On a train arrives a young woman. She's naive, she's kind, she's everything the city begs her not to be. When she meets Thomas Shelby, he is unlike any man she has met before. An exploration into Tommy as a character as he tries to find love. A warning that this has no purpose of being a satisfying, kind romance, but more a broken man trying so hard and a woman trying so hard to understand him. Please take that into consideration. Part 1 in series - Are We There Tommy Shelby X female oc Season 1 & 2 of Peaky Blinders - all copyrights to owners -

Aurelia Balfour is miserable. Trapped in a loveless marriage, and with pretentious aristocratic women her only other company, Aurelia's tried everything from drinking to hysteria treatments to make her happy. One day, her fake friends begin to whisper about the nouveau-riche gang member who moved in next door, along with his cold wife. Aurelia recognises Thomas Shelby at once. She would have married him if not for the war, after all. GRACE HATE. I am a grace hater. If she has one hater, it's me. If she has no haters, I'm dead.

In the long, haunted shadow between Claudia's flight and the modern resurrection of The Vampire Lestat, Katherine Graves drifts into the lives of Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt like a silk-draped omen, beautiful, feral, half-starved for love, and carrying a past soaked in blood, secrecy, and an old Southern cruelty she has never escaped. What begins in New Orleans as a decadent entanglement born of grief becomes something far more dangerous across the decades: Louis remembers her like a wound he still protects, Lestat returns to her again and again like a damned man seeking sanctuary, and Katherine herself becomes the dark thread binding longing, ruin, jealousy, and devotion from the Jazz Age to the savage glamour of modern day, where old lovers rise, ancient hungers sharpen, and every buried desire comes back with fangs.

December 23rd, Thomas Shelby requested someone new come to his room. But when he meant new, he didn't mean her first day on the job. That night, for the first time since Grace's death, a woman numbed the pain. Katherine is desperate for money and eager to keep her in his bed, Thomas makes a deal with her to keep her there until she pays him back. Katherine soon becomes a very bad habit that he can't kick.

***A Once Upon a Time Fanfiction ***A Killian Jones/Captain Hook Fanfiction *** Since I first wrote this book, I have changed chapters and some of the story, several times... I hope that if you are coming back to reread this book, that you will still like it. :) *Disclaimer* I do not own any characters, except for Dream. All rights go to ABC Family, Adam Horowitz, and Edward Kitsis. *Started on August 24th, 2017* *Finally finished on August 12th, 2022* *** Dream is an odd name to name your kid. That's what Dream Mills always thought, but that's what her mother named her, nineteen years ago. Her mother's excuse was that Dream was her "dream come true", which she would elaborate by saying that she always wanted to be a mother. Dream was close with her mother, and that never changed when her adoptive, little brother, Henry, brought back his birth mother Emma. Believing that she would bring back the happy endings to the town of Storybrooke, who were, supposedly trapped under a curse by Regina Mills, their mother, and the "Evil Queen. What happens when Dream learns that Henry was right? Will Dream's relationship with her mother crack under the lies? What happens when she gets trapped in an unknown world? Will she be the hero that her brother thinks she is? Have been ranked: #1 in #killianjones, #darkone, #rumbelle, #thedreamer, #dreams, #thedream, #thedreamseries, #queenofhearts, #henrymills, #evilqueen

Dorothy Monroe is a petite woman with a heart too big for her chest. She's pure, kind, she looked at the world and determined all the colours of nature were miracles and needed to be remembered. She's loved photography ever since her father brought a camera home and even had a gift with the newly designed lenses ever since she could wrap her small hands around the clunks of metal. Thomas Shelby: gangster; and war hero; he reads the devils script as if it were the morning newspaper - the list will go on. I don't need to say much more, you already know him. The Shelby family, as part of Tommy's expansion plan, bought a large area of the woods on the outskirts of Small Heath, far away from the Birmingham smog, there they built safe houses and kept heavy machinery; maybe even once they kept a large crate of stolen guns, supposedly belonging to the Government. Unbeknownst to Dorothy, who stumbled around the woods (a bulky camera in hand), she had explored the woods many times, taking photos of all the things that shined bright enough, but had never come across the peculiar buildings that held many dangers. That is, of course, until she knocks upon one of the doors, ready to give an earful to whoever had built over this precious patch of land, only to come face to face with one Thomas Shelby. -loosely follows the plot of season 1- *disclaimer* I do not own the Peaky Blinders or any of Steven Knights characters, only the story of Dorothy and her own plot line. This trope is cliche and overused, but idc, I like it.

After abruptly calling off her arranged engagement to a wealthy but cruel London banker, Clara Whitlow is sent away in disgrace by her parents. To avoid scandal, they send her north to Birmingham to live with her aunt and uncle, who promise to "keep her in line." Clara expects a dull exile-grey streets, strict manners, isolation. Instead, she meets Ada Shelby, a young fiercely loyal woman with a rebellious soul. Clara and Ada become unexpected best friends, despite coming from completely different worlds. Soon Clara meets Thomas Shelby. Ada's older brother and falls for him almost instantly. "Stay away from the Shelbys. Especially Thomas Shelby." But warnings come too late.

When the stock market crashed, Thomas Shelby, needs money and he needs it fast. Polly Gray has a brilliant idea. Marry a deformed, recluse artist & writer, Katherine Carter. However, their marriage comes with a terrible catch that threatens to break them both, mentally and physically. Can the two of them find love before they destroy each other with their own darkness?

(Regina George x Rodrick Heffley) Regina's back and she wants her spot back. Everyone's moved on but she's still roaming the halls waiting for her perfect opportunity to build her social life back up, but there's one problem. There's a pest and his name is Rodrick. Every step forward she takes? He's right there taking one back, stepping on her toes every step of the way. There's only a matter of time before each argument blurs the line between rivalry and something dangerously close to habit. ------- Rodrick exhaled slowly, pushing off the doorframe. "That's it?" Her eyes narrowed. "What's that supposed to mean?" "That's all you wanted?" he asked, walking past her towards the counter. "To ruin Cady?" "Yes," she said defensively. He nodded once. "Then all you had to do was ask." Regina blinked. "What?" Rodrick turned back to face her, arms crossed, a faint smirk returning. "That's what fake boyfriends do, right? Help their fake girlfriends get what they want." For a second, she didn't speak. Then, slowly, Regina's lips curled into something almost like a smile. "Careful, Heffley," she called out. "You might actually make yourself useful." Rodrick tilted his head. "Oh, I've been useful. You're just always too pissed off to notice."

I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely different bodies, different times and I will love you in all of this. Until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion. 400 years, 4 centuries he yearned. A DREADFUL CONCERN SWAMPED THE DOCTOR'S FACE, IN THE CHAMBER OF HIS MIND HE CLUNG TO HOPE, FRAGILE HOPE THAT THIS WAS A CRUEL DREAM, A NIGHTMARE BORN FROM EXHAUSTION.-Any moment, he would wake slumped over his desk, the pale light of dawn creeping through windows, a piece of paper pressed humiliatingly to his cheek after another night of long strenuous research. But alas. "For eternity, my Prince" ©️copyright claim.