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evita-shelby · 2 years
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Nothing More Difficult than Love
Chapter 22
Gif by: @thomasshelbyltd
I'm back, still no definite schedule lol
Cw: slight racism,homophobia and use of a slur, some antisemitism and memtions of past death in the family.
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Grace’s first gala as the future Mrs. MacMillan in New York is met with curious stares and stifled gasps.
“She tried to have Mr. Riley's poor niece deported, so she could steal her husband. What a tramp!” She overhears a society woman tell Clive’s mother and dough faced sisters.
“Mrs. de Souza says she isn’t to be trusted with proper ladies like Miss. MacMillan nor with your good and honest Clive.”
“Miss Burgess is a witch from hell, Mr. Riley told my husband that we are not to invite her to any events he will be attending. He cannot stand her.”
It was then that Grace had had enough and sought refuge in the empty library.
Or at least it had seemed empty when she closed the doors behind her.
“You must've thought you’d seen the last of us.” Israel de Souza smirked as he and the Jew appeared drinking wine on the large emerald green couch.
“I did.” The blonde admits wondering what sort of thing he has up his sleeve.
“Uncle wants you killed, as does Churchill and the Crown, but Eva wants you to live.” The queer man says as he pretends this is was just innocent small talk.
He was harmless, not a soldier, not a criminal.
That faggot wouldn’t hurt her.
The Jew, however, was a legend amongst the agents of the Crown.
She had been one of their best before she handed her resignation and started working independently.
Florence, that was the name she had used at the wedding, was skilled enough to make her death look like an accident.
“Why to feed off my misery?” she asks with a scoff.
“No, believe it or not, Eva is not as pro-murder as the rest of us.” Israel explained as he poured her some whiskey. “Had you touched anyone else, they would’ve killed you with their bare hands after hunting you for sport, but Eva says her killing days are in the past and thinks you’re not a real threat like your former superior.”
“There is a gangster in Boston, Irish mobster named Jack Nelson. He works for the Americans from time to time, and he needs a high society wife of Irish blood now that his good friend, Mr. Roosevelt, has his eye on the White House. If you were to marry him, the Crown wouldn’t be able to touch you.” Florence speaks, still as friendly and charming as she had when they met, but this time Grace knows better.
She placed her trust on the wrong people and now she was here thanking a Jew for her mercy.
Her father would be turning in his grave, he had raised her to dislike those who weren't like them and now she owed her life to two mexicans and jewish woman.
“Funny, isn’t it? You are now to marry the Thomas Shelby of America if you don’t want the government you served to kill you.” Israel smirked.
"You wanted Eva’s husband and now you have Eva’s life." Florence chuckled. "Exiled. Hated by her own people. Marrying a gangster you've never met.
Karma never loses an address, doesn’t it?”
Three weeks later, Grace Helen Burgess Curran marries John Patrick ‘Jack’ Nelson in a lavish affair worthy of a queen.
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“I haven’t had a vision in almost two months.” She whispers when she just can’t fall asleep at night. Tommy can’t sleep either, he’s tried when Eva’s insomnia acts up and Eva can’t sleep when he’s up at night.
“Has that happened before?” he asks pulling her close, letting her snuggle up against him like cat.
“After Gabriel---” she tries to say the words, but the knot in her throat won’t let them pass.
“We’ll go to the midwife tomorrow if you’re worried about Charlie.” He’s afraid too, its there she can feel it in the air.
They’d named their baby boy, they’d bought all the things for him, she feels him alive inside her, it can’t be that. She’d die if their baby died inside of her.
Eva shook her head. She knows it’s not that.
“No, I need to consult a witch.”
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dearshelby · 1 month
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Once again, Tommy Shelby and Eleanor Nelson get on a battle of wits, but will they stick strictly on business? | Jack x Eleanor AU pt. II
Spoiled. That's how Eleanor felt walking through the Garrison lane. So many years living in luxury taught her to despise the humble and the street that was once normal to her, now looked ugly and dirty, unworthy of her.
Inside the pub, Tommy waited for her, cigarette burning on his lips and eyes often wandering to the bottles of whiskey on the shelf. He didn't have a plan or a script to follow, their reunion was scheduled based solely on instinct.
He believed taking Eleanor from Jack's guard would be good for business.
“I left the children alone,” she greeted, “so this has to be quick, what do you have for me?”
“Jack isn't home?” Tommy questioned, observing as he was, he noticed the sorrow underneath her confident tone every time he mentioned her marriage.
“No, honestly, sometimes I wish he'd be more like you as a father,” she spat out, softening her answer with condolences, “I heard your daughter is sick, I'm sorry for that,”
Tommy's jaw clenched, no one outside the family had dared to mention Ruby yet. Family was his anchor and many wouldn't dare cut the rope to it. He sighed, not accepting to be taken off control.
“What do you drink?”
“What are you having?”
“Water,”
“Then water it is,” she weakly smiled, her brummie accent wasn't as strong as his.
He poured her a glass and they sat down together. At first silent, like generals inspecting the enemy's territory before going to battle.
“So?” she asked.
“Before we start, tell me this, why did you accept my invitation?”
“Honesty? I thought I'd be your messenger pigeon,” she admitted.
“Matter of fact?” he arched his eyebrows, “You accepted to come back to Small Heath, to a pub you don't know, to be alone with a man, because you thought I had a message for Mr. Nelson?”
“Thomas,” she scoffed, “I don't know what you're implying but if you're trying to play one of Jane it won't work,”
“Oh, no wish for payback, then?” he nodded, “Good, forgiving women are good,”
“Hm, I wouldn't use that word,”
“You love Mr. Nelson, don't you?”
“We've been married for twenty four years, love doesn't matter anymore,” she mumbled, then counterattacked, “do you love Elizabeth?”
He looked down. Did he? Tommy guessed so. She's been there since forever, he couldn't imagine life without her, but did he love her like a husband should a wife? He didn't know.
“I do,”
“Good,” she licked her lips with malice, “do you love Elizabeth like you loved Grace Burgess?”
Tommy froze, he was never approached about Grace's death, to the point he wasn't ready to be, it was still an open wound, just covered by a bunch of bandages, but nonetheless open.
Luckily, Eleanor carried on, “Y’know, people like the Burgess used to hire Jack's services when he still worked for the italians, they don't like getting their hands dirty, they're agents, inspectors, cavalry, politicians like the Mosleys and like you must've noticed, people like the Mosleys, the Burgess and the Mitfords, don't like people like Jack, like Elizabeth or like me and you,”
“...what's your point, Mrs. Nelson?”
“Call me Eleanor,”
“Hm?”
“There's no point,” she sighed, sipping on her water, “Elizabeth used to go to my sewing shop, she was younger than me and some customers always ripped her clothes, I never charged her to sew it back,”
“Do you want her to write you a thank you letter?” he mocked, hating when people brought up his wife's past.
“No, I just want you to realize people like you are the only ones able to antagonize with Mosley,” she explained, “Jack doesn't see it,”
Tommy gulped, if this business was a chess board, he had no idea of where to place Eleanor. Lately, he wasn't even sure if he was the king, the horse or a simple pawn.
“Now, do you really have nothing for me?” she stared and scoffed at his lack of answer, “Well, take care of yourself, you're thinner since the last time we met,”
With confident slow steps, she left the pub. Tommy was alone again.
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emotionalcadaver · 1 month
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Jumping on the bandwagon with this one! Shout out to @justrainandcoffee for finding this! Also tagging my other Hunger Games AU peeps @evita-shelby, @call-sign-shark, @peakyswritings, and @lunarubra!
Simulation can be found here!
The Bloodbath
As the tributes stand on their podiums, the horn sounds.
Freddie Thorne runs away from the Cornucopia.
Aveline Young runs away from the Cornucopia.
Arthur Shelby runs away from the Cornucopia.
Heaven Lavey grabs a backpack and retreats.
Jack Nelson finds a backpack full of camping equipment.
Tommy Shelby runs away from the Cornucopia.
Luca Changretta runs away from the Cornucopia.
Gina Nelson grabs a backpack, not realizing it is empty.
May Carleton, Michael Gray, and Polly Gray get into a fight. Polly Gray triumphantly kills them both.
Johnny Dogs runs away from the Cornucopia.
Charlie Strong snatches a bottle of alcohol and a rag.
Lucy Winters runs away from the Cornucopia.
Alfie Solomons scares Johanna Mason away from the cornucopia.
Finn Shelby runs away from the Cornucopia.
Grace Burgess takes a handful of throwing knives.
John Shelby and Rose Coldwell fight for a bag. Rose Coldwell gives up and retreats.
Isiah Jesus and Ada Shelby fight for a bag. Ada Shelby gives up and retreats.
Eva Smith snatches a bottle of alcohol and a rag.
Nina Ferrante clutches a first aid kit and runs away.
Day 1
Gina Nelson camouflauges herself in the bushes.
Alfie Solomons stalks Johanna Mason.
Rose Coldwell goes hunting.
Nina Ferrante runs away from Jack Nelson.
Grace Burgess tries to spear fish with a trident.
Eva Smith receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor.
Luca Changretta runs away from Freddie Thorne.
Ada Shelby receives clean water from an unknown sponsor.
Arthur Shelby diverts Lucy Winters's attention and runs away.
Finn Shelby scares Johnny Dogs off.
Charlie Strong questions his sanity.
John Shelby, Tommy Shelby, and Polly Gray hunt for other tributes.
Aveline Young pushes Isiah Jesus off a cliff during a knife fight.
Heaven Lavey hunts for other tributes.
Fallen Tributes
3 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
May Carleton District 4 Michael Gray District 3 Isiah Jesus District 11
Night 1
Heaven Lavey, Jack Nelson, and Aveline Young sleep in shifts.
Charlie Strong screams for help.
Finn Shelby receives fresh food from an unknown sponsor.
Johnny Dogs questions his sanity.
Alfie Solomons loses sight of where he is.
Polly Gray tends to Freddie Thorne's wounds.
Luca Changretta receives an explosive from an unknown sponsor.
Johanna Mason receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor.
Eva Smith and Ada Shelby tell stories about themselves to each other.
Tommy Shelby and Lucy Winters huddle for warmth.
Grace Burgess thinks about home.
John Shelby cooks his food before putting his fire out.
Nina Ferrante, Rose Coldwell, Gina Nelson, and Arthur Shelby tell each other ghost stories to lighten the mood.
*slams hands on desk* Lucy x Tommy is canon you guys my babies are cuddling sajfhsdjkgfhsd 😭😭😭
Day 2
Charlie Strong questions his sanity.
Ada Shelby, Freddie Thorne, Aveline Young, Johnny Dogs, and Polly Gray hunt for other tributes.
Rose Coldwell collects fruit from a tree.
Tommy Shelby and Gina Nelson work together for the day.
Alfie Solomons camouflauges himself in the bushes.
Grace Burgess tries to spear fish with a trident.
Arthur Shelby runs away from Jack Nelson.
Johanna Mason scares Lucy Winters off.
Nina Ferrante, Finn Shelby, Eva Smith, and Heaven Lavey hunt for other tributes.
Luca Changretta hunts for other tributes.
John Shelby makes a wooden spear.
Night 2
Johnny Dogs fends Polly Gray, Grace Burgess, and Luca Changretta away from his fire.
Nina Ferrante stabs Freddie Thorne in the back with a trident.
Finn Shelby overpowers Heaven Lavey, killing her.
Alfie Solomons and Aveline Young sleep in shifts.
Lucy Winters decapitates Rose Coldwell with a sword.
Tommy Shelby screams for help.
Jack Nelson goes to sleep.
Johanna Mason receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor.
Arthur Shelby tends to Charlie Strong's wounds.
Ada Shelby, John Shelby, and Eva Smith sleep in shifts.
Gina Nelson attempts to start a fire, but is unsuccessful.
@call-sign-shark Finn overpowering Heaven has got to be the most hilariously ooc things I've ever heard. As if he would ever actually stand a chance against her. And @justrainandcoffee oh my god please tell Rosie that Lucy is SO SORRY she doesn't know what came over her 🫣
Day 3
Gina Nelson scares Grace Burgess off.
Nina Ferrante tends to Finn Shelby's wounds.
Arthur Shelby receives an explosive from an unknown sponsor.
Charlie Strong bashes Luca Changretta's head in with a mace.
Ada Shelby hunts for other tributes.
Johnny Dogs goes hunting.
Tommy Shelby diverts John Shelby's attention and runs away.
Aveline Young defeats Polly Gray in a fight, but spares her life.
Lucy Winters receives an explosive from an unknown sponsor.
Eva Smith sees smoke rising in the distance, but decides not to investigate.
Jack Nelson and Johanna Mason work together to drown Alfie Solomons.
Fallen Tributes
5 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
Freddie Thorne District 5 Heaven Lavey District 7 Rose Coldwell District 8 Luca Changretta District 1 Alfie Solomons District 9
Night 3
Charlie Strong thinks about home.
Eva Smith, Tommy Shelby, and Jack Nelson sleep in shifts.
John Shelby sees a fire, but stays hidden.
Polly Gray questions her sanity.
Nina Ferrante climbs a tree to rest.
Lucy Winters passes out from exhaustion.
Aveline Young screams for help.
Grace Burgess, Finn Shelby, Gina Nelson, and Johanna Mason sleep in shifts.
Ada Shelby receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor.
Arthur Shelby sets up camp for the night.
Johnny Dogs questions his sanity.
Day 4
Johnny Dogs, Ada Shelby, Lucy Winters, John Shelby, and Arthur Shelby hunt for other tributes.
Aveline Young constructs a shack.
Grace Burgess travels to higher ground.
Eva Smith is pricked by thorns while picking berries.
Polly Gray travels to higher ground.
Tommy Shelby and Johanna Mason fight Gina Nelson and Jack Nelson. Gina Nelson and Jack Nelson survive.
Nina Ferrante kills Charlie Strong for his supplies.
Finn Shelby explores the arena.
Fallen Tributes
3 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
Tommy Shelby District 12 Johanna Mason District 7 Charlie Strong District 4
Night 4
Aveline Young bleeds out due to untreated injuries.
Arthur Shelby receives fresh food from an unknown sponsor.
Lucy Winters, Finn Shelby, Grace Burgess, Polly Gray, and John Shelby sleep in shifts.
Gina Nelson and Johnny Dogs talk about the tributes still alive.
Nina Ferrante tries to treat her infection.
Ada Shelby dies from thirst.
Eva Smith and Jack Nelson tell stories about themselves to each other.
@evita-shelby Do I sense something potentially happening between Eva and Jack? 👀
Day 5
John Shelby stalks Lucy Winters.
Gina Nelson constructs a shack.
Polly Gray severely slices Nina Ferrante with a sword.
Grace Burgess fishes.
Finn Shelby attacks Jack Nelson, but he manages to escape.
Eva Smith questions her sanity.
Johnny Dogs dies from thirst.
Arthur Shelby makes a slingshot.
Fallen Tributes
4 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
Aveline Young District 11 Ada Shelby District 6 Nina Ferrante District 9 Johnny Dogs District 10
Night 5
Finn Shelby and Gina Nelson talk about the tributes still alive.
Arthur Shelby, Polly Gray, and Grace Burgess get into a fight. Grace Burgess triumphantly kills them both.
Lucy Winters forces John Shelby to kill Eva Smith or Jack Nelson. He decides to kill Eva Smith.
The Feast
The cornucopia is replenished with food, supplies, weapons, and memoirs from the tributes' families.
Gina Nelson decides not to go to The Feast.
John Shelby decides not to go to The Feast.
Finn Shelby decides not to go to The Feast.
Jack Nelson and Grace Burgess get into a fight over raw meat, but Jack Nelson gives up and runs away.
Lucy Winters decides not to go to The Feast.
Day 6
Gina Nelson discovers a river.
John Shelby goes hunting.
Grace Burgess attacks Jack Nelson, but he manages to escape.
Finn Shelby sprains his ankle while running away from Lucy Winters.
Arena Event
Monkey mutts fill the arena.
Lucy Winters dies from internal bleeding caused by a monkey mutt.
Grace Burgess dies from internal bleeding caused by a monkey mutt.
Gina Nelson uses Finn Shelby as a shield from the monkey mutts.
John Shelby survives.
Jack Nelson survives.
Noooo my girl 😭 At least she made it pretty far!
Fallen Tributes
6 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
Arthur Shelby District 6 Polly Gray District 3 Eva Smith District 10 Lucy Winters District 12 Grace Burgess District 1 Finn Shelby District 8
Night 6
John Shelby receives clean water from an unknown sponsor.
Gina Nelson destroys Jack Nelson's supplies while he is asleep.
Day 7
John Shelby shoots an arrow into Jack Nelson's head.
Gina Nelson cannot handle the circumstances and commits suicide.
Fallen Tributes
2 cannon shots can be heard in the distance.
Jack Nelson District 2 Gina Nelson District 2
The Winner
The winner is John Shelby from District 5!
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Peaky Blinders Masterlist
[last updated: 7-11-2022]
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Tommy Shelby
Modern Biker AU:
Tommy Shelby x Reader
Songboard/Moodboard
The Next Generation:
Modern Tommy Shelby x Reader/Grace Burgess x Reader
You and Grace are long time friends and became a couple during your adult years, her plans to purpose to you comes to a halt when Tommy, who is pining for you, unexpectedly pops up during your holiday together
Untitled Songboard/Moodboard:
Dark!Tommy Shelby
Welcome Home Lady Shelby:
After five days in the hospital, the new addition to the Shelby family is finally brought home
90s AU:
Songboard/Moodboard
Heart Don’t Stand a Chance:
Tommy gives you a traditional family gift after your wedding
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground:
Tommy finds an abandoned baby at a camp ground
Little Rabbit:
Cowboy AU
A Gangster and a Gentleman:
Joseph Blake has a thing for Tommy’s wife, but he soon hears how it’s not a good idea to make it too obvious
Nowhere, Elsewhere:
Tommy’s adopted daughter attempts to look for her birth parents
60s AU:
Songboard/Moodboard
St. James Infirmary:
Grace is jealous of the love that Tommy still holds for his deceased wife
The Crown’s Jewels:
The Shelby Brothers pull off a robbery during your birthday party
Items in Your Purse
Dedicated:
You and Tommy reminisce about your childhood while camping
Tommy Decides to Keep Cyril
Gospel Truth:
You finally break Tommy after showing your true colors
Wholesome Tommy During Christmas
It’s A Mad House:
The family pulls a Halloween prank on Tommy
Mitsouko:
Tommy calls up the woman he’s having an affair with
Candy Girl:
Tommy is not pleased with the supposed career choice his female friend has chosen
Tommy’s Old Money Wife
Office Hours:
Tommy learns that he’s not on an secret list
Tommy Being His Old Self in Front of His Nephew
Edwardian Era Cowboy AU
[Untitled] Elderly Tommy:
You’re a private nurse for an elderly man named Thomas Shelby, and you hold a strong resemblance to his deceased wife.
Modern Shelby’s During Quarantine
Tommy Can’t Help But Find Amusement In How You Past the Time at a Posh Party
[Untitled] 70s Tommy
The Favorite Series [unfinished]
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Mother to All, Wife to None
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Grace Burgess
Love At First Sight
The Next Generation:
You and Grace are long time friends and became a couple during your adult years, her plans to purpose to you comes to a halt when Tommy, who is pining for you, unexpectedly pops up during your holiday together
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Arthur Shelby
From The Heart:
Arthur gives a best man speech that isn’t as cringy has Tommy expected
Arthur Gets Back Into Drawing
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Michael Gray
The First Time Like The Last Time:
Michael reunites with a childhood friend
The Man With The White Horse:
There were many situations that split mother and son apart, but this might be something that just might separate them forever
Original Characters
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Tommy and His Daughter Get Ready For a Father Daughter Dance
Baby Tulip Shelby During a Picnic
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Alfie Solomons
Cyril Is Going To Be a Father
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Duke Shelby
My Mother’s Keeper
Duke avenges his mother after learning about her haunting past
Critter
Duke brings a new pet home
Jack Nelson
Jack’s Daughter Drabble
Mother to All, Wife to None
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evita-shelby · 2 years
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Eva Nelson
Gif by @retromafia
Fic where she marries Thomas Shelby: Between the Shadow and the Soul
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Eva Smith never goes to England and meets Tommy Shelby, instead she marries Jack Nelson at the behest of her family
Mrs. Nelson
The two Mrs. Nelsons
National Anthem (where the Nelsons have a happy and good marriage as they take over America)
Like an American (one shot series for National Anthem)
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evita-shelby · 2 years
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The coin toss
Grace Burgess x Jack Nelson
This pairing won't leave me alone, so here have this.
Gifs by @kaq-4 and @retromafia
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“You know my grandparents were from Ireland.” Jack Nelson is charming, dangerous and so much like the man who let a coin chose for him that it brings a sweet pain to her heart.
“I heard, Mr. Nelson, must be why we have so much in common.” Grace Burgess smiled and flirted back.
She needed a wealthy husband who could keep her living like she was used to. Am ultimatum set by her uncle after he discovered she had fallen for someone like Thomas Shelby.
Jack Nelson was a star on the rise, much wealthier and better connected than Clive MacMillan and there was just something about the man before her that drew her in.
Like a moth to a flame.
A stupid moth who’d been burned once before and wanted to burn herself again, the Irish woman mused.
“I would like to invite you to dinner sometime, my niece, Gina, will come to make sure we behave ourselves if that is alright with you, Miss. Burgess.” Jack is forward, and while Grace still nursed a broken heart, she found herself saying yes to him.
One dinner turns to a night at the opera a week later and three months after, Grace is married in a wedding big enough to be covered by magazines from both America and the United Kingdom.
She loves him and he loves her the way she is. No need to pretend to be someone else, no need to butt heads with his family and best of all, no filthy slums to live in.
Grace Helen Burgess marries a man who loves the real her and doesn’t mind her capricious nature.
Tommy becomes a fond memory and the reason she is the fabulous Mrs. Nelson who is a particular friend to the President of the United States of America and far more popular than the President’s wife.
Yes, she had thrived and become the woman she could never be with Tommy Shelby.
Its 1934 when she sees him again.
He is married. He is happy and in love with his wife.
It doesn’t hurt her like it did when she saw his wedding announced in the Birmingham Daily so many years ago.
It’s there as they sit with no resentment or lingering feelings that Grace Helen Nelson has an epiphany.
That stupid coin toss changed their lives for the better.
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evita-shelby · 9 months
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Juli, congrats again on your milestone! I realized I haven't sent Eva a question yet. I hope I'm not too late to ask her advice on a few things I feel she'd know a thing or two about:
🌹how to threaten a rival in 10 words or less (Let's pretend we have to send a telegram 😂)
🌹best place to conceal a dagger when wearing an evening gown
🌹how to keep Jack Nelson faithful (v curious about this now that you're writing your new Eva x Jack AU considering his reputation in fanon as a notorious cheater)
Ahhh i love your questions 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Anyways here it is
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Gif by @exit----wounds
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💋 how would I threaten I rival via telegram?
I have killed for lesser reasons. Do not test me.
💋 best place to conceal a dagger?
Thigh garter, obviously. I have a few to spare, my latest dagger from Tiffany and Co. Came with one.
Unfortunately, it is pastel pink and clashes with all my clothes.
💋 how do I keep Jack faithful?
Any woman who even looks at him gets struck with unusually bad luck until they move on from him.
Once I overdid it , I think, and the woman died less than three months into her second marriage.
A shame, she had been fun when we shared her in London after running into her and her first husband there.
Anyways, little Charles MacMillan-Shelby looks just like his elder brothers, Joseph and Jack Jr.
Shh. Don't tell Michael's cousin that, he thinks the boy is his.
There is also another weapon I have for that, I was cursed with an insatiable desire for him after he took my virginity in a confessional booth and he is too busy to fuck anyone else now.
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evita-shelby · 2 years
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The Two Mrs. Nelsons
Inspired by @zablife great Jack Nelson fic White picket chemtrails and other Jack Nelson fics, a theory about Grace's death and also these two songs
Tw: cheating, implied murder, chaos and a plot twist
Gif by @encoreetencore
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“Joseph, sweetheart, don’t stare.” Eva told her eldest son, sixteen years old.
Sixteen years ago she had married Jack Nelson.
And for sixteen years she’d been nothing but loyal.
Poor Mrs. Nelson, a woman kept in a house that looked like a palace.
Having child after child and surviving each birth by a hair.
She hated him.
Her love for him had died long ago.
He had sworn he changed, and like a fucking fool she had believed him.
Teddy was six months old when she discovered the truth.
The telephone number had swirled in her mind while she was under the anesthesia.
The telephone number and visions of her husband and a woman who wore his ring on his finger. Two children, the eldest about the same age her Annie would’ve been and the youngest three months younger than Teddy.
Hello, is this Mrs. Nelson?
The Irish woman hadn’t known about anything. To her Jack had saved her from her gangster husband in England. A man who believed her to be his Angel watching him from heaven.
She had been Grace Shelby, before that she had been Grace MacMillan and before that Grace Burgess.
Now she was Helen Nelson.
Lived in New York City, in a four bedroom house with a maid and did the bookkeeping for Jack’s gang.
To her he was John Nelson who had no children and no wife. She had discovered the truth when Eva and Jack had been photographed with President Roosevelt.
To Eva he’d be her last kill.
As much as it pained her, she’d have to share it with Grace.
It wasn’t like she hadn’t been sharing things with the blonde.
I won't beat around the bush, Helen, you know why I am calling you.
Eva sees cameras flashing when Grace comes in with her children.
Eva smirks when Grace’s husband sees his late wife pretending not to know him.
“Mr. Shelby,” Eva’s voice was sweet, like poison in jars of honey. “Allow me to introduce to you the other wife my husband kept.”
He is speechless, all fury.
"You look like you've seen a ghost, sir." She stokes that fire.
“Ten fucking years, Grace.” Venom dripped from his tongue. “You left me; you left your son. And for what, to be another man’s whore?”
Oh, but what a sweet venom it was.
Perhaps now that Shelby was divorced and she still young and beautiful they could ruin Grace’s life.
Perhaps for the first time in her life, Eva wouldn’t be forced to share.
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evita-shelby · 4 months
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I vaguely remember trying to put all my moodboards on a list but i can't find it , so imma just do it again
Not in order i am afraid
Peaky Blinders
Sophisticated (Grace, Tatiana, May, Diana and Gina)
Miss Shelby
Something in the Orange (Tommy x Lizzie)
Odette (Lizzie Stark/Shelby)
Odile (Grace Burgess/Shelby)
Victor (Jack Nelson hunger games au)
The Black Hand (Luca Changretta hunger games au)
The Peaky Blinder( tommy hunger games au)
Eva x Tommy
A Shelby Christmas
Prosperina
Pluto
Nothing left to say
Paloma Negra
The Pearl Anniversary
The Shelby Children
Charles Absalom Shelby
Diane Elizabeth Shelby
Luca Changretta x Eva
That Yacht Life
Incantatrice
Chiaroscuro (ft @call-sign-shark Heaven and Arthur)
Faith, love and family.
Jack Nelson x Eva
Christmas in Paradise
Magic
Birds of a Feather (ft. @call-sign-shark Heaven Lavey)
Soulmates
My OCs
The Nelsons of Beals Street
Sun to me (hunger games au)
Eva Smith
Mrs Rosenberg (Frida 'Florence' Solomons)
Like Fine Wine (WWII!Eva)
Apex Predator (Eva ft mean girls, Apex Predator and pink)
They did not know we were seeds (hunger games district 10 au)
Others OCs
Wonderland (Eva ft. Heaven Lavey)
Solomons and Shelby (Diane ft @raincoffeeandfandoms Allie Solomons)
Juliusz (@rysko Juliusz Ferenz)
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Inception
Love's a State of Mind
The Fischer Affair
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World on Fire
Kasia x Lois
Robina Chase
Tom Bennett x Diane Shelby
How sweet it is
Ewan Mitchell
Pretty Boy
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Black Panther:Wakanda Forever
Of Gods and Witches
Eva x Namor
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evita-shelby · 2 years
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Fic Masterlist
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Warning: some of my fics may contain smut, horror and unhappy endings
Symbol key
🔞- smut
👻- horror
☠️- unhappy endings
Eight Pounds (Tommy and Lizzie, parts one and two) ☠️
Reader inserts
Between the Shadow and the Soul (tommy x Eva Smith (oc))
Nothing more difficult than love (tommy x Eva Smith (oc))
Mrs. Nelson (parts one and Two) (jack nelson x Eva Smith (oc))
You read me poetry while I wash the dishes (tommy x oc)🔞
The duke of saxon shore (Tommy x Eva; Eunice Smith(oc) x Duke)
Incantatrice (luca changretta x Eva Smith (oc))🔞
Cursed (Grace x Tommy ,some Jack Nelson x Grace part one and part two)☠️👻
The coin toss (jack nelson x grace burgess)
Necromancy (Brilliant Chang x Eva Smith (OC)
An Unholy Alliance (Season 1!Grace finds an unlikely and untrustworthy ally in Eva Smith)
Give me Joy till morning (the sandman/peaky blinders crossover)☠️👻
Anything. (Where Grace, May and Lizzie make a deal with a demon for Tommy)☠️👻
A different sort of man (where (sort of)Canon!Tommy accidentally switches places with Eva’s!Tommy)
The witch and the scarecrow (Eva x Johnathan Crane)
National Anthem (Jack Nelson x Eva)🔞
Garden of Eden (Heaven Shelby(@call-sign-shark oc) x Eva, Heaven x Arthur, Tommy x Eva)🔞
Love is a state of mind (Robert Fischer x Eva
A witch and a rose (Eva & Rose Coldwell-Solomons(@raincoffeeandfandoms oc))
Modern!Tommy x Eva
Like an American (Jack x Eva oneshots)🔞
Solomons and Shelby (Diane Shelby and Allie Solomons(@raincoffeeandfandoms oc))
12 Days of Smuff🔞
The view from the window (tommy x luca, ft eva x tommy x luca)
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When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love. <3
Thank you 😊
Promise of forever (luca x oc(eva smith))
The lake (luca x reader)
Necromancy (brilliant chang x oc(eva smith))
The coin toss (jack nelson x grace burgess)
You read me poetry while i wash the dishes (tommy x oc (eva smith) oneshots)
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