#galladads

A story where Svet is accused of killing her wealthy, elderly husband to inherit his inheritance, and is soon arrested, prompting the police to contact Mickey to take care of Yev. Yev is 15 or 16 years old and in a rebellious phase, as his mother never told him anything about his previous life. Now he has to live with a father he doesn't know, along with his father's red-haired husband, who seems strangely fond of him.

He's moving in with Ian and Mickey temporarily. Obviously, Mick is having a hard time dealing with this. Yev becomes very close to Franny and jealous of her relationship with Mickey, as he never had that kind of relationship with his father, and believes Mick never wanted him because he never pursued him. In my imagination, Franny has a room in the house Mick and Ian ended up buying after a few years of marriage. Although they claim it's a guest room, there are a lot of Franny's things there because he was always running away from Debbie and spending time with his aunt and uncle when his mother was too crazy. Oh, and Franny is nonbinary and has long bangs.

Yev builds a great relationship with Ian, and Ian tells them about their lives before Svet leaves with the rich old man taking Yev. Ian tries to help Mick and Yev get along better. Mick talks to Yev and tells him he had a shitty childhood and that's why he thinks he's better off away from him. He and Ian have talked about having kids before, but Mickey doesn't feel ready to be a father. Mick somehow talks about getting Svet pregnant "by accident," and Yev discovers his mother raped his father and becomes even more rebellious, feeling dirty and unwanted. This causes him great sadness.

Yev gets into big trouble and is arrested for the first time. Ian and Mickey go to jail to pick him up. Some scene with the Gallaghers saying they've all been arrested and that it's no big deal, but Liam saying he hadn't been arrested (I was thinking of Liam as a lawyer helping get Yev out of jail, maybe?), perhaps us his early years as a lawyer. Yev facing a period of feeling bad about the things he learned about his mother and going to visit Svet in jail.

Yev fighting with his mother for not telling her about his life and how he was conceived. She trying to tell him she loved him and that she always wanted him, even though her pregnancy and "relationship" with his father had been problematic, to say the least. She talking about how she tried to force her to have a marriage and a family with Mickey, but that he never had eyes for anything other than Ian.

Yev going home and slowly realizing how much Ian and Mickey love each other and feeling alone. Franny and Fred trying to make him feel more welcome, and he's a little reluctant about it. He's participating in some Gallagher family tradition (a Fourth of July party, perhaps?), and Ian treats him like a son even before Mick does. Realizing he feels like an intruder, Ian tells him about his dream of the three of them being a family. Ian tells him about how he dreamed about it and that he kidnapped Yev. He talks about his bipolar disorder and how Mickey has always taken care of him, how Mickey is the person Ian knows who cares most for the people he loves, and that if things were different, he would have been a great father.

Yev says Ian deserves a child and hopes Ian and Mick will have one one day. Yev says he knows he was the result of rape and understands that Mickey hates him. Ian explains that Mick doesn't hate him, but that even if Mick doesn't admit it, the whole thing was traumatic. And he believes that even though he pretends to be tough, Mick is incapable of hating anyone, even his father, after everything he's done. Mickey still tried to care for him, and in the end, he didn't. Mick just doesn't know how to deal with Yev and what he represents, and proof of this is his relief when Yev was returned after Ian was arrested following his manic episode.

Days pass, and Yev gets used to his daily routine, going back to school. Mick realizes how similar he and Yev are in their habits and quirks, like loving sweets, hating clothes with sleeves (Yev also cuts the sleeves off his shirts), and both being passionate about 80s and 90s rock. Classes start, and Yev is ironically terrible at math, even though Mick and Svet are excellent at it. Mick helping him with his math homework and discovering that Yev speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian (Yev tells this trying to show that he is not stupid) and when Mick hears him speaking Ukrainian Mick vaguely remembers his own mother, although he does not have many memories of her.

Svet finally gets out of jail and goes to get Yev, since she wasn't the one who killed the old man, but his family hated her and Yev. Yev leaves, but continues to have a relationship with Ian and Mickey, as well as with the Gallagher families. Yev becomes good friends with Franny and spends the holidays at Mick and Ian's house. Whenever he goes there, he says he's going to his parents' house, but it takes a few years before he calls Mick or Ian "dad" in front of them.

An epilogue a few years later, at Christmas, with Ian and Mickey telling Yev that they decided to adopt a little girl, and Ian thinking that this only happened because Yev came back into their lives and Mick could work through the trauma he had about being a father, and now he was ready.

Here is my @galladrabbles for the Father's Day prompt by @smittybus22

Ian and Mickey hated Father’s Day.

Not because of their traumatic pasts with Terry and Frank, and not because they didn’t enjoy being fathers themselves. 

Being Ruby’s dads was the highlight of their lives.  They loved every single bit of it.  

However, they hated Father’s Day because fucking Lip and Carl had taught Ruby that her daddies got “Super Cool Pride Month Father’s Day.”

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lmao i think they're both embarrassing in their own ways 😂

Ian isn't all that bad though, he's mostly embarrassing in an overprotective way. Like making sure the kid has applied enough sunscreen before going to the pool (he smothers the child in half a bottle of the stuff) and when the kid's grown up a bit, Ian maybe tries to be the 'hip and cool dad' and is always giving his kid condoms and reminding them to stay safe.

Mickey can be the embarrassing parent because of his general disregard of what's OK in polite society and what's not 😂 Like if he gets shushed at the movies for explaining the plot to his kid a little too loud, he would literally yell back, "oh fuck off, we paid to be here too!!" and it gets the three of the kicked out somehow!

Thank you @ohkate for this week's theme and @galladrabbles for hosting.

Lily buzzed down the sidewalk in her crooked bee costume, wings flapping, antennae bouncing. Mickey jogged behind her, candy bucket in hand, grinning like a proud papa at every “Trick or treat!” she hollered.

Ian sat on the porch steps, turtleneck pulled up, watching through the soft October dark. He didn’t say much, just sipped his beer and let the warmth of the domesticity settle in his chest.

Thank you @spacerockwriting

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“Auntie Tami!”

She smiled and hugged a bundle of red locks.

“Hi, Rosie.”

Mick walked into her salon.

“Hey, we have a small self-hairdressing situation. Again.”

“Who did you want to be this time? Snow White or…” She looked at a huge chunk of unevenly cut hair. “…or Prince Charming?”

“Daddy, I want to be daddy.” She looked proudly through the mirror, straight into Mick’s eyes.

He rubbed his eyebrows and replied, ignoring Tami’s smirk. “Look, I promise I will buy you a real freeking bow if you’ll be Merida for a couple of months, ok?”

Out of Body Experience

A New Beginning Series.

Summary

Ian and Mickey discuss what they have in mind with the money Clayton has left Ian. Plans that have Ian suddenly worried, thinking about the what-ifs of life. But none of those fears can compare to what happens when he checks Mickey's pockets while doing the laundry.

Ian doesn't push the thought of kids. They had a conversation about it after s11x12, but it took some time, it wasn't immediate. Basically, I think Ian relished the idea of being an uncle for a while. After all, it's always Mickey before anything.

They took care of Franny, Freddie (+upcoming kiddo), and Liam when they were asked to as favors. It subconsciously became this mental practice for them. Some unspoken tension kept rising, cause they felt the other was thinking the same thing but went unmentioned. Partially cause Ian decided not to press, and doing so meant breaking that threshold.

I think Mickey brought it up one day probably, Ian felt somewhat defensive at first, but since he always reminds Mickey about the importance of "communication," it'd bite him in the ass, so he gave in and spoke his truth. They had another conversation about it that ended in an agreement to see a "shrink." They started going, it was a deconstruction of years of trauma, fears, repressed emotions, y'know the drill.

Considering that they were between 25-27 when the show ended, I think they engaged in "intense" therapy for like 5-7 years maybe. Trying to talk through the bulks of it, for the purpose of parenting in the near future.

Through that time, they first contacted Debbie, had thoroughly researched artificial insemination (pls mickey thinking he would have to bang Debbie makes me cry 💀), had a lengthy talk with her. I haven't reached shameless far enough to know Debbie's character, but I think she probably gives them informed advice, a lot of "you guys sure you wanna do this??" And I don't think it stems from a place of objection, more so worry. I like to think she eventually caves in and accepts to help them when they're ready. She loves Ian, Ian loves Franny and Debbie (fuck JW for making it seem like he doesn't in s11) and Mickey and Debbie are besties.

(this is a huge reach but I ponder nonetheless) After thinking of Debbie, I think maybe Ian thinks of Mandy. I fully believe (like many other people) that Ian kept in touch with Mandy from time to time ever since she left, and at some point encouraged her and Mickey to reconnect. It's a slow process, but he knows both of them needed it and yearned for it deep down.

He breaks the news to her that they're gonna be parents at some point, sort of fills her in on the process and the years of therapy, gets Mickey to tell her anecdotes too or whatever. The thing is, at some point in the conversation, he yaps about how he has always wanted two, a boy and a girl (because Ian is a dork like that). That Debbie is only gonna do this once for now because...well that was the agreement, ofc, and he just doesn't wanna overwhelm Mick with two kids of their own even though that's what they practically baby sit.

Jokingly (at first), Mandy offers herself as a surrogate in case they aim for another kid. Ian sheepishly declines, that he couldn't ask her after everything she's been through, but Mandy reassures him that shit is different now. Times have changed, and that even though it's a big deal, she'd comply. Ian says he'll think about it, talk with Mick in case shit does happen as to not spook him. It was a pleasant talk.

He talks to Mickey and at first he doesn't know how to handle the thought of two kids, one of them from Mandy, and he almost feels like all this time in therapy could crumble down at the thought of Mandy being a surrogate. They have a long ass talk.