In which a girl attempts to outrun her past only to catch the attention of the ruthless leader of the Peaky Blinders.
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In which the arrival of the new brown-haired barmaid at the Garrison should have been the canary in the coal mine for the trou...
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Elena
"Finn don't you look dashing today," Elena said with a smile as she entered the Garrison. The place was packed for it only being mid-day. Tommy, John, and Arthur were currently holding meetings with potential candidates to be filler arrests for the police quota so they avoided actual members of the Peaky Blinders. Finn was managing the intake process and actually looked presentable with his three-piece suit.
"Fuck off," the boy said with an eye roll as Elena came to sit at the table closest to him.
"That's no way for an assistant to talk to his boss, If you don't like this punishment I can always have Tommy decide on another instead" she responded a smirk coming to her face. As punishment for giving Arthur Tokyo, Finn was to serve as Elena's assistant for two weeks. That meant he actually had to listen to her and dress according to her rules for two whole glorious weeks. Tommy had made it clear to Finn that he had to act as a decent assistant or he would have all Shelby privileges stripped for months.
"Sorry," Finn muttered under his breath which only made her smirk grow larger. It was going to be an amazing two weeks.
"Now how are the interviews going? Any that got a yes?" she asked as she looked over to the crowd. At least two men were stupid enough to send her a wink or a suggestive look which only made her scoff, she would make sure those few got rejected for complete lack of common sense.
"Nope, but we are only on number three" Finn responded as he took out a cigarette. She had given up a year ago on trying to get him not to smoke, she had to pick her battles with Finn.
Elena nodded in response as a large man busted out of the private meeting room and stormed to the front door. Guess that was the third no. Through the open door, she made eye contact with Arthur who gave her a wink. This caused Tommy to turn his head and also meet her eyes. Elena watched as his eyes lightened as he took her in. He nodded his head at her indicating he wanted her to enter the private room.
"Well look at you all, guess all the Shelby boys can clean up nice," she said in greeting as she walked into the room and took in their suits.
"Oh stop it El, you'll make me blush," Arthur said with a genuine smile.
"How's Finn behaving?" Tommy asked as he grabbed her hand pulling her close.
"Like a good little assistant," she said tracing small circles on his hand.
"That's our Finn" John added with a smirk as Finn glared into the room clearly unhappy at Elena's comment.
"Finn, call the next one up," Tommy said to the youngest boy, finally taking his eyes off Elena.
"NEXT!" Finn yelled into the main room. That was one way to get things moving.
"What would it take for you to bring us a bottle?" Tommy asked a playful pleading look in his eyes. Elena looked at the empty glasses to see they already were down one round. Honestly, it was on them to think they would only consume one drink and not have the foresight to just bring the bottle the begin with, The Shelby brothers drank whisky like it was water.
