Small Heath, Birmingham. It's a rough place so one has to fight to survive or link to the right people.
The Peaky Blinders. They're like royalty. Depending on who you're talking to, if you say the Shelby name they'll either bow or curse at you.
He...
Isla lays Billy, Arthur's son, on her bed while he sleeps when the front door bursts open.
"Isla!" Isiah, her brother calls out. Isla quickly tightens up her silk robe and rushes down the steps.
"Shh! I just put Billy down. What the fuck?" Abarama and Isiah are holding up Finn, who's bleeding from his arm.
"He got shot." Isiah says.
"Yeah. No shit. Sit him on the couch and don't get blood on it."
"You have a blade?" Isla nods. She goes into the kitchen, grabs a blade and runs it through the fire and blows it and hands it to Abarama. "Get me some booze." Isiah runs into another room and comes back with a bottle.
"Just fucking get this thing out of me and sew me up. Hurry up." Finn pleads. Isiah hands Finn the bottle and he takes a swig. Abarama takes the bottle.
"That's enough. Don't want you throwing up on their furniture." Isiah holds him down.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Isiah asks.
"I've done this a dozen times. I took a bullet from between two ribs, it was one inch from the heart. Mind you it was a horse. And the horse did die."
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"Oh great." Isla sighs. Abarama slices Finn's arm and Isla quickly turns her head.
"Here you go." He holds it up. "It was a little one."
"I got it from here." Isla says. "Thanks." Abarama leaves. "Isiah go clean yourself up." Isla goes back to the kitchen to get a knife and runs it thought fire again. "Brace yourself." She presses it on his wound to close it and Finn groans. "How did this happen?"
"They broke a statue of a thin woman." Isla sighs.
"A statue. I thought Tommy told you to stay away from the sporting stuff."
"What for?" He asks. "To maintain our fucking reputation?"
"Yes. Exactly. The Shelby's are established business men and women. And that includes you too. I know you like it. To be out there in the middle of it. It's fun. It's a rush."
"Is that why you came back?" She shrugs.
"A little." She turns his face to look at her. "You've got nothing to prove Finn. Nothing at all." He sighs. "Rest now Finn. You're gonna need the energy when Tommy bites your head off over this." She stands his kisses his head. "Sleep Finn." He lays down on his other side and closes his eyes.
~
Isla walks into the Garrison to see the entire Shelby family minus Finn of course.
"Family meeting Isla." Lizzie says.
"Good. This concerns your family." Isla puts the bullet on the table.
"What's this?"
"This, Ada, is a bullet that Abarama Gold just dug out of your brother's arm on my couch." Tommy sighs and puts his head down.
