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1. Crippled bird by Funnygirl00

   Fandoms: Peaky Blinders (TV), Peaky Blinders RPF  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   07 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Tommy Shelby/Original Female Character(s)
   • Tommy Shelby/Katherine Carter/Kovach
   • Tommy Shelby
   • Katherine Carter/Kovach
   • John Shelby
   • Arthur Shelby
   • Polly Gray
   • Lizzie Stark
   • Grace Burgess
   • Chester Campbell
   • Billy Kimber
   • Vicente Changretta
   • Anna Gray (Peaky Blinders)
   • Post-World War I
   • Nurses & Nursing
   • Rape Recovery
   • Rape/Non-con Elements
   • Healing
   • Orphans
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Heartache
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • Love
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • True Love
   • Tommy Shelby is Bad at Feelings
   • Touch-Starved Tommy Shelby
   • Soft Tommy Shelby
   • Love Triangles
   • Forehead Kisses
   • Angst
   • Drama
   • Family Drama
   • Sad with a Happy Ending
   • Falling In Love
   • Gentleness
   • Gentle Kissing
   • Gentle Sex
   • Loss of Virginity
   • Loss of Innocence
   • Pain
   • Protectiveness
   • Title from a Dolly Parton Song
   • Song: Crippled bird (Dolly Parton)
   • Rescue
   • Touch Aversion
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • Eye Contact
   • Trauma
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Burn
   • John Carter (ER TV 1994) - Freeform
   • Tommy Shelby Has a Heart
   • Therapy
   • Touching
   • Forehead Touching

   Summary

   November 18th was a good day for Tommy Shelby. It was the day he and his brothers had boarded a ship and were returning home. For Nurse Katherine Carter, it was the worst day of her life and he witnessed her violation. All alone and broken, Thomas Shelby offers her shelter with his family. As she recovers slowly, she watches Thomas start to fall in love with Grace Burgess. But then, she can't blame him. After all, who would ever love a broken bird like her in the first place?

   Series

   • Part 29 of Kate & Tommy

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   65,499

   Chapters:

   30/?

   Comments:

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