Bethanygibson Stories

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.

Rory Kavanagh has lived in his father's shadow for as long as he can remember. A rugby legend, his father's name is known in every corner of the sport, and the weight of those expectations has always been suffocating for Rory. The pressure to be as great, if not greater, is relentless. But deep down, Rory doesn't want to be defined by his father's legacy. He just wants to play the game for himself, to be free of comparisons. Bethany Gibson, his childhood friend, has always been there by his side. Growing up together, their parents best friends, they've known each other forever. While Rory's world is filled with pressure and expectations, Bethany's is hidden behind a perfect smile and a bubbly personality. Outwardly, she's confident and the life of the party. But underneath it all, she's struggling with a past she can't seem to escape. A secret she's kept buried from everyone, even Rory. Their long-standing friendship has always been easy, but lately, something has changed. Spending more time together, Rory begins to realize that Bethany is the only person who truly makes him feel free. With her, he's not the son of a rugby icon. He's just Rory-the boy she's known since childhood. But as their connection deepens, Rory has to face the reality that he's been running from his own fears of living up to his father's legacy. Bethany, too, starts seeing Rory in a new light. Their friendship, born out of years of shared history, slowly transforms into something more. But the closer they get, the more Bethany feels the weight of her own struggles. She's terrified of letting Rory in too far, afraid that once he sees the truth about her, he won't be able to handle it. The last thing she wants is to lose the one person who's always been there for her.

He's going under. Someday, she's not going to be able to tug him back to shore. Owen Gibson's life is collapsing in on him. As things grow harder to bear and secrets are revealed, Owen begins to sink under the weight of everything that is now out in the open, which once lived exclusively in his tortured memory. Niamh Lynch refuses to let him go under. Her life mission-once to protect herself and her family-is now to keep Owen going, which is easier said than done. With a love tested by trauma, detectives, and familial difficulties, Niamh and Owen both forget about the world that exists out of smalltown Ballylaggin and allow themselves to be absorbed by the chaos. What they both need is for the other to pull them out. But living in this strange new world, is that even possible?

Welcome back to Cork in this Gibson x Lynch fanfic. This takes place during 2005 onwards from the points of views of Bethany Gibson, Gibsies little sister, who in the books drowned at a very young age, and Tadhg Lynch, Shannon and Joeys little brother, who is hooked the moment he sees Beth.You have to read the books before reading this or you will not understand lots of things and will be spoiled. Enjoy!

Tadhg Lynch is haunted by nightmares of the fire that killed his parents, especially his cruel dad who beat him and his siblings. Now living with the Kavanaghs, he can't move on and uses alcohol and drugs to try to silence the memories. Bethany Gibson is haunted by the day her father drowned when she was three, even though she barely remembers him. She envy's her father, because if he didn't die she wouldn't have to suffer with someone she should trust. They meet at twelve through their siblings, understanding each other in a way no one else can, before life pulls them apart. At sixteen, they find each other again-older, haunted, and unable to ignore what still lingers between them.