BILLIE STAYED AT THE GALLAGHERS THAT NIGHT, they watched a movie and slept. Until they were awoken the next morning from a text from Fiona, calling a family meeting.
Carl and Billie walked downstairs, Carl, sitting at the table. Whilst Billie walked into the kitchen, making some toast.
"I know I'm not a Gallagher but this seems interesting so imma stay." Billie laughed.
Ian walked in not soon after, Lip was in the kitchen cleaning up a bit, Debbie was already seated and so was Fiona.
"What's goin' on?" Ian asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"Called a family meeting." Fiona replied.
"Cause apparently she's the queen." Debbie rolled her eyes.
"Hey, don't start shit." Lip told her as he grabbed himself a piece of toast.
"You stay up all night with a screaming baby and tell me that." Debbie shot back.
"I'm not invited?" Ian asked.
"Neither was I." Billie laughed and high fived Ian.
"I didn't wanna wake you." Fiona responded.
"How'd you sleep?" Lip asked as he and Ian made their way over to the table.
"Good. Slept all night." Ian responded.
"You guys mind? I gotta get to work." Fiona spoke.
"Yep." They both said and sat down.
As Billie stood in the kitchen, not wanting to intrude. She could see Carl staring off, with an upset look on his face. Billie couldn't help but sympathise with him as he sat there.
"So, it used to be that we had a squirrel fund and everybody contributed what they could, but I'd carry the bulk of it because I was the only grown-up. But time's passed. And things have changed. Most of us are grown-ups now." She spoke as she poured coffee into each persons cup.
"Or at least pretending to be." She said whilst looking at Debbie. Which caused her to roll her eyes.
"So, I ran the numbers and I came up with a system that I think is fair." She told everyone as she handed out pieces of paper to everyone.
"What's this?" Lip asked.
"That's your share." She told the group. "That's what you have to pay every month toward the bills if you want to stay here." Fiona told them all. Whilst Fiona was talking, Debbie looked at hers, then took Carl's and looked at his.
"If we want to stay here?" Ian asked.
"If you want us all to stay together. To stay a family. Otherwise, I'll rent out your rooms, or sell the house and everyone can fend for themselves." She told the group.
"Why is mine higher than Carl's?" Debbie asked angrily.
"Cause Carl doesn't need diapers and rash cream, and baby food." Fiona told her.
"I fired Jolayemi because I can't afford to pay her anymore. How am I gonna afford $375?" Debbie asked, frustrated.
"You're not in school, Debs. You could get a job." Fiona suggested.
"Who's gonna watch the baby?" Debbie asked.
"Not my problem." Fiona replied.
"I could always chip in for Debbie if she can't pay it. I sleep here a bunch, I eat your food." Billie suggested.
Fiona sent her a look.
"Oh, uh, nevermind. I take that back." Billie said, scared as she took a bite of her toast.
"Hey. What the fuck?" Debbie said to Billie.
"Sorry! Fiona scares me." Billie replied.
Ian, Lip and Carl laughed at that.
"The house belongs to me. I'm not gonna be paying rent." Carl scoffed.
"The house and the bills are all in my name, and it's my credit that's fucked if we don't pay." Fiona told him. "And it's not rent. It's, water and, pier and property taxes." Fiona spoke.
"Since when do you care about your credit?" Lip asked.
"Since now." She replied.
"The only one who gets a free ride around here anymore is Liam. And Billie, but she doesn't really live here." Fiona told everyone and they all looked at Liams cute face and Billie who was drinking some juice.
"So, file for disability or welfare, or get a job." She told everyone. "Also... I want you all to put me at the bottom of your emergency contact list. Put Lip first, and then Ian, and then Kev and V, and then me. Because I have a plan for my life, and I can't do it if I'm getting a call every five minutes about one of you." She said quietly. "And just so we're clear, I am just as likely as anyone else in this family to make something of myself, and it's about time you got that, you arrogant shit." She told Lip.
That's when V walked in.
"You see what Frank's doing down the block?" V said walking through the kitchen.
Then, everyone stood up, following V, out of the house.
"Like it on friends. Don't be shy. Get your fill. God does not want you to go out into your busy day of begging without a full belly." He spoke as nuns played up some food for the homeless people he was housing.
"Jeez, haven't seen Frank this lovely since that fucking doctor, What's her name?" Billie spoke. "Bianca." She said as the name came to her.
"My family is really upping the ante, huh?" Fiona spoke as they all looked at the scene infront of them.
"Tell me about it. I got three kids, a wife, a husband, and a father-in-law with a giant johnson that I've seen twice already." V spoke.
That's when it hit Billie, that V said, three kids, instead of four. Yevgeny, Gemma and Amy. She forgot about her. Is that really how much V has been busy lately? Billie thought to herself.
"What?" Fiona looked astounded.
"We have a lot to catch up on." V told her.
That's when Billie got a text. From someone, very, unexpected.
Q
Q
I miss you
I'm sorry
She looked at the text and scoffed.
Me
Go fuck yourself
She wrote and put her phone back into her pocket.
"What is this?" Svetlana spoke, pushing in between V and Fiona. "Looks like communist Russia." She finished.
"Gallagher home for the homeless?" Ian asked as he read the sign above the house.
"That shit smells good." Kev said, walking up towards the food.
"Hey, Frank, you can't have a homeless shelter here." Lip called out to him.
"I beg to differ, neighbour." Frank said as he swayed with 'new monica'.
"Mama!" Liam yelled and ran towards the blonde woman and wrapped his arms around her.
They all scoffed at Frank's massive scam, and walked back home.
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eilish - carl gallagher
Fanfiction(PLEASE READ!!!) this story is discontinued thus far. i most likely won't come back to it but you never know. the writing is truely awful, none of it was drafted nor planned i just wrote as i went so if there are plot holes (they definitely is) jus...
