Downton Abbey Comment Ficathon

[dollsome]

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!

Comments

[tr1st3ss3du3r4]

It isn't that he could be anyone - she has great difficulty forgetting who he is, his position, his obvious attachment to her sister - but there are times when she is just glad to be enveloped in someone's arms. She does close her eyes and imagine that it's Matthew, that she has traded one man in a uniform for another.

He buries himself in her hair - the hair so similar to her sister's, the sister he loves (they both know, both of them here, and Sybil knows, too, sat by the bed of a dying soldier - and maybe he's a young lord, maybe she'll nurse him back to health, maybe she'll marry this anonymous noble and - ) and inhales deeply, clings tightly, anything to stop his mind from reeling.

They don't talk too much, hiding themselves in the back of the car, in his cottage - both have the underlying understanding that much there is a mutual...something here, it is not love. It never will be love. Perhaps it works because neither of them want that. They recognise the fear that they have lost something they may never have truly had. She

[tr1st3ss3du3r4]

(I am not entirely sure that made any sense, but I kinda like it XD)

[n_e_star]

THIS!!!!

YES!!!!!!!

This is what I wanted!!!!!