Peaky Blinders

Tommy/Grace

Thomas Shelby/Grace Burgess

The undercover agent sent to spy on the Shelbys and the gangster who saw through her anyway define Peaky Blinders' great doomed love. Grace's death calcifies Tommy for the rest of the series, and fic lives in the timeline where the garden party goes differently.

1,000 works

What is Tommy/Grace?

Tommy/Grace is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Thomas Shelby and Grace Burgess from Peaky Blinders. With over 1,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.

Why fans love Tommy/Grace

A spy and her mark falling genuinely in love is betrayal with no villain, just two liars who told each other the truth once.

Most Popular Tommy/Grace Fanfics

The highest-rated Tommy/Grace stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.

1

Chrome and candlelight season 2: The Quiet War

by kylejames182

Thomas Teller is bleeding inside Mercy General. Judy Alvarez and Tara Knowles-Teller are fighting to keep him alive. Claire Russell refuses to leave his side. Valerie Teller Silverhand has to hold the house together while the shooter is still somewhere inside the hospital walls.Chibs is dead. Rita W

4 kudos 18,499 words ~74 min read Mature
Season 2 POV Third Person Cyberpunk Biker AU
2

Of war, vacations and taking over England

by Chaos_fairy2

Danny needed a vacationTommy needed to secure the future of his familyAnd maybe they also needed each other. •Experiencing war first hand gave me a new perspective on Tommy's character that I wanted to write.Also, I haven't seen this paring yet and wanted to change that.This is my first work and Eng

52 kudos 8,685 words ~35 min read Mature
Canon Rewrite Family Feels Family Drama
3

The One and Only Mrs. Grace Shelby

by Pbcmawsc012

So, it’s been years now since I’ve been in utter denial about Grace Shelby being dead.. I mean … they didn’t show me her dead body soooo .. you never know …. Am I right?!Here is one of the many ways I’ve thought about how Grace could still be alive.Is it far fetched?Absolutely.Is it possible?Probs n

404 kudos 97,640 words ~391 min read Mature
tommy shelby - Freeform Grace Shelby - Freeform Tommy finds out Grace is actually alive
4

Absent

by afinecollector

[Story repost due to deletion] Tommy lives with the fallout form a traumatic brain injury in his teens, and navigates a love life, a working life, and a family life that all seems to be massively impacted by that injury - sometimes, it feels like everyone else is more affected than he is, and someti

67 kudos 52,155 words ~209 min read Mature
Medical Seizures Epilepsy
5

Out of the Trenches and Into the Light

by GraceFoundMe

"There’s a woman whom I love and I almost got fucking everything!" In a field outside Birmingham, Tommy Shelby realized what truly mattered. In a sterile hospital room days later, a miracle cemented that lesson forever. With Grace firmly by his side, the ghosts of the Somme are laid to rest, and the

7 kudos 2,380 words ~10 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Grace Burgess Lives Ruby Shelby is Grace Burgess' Daughter
6

In the Bleak Midwinter

by AmberTheFantasy

When Maria Belrose returned from France and rekindled her relationship with her old partner, she didn't expect for it to end with her stumbling into the arms of the Peaky Blinders. But she couldn't say she hated the results.

84 kudos 13,573 words ~55 min read Mature
Canon-Typical Violence Canon Compliant At this point
7

Bang Bang, Tommy

Complete

by Inkandroses07

"Bang bang, Tommy."Elijah Sterling was Thomas Shelby's first love, his oldest friend, and the one person who knew every version of him before the world turned him into a Shelby.Then Elijah comes back dying.Instead of asking for help, he decides to make Thomas hate him.Threats. Blood. Kidnappings. As

4 kudos 35,699 words ~143 min read Not Rated
Past Relationship(s) Lovers to Enemies One Shot
8

Modern Day Tommy and Grace

by Garrisonwriter

This is a modern day Tommy and Grace love story. I hope you love it!

92 kudos 47,291 words ~190 min read Not Rated
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The Devil's Boy

by Anonymous

A moment later, Tommy hears footsteps and— A boy appears. He must only be in his early 20s. The first thing Tommy notices is his hair. Thick, dark curls, pinned back a little, although some stubborn locks are flying free.  He’s dressed in a dark shirt, the material cut to fit his slim frame. A silve

129 kudos 48,460 words ~194 min read Explicit
Period-Typical Homophobia Violence Angst
10

A Shot in the Dark (Book 1)

Complete

by Anonymousewrites

Found Family! Peaky Blinders and Teen! Reader (Y/N) (L/N) left France to leave behind all that they had lost. However, Birmingham is its own place of battle. The Shelby Family might patrol the streets, but that doesn't mean that other forces aren't brewing, from the IRA to other gangs. All the same,

61 kudos 27,332 words ~110 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Fluff and Angst Angst Hurt/Comfort
11

Shvibzik

by paigeee_aaa

After escaping a brutal massacre that wiped out her family and shattered her world, Nastia arrives in England with nothing but pain and unanswered questions. Rejected by the cold halls of the English aristocracy, she is left to fend for herself in the unforgiving streets of Birmingham. Haunted by tr

430 kudos 598,313 words ~2394 min read Explicit
The Garrison Pub (Peaky Blinders) The Peaky Blinders Tommy Shelby Has Issues
12

THIEF

by nosferotic

After a robbery at the betting shop, Tommy Shelby sets himself to find and punish whoever could dare to fuck with the Peaky Blinders. Only to be faced with his first real opponent, a young woman with nothing to lose and a temper to challenge Arthur’s.

447 kudos 44,684 words ~179 min read Explicit
Slow Burn Enemies to Lovers Love Triangles
13

Before the War

by QUIRUZ

Antes de convertirse en el hombre que todos temen, Tommy Shelby fue solo un chico en Small Heath... y no estuvo solo. Años después, con el peso de la guerra y un imperio criminal sobre sus hombros, el pasado vuelve a Birmingham.Y con él... alguien que recuerda exactamente quién era Tommy antes de ro

2 kudos 3,873 words ~16 min read Mature
14

The Storyteller of Small Heath

by DoctorGemini

"Where did that crusty old winged freak send me off to?!" If someone went up to Sarah and told her that a weeping angel would take her from her home in 2026 and drop her not only in the 1920s but in the Peaky Blinders 1920s, she would have asked which episode and season of Doctor Who that came from

197 kudos 34,001 words ~137 min read Explicit
Organized Crime Alternate Universe - 1920s Drama
15

Bad Dreams

by Haileydotexe

After the War, everyone had their vices. Arthur and Tommy are similar in that case. Arthur struggles with mental health and hurts himself more than figuratively. And he comes to Tommy about it because he's injured, and he doesn't know what to do. The Shelby Family deals with the situation the best w

5 kudos 1,715 words ~7 min read Not Rated
POV Arthur Shelby Sad Tommy Shelby POV Tommy Shelby
16

—of flesh and bone

by Eli_The_Magic_Duck

Family is a touchy topic for Morgana Lein, someone who craves the fiery heat of the ER and the gentle warmth of her parents' hugs equally as much. Thats why she'll do anything to get back to her own time when she's thrown into the first world war in a ten year old's body— as soon as she has time to

88 kudos 6,398 words ~26 min read Not Rated
Tommy Shelby Needs a Hug Tommy Shelby Has Issues Parent Tommy Shelby
17

I Stayed Where You Didn’t Look

Complete

by velvetgraveyard

Eric Langley loved Thomas Shelby in the quiet ways—the ones that never interrupt, never demand, never ask to be chosen. He stayed through everything: childhood, war, silence, and the slow realization that he would never be the person Thomas turned toward. And still—he stayed. Until the night a bulle

37 kudos 17,429 words ~70 min read Mature
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Sacrifice Dying In Someone’s Arms
18

Ashes and Embers | Peaky Blinders | Tommy x Fem Character | Season One

by NaenyaTargoose

A Peaky Blinders Story1919. The war is over-but some battles never end.Catherine Guthrie arrives in Birmingham with nothing but a battered suitcase and the ghosts of men she couldn't save. A former field nurse from Bristol, she's traded blood-soaked bandages for smoke-stained streets, desperate to l

234 kudos 24,993 words ~100 min read Mature
Original Character(s) Family Drama Family
19

The White Dove

by Periwinkles29

"She's the only heavenly thing he's ever believed in. The only creature in his merciless, cruel land who could kill him with the purity of her sins. And at times, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does." Small heath had always been a purgatory of poverty and brutality, a land that spun around

108 kudos 6,384 words ~26 min read Not Rated
Original Character(s) Possessive Tommy Shelby Tommy Shelby Has Issues
20

The Death of Grace Shelby

by George_135

For Thomas Shelby, the war did not end in France. It continues on the marble floor of The Birmingham City Hall as he watches the soul fade from his beloved wife's eyes. Explore Tommy's immediate reaction to the death of his wife, and the days that follow.

85 kudos 61,459 words ~246 min read Mature
Canon Compliant Canon-Typical Violence Canonical Character Death

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What does Tommy/Grace mean?

Tommy/Grace is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Thomas Shelby and Grace Burgess. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.

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There are over 1,000 Tommy/Grace fanfiction works on Archive of Our Own.

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