I woke up listening to all the shouting outside, the dirty window was open letting all the cold inside.

What a night.

"Finn wake up, we need to go to Charlie's yard." I said shaking him a bit until he woke up.

"Okay I'm up." he told me opening his eyes.

"Good." I said getting up setting my bare feet on the freezing floor.

—

Today wasn't a day to celebrate. It was John's funeral today, me and Finn were extremely upset to hear that he was dead because of Luca Changretta.

Everyone wore black for the occasion and we were sat around the table except for Johnny Dogs, Charlie, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Eva. They were stood around the table.

Tommy came over suddenly. "John is dead, Esme's gone on the road. She's taken the kids." that comment made me said, I felt like Esme should be here. It's her husbands funeral.

"Michael is badly wounded, they say it's 60/40 in his favour." Tommy said and Polly turned to reply.

"There is no number, there's no percentages, my son will live." Polly persisted to Tommy.

"Luca had come to take revenge, these men will not leave our city until our whole family is dead. That's how it works, eye for an eye."

Does that mean they will kill me too? Or will I be spared as I have relations to them?

"The bullets been written." Arthur said holding it up.

"Me and the oldest brother, will put this bullet into his fucking head." Arthur continued.

"There's been some bad blood between us." Tommy began and Polly laughed.

Tommy talked about getting men from some Gold guy and Johnny Dogs immediately disagreed calling them 'Bad Men'.

"So this is the plan then, Thomas?" Polly asked "This is the plan." She repeated.

"I've spoke to Moss." Thomas started again and Polly scoffed again.

"Which means here today, in this room, we have to agree to end this war between us. Take a vote." he nodded to us all.

"Peace." Arthur said taking his drink.

"I was never a part of this but peace." Linda voted.

"Peace." Finn agreed behind me and Arthur told him to shut up. Making me raise an eyebrow at him.

He can fucking say piece.

"Why can't I say peace?" He asked Tommy.

"Arthur let him have his say, Finn. Sit at the table." Tommy said and I smiled as Finn sat down.

He leaned back and smiled at me and I obviously smiled back kissing his cheek.

—

I placed a couple roses beside where John laid before moving back to Finn.

"We're like sitting ducks here if the Wops come." Finn pointed out to Charlie.

"Yeah well, Tommy said we should do it in the open." Charlie replied. Making me frown.

That's confusing, this is supposed to be private. Why have it out in the open?

"This is how John wanted to go. On the smoke and the truth is we died together once before. Arthur, me, Danny Whizzbang, Freddie Thorne, Jeremiah and John." Tommy listed.

"We were cut off from the retreat. No bullets left, waiting form the Prussian Calvary to come for us and finish us off. And while we waited Jeremiah said 'we should sing In The Bleak Midwinter' but we were spared. The enemy never came. And we all agreed, that everything after that was extra." Tommy said taking long pauses.

"And when our time came, we'd all remember." Polly began to speak after that comment Tommy gave.

Arthur lit the wood on fire and it began to spread cremating John in the process.

I put my arm around Finn and pulled him close to me. This is going to be hard for him. He loved his brother dearly.

Whilst we watched the fire there were two gunshots and everyone ducked. I stood unbothered watching Tommy. Seriously?

I was definitely livid. Whatever happened it had to have been planned there was a lot of proof. I knew something was off being in the open.

"The men doing the firing are on our side!" Tommy shouted to us all reassuring us. "I took the trouble of getting an invitation to Aberama Gold" Tommy announced.

"You put us out in the open for a purpose." I spat.

"To use Johns fucking funeral fire as a fucking beacon!" I shouted angrily.

"We were never in any danger Rose." Arthur told me.

"You set a trap!" Polly snapped as well.

"Finn? Finn? Go to the yard and light the fires, Rose go with him if you want." Tommy said but I was too angry to move without punching him.

"Rose come on." Finn said taking my arm dragging me away from the scene.

"I can't believe it, that's utter bullshit." I said bewildered.

"I know." Finn said looking down slightly upset.

"It's fucking messed up." I added stopping Finn and hugged him, he just wanted to watch his brother pass on not having to deal with business.

—

I grimaced as I watched Finn and Curly throw a dead body into the boat.

"Not too far and not too deep Curly, I need the message to get through." Tommy said walking up behind me. I rolled my eyes and shook my head at his presence. I'm still angry.

"Okay Tommy." Curly said covering the body.

"Finn go with him." Tommy instructed. "Go on, go with him." he said pointing to the boat.

Finn looked at him with a bothered face. I know he defiantly didn't want to this, I smiled reassuringly towards him as he got in.

"Oh Tom, uh, tell Janet to save some goose, please?" Curly asked Tommy as he walked away.

I followed Tommy to the table and chairs and sat down close to the fire and where Charlie was.

Suddenly out of nowhere these group of guys ask how much for Charlie's yard. Who do they think they are?

"I-It's not for sale." Charlie said stuttering slightly.

"Not for sale?" The guy asked over confidently. "Okay." He said walking along. Weirdo.

"I just took a look around, I like this place." the cocky man said. "Fire for melting silver, canel to get away. How much?" He asked Tommy this time.

"Piss off, Charlie just told you it's not for sale." I told the guy again, standing up to look at him, but also to look more intimidating, to get it through his brain but he just laughed at me.

"Shut up your bastard." I spat again but he didn't listen.

"Nothing here is for sale Mr Gold." Tommy said.

Oh so this is Aberllama Golden guy.

"Oh everything's for sale, everything." He said looking around.

"Oh so can I buy the dog you use for hair on your head?" I asked sassily but he ignored me. This man has a bad attitude.

"You tell Mr strong, I'm going to buy his yard." he said and I rolled my eyes again. If I'm not careful they will be stuck like that one day.

"This yard has been in his family since they settled."

"But I've decided to make it a part of our deal." Aber-I-wear-a-wig said.

"Charlie!" Tommy called. "Charlie come here!" he repeated. "I'm gonna spin a coin for your yard, Charlie." Tommy said and my eyes practically came out of the sockets.

"You're going to what?" Charlie asked angrily.

"If it's heads, Abbie here takes all of this with my blessing." Tommy said to am angry Charlie.

"Tommy." Charlie said in defence trying to get Tommy to stop.

"And if it's tails. I fuck your daughter, Mr Gold." Tommy said and I couldn't help but laugh with Arthur.

Bet that threw him off.

"You have three daughters I hear, and Esmerelda is the oldest and also the prettiest, so I'll have her. So make her a part of the deal and spin against the yard." Tommy ordered.

"Tommy for fucks sake." Charlie shrieked.

"Here toss the coin Mr Gold." Tommy said throwing the coin to Abbie.

Wigness (Abbie) looked around like it was a joke by Tommy immediately shut him down.

I-love-my-hair put the coin in his pocket talking about flowers with his weird voice.

"Hey." I said to Finn who just suddenly came and sat down next to me. "Fun?" I asked teasingly.

"Fuck off." Finn grumbled and I chuckled patting his arm.

We all raised our glass for John and toasted for him.

I heard Johnny and Charlie fight so I turned to watch in amusement.

"Right, put the steel rods up the geese's arse and then put those steel rods above the fire." Johnny ordered him making me laugh.

I watched them argue in amusement and laughed at how he was angry about the potatoes.

The girls soon came as well soon after. I didn't know why, I thought they left because they were angry, at least that's what I was told.

I laughed as Amber-I-need-everything left. Bad guy my arse.

More like annoying rich boys.