Stories don't always begin with stolen glances or promises. Sometimes they start between the lines of a book, behind a Potions desk or in an overcrowded train carriage. Seléne Montrose is a brilliant, competitive and charismatic Gryffindor. With her sharp humour and hidden anxiety about always having to prove herself, she built a solid reputation: a girl who knows how to stand up for herself, even when her heart races faster than her confidence. Blaise Zabini, instead, spent six years in the silvery shadows of the Slytherin dungeons. Elegant, reserved, unapproachable, with an aura of detachment that makes him difficult to read but impossible to ignore. The son of a feared yet admired mother, he learned early on not to trust others, to protect himself behind a controlled smile, to hint at a lot and say very little. They'd never really spoken to each other before being the Slug Club. Sitting a few seats apart, forced to share the same air and conversations, Seléne and Blaise suddenly found themselves adversaries. Two opposing worlds. Two characters destined to clash. But behind provocations and glances, there was common ground that neither of them wanted to acknowledge: the fear of showing vulnerability, the intolerance towards those who took everything for granted, the awareness that growing up in an ancient family did not mean feeling understood. It wasn't love at first sight or fierce hatred - but something more subtle: a balancing act, a tightrope that risked breaking with every sharp remark, every challenge thrown down, every silence shared for too long. As the war approached, two seemingly incompatible students would discover that attraction doesn't always arise only from the opposite that fascinates, but from that unexpected reflection that forces you to see yourself in the eyes of the other. blaise zabini x fem!oc blaise zabini fanfiction

"Say the word... and I'll ruin this friendship." "Right here. Right now." They said Slytherins don't fall in love. Blaize Zabini just didn't know how to stop. Blaise Zabini X Reader Best friends to Lovers

Helen Clayton, a Birmingham doctor, is taken at gunpoint and forced to save a man she's never met - Thomas Shelby. One night ties her to the Peaky Blinders, and walking away isn't as simple as promised. ... a thomas shelby fanfic series one - onwards

CROSS POSTED ON AO3 Anne Potter was sent back in time in hopes of paying everything she owed Harry, her older brother, by giving him a normal childhood. After losing the Second Wizarding War, she was given a second chance to make things work and she was more than willing to take it. REGULUS ARCTURUS BLACK (R.A.B) POSTED ONLY ON WATTPAD AND AO3

"I have heard many rumours about you, Mr Shelby." "Anything of interest?" "I could write a whole book about you, Mr Shelby." The smog ridden city had many secrets and Katherine Williams had a way of finding out every single one of them. Before the war, Kat was known simply as a busybody. But then the war came and then it left, forcing the men to return home different people. And when the men changed and so did the woman with little choice. Kat was no different to any other woman in Small Heath, she wasn't the same woman she was before the war. No, she was a force to be reckoned with. She knew things that could bring anyone to their knees and she revelled in that fact. But not even she was immune to the fear and terror the Peaky Blinders brought with them and nor was she immune to the icy blue eyes of the leader of the infamous gang.

PAINTING IT ALL RED: PART ONE WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL: PART TWO "This may not be the promised land, but I assure you I am capable of pouring beer into glasses." "If this isn't the promised land, why would you come here?" He spoke. You laid your eyes on the back of his head. "No one ever went to the promised land to be a barmaid, Mr. Shelby." After leaving your suffocating home, with only your paints and the clothes on your back, and hopping on a train to Birmingham, the last thing you expected was to be working for Thomas fucking Shelby. You also didn't expect to be breaking the law for him, but working for the Shelby Brothers was never going to be simple...

PAINTING IT ALL RED: PART ONE WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL: PART TWO "It'll do you well not to speak to me like that, young lady," Young lady. Typical. "It'll do you well not to talk down on me, Mr Kinsmen. I own this establishment, me and me alone. I own it legitimately, inside the law, and it is mine," He stayed silent as you continued. "If anything threatens that, I will take legal action. I am secure. I am protected- And you don't want to see me mad, Mr Kinsmen. You really don't," After leaving Birmingham, you thought that it would be easy to move on. Even if you're still plagued with dreams, even if you still think about the Shelby's from time to time, you knew that you'd be better off after you left it all behind. Two years later, time eventually catches up with you-- The Shelby's come back into your life in the worst of circumstances.

"I do bad things. But you already know that." ~ Thomas Shelby A tragic misunderstanding. A murder. A secret. An unlikely partnership. When the disappearance of a Russian refugee brings Lady Rose MacClare to the doorstep of Thomas Shelby, neither party is prepared for the significant changes a single encounter can inspire. As Rose unwillingly ventures deeper into the world of the notorious Peaky Blinders -- spanning ballrooms to dark alleys -- she finds herself torn between her moral compass, her suppressed rebellious youth, her growing love for a motherless toddler, and her mounting attraction for Tommy, a man she knows she should hate. || A historical fanfiction novel combining the fandoms of "Peaky Blinders" and "Downton Abbey." || ⚠️ Read with caution: foul language, violence, trauma, and sexual content within. This novel is NOT a romance. If you're looking for soft, sweet, fake Tommy, look elsewhere. This novel depicts him as he is in the show: flawed. ⚠️ HIGHEST RANKINGS ~ #1 Downton Abbey #1 Peaky Blinders #1 Tommy Shelby #1 Countess #2 England #2 Spying #2 Lizzie Stark #3 John Shelby #40 Birmingham #241 Historical { Began posting 07.25.22 Finished posting 07.17.23 }

They have nothing in common. She shines under the spotlight, he rules from the shadows. She moves with grace, he walks through violence. And yet, through lingering glances and heavy silences, a dangerous attraction pulls them into an endless waltz they can't escape. New chapters every week! I try to post twice a week :)

"Where did that crusty old winged freak send me off to?!" If someone went up to Sarah and told her that a weeping angel would take her from her home in 2026 and drop her not only in the 1920s but in the Peaky Blinders 1920s, she would have asked which episode and season of Doctor Who that came from and where she could watch it. Yet here she was, in Netflix's Peaky Blinders, and now wondered if she would die by razor, gun, or the smoke. WARNING: Mature language Slurs, because this is the early 1900s, nothing is safe Sexual situations, themes, and references Prostitution Detailed depictions and descriptions of war Violence Blood and thematic elements Brief descriptions and depictions of abuse drug and alcohol use.