Éireann O'Brien and Tadhg Lynch were best friends once. Now, starting first year at Tommen, they can barely exchange a glance without it turning into a fight. She's closed-off and fierce, with too much responsibility for someone her age. He's angry, unpredictable, and always one wrong word away from snapping. They're constantly at odds-but behind every glare and argument is a history neither of them can forget. Because some bonds don't break. They just change. And what happens when the person you can't stand... is the only one who really sees you? [tadhg lynch fanfic]

Everyone remembers the Lynch fire. Everyone remembers the bodies carried out. But no one remembers the boy left standing in the middle of it all. Tadhg Lynch isn't the golden Lynch boy. He isn't the baby who got shielded from the worst, or the oldest who carved a new life with a family of his own. He's the one in between. The one who saw everything, took the blows meant for his younger brothers, and carried scars no one wanted to look too closely at. Brave. Bold. Mouthy. A joker when he can manage it. And broken enough that nothing ever really sticks. Bethany Gibson is the girl who shouldn't have lived. She was three when the water took her under, when her father gave his life to save hers. She grew up in the shadow of grief, wrapped in the protection of a brother who bled for her in ways she only half understands. Sweet, funny, too kind for her own good-Bethany knows what it is to survive, but not yet what it means to live. When Bethany collides with Tadhg at Tommen, it's fire meeting oxygen-sharp words, sharp looks, a pull neither of them can shake. He's crude, cruel with his jokes, too much for anyone to handle. She's soft where he's jagged, sunshine where he's ash. He calls her Barbie. She calls him an arsehole. And somewhere between the laughs and the fights, they start to see the cracks in each other. But fixing what's shattered isn't simple. Not when trauma festers. Not when grief never loosens its grip. Not when love means putting your hands into the fire all over again. Funny. Raw. Heartbreaking. Fixing 9 is a story about the girl who wouldn't stop caring, the boy who didn't know how to be cared for, and the brutal, beautiful mess of trying to save each other when the world already tried to burn or drown you alive.

When two hurricanes collide, destruction is inevitable. Tadhg Lynch has escaped his traumatic childhood. After losing his parents in a tragic fire, being adopted by the Kavanaghs at twelve gave him and his siblings a chance at a fresh start, a better life. But despite keeping busy with Tommen and Hurley, no one seems to notice that the stubborn, sharp-tongued boy is still trapped in the past. Haunted by nightmares and tormented by endless "what ifs," Tadhg struggles to escape his own mind, masking his pain with harsh words and a defiant attitude. The only person who refuses to back down from his temper is a freckled, headstrong girl in his class who matches his stubbornness blow for blow. Isabell Donnelly is bold, outspoken, and unafraid to give as good as she gets. She can take anything Tadhg throws her way. But beneath her fiery attitude is a girl suffocating under the weight of responsibility, with a mentally unstable mother, a father who can't find financial stability, and two younger sisters looking up to her for guidance. Isabell constantly doubts herself and never feels good enough; she barely has a moment to breathe. They may act like rivals, constantly at each other's throats, but something keeps pulling them together. Whether it's fate, frustration, or the simple fact that they see through each other's masks, neither can seem to walk away. And as much as they fight it, sometimes the person who pushes you the hardest is the one who understands you the most.