°•°FIREFLY°•° (Thomas Shelby x Male Reader)

part 14- New Life

(since a version of Romani is a language used I am using Google, of course the translation to English won't be completely the same)
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It was the after party of John's and his new wife's wedding, who I found was named Esme I talked to her for a bit and she seemed like a nice girl, everyone was drinking, singing, and dancing.

The atmosphere was warm.

I sat next to Tommy at a table with the woman from the caravan, his hand was holding mine my thumb rubbing his knuckles the action was hidden by the table, I noticed he seemed to relax from my touch which caused me to feel a bit warm and I smiled a bit more.

I see my sister Lorraine dancing and laughing as if there's no tomorrow with Ada, as I sat there with Tommy I had the urge to lean onto his side and rest my head on his shoulder but I had to refrain with there being people despite most of them being in some form drunk there's some either completely or just sober enough to take notice and possibly cause a scene if they didn't like what they saw and I didn't want to ruin John's wedding just because I wanted to be affectionate with his brother...

I see Polly walking to us and I got worried, I started to remove my hand but Tommy held tighter "Polly knows" he whispered, I nodded as I calmed down.

"You should tell Ada to slow down" she told him as I saw her look at Ada, she was yelling and dancing even Lorry was trying to slow her down, clearly she wasn't going to though, "huh she'll listen to me?","tried stopping her but she's been drinking"
"She's been stuck in that basement for weeks, what do you expect.." I said empathetically, I understood that but at the time I wasn't allowed to drink yet and if I was I'd probably die of it "she's going off like a firecracker-","WOOOH","Oh Christ either of you please"
Tommy nodded, he gave my hand a quick squeeze before letting go to go stop Ada

"Ada! Come on have a rest, sit down" Tommy told her calmly "come and look Esme! Come and look at the family you've joined, come and look at the man who runs it!" I could hear Ada say her voice sounded like it was fluctuating a bit from her drinking "chooses his brother's wives for them!" She kept lightly hitting Tommy becoming more aggressive as Tommy tried to calm her "who hunts his own sister down like a rat!"

Clearly it wasn't working.

"Who tries to kill his own brother in law!" At this point Lorry was trying to hold her still and I was walking up to them "Ada please calm down" Lorry told her firmly but I could see the worry on her "now he won't let me have fucking dance! Not even at a fucking wedding!" She was breathing heavily from being worked up, I hadn't noticed until then that Polly came over to help Lorry try to set Ada down but before that process could begin Polly looked down "Holy shit" I looked down and noticed water.

She was going into labour.

"Not now Ada, bloody hell you sure choose your time" I could hear Arthur in the crown loud and clear "come on let's get you to the car" Lorry said as she and Polly helped Ada get to cars they came in and I rode with Tommy.
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"Your sisters in there giving birth and you're talking about the bloody car" Polly said as Esme went into the home to help Ada and Lorry "not much us men could do now Poll" said Tommy, "except get drunk" Arthur continued I nodded and began walking with them but stopped as Polly said "there is one man that should be here"

"Your right Poll, Freddy should be here" I could hear a bit of empathy in it but the sentence itself confused me, Tommy didn't like Freddy being with Ada, "is that a heart beat I hear inside that chest" I could hear Polly's surprise.
"The truce lasts till sunrise on my oath, tell Freddy it's safe" I see Polly smile at this and I can feel myself do the same as we left for the Garrison, I guess the warmth of the atmosphere is cracking him back to the old Tommy which I accepted with open arms.
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"To beautiful women" Arthur toasted before me and the two brothers all shot back our glasses "I should go, I should be there" I heard John say a bit mumbled so I almost didn't understand him "nope, from what I know you don't want to be among women when a birth is happening" I chuckled, I was there for my Aunt Diana when she was giving birth to my cousin Phoebe it wasn't pretty from what I was told by my uncle Richard but I could still faintly remember the screaming from the otherside of the door, "so do you think her husband will take the same advice and stay away?" Grace asked, "nah, Freddy'll be there, Nothing'll keep him away" John said still mumbling but clearer, "Tommy said it's alright for him to be there, Ain't that right Tommy?" He said his brother's name a little louder as Tommy came in "that's right, It's alright tonight" after Grace left Arthur took another drink laughing a bit as he spoke "I think it's that lovely bar maid that just walked out, that's made our brother go all soft" I rolled my eyes a bit as I smirked "maybe or because Ian's been back and has been picking at that cold heart of his" John said while giving me a knowing look and I chuckle "or both!","drinks to it either way" I glance at Tommy and I could feel my heart skip when I see the smile he had, I could admire it for hours, I would never tire of it and still feel the love of see it.