Romance and Angst ensue in this multi-chapter story. Long time reader, first time author.

On the night Margaret Thatcher is reelected for a third term, Lady Mary Crawley looks back.

A bride, a writer, a chef, a waiter, a hotel concierge, a press secretary, a housekeeper, a teacher, a historian, a tv producer, a doctor, a sous-chef, a driver, a CEO, a manager, a best man, a footman, a pop star, two work colleagues, and the Prime Minister. This Christmas, love is actually closer than they realize. (MULTI-SHIP, "Downton Abbey" meets "Love Actually")

Matthew spends time with Mary again after Lavinia's death and months of self-loathing and pity. A step in repairing their broken relationship takes place on horseback and Mary's fascination with a certain scar on Matthew's back. Lengthy and Matthew-centric, two-part story. No series 3 spoilers.

It should be easy: Matthew Crawley, after all, has a spotless record. But not everything is as it seems at the mysterious organization that calls itself The Abbey, and even worse, the spy he's assigned to bring in from the cold wants nothing to do with him. Now it's Matthew vs. Mary in a battle of lies, spies, and double-talk, and they'll need all of their wits to survive.

Modern AU: Robert is president & CEO of Downton Industries; Matthew is his new-found righthand man; Mary is his estranged daughter. A modern spin on series one.

What lies beneath the surface of a betrayal? For Matthew, Richard, Lavinia and Mary, betrayal can be read in the turn of a shoulder, the crack of a rifle, or the touch of a fingertip against glass, as the line dividing love and hatred begins to blur.

Written in response to a prompt for "modern war injured Matthew". Descends rapidly from the heights of drama and misery to fluff and innuendo - so something for everyone!

As war rips through the generations, long held secrets emerge and a past once hidden is awoken.

No good deed goes unpunished. S2 promo pic spoiler.