Gabriela's tale

thirty one

little by little my life felt like it was getting back to normal.

I still missed john everyday, thought about him everyday, but I know he's resting.

I told the kids about the baby and surprisingly they were excited, which made me really happy.

It's been three weeks since I found out I was pregnant and I'm starting to show. Polly was right about that.

And besides me being pregnant, other major things have gone on.

Tommy had a shoot out in Artillery Square, with Luca and some of his men, tommy was alone and killed three.

I was glad he was okay, he could have died out there, alone.

We had a meeting at the Shelby house, with Arthur, Finn, Polly, Johnny-dogs, Linda, Charlie, and Lizzie.

"Soo... What the fuck happened today, Tom? We all heard. Shooting in the Artillery Square." Arthur said.

"Yeah, there was. Today I killed three men. Now our enemies will have to wait."

"I suppose they, uh... I suppose they took you by surprised, did they?" Arthur said, as he opened up a small bottle of coke and putting some onto the table.

"No. I knew they were coming."

"Just after Christmas I received a letter from Luca Changretta, offering to spare my son if I gave up tommy. and I gave tommy up." Polly said.

"Because that was the plan that Polly and I agreed on. I knew that Luca would want to pull the trigger himself..." tommy was saying, while Arthur snorted up the coke off the table aggressively.

"So I used the set up as bait to bring him in."

"You are a fucking idiot, Tom." Arthur said, he was clearly annoyed at tom.

"Look, I didn't  get Luca, but I got three. All right. That's it. That's what happened."

"Come here, you." tommy said, picking Charles up.

"Happen he's right, huh? I mean I thought you'd gone soft." Johnny said, with a chuckle.

"So, you got three?" he asked.

"Yeah, I got three."

"Well, I drink to you, tom, you mad bastard." Charlie said, putting up his glass of whiskey, along with Johnny.

Arthur went up to tommy and said something to him, I couldn't quiet hear, until he said "Let's go get a drink."

All the men left to the Garrison and Linda went home. Polly, Lizzie, and I decided to stay and talk.

"Well, ladies. I have some news..." Lizzie said.

"But you can't say anything, Not yet at least."

We all sat there, waiting for her to go on.

"I'm up the swan." she said.

"Oh shit. Congratulations." I said to her with a smile, my eyes wide. I wasn't expecting her to say that.

"Now there's two of us." I said, with a chuckle.

"Who's the father?" Polly asked.

"Tommy..." she said.

To be honest, this didn't surprised me. What surprised me is that it didn't happen sooner, but none the less, I was happy for her.

"Congratulations Lizzie, babies bring happiness." I said, giving her a hug.

She thanked me and we talked for a while longer before we said our goodbyes.

Polly was leaving tomorrow for a few days. She's taking Michael out of the hospital and he's going to stay with Aberama's men, so they can protect him, because right now he's at the top of Luca's list, along with tommy.