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Disclaimer: Downton Abbey would be a very different show, believe me, if I were the one in charge. Downton Abbey belongs to one Julian Fellowes.
Paring/ Character(s): Michael Gregson/ His wife
Lovers
He had fallen in love with her smile first. It had been so bright and generous. Sincere. It was a physical manifestation of her sweet spirit and humor. Her humor. God she had a mind quick and sharp as the crack of a whip. Her smile and her mind were what he had fallen in love with first and deeply. He still, God help him, he still loved them – loved her. But her mind and her smile were the first to go. His lady-love looked the same, even now, but she was not the same. She was not the woman he loved.
She had her moments, her good days. The wonderful, horrible good days when she was as she had been. When she was the woman he remembered, the woman he fell in love with and on those days he fell in love with her all over again. But those days were few and far between.
He was lonely. Yes his bed was empty – he did miss that but emptier than his nights was his heart. He wanted his wife but if she would never be well (and the doctors were trying less and less to convince him she would be) he wanted love. To love someone again and to be loved once again in return.
He just wanted somebody to love.