#i got strong hints of unwilling!tommy dynamic so what’s her hold

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in a cage with lions, i learned to speak lion (part 1) - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

STANDS ALONE / Part 1

Post S1-E6 and pre S2-E1. Maybe Tommy comes to apologise after the business in the car about John.

When men came saying they wanted to make sure you were alright, but what they really wanted was forgiveness for what they’d done, always wanting something for themselves.

Well, she wasn’t sweet or good or simple, and he was a cold cruel clever thing, and she wanted something for herself, too.

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Explicit | Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark | Alley Sex, Rough Sex, Consent Issues, Power Issues, Unhealthy Relationship, Complicated Relationship, Shame, Longing, Manipulation

#My writing #peaky blinders fanfic #peaky blinders #tommy x lizzie #tommy shelby #lizzie stark #Part 2 will be what happens post Epsom race day #because why oh why did lizzie evidently just ‘show up to work the next day’ after being pimped out like that #I feel like early series tommy/lizzie isn’t hurt/comfort #but rather shame/pride #Also the s2 sex scene between them was so powerfully weird #i got strong hints of unwilling!tommy dynamic so what’s her hold #yes i know he was heading off to an assassination he didn’t want to do either #But the way he threw the money down and raised his eyebrows at her #And how desperately Lizzie was trying to pretend that very mediocre root was any good at all and that there was some kind of intimacy #when Tommy’s still out having passionate threesomes actually brought back to his bed and invested sex with other random women #And instead using lizzie as dispassionately as he possibly could #So yeah there was a major Shame Dynamic on his part specific to lizzie and i was Most Interested in a possible how and why #But also he always always always has all the power and the cards #so what that makes of an unwilling!tommy dynamic where he still actually has to be willing because otherwise it doesn’t happen #complex complex