are you still a live wire? are you still starting fires? PEAKY BLINDERS SEASON TWO - TBC [JOHN SHELBY X FEM OC]

❝I'm selfish and I'm lonely arm's length, small talk, and then some company but, oh, do you have to know me, know me inside out?❞ PEAKY BLINDERS SEASON ONE - TBC [TOMMY SHELBY X FEM OC]

| A Thomas Shelby Fanfic | The boy who leant against his desk with an expensive cegar hung from his mouth, wasn't a boy anymore, but a man. Not even a man. More a ghost of a man, blinded by the horrors of war. A true monster created by such madness. The boy she once knew, was now a distant memory. Or a complete fantasy that she had frabricated with her own mind. Thomas Shelby was gone. The war had taken him from her, and she hated God for it.

Tommy and Delilah first met in the early months of the war - she had been pregnant, the father of her child running off. With the need to leave Small Heath, she found herself taking part. Though she wasn't on the front line, fighting alongside soldiers, she managed to grace the soldiers with her gentle smile, serving them drinks on the rare occasions that they'd find themselves away from the trenches. Realising that he could not make it back to England, Tommy decides that getting to know somebody was not something on his mind - so, when taking a liking toward Delilah, he asked her for a favour. A favour that meant she would take the watch that he wore - a family heirloom. He asked her to keep it safe and, if by some miracle he returned back to England, he would find her again.

Celia Thorne - Freddie Thorne's half sister, was a woman who came from a mother with gentle hands and a great fortune to leave her daughter in the event of her passing. Celia Thorne was a woman of business - something was rare in 1919, especially in Small Heath. She held a cold exterior that perfectly resembled the exterior of the secret lover. . . Thomas Shelby. Their secret affair would begin just a year before the war would break out - where the pair would find themselves apart, feeling as though they were living in two separate worlds. She would wait for him just like he asked her to and they would continue their secret love affair. . .

𝐖here Valerie and Tommy are brought together through grief, desperate to feel a comfort that they both once knew.

Mabel was a girl who grew up far too quickly - with no parents, she found herself as an orphan. She lived in an orphanage who let her go at the young age of twelve, believing she was old enough to care for herself. This led to Mabel becoming the very torment that Alfie Solomons would soon grow fond of. He first found her running wild with his dog in the early hours of the morning, barefoot. He told her many times to leave, shouting rather rude words at her. This would continue to occur until the pair became acquainted - much to his dismay, of course. But he would soon come to enjoy the young girls company and decided that, as long as she found herself work and cleaned up after herself, she could stay with him.