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When Matthew suddenly finds his soul transported nearly a decade into the past, before Downton, before the War, and before Mary, he realizes that he has been given a chance to change his past and make his life and those around him better. How will the Crawleys and the servants of Downton react to a Matthew who knows all their secrets and is determined to win his happy ending?
Series 1 and 2 already complete and will be slowly uploaded here.
Bookmarked by ladym181
25 Nov 2025
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Downton Retold, time travel, Matthew, Sybil, Gregson, fun author notes, excellent twist in season 2, Robert is an ass, OCs General Allen and Cat, Mary bakes
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He can barely think, his brain switched off from exhaustion and terror, reduced to sheer instincts, following orders and a horrible routine, ingrained into his very body by now. He is carrying Lewis, a grown man thrown over his back like a sack of potatoes. He has no idea how far he has been walking, focused solely on the next step and on hopefully avoiding shells falling all over them. There is an ambulance in sight, waiting for them, hands reaching to help him take Lewis off him without injuring him farther, and settle him promptly into the back of the car. He raises his head to look at the 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.
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Bookmarked by ladym181
22 Nov 2025
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M/M, Read in November, Mary and Sybil go to War
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Matthew comes home from war badly shellshocked, while Mary is reeling from the publication of her scandal. They both need to escape and heal. Perhaps, they can do so together.
Bookmarked by ladym181
14 Nov 2025
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Matthew homecoming, recovery, Scotland, ptsd, m/m, Isobel
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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 wartime reunion could look like if Robert died before the Battle of Somme.
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Bookmarked by ladym181
21 Nov 2025
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Matthew becomes Earl, Mary runs Downton, m/m, Sybil has an easier time without Robert being stubborn, Vera Bates is a bitch, Richard is manageable, London bombing, miscarriage
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Burdened by guilt after refusing Matthew's proposal, Mary doesn't wait until the end of the war before confessing her affair with Pamuk, she tells him while he's on leave from the war. With several more years on their side, the course of their relationship is inevitably changed. - An alternative timeline to Mary and Matthew's relationship.
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Bookmarked by ladym181
14 Nov 2025
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Alt Universe ‘The Way It Should Have Been!’, Fix-It, M/M, Everyone Lives