llxcifers / izabela presents
( a Peaky Blinders story )
" WRITTEN FOR ME "

          IT HAUNTS YOU — THE PAST. It crawls up your back, it claws at your skin and scars its way to your throat. With a tug, it nags you awake in the nights when you pray for your rest and reminds you, you are enslaved to the flashes of horror that you've endured. Alone, as it wants you to be, it's hard to see a glimmer in all that darkness.

She was a glimmer.
His glimmer.

          THE WAR WAS A THIEF in Jacqueline Alloways' life. In May 1917, it stole from her side her two brothers and her father — they were drafted. No later than two months after their departure, it shamelessly stole her mother too — she couldn't live knowing nothing of her boys, so in late July 1917, Amity Alloways was buried without a priest on the hill overlooking the Alloways estate.

Consumed by greed, as all foul creatures are, the war kept taking, showing no signs of satisfaction, never once taking pity in how much it stole from young Jackie — shortly after her mother's death, she volunteered to join the ANC and left America in an attempt to see her brothers one last time. Instead, she was stationed in the French Army field hospital, not to hear or see her remaining family for two more years.

It didn't stop taking, this war to which she was one amongst many to fall victim to — once the war was over and they were sent back, the bittersweet reunion of the Alloways' siblings, left orphaned by the torching horrors of mankind, returned to an estate in collapse, emptied by thievery.

The world had already stolen too much from Jackie for her to even hear the promises of the law enforcement that the thieves were being tracked. No — there was only so many slaps one could take obediently silent before their knuckles whitened and they started fighting back. Within three months from their return to ruination, the Alloways' raised from the ashes an import-export empire, on the foundation of an industry masking a smuggling operation they hijacked in full from the thieves who raided their home while they were away at war.

Rum-running was not the end, but merely the beginning of the Alloways' becoming an underground famed middle-man operation for selling and buying goods like no other ...

          AKA . . .    In which Jackie Alloways and her little brother arrives in Birmingham to strike a deal with Kimber regarding some horses of questionable origin, only to meet Thomas Shelby, a man she was nurse to in France, during the war. " The past — it haunts you, and that one good memory is your salvation. "

━━━━━━ ༻ MAIN CAST ༺ ━━━━━━

Florence Pugh as
JACQUELINE " JACKIE " ALLOWAYS

Cillian Murphy as
THOMAS SHELBY

Dylan O'Brien as
GENE ALLOWAYS

Ben Whishaw as
LESTER ALLOWAYS

━━━━━━ ༻ SOUNDTRACK ༺ ━━━━━━

I.    FRIENDS by Chase Atlantic
—    " heart on your sleeve like you've never been loved .. "

II.    WHY'D YOU ONLY CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE HIGH? by Arctic Monkeys
—    " incapable of making alright decisions, and having bad ideas .. "

III.    GANGSTA'S PARADISE by Coolio
—    " but i ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it .. "

IV.    AFTERLIFE by XYLØ
—    " i'm bad luck, baby, you know, it follows me around everywhere i go .. "

   ETC ..

YOU WERE WRITTEN FOR
ME, THOMAS SHELBY ...

NEVER FORGET THAT.

DISCLAIMER |    This is a work of fiction based off of the events depicted by the TV show "Peaky Blinders", with loose inspirstions from real life. I only claim right over my own original characters added to the story, and thus their afferent backstories and alterations brought to the events. Unless stated otherwise, all graphics and visuals featured in this book have been made by me. Please do not steal anything.

COPYRIGHT |    llxcifers / izabela

RATING |    Rated Mature.

TIMELINE |    From Season 1, Episode 3 forward.

DEDICATIONS |  
First and foremost to -folklorist, with whom I am watching Peaky Blinders for the first time as we speak ( currently on Season 2 so y'all better give me no spoilers alright? ) and with whom I have discussed this plot the most. Now, my friend here is also writing a Peaky Blinders book of her own that will involve an adorable pair of original characters and an amazing look into morality sooo, check it out <3

Also, I would like to dedicate this book to a handful of gorgeous souls who hyped up the idea of me writing this fic ! Love you all <3 This fic happens thanks to youuu

dannyshearts newtaholic Abeth98
Sophie_Page19 raichia Winter326
timelessmelody- @everlxstingphoenix
pipster_pb crudelove courscants
DDDRAGONHEARTS aIicenthightowers
pychohale Anscouldnever
saccharineblues
eldriidd

NOTES |   
• could talk hourssss about Jackie and Tommy, like the genuinely have my whole heart at this point ; on so many levels, one could say they are alike, but perhaps because of that, I feel they are exactly what the other needs. Get ready for some real soft moments between them once we get past the odd reunion after France.

• The Alloways are gonna be badasses, no doubts there 😎

• Can't believe I put off for so long watching Peaky Blinders, honestly shame on me.. The show is sooo good — like except for the part where they fucked up and confused Romani with Romanian, while also butchering the latter when spoken ( I am too much of a patriot not to cringe at things like these ), this show is stellar and I am loving it so far !! I know this old friend of mine I am not in contact with anymore ( mostly my fault there ) is very unlikely to be reading this, but if she somehow happens here: you were right. I do like this show, should have started it when you told me ughhh.