A response to a prompt from im-yours-for-life in which John tries to bake a cake for Anna.
A small Valentine's Day contribution to the Anna and Bates fandom. John and Anna spend a quiet Valentine's Day together in their hotel by the seas with their little girl as they prepare for the arrival of their second child.
John tries to be helpful as Anna sorts through various outfits in an attempt to find the perfect dress for an evening out.
Just my take on Series 5 episode one on what really took place between John and Anna, before and after the fire that swept through the Abbey.
John spends the morning fussing over his little girl while Anna gets a full night's rest
This is post Series 3 Episode 7 a few months after John has been released from jail and it goes A/U from there. This story is in response to a prompt from allcoyledup who asked for a scene with Anna's mother meeting John.
The Bates break the news of the new addition on the way
After going through a bitter divorce, the last thing John Bates is looking for is love. Upon arriving back in Downton to work with his old friend, Robert Crawley, John meets and falls for a lovely waitress named, Anna Smith. Anna is a single mother trying to escape and forget a troubled past. Will the two finally find the happy ending they are both searching for?
It's Valentine's Day in Downton. John Bates, is the owner of The Red Lion, struggling as a bar tender with his past and under the assumption that love and life is passing him by. But a chance encounter with Anna Smith will turn his life upside down.
John experiences a case of the hiccups and spends the evening wide awake in a foul mood. In an attempt to save Anna from losing sleep John insists he sleep in the other room.
What would the world be like without John Bates? That is the question that Mr. Bates is forced to ask himself as Christmas is fast approaching and his wife Anna is awaiting her fate in prison. Will his guardian angel be able to show John his true worth? And what would have happened to his family, friends, and co-workers had John not existed?
Just a bit of baby Bates fluff to get us through after the series five finale.
Addressing a missing scene from Series 5 Episode 6. Following the discussion that John and Anna have in the cottage regarding his involvement in the murder of Mr. Green, they still have secrets and understandings that have yet to be discussed.
I am still on the verge of bawling like a baby whenever I see the scene of John and Anna reading through the letters that have been withheld from them in series 3. I just always wonder how long Anna had to wait to be able to read those letters in the privacy of her room from the time she receives them from Mrs. Hughes and what went through her head in that space of time.
John and Anna spend a night to themselves attending a premiere for a show John has been working on.
The setting is London in 1912 and John Bates is a campaign manager for Robert Crawley. During a speech for the Labour Party, John has a chance encounter with a young, Anna Smith, a budding journalist for The Sketch. Will their meeting prove to be a life changing moment for Mr. Bates?
Just a musing of what breakfast between modern John and Anna would be like
Fluffy Anna and Bates family drabbles and scenarios in no particular order.
As John and Anna embark on their new life she recalls how an item of John's got her through her darkest time.
The Bates family spends a day by the sea.