When Ian turns around and sees Mickey standing there, he's that little scared kid we saw standing on the Milkovich porch all those years ago.
We all know Ian wouldn't have made it on the inside alone and suddenly there's Mickey like some kind of beautiful thug angel.
The look Mickey throws him as he walks to the bunk, that little classic Mickey lip bite and smirk. All of it telling Ian he's there for him, he's there because of him, because despite everything he still loves him!
Ian's smile and the happiness in his eyes, something we've been waiting for since he left Mickey at the border.
Ian's hesitation, he didn't just dive in and capture Mickey's mouth like he once would. He's hesitant, he knows he fucked up, he knows he hurt him and he knows he was wrong.
Ian touching Mickey's face, showing affection but also confirming he's real. Making sure he's really there with him.
Mickey's hand on the back of Ian's neck pulling him in. Letting him know its ok, he's there, he still wants him and he still loves him.
The kiss, passionate yet slow and sweet. A kiss of love....
I now pronounce them prison husbands! 😍
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Now I highly doubt the Shameless writers meant for me to read that much into this Scene but I'm a writer myself and that's what I do 🤣
I know as well as you do that this was just the writers giving into peer pressure by the fans. They knew we'd never accept anything other than Gallavich as endgame.
So this whole scene was just them paying lip service to the fans and honestly....I'm ok with that!
We've been through so much as Gallavich fans we deserved this! We deserved Endgame....and we got it bitches 🤣
Ok the more I see the more this season is pissing me off. As someone with Bipolar I’m insulted that the writers have Ian simply writing Mickey off so easily!
No one and I mean no one, Bipolar or not, can simply “Move on” that easily after being so in love with someone like Ian was with Mickey!
This whole idea they’re trying to push that none of it was real is total bullshit! Its giving people like myself a bad name!
I’ve been in love and I had to let him go because of my diagnosis, because he couldn’t deal with it, not that he didn’t try. But did I turn around and say I didn’t care? NO! I loved that guy so much it fucking hurt and I still love him! That was me loving him not my illness!
Writing the whole relationship off as some kind of side effect to Ian’s Bipolar is insulting to what was once a great show, to the amazing character that was Mickey and to Ian!
Ok the more I see the more this season is pissing me off. As someone with Bipolar I’m insulted that the writers have Ian simply writing Mickey off so easily!
No one and I mean no one, Bipolar or not, can simply “Move on” that easily after being so in love with someone like Ian was with Mickey!
This whole idea they’re trying to push that none of it was real is total bullshit! Its giving people like myself a bad name!
I’ve been in love and I had to let him go because of my diagnosis, because he couldn’t deal with it, not that he didn’t try. But did I turn around and say I didn’t care? NO! I loved that guy so much it fucking hurt and I still love him! That was me loving him not my illness!
Writing the whole relationship off as some kind of side effect to Ian’s Bipolar is insulting to what was once a great show, to the amazing character that was Mickey and to Ian!
You only need the light
when it’s burning low,
Only miss the sun
when it starts to snow,
Only know you love him
when you let him go,
And you let him go…