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Lucille didn't know anything about Tommy and his plan of killing Oswald Moseley. Not until two tall, muscly and broadly built men barged through the door of her home and began beating her senseless.
Usually she could defend herself; she proved that to Thomas that night that he had faked attacking her to check that she could.
However, as she lay on the floor curled in a ball with her hands and arms held over her head as a failed barrier of protection, she thought back to that memory and cried.
She couldn't defend herself against these people. She couldn't defend herself against Tommy's people.
She couldn't defend herself or her unborn child.
The longer she lay there fighting the tiredness she felt and forcing her eyes to stay open, the longer and harder that these two men hit and punched and kicked her.
It was Finn and Isaiah who had walked in on the horrific scene when they had gone round to check up on her and drop off some goods that Polly had bought for her and the baby.
When he saw all the extra goods, something in his brain clicked and he knew exactly why Polly wanted them sent to her.
"She's pregnant?"
"Of course she is. Do you think she would cry in front of you otherwise, boy? Now on your way; both of you."
Finn pulled his gun out and shot both of the intruders dead. Almost immediately he recognised them to be two of Oswald Moseley's closest men and he knew that Tommy had done something bad.
'What have you done now, Tom?' He thought to himself.
Isaiah was quick with his thinking and called for an ambulance which arrived quicker than he had expected.
Paramedics loaded an unconscious and bloodied Lucille into the back of the ambulance and sped off down the musky streets of Small Heath to the hospital.
Finn and Isaiah sped through the streets to Polly's house where they rushed her outside and into the car to follow behind the ambulance.
"What the fuck is going on?" Polly had yelled to both boys as she sat in the back seats of the car. She had to hold tightly onto the seats in front of her to keep herself from falling all over the place as they sped round corners and down narrow streets. "One of you better tell me what is happening or so help me God!"
"Moseley's men got to Lucille." Finn rushed out his answer and all air from Polly's body left as she gasped.
"She's in a bad way, Mrs Gray. She was unconscious and bleeding everywhere. We don't know how long they were there for before we got there." Isaiah tried to explain but the lump in his throat was growing larger by the second. "Is she gonna be alright?"
"I don't know. Just drive faster."
Upon arrival at the hospital, Lucille was whisked away and given the same treatment a royal would have just because of her association with The Shelby's.
Finn, Isaiah and Polly all sat in the small waiting area in the most uncomfortable chairs they had ever sat on in their lives. It was funny and completely ironic how they watched life go on round about them whilst someone else's could be ending.
Hours passed by before a doctor appeared in the waiting room and asked for Polly Gray. She jumped to her feet as quick as she could and stalked over to the woman who had called for her with hopeful eyes.
"Lucille is asking for you."
"How is she before I go in there? I want to be prepared."
"Lucille is fine. She has a broken wrist, a few cuts and bruises but nothing that she can't handle." The doctor was smiling but it was an uneasy smile; sympathetic even. "The worst news is that she lost the baby. I think that is what's hurting her the most."
"Fuck."
Upon hearing the news, Polly ran down the hospital hallway, looking through every window until she saw Lucille and barged straight into the room and to her side.
"Pol," Lucille tried to speak but her voice had cracked just like her heart had done only hours before and she began to sob. "I couldn't do anything. I couldn't save us."
Polly's heart broke at the sight of her and all she could do was pull the small Scot into a tight embrace and let her cry into her shoulder.
The the anger hit and all she wanted to do was ruin Thomas Shelby for ruining this girls life.
