1919. Cora Jane Grayson is the classiest tease on the streets of Small Heath, Birmingham. However, the woman in black and diamonds, finds herself guilty by association when a new Chief Inspector comes over from Ireland and finds her family ties to the Shelbys. The Peaky Blinders. 'I loved you through everything and you don't even care.' [Family • /ˈfamɪli,ˈfam(ə)li/ All the descendants of a common ancestor.] 'Stop the shit, Shelby. You may think that I can't see it but through the wine, and smoke, and blood; I can see your broken. Your broken, beggin' to be fixed. Well, pick a girl because I won't be treated like a common fucking whore!'

He was never meant to fall in love with her, it was forbidden from the beginning. He was a Gangster from Birmingham and she was his brothers wife... Perhaps that's what makes her more desirable to Tommy. The fact he knows he shouldn't want her...truth is Lily Ann Shelby was his a long time before she married John, but he let her go. Tommy walked away and now it was his one biggest mistake, no other woman had ever come close to Lily.

❝MY NAME IS DOROTHY MERCER, AND MARK MY WORDS, THIS WHOLE FUCKING TOWN IS GOING TO KNOW IT.❞ People don't scare Dorothy like they used to anymore. She'd had it rough. Living on the streets, growing used to an empty stomach, resorting to the lowest of low - after a few years, she'd had enough. Slowly, she clawed her way out of the slums right to the top. She faced every low-life, gang boss and criminal that challenged her and smiled in their faces as she took them down. And now, they were the ones scared of her. She thought she had won by now. Destroyed all memories of her past. But when she arrives in Small Heath, Birmingham, by the request of an anonymous telegram, she realises she was painfully wrong. ( rated no. 3 in #peakyblinders ) ( rated no. 1 in #1920 ) a peaky blinders fanfiction; tommy x oc; set during series 2; au-ish; i own nothing.

i want no ordinary lover. i want a fucking storm. i want sleepless nights and endless conversations at 4am. i want passion, i want madness. i want someone who's able to make my whole body shiver from a distance and also pull me close to make sense of all my bones.

• VIOLENT DELIGHTS • "these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder which, as they kiss, consume." [ PEAKY BLINDERS ]