Gallavich Fluff & Smut

Waiting on you

Author:
https://archiveofourown.org/users/dreamerbydawn/pseuds/dreamerbydawn

OR

dreamerbydawn
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Summary:

Everyone knows the name of their soulmate will appear on their skin when they turn seventeen or not at all.

Question is, what is a nine year old Ian Gallagher doing with the name Mickey printed on him?

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It’s well known that your soulmates name appears on your skin on your seventeenth birthday, or it doesn’t appear at all.

What no one tells you, is that those aren’t the only two options. There’s one more.

One so rare, that most people don’t believe it’s even true.

But Ian Gallagher knows it is.

He knows it is true, because he is nine years old when the name Mickey appears on his body.

He doesn’t completely understand what’s happening, just feels the burning against his skin and a powerful urge to throw up that has his him rushing to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

He heaves into the toilet, one hand supporting him as he expels the contents of his dinner, while the other clutches at the fire against his side.

Lip had followed him of course, the older boy rubbing at Ian’s back, trying to soothe him as he collapses on the floor.

Ian whimpers quietly, hand still pressed into his side, when Lip decides to take a look.

Neither of them are prepared for the sight of ink on Ian’s body, but the words are stark against his pale skin and all they can do is stare.

Lip decides to keep it silent, says they should figure out what to do first; But the younger boy already knows what he should do.

It’s why he’s headed towards the Milkovich house the next morning, Mickey Milkovich, his brother's classmate being the only one he knows with that first name.

The ten year old boy is on the front steps when Ian walks over and plops himself down with a whisper of ‘i’m sorry’

Mickey stares at him blankly, but nods after a moment, the two of them just sitting there in silence.

No one had been in the Milkovich house except for Mickey, And Ian hadn't asked what was wrong. They actually hadn’t spoken a word.

It's Lip that corners him when he walks home later that evening and tells him Terry had killed his wife.

Later, Ian will find out that Mandy had been at her aunt's house, and the older Milkovich brothers had all been away from home as well, Mickey had been the only one to see his father do it.

But that day, all he knows is, a name appeared on his skin, and it was because his soul mate had suffered so much trauma, that he had needed his other half just to survive.

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Ian is sixteen now, and Lip is still the only one that knows about the ink he always makes an effort to hide.

His best friend is Mickey Milkovich, the two of them having been joined at the hip since that day seven years ago.

And right now, the dark haired boy next to him is flicking pieces of torn up paper in Ian’s general direction with a scowl on his face.