A few days later, James had Ellie pressed up against a rock wall on the beach as they made out slowly.
Her hand was resting gently on the side of his neck as his hand was rubbing her side lightly.
He slipped his tongue gently into her mouth and she smiled against his lips in contentment as she kissed him deeper.
"James, I need to tell you something." She breathed when they parted.
"What is it?" He asked, stroking her curly brown hair gently.
"I'm going away for a few weeks to Downton." She revealed.
"Not without my permission, you're not." He growled.
"It's a family thing!" She furrowed her eyebrows slightly.
"Just because your parents worked for The Lord And Lady of Grantham doesn't mean they're close to you all." He hissed.
"It kind of does." She sounded confused.
"Don't," He gripped her hair tightly as he pulled her head back, eliciting a small whimper. "Use that tone of voice with me."
"I'm sorry." She scrunched her eyes closed, holding his wrist as pain continued to course through her head. "Please let go of me."
He released her hair as she'd asked before breathing heavily.
"You know that I had to do that to you, don't you?" He cupped her face and stroked his thumbs across her cheeks as tears fell. "You know that how you spoke to me was wrong?"
"Yes, James." She looked at him with slight fear in her eyes. "I'm sorry."
"Well, why don't you prove it?" He smiled lovingly.
"What?" She swallowed a lump in her throat.
He let his hand go under her dress and rub the inside of her thigh.
"Prove that you love me by making love with me."
"I'm sixteen!" She fretted.
"If you don't take me back to your room and make love with me then I'll tell the village that your mum wanted that valet to ravage her." He threatened.
"How do you know about that?" She shook with nerves.
"It doesn't matter how I know." He sneered. "Now, which do you prefer?"
James pinned Ellie down to her bed as they made out passionately in her bedroom.
Luckily, her parents were out in the village so they wouldn't get caught.
Ellie wasn't doing this to disappoint her parents, she was doing it to respect her mother's dignity.
"Won't- won't it hurt?" She whimpered, pressing her hand against his chest.
"It's not a matter of it hurting." He looked down on her. "It's a matter of how much you love me."
Later that afternoon, Ellie was sobbing softly on her bed from the pain she'd just gone through at the hands of someone who was meant to protect her.
"Thank you for proving it." James smirked, buckling his belt before kissing her again and leaving the private quarters.
A few weeks later, Anna, John and Ellie were at their old cottage in Downton when she sat them down in the sitting room.
"Mum, dad, I'm going to need you to clear some things out of my room." She swallowed her nerves.
"Why?" Anna asked, furrowing her brow slightly.
"Because," She started to cry softly. "Because I'm pregnant."
Anna sat with her mouth gaping slightly and John's face began to go red.
"How could you be so stupid?" He growled softly. "I thought we raised you better than to go around like a harlot."
"John, I don't think there's any need for that!" Anna exclaimed softly. "But Ellie, you need to explain yourself and you'd better have a damn good reason for it!"
"Did James force himself on you?" John asked, trying to calm down.
Ellie shook her head as tears continued to fall down her face.
"We were at the beach," She started softly. "He was kissing me, and then I stopped him so that I could tell him that we were coming to Downton for a few weeks. He told me that I couldn't go without his permission and I chided him for it, which is when he pulled my hair tightly.
When he let go he said that I needed to prove to him that I loved him. He told me to make love with him. I refused at first because I like how I've been raised and I'm really thankful to have you both as my parents. I believe that I should've waited until I was married, but he said that if I didn't do it then he'd tell the village that mum wanted the valet to do that to her."
Anna's mouth went dry.
"Sweetie, I would've preferred people to give me dirty looks than for you to have to go through that at sixteen!" She gasped softly, walking over to the settee and wrapping an arm around her daughter.
"I'm sorry." Ellie sobbed softly. "I know that you both probably hate me right now."
"Of course we don't hate you." John pinched the bridge of his nose. "But we now know that you've been keeping the fact that he's been abusing you away from us."
"I didn't want him to get hurt." Ellie looked down at her lap.
"I know darling, but now you're the one paying the price for it." He pointed out.
He then got up and left the sitting room before going upstairs.
"He'll come round." Anna rubbed her daughter's arm.
"But what if he doesn't?" Ellie sobbed softly. "I can't live with him looking at me like that."
"Let's just get some sleep, Ell." Anna kissed her temple. "When we've rested we'll talk about it in the morning."
Then they both went up to bed after Anna locked the doors and secured the house.
