Thomas Shelby Imagines

Little Cut

Tommy sighed as he trudged into the apartment. Polly was stoking the fire and Ada was rounding up John's boys. A sharp complaint from Polly about having to send Arthur and John to find Isaiah and Finn told him why they were so late for her weekly dinners.

"(Y/N) not back from work?" Tommy asked Ada who shrugged.

"She said she would be on time. Maybe she stopped by the stables to see you or Curly." She offered up as she started setting the table.

Everyone filtered in and soon the table was surrounded as Polly started dishing out food. She spotted you quietly slip in and glanced at you for a moment. "Ada would you help?" She asked, ushering Ada towards you. With a nod she led you away without anyone else noticing.

"Nasty cut." She muttered as she took you to your bedroom with a little bowl of water. "Sorry this is cold."

"It's fine. It's that awful foreman at the factory. Always yelling and throwing things around. He just caught me is all." You mumbled as she cleaned the cut. It wasn't big, a relatively small cut but it looked worse than it was.

"Hopefully no one will notice." You said to her and she laughed.

"Tommy will notice and throw a fit. All you have to do is leave it to Pol. She saw and she'll convince him to let her handle it. Boy will she handle it." Ada said with a smile as you both walked back to the table. You sat beside her and smiled when everyone greeted you.

The family meal went without disaster and Polly seemed to work magic distracting the men from the cut on your cheek. She had warned you about the Foreman's temper when you worked there, you weren't the first woman to get the brunt of his wrath and the Shelby men were looking for any excuse to call him out.

"You get in a fight?" Finn asked curiously and Polly hissed as she swatted him with her teatowel.

"It's nothing Finn." Ada said quickly before looking over at John. "Go on John what were you saying?"

"Hang on. You've been at work today?" Tommy asked and you nodded as walked round the table and gently took hold of your chin. He frowned as he saw the neatly tended to cut. More of a scratch than a cut but that didn't matter. Tommy did tend to overreact when it came to you hurting yourself. "The blood foreman isn't it. Come on John, Arthur."

"Where do you think you're going, in the middle of our meal!" Polly hiss, grabbing Finn's shoulder to push him back down into his seat.

"We'll be back shortly, don't you worry." Tommy promised as Arthur ruffled your hair and followed the other two.

"We should go and keep an eye on them." Ada said to Polly who sighed and nodded.

"You two make sure they're back for desert and, if the coppers show up." She warned, you and Ada shared a look.

"We'll try and coax them back, don't worry Polly." You promised and she nodded.

"Well I'm going to work on getting rid of the Foreman, there's a lady that works there that could do the job better." She said as she told Finn to watch the children, seeing you off as you and Ada ran towards the bar where the boys had started a brawl. Polly marched the other way to have some stern words with the woman that had hurried out at the sound of the commotion.