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

Sybil hadn’t been acting herself. It was only a matter of time before they started asking what was wrong. She thought she would be able to lie to them, but she was honest to a fault. Not to mention the last person she wished to lie to was Tom. His asking what was wrong was the only reason she told anyone. (Trigger warnings inside) (title from Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi)

After being in prison for more than a year, John Bates decides to participate in the prison's pen pal program. When Anna Smith is assigned to him, will they both find comfort in a handwritten love?

He raises his head to look at the ambulance driver and freezes in shock, certain that he finally has snapped, that his mind could not take it anymore and went straight into hallucination. The driver is a woman, not an uncommon sight those days, but this particular woman has no business being here, in the middle of most literal hell. "Mary?" he rasps, disbelieving.

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.

A series of scenes involving Mrs. Hughes and Tom. Many of the staff and family will be featured in various scenes so the characters will be changing except for Mrs. Hughes and Tom. Chapter 3 has been replaced with the correct version.

If Anna thought about it, this was where she was always headed. Home. The long way round.

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...

This story follows Thomas Barrow's unexpected journey from the grandeur of Downton Abbey to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. Set against the backdrop of the roaring twenties, Thomas finds himself in a new world, far from the confines of English society. However, amidst the excitement of his newfound career, Thomas grapples with a sense of emptiness, longing for something more.

A bad dream, a few moments of comfort, the ease of a decade of marriage. A little moment of tender fluff for these two. Rated M.

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.

Charles has an unexpected problem and Elsie is offering her help. Weird and unusual circumstances for our favorite characters. Set before their wedding and engagement.

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

Aux yeux des invités, ce n'est qu'un majordome anglais qui apporte sa laine à l'acteur hollywoodien qu'il sert. Pour Guy comme pour le britannique, c'est bien plus.

PROLOGUE - in 1935, Haunted by a tragedy of which he was blamed, a young adventurer searches an abandoned Gilded Age Manor in Newport, Rhode Island for a precious heirloom of the once Levinson family. But danger lurks around every corner as he is hunted by Mercenaries hired by a former Ottoman Noblewoman to avenge her son who died long ago in Lady Mary's bed. COMPLETE!

The Carson's romance, marriage and battle to start a family. Set in various times from 1896-1915. A prequel to A Brave New World. Rated M for later chapters.

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.

A series of little one-shots spanning Anna and John's first week at home with their son. Pure family fluff with a few moments of comfort thrown in because life with a newborn is never simple. Reviews welcome and very much appreciated!

A young girl from the 21st century where Downton Abbey doesn't exist on the TV, ends up in the world of Downton Abbey. Not a typical one where it is another Crawley sister or where she's from a world where Downton Abbey is a TV show. Published on Ao3, tumblr and Wattpad as well.

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?

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

After a difficult week at the Abbey, Elsie and Charles are taking a day off and Elsie decides to spend this day on a picnic. She wants it to be relaxing one, but Charles has problems with loosing up...

How does one live through a war for a second time, knowing full well what horrors are coming? Lady Mary Crawley is about to find out, as much as she doesn't want to. Meanwhile, Matthew wrestles with his conscience, Edith struggles in her marriage to Sir Anthony, Sir Richard is scheming and Sybil falls in love with the chauffeur. SEQUEL to my time travel AU Once More, With Feeling,

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.

"It's very clear cut what's about to happen. Or at least, it's very clear cut to her what needs to be done, or what not to be done. It's a waiting game at this point. Honestly, it's all just a very stupid mistake, after all."