Gallavich

Gallavich is the slash ship between Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich from the Shameless fandom.

Season 1
Ian is accused of assaulting Mandy, Mickey's sister. Mickey comes into the store that Ian works at to attack Ian. Ian makes a plan and he tells Mandy he's gay and Mandy tells Ian she's going to clear things up with Mickey. Mickey starts shoplifting from the store, he steals a gun from the counter. Ian goes to try and find it and doesn't find it. He comes back later and he finds Mickey sleeping. Mickey attacks Ian and after a bit of fighting, they end up having sex. Mickey’s father, Terry, later walks in on them.

Season 2
When Mickey is released from juvenile detention and he and Ian resume their relationship. Mickey starts working security at the Kash and Grab. Frank catches the boys having sex in the cooler and Mickey, fearing that his father would kill him should Frank tell what he saw, resolves to kill Frank. After stalking him for several days, Mickey can't go through with killing Frank and assaults a police officer instead, violating his parole and returning him to juvenile detention.

Season 3
Ian begins to get jealous that Mickey sleeps with girls. In the following episodes Ian starts dating an older man. In the episode May I Trim Your Hedges? Mickey is jealous of Ian and beats Ian's date. In The Sins of My Caretaker Ian is getting ready for military school and Mickey helps him. Mickey asks what Ian sees in the old man. Ian replies: "he buys me things, orders room service, is not afraid to kiss me." In the same episode Mickey kisses Ian for the first time before robbing a house.

In Cascading Failures Mickey invites Ian to sleep over. In the morning, Mickey's dad, Terry Milkovich, walks in on the two having sex in Mickey’s living room. Terry beats them up and calls a prostitute who'll” fuck Mickey's gayness out of him” and forces Ian to watch. Ian hears that Mickey is getting married to the prostitute who was supposed to fuck gay out of him after she got pregnant. When Ian goes to talk to him about the wedding, Mickey doesn't say anything at first. Then Ian provokes him into a fight by telling him that he is gay and that he loves him. Ian comes to Mickey before wedding, they have sex after Ian asks what with the wedding Mickey says that for him it is just piece of paper and that not everybody just gets to blurt out how they fucking feel every minute. Ian gets drunks on the wedding because he loves Mickey and can’t stand to see him get married to someone else. At the final episode, Ian comes to Mandy, Mickey's sister, and tells Mickey that he's signing up to army.

Season 4
When Mickey heard that Ian has trouble, he started looking for him. In the seventh episode, Mickey found where Ian worked and tried to convince him to call his family. Ian dispels him with texts that he speaks to clients. Mickey waited until Ian’s shift at work was over and he sees Ian stoned and lying in snow.

Fanon
Gallavich is the most popular ship in the Shameless fandom. It has a large following on tumblr, and tends to be the focus of the online fandom. On AO3, Gallavich is the most written ship for both Mickey and Ian. It is also the most written ship in the Shameless (US) and Shameless (US) RPF tags.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Ian/Mickey tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Ian/Mickey (2011) tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Ian/Mickey (2011) tag on FanFiction.Net