Why did Mickey break out of prison? Damn, eight years is a long time, sure, but the risk of getting caught and slapped with even more time was just way too high, right? So why? Ah, yeah, right. The redhead who could barely look him in the eye when he visited. Admitting Svetlana had paid him off was payback for the fact that Mick had shot his half-cousin. But not being able to promise he’d wait for him—fuck, that broke Mickey. So, he somehow found out that things were looking up for Ian. That he was working at Patsy’s, staying stable. Mick was happy for him, damn it. At least one of them was making it, right? Then Svetlana—or Mandy, or fucking Iggy—told him Ian was dating a Black guy, that he was taking him to a wedding. Mick hadn't thought it would happen so fast. It hurt like hell, okay? And then someone told him how this guy cheated on Ian with some chick. And Mickey was fucking furious! Because he’d done that too—twice—and it was all because Ian meant something to him. And he saw Caleb as a real threat! He had to get out of there, right? So he hatched a plan. But then he found out he was dating this trans guy who was tearing him down over his illness—and fucking Mickey Milkovich was just trying to save his boy by breaking out of prison and being irresistibly dangerous, knowing that was Ian’s type. Then he lets himself get fucked at night by the shimmering water under a starry sky because he knows Ian’s into that romantic shit, and he asks him to ride off into the sunset together because is under his fucking skin.
