It has been a year. Vicky turned 16 yet she doesn't feel like a true 16 year old. Where are the parties? Where are the boys? Instead, she spends her time in the hospital, or by her families side. Tommy doesn't like for her to be away from them. No matter who she is with, he makes sure it is someone who is aware of her seizures ans her cancer. Be it nurses, family or a member of the peaky blinders, she always has someone.
The cancer is spreading, but thankfully, it is slow. Well, I say thankfully. Tommy is thankful. The family are thankful. But vicky is not. She is in pain, hardly able to run without being in agony, seizures every day. Its like death was teasing her. She just wanted it to be over. She wanted the cancer to do its job and finish her already. She was sick and tired of the hospitals, and the needles and the operations. Oh, forgot to mention. This past year, vicky has had 3 operations. Not to get rid of the cancer. But because the medicine was beginning to give some side affects, doing more harm than good to her body.
Tommy was terrified. Seeing her in pain, it broke his heart. He wanted to fix it. He always told her as a child that he would protect her, never let anyone hurt her. Yet here he was, standing by and allowing this disease to cause her great amounts of agony. Vicky was also scared. But for a different reason. Whilst Tommy feared the day when he will lose his baby girl. Vicky fears that she may continue to live until she can't move. Just lay in hospital for months, skin and bone, too weak to speak or move without the help. She's seen it happen to many of the patients on the ward. And for her, that was more terrifying than death.
She was outside with finn, playing football. Bouncer was sat next to the goal, frantically dodging balls. They used cans to symbolise the goals. One for each post. As finn tackles vicky, he manages to get the ball and kicks it through the goal. But it continues to roll as he kicked it too hard and soon enough, 2 boys had their ball.
"Oh well done finn" vicky grumbled as they went over. As they got closer, vicky was quick to notice that one of the lads was rather handsome and not much older than her. She hadn't seen them around before but that didn't say much. She was very rarely out of the house. Bouncer trudges along, making sure to stay very close to vickys side
"Hi. Sorry, didn't mean for my idiot uncle to kick it at you. Can we please have our football back?" Vicky asked
"That's alright. We've done the same thing plenty of times" the older lad said handing back the ball
"So, you new around here?" Vicky asks
"Ye, we moved so dad could find work"
"Vicky, we should-" finn starts but is interrupted as vicky knows what he is going to say and doesn't want to hear it
"Cute dog, whats his name"
"Bouncer. He's my dads dog but I've sort of kidnapped him as my own" she smiles. Finn looked at her like she had two heads. The thing is, these people were knew. And hot. She didn't want him finding out that she was sick the first two minutes that they've been talking. For now, bouncer is just a family dog, nothing more, nothing less.
"Well I could use a tour guide. Never been to Birmingham before, fancy showing me around?" He asks whilst finn and the boys brother just roll their eyes
"Sure, not that there's much to see. Just alot of pubs and whores" he chuckles and that's when finn butts in
"Vicky, Tommy is gonna fucking kill ya if you just wonder off with a random man you've known for 5 minutes"
"If you don't like it, then go hang out with your mates"
"Ugh fine. You wanna come? I doubt you wanna stay here with romeo and fucking juliet over there" finn says to the boy
"Alright. I'm Henry"
"Finn"
"Oh and finn. Keep your mouth shut infront of Tommy, you hear me? Otherwise I'll have to kill you" finn puts his hands up in defeat and wonders off with Henry
"Who's Tommy?" He asks. Not wanting to scare him, vicky says
"Tommy is no one important. All mouth and no bite"
"Can I ask you something? About this place?" He asks
"Of course. I'm you're tour guide" she says
"Who are the peaky blinders? My mum told us to watch out, stay out their way and then everything would be fine. Don't interact with them and all that bullshit. But I have no idea who the peaky blinders are"
"Your mum is a smart woman. The peaky blinders are a gang. They rule Birmingham. Led by the shelby family. But you have nothing to worry about. They give to the people in birmingham, very charitable to those who need it. Their job, is getting rid of the cunts who want to take over the city, we swept out the ira not long ago" vicky realised her mistake
"We?"
"I'm vicky harlow, but my fathers last name is shelby. Dont worry, im not like that. But we cant choose our family"
"How do I recognise them?" He asks
"They have peaky caps on, and a blade sticking out of it"
"I think I understand now why they are called the peaky blinders" he chuckles
"Ye, something like that"
"You don't sound like you're from round here" he says
"I'm from Liverpool. But I moved her a few years ago. Anyway, shall the tour begin?" He smiled at her, as they both began walking with bouncer by vickys side. The pair of them felt weird in their stomach. Like butterfly's were flapping about in there, making them blush when their eyes met
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Shelby Fire- Completed
FanfictionBefore the war, there was a girl. Her customers knew her as Sapphire, her family knew her as Dotty. After falling pregnant with Thomas Shelby's baby, she runs. No one knows where and Tommy was left believing she had simply grown tired of small heath...
