Armistice
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Whatever Tommy wants to say to her, Lizzie doesn’t care. She doesn’t. And yet, looking at him now, she finds herself falling into the same old trap. The same old habit. Arthur with his snow, Tommy with his drink…she’s an addict too, just as much as them. It’s weeks since she tore herself away from Thomas Shelby, but she looks at him now and can’t say no.
Or: Tommy comes to see Lizzie, after 6.06.
Here be spoilers.
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- Part 1 of Armistice
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Tommy calls on Sunday, as promised.
She hasn’t told Charles about seeing his father last week. He’s struggling enough, the poor kid, without having his hopes raised. He’s taken the last few months so hard. Losing his sister, and barely seeing his father, and then Lizzie walking away from the marriage…it’s not been easy for him. Lizzie loves him with all her heart, and she’s selfishly glad that he chose to come with her, but she knows he’s having a tough time. She knows she can’t make up for what he lacks. For all Tommy’s faults, he’s still Charles’s father, and poor little Charlie desperately wants his father’s love and care. He doesn’t need to have his hopes raised just to be dashed yet again.
But the telephone rings at eleven o’clock on the dot.
Or: it will take a month of Sundays for Lizzie - and Charlie - to start forgiving Tommy.
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- Part 2 of Armistice
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For nearly five years Tommy’s been cold, distant, holed up behind a wall he’d built between them. The wall’s gone now, and here he is again, a living breathing man who seems intent on proving himself to her.
Lizzie likes it, the way he seems to want to keep her close. The softness in him. He’d told her, once, that he still wanted soft things. Good things. It seems he’s finally allowing himself to ask for them. Because that’s what this all feels like, to her. It feels like Tommy asking for good, soft things from her.
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- Part 3 of Armistice