Peaky blinders angel- Completed

The Dummy

A/n

OK so i know I was supposed to end this book. But I have a sudden urge to update. So from now on, i will be updating. Just not as often as this book is no longer my main priority

Rose is 5. Finn is 15

Tommy pov

I love Rose. So much! But sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind. She is 5 years old and still has not given up her dummy. The girl just bites me whenever I try and take it off her. But polly has spoken to us all. She is starting school soon and they aren't gonna let her have her dummy. So we've got to get rid of this obsession somehow

"Tommy!" I was walking to the garrison when I heard finn yell for me. I turned around and saw him red in the face from running

"What is it finn?" I asked as I walked closer to him

"Polly needs ya" he told me. With a groan of annoyance, I walked with finn back to pollys House to see what the issue was. And when I walked in, well let's just say the scene spoke for itself. Rose was running around butt naked with her hair soaking wet, crying as polly chased after her. She saw us open the door and tried to make a run for it but I quickly stopped her and lifted her up

"Where is it?" She sobbed. I was more than confused so I looked at polly for help

"Rose, I've told you. You don't need your dummy. Just gave her a bath Tommy and the second she saw her dummy wasn't on the side like usual, she made a run for it" polly explained. I put Rose down and knelt to her height. Tears streamed down her rosy cheeks as she sucked on her thumb

"Why do you need your dummy ay darling? You've not got it right now and your world has ended. Now wipe those tears, get dressed and you can come with me to the garrison" I told her wiping away the tears but it was no use. They just kept pouring

"I....I...I w...want my d....d...dummy" she cried looking around helplessly. She was shivering and I knew that if she didn't put her clothes on soon, she'd catch her death

"Go and get dressed Rose. Come on" I said holding her hand and pulling her upstairs

"Nooo. Not without my dummy" this was starting to get annoying. She let go of my hand and stomped her foot on the ground. That's when the door opened and once again, she tried to run. This time, it was John who stopped her with Arthur by his side

"I have places I need to be. You can watch your sister. Get her dressed before she gets ill and for Christ sake, don't give her that flaming dummy" polly said before grabbing her purse, coat and hat and leaving the house

"What are these tears for ay?" John asked

"She wants her dummy but polly won't let her" finn tells them as Rose continues her tantrum. At this rate, she would cry us a fucking river

"Right that's it. I don't care if you want your dummy, we don't know where it is. OK? So there is no point crying to us because even if we wanted to help you, we can't. Now get your arse up those stairs and get dressed before I drag you up there myself" I said grabbing her from John and placing her on the stairs. She sniffed back her tears and ran upstairs to get dressed

"Don't be too harsh on her Tom. She's just a kid" Arthur told me

"She's 5 Arthur. We can't let her have tantrums whenever she doesn't get her own way" we all went into the kitchen and got ourselves some whiskey. After half an hour of waiting, we realised the house was too quiet

"She's up to something" i said

"Oh she'll be fine. Probably just sulking on her bed" John replied. Then we heard a big crash followed my loud cries. Great. Just what we needed. We all ran upstairs and followed the sound of Rose crying. We found her eventually in pollys room standing next to a wardrobe which has fallen over

"Shit. Are you alright? Are you hurt?" I asked picking Rose up and checking her over

"I thought aunt pol had hid my dummy on the top shelf in her wardrobe. I didn't mean to knock it over" Ah right. So she'd climbed it. I kissed her cheek and handed her to finn who rocked her in his arms, trying to calm her down. Me and Arthur pulled the wardrobe back up so polly couldn't tell what had happened. We were quite used to keeping things from pol. We were kids once aswell. Once everything looked how it did before, we left the room and went downstairs to sit on the sofa

"Rose, how about we go get you some sweets? But only if you stop crying" finn said as she sat sobbing on his knee

"I don't want sweets. I want my dummy" she cried. Rose was sucking her thumb as a replacement so finn had to keep pulling it from her mouth

"Come on now love. Don't be sucking your thumb. You're a big girl aren't you ay? Gonna be going school soon. You don't want to be the only kid sucking your thumb" Arthur tried to convince her but it didn't seem to work

"I wouldn't have to suck my thumb if I had a dummy" she said with puppy eyes looking at him

"For the last time. We don't know where it is Rose. I'm sorry darling. But I'm telling the truth I promise" rose looked down at her hands before crying again

"I want esme" she said. John agreed to go and find his wife because we were beginning to get desperate. They came back about 10 minutes later and esme had roses dummy with her

"No esme. We're trying to stop her from wanting a dummy" I told her but she didn't listen to me. And instead gave the dummy to rose. That made me very angry but I wasn't gonna show it infront of Rose. To my surprise, she spat the dummy out and pulled a look of disgust

"What was that?" She asked

"Oh god! Has it happened already?" Esme asked

"Has what happened already?" Rose asked

"Well there's a time in everyone's life when you're suddenly too old and mature to like a dummy. And they begin to taste really gross and bitter" esme explained to her. I wasn't sure what was happening so we just sat and watched

"But why?" Rose asked

"Well that's how the aging fairy tells you that you are now a big girl. And it means you can do big girl things like go to school and stay up for an extra 30 minutes before bed" esme knew we were thinking about changing roses bed time from half 8 to 9. This was clever

"I'm a big girl? Well I don't want that dummy anymore. It's for babies" rose said

"I'm glad you agree. So why don't we throw your dummy away and you and finn run down to the shops and get some sweets" she smiled and nodded as did finn. He may be 15 but still never says no to a bag of sweets

"John give them some money" esme said making me and Arthur chuckle

"What? It's your idea" he said

"What's yours is ours and what's mine is mine. Now just give them enough money for 2 bags of sweets" she told him. With a roll of the eyes, John handed them some money. They left for the sweetshop

"What? How? Huh?" Arthur stuttered

"I soaked her dummy in wine. Don't worry. Not enough to cause any affect other than it tasting disgusting for little girls" we were so grateful and thanked her alot before her and John left.

When polly came home later that evening, she was surprised to see rose in a very happy mood run up to her and give her a big hug

"The aging fairy came. And she told me I don't need a dummy anymore" rose said with the biggest smile

"Well isn't that amazing" polly said still in shock. Rose ran off to play with her dolls and we explained everything to polly. Think it's safe to say that esme really is a wonderful mother