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𝟶𝟶𝟹. 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚕 🔪
❝ he's a fucking psycho...i like this guy ❞

NOT TO the youngest milkovich's shock, she woke up with a wack in the face with a pillow, but it was who she was getting hit by that shocked her.

"get up, i'll make breakfast!" debbie said sweetly, as if she didn't just hit maddie unconscious with a pillow (which seemed to be filled with  something other then feathers). what maddie could only know as being called sunshine was radiating on her face, and a smell that was somehow less foul then the one she usually awoke to stirred around her. maddie could get use to this.

she had stayed after the night prior studying with lip, and debby practically pleaded with fiona to let the milkovich stay over. but, looking back, fiona seemed to be rather pleased that anyone wanted debbie's age to spend time with her. maddie wasn't use to someone being amazed by her. feared? yes. but admired? never.

she strolled down the stairs of the gallagher household, pigtails loose, and her over sized t-shirt that her brother gave to her as 'sleep wear' covering her gym shorts way over the knees. she even had socks that were more tan then white.

"smoothie" debbie said grinning while passing a strawberry-banana smoothie to her new friend.

"thanks" maddie said with a thankful nod before turning her attention to the scene of carl electrically shocking one of debbie's barbies in a chair.

"didn't fiona tell you to stop electrocuting dolls?" debbie said with an eye roll, obviously seeing how entranced maddie was by the strange antics.

"they have to pay for their sins" carl said with a sinister smile before picking up his weapon of choice for his trial. maddie stood back, smoothie in hand, impressed.

"he's a fucking psycho...i like this guy" maddie said towards debbie with a shrug, before taking a long slurp from her smoothie straw.

eventually most of the gallaghers had left the home due to trying to bargain with the electrician on getting more time to pay their bill. meanwhile maddie took the time to walk up the stairs of the gallagher household to see lip and a random korean kid in his bedroom, bargaining over paid homework answers, but it was obvious that lip wasn't moving on his prices. maddie sometimes forgot that lip was tutoring her for free.

"okay? so i want you to give me fifty...or GFY" lip said with the laminated paper on the great gatsby in hand. maddie stood by the door frame, invested.

"GFY?" the kid repeated.

"it means go fuck yourself" maddie finished making both boys turn around to face her. the korean boy specifically was startled by the little girl.

"mister...do you know what a knife is?" maddie asked casually pulling one out from underneath her gym shorts. it was a small dagger with an incredibly pointy blade. lip was trying his very hardest to hold down a laugh, whilst the korean boy's face went from shock to fear rapidly. "you know what would happen after this stabbed you in the heart? you'd lose consciousness from shock within the first fifteen seconds and you'd be brain dead within three to five minutes. your final death would come within eight minutes likely...now do you want that to happen to you?" the boy shook his head no so quickly that maddie thought he could've gotten a headache.

"good. now, give gallagher his fifty dollars, or get fucking stabbed" maddie said twirling the dagger in her hand effortlessly. the boy practically yelped before plopping every dollar and loose coin he had in his pocket into the blonde gallagher's hand. he ran out of the house, but just to scare him a little more, maddie wrapped her hand around the handle and aimed it full forced right by his head, just so it would perfectly land in the wall across the home. the korean screamed before practically slamming the door shut, never to be seen again.

"you just carry knifes wherever the fuck you go?" lip asked astonished. and as if he wanted to see, she lightly picked up her gym shorts to reveal at least four daggers strapped inside her pants.

"it's kind my thing" maddie said with a mishcevious smirk. lip couldn't help but be astonished, but also a tad disappointed over the fact that he may not ever get that customer back again.

"you're a savior milkovich"

"and you need to put some pants on gallagher"

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by the time school was over, she was shocked to see mickey standing just close enough so that maddie would see him, and yet far away enough so that the cops that surrounded the school wouldn't get suspicious. she illegally crossed the street and was instantly met with a comforting noogie from her brother. she had been rather distant from him for some reason, and she honestly really fucking missed him

"how was your day pancake" mickey said while lacing his dirty fingers with maddie's surprisingly clean ones. maddie could see something hiding in his jacket pocket but she chose to ignore it for now.

"could've been worse, gotta say. only threatened one person's life" maddie sighed, making mickey laugh entertainingly.

"ah don't worry mads, you make me proud anyway" mickey smiled at the girl. the only person mickey milkovich cared more for them himself was his maddie. maddie, who was only ten years old had already gone through as much trauma as most normal adults. he was protective of her because no one else was ever. "say, guess what i got?" mickey took the time to unzip his jacket to create anticipation. mickey then took out two delicious sandwiches wrapped deli sandwiches. maddie immediately recognized them to be from kash's deli.

"mick, did you steal them?" maddie raised an eyebrow while crossing her arms.

"maybe..." mickey shrugged.

"good. this shit is way too overpriced for you to buy it" maddie said with a wide smile before grabbing the sandwich and running off ahead of mickey.

"hey! you come back here you little bitch" mickey shouted falling behind the girl. she was athletic for someone so tiny. the two raced eachother through the sidewalks of the south side, pushing into others with no care in the world. finally maddie stopped at her destination. maddie and mickey's secret place. it was in an abandoned building, with no one else to see for at least a couple blocks. the flat didn't have much. just a couch that mickey claimed he took from a garage sale, and a dart board plastered to a wall for maddie to throw her dagger collection at. the place wasn't much, but it was something to them. because it was just theres. and there was no terry to be seen.

"you wanna go for a round of darts?" mickey offered.

"only if you insist" maddie rolled her eyes already grabbing her personal favorite blade from her calf. ingraved in the handle was a times new roman font style of her initials M.M. it wasn't much, and she was ninety percent sure it belonged to mickey first, but it was something special to her.

the two must've spent a couple hours there until mickey's burner phone rang and he was forced to leave the youngest milkovich alone, 'for only a while' he had claimed. but, she was already pretty use to the abandonment. she sat on the edge of the empty framed window, which gave a practically perfect view of the entire area of the south side. maddie couldn't help but swig a sip from one of the half empty beer bottles left there by mickey and look over at the strange place she called home. one day she was gonna make it out of here. she didn't know how, or what she'd have to do, or what sacrifices she would need to make, but she would. she wouldn't allow herself to stay.

( 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄 )
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maddie/mickey content for the win! by far my favorite relationship currently in this story. not much happens in this chapter either but i still hope you enjoyed it. also, lip and maddie's relationship is also very precious to me, so that'll get built up as the story continues as well. you just have to remember that maddie isn't technically a main character until season three, where she'll be more prominent in major plot points!

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