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A lil snippet of this fanfic where Yevgeny meets Ian for the first time as a teenager, after his friend is injured and Ian is the paramedic on duty. (Mickey moved states to be close to Yev & Svet right after getting out of prison and hasn’t seen Ian in 16 years).

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The red head’s eyes were darting around the hospital reception, like he was looking for something he wasn’t sure he wanted to find. Yevgeny eyed him suspiciously.

“What you still doing here, anyway? Didn’t think you guys stuck around after bringing people to the hospital.”

The paramedic’s - Ian, Yevgeny reminded himself - eyes widened. “Uh, yeah, I uh… I had some paperwork to fill out from another case,” he answered. Yevgeny nodded and turned away, planning to go see if he could get a snack from the vending machine. Before he could leave, though, Ian spoke again.

“Your friend okay?”

Yevgeny nodded. “Yeah. You were right. Broken ankle. He’ll be out for the rest of the school year but he should be able to play next year when the season starts up again.”

“Good. That’s good.”

At the thought of the next soccer season, Yevgeny’s stomach dropped. The school could easily kick them off the team for all this.

Ian’s voice interrupted his thoughts.

“Is uh… is your dad on his way? Is he coming to pick you up?” Something about the guy seemed nervous, but Yevgeny didn’t dwell on that for too long as thoughts of having to tell his parents he was kicked off the team filled his head. Yev shuddered at the thought. God, his parents were going to be so pissed.

“Shit. Yeah, he’s on his way. Should be here any minute.” Yevgeny’s eyes anxiously flickered towards the hospital doors, waiting for his dad’s surely explosive arrival.

His dad was a pretty fair parent, his mom being the stricter one. His dad scared other people, Yev knew that. But he didn’t scare Yevgeny. Underneath the tough exterior and tattoos, he was a nice dude who cared about his family more than anything.

But, Yevgeny knew he’d fucked up badly tonight. It would probably go on his permanent record, and if there was one thing his mom always enforced, it was the importance of not fucking up his future. Soccer was his chance at a college scholarship.

Plus, he had promised his dad he wouldn’t go along with any of Jackson’s stupid plans, but he did. And his dad fucking hated lying. Yevgeny never really lied to his dad. Honestly. He told his dad when he had his first kiss, his first beer. Even though all of his friends lied to their parents and said they were chilling at a friend’s house when they were going to parties, Yevgeny always actually told his dad the truth. Mickey had always told Yevgeny that he could tell him anything, call him at anytime if something happened, and he’d be there for him.

But Yevgeny hadn’t told him they were planning to sneak out of the hotel this time. So yeah, between lying and fighting with the other team to the point his friend landed in hospital, Yevgeny knew he was going to be in some deep shit once his dad arrived.

“You okay?” Yevgeny looked back at Ian. His dread must be pretty apparent on his face. His mom always said he was like his dad in that way, no fucking poker face. That and they pretty much had the same face.

“Yeah, I’m good. I’m just, ah, realizing I’m probably gonna be grounded for the whole summer.”

Ian chuckled, but there was something dark behind his eyes. “Well, could be worse.”

And yeah, Yev knew that was true. His mom and dad never went into too much detail about their childhoods, but Yev gathered enough information about their pasts to know that the both of his parents got punishments a lot worse than a few months with no social life. Still, it was the summer before senior year, and he was bummed he was going to miss out on it because he was stupid enough to listen to fucking Jackson.

“You hungry? Have you eaten?” Ian pulled Yevgeny out of his thoughts.

“Was just gonna get something from the vending machine,” he answered.

Ian shook his head. “Wait here. The staff cafeteria is 24 hours. They know me there. I’ll go grab you something to keep you going until -“ Ian faltered. “Until, uh, your dad gets here.”

Yevgeny was quick to refuse. “No, no, that’s fine man, you don’t need to do that.” But Ian wasn’t having it.

“No, it’s fine. It’s late and you should eat.” He paused before he said, “besides, you’re 17. You shouldn’t be here alone. I’ll uh…” He turned and looked at Yevgeny, and Yev realized it was the first time since the conversation started that the guy was actually looking him in the eye. Ian’s face held the same haunted look he was wearing in the ambulance. “I’ll come back and wait with you until your dad gets here.”

Yevgeny went to protest because he’s not a fucking kid, damnit. But the red head was already half way down the hallway.

Yevgeny watched as the guy walked away. He didn’t really understand why the dude was doing all this for him, why he seemed so concerned about him. Surely he saw this sort of stuff all the time in his line of work. He especially didn’t understand why Ian looked at him like he’d seen a fucking ghost.

Yevgeny didn’t have too much time to dwell on it, though, because pretty soon he heard the familiar voice of his father come through the doors of the hospital.

“YEVGENY MILKOVICH!”

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its-a-queer-thing · 7 years

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In Case You Missed It Pt 11--3x02

We first see Mickey return while Ian is banging someone else under the bleachers at the high school. I saw some people complaining about Ian “cheating” on Mickey between the last episode and this one but I’ll remind them: Mickey essentially broke them up in his last episode.

At first when Mickey stumbles upon the scene, he looks excited to see Ian until he realizes what's going on; that Ian was having sex with someone else.

Then the jealousy flares and he acts out violently. This violence works on two levels: first and foremost as I have hopefully made abundantly clear, Mickey has been raised to be homophobic asshole, he's been raised to believe that it is okay and in fact encouraged to beat up gay people, so his first reaction when he sees this is to react violently because it's how he was raised. But there's a second layer there which is jealousy because that's his spot. Mickey, as it has been hinted, is just about always bottom and now here he is being replaced. And even though Mickey knows that what he and Ian has is casual physically, and surely he remembers that they “broke up” last season, I'm sure it still hurt to find Ian with someone else. This pain of course will be only worse when he learns about Ned who has established an emotional connection as well as a physical connection with Ian, one thing that Mickey cannot give right now.

Either way, Mickey acts out violently in this moment

I think it’s important to pay attention to Ian’s reactions. Ian rolls his eyes when Mickey says something homophobic or acts out violently, especially if it's regarding his sexuality or Ian, and this is one of those cases.

I think it’s important to always look to Ian when Mickey does something outlandish because Ian’s reaction will tell us a lot about Mickey’s motivations. In this instance, Ian laughs and rolls his eyes because he knows that Mickey isn't beating this kid up just because he's gay; that he's actually beating him up because that's his spot and Ian knows it's a jealousy thing. Ian has always had a knack for understanding Mickey’s side and deciding which side of Mickey he’s seeing: The mini-Terry Milkovich side or the true Mickey side. We saw him see right through Mickey in 1x10 when Mickey said something very biting, but Ian only laughed at him because he knew that there was no actual venom in the words. And basically any time that Mickey says something snarky, Ian laughs because he sees right through him and sees it almost as endearing! Here we see Ian almost trying to stop himself from laughing because this is so over the top and it’s almost humorous to Ian because he sees the irony of what’s going on here. Obviously it is not funny that Mickey beat up this kid who was completely innocent in this situation, but because this is TV and because this is a character defining moment, I say we forgive ourselves for laughing at the situation, because it is the sheer irony of Mickey's words that gives it humor. Without, I never would have laughed and Ian probably wouldn't have either.

The irony being that Mickey isn’t ACTUALLY beating this kid up because he’s gay or because Mickey has a vendetta against gay people. He’s beating him up because he’s jealous and beyond that is trying to keep up appearances that he’s a fagbeating hardass no one should mess with. It’s the way he tries too hard to come off as something he’s not that is humorous, then with the added irony that Mickey is criticizing this kid for allowing himself to be fucked in the ass when... Well, what is Mickey’s preferred position?

I also want to point out that Mickey's walls are definitely still raised. Mickey is no where nearer to coming out or being completely comfortable with himself, but he also hasn’t taken a step backward. The irony seems to be lost on him that he first beats up a kid for taking it in the ass and calling him a faggot, then assuming the same position... This is how dedicated he is to not admitting he’s gay. Even before this moment, it was actually in the previous episode, when Mandy said that Mickey was asking for girl on girl porn we see that Mickey is still trying to put on airs that he's straight, overcompensating, even, to combat the possibility that Frank could still run his mouth (and it's possible that Frank already has run his mouth but he just doesn't know it yet.)

So they return to their old dynamic of having sex in secret and it seems like Mickey's still allowing his walls to slowly slide down for Ian, while still keeping a good bit of himself hidden. He's not yet ready to give as much of himself as Ian probably already has, because let’s face it, each time he makes progress he gets shot, or is threatened in some way. BUT a huge thing that happens in this scene is when he admits to Ian that he missed him.

This is so fucking huge because Mickey is finally allowing himself to be slightly vulnerable and finally expressing an emotion to Ian. He’s risking a shoot down or maybe even some mockery by admitting aloud that he missed the kid.

Now something I’m still wondering is, did Ian visit him this time? I wonder because of Ian’s surprise when Mickey admits to missing him, and because he expected him to be inside for four more months. If they were in consistent contact, I’d think that he would have been told that Mickey was getting out early...

Granted the shock likely comes from their “break up” in season 2 and Ian thinking Mickey was mad at him, and it’s due to him believing that which makes me wonder if Ian even visited. If Ian didn’t visit, Mickey doesn’t say anything about it--possibly once again trying to keep Ian at arms length emotionally or not let on just how much he clearly means to him.

Ian is basically Mickey's only friend, and even Mandy admits that she doesn't like to go visit him because the guards "search” her too thoroughly. Of course, when Ian gets excited about hearing how much Mickey missed him, Mickey tries to dismiss his confession as just something physical.

And to those who insist Mickey doesn’t care about Ian, keep in mind that Mickey keeps coming back. And it isn’t just for the sex. They hang out, they talk, they know things about each other (though Ian is about to learn that he doesn’t know nearly as much about Mickey as he believes). Mickey does what he can to keep Ian around him even when he tries to convince himself that he doesn’t care. He seeks Ian out even after breaking things off with him last season, likely knowing he could have moved on. It’s knowing this, and wanting Ian close while simultaneously wanting to keep him at arms’ length because of his closeted status that makes him act so dismissive, and I feel a lot of people may not catch that.

I think Ian suspects, as I do, that Mickey doesn’t miss him just for the sex. But as we find out later in the episode, Ian is starting to doubt his ability to read Mickey.

It seems to me that Ian is learning in this moment that he doesn’t know as much about Mickey as he had always assumed. As good at reading him as he is, there’s still a lot that Mickey keeps well hidden, even from someone he clearly has a deep connection with. So for Ian to go from feeling so sure about how Mickey felt about him despite Mickey’s sturdy wall and to go from feeling as though he can read him like a book, I’m sure this is a blow to realize he doesn’t know as much as he thinks. But even Ian didn't expect this which tells me that despite how far they've come, it looks as though Mickey's walls are still pretty high, because clearly Ian doesn't know Mickey's birthday, Ian doesn't know exactly how old Mickey is and his shock that he's back shows that he probably didn't visit very much if at all.

Something else I think is really important is that we can assume Mickey is now 18. Everyone believed that Mickey had another 4 months. My guess is he was so close to aging out when he went in and he was only back in for a parole violation, so they just let him go. So why did Mickey lie about “overcrowding or some shit”? Probably because it’s a hard realization that you’re 18 now when he’s a person accustomed to being able to get away with most things with a slap on the wrist (juvie for him probably not even phasing him as a severe punishment since he likely knows how to play it there from his family and has the Milkovich name to back him up). But prison isn’t like juvie. I imagine juvie is still not a nice place, but let’s be real: prison is probably significantly worse. He’s probably trying to process the fact that next time he gets caught doing something he shouldn’t be doing, he’s going to the big house. Plus, imagine marking your 18th birthday by being released from juvie and realizing you’re going to need to own your shit in ways you haven’t needed to before... To shorten my rambling, this is a sobering moment for him.

Look at both of their faces... Mickey seems to be trying a little too hard to make that casual and Ian doesn’t look like he exactly believes him...

And the final point from the scene that I would like to make is regarding Mickey's relationship with school, and what exactly he does in the school. In his premiere episode we saw him thank Lip for writing an English paper for him. So, at one point, Mickey did care a little bit about school. He went through an effort to pay Lip to write an essay for him. But then Mickey says in this episode that he would still be considered a freshman because he hasn't passed a single class. So something happened between season 1 and season 3 that changed his relationship with school. It could have been his mother dying, it could have been that Terry forced him to start pushing drugs which we got a glimpse of in season 2 and will continue to see throughout season 3, and in this scene as well. I don't know about anyone else but when I see him explaining to Ian why he came back to the school and saying that the reason is there's drug money he needs to collect I see regret. It could be regret for what he's doing, peddling drugs to young people, or it even could be regret that he's not coming back to school to learn or better himself but to continue on a business that I think he's conflicted by.

On one end as I mentioned before, Terry has raised Mickey to be a little Terry, and up until season 4 episode 11 Mickey wanted to be a little Terry, he worked at it. So it's by no stretch of the imagination that I would see Mickey dropping out of high school to continue on the family business, or even staying in high school and putting in just enough effort to stay in order to deal drugs to young people for his dad. But either way there is definitely some dark emotion there and I feel as though it is underrecognized and underappreciated that clearly there is something about his life and something about the drugs that he is maybe resentful of or at least he feels something within his subconscious to make him feel bad about it one way or the other.

This season I think is heavily influenced by jealousy. In seasons 1 & 2 Mickey didn't really have a lot to be jealous of. Ian clearly chose him over Kash and then in season 2 Ian wasn't hanging out with anyone else and he, for all we know, was faithful to Mickey even though they weren't in a relationship; but now we see Ian moving on physically because he wasn't sure how Mickey felt about him so he needed to find a source of comfort which Mickey usually provided. And on top of that and didn't know if Mickey was mad at him or if he wanted to pick things up where they left off because Mickey ended it.

So season 3 starts with a lot of questions regarding their relationship and how things are going to work. And clearly, Ian wants something a little more committed while Mickey of course isn't there yet and won't be until season 5 (or for all we know, never imagined he could have a relationship with Ian so just didn’t dare to dream).

That’s it for 3x02! Let me know if I missed anything you think is important or if you disagree with my interpretation!

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