When the love of his life gets married, will he be able to cope?

When widower and father Charles Carson comes to Downton Abbey, he develops a relationship with the family he serves. Over time, he is quite taken with a certain housekeeper. Also, the young Earl and his American wife are beginning to expand their family. This is an 1880s AU set a few years earlier than the canon backstory with Chelsie and Cobert at the forefront.

How much do we really know about the senior Mrs Bates? How much do we really know about John Bates' upbringing aside from it being 'impossible' as he once admitted to Rose? Come take a dive into their past and see what shaped them both into the people they are today. Experience both the highs and lows with them and, most important of all, the unbreakable bond of mother and son.

John Bates, former neurosurgeon and current hospice nurse, takes a job to work in the house of Mary Crawley Talbot. His job is to care for two ailing, elderly women and Ms. Crawley-Talbot's best friend, Anna Smith. As part of John's duties, he reads to Anna from a book about a designer and the bodyguard hired to keep her safe.

COMPLETE Thomas returns to his childhood home

The year is 1952 and there are only two things Anna Carson, district nurse and midwife, truly cares for. Her work and her community. When a new GP, Doctor John Bates, arrives on the scene though, he begins to change things and not only for the locals. Feeling herself drawn to him, will she ever move on from her past and allow herself to be truly happy? Only time will tell.

Sequel for BACK TO WORK. Mr Carson gets a new assistant to help with the memoirs. The Carsons and the Masons go on their second honeymoon together. Elsie's secret is revealed.

AU- Set during season 2.Edith has a twin,Edward who is sent to fight in WWI. Cora is pregnant. Will continue on through rest of the series into WWII. Warning talk of suicide.

This story tells of various characters reaction to "The Incident" (O'Brien orchestrating trouble between Thomas and Jimmy, making Thomas think Jimmy liked him, Alfred witnessing it and the police being contacted). WARNING: things the characters say will be offensive, but remember I am trying to be as realistic as possible with the reactions to homosexuality in this time period.

Prequel/AU Robert finally realizes he's in love with Cora. Now the only thing Cora has to do is convince Violet Crawley her son made the right choice.

"The man that chases everyday now is lost for words to say, to the girl in the flowing dress. This night they never will forget" - Ballroom of Romance (Celtic Woman) S3 Christmas Special AU

Phillip Strallan never expected his son to disgrace the family by divorcing his wife. But when the unexpected does happen, Phillip decides that the boy clearly can't be trusted to manage his own affairs. Who more sensible to reform him than Edith Crawley, whose fiance has just died at the Front? A WW1!AU with an alive Phillip, a divorced Anthony and a thoroughly modern Edith...

The telegram has reached him near the Somme in March 1916. Papa is dead STOP You're the Earl now STOP Funeral planned March 15 STOP Let us know if you can get leave STOP If not let us know how you wish to proceed with everything STOP Mary. Or how Mary and Matthew's reunion during the war could have looked like if Robert died before the Battle of Somme.

Edith's wedding to Sir Anthony did not go as planned, to say the least. [written for day 22 of the 2023 February Ficlet Challenge, prompt: "plenty of fish in the sea"... The Mikado referenced.]

Still in the midst of grief for Matthew, Mary's first thought when finding herself in her old red bedroom on the morning of April 15th, 1912 is that she is having a very realistic, but weird dream. But she soon realises that fate gave her an unexpected and impossible second chance - and she is fully determined to use it well.

AU - Lady Florence Crawley is Mary Crawley's twin sister. The two are as different as night and day. Florence is more attentive to the needs of her family and their estate. Mary is all about position for herself. When the heir and Mar's fiancée perish on the Titanic a new heir is invited to meet them, but he has his sights set on sweet Florence.

A series of Cobert holding hands using the monthly prompts for Year of the OTP Event 2023 challenge on Tumblr.

A series of seven little one shots documenting Anna and John's first week home with their precious little boy.

As the night starts uneventfully and trouble-free, it soon turns into a more passionate night than Robert expected, but not to his chagrin. Cora and Robert enjoy a rare night without worry at Downton Abbey and lose themselves in steamy passion. Part 1 is a one-shot from my Cobert Flufftober (prompt: simple shared nightly routines) and I added a smutty part 2 because I could.

Série de micros fictions sur les différents pairings, canons ou fanons, romantiques ou amicaux, de Downton Abbey ! N'hésitez pas à venir me proposer votre duo amical ou votre couple !

A watched pot never boils, or does it? [written for the 2023 February Ficlet Challenge]

Sir Anthony Strallan is the most boring man in England. No one would ever guess he could be dashing or heroic, certainly not his unsuspecting and unhappy wife.

"Et cela ne sera pas la seule journée. Je te le jure. Nous la connaîtrons, elle et tant d'autres. Dans deux jours, ces journées de bonheur seront de nouveau à nous." ou Anna et Bates rêvent du jour où ce dernier sera libéré.

John, who's working part-time as a writer since he is raising his little boy, Jack, has been helping his son's teacher with activities as a chaperone since he doesn't have to work as much as other parents.

Arbitration: the settling of differences between parties by a person or persons chosen or agreed to by them. In this modern day fic, Mary receives the news that the man she loves is engaged to another and is bringing his new fiancee to her family home to meet everyone. Mary reflects on the news and her feelings regarding it.