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“Right, yeah. Sorry.” The bartender stutters. “I didn’t mean—”
“S’fine,” Mickey says. The word feels ironic, almost. Nothing about any of this is fine. He’s so fucking far from fine, the word doesn’t even feel real coming off his tongue.
The bartender is—whatever. Mickey doesn’t give a shit about this hipster wannabe trying to be politically correct. It’s the rest of it that does him in. The weight of it all on his shoulders, the blood on his hands.
“Shit’s dark sometimes,” Mickey says quietly, his voice almost unrecognizable even to himself.
He stares at the wood grain on the bar, and he keeps going, because he wants—no, he needs someone else to understand this. Or at least try to.
// post-canon: ian isn’t doing well and mickey drinks to cope
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2024
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15 Jan 2026
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New room, new bed, new life—and each other. It’s all they’ve ever needed.
Ian watches Mickey sleep on the other side of the mattress, still close enough to reach out and touch but far enough away that he probably won’t wake up if Ian decides to get out of bed.
He doesn’t.
// pre-10x08: ian and mickey enjoy a slow and lazy morning, waking up together
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03 Dec 2025
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Lip looks over at Mickey again. “Seriously?”
Mickey just shrugs, holding his beer can up to his forehead. “He’s your brother.”
“He’s your husband.”
Mickey grumbles something about Gallaghers under his breath and Lip almost laughs.
// mid-11x10: mickey and lip talk post-fight
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03 Dec 2025
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"Tell me about your years as an assassin."
"That's a lot to tell," Gallagher says. "You're going to have to be more specific."
"Tell me about Milkovich."
The change in Gallagher's expression is immediate. His smile vanishes and his eyes go cold. Then he takes a deep breath, and laughs. "Oh, you want to know about Mickey."
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In which Ian is a cold-blooded serial killer with a soft spot for a certain South Side asshole.
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16 Nov 2025
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“Why the hell are you here, Ian?”
Mickey’s tone is defeated, and his shoulders barely hold their shape. He’s tired. Exhausted, really. Ian can see that in every line of his body, every curve of his face.
There’s so much that Ian wants to say to him, so much he wants to scream across this phone line connecting them, but he can’t. His head is a mess, in more ways than one, and no matter how fast he tries to parse through his tidal wave of emotions, he can’t figure them out.
He broke up with Mickey. Right?
Only now, he can’t really remember why.
“I don’t know,” Ian says honestly, and hopes it’s enough.
(It’s not.)
// s6 rewrite: what could have happened if mickey didn’t go to prison
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