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FIC: For His Own Sake Pt4 (Carson/Hughes)

Oct 04, 2011 22:59

Title: For His Own Sake Pt4
Characters: Elsie Hughes, Charles Carson and the rest. This part is from Mrs Patmore's POV
Rating: PG
Genre: Angsty/Friendship (possibly romance to follow)
Summary: Things at Downton are going to change but what the outcome will be is anything but certain.
Set at the end of S2E2 and in view of the trailers ( Read more... )

character: charles carson, fanfic, by lha, character: elsie hughes, character: beryl patmore

Comments 8

ellie987 October 4 2011, 22:55:51 UTC

Seeing things from Mrs. Patmore's POV is quite refreshing. There isn't a lot of her in fanfics out there.
I really loved the antagonistical interaction between her and Elsie (the store room key bit was priceless!), specially because it really seems Beryl understands her and respects her for what she's doing.

No, what she saw in Mrs Hughes was a stern exterior built up over years to protect a true bleeding heart, probably too bleeding for her own good most of the time,

This seriously broke my heart.

lha October 5 2011, 06:53:46 UTC

I suppose it's just that I see Elsie as a rather compasionate woman with a strong practical streak. I can imagine that in order to prove effective she would have to appear herder than she really was though.
Glad you enjoyed Mrs P. I rather enjoyed the different angle too.
thanks for reviewing
xLx

ellie987 October 5 2011, 18:41:21 UTC

Yes, I agree on Elsie. It is obvious she's a compassionate woman (see her scenes with Beryl or Anna lately), but you have to put on a strong appearance if you wanna get some respect from the people you're giving orders to.

crazymaryt October 5 2011, 00:30:01 UTC

Want more now. Loving this fic.

lha October 5 2011, 06:55:57 UTC

Yes ma'am.

I'll try and get part 5 up in the next couple of days - back with Elsies pov I think and witha little evil Thomas...

immer_am_lesen October 5 2011, 05:14:24 UTC

Wonderfully captured. We need more Mrs Patmore in stories! :-)

lha October 5 2011, 06:57:44 UTC

She does have a rather wonderful turn of phrase! Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for letting me know.

northeto January 17 2012, 21:22:03 UTC

I didn't know Mrs Patmore's first name was Beryl, but what a great name!

I'm really enjoying this story so far. It's particularly interesting to see things from Mrs Patmore's point of view, as others have mentioned. It was good of her to get everyone out of the way before Mrs Hughes and Mr Carson had their spat, and to not listen in herself, though I imagine it might have been tempting to do so.