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1. Choose Your Own Path by Rowan_McKaye

   Fandoms: Downton Abbey  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   17 Apr 2015

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Thomas Barrow/Jimmy Kent
   • Thomas Barrow
   • Jimmy Kent
   • Elsie Hughes
   • Charles Carson
   • Phyllis Baxter
   • Daisy Robinson
   • Beryl Patmore
   • Robert Crawley
   • Cora Crawley
   • Mary Crawley
   • Edith Crawley
   • Tom Branson
   • Alfred Nugent
   • Alfred Molesley
   • Anna Smith
   • John Bates
   • Richard Clarkson
   • Ivy Stuart
   • Sarah O'Brien
   • Violet Crawley
   • Isobel Crawley
   • Lady Anstruther
   • Major Illness
   • Sexual Identity
   • Loneliness
   • Regret
   • Falling In Love
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Friends to Lovers

   Summary

   When Thomas develops a life-threatening infection brought on by his attempt to change his sexuality, Jimmy returns to Downton to care for him. Both men are then compelled to face their darkest fears and examine their own complicated relationship.

   Begins after Series 5, episode 6, with flashbacks to earlier series and progression through Series 5. Note: Mature rating earned in chapter 20 and subsequent chapters.

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   English

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