Locked up inside the boot room with Miss Baxter, Mr. Molesley needs to find a way (and the courage) to get them out again. Will Thomas have the last laugh or will they need to get rescued? - early entry for the 'unofficial Downton Abbey series 8' on tumblr -

Modern AU. She moves in the inner circles and he is making waves in the corporate. Yet both are in places of emotional stasis. One chance meeting has each of them finding their feet, and they start running...

"When will daddy be home?" It was the question that George had asked incredibly frequently over the last few days, and Mary had always met it with the same answer. "Soon, darling." One shot

Lavinia knows Mary is in love with Matthew. And Mary knows that Lavinia knows. This is Mary's poetic plea to the redhead to forgive her and make sure she ensures her own happiness. My first Downton fic.

A Chelsie fic delving into significant moments of their past at Downton, canon moments and beyond. Begins shortly after Elsie arrives at Downton and will follow through their entire relationship. Other characters appear, but this is most definitely a close-up look at how this relationship and his couple evolved over the decades. A few chapters have mature content

A birthday gift for meetmeinstlouie! Older Chelsie in a post-canon world, with new characters ... and a resolution of sorts. Song inspiration: "Quarter Moon," by Cheryl Wheeler I hope you have a wonderful day, dear! xxx

A reworking of Branson and Sybil's story. I didn't think their burgeoning romance would wait until the end of the War. Set after Episode 3 of Season 2. More chapters to come, hopefully. My first fic.

Anna Smith owns a jazz club called the Cerulean Swan and John Bates enters the scene to replace a lagging alcohol maker and distributor, Green. He invites her to come to his alcohol refinery, The Bubble Room, and specializes in refined champagnes and other alcoholic beverages. Together they will create a new kind of night club with his new brand: Ugly Duckling.

When Mrs. Hughes loses her eyesight, her life as the housekeeper of Downton Abbey is over. Perhaps with Mr. Carson she will be able to realize a new life just beginning. Carson/Hughes.

Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson need to talk after paddling in the sea together, but will they get the chance?

Set the world of finance, real estate, and equestrianism this is a modern Mary/Matthew story. They have all sorts of personal and professional reasons to stay away from each other...and yet they can't.

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." ― Linda Grayson. How did Daisy fall for Thomas anyway? Takes place some time before 1x01.

A space for my tumblr Chelsie prompt entries. Will be a smattering of everything, but the first six chapters will be sequential as one story. Rating subject to change.

Trapped in a loveless marriage with Henry Talbot and doubting her own sanity, Mary feels her life is at an end when she learns she is pregnant. Her final hope of a life worth living may rest with Matthew Crawley, but both of them will have to fight the pain of the past and the demons of the present to reach their destined, shared happiness.

They had everything in life - except life itself. Titanic means something personal to everyone, but see it from their perspective. Experience their love, feel their fear, and witness their untold stories. How did two unlikely relationships develop on Titanic? Which lover will pay the price? Will a difference between their social classes decide their futures? [full summary inside]

Random moments of Bromance between Robert Crawley and John Bates. Not in chronological order.

What if Matthew Crawley did not die the day his son was born? This story tells his tale through his own journal entries as a patient suffering amnesia in a London hospital. No one is searching for him and there is a grave with his name on it. Find out why. The Epilogue picks up in 1940 as many from Downton of yesteryear return to wish George a Happy Birthday as he heads off to war.

Set in my Patient #9 AU, Matthew Crawley has returned to Downton after recovering from amnesia, to the delight of his mother, Isobel. Having promised her a visit at Crawley House, Matthew shows up on her doorstep, much to the surprise of her housemaid who had believed him dead for some years. The two then catch up on events that transpired while they were parted. Poignant reunion.

Charles Carson watched the raindrops splash against the flagstones, their staccato rhythm soothing to his ear. Closing his eyes, he inhaled deeply and let his mind wander back to a similar day two summers ago...The smell of warm earth and wet stone and the musty smell of decaying wood; he had the sense of something as old as nature itself.

A closer look at the events of the Grigg storyline early in Series 4. What Elsie would have said to Charles, had she been free to do so.

"You too can learn shorthand in a year" was the promise: but for a girl in Gwen Dawson's position, it wasn't that easy... Vignettes from before the start of Series 1 up to Episode 3, as Gwen tries to keep her secret and realise her ambitions against the odds.

Mrs. Patmore sees two friends very obviously in love, but the couple in question have done nothing to help their own cause. When the cook can no longer bear to watch them stumbling along and getting nowhere, she takes it upon herself to try to bring them together.

Carson's last cricket match for the Downton Abbey team before his retirement with Elsie. Set one month after their return from their honeymoon as shown in 'The Acquisition of Memories'. Unexpected one shot from an author who thought they had nothing more to say on behalf of ANY DA characters. This one just struck me this morning and I hope that it is 'Well struck, Sir.' BorneToFlow

A place for Chelsie prompt challenges that I've compiled through the years. All are Carson and Hughes focused with the appearance of other characters as necessary. Canon as well as AU.

Set in S6. When Isobel finds out Lord Merton's illness she doesn't know what to do next. A Richobel fanfiction. Ratings may go up later.