Its been a long day and trying to figure it out,
The way those words left your mouth,
I feel broken, shattered and blue and its all because of you,
and I'm trying, trying to figure it out,
If this is love,
why does it break me down,
why do you break me down,
If this is love- Ruth B.
It was early morning, two days after Tommy and Ella last spoke and after actively avoiding him; she had gathered enough Intel to confront him about what he was hiding because she knew he was hiding something.
She had left a message with Polly to tell Thomas to come to the church as soon as. The church was an obvious choice no prying eyes around and its where people made confessions just like Tommy was about too. It was also her safe place, any church that is. It was where she went to pray that Tommy was safe over in France, even though she would never tell anyone she did that especially after what he did to her. She hated herself for still caring.
After about 30 minutes of sitting alone the front doors of the church open and without looking behind she knew it was him.
He stood there for a while just happy to be in the same room as her, he had missed that for 4 years. He made his way to the seat behind her as her body language obviously said he couldn't sit next to her.
"I have ten minutes what do you want?" no matter how happy he was to see her, he had made an exception to do so. He was late for something else.
"An explanation, I've always been able to tell when your hiding something, people around here talk. Some of them work at the BSA, I've been talking to the wives of factory hands; detectives have been asking questions in the proofing shop. And more importantly i know that nothing happens in that factory without you knowing about it. Speak. God and Ella are listening" she finished finally facing him, staring at him with knowing eyes and he knew there was no getting out of this one.
He took a breath he couldn't lie to her even if he wanted too. he loved her too much "It was meant to be routine, i had a buyer in London for some motorcycles. I asked my men to steal me 4 bikes with petrol engines, i'm guessing my men were drunk. Inside the factory, they hit up the wrong fucking crate, the boys dropped it to charlie strong's yard as agreed. They must have taken it from the proofing bay instead of the export bay. Inside we found 25 Lewis machine guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, 50 semi automatic rifles, 200 pistols with shells"
"Jesus Tommy" Ella replied shocked
"All bound for Libya" he replied, Now Ella saw the main problem. This was a political transaction between England and Libya meaning the crown was involved. Tommy was fucked.
"Sitting right there in Charlie Strong's yard" he replied
Her mind was racing a mile a minute "Tell me you threw them in the cut" she said in urgency
"We put them in the stables out the rain, the guns hadn't been greased yet" he said
That's when Ella lost it, she couldn't believe his stupidity and began to hit him. Repeatedly.
"so that's why they sent a cop from Belfast" she said, everything was falling into place now
"maybe, maybe not" he said, refusing to look her in the eyes
