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Seize the Day

Life so reckless, Tragedy endless Welcome to the family

Dot Marsh has known the Shelby family for as long as she could remember. Her father worked for them and Polly babysat her, she grew up alongside Tommy and they bonded over being motherless.

It was always assumed there was something more between her and Tommy. Both by Dot herself and by the people surrounding them. They were close, they were similar, she was good helping out the family business…they loved each other.

Then Tommy has to go off to war and everything changes.

“Miss Marsh! Wh-what are you doing here?”

She grinned as her boots kicked up some of the straw lining the barn floor “How many times Curly? Please call me Dot,” she said in a breezy tone, plucking a pitchfork from where they were lined up against the wall up into her grasp she made her way over to where the work was being done “And I’m here because, unlike those lazy boys, I don’t mind getting my hands dirty,” she said as she began to help pile the manure heap up.

Curly looked uncomfortable as he shifted on the spot slightly and reached up to scratch the back of his neck “Mr Tommy won’t like this.”

“Well Mr Tommy can-“

“What? Mr Tommy can what?”

A small gasp left the odd job man, who had been with the family for as long as she could remember, beside her as she froze. Pursuing her lips together she straightened up and turned on the spot to face where the serious tone had come from.

Thomas Shelby was standing, hands in his pockets, staring at her with a slight frown dipping his eyebrows. His jaw was tensed and she couldn’t help but mirror his expression as she stared right back and thought over what to reply. “Stop being a bastard,” Dot replied defiantly as she arched an eyebrow beneath the peak of her flat cap “Mr Tommy can stop being a bastard.”

They continued to glare across to one another with terrifying steely looks on both of their faces for another long minute. Standing to the side Curly watched on as Dot leaned against her pitchfork and tilted her head to one side.

“Only you could get away with talking to me like that girl,” Tommy finally broke the silence as a grin jumped to his lips.

“I’m not scared of no Tommy Shelby,” Dot scoffed before she allowed a grin of her own to come to her face. Dropping the pitchfork to the floor she crossed over and flung her arms around her best friend in a welcoming hug “You came back alive then,” she said as she stepped away, reaching up to raise his chin with her pointer finger so she was able to check him for any obvious injuries.

“Sorry to disappoint,” he answered as he slapped her hand away “You’re wearing one of my hats,” he said narrowing his eyes as he flicked the peak.

Dot frowned as she dodged away from him “I think you’ll find this one is mine. Arthur gave it to me while you were away, said it’s about time I had one of my own even if it doesn’t come with the alterations yours do.”

Tommy’s lips pressed together into a severe line wishing he could take the hat from her so she wasn’t as easily identifiable as one of them but knowing she’d probably kick his arse “Now. Curly’s right,” he said changing the subject as he pushed his hands deep into his pockets “What are you doing down here?”

“You know I like being with the horses,” she said with a shrug “And how much I dislike being penned in in the office.”

He thought over her words for a few seconds before he nodded his head once “Ten more minutes,” he said, raising his eyes to the sky when she began to shake her head “Dot. I’m taking Monaghan Boy out and I want you to come with me. Ten more minutes.”

A smile slowly came to her lips before she nodded in agreement “Ten more minutes it is.”

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