Polly closed her eyes as if listening to something only she could hear. "She's not dead, Thomas," she whispered. "They told me she was, but I'd know it. A mother would know." "The records say she died of scarlet fever," he said flatly. "The records lie." In which sallyanna gray survived scarlet fever and now works as a lady's maid at Downton Abbey. downton abbey x peaky blinders au oc x oc slow updates

The bells of St. Mary's had barely faded from Grace Shelby's ears when she learned how to lie again. Arrow House was all white walls and careful silence, filled with the kind of peace Grace had once believed she wanted. She wore her new life easily - the devoted wife, serene at Tommy Shelby's side - but London never loosened its grip on her thoughts. In a narrow terraced house tucked behind a dressmaker's shop in Bloomsbury, eight-year-old Beatrice Burgess lived a life built on secrets. Beatrice had Grace's eyes and her quiet intensity, with a surname chosen for safety rather than truth - a name that could disappear if it ever needed to. Tommy didn't know. He couldn't. Not with enemies circling, not with the weight of his power growing heavier by the day. Grace paid a woman to watch over Beatrice - Mrs. Calder, a sharp-eyed widow who asked no questions and accepted her money in cash. To the neighbours, Beatrice was a polite, reserved child with ink-stained fingers and a fondness for pigeons on the square. To Grace, she was everything - the only part of her life untouched by betrayal, bullets, or the Shelby name. Each night Grace kissed Tommy goodnight beneath the high ceilings of Arrow House, her heart remained in London. Every letter she burned after reading, every train whistle she pretended not to hear, was another promise to herself: just a little longer. Because if Tommy Shelby ever discovered the truth - the child hidden away, the life Grace had carefully buried - there would be no telling whether his love would be enough to save them... or if it would put Beatrice directly in the line of fire.

One touch of a broken fairy clock sends sixteen-year-old Princess Aurora from the Moors into the smoke-filled streets of Small Heath, Birmingham, a world ruled by guns, grit, and the men known as the Peaky Blinders. Far from magic and watched by fate itself, Aurora must survive a brutal era that doesn't believe in fairytales, while thorns begin to grow where innocence once lived. A crossover fanfiction inspired by Peaky Blinders × Maleficent

Estella is Tommy's wife making her Estella shelby she's 20 years old while he's 29 right now and this is about their life and their family and gang

~So keep your head up princess 'fore your crown falls Know these voices in your head will be your downfall I know it gets so hard but you don't got far to go Yeah, keep your head up princess, it's a long road And the path leads right to where they won't go I know it hurts right now but I know you'll make it home So keep your head up Yeah, keep your head up~ Slow updates!!

Solaris Black, Sirius's daughter can't cope with what happened during the war and losing her father before she even had time with him. War does things to a person, changes them, and makes them do things without much thinking about the consequences. After finding a time turner that worked by year rather than hours in the family vault, Solaris goes back in time in hopes of saving her father and Uncle Regulus but fate has other ideas. With no way back home, Solaris finds herself stranded in 1916 during the Great War - alone and traumatized from her past that hadn't happened yet. Until she meets a soldier in the trenches. Why did she torture herself like this? One Wizarding war was bad enough but inserting herself in the muggle war? Why because she was lonely? Sergeant-Major Thomas Shelby swears it was an angel that saved him from that tunnel collapse. He had no memory of getting out but he was thankful he did. Then his Angel was there, sitting at the bar in a pub in Paris on Christmas Eve. Maybe it wasn't a hallucination after all. ON A03 LONG HAUL FANFIC Pre-Canon Chapter 1 -30 Season 1 Chapter II:1 - 21 Season 2 Chapter III: 1 -

As the youngest Shelby and twin to Finn, ten-year-old Kezia has spent the last four years confined for her supposed mental defects. Now released into the guardianship of her brother Thomas Shelby, she returns to Small Heath, where family offers protection, but being Tommy's favorite makes her a target in a world that devours weakness. An Alfie Solomons romance later on. SEASON ONE: ☑️ SEASON TWO: ☑️ SEASON THREE: ☑️ SEASON FOUR: ☑️ SEASON FIVE: in progress

When Thomas Shelby returns from war, he doesn't expect the nurse who stitched him up to be in his hometown. He didn't expect her to be Charlie Strong's goddaughter as well. But the world is full of unknown, right? Evelyn is quick to learn that her life won't be as plain as it was before the war, especially now that Thomas is aware of her existence in Small Heath. What will happen when a softhearted woman meets a coldhearted man?

John Shelby's daughter, Charlotte May is offered up to the Changretta's through marriage to end the vendetta. She is processing her fathers senseless death. Can she understand her husbands perspective and fall in love with him?

She was a Shelby by blood-but he made her feel like a lit fuse. Eloise Shelby was supposed to stay out of the family business. But Birmingham doesn't let go, and neither do her brothers. Enter Luca Changretta-their enemy. Her forbidden temptation. He offers her gifts with secrets, attention laced with danger, and a choice that could ruin everything: Family. Or freedom. Blood. Or love.