#carl overhearing from the other side of the room: how about we not discuss about that sir

[owcaunion]

Monogram: alright agent p, we've looked through some of your interactions with Doofenshmirtz and your reports all seem to be in order. however, there is one thing you might have overlooked to report so I have a question.

Monogram: why does Doofenshmirtz call you "babygirl"

[gallavictorious]

Liam’s face when Mickey walks into the room in 10x12 is soo funny idk why he reacted like that. Like did he hear them or are Ian and Mickey always so disgustingly in love when he sees them together 😂😂😂

You know, nonnie, this is a moment I’ve been pondering myself from time to time, because it’s not entirely clear what’s going on here. Just what is Liam’s problem? Well, kids, let’s find out! Well, maybe…

I should preface this by mentioning that I don’t think there’s enough textual evidence to draw any firm conclusions regarding Liam’s motivations. (Oh yeah, you can bet your sweet ass I will be taking this very seriously and give it my full consideration, because I’m a Pompous Nerd. :p) I have tentatively identified four possible scenarios I deem at least reasonable, if not equally plausible. There might well be more; feel free to hit me with those!

My four somewhat plausible scenarios are as follows:

1. Liam just doesn’t like Mickey very much. We don’t really see them interact a whole lot; there’s this exchange, and there’s Liam telling Mickey that Carl’s trying to save the city when Mickey asks what the smell is in 10x10, and there’s kitchen scene when Liam announces his need to find Frank in Glencoe. Of these, the first is ambiguous and the subject of the discussion at hand, and the second is vaguely positive but doesn’t tell us very much apart from Liam having enough respect for Mickey to acknowledge and answer his question to the room. The third one is the most interesting, because Liam appears rather exasperated and somewhat annoyed when informing Mickey that he can’t drop out of school because he’s ten. On the other hand, right after that Mickey does bother to tell Liam “no” when he asks if anyone wants to go with him to look for Frank – which suggests that Mickey feels that they’re close enough that the question is probably directed at him too, rather than only at Lip and Ian. (That last bit isn’t my observation, by the way – read it in a meta somewhere, though I can’t remember where.) On the third hand (I’m channeling Shiva, y’all, just go with it), Mickey feeling reasonably fond of and/or close to Liam does not equal Liam feeling reasonably fond of and/or close to Mickey, so yeah, we’re not getting anything conclusive out of that. On the fourth hand, Liam does go out of his way to get Ian and Mickey a special gift for the wedding (and specifically mentions that he wants that for them, rather than just for Ian) so it seems obvious that he supports them getting married. Could just be him being supportive of Ian getting what Ian wants regardless of Liam’s own feelings of dislike, of course, but all in all I think the case for Liam reacting out of a general scorn is fairly weak. Possible, which is why it’s on this list to begin with, but weak.

2. Liam is clever and perceptive (unlike a certain other and nail-clipping Gallagher sibling who shall remain unnamed), and he knows full well how having Ian and Mickey half-naked in the same room on their wedding day is likely to unfold. He might support their union but he’s in no rush to witness the physical manifestation of it, so he gets the hell out of Dodge. Good call, Liam! This is mostly along the lines of the interpretation you mention in your ask, and as far as I can tell it’s the most popular one in the fandom. It pretty much tracks? Can also easily be combined with Liam overhearing some of what went down in the bathroom while Ian and Mickey were getting showers; Mickey might well have mentioned something else being pretty nice and now when he starts talking about the shoes Liam is reminded of that other stuff he really wishes he hadn’t heard and god, is it going to be like this all the time now? Ugh. No.

3. Liam doesn’t feel entirely comfortable around half-naked men outside of his immediate family. Of course, Mickey is about to be his immediate family, kind of, but he’s still not a brother, and I wouldn’t necessarily be very surprised if Liam turns out to be a little puritanical about that sort of stuff? (I lowkey expect him to go straight edge when he gets a bit older, btw.) There is, however, nothing to really support this notion, apart from the fact that this wouldn’t be a weird thing to feel uncomfortable about and kids get all sorts of idea and can be pretty adamant about them, and I think Liam has a lot of integrity. On the other hand, having grown up in the Gallagher household and the South Side neighborhood he’s probably pretty desensitized to nudity and whatever, so yeah. But maybe this is his way of rebelling against his upbringing and asserting his own boundaries? I don’t know… This is really more of a theoretical possibility than anything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4. Liam, like me (and all right-thinking people really), does not in fact think the shoes are “pretty nice”. More like they are an utter affront to good taste and ought to be burnt along with the Horrible Hawaii Shirt Mick once had the audacity to call “kinda sexy” and then put on. :o Now, Liam can be polite when he wants to and doesn’t want to hurt Mickey’s feelings on his big day, so he mutters a “yeah” but he can’t quite hide his disgust once Mickey turns his back. I applaud your restraint, Liam, because while I loathe the white get-up with a passion, I still support Mickey just going for whatever outfits strikes his fancy. He bloody well deserves to wear whatever makes him feel pretty.

As mentioned, I really don’t think there’s enough to go on here to make a definitive statement either way. The case for scenario 2 is pretty good, and it’s also a funny take, so there’s no wonder it’s the (seemingly) most common interpretation, but it’s not obvious enough to be irrefutable, I think. So which notion (if any of them!) you find the most convincing probably comes down to preference and your general understanding of the characters. Me, I’m stubbornly (and somewhat against my better judgement) sticking with utter disgust of the shoes and the tux because holy fuck, Mickey, why? :p

Thank you for the ask, nonnie! Not sure it actually cleared anything up, but I had fun thinking about it. <3

[ddixons-angel]

Fated: Season 2

Summary: Gloria Rhee narrowly escapes Atlanta with her brother as the outbreak reaches the city. Luckily, they find a camp outside the city and together, they fend through encounters with the living and undead.

Starts a little before Season 1 and then follows the main storyline of the show.

Pairing: Daryl Dixon x Glenn Sister!OC

Warnings: major TWD spoilers, language, violence (the typical TWD stuff)

A/N:  This is the last chapter of Season 2!!! Hope you all like how things turn out~ Also, happy Easter weekend to everyone! And for those of you who don’t celebrate it, have a wonderful weekend! 

Chapter 9

In the morning, the group had buried Dale’s body and gave him a proper funeral. Rick had given a speech, saying that the group must stick together in order to honor Dale as he had believed the group was broken. In order to properly honor him after death, they must un-break it. The group dispersed once the funeral was over. Gloria had limped to Dale’s RV, she climbed inside and sat down at the table. She sighed as she looked around, reminiscing the old man. 

"Hey.” Daryl calls to her as he climbs into the RV with her, “I saw yer crutches outside, ya ain’ usin’ ‘em no more?” 

Gloria looks up at him and forces a smile on her face, “I am... it’s just a hassle getting in here with those things.” 

“Ya should keep usin’ ‘em, keep ya off that foot.” Daryl says, leaning on the wall facing her, “ya okay?”

“I’m fine,” she sighs, “better off than Glenn, anyway. I haven’t seen him like this since our grandpa died.” 

Gloria looks up at Daryl who’s quiet, waiting for her to continue talking.

“You know, my grandpa would always tell these stories, these really elaborate stories of when he went on road trips. Some of them I thought he just made up, and I didn’t really care for them, but Glenn? Glenn loved them.” she chuckles softly at the memory, “he’d always look forward to the weekends and ask ‘when’s gramps coming over? When’s gramps coming over?!’ and every single time, he’d be telling him a story, even if it was one he’s heard a million times, and he’d always love it. They were really close.” 

She wipes a tear from her cheek as she continues, “so, when he passed away from a heart condition, Glenn was devastated... and I think... I think he saw a bit of our grandpa in Dale. He’ll pull through it... but it’ll take some time.”

“Ya know I asked ya ‘bout you, not Glenn.” Daryl says straight-forwardly.

Gloria chuckles bitterly, “I couldn’t get away with that, could I...” she sighs, “I feel like shit, Daryl...”

“For what?” Daryl questions her.

“I... I made Dale look like such an idiot in front of everyone. I should have just... just not have said anything and took his side, the damn execution was gonna happen anyway, I should’ve just kept my damn mouth shut.” she confesses, wiping away the tears that fell from her eyes. 

“Ya shouldn’ feel that way. Dale wouldn’ blame ya, even if ya did make him look like an idiot, he knows it’s for the safety of our group, not in spite o’ him.” Daryl reasons with her inner demons. 

When he sees that Gloria starts to cry, he pulls her up from her seat and into his arms. Daryl leans back on the wall, holding her and rocking her as she cries. She cries into his chest, her hand grabbing onto his shirt. They stay that way for a little while as Daryl lets Gloria let out her feelings, he rubs small circles on her back, comforting her. 

Once she finishes crying, she sniffles and looks up at Daryl, “how are you feeling?” 

He shrugs, “‘M fine.”

She snuggles into his chest, “I’m sorry you had to be the one to put him down... wish you didn’t have to...”

“Well I had to, can’t let Rick do everythin’ hard ‘round here.” Daryl says softly. 

---

Later that day, Hershel had offered the group room to stay inside the house. He told them that he should have let them move in a long time ago, regretful that Dale’s death was what had to remind him to do so. As they all begin to pack their things, Rick is discussing with Shane and Daryl his plan on how to deal with Randall. He’d decided that he and Daryl would do originally as planned before Dale had died, drive the teenager out and leave him there far from the farm. Gloria had gathered her things and was looking for a spot in the house to claim as her place to sleep. 

“You can move your things into my room.” she overhears Maggie talking to Glenn. 

Glenn hesitates, “I’m just... gonna put my stuff over there.” he gestures to a corner of the room and heads to said spot. 

Maggie’s face drops as she watches him go then Gloria goes up to her, “hey, don’t take that to heart, he’s just having a rough time because of Dale. He still cares a lot about you but he’s hurting right now, just give him some time and space, it’ll be okay.” she smiles reassuringly to her. 

Maggie smiles sadly and nods, “I know... thank you.” she looks at Gloria apologetically, “you know it should be me trying to comfort you, yet here you are comforting me over your brother.” 

Gloria chuckles at this, “well, things are rough for everyone, we should all be comforting each other, have each other’s backs.”

“Definitely.” Maggie smiles warmly. 

Gloria heads back outside to gather the rest of the group’s things, Maggie following her to help. They head over to the trucks, Gloria hands Maggie a box to carry then grabs another box herself and they start to make their way back to the house.

“Guys!” they stop in their tracks as they hear T-Dog calling out, “Randall’s missing!”

Maggie and Gloria look at each other, put the boxes on the ground then head over to T-Dog where Rick and Daryl had already dashed towards. Seeing that those two are still on the farm, Gloria’s worry grows as she knows it wasn’t them who had taken him away as planned. 

“What do you mean missing?” Rick says, concern all over his face.

“I was at the barn checking up on him and it looks like he slipped the cuffs, but the locks were still locked from the outside.” T-Dog explains.

“He jumped me!” Shane shouts, emerging from the woods, his face looking bloody, “he took my gun!”

“Everybody, back in the house now!” Rick shouts, ushering everyone back into the house. 

He takes Daryl, Glenn, and Shane out on a search to look for Randall. The rest of the group are huddled in the living room, waiting for the four to return. Hours pass and soon it is dark out, suddenly a gunshot rings out from outside, causing Lori to panic.

“Hey, hey, calm down, it’s okay, they probably found Randall and had to shoot him, I’m sure they’re fine.” Gloria says, ushering Lori to sit back down, a hand on her back to soothe her. 

Lori tries to calm her breath when the door opens and Glenn and Daryl step in. 

“Hey, everyone okay?” Glenn asks, looking mainly at Maggie and Gloria.

“Yeah, we’re okay.” Maggie responds. 

Daryl looks around, “Rick and Shane ain’ back yet?” and Lori shakes her head, “We heard a shot.”

“They might have found Randall.” Gloria assumes, crossing her arms. 

“Nah, we found him. He was a walker.” Daryl sighs, “checked his body for bites and found nothin’, died by a broken neck.”

“That... doesn’t make any sense.” Gloria voices out everyone’s thoughts.

Lori stands up and goes to Daryl, “can you please go out and find Rick and Shane so we can figure out what’s going on?”

Daryl nods, “you got it.” he starts to head out followed by Andrea and Glenn. 

The three of them are on the porch when they freeze as they see a herd of walkers all making their way to the house. Glenn is the first one to react, running back into the house and telling Hershel the situation, he follows him out along with the rest of the group. They all watch in horror as a large herd of walkers has the entire farm surrounded, heading straight for them. 

Lori rushes back into the house to get Carl but comes back out in a panic as she isn’t able to find him. Carol reassures that he has to be in the house somewhere and that they’ll find him. The two women along with Beth and Patricia follow them into the house to try to locate the boy. The others are watching the herd. 

“What do we do...” Gloria says, expressing everyone’s thoughts. 

“Maybe we can hide in the basement, wait them out?” Glenn suggests, looking about, panicked. 

Daryl shakes his head, “Nah, a herd that big’ll rip this house apart.” 

Maggie comes out of the house with a large duffle bag of guns, she hands one to Hershel who starts to load it up. She then hands one to Glenn and Andrea. 

“What are ya, insane? We won’t even be able to make a dent in ‘em!” Daryl says as he watches everyone get loaded up.

“You can all leave if you want to, but this is my farm, I’ll die here.” Hershel says confidently then heads off to fight off the herd.

Daryl sighs then looks around at the others, catching Gloria’s eyes, “what’s your plan?” she asks.

“We kill as many of 'em as possible then lead the rest off the farm, it’s our only play.” Daryl instructs.

Gloria nods, looking around to make sure the others know the plan. She reaches down to the bag and grabs herself a handgun, loading it. She’s about to go off, not caring about using her crutches since she has bigger problems to worry about, when Daryl grabs her arm.

“Do ya even know how to use that?” he asks for the second time since they met, frowning.

“I’m about to learn.” she says then rushes off to the fight.

Jimmy, Andrea, Glenn, Maggie, T-Dog and Daryl went off to retrieve their vehicles, going with Daryl’s plan. Gloria had stayed closer to the house with Hershel as Carol and the other women were inside. She gets frustrated with herself as she attempts to shoot the walkers, only to miss her targets. She curses herself for not being able to take those lessons from Shane and Rick before. The sound from her shots only drew the walkers to her more. Gloria sighs, frustrated, and puts the gun away in her belt, knowing that she’s much better at hand to hand combat. Pulling out her dual daggers, she goes at it with the walkers, stabbing and killing each one that comes near her. A bright light catches her attention as she sees that the barn is now lit on fire, the walkers around her are distracted by the sight. She hears more gunfire, assuming that it’s Daryl and the others shooting from their vehicles. 

Lori, Carol, Beth, and Patricia are watching the fight from the inside of the house and figured that it was too dangerous to stay and they need to leave. The women run out of the house, Lori in the lead with Carol following closely behind. Beth and Patricia run out together but Patricia gets grabbed by a walker and screams as it takes a bite from her neck. Gloria dashes over at the sound of the scream towards Beth and stabs the walker that bit Patricia. 

“Lori! Take Beth!” Gloria yells out as she turns around to fight off the rest of the walkers who made their way to the sound as well. 

Lori grabs the young girl and they run. Gloria soon gets surrounded by walkers circling her. Quickly, she surveys the herd and finds the side with the least amount of walkers. Taking a risk, she rushes over to that side and kills each walker blocking her way, clearing her path and runs away from the pack into the woods. Once free from the walkers, she hides behind a tree and looks back at the now walker infested farm. Gloria sighs as she sees what she recognises as Maggie’s car driving away from the wreckage. 

“Glenn better be in that car too.” Gloria whispers to herself. 

She starts to walk away from the farm, deciding to head to the highway where the group had originally lost Sophia and her. It’s the only landmark she had that the others knew of that’s somewhat closeby. Gloria had been walking for hours and her sprained ankle started to become sore as she continued to walk. She sighs, it was healing so well too. After another while, she finally spots the road to the highway, smiling in relief to herself as she reaches it. Gloria starts limping up the road to find her group.

---

Rick, Carl, and Hershel watch as the vehicles speed down the highway and stop right next to them. Lori gets out of the car and runs over to Rick and Carl, holding them close. Beth runs out and tackles Hershel in a tight hug and are soon joined by Maggie who had gotten out of her car. Hershel looks around and asks about Patricia and Jimmy, and to his disappointment, they hadn’t made it out. Glenn slowly gets out of the car, he scans the area for Gloria. Tears well up in his eyes when he doesn’t see her and he hits the car in frustration, anger, and sadness. The others look to him in sympathy as they realize as well that Gloria isn’t with the group.

“She’s alive.” Daryl pipes up, causing Glenn to look at him, “we jus’ gotta wait for her to come back to us. Ya can’t just give up on her jus’ ‘cause she ain’ here! She’s tough, and ya know that!” he wasn’t even sure if he was trying to convince Glenn or himself. 

He huffs in frustration then heads back to his bike, muttering that he’s going to go back and find her but before he mounts his bike, a figure down the road catches his eye. Daryl bursts into a dash down the road when he sees that it’s Gloria. She breaks into a tired smile when she sees him and yelps when he wraps his arms around her. Emotions take over him as Daryl presses his lips on hers, kissing her hard, making both of them breathless when they pull apart. 

“I’m glad you’re okay.” Gloria says softly to him.

He nods and starts walking her back to the group but when he realizes that she’s still limping, he picks her up bridal style, “let’s get ya back to yer brother.”

Daryl puts her back down on her feet when they get back to the group where she limps over to Glenn. 

“Oh my god.” Glenn sighs in relief as he rushes over to Gloria, hugging her tightly, “when I didn’t see you I thought...” 

Gloria chuckles, “you aren’t getting rid of me that easily, older brother.” 

Rick smiles at the siblings reunion but then turns serious as he clears his throat, “we should get going, we don’t want to be here if another herd passes through.”

With that, the group decide to head off. Glenn ushers Gloria into Maggie’s car where she takes the back seat, jokingly threatening anyone who tries to stop her from sleeping. Through their journey, Rick’s car had run out of gas, causing the group to stop. They were now huddled together between some stone structures to the side of the road. Carol and Maggie were growing wary of Rick as he had revealed what Dr. Jenner had told him right before the C.D.C. blew up: you become a walker no matter how you die. The group was upset that Rick hadn’t told them that important information before and they only became even more afraid of him when he had revealed that he killed Shane. Rick was on top of the structures, keeping watch for the group.

Carol leaned in to Gloria who had her arm around her for warmth, “I don’t think I can trust Rick... after keeping that from us...” she says with a hushed voice. 

Gloria shakes her head, “I... I don’t know what to think.”

“I trust him.” Daryl, who’s sitting on the other side of Carol informs, “he hasn’t done anythin’ wrong by me.”

A sudden rustle in the woods startles everyone in the group. Carol stands up in panic, looking at Rick.

“Do something!” she calls out, clearly freaked out.

“I am doing something! I’m keeping this group safe! That’s the only thing I’ve been trying to do this entire time!” he snarls, “maybe, maybe you don’t need me, maybe you can all try your chances out there, alone, without me, but that isn’t happening. You’re all staying. This is not a democracy.”

The group stays silent, no one daring to oppose the now self-appointed leader. Rick continues on patrolling the structures, keeping watch. The entire group, including Rick, knows that they can’t survive without each other. They’re just going to have to live with how things are now, try to find a place to build up their group, possibly start something new for this terrifying world. 

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Next Chapter

And there you have it! Season 2 has come to an end and next week we’ll be on to Season 3! Yayyy we’re close to our favorite Prison Era! What did you guys think of this ending though? What did you think about that kiss?? :D Let me know~

I hope everyone stays safe and healthy, please don’t panic, we will get through this!

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