John stepped out of the truck with his fellow blinder boys, Tommy and Arthur greeting him.
"John, ready?" Tommy asked him, he was playing a game with John, he just wanted to observe his reaction.
"Yeah, I'm fine" John nodded, Arthur handing him a small flask of alcohol.
"Have a drink." Arthur told him, John complied and tipped back his head, taking gulps before handing it back, the men around him staring at him.
"What? What are you all staring at me for?" John asked them in annoyance, his accent thick.
The men turned, walking towards the camp with their weapons out, they were met with Lee's with guns in their hands surrounding the perimeter.
"Tommy what the bloody hell are you playing at?" John asked, "we're in shotgun range."
The men stopped, turning to face the younger brother, pulling out white roses mockingly.
"Before you go into battle, there's something you'll need" Tommy told him, placing the white rose on his suit jacket.
The men grinned around him, this was all a big joke to them but John had no idea what Tommy had originally planned - or why he had a white rose upon his suit.
"What are you bloody doing Tommy?" John asked him, chewing on his toothpick.
"Smile, John. It's a wedding." Tommy grinned at him.
John looked around at the men, all grinning at him.
"You've gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me. No Tommy. Fuckin' no. I'm marrying fuckin' nobody" In anger, John went to escape but was met by a wall of men.
He fought against his brothers as he found he was to marry a Lee girl, but his thrashing was stopped by Tommys hand on his shoulder and the ghost of a smile on his face.
"You was going to marry a Lee girl. You was. You have Anna to thank for the changing of my mind. When Finn turns 18, he will marry a Lee girl of his choosing himself, and I offered employment to the Lee's wives, sister's and cousins, a share in profits. It wasn't easy to back out of your marriage, but you can credit Anna for persuading me"
After his, what he found rather embarrassing, irrational lashing out on his brothers, he straightened himself up and placed a toothpick in his mouth.
"S'pose that's alright then" John sniffed, his brothers glancing at one another with a knowing smirk.
Anna heard a click of the door as she put away the books and bags of money at the end of the day, John soon walked in, his stare aimed at her.
"You stopped Tommy from marrying me to a gypsy girl"
The tension had been thick between the pair since Anna had started to work with him in the betting shop.
"Appears that I did" Anna replied, turning to him with her arms crossed, leaning against a table.
Her lips being his prey, John took confident strides towards her, her heart racing, and connected their lips. They molded together, lips moving painfully but passionately slow for Anna, they were like two jigsaw pieces as he pressed her further against the table.
He slowly stopped his pursue, their foreheads touched, lips barely brushing as Anna tried to catch her breath discreetly.
"I've never cared for someone so much since Martha died, I've never cared for someone like I care for you" John breathed against her lips.
"And I've never cared for somebody" Anna spoke against his, she'd never felt this type of love for somebody, for it confused her how simply talking to somebody every day, and sharing a few kisses on occasion, has the means to develop feelings. But she knew she wants to become Johns family - a man whose completely wrong for her in so many ways but a man who she needed to show her the other side of life, the side she had been sheltered from, the other side she craved to experience. And perhaps that was her rebelling against her parents beliefs and wishes.
"The kids want to see you" John lied to her.
He lurred her into his home, and when she asked why the kids weren't in their room, he connected their lips once more, pulling her gently to his bed.
"John, the kids?" Anna breathed, glancing toward the door.
"Fuck it" John replied.
They attached their lips once more, heat engulfed them both, Anna couldnt recall ever feeling so warm in a mans embrace in her entire life. This intimacy, the closeness of their bodies, it felt completely right.
Items of clothing were discarded slowly, John gently kissing every exposed area of her skin. They moved together, as one, so gently and delicately and savouring every second, as if it would be taken from them. Anna felt happiness and pleasure in ways she had never felt before.
They laid next to eachother, Anna looking at John with a soft smile, John placing gentle kisses upon her skin as she her stomach fluttered with the emotions he had made her feel. He couldn't contain how happy he was with Anna beside him.
There final moments beside eachother were interrupted when Arthur barged into Johns room, surprised at the sight before him as Anna hastily covered herself and hid behind John.
"John, Ada's gone into fuckin' labour"
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Anna [J.Shelby]
Fanfiction"Realising how fucking beautiful you are suddenly sobered me up" Anna Smith, the girl who was brought up in a tiny village, sheltered naively from all the horrors she has yet to witness, turns up in Small Heath, Birmingham 1919 with only one wish; a...