March 1912 - a baby is abandoned at the doors of Downton Abbey. Servant Thomas Barrow agrees to claim paternity for the foundling. The story mainly revolves around Thomas and his daughter, but the other characters also play a role in every chapter. The characters don't belong to me, only the OC does.

Thomas Barrow, feeling out of place amidst the aristocratic splendor of Downton Abbey, finds solace in an unexpected friendship with Tom Branson, the former chauffeur turned family member.

A Norwegian merchant, who happens to know to play the piano, turns up at Downtown Abbey in order to seek work. But there’s more to Alexander than meets the eye, and the servants turn skeptical of his presence. Is he who he claims to be?

When a twenty one year old Cora Levinson and Lord Downton meet during the London season, things don’t necessarily go as smoothly as one might expect. A/N: Huge thanks to juliasdowntonstuff for beta-ing this piece and for the feedback!

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Because no one ever knows where the future of Downton really lies. Cobert's son falls in love with Chelsie's daughter and ignites a class war at the estate. Set at various times from 1896-1945. Mostly Chelsie.

Kissing the new maid in his dressing room while his wife is almost dying in the room adjacent — certainly not one of Robert's finest hours.

Robert 25, Cora 22. Both work for their fathers and have to work together. They cannot stand each other, and see their promised future evaporate in front of their eyes. Modern AU story.

For her first London Season, Sybil has another ambition to prove - that women and men can actually be friends. In a budding Yorkshire musician, she finds the complicated answer.

Cora had been feeling unwell for weeks leading up to their trip to France. Back home, she had Doctor Clarkson run some tests and the results are not at all what she had hoped. How will she cope with this new reality, and will she be able to help Robert and their daughters to come to terms with it? This is a *slightly* altered ending to A New Era

S4 AU. An unexpected meeting between Edith Crawley and Sir Anthony Strallan at Dr. Goldman's in London changes everything.

After the biggest trauma of her life, Mary finds compassion and support from an unlikely source.

Drabbles set in the late 1930s and early 1940s...

After a nasty divorce, John Bates moves to Downton and accepts a post as a librarian at Downton Abbey High School where he meets Anna Smith, an english teacher. This new start in life promises to be more than he wished for

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.

A sequel to 'A Scandalous Affair'. Mary and Tom are now married and living in Dublin

Daisy would have been very young when she started work at Downton Abbey in 1912, probably no more than 12 or 13, and not yet begun to educate herself as she did in later years. This is Daisy's story told in her own words and with her own grammatical errors.

No marriage is perfect. Not even that of Anna and John Bates.

In this sequel to Getting Married, Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes, now Charlie and Elsie Carson, embark on their wedding trip to Scarborough where they discover that taking vows is only the first step in the transformation of their relationship. A Carson-Hughes honeymoon story.

For full summary, see beginning of Prologue (too long to post). January 1933, and Thomas, Richard and co are faced with several different scenarios centred around family issues, which can be complicated at times. In order to solve their problems, friends must come together.

A collection of one shots surrounding difficult moments in Mary's life and how she and her daughter bond and recover. Caroline and Mary are each other's solace in any and all instances.

William spends his last days at Downton and it is Edith Crawley who attends to him. Blithely volunteering to care for him, Edith has no idea what it is to see someone through their final hours. This is a short story, a brief distraction, expanding on a moment passed over too lightly in the show.

The inability to decide between different opinions and actions. In this sequel piece, Mary has learned of her cousin's death and returns to Downton to uncover how. As time goes on, she and Matthew are drawn closer together as the weeks following Patrick's death leave events shrouded in mystery. With danger and threats to her family, will she and Matthew get a second chance?

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...

Poor Edith was the ugly, jealous middle daughter. No one’s favorite, always alone, she was a character on the show she never thought much about. Until she woke up in her body. Trapped in this world, can she change the story and protect those she loves? Perhaps she can be more than Poor Edith, and become the Perfect Edith for Downton Abbey. This story is also posted on AO3.