Before the Great War, Y/N was one of the few people who could quiet Tommy Shelby’s restless mind. She had grown up alongside the Shelbys, and while the two never spoke the words aloud, everyone could see the way Tommy watched her—as if she were the only future he had ever truly wanted. He planned to ask for her when the war was over, believing that no matter what happened in France, he would come home to her. But while Tommy was away, Y/N’s world fell apart. After losing the last of her family and unable to bear the grief that Birmingham held, she vanished without a goodbye. When Tommy returned from the trenches, haunted and broken, he searched for her everywhere. Every familiar street, every face in the crowds, every rumor became another dead end. She was simply… gone. Though he eventually married Grace, a part of his heart never stopped wondering what had become of the girl he had loved long before the war changed him. Years after Grace’s death, Y/N unexpectedly returns to Birmingham to settle her family’s estate. The moment Tommy sees her again, the years between them disappear, and every feeling he buried comes rushing back. This time, he refuses to let her slip away. Patient where he was once guarded, relentless where he was once silent, Tommy is willing to chase her for as long as it takes—determined to prove that, despite everything they have lost, she has always been the home he spent years searching for.