I've Got Your Six - Mob!TomxReader

Chapter 14 - She Will Be Loved.

A/N: Hi! Sorry this upload was a hella late, it was another case of not having the drive to write and I didn't want to write purely for the sake of it and it end up being awful. So here we go! Another short time jump, but not that far as the book started at the beginning of autumn already. Also for a side note: I'm totally winging this chapter and have absolutely no plans for it, it's kinda a filler but it's also not? Depends if this entire vague idea I have needs to be split into a few parts or not, cos if so this will be a 'filler' (But it'll still be really sweet so please don't skip it! There's a lot of fluff!) and the next chapter won't be lmao. This chapter at the very least will get out tonight, I'm gonna start writing the next one straight after and that could be out tonight or some time this next week. (As it's Saturday rn.) I don't want to ruin it with bad writing! Anyways, enjoy!

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Y/N's hands were starting to cramp around the clutch of her finds, and Tom looked upon her - chuckling at the pure state of happiness she was speeding around the shop in. Halloween was upon them, and Tom quickly learnt that Halloween was infact her favourite time of year, even over Christmas - and even her own birthday. It didn't necessarily surprise Tom, Y/N seemed to not care much for things that incited togetherness as a family, but he thought best not to question it just yet - he knew it ran deeper than it appeared, though he was yearning to change that; with Christmas being his favourite.

Snapping him out of his thoughts, she appeared in front of him, dumping the decorations from her arms full state into the trolley he was leaning on, giving him a broad smile. Anyone could tell that this brought out her inner child, and Tom loved that, he loved that something so minuscule as some decorations (even though there were MANY decorations) could make her so incredibly happy, he hadn't seen her smile like this at something other than him in a while now.

"So, tell me again what exactly you plan on doing with these ones? They look more Christmassy than Halloween to me, darling." Tom questioned, pointing a slender finger at the glass baubles and bat fairy lights that lay at the front of the cart.

"Halloween tree!" Y/N squeaked, eyes wide with excitement, and Tom raised an eyebrow in confusion. "A Halloween tree? That's a thing?" Y/N beamed at him once more. "I've always done it, well, ever since my mum noticed how much I loved Halloween and didn't care much for Christmas, so we'd decorate a tree coming up to Halloween instead cos we both hate how tacky Christmas decorations are anyway, and that bloody tinsel gets everywhere, no tree in my house at Christmas. It'll be fun!" She promised, eyes trained on Tom's very wary and confused expression. 

"You're a strange one, you know that?" He chuckled, bringing an arm around her shoulders and placing a soft kiss to the crown of her head. She smelt like sweets today, but the sour kind, almost like Tangfastics, and Tom wondered if she'd used the new shower stuff he'd bought her, was this what it smelt like?

"I'm your strange one though - so jokes on you Mr. Holland, cos you're stuck with me." Y/N twisted to come chest to chest with him, wrapping her arms around his waist and smiling up at him. Tom wasn't a very tall man, but Y/N was rather short, meaning she had to crane her neck so far that it almost touched her back. 

"My strange, beautiful woman." He croaked as his eyes turned glassy, and she reached up to hold his face. Y/N meant the world to him, and she knew it. They'd made it through unthinkable things so soon already, and both felt that now nothing could be thrown at them and break them apart. Especially not after Tom had strode in, guns blazing to save her after she'd made the ridiculous mistake of sneaking out.

"Stop it you big sap, c'mon, let's finish up and get back. I hope Harrison and the twins are home cos we're gonna need some help." Wiggling her eyebrows as she snaked past him to grab the cart and speeding off down the aisle towards the checkouts, leaving Tom to plod behind her, hands in his pockets and a grand smile spreading across his face.