Shameless / Sandor Clegane

5. Large

"So... Sandor."

"He's a large man in all departments." Davina agreed.

"How long have you two been fucking?" Fiona questioned.

"Just a week but I can't get him out of my head. He came into Lioness and he spends the entire night with me, he keeps his back to the stage! Who does that? Then he fucks me gloriously in his car and I have been getting three good hours of sleep since then!" Davina declared.

"God, I want that." Fiona moaned out as Frank came barging in. "What are you doing here?" Fiona questioned their father as he came in.

"Don't you have a new home?" Davina agreed.

"I wanted to spend some quality time with my loving family." Frank corrected.

"Good, then you can spend it with Liam while I go to work." Fiona agreed.

"I got a few day jobs this week too." Davina agreed.

"When do you sleep?" Fiona countered.

"Sleep when Liam goes to college." Davina offered.

"I can't. Busy day today."' Frank countered.

"Doing what?" The twins questioned simultaneously.

"There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes to keep this family running that you wouldn't know about, Fi, Dav..." Frank drawled out.

"Why are you stealing our food?" Davina demanded taking back the bread.

"Tits, it's cold in here." Frank countered.

"Why are you taking our food?" Fiona demanded.

"My food, you mean?" Frank countered. He pulled the bread back from Davina.

"No, I mean, our food." Davina corrected tugging it back.

"Which you paid for with food stamps that are funded by taxes that I pay." Frank declared.

" Since when?" The twins drawled.

"You live here now?" Davina questioned seeing Kevin.

"Toaster."

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"I got it," Davina declared when there was a knock. "Sandor," he smiled back at her.

"I thought it was about time I... didnt just see you in the Lioness." Sandor remarked. He held out a bouquet of flowers. Roses. She smiled reaching out for it.

"Thank you. Thats so sweet." Davina remarked. "You want to come in?"

"Sure." Sandor agreed. "Actually," he grabbed her hand. "Can I take you out?"

"Yes." Davina agreed.

"Kids are at school right?"

"Yes. Thats why I didnt have to check with everyone." Davina agreed. "BYE FI!" She shouted back. "Shit no. I have work in an hour."

"Backyard?"

"Yes." Davina agreed ushering him quickly through the house. Davina sat down in his lap, his arms wrapped around her, kissing her neck. She traced a finger down his cheek, old scars still very visible etched across his skin like spider webbing.

"You gonna ask?" Sandor pondered

"Do you want me to ask?" Davina countered touching the scaring on his cheek.

"My brother did it, pushed me when I little, right into the bon fire." Sandor whispered.

"That is the horrifying man you are staying with?" Davina questioned.

"Aye." Sandor agreed.

"You can stay here," Davina offered. "I got my own room, not that I ever use it at night, it usually becomes a Gallagher free for all." Davina remarked. "But you can stay here."

"I can handle my brother." Sandor corrected. "Been doing it this long havent I?" Davina leaned back into him.

"So what are you doing in chicago?" Davina questioned. "What your family, that you clearly adore so much!" She declared with fake sincerity.

"Pops is sick keeps denying he has cancer says its just a broken hip and he is untrusting of everyone and everything." Sandor remarked. "Didnt want a home care nurse person," Sandor's hands trailed over her thighs. "Asked his ever loving son to handle his shit."

"Cancer. That sucks." Sandor shrugged. "Did you father know what your brother did to you?" Davina questioned.

"Yep, he covered it up." Sandor agreed.

"And you still came back to help him?"

"It's what family does."

"I hear ya, our dad is a drunk shit but we tolerate him. He comes in and out of our lives and fucks shit up. But we can't seem to get rid of him." Davina remarked. "Cant cut that tie. Cant kill the cockroach."

Davina told sandor all about her siblings, her little psychopath brother Carl amused Sandor the most. 

"What job do you have this morning?" Sandor questioned. "I just saw you at the Lioness, you must have got an hour of sleep."

"Basically. Yes." Davina agreed. "I work at the little hotel, off the subway. I clean the rooms, get supplies for the house. The pay is shit but it makes up for it in the things I grab from the cleaning cart. We havent had to buy toilet paper, paper towels, soap, shampoo, all the little bottles of things. I bring a big bag with me and stuff it with supplies at the end of my shift. So it evens out." she felt like she could trust sandor to know their secrets. He had asked her how they kept the lights on, how they fed so many children, how they managed this without any parents, the Gallaghers worked the system best they could. That was how.

"Smart girl you are." Sandor remarked. "And the club brings in the bacon."

"I dont eat meat but yeah." Davina agreed. "So what do you do for work?"

"Private security." Sandor answered.

"And what does that mean?" Davina questioned as they headed inside.

"Body guard for the rich fucks at times, I worked for one of those youtube famous kids for years, everyone wanted to kill that fucker. His family shit gold, they paid me well to keep their shithead alive." Sandor remarked.

"What happened to the shit head since you are gone?"

"He died after I got here, someone drugged him, overdose is my guess. Good riddance." Sandor added. Davina laughed out.

"I shouldnt laugh, that is awful," Davina remarked holding back her giggles.

"They just passed on the dynasty to the younger son, they moved on." Sandor offered with a shrug.

"So what job prospects to you have lined up here?" Davina questioned. "Or are you waiting for your dad to croak and you can get the fuck out of here?"

"I was.... before I met you."