For @bleulily (aka gingerbreadsargent aka bransonvevo), this is the third of three S/T Secret Santa posts. Hope you are having a lovely holiday season!
Request: The Secret Crawley Sister (no specific scene, just about the story in general).The story is the closest I have to canon, with the difference of Lady Sybil living, AND there’s a younger Crawley sister, better known as Lady Rose. During all those years we didn’t get to see Rose, she was either locked in Downton or at a mental hospital, since Robert claimed the girl wasn’t in her right mind, especially since after 1920 she kept on saying Sybil still lives, even though she had disappeared after being a fugitive.
This is The Secret Crawley Sister by bransonvevo.
PRESENT, 1921
“She’s alive, I know she is,” Rose whispered as she rocked her body to and fro, “I can feel it; I can feel her.”
Atticus moved over a strand of her hair that had fallen from its place. He was concerned about her, she had been saying things like these a lot lately. He knew she missed her sister, but was the feeling really so intense that it made her believe that Lady Sybil still lived?
“Rose, you need to rest,” he told her quietly.
“I don’t need anything!” Rose spat, “I only need to find my sister!”
“Rose, you need to calm down,” Mary was the one to speak now. She had been watching the entire scene from afar, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t hear everything that had been said, “If you keep talking like that, you are going to upset Tom.”
“But it is true! You all know it’s true!” Rose spat again, “Just because she has been missing for a year doesn’t mean she’s dead! She was a fugitive, of course she had to run away; but that doesn’t mean she’s dead!”
Robert walked furiously towards his youngest daughter. He couldn’t allow her to speak like that about Sybil, not in front of all their guests. He was tired of hearing her words over and over again. Rose was simply mad, and he needed someone to take care of that.
“Next word I hear you mutter about Sybil, and you’ll be leaving this house again!” he stated grabbing her wrist with all his force. He knew he was being harsh, but that was the only way he could make Rose understand that she needed to keep her mouth shut, “Is that clear?!”
Screencaps are not all mine. Any minor manips are all mine.
