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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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    04 Jul 2026

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    Mandy Milkovich has been attacked by her father for the last time. She finds the strength to report his crimes and reaches out to her brother, opening up the door for Mickey to return to Chicago in exchange for testimony that could put Terry away for good. Ian and Mickey find themselves thrust back together as they all work to finally bring down the man who has hurt them all.

    Title taken from "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" by Metallica.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    The day Ned asks Ian to rob his house the redhead almost says yes – why shouldn’t he, after all? Ned seems nonchalant enough about the whole thing, he’ll get some free expensive shit out of the deal, and if he plays his cards right maybe he can even convince Mickey to be his accomplice – but something stops him from going through with it.

    The third-eldest Gallagher has never been much of a believer in fate or divine intervention or destiny or anything like that – can’t be, with the life he’s led – but he just might have become one, had he only known how that one seemingly insignificant decision had changed the course of his entire life.

     
    He gets it now; why people write songs about this, why they become addicts when they lose it. He gets how it can mess with your whole life, why you’d go to jail to keep someone else safe, why you’d kill to see them happy. He understands it all; every cheesy line in every crappy movie, and all the bad decisions he’s seen his brothers and sister, his mother, make. He gets why people do all of those things. Now that he knows what it feels like, knows for sure, he finally understands.

     
    Love ruins you.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    What happens between the night that Mickey comes out until the morning that Ian can't get out of bed.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Mickey doesn’t care. There isn’t much he cares about. He’s become a fossil, with layers of hard rock filling his insides.

    He hasn’t called Ian. Ian called him, and Mickey declined it.

    There’s an ache.

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    A canon-divergent story from 3x08, where Mickey and Mandy are taken into foster care.

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    19 Jun 2026