Arthur was sat in the garrison with his brothers drinking to peace. His brothers were at peace with ada, the shelbys were all back together as a family. Ada had been drinking with them but she had to get back for karl.
"So Arthur, when can we be expecting kids from you ay?" John asked smirking at his brother as Arthur laughed at the prospect
"Don't even joke about it. Nah, kids aren't for me and y/n. We're happy with just ourselves, the family life isn't for us. Early starts, poo and sick, tantrums and relationships. Don't know why anyone would put themselves through it" he laughed
"Won't lie Arthur, I still havnt figured out why" John replies making Tommy chuckle at his brothers
"Where is y/n anyway? Havnt seen her for a couple days now" Tommy asked
"I told you, she's been staying with her sister"
"Trouble in paradise?" John asked
"Nothing like that. Y/ns sister, ivy, she's sick so y/n is looking after the kids whilst ivy's husband is at work. They live in Scotland so it's easier if y/n just stays up there"
"Careful, she might come back wanting one" John laughed
"Highly fucking doubt it. Called me last night saying she feels like throwing them out the window just for some peace and quiet"
"Fucking hell, Arthur, do us a favour, never let that woman have children" Tommy says deadly serious whilst they carry on drinking. Later on, polly comes running in to the garrison
"Pol, what is it?" John asks seeing pollys frantic face
"Arthur, you have to come quickly, it's y/n" polly says before leaving. They all follow quickly pestering her for answers the entire way back to pollys. When they get there, they hear the sound of crying. But...its a boys voice
"Oliver please, honey i-" a little boy no older than 4 runs past them in tears and out the front door. They go into the living room and see y/n with a baby on her hip and a toddler crying by her side whilst an older girl of about 7 screams
"What the fucks gone on here?" John asks when he sees another kid zoom past knocking something over with another child chasing after him
"You alright baby?" Arthur asks kissing his wife of 10 years
"We really need to talk" y/n hands the baby to polly and she and Arthur leave the house and go into the backyard
"What's going on?" He asks seeing her hands shake as she gets a cigarette
"Ivy, she died last night and we found her this morning. Her husband has ran off and no one knows where the fuck he is" Arthur wraps his arms around his wife as she sobs into his jacket
"I'm so sorry" she cries
"Ssshh....let it out....I'm gonna help you get through this baby"
"Arthur, I know this is alot, and it's just for a little while until Henry (kids father) sees sense. But they have no where to go, we have to look after the kids. If we don't, then they'll all be split up and some of them with random families, some in orphanages. I can't let that happen. Not after me and ivy know what happens in those orphanages. She'd be turning in her grave if she found out I gave up on them" she wipes her tears and looks at Arthur hopeful
Y/n was sent to an orphanage age 9. Lived there until she met Arthur when she was 16 and moved out to live with him. They fostered ivy aswell for a short while until she was 16 and able to live alone.
"Of course sweetheart, they are family. Erm...how many kids?" Arthur asks
"9" they both gulp and sigh
"We can't look after 9 kids" y/n cries
"We can try" Arthur hugs her before they go back inside. It takes them half an hour to fill up the 3 cars and drive to Arthur's house. John Tommy and Arthur each driving a car
They all go inside the house and y/n tells the kids to sit down. 7 of them do but the twin boys run around like headless chickens making John chuckle
"I know this is a big change, its new to all of us, but you will live here just for a little while until we can sort everything out. But you are safe here and we all love you very much" y/n explains. The kids are quiet because they are all tired
"Come on, let's get you to bed, we have a couple of guest bedrooms for you guys to share" Tommy and John pick up 2 sleeping toddlers whilst Arthur picks up the baby. Everyone walks upstairs and y/n has to catch the giggling boys to drag them upstairs. They all get into bed and tommy and John leave. Arthur and y/n go downstairs for a drink
"So, 9 kids, what are their names?" Arthur asks
Peggy- 7
Max- 6
Charlie- 6
Sophia- 5
Chloe- 4
Olly- 3
Scarlett- 2
George- 1
Amber- 2 months
"This is alot to take in. How are we gonna deal with 9 kids?" Arthur sighs but y/n wraps her arms around him and kisses his temple to calm him down
"We aren't that bad" they hear a voice making them jump. Peggy is stood by the door
"Peggy, are you alright dear?" Y/n asks
"I don't know"
"Come here" y/n opens her arms and Peggy runs into them allowing the tears to fall as her little body shakes. Y/n lifts her onto her knee
"Papas not coming for us is he" she cries
"I don't know love, I really hope so but I just don't know" Peggy cries even more but hugs y/n tighter
"But, you get to stay here until he does come. And I promise, we aren't as boring as we look. We are actually quite fun and really cool" Arthur says tickling the girl as she laughs
"And you'll look after us?"
"Ye, we'll look after you darling" he says linking his pinky with hers. She sits on his knee and starts talking about her siblings
"They aren't normally this misbehaved. I promise. The little ones are scared because they don't really know either of you, and they miss mama. And the others are trying to preoccupy themselves. If they don't have all the loud noise, then they just have silence, and that gives their mind a chance to think about mama which makes them sad. You just need to show that they can still be happy when it's quiet" soon enough, Peggy falls asleep. Arthur carries her upstairs and y/n follows because Arthur was worried he'd drop her
They open the door and see all the children in one big bed together other than George and Amber who are asleep in Karl's old cot. Arthur lays her down and in the process, wakes up the kids
"Ssshh, its alright, go back to sleep" but they don't and instead, scarlett starts crying for her mama. Y/n picks her up and sits her down on her knee
"I don't wanna sleep" olly says with his lip wobbling as he sucks his thumb
"Why don't I tell you a story?" Arthur suggests and all the kids look ready. They all snuggle up to y/n who is sat on the bed except for Peggy and olly who go to Arthur. He begins to tell a story about knights and Princesses, battles and glory, wicked witches and heroes. He makes shadows on the ceiling and y/n watches with tears in her eyes in awe of Arthur's fatherly side which she had never seen before. When Arthur was finished, he looked down to see Peggy and olly asleep across his lap. Y/n asleep with the children around her. He smiled at his new found family, maybe it would all be OK. He lay back and fell asleep too, it was the most peaceful sleep he'd ever had
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FanfictionOne shots of y/n. She will be the partner to which ever character for that chapter. Feel free to request. If you want sibling one shots, then check out my book, peaky blinders angel Warnings: Smut (will put 🖤 in title) Suicide (will put 😔 in tit...
