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• sure a lover too by barrowdarling

  Fandoms: Downton Abbey  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  01 Dec 2025

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Thomas Barrow/Jimmy Kent
  • Thomas Barrow
  • Jimmy Kent
  • Sarah O'Brien
  • Charles Carson
  • idiots to lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • I swearrrrr this has a happy ending
  • just a lot of drama in the middle
  • Angst

  Summary

  What if O'Brien's nephew wasn't Alfred, but rather Jimmy?
  How's O'Brien's plan to pull Thomas out of a job going to work when her stubborn nephew, Jimmy, is now inconveniently in love with him?

  OR

  Jimmy is O'Brien's nephew and, instead of following plans and hating Thomas, he starts confronting some feelings he thought long buried

  (veeeery loosely based on Psyche and Cupid's myth)

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  Updates every Sunday

  Language:

  English

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  Chapters:

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