"Things Hidden
" is a Downton Abbey fanfic where Matthew and Mary have a one-night stand while he's home from the war in Series 2.
Completed.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Adaptational Explanation: Mary admits her dislike of Edith stems from an incident in their childhoods where Mary had kept a cat she named Anastasia; Edith took the cat one day and scared her off.
- Alternate Universe: For Series 2, splitting off from Matthew's coming home during the concert in Series 2, Episode 4.
- The Atoner: Edith, who spent her last moments apologizing about ratting Mary out about Kemal Pamuk.
- Character Title: Christopher, Matthew and Mary's son born out of wedlock, is the titular hidden thing.
- Christmas Episode: Chapter 20 has Cora and Sybil traveling up to Cumberland to spend Christmas with Mary, Matthew and Christopher.
- Death by Adaptation: Edith, O'Brien, Dr. Clarkson, and Reverend Travis all fall victim to Spanish Flu.
- Doomed by Canon: William Mason and Lavinia Swire die from the same causes as in canon.
- Emerging from the Shadows: While confessing to Anna that she's pregnant with Matthew's child, Mary sees a shadowy figure listening in. The figure is revealed to be Cora.
- False Flag Operation: Mary made a false trail where it looked like she'd gone to America after her engagement to Sir Richard fell through.
- False Widow: While up in Cumberland, Mary pretends to be a wartime widow.
- Forgets to Eat: Mary; Isobel has to remind her to eat a couple times since she also has to feed Christopher. At the end of Chapter 11, it actually catches up to her when she doesn't eat breakfast the day of her wedding to Matthew and faints in the middle of the service.
- In Spite of a Nail: Sybil and Tom marry as in canon, though it isn't explained how Robert decided to agree to it.
- Internal Reveal: Mary reveals the Kemal Pamuk scandal to Matthew after he realizes it wasn't Mary's first time. Robert hears about it later when an explanation has to be made as to why Matthew and Mary didn't marry after they had sex (aside from the fact he was engaged to Lavinia at the time).
- Morning Sickness: Chapter 8 opens with Mary vomiting in a flashback to when she confessed her pregnancy.
- My Secret Pregnancy: Mary conceals her pregnancy from everyone except her mother and Anna, choosing to bear her son in the Lake District in Cumberland.
- Nom de Mom: While living in Cumberland, Mary used her mother's maiden name Levinson. Violet is rather put out to learn this and asks to Mary to change Christopher's last name as quickly as she can.
- Original Character: Christopher Crawley, Mary and Matthew's son conceived in a one-night stand while Matthew was home from the front.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Cora and Robert lose Edith to Spanish flu.
- Rank Up: Sybil is studying to become a doctor in the epilogue.
- Their First Time: Mary and Matthew have sex with each other in Chapter 2. It goes horribly wrong when Matthew realizes that Mary had sex already.
- Time Skip: Two in the first three chapters. Chapter 1 takes place in late 1916, Chapter 2 in early 1918, and Chapter 3 in September 1918 after the Battle of Amiens.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 4 reveals that Mary bore Matthew's child, a son she named Christopher.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Robert lays into Matthew multiple times about not marrying Mary and rejecting her.
