Tommy focussed intently on the broken door latch on the floor which the girl had just torn from the wood of the doorframe before she had exited the office. All his family members however, settled for staring at him.

Thoughts were racing through his mind as he stared. Who the fuck was that girl? She had impossible strength and speed. Tommy played with the idea that he was asleep and that he had been dreaming but from the very real reactions of his family he concluded he had indeed been awake. Her accent was certainly Brummie, which was the only familiar thing about her. He thought back to just a few minutes earlier when there had been a deafening boom, a flash of light and then this girl along with a man with a disfigured face had crashed into his very expensive meeting table out of thin air. Then she had fought this creature with an impressive amount of skill before lifting him above her head to bury some wood into his chest. Tommy questioned his ability to trust his own eyes because his brain was struggling to accept that the man she had stabbed with a piece of wood had then exploded into a cloud of dust.

Vampire slayer. That's what she had called herself. Impossible, vampires aren't real, thought Tommy. But the girl's words rang in his head:'How else would you explain what you just saw?'Then another thought crossed Tommy's mind in that moment: I can't let that girl get away.

'Finn,' he finally spoke, turning to his youngest brother. Finn's face was white as a sheet as he stared at the door after the girl for a couple of seconds before responding.

'Yeah, Tom?' he responded, finally looking at Tommy.

'Follow her,' Tommy ordered. Finn along with everyone else began to protest angrily.

'What the fuck Tom! You saw what she did…' started Finn but he quickly trailed off, already knowing that protesting was futile. Tommy knew he would do as he asked, even if it meant following this woman.

'You can't be seriously considering sending your own brother after that woman?!' protested Ada. Tommy turned to look at her and Polly who were looking back at him disdainfully.

'Of course, he his,' droned Polly venomously. 'Even when the strange woman appears out of nowhere and destroys our office. Tommy Shelby still thinks with his cock.'

Tommy huffed and pinched the bridge of his nose in irritation. The annoying thing was he knew Polly wasn't entirely wrong. The kiss this stranger had just pulled him into replayed in his head, and he felt his blood swiftly start to flow somewhere other than his brain. Her lips had been soft, as had the skin of her waist. He had also felt the solid, steel-like muscles of her torso under that soft skin, like the muscles he had felt in her arm. What was she? Was what she was saying about being a vampire slayer true? But that would be foolish to believe something so ridiculous. One thing's for certain though, he thought, this woman was extraordinary, and extraordinary was something the Shelby Company Ltd needed.

'She could be of use to us, Pol,' he replied, locking eyes with his aunt as he typically did to assert his authority.

'Oh I'm sure she could!' laughed Polly sarcastically, completely unafraid of his glare. 'Though I'm sure her usefulness to this company isn't the only thing you have in mind Thomas.'

All the women exchanged looks of distaste, Lizzie especially. John and Arthur audibly snickered, obviously recovering their composure and their sense of humour. Tommy finally decided he was exhausted with his family at that point.

'Follow the girl Finn, figure out where she's heading. I'll meet you outside the Garrison in the car in ten minutes.'

Finn nodded reluctantly and looked around nervously before hesitantly approaching the ruined door and peered out onto Watery Lane. Satisfied that the girl was far enough away he stepped out of the door and Tommy heard his footsteps retreat down the path.

'As for the rest of you, the family meeting is postponed. You all have work to be getting on with. And get this mess cleaned up,' he ordered as he gestured to the pile of wood that once was a table. And with that he marched from the room towards the back door.

'He's lost his bloody mind!' Tommy heard Esme hiss as he disappeared down the corridor, followed by a hum of assent from the rest of his family.

They had better get used to the fucking idea, Tommy thought. He fully intended on using this woman to his advantage. If she agreed, she would be indispensable.

Tommy went out into the rear alley and followed his usual path to where the car was parked. He got in and sat behind the wheel, finally free from the judgemental eyes of his family. He lit up a cigarette from his case and drew on it hungrily, filling the car with the musty smoke. Tommy sat closed eyed in the smoky fog and cast his mind back again to the events that had just occurred.

He and his family had almost fallen to the floor when they jumped from their chairs when the girl, Maddie he remembered, had landed squarely in the middle of the table during the family meeting. He still couldn't wrap his head around what happened next. How she had displayed such inhuman levels of strength and speed and caused a man to dissolve into dust. He pictured her in his head. The odd clothing that barely covered her body, the miniscule amount of fabric she was wearing clinging to her form tightly. Her hair was brown, long and wavy and Tommy imagined it was soft and silky to touch. Her Brummie accent wasn't unlike their own but the way she spoke and some of the words she used weren't familiar to him. She had said she was from the future. Could that be true too?

Tommy sat there in the car for several minutes thinking about Maddie. He remembered how skilled she was in handling a gun, how she had held eye contact with him without any sign of fear. No one had looked at Tommy Shelby in the eye like that and lived, and that made her dangerous. It had been foolish and rash of him to disarm himself and his family he realised, but it turned out to be the right call. Even if it meant he might now have to search the city for this perplexing girl.

His thoughts then drifted back to the kiss. That was the thing that surprised him the most. Until that point, he had somehow managed to maintain his regular air of indifference to the situation, but that kiss had caused his to betray his shock. She had even looked smug about it afterwards. Thinking about that moment made Tommy realise he wanted to kiss Maddie again, to make her look shocked while he smiled smugly. He felt his cock begin to harden in his trousers at the thought, prompting him to snap out of his daydream. She had made such an effect on Tommy that she had wormed her way into his mind in just one, admittedly very bizarre, interaction. And he cursed himself for allowing her to do so.

Tommy ran his hands over his face and through his hair to bring himself back to the present and back to his senses. He started the car and began to make his way to the Garrison, hoping he'd given Finn enough time to tail the girl and make the rendezvous there. Sure enough, as he pulled up Garrison Lane, Tommy spotted Finn leaning against the wall of the pub smoking. Finn spotted the car and got in next to Tommy.

'Well?' questioned Tommy as soon as the car door was shut.

'Looks like she's heading towards Snow Hill station Tom, up past the Blues ground,' said Finn. 'She did something to that bloke over there before she disappeared, not sure what but he doesn't look happy.'

Finn pointed out the windshield at a scruffy man that was lying in the muddy street several feet away. He seemed to be writhing in pain and Tommy wondered what she had done to him.

'Good. Now head back to the office. Tell everyone to meet us at Arrow House,' ordered Tommy, deciding that if he was going to bring this girl home, his family would want to be involved. Finn looked at back at him, disappointed. 'And see if you can find out anything about her, anyone who might know who she is,' he added, he needed to eliminate the possibility she wasn't in fact an escaped lunatic.

'But Tom, don't you want me to help you when you find her? You know, if she tries to-' Tommy cut Finn off by turning and glaring at him.

'Fine,' Finn huffed. He slumped out of the car and began to walk back down Garrison Lane, sulking like a teenager, which of course he was, Tommy conceded.

But he wanted as much time as he could get with Maddie on his own without any member of his family chipping in. He wanted to question her privately without any hysterical interjections. With that in mind he pulled away and headed in the direction of Snow Hill station.