Downton Abbey Comment Ficathon

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With the new season upon us, and fandom all extra-enthusiastic, I figured now would be a great time for this. Because there can never be enough Downton Abbey fic, and there certainly isn't enough now!

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[hydropen]

'O Brien's and Vera's first meeting.

Part 1 - A Beautiful Friendship

[duckface666]

'O Brien's and Vera's first meeting.

When Mr Bates burst out of Mrs Hughes sitting room, looking frankly rather alarming and she would have been scared had she been some daft girl like Daisy and not Sarah O’Brien, she can’t help but wonder what happy circumstance has led to this. She knows his wife has reappeared, she expects the whole house knows by now the rate Ethel’s telling people, and though she’s suitably amused at Anna’s expense, she didn’t think it would make him quite this irate. She needs to meet this woman immediately.

So, making sure Mrs Hughes is still away - she is, Sarah can hear her shrill tones in the kitchen and knows she’s unduly annoyed about something again - she sails into the sitting room as though it’s her own. The woman sat quite calmly is not at all what she had expected but somehow, somehow is exactly the woman she imagines would irritate and infatuate John Bates the most

Part 2 - A Beautiful Friendship

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“Anna?” Sarah nearly laughed at that. “I can assure you Mrs Bates, other than ‘er snifflin’ for the foreseeable future the rest of us won’t miss ‘is presence.” She knew that was a lie really but didn’t much see the point of explaining the ins and outs of the last four years to someone

Re: Part 2 - A Beautiful Friendship

[thewindwarns]

Loved this line: “You’re not the housekeeper. Unless Downton’s so grand it has two?”