Truly Mrs Shelby [T. Shelby || Peaky Blinders || Shelby's Girl Book 3]

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Tommy was taken to the hospital, in a theatre room, Tommy was laying on a bed as a doctor and nurse stood with Ada and Leonardo, "He was in the war. He was in a tunnel collapse. He won medals. Take care of him," Ada said before the two of them left Tommy in the hospital.

Tommy spent three months recovering in the hospital with physical therapy and remembering the past of the war and how he coped before Astella came back into his life.

Three months later, Tommy stood in his room, in his underwear, taking his medicine when a nurse walked in, "Here he is, Mr Shelby," She said.

"Thank you, nurse," Daniel and Michael said as she left.

Michael and Daniel walked up to him, "Tommy. We need to speak to you about the priest," Tommy was smoking his cigarette, "I know things about him," Tommy hummed, "From when I was a... From when I was a boy. We will shoot him ourselves, Tommy. Just teach me how to shoot," Michael said.

"Thought my uncles taught you," Daniel said.

"No," Michael said.

Tommy scoffed, "It's easy, Michael. Just point. Pull the trigger," Tommy said bluntly and took some more of his medicine as the two boys looked at each other and left.

A few weeks later, Tommy was allowed home and he laid in his bed with Charles and William sat in Astella's spot, he watched as Astella walked around their bed without her crutches, her arms stretched, ready to grab herself as she reached her dressing table and sat on her stool, "You're getting better," Tommy said.

Astella looked at him through the mirror, "I guess so... All I feel is a pain in my legs when I walk too much... My doctor thinks I should get back to normal... Come back from the dead, sort of thing," Astella looked through her jewellery, "I said I'd think about it... Oh and, honey, be careful of where you leave your morphine, the boys are in their stages of grabbing anything and putting it in their mouths, they've tried grabbing mine a lot when I wasn't careful," Astella said.

Tommy sat up and grunted as Astella was looking at a necklace before looking at him, "I'm okay," He said.