When Sybil finds Larry in bed with one of her colleagues from work, she decides to go back to Downton for a few days to set her mind straight about what she wants to do with her life. That is, until she bumps into a certain Irishman who asks all the right questions and makes her consider the possibility of living her life just the way she wants to. Modern AU, two-shot.

There is only one thing that Sarah O'Brien truly regrets in her life, one decision that she would sacrifice everything to take back.

A modern Chelsie AU. Charles runs a high-class domestic service company; he is smart, successful and single. He reluctantly attends his friend Robert's New Year's Eve party, but things look up when he bumps into property developer Elsie Hughes on the doorstep...

Joseph Molesley and Phyllis Baxter are keeping their recent engagement quiet in light of the impending royal visit. Unfortunately, neither of them is very good at it, and a staff photo session leads to everything coming out.

a DA that is a little more satisfying. I want to focus on the lives of the Crawley sisters, so this is a little bit of a feminist narrative, highlighting the challenges of their kind of womanhood, and how they journey through this. The romance at the heart of it is Matthew and Mary, but this story is not all about romance. Hope you like it, please read and review.

As a child, Anna Smith survived a year in the Yorkshire Moors all on her own. At least that's what people said. She claimed she was abducted in the dead of night and held hostage on an island. No one believed her. Until someone came for her again. Until John Bates appeared. Until she realized it was all real.

John Bates works as a cardiologist and meets Anna Smith at hospital when she's on a routine visit for a music therapy session, one of her volunteer activities away from her work as a professional cellist.

Summary: Post Episode S4E3- There were a lot of things Anna hadn't wanted: Mr. Green's attack, her husband to be hanged, or the new life that possibly grew in her. An alternate look at the Anna/attack storyline. COMPLETE (Anna/Bates, Mary, Mrs. Hughes)

Set after S05E01, Thomas finds himself missing Jimmy and he has a late night conversation with Mrs Hughes.

The aftermath of Anna's rape and how they rebuilt their relationship was not really shown in the series. This story addresses those issues, the mindsets of both John and Anna, and what may have happened during the healing process. Adult content, mentions of violence and rape.

They don't like each other, these two. Except maybe they do. Just a little bit.

Lady Mary realizes she has feelings for Anna in more than a platonic sense. Seeing Anna hurt forces Mary to come to terms with her feelings for Anna. In this bates and Anna aren't and item, Matthew and Lady Mary were only cousins they did not have a relationship and Lady Mary has feelings for Anna that she has been hiding for some time. first ever fanfic, reviews welcome

A series of one shots featuring Tom and Sybil. Chap 1: It's summertime, it's hot, there's a naked Tom.

Set in Modern Day London, Mary is married to Richard Carlisle and they live in the heart of London, Matthew is a lawyer , though still resides on Downton Abbey. After a run in at a Downton harvest party, Matthew has his suspicions on Richard's treatment of her. Will he fight to get his first love back? Twists and Turns arise, but will love always win?

"She caresses his cheek and feels a calm, like a millpond, settles in her chest. No more adrift, no more cast to strange seas. She will not weep in the end; in the end she will always be Lady Grantham." Cora cannot ignore the knowledge of Robert's infidelity.

Sybil has big news to share with her family. They think they know . . . do they? A Secret Santa fic for Mosteyn.

What happens when the Royal Butler takes over Downton Abbey ahead of the King and Queen's visit? Nothing good as far as Charles Carson and Elsie Hughes are concerned. Based on the two Downton Abbey movie stills of Charles & Elsie in their garden at the cottage.

"Their world seems to expand and contract simultaneously, and Robert Crawley is reminded that he is a very small man, who is witnessing the evil capriciousness of nature."

Post season 6 troubles between the lovebirds as they navigate retirement and illness.

The year was 1945 and tragedy, once again, strikes Downton Abbey. Sybbie Branson, now twenty five years old, finds herself needing the love and support of her family more than ever.

Tom didn't regret it, coming to admire her. There was a time when he had never thought beauty and rebelliousness could coexist, but that was before he saw her, bold as brass, trying to coax her family into a new age...Sybil/Tom Season 1 AU-ish (but not too far fetched to fit into canon)

A series of vignettes on chauffeur Tom Branson and Lady Sybil's developing friendship taking place in a period-verse AU in which Sybil is unable to walk.

Modern AU - scenes from a forbidden office romance. Sybil and Tom are on opposite sides of a deal team in the City of London, and if anyone knew they were meeting outside work they would be fired and lose their reputations for good. But somehow, they can't stay away from each other… rated M.

The prison has had enough of Bates getting in their way, so they devise a cruel plan to get him to stop, that affects both Bates and Anna. Cross posted from Ao3

William Bates and Lady Katherine Talbot are 17 years old and so in love. The two of them know that they are soulmates - they have been a part of one another's life ever since she joined him in the nursery - but they fear their parents won't see it that way. Will the two of them come clean to their parents? Will their parents find out? Or is there love destined to be a secret one?