"ONCE UPON A TIME
AN ANGEL AND A
DEVIL FELL IN LOVE."
PEAKY BLINDERS
THOMAS SHELBY x OC
PRE-SEASON 1 - ?
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"So when the devil wants to dance
with you, you better say never.
Because the dance with the
devil might last you forever."
✞
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June 19, 1908
THE FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF JUNE FOUND DELILAH ELBOWS DEEP IN SUN WARMED SUDSY WATER washing the laundry as she sang quietly to herself. Now that she was working more days than not, some of the house work had started to pile up. Mary had been hemming and hawing about the clutter but made no move to do anything about, sat in a comfy armchair with a book.
The auburn beauty had had enough of the pointed jabs and decided to devote the better part of her morning to restoring the little house on Watery Lane to rights.
As she scrubbed at a particularly stubborn dirt spot on one of her blouses, singing a song she'd learned in childhood all the while, she didn't notice the figure lurking behind her.
"Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, When you are king, dilly dilly, I'll be your queen, Who told me so, dilly dilly, how can I know, I told myself, dilly dilly, love told me so."
As she finished the verse, Delilah was startled by clapping from behind her, dropping the sodden material in the barrel and nearly sending the whole thing toppling over as she turned to face a grinning Arthur.
"For someone so angelic you're not very graceful, are you love?"
She huffed her annoyance at being caught off guard by the eldest Shelby boy.
"I think that has less to do with me and more to do with you Shelby's and your propensity to sneak up on unsuspecting people," she rolled her eyes as she plucked her garment from the barrel and rung it out, stalking over to the clothes line and pinning it out to dry. Turning to face him again she looked at him expecting some sort of explanation to his intrusion.
Still grinning, he looked back at her, clearly in no hurry to reveal his intentions.
"If you're looking for Orla I think you and I both know that you're in the wrong place," she hedged, hands on hips, wanting to get back to her work.
