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devil's backbone 🗝 tommy shelby

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Time 8h 11m

1920s adashelby arthurshelby bbc birmingham cillianmurphy devilsbackbone finnshelby johnshelby lilyjames love michaelgray peakyblinders thomasshelby tommyshelby

"Don't care if he's guilty,
Don't care if he's not; 
He's good and he's bad,
And he's all that I've got."

She grew up watching them, fearing them.  A young girl in Birmingham, being told to stay away from the Shelby family at whatever cost.   Whispering their name as if they'd hear her, and knowing even then that if she were to end up caught up in the lot that she'd end up dead.

But that didn't stop the lad with the piercing blue eyes from thinking that she was the most beautiful creature in the world.  The first time he'd ever seen her, he knew that there would seldom be a girl that could ever catch his eye just as she did.  And he was right.  She remained the apple of his eye for years and years, never saying much to her, knowing that she hated him for who he was and what he did.  He didn't mind, though.  He hated himself, too.

Until one day, one instant, brought them together in a way that neither of them could ever foresee or control.

A wedding.





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1920s adashelby arthurshelby bbc birmingham cillianmurphy devilsbackbone finnshelby johnshelby lilyjames love michaelgray peakyblinders thomasshelby tommyshelby

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𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐓 𝐆𝐎 ᵖᵉᵃᵏʸ ᵇˡⁱⁿᵈᵉʳˢ by gracessecretshelby

Harvey Ellis grew up in Small Heath, hearing the tales of the Peaky Blinders. Having been friends with the second youngest Shelby brother, Harvey finds himself becoming a Blinder. What he didn't know was that this would only anger his father more than he already was. Things got worse for him - with his confusion regarding his sexuality, it led to him seeking comfort in the only sister of the Shelby family after she cleaned his wounds. After one night spent together, Ada falls pregnant. Frightened, Ada begs that he stays despite not loving him. It is then that she finds out why he is hesitant to do so. Knowing it was a mistake from both ends, Harvey agreed to stay after Ada said she would keep his secret. And despite their attempts at being parents, Ada can't help but notice the way Harvey cannot let John Shelby go. And the way John looks at Harvey without even realising. Forcing herself to push it aside, she begins to understand properly what is happening. No words spoken - many exchanged glances - one story to be told. 𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

Forbidden Alliances // Alfie Solomons Peaky Blinders by HopeForHood

The Jew and the Gypsy. Who would have thought? "Imagine their faces, right?" He tilted his head with a partial smirk strung out on his lips. "Imagine their faces when they 'ear a woman is running with the Peaky Blinders." "Those who do never see another day to gossip," she spoke with the same threatening tone as Alfie. "Besides," she paused with a glint of mischief glistening in her darkening gaze. "I won't be with them for very long if my brothers suspect my time here in London to be a tad too long to be strictly for business." "So wot are yous 'ere for right now?" The room seemed to close in on the two of them as they were suddenly close enough to feel the other's breath against their cheek. "Business or pleasure?"

The Me You Can See [1] (T. Shelby/OC) BWWM✔️ by Afro_Crown19

Anna-Maria Williams hates Thomas Shelby's guts. She thinks that he sees himself as the king of the world and everyone ought to bow before him but Anna-Maria is not one of those people and she'll be damned if he thinks that she is. Can they eventually learn to become allies or are they doomed to hate each other forever? Read on to find out how she navigates working with the Shelby family and - begrudgingly - Tommy too. [Series/Season 1 of Peaky Blinders] [Tommy Shelby x OC] [Tommy Shelby x WOC]

Peaky Blinders Imagines by XdrapetomaniaX

*UNDER EDITING* Imagines for your favourite Shelby family (and Alfie!)

Fortnight // Tommy Shelby x OC by taygetacaulfield

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.

𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 ᵗᵒᵐᵐʸ ˢʰᵉˡᵇʸ by gracessecretshelby

London was ran by three different organisations. One owned by Alfie Solomens. The other owned by Darby Sabini. And the last owned by The Abbott's. The Abbott's were forces to be reckoned with. They were ghosts that lingered in the smoke of London City. Everybody knew them but nobody spoke of them. To speak their name was a dangerous game. One wrong word and you'd find yourself being led into an alleyway by Cecilia Abbott, the daughter of Rafael Abbott. She was scarily beautiful. One drink and you'd do anything she asked you to. But one day, Cecilia finds her match. Somebody who seems to be incredibly similar to her. At first they clash. Then they don't. After experiencing a betrayal, Tommy Shelby finds himself completely intrigued by Cecilia and cannot stay away from her. 𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐏 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄

𝓐 𝓥𝓸𝔀 𝓣𝓸 𝓐 𝓒𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓜𝓪𝓷 by cillianmurphylove

Y/N was forced to be part of an arranged marriage to England's most dangerous man, Tommy Shelby. Would love be born between the bitter treatment and the hurting souls and would that love be strong to heal broken hearts or the marriage would only turn to be only vows to cursed man. WARNING : language, swearing, little misogyny, little dark tommy, psychological abuse , smut , slow burn , grammar. NOTES : - I don't romanticize being in an abusive relationship this's a work of fiction. - THIS fiction doesn't follow peaky blinders show timings - English isn't my first language so there would be loads of grammar errors and don't expect advanced english vocabularies and please please be kind xx - SLOW UPDATES

The Sweetest of Hearts.1| T.S by PeakyB003

Book 1 - Complete Book 2 - Ongoing If anyone in Birmingham had asked Polly Gray when the ice around Thomas Shelby's heart had started to melt, she'd say it was the day Maude Felton came to town, looking for her brothers. She'd tell them he became a human being once again, the second his eyes landed on the dark-haired girl. He smiled, and he laughed, he was kind and sweet. By no means had he become a kind human being. He was still cold, he still swore out everyone around him, cut and shot men without batting an eye. No, Thomas Shelby had not simply become a kind human being. But he was kind...to her. He treated Maude Felton with such softness, kindness, and gentleness, that Polly Gray had never seen before. He looked at the blue-eyed girl like she hung the moon and stars. And she looked at him the same way, because she knew, all she had to do was ask, and Tommy would. There was no limit to what he'd do for her. She has single-handedly fixed his heart, and he'd forever be thankful for that. She loved and cherished Tommy despite the things he did, and for that, he'd keep her in his heart forever. He'd protect her like his life depended on it. Because his life did depend on Maude. Because without Maude Felton, there'd be no Thomas Shelby.

Like a Horse Made of Air by Ephemeral_Is

Wren Ashby, raised in the shadow of her rebellious older sister, is a good girl. She does as she's told and gives nobody any trouble, polite to a fault. She believes her father when he tells her that if she's good he'll find her a good man to love and take care of her. Then the day comes her sister tells her that their father has chosen a waste of a man for her husband. Wren finds herself no longer so keen to obey and, once she tastes freedom, she won't be stopped. Cross Posted to: AO3: EphemeralIsTheLight Fanfiction: GodricIsMine13 Wattpad: Ephemeral_Is *Fidelity Safe Zone: Cheaters Get Shot At The Door* To all my fellow writers, we are responsible for our tags and INFEDELITY is a tag, Please Use It.

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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.

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THE WILDEST OF THEM ALL - a Peaky Blinders fanfiction IN WHICH all sorts of things happen, at home and outside, every day, but Darcy doesn't recall having ever thought that in the life she had there was particularly bad. Life was like that, that's all, she grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for her. Little devil, they called her. The wild, Italian half sister of the Shelby siblings, blessed with the beauty of her mother, cursed with the wickedness of her father. She was a wildfire, a force of nature that couldn't be contained or tamed. And just like wildfire, she was unpredictable, sometimes spreading warmth and light, other times, leaving destruction in her path. But despite the chaos she brought, there was a raw beauty to her wild nature. She was a force of change, a reminder to all that some are born to be Shelby. Darcy was. And no one dared to say otherwise. She was a girl who blazed her own trail, and in doing so, set the world on fire with her passion and unapologetic authenticity. Darcy was desire itself consumed in pure madness, lost in vain, a prodigal existence yearning for freedom, the kind that the Shelby family couldn't give. A kind of freedom she would take and live.

𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐘 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐒 ˢʰᵉˡᵇʸ ˢⁱˢᵗᵉʳ by gracessecretshelby

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬." ( oc x oc ) 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐁𝐘 - the youngest Shelby sister was the only sibling that you could look at and say "no, she isn't related to those Shelby bastards." Although she shared the same brunette locks as her sister Ada and the same blue eyes as her brother Tommy, she did not share the same attitudes. Francesca was an anxious girl. And that only worsened when her brothers left for war. Her second eldest brother, Tommy, was a God in her eyes. She idolised him. Why? Nobody knew. But there was something about him. And for her.. Tommy loved her like she was his own daughter. They had a bond not even the strongest of men could destroy. They were cut from the same cloth. 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑, - Francesca finds that her closest and only friend, George, a boy who came from the richer side of Birmingham, had returned from the countryside. He was the type of boy all the girls would fawn over. Golden hair and blue eyes. Except, he didn't care for any of them. He cared for his best friend: Francesca Shelby. Or - Frances, as he called her. He was her only friend. Being older and, well, liked by most, he found it was his duty to look after her during such a hostile time. But they seemed to be blind to the fact that they were more than friends. In some way, they were more. They didn't know it but everybody else did.

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊 ˢʰᵉˡᵇʸ ˢⁱˢᵗᵉʳ by -shelbysecret-

𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟎𝐬 was ruled by the Shelby family - or more so their gang. The Peaky Blinders were the infamous gang who earned their respect through the fear of the people. With the blades sewn into their flat caps and the weapons tucked into their jackets, people bowed their heads when passing them in the streets. You were considered lucky to have not had a run in with any of the three elder Shelby brothers. Arthur was the eldest. He was known for his fighting. You would often find him in the ring against somebody who was not his size. He went mad during the war and his return was nothing hit a relief for his mind. But when thinking he had finally escaped the war, one had started in his head. Arthur Shelby was his own enemy. Thomas was the second eldest - the most feared. He had a head for business and more common sense than his older brother. He had icy eyes which very rarely softened at the sight of anything. He was known for his trait of being unmerciful and careless. Despite being the second eldest, he was the brother who held the power. The brother who controlled the rest of them. John was the youngest of the three and arguably the softest. With his wonky smile and cheeky remarks, many of the girls in Small Heath found themselves falling at his feet. He would often find himself in trouble for acting childish. He didn't care too much for the business of the gang. He cared for the respect it brought their name. He enjoyed the thrill. And then you had John's twin sister - Francesca. Known for being one of the only Shelby siblings who seemed to laugh at Thomas. Her sister, Ada, being exactly the same. Francesca found that her brothers were ridiculous - too big for their boots as she'd say. Though she liked to use their name to get herself out of trouble. Francesca was often reckless and lacked the awareness one needed for the streets they lived in. She was her mother's daug

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