CHILDHOOD AU wait omg ok tiny ian becomes friends with mickey and figures out that mickey is being abused (even tho mickey won't tell him much about himself) and he's like "we should run away" bc he wants to protect tiny mickey and when tiny mickey asks why he just shrugs and says "no reason" bc he doesn't want tiny mickey to know ian figured it all out and become defensive and stuff
tiny ian sneaking extra snacks into his lucnhbox and sharing them with mickey at lunch when he notices that mickey always gives whatever he has to mandy bc terry is never around and mickey just pilfers what he can from the kash n grab on the way to school
tiny mickles repaying the favor when he sees that some of the kids in his grade pick on his tiny freckle giraffe friend and decides that no one gets to mess with gallagher
tiny ian hearing yells and crashes from inside mickey’s house and asks fiona if mickey and his little sister can sleep over
tiny mickles and even tinier mandles start staying over at the gallaghers whenever terry comes home drunk and they always make blanket forts and drink capri suns and stay up until 8:30 on a sCH OOL NIG H T
tiny ian getting a lil itty bitty crush on his friend
tiny mickles getting a lil itty bitty crush on his friend
tinier mandles being completely oblivious to their itty bityy mutual crushes bc she’s six and still thinks unicorns exist but is happy she has tiny ian as her friend
TINY IAN AND MICKEY AND MANDY!!!!
