nilecrocodile:

ok ok

downton abbey AU where lavinia survives the spanish flu but still nobly ~steps aside~ for mary and matthew stating that she can’t live a lie and then later in the 1930s she and edith run into each other in a foreign city after edith has become a famous writer and they have a passionate love affair and edith worries about her literary reputation and at some point they wind up having a dinner with mary and matthew that is extremely awkward on every conceivable level

(via humanpieceoftoast)