DANCING STRANGERS ✸ PEAKY BLINDERS
written by mills

Lust is so inadequate.
And loving exhausts me.

/ Anne Sexton, pinterest

     Naomie Lee was her families perfect angel. Her skin was so soft and cheeks so perfectly pink. She could never do any wrong.

But that didn't stop her mother from selling her off to a Shelby man. (Their enemy). A bargaining chip is what she became. Her mother said that she needed a husband and the man needed a wife and mother for his children.

Mother?.

Despite Naomie's reluctance to applaud her mother's decision, she didn't disagree. She did need a husband, but she wanted one of her choosing. A man that would make her happy and buy her flowers, someone who didn't mind living in the country air.

Now, she was being conformed to a dirty city, the night was scary, loud and full of drunks and the day was just as bad. She hated Small Heath. Just as much as she hated her husband.

(John Shelby).

The wedding had been beautiful and she had loved it. At first she thought that she could perhaps love John. His eyes were full of surprise when they laid upon her, almost happy as if he were expecting someone else. They danced and laughed, kissed and it had been magical.

Then the magic wore off and the man she really married started to seep through the cracks of the foundation of all the things they didn't even know about each other. He killed people, in the name of family. Nobody messed with the peaky blinders... he would say.

Sleeping with a fraud.

John was cocky and arrogant, nothing like he had been on the first night they had known each other. And Naomie was uptight and nothing he did seemed to please her, she was nothing like any other gypsie girl he had ever known.

Naomie didn't know that John just needed her. Someone who was loyal to him and gave their heart to him and his children. And John didn't know that Naomie wanted just the same as well as love. She wanted a husband who doted on her and made it his life's purpose to please her and in return she'd give him anything he wanted.

Tell me. Tell me. Just tell me.

Meaningful communication ceased to exist in the Shelby household. Anger prevailed and slammed doors echoed and startled the sleeping children that lived under the same roof. The angry man walked down the street to the Garrison to get drunk every night and sleep with any woman who gave him attention. But his mind always clouded back to her.

And she waited, after putting the children back to sleep. She waited all night, on the sofa, hoping he would come back and apologise. But he never did.

Then resentment followed.

STARRING . . . ⁃★

EMMA CORRIN / . . . NAOMIE LEE

✹

THE GYPSIE. ARRANGED.
BAD WIFE AND BETTER MOTHER.

JOE COLE / . . . JOHN SHELBY

✹

THE PEAKY BLINDER. ARRANGED.
BAD HUSBAND AND BETTER FATHER.

ADDITIONAL CAST . . . ⁃★

Thomas Shelby,        Cillian Murphy.
Arthur Shelby,         Paul Anderson.
Polly Gray,         Helen McCrory.
Ada Shelby,          Sophie Rundle.
Michael Gray,         Finn Cole.
Finn Shelby,          Harry Kirton.
Grace Burgess, Annabelle Wallis.
Lizzie Stark, Natasha O'Keeffe.
& VARIOUS CHARACTERS
. . . as described

DISCLAIMER . . . ⁃★

IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT . . .
18+ mature language & content is ahead ( strong language, violence & gore, material that may be disturbing to many readers, sexual content, etc. )

PLEASE BE ADVISED!
this is purely a work of fiction.
layout credit is completely inspired by
tearsricochets — check out her work!!

DEDICATIONS

nellcrains Drwstarkey floraswp loneliestluvr moonysfilms cqntralperk iadymcbth evenfalls

MILLS SPEAKS!

honestly i just made this fic so i could use emma...

hehehe john fic everyoneeee