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After suffering an injury at the hands of Terry Milkovich, Mickey comes to learn that hospital stays don't have to be all bad as long as you have a hot nursing assistant to keep you company.
Meanwhile, Mickey struggles to remember the fate of his sister at the hands of his father and can't understand why everyone around him is acting so strangely about it.
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13 Nov 2025
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It starts with a drunken click on a late-night ad—half a joke, half a shot in the dark.
Ian doesn’t expect much from it. Maybe a bit of money. Maybe a distraction.What he gets is the most confusing and possibly most terrifying experience of his life that will change everything.
Gallavich meets virtual reality
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18 Jul 2025
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“Are you actually suggesting what I think you’re suggesting? You think Lord Gallagher would take in two dirty teenage runaway Milkoviches out of the goodness of his heart?”
“No.” Ian says slowly. “No, I don’t think that at all.”
“So what then?”
He takes another breath. He can already feel the hostility, but he might as well finish getting it out. “You could… You and Mandy could… work for us.”
The suggestion is met with a profound silence.
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Ian is the second son of Lord Francis Gallagher. Mickey is a local grubby petty criminal that steals fruit from the Gallagher’s orchard. When they meet, Ian knows he will do anything to make sure Mickey stays in his life, and he suspects Mickey feels the same. But trying to carry on a secret homosexual affair with a grumpy, emotionally immature man of significantly lower status than you is hard enough in the 1910s without abusive fathers, arranged marriages, and world wars getting in the way.
Or the Shameless / Downton Abbey crossover no one asked for.
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03 Jun 2025
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Ian’s always been used to the cold. He knows it like the back of his hand, which is why he finds himself at home on the ice skating rink. Figure skating means being surrounded by a kind of cold he doesn’t have to shut out or run away from — a kind of cold he can make his own. When he runs into Mickey on the way to work in Boystown, he doesn’t expect them to have much in common, even when he realises Mickey has been watching him skate from afar for years. But Mickey sees the rink as an escape and a second home just like he does, a way to cover up the bruises left behind by his family with ones left by clumsy teammates and aggressive opponents. They quickly find themselves intertwined, what was meant to be a fun hook-up snowballing into something warmer and safer.
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17 Apr 2025
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Matt just rolls his eyes and takes a swig of his own beer. “It’s just something we say to freak each other out. Sure, it’s a creepy house, but ghosts don’t exist.”
“I’m just saying,” Ian starts, knowing he’s not going to be able to backtrack from this one, “that I’ve seen the ghost.” It’s concerning how much of a lightweight he is when he’s not flushing his meds down the toilet.
Twenty-three year old Ian Gallagher goes into a supposedly haunted house on a dare. He ends up getting more than he bargained for when the house draws him in, and the things he finds inside are not what they seem.
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25 Mar 2025
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Mickey doesn't know whether his brain getting all scrambled up is a death sentence or a second chance. But he's got to take the risk - figure out how to live again - and find out.
Post season 6 amnesia fic.
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13 Jan 2025
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“So what does Milkovich actually do?”
“I told you, he's a consultant.”
“Well, yeah, but on what? Audit, statistics, recruitment?”
“It's a bit more complicated than that. Mickey’s… Well, he's special.”
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Detective Ian Gallagher transfers from Chicago to Seattle, where one of his colleagues is revered for his seemingly supernatural skills that help solve most of their cases.
Of clashes and fresh starts.
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04 Jan 2025
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Roasters on Main makes the best coffee in the city.
Okay, that’s probably not true, but for the prices and the location, it’s the best coffee they’re going to find and still get to work on time.
If they ever get out of the driveway, that is.
// coffee shop au
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- Part 2 of au-gust 2024
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10 Sep 2024
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Ian Gallagher is back at Oak Park Country Club for another summer. He’s ready to cater to Chicago’s wealthiest and is determined to give this job his all. But when he crosses paths with a new hire who catches his eye, his world turns upside down…
One year later, Mickey Milkovich returns to Oak Park alone and unsure of what he’s even doing here. He hasn’t spoken to anyone from the old staff since the end of last summer, and he has no idea if any of them—including a certain redhead he owes one hell of an apology to—are coming back.
// country club worker au
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27 Aug 2024
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Ian and Mickey work together at a Chicago diner. They like to push each other's buttons - all their buttons. How long until the dam finally breaks?
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01 May 2024
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When Mickey Milkovich was a boy, he learned the importance of memories. Not just the simple kind, but the ones that really matter. The ones that hold power, that make things the way they are. Because if you can control those memories, their power is yours.
But when a memory comes walking into Mickey's bar, can he keep that power in check? Or are some things worth giving up control for?
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31 Mar 2024
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While working the night shift at an old Hollywood hotel with a reputation for being haunted, Mickey makes a strange connection with one of the guests, aspiring actor Ian Gallagher. Except that the hotel has no record of Ian, and no one other than Mickey ever sees him.
The more time he spends with Ian, the less Mickey is sure what is real and what isn’t. But one thing is true: Mickey is going to find a way for them to be together.
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26 Feb 2024
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Ian should have never offered to hide his father's stash of gold. Now he's stuck living on a deserted piece of land in the woods, alone, losing his sanity.
Mickey wants nothing more than to disappear — from prison, from his family, from the entire world. If only he knew where to get his hands on a cool million.
The Gallagher gold. Mickey wants it. Ian will do anything to protect it. Who will cave first?
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06 Jan 2024
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There’s something building, bubbles rolling across frothing water, heat and sound and thick steam curling like an impenetrable wall of humidity over the city. Each time Mickey comes into the store, gives him that predatory look, the rope of tension between them tightens, laden with the tantalizing possibility of more.
For someone so stubborn, Mickey's about as flighty as a deer. The slightest threat of a kiss, even Ian looking at his lips for a second too long, always has him bolting.
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11 Dec 2023
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When you say nothing at all by energie_vie for Miss_SnowWhitePink
Fandoms: Shameless (US)
16 Nov 2023
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"He distantly registers Mandy's soft gasp, but only barely. He's too focused on Mickey, on the way his mouth falls slightly open and his eyes widen. As if in slow motion, he watches as shock gives way to pure horror and his hands itch to reach out, to comfort in some way but that's definitely the last thing he should be doing.
'What did you hear?' Mickey finally asks, voice no more than a whisper.
'Mick—'
'Gallagher, what did you hear?'
More force injected this time and Ian sighs again.
'More than enough.' "
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OR: a half-improvised memory potion for Ian's upcoming Math test has an interesting side effect: he can hear what people are thinking as long as he's touching them. That includes his best friend/unrequited crush, Mickey, who's got some very interesting thoughts of his own.
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- Part 3 of A kind of Magic
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03 Dec 2023
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“You gonna tell me why we had to watch Tuesday turn into Wednesday or…”
Ian doesn’t answer him. Not right away.
It’s silent for long enough that Mickey shrugs it off and goes back to looking at the sky. He’s long since accepted the fact that Ian’s weird. He doesn’t dislike it or anything, it’s just how it is.
So he doesn’t think much about the non-explanation.
Until Ian finally speaks.
“Today’s my birthday.”
// s3: it’s ian’s birthday, and only one person remembered
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- Part 5 of whumptober 2023
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09 Oct 2023
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Ian wants to leave Chicago when Mickey gets out of prison, intent on a fresh start together. Unfortunately, leaving a place doesn't always mean leaving the problems you faced there.
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05 Oct 2023
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Ian grins, just a small curl of one corner of his mouth, as he tosses the bottle of sunscreen to the man, who catches it with an even more confused look on his face.
“You sit out here any longer without that and you’re gonna be fried to a crisp,” Ian tells him.
The man reads the label on the bottle, realizes what it is, and blinks up at Ian again with a painfully neutral expression. Like he can’t figure out what to do in this situation.
“Bet you burn like a motherfucker.”
// prompt: lifeguard au
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- Part 2 of au-gust 2023
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03 Aug 2023
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At some point or another, Mickey finds himself realizing that Ian Gallagher is no longer a goofy, tall pre-teen following Lip around. He realizes that Ian is still a weird little motherfucker like he was when they were kids, when he would cry when Fiona killed spiders or stay up into the late hours of the night reading fantasy novels thicker than Lip's skull with a flashlight, but he was also hot.
Mickey is Lip's best friend. Mickey is Ian's sort of boyfriend. A collection of events, emotions, and stories in a sort of coherent timeline.
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01 Jul 2023
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At twenty-four, Ian has just moved out of his family home to live on his own for the first time. Working as a paramedic, he’s finally happy, stable, and moving forward with his life. But first, there’s one last remnant of his past self that he needs to let go of: his accidental porn tattoo of his late mother. It’s nothing but a reminder of all the bad decisions he’s made. At his best friend Mandy’s behest, he makes an appointment with her brother who has just opened a tattoo shop nearby. Upon arriving for his consultation, he meets Mickey: intimidating, foul-mouthed, overall living up to the Milkovich name, yet somehow running a clean, professional, and legal business.
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24 Apr 2023