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The Lady and the Chauffeur Name Thing

So at the end of my LAST installment of my FS Downton Abbey AU, Christmas at the Abbey, I promised that if ONE person wanted an explanation of the many new names that popped up I would write it. Well many weeks ago now the lovely @valentinaonthemoon asked for such a list, and I am a woman of my word, even if I completely forgot about and only remembered about it just now. I’m going to pop it under a read more bc it is going to get LONG  and also contain ALL OF THE SPOILERS for that series. 

OKAY SO

We’ll do this in birth order I think. Nicknames are in () 

Eilidh May FitzSimmons, born December 12th 1919 - The first of the many babies!! As many of you will know if you have been following me for a while, Eilidh May was, pre-finale of course, my utter ride or die name for baby girl Fitzsimmons. I think I have like three or four fics with this particular name in it, I loved it so much. Eilidh is the Scottish variation of Helen, and means sun-ray, which ugh wouldn’t that just be so perfect for a little FitzSimmons baby. I was just utterly in love with the idea of FS giving their baby a Scottish name (as you will see in the NEXT FS baby) and the fact that this had a space/star/sun/celestial twist to it just absolutely SOLD IT for me. I should add, for all my non-scottish followers that Eilidh is pronounced Ay-Lee. I have no idea how gaelic pronunciation works, I just know how to say it.  Her middle name, May, doesn’t need much explanation. I just loved the idea of them giving their little girl a middle name after someone on the team. 

George (Georgie) Lincoln Campbell, born 2nd October 1921 - Okay ngl, I got real lazy with this name. Mary and Matthew’s (who Daisy and Lincoln were in the place of in this fic) son was also named George, and I liked it, I thought it would be cute if he was called Georgie, as a bit of a variation. His middle name comes from his father, obvi, who, in keeping with BOTH canons (the noise I made when I figured out I could do that I swear. I’m so sorry Lincoln it was just far too good an opportunity to pass up), I killed off on the day he was born. My apologies. 

Hamish Phillip FitzSimmons, born 6th January 1922 - Oh this name. A lot of people REALLY don’t like this name, which is fine. As I said with Eilidh, I was really on a kick of giving FS babies Scottish names. I originally dismissed Hamish, and it just wouldn’t leave me alone, and just utterly grew on me. I actually went to school with a Hamish, he was a fair few years below me and he was just the tiniest, most adorable little toot! From what I can gather, Hamish is an anglicised version of Seamus or Seumus, which is the gaelic version of James, which is a very long and roundabout way of honouring Fitz’s middle name, but I still love having that connection. The middle name, Phillip, again, this name was a love of mine before this fic came about and it just seemed so natural to me that they would name their son after Coulson, and there was just no other name I liked so much with Hamish 

 Kathleen (Kathy) Skye FitzSimmons, born 30th May 1925 - I have no really grand explanation for this name, other than Kathleen is a special name to me, and I love using it in stories. It fit in well I thought with the 1920′s style of naming (yes I did that extensive googling) and as I say it is a very dear name to me and FitzSimmons are deserving of it. Skye, again, I’m just going through the checklist of names from the team. This was in NO WAY  a narcissistic naming, I promise, I just really think they’d give their child that as a middle name, as also this was my way of slipping a lil bit of Scottish into her name too. Just a smidge :)

 Hazel June Sousa, born 14th October 1926 - Oh Hazel. Hazel is just a name I really love. It is also the name of a dear friend of mine who I don’t get to see very often, and I just love it. Honestly I was just trying to find names that worked with the last name Sousa and Hazel just popped into my head. Again it works with 1920′s naming trends, (again with the googling) and yeah I just really love it. The middle name June comes from the fact that in this fic, Daisy and Sousa get married in the month of June. I thought that was a nice way of honouring their relationship, through their daughters name :)

Finley (Flint) Alphonso Mackenzie, born 28th May 1927 - So Mack and Elena adopting Flint is basically canon isn’t it??!?!? He is their son I will have no arguments. SO finding a name that Flint would work for as a nickname, bc lets be real no one was naming their child Flint in 1926, I had to find a roundabout way, was NOT EASY. I still have no idea how Flint could come from Finley, but it is close enough to make sense. By the time I got to Flint I had already named five children and was getting a bit lazy, and so his middle name is just the same as his fathers first name, which is still a very common middle name tactic. 

Emily Lorna FitzSimmons, born 12th October 1927 - Again, by the time I got to poor little Emily, I had named six children already. Emily I just like. Every Emily I have ever met has honestly been the nicest and sweetest person I have ever known. It has a good track record for me and it just sounds so nice with Fitzsimmons. Lorna, Lorna comes from my own personal headcanon for Fitz’s mum’s name, and so I think that’s where Lorna comes from, as a way of honouring Fitz’s mum.  It is also believed to derive from the name of the Scottish town Lorne, so snuck another bit of Scotland into baby FitzSimmons’s name :) 

Arthur (Archie) James FitzSimmons, born 14th August 1929 - If you all cast your minds back, at the very start of the Lady and the Chauffeur, I named Jemma’s dad, Lord Shieldshire, Arthur Simmons. So this was my way of honouring dear old Donk, but they call him Archie, just so he’s his own wee man. James, again, got a bit lazy, same middle name as Fitz. Also v Scottish name, we are 5/5 for Scottish baby FitzSimmons :)

Eve Margaret Sousa, born December 24th 1929 - Eve, well, she was born on Christmas Eve. I cast around for ages trying to find Christmasy names. She was Robyn for a little while, I considered Noel, but that felt a little too contemporary, so she was Eve! And yes, Margaret is my little wink to Agent Carter. I couldn’t help myself. 

Violet Faith Mackenzie, born 6th April 1930 - I actually had a lot of fun finding this name. I briefly considered calling her Hope, but no, that felt a little too on the nose for me. The name Violet comes from obviously the little purple flower, but the flower itself means hope, which I liked. Out of the three surnames, I feel like Mackenzie is the easiest out of all of them to find names for, (maybe it’s because I’m Scottish and know a fair few people with that Mac/Mc sound at the start of their surname) and I played around with a few possibilities, but honestly I just fell in love with Violet. Faith comes from the fact that faith is very important to both Mack and Elena and I wanted to consider that and honour that in the naming of their little girl. 

 Edward (Teddy) Donald FitzSimmons, born December 1st 1932 - The last (for real this time) little FitzSimmons baby of this verse. Blame Fitz being forever broody and Jemma just loving their babies so much, and also being an easy burst when it comes to Fitz and their babies. This name, boy oh boy, this name was HARD. Girls names for FitzSimmons babies, for some reason, easy as pie for me, I have a list as long as my arm of girls names I love for them. As for boys names, Hamish is the only one that has really stuck long term for me. All of the names I found for this poor wee boy that I liked were just a bit too modern, so I had to go searching again. I saw Edward, realised it could be shortened to Teddy and fell in LOVE. Only in this verse would I really get away with calling a baby Teddy so I took the chance and ran with it, and now little dark haired blue eyed Teddy FitzSimmons runs around rent free in my brain. His middle name, is not really obvious why I chose it at first glance. Again I struggled. I couldn’t really find any more Scottish names that I liked, or at least ones that i could give poor Simmons a fighting chance of pronouncing properly (Lachlan is still on my list and I have NEVER heard anyone not Scottish pronounce that first syllable properly). So Scottish was out, and so I went to my next mainstain of family names. And Deke or Enoch were the only two male names I hadn’t touched. Enoch was going to be impossible to find a link (trust me I tried) but DEKE, comes from a common nickname for Donald. So Donald he was. 

I hope you enjoyed this little (haha) list! I just love putting thought and meaning into names, and this kind of gives you a little glimpse into my naming process. Yes I know I will be a nightmare if I ever have children. That is a whole SEPARATE and ever changing and evolving list. 

[wolfwhiteflowers]

“I’ll never marry this woman.”

“Babe, I’d marry you in a gutter.”

[3dmgshenanigans]

Someone smack me upside the head and tell me to get to work on TLatC. I'm frustrated with this stupid chapter, so of course I'm not working on it. :P

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The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 11 - My Life, My Heart, My Home (Epilogue)

August 1921. It’s been three years since the end of the war, and life is sweeter than ever for Jemma and Fitz. 

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ Words

Chapter 11 - 2088 words

Chapter 11 Link

Here we go. The last chapter. I might be a bit emotional about this, I won’t lie. This story has been with me since the end of July so I have gotten fairly attached and I am so sad that this is the end. I have loved writing this story, more than just about any fanfic I have ever written and to see you all respond to it with such love has just been an absolute joy these past ten weeks. Thank you all so much. Thank you to everyone who ever read a chapter, or who left a comment or kudos, or reblogged one of these posts. Thank you so much. Thank you for loving this thing I made. What is even sadder is my dissertation is due in three weeks, so I unfortunately will not be able to work on any fanfic until at least the new year, so this will be the last you’ll be hearing from me, fanfic wise until then. If any of you, in the meantime have any stories or prompts that you want to see me write, if this fic prompted an idea and you need someone to write it, let me know and I promise I will get to it as soon as I can and as soon as my head isn’t filled with uni work and postgrad applications anymore. All that is left to say is thanks again so much. It really has been an absolute joy writing this fic and it just makes me so happy to see all of you enjoying it too. 

[infinitestarsintheskye]

The Lady and The Chauffeur - Chapter 7, A Daisy in the Garden.

As the war rages on around them, Lady Jemma and Fitz are revelling in the friendship, or something more, that they have found in each other. But could an overheard conversation be the end of their time together? 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/50155949

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ words

Chapter 7 - 3102 words

Back to regularly scheduled programming after the double chapter excitement of last week! We’re in the second half of this fic now so I can promise that things will be ramped up from here on out! Yes they can be even more ramped up than they already have been. This fic was sitting at an eleven out of ten but now I’m about to amp the excitement up to like a fifteen. Hold onto your hats folks cause we are going on a ride this chapter! Enjoy! 😈

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The Lady and The Chauffeur - Chapter 10, In Sickness and in Health

Lady Jemma and Fitz have finally overcome a million obstacles and now they are faced with the hardest one of all, Lady Jemma’s family. Will they let them be together or will these two lovebirds be kept apart at the last gasp? 

Chapter 10 Link

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ Words

Chapter 10 - 4290 Words

It’s the penultimate chapter!!! Only the epilogue left next week and then this fic is finished! I will save all the mushy gushy stuff for then but just know how grateful I am for all of you who have read and reviewed and reblogged and kudos-ed over the last 9 weeks! Also I know that this is late this evening, you would not believe the week I have had, concluding in something fairly scary happening today (I’m fine, everyone is fine, it was just not a bunch of fun) On a more fun note this week sees the very last of the amazing and incredible edits done by the wonderful @agent-bash​ . It is a lil bit spoilery so I will leave it under a cut at the bottom. Thanks again so so so so SO much for reading, and I will see you all next week for the E P I L O U G E 

ahhh!! look at these poor nervous beans! Thanks again @agent-bash​

[infinitestarsintheskye]

The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 1, The Arrival of the Chauffeur.

The Downton Abbey AU no one asked for. 

Lady Jemma Simmons is the youngest daughter of a prominent English Lord, and Leopold Fitz, son of a lower class mill worker, has just arrived at their stately home to begin work as the chauffeur. They share a burning love of science and politics, and as they encourage each other in their passion for learning and making the world a better place, could a different kind of passion be forming too? 

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 30k+ Words

Chapter 1 - 3121 Words 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/48974711

I am so excited to finally be sharing this with you! I have put so much effort into this fic! Look I made a banner and everything!! I haven’t done any kind of edits since I was in high school, and lemme tell you that was not yesterday! I would love to be one of those fancy fanfic writers who does beautiful edits and arts for every chapter, and I really wish I could, I have such a visual imagination and I can picture every scene of this fic just so, but unfortunately I left all of my artistic talent back in my high school art department, so my words will have to do. I love the story of Sybil and Branson in Downton and I thought it would just fit FitzSimmons so perfectly. I really hope you enjoy this fic, I had so much fun writing it. It basically follows the same plotline of Sybil and Branson in the show, I have incorporated some of their scenes and made them fit for purpose, but also I have squeezed in some other scenes from the show as well as adding in some scenes of my own! I am posting this today because THE DOWNTON ABBEY FILM COMES OUT TODAY REJOICE REJOICE! Right now I am probably sitting in a darkened cinema, with a box of tissues the size of my head, praying that Branson and little Sybbie get a happily ever after. I really hope you all enjoy this fic I really have put so much thought and love into it. I’m also really excited but a little sad because it is probably going to be the last fic I am able to write for a while as I’m going into my last year of university and fully expect that to take over my life and leave no room for fun until next May. I’m now gonna stop rambling as I normally do at the start of fics and let you get to the reading! Enjoy! 

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The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 9 - The War is Over, My Darling.

The war is finally at an end, and Busse Abbey is finally empty of its last convalescing soldier, meaning Lady Jemma’s nursing days are at an end. But will an unexpected announcement from Lincoln finally force Lady Jemma to make a final decision about her relationship with Fitz, or will the end of the war bring new and unwelcome change?

Chapter 9!

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ Words

Chapter 9 - 3836 Words

Okay, I will say it, I am absolutely bursting with excitement about this chapter and oh ho ho if you wanted to shout and throw things at me at the end of the last chapter you will positively want to hunt me down after this one. This is a big, meaty and significant chapters so hold onto your hats we are going for a ride, maybe even literally... gonna go and hide in a soundproof bunker until you’ve all read it now. Enjoy!

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The Lady and the Chauffeur, Chapter 6 - The Call to Arms

Fitz has finally received his papers, how will Lady Jemma react? Will this finally make her confront her feelings?

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ Words

Chapter 6 - 1629 words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/49914482

Back to regularly scheduled programming now! I was extraordinarily mean on Wednesday and teased the title of this chapter and I can only offer my apologies. Your wait is over and you can finally see what happens when Fitz gets the call to go to war. All I can say in relation to this chapter is I’m sorry.

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The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 8 - Maybe There Is...

As shocking news from the war front shakes the whole household, will this finally be the push that Lady Jemma needs in order to confront her feelings for Fitz?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/50395358

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ words

Chapter 8 - 2651 words

Well I left you all on quite an unhappy note last week and I can absolutely confirm that by the end of this chapter you will want to shout at me and throw things at my head. As I keep saying, we’re in the second half of the fic now so things are a happening! But what kind of things you will have to read and find out... i know I’m being incredibly evil about this fic, but after this chapter there are only three more chapters left, and that includes an epilogue. I’ll let you all draw your own conclusions from that. This chapter also contains the lil tiny snippet that I let out during an ask box challenge a few weeks ago so you can finally see what that is all about! All I’ll say about this chapter is : Almost. Enjoy! 

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The Lady and The Chauffeur - Chapter 5 - You Wouldn’t Go Back?

Lady Jemma has finished her nursing training and is now back putting her whole heart into her work, but has she had time to think about Fitz’s sudden confession? Will anything ever be the same between them again?

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 32k+ Words

Chapter 5 - 1665 words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/49849193

Surprise! You get two chapters this week because these two are on the shorter side, and I didn’t want you all missing out on all of this goodness. I would have just lumped them together into one chapter but they don’t flow as nicely together, so I just settled on posting two in the same week. The next chapter will come as normal on Friday night! Until then enjoy this nice little bonus chapter! 

Just as another little added bonus I thought I would tease the name of the next chapter, because I'm feeling particularly evil today.

Chapter 6 - The Call to Arms

mwhahahahahahah See you on Friday

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The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 2, The Politics of Falling in Love

Lady Jemma and Fitz have become very good friends over the last few months, but could this all be jeopardised in a moment of political passion? Could Lady Jemma’s recklessness cost Fitz his job?

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 30k+ Words

Chapter 2 - 4872 Words. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/49199987

I am so excited to share this next chapter with you all! It’s a long un and a good un. The first chapter had such an amazingly positive reaction, I was smiling for days reading all of your tags and comments! The most incredibly amazing thing that happened was that @agent-bash reached out to me and offered to do some manips for this fic! Look!! Ahhh! Chauffeur Fitz! 

This is so amazing and I cannot thank @agent-bash enough! The fact that someone would want to do this to go alongside a fic of mine is just mind blowing to me! I’m just so very excited about it all! It’s only been a week and I’m just so overwhelmed already with the positive reaction this fic has received, I genuinely cannot thank all of you enough! THANK YOU YOU ARE ALL THE LOVELIEST PEOPLE. Anyway, I will stop rambling as I usually do and let you get to the reading.  

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The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 3, Home Again.

Lady Jemma is back from her season down in London, but will Fitz be happy to see her? Will the rising political tensions keep these two young sweethearts apart? 

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 30k+ Words

Chapter 3 - 2058 Words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/49414844#workskin

Another Friday, another chapter! This is a shorter chapter than I usually will have them, but boy oh boy does it pack a punch! I just want to say thank you again for all of your lovely comments and for leaving kudos, it really does mean the world, especially since this last week has been an absolute nightmare for a variety of reasons. Logging on and seeing your kudos really does make my day, so thank you. Next week will bring the second of the lovely manips done by @agent-bash so look forward to that! See you all next week! 

[infinitestarsintheskye]

The Lady and the Chauffeur - Chapter 4, War Makes Soldiers of Us All.

It has been two years since the war has started and Lady Jemma is frustrated that her life seems to be going on as normal, untouched by the atrocities happening overseas, and begins to seek out a way to help with the war effort. Meanwhile, the threat of conscription is held over Fitz’s head. Will the impending call to arms make him finally confess the feelings he has been hiding for so long, or will he take his feelings to the front?

Rated T, 11 Chapters, 30k+ Words

Chapter 4 - 2918 Words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20625209/chapters/49669625

It was so hard not to post this chapter early you have no idea! You’ll see why. This is a chapter and a half so put your seatbelts on, we are going for a ride! But seriously you’re all gonna die this chapter is just that much this week. I did promise the second of the manips by the lovely @agent-bash this week, but it is a bit spoilery for the chapter so I will include it under a cut. Thanks again to you all for reading and commenting and kudos-ing, it really is so lovely to see that you all love this fic just as much as I do!

Ahhh look at Nurse!Jemma!!! Thanks again to @agent-bash

[infinitestarsintheskye]

Hi! For fanfiction WIP Guessing Game: Eyes 😉

Okay so just about every occurrence of this word comes with absolutely massive spoilers but I found a sentence that is both not hugely spoilery and also very, very evil from chapter 8 of The Lady and the Chauffeur.

“The black circles around both of his eyes looked almost red in this light, and his entire face was littered with cuts and bruising.”

😈😈😈

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Unfortunately this week’s chapter of The Lady and the Chauffeur is going to be delayed slightly due to a class of mine running long and A03 doing work on the site, so it might be a couple of hours later than normal. I might get it up before the site goes down for a couple of hours, but it fully depends on this class, unfortunately. It is fully worth the wait though, let me fully assure you of that!