Another love

Part Forty - Eight

"Tommy said I did all right." Michael replied.

Sarah let Michael take a moment before speaking up "Ok this is where we think Charles is being held," she told him as she passed a piece of paper with the address on "They're not expecting anybody, so he should be alone."

"There is two good men there. You do what they say." Arthur explained, gesturing to the men stood not to far from them.

"But I fire the bullet. All right?" Michael confirmed.

"Yes, you can be there. But it's better if they do it. See, these are experienced men, Michael. When you're sure the kid is safe, you call Finn." Arthur told him in a fairly soft voice.

"Alright." Michael nodded.

Sarah knew that Michael wouldn't listen to them, but she just hoped that he'd accept his consequences when they were given to him, and not go running to Pol for back up.

       

The Peaky men and Sarah stood between the out of order trains on the now abandoned tracks as Arthur explained the plan and paced the tracks they were stood on.

"This locomotive couples in 15 minutes. If we don't hear word by 10:00, we blow it up." Arthur told him taking a swig from his hip flask.

"There are men on board, Arthur." Their uncle Charlie said as he held a cigarette in his hand.

"Yeah. Six men on board, Charlie. Driver, stoker and four men I hand-picked myself." Arthur told them nodding to himself "Me and John picked those men. So it is me and John who will pull the switch." Arthur told them as he stopped next to John who was also swigging out of his own hip flask.

"I'm doing it with you." Sarah told them as she took John's hip flask and drank some from it before placing it back in his hands.

"Sarah-" John started

"The rest of you men can go home." Arthur commanded them as John pulled Sarah aside.

"We're family. You're my brothers, we're in this together." The two brothers looked at each other trying to decide what to do "It's at least a three person job, if Cain was 'ere he'd be doing it with you, wouldn't he? Well, wouldn't he?"

John and Arthur nodded reluctantly "Alright."

They didn't want to rip Sarah's soul apart even further but knew there was nothing they could do to stop her, not to mention it wasn't the first time she'd killed. The three of them were quick setting up the dynamite along the tracks, with John setting the traps and Sarah double checking that they'd tied the wires securely, as Arthur dragged the coil behind him. All three of them keeping their eye on their watches to make sure they were off the tracks in time. Before eventually taking cover in one of the train stop shelters whilst they waited. John and Sarah exchanged a look as they both warmed up their hands, they'd both seen Arthur's broken face and were silently deliberating which one of them would be pulling the trigger instead of him. The sound of a nearby train whistle made Sarah look out to the tracks before back to John and Arthur, the latter slowly kneeling up ready to blow the train. Sarah's heart pounded hard as the train rolled past them, steaming ahead onto their wired tracks.

"Who wants to be in heaven, eh?" Arthur said between the sound of the train chugging "Who wants to be in heaven when you can be sending men to fucking hell."

John let out a dry chuckle as both he and Sarah got up and went over to Arthur's side.

"Let me-" Sarah tried, but John Stood in her way, not even giving her a chance to offer her services.

"I will do it, Arthur. Eh? I'll do it." John told his brother. Both he and Sarah had silently vowed that Arthur had come too far and worked through too many of his demons to have to live with this.

"I told Tommy I'd do it, so I'll do it." Arthur said as he got ready.

"Whichever one of you is doing it, you need to do it now, brother." Sarah said to them, glancing out the window. As Arthur prepared to trigger the explosion, Sarah heard Finns voice.

"Arthur, wait!"

"Finn!" Sarah screamed as she saw him running over the tracks. Worried that he was about to get caught in the explosion, she ran out from the hut over to him, only hearing what he was saying once she got to him.

"Charlie is safe." He shouted, his eyes widening in horror as the explosion went off.

Sarah quickly pushed Finn down onto the tracks to shield him from the explosion, feeling him shaking as the noise died down. It was over, it was all over all that was left to do was destroy the paper trail, which was fairly easy given the fact that they were surrounded by fire.

A/N - so we're nearly at season four which I'm kinda nervous to write but also excited x