FFT: wedding crasher; lip gallagher
Notes:
So.. this was sent to my main’s ask... forever ago. And I have no idea who exactly sent it. So... thank you for whoever did, because this gave me a chance to play with an OC I had in mind for Shameless. That one day, I hope to God I get the chance to write it all out. Anyway, I wanted to put it here, on it’s own post, so it’s here... even though literally no one asked for it, lmao.
Summary:
Lip and Sage broke up. Lip hasn’t moved on. Sage wants to move on but she’s still in love with Lip. She’s being pressured into a marriage of convenience but Lip manages to save the day.
Pairing:
Lip Gallagher x OFC, Sage
Warning:
uhh.. swearing in a church, crashing a wedding, mentions of a fight, alcohol tw. It’s the gallaghers, okay? this stuff just goes with the territory.
“ Whoa, hey.. That’s Sage, go back.” Lip snatched the newspaper from Frank and Frank gave him a dirty look. “I was reading that, Lip.”
“And I don’t fucking care, Frank. The fuck are you doing here anyway, huh?” Lip went back to the page he’d seen a picture of Sage on and when he realized that it was in the area reserved for engagement announcements, his stomach churned and all the taste left his cereal.
He coughed and muttered quietly, “Well then. Guess that’s the end of that.”
From behind him Carl spoke up. “It doesn’t have to be. The line speak now or forever hold your peace is in the ceremony for a reason, Lip.” as he flopped down into the chair next to Lip.
“Yeah, well this ain’t the movies. If I go in there, it’s not gonna change anything. I’m not fuckin hungry all of a sudden.” and with that said, Lip shoved his chair at the table and grabbed his cigarettes and lighter. Fiona followed Lip and she found him sitting out behind the house on the stairs, smoking a cigarette.
All she could really do was put her arm around him.
“Hey.. You alright?”
“Not really, no. It should be me.. With her. But I fucked up. I bet she don’t even think about me.”
“Oh, so you’re just giving up?”
“What else can I do, huh? I don’t have my shit together. She deserves that outta me, at least.”
“You’re more together than you were before she left Southside. You’re not drinking anymore and when you do, you go to AA.. You’re tryin to get a better job. Hell, you’re even taking night classes at that junior college. You’re actually doin a lot better than me right now.” Fiona sighed, reaching for the cigarette.
The door opened behind them and Fiona looked up to find Ian standing there. He nodded back towards the inside of the house and mouthed to his sister, “Let me talk to him, yeah?” and as Fiona stood, Ian flopped down in her place. He stared at his hands for a minute.
“That marriage is a sham and if you let it happen, Lip..”
Lip looked over at his brother, a hand dragging over the back of his head as he exhaled smoke.
“Looked pretty damn legit to me.”
“He’s only marrying her because if he comes out, he loses everything. His parents are practically forcing him into it. He.. He comes into the club all the time, according to one of the guys who worked with me and still works there. Hell, I saw him there when I was going! He tried comin on to me.”
Lip looked up at Ian, a brow raised. “Huh?”
“I’m not making this up, I swear.. Look, the guy said he’s there every fucking night and every night he leaves with a different man. One of my other friends said he’s seen the guy out all over town with different guys too. Always says they’re friends if he’s asked by anybody.” Ian bit his lip and took a deep breath, reaching for the cigarette and taking a puff.
“You love her, right?”
“Never stopped.”
“So do something. Stop sitting on your ass and being all moody and shit.” Ian stood and wiped his hands down his jeans and then told him calmly, “If you decide you wanna go stop that shit show of a wedding.. Tell me.”
Lip said he wasn’t.. But for the rest of the week, everything Ian said and everything Fiona pointed out, even something Frank told him out of the blue and totally out of context just made him think about it all over again.
He had to do something, even if it made things even worse between them.
X
The gown was perfect. Everyone was crammed into the church and yet, Sage couldn’t shake this… Feeling that somehow, everything was all wrong. Her sister Marla could tell and after a few seconds of watching Sage pacing the room where they were all getting ready, she spoke up.
“If you’re not sure.. All I gotta do, sis, is go out there and tell them this whole thing is off. Look, I know Zack has done a lot for us.. But that doesn’t mean you have to actually go through with marrying the guy.”
“Marla, you’re supposed to be talking me out of cold feet.”
“If you’re not happy, you’re not happy.” Sage’s other sister True spoke up from the doorway. Sage took a deep breath and attempted to plaster on her best happy face but both Marla and True saw right through it.
True shut the door and paced the room. Carl being her boyfriend, she knew exactly how the news of her sister’s wedding affected a certain Gallagher male.. And True and Carl both agreed that Sage was just going through the motions.. That she was taking the easy way out because she felt like she owed this guy Zack so much because he’d ‘done so much’ to help the family out.
“He’s not who I saw you with.” True finally said it and Marla mumbled quietly, “Oh thank fuck. I wasn’t… I wanted to say something the second or third time you bought the guy back to Dad’s for Thanksgiving.. But I thought you were happy..”
“Yeah?” Sage took a deep breath and glanced at her sister, True. “Who did you see me with? Because if you say who I think you’re about to.. He’s the one who pushed me out. He’s the one who wouldn’t let me help him or be there for him. I never wanted things to end and I… Damn it, True, now my mascara’s gonna run.”
Marla sat down by her sister and lazily draped an arm around her. “You don’t owe that guy shit. Look, he did what he did because he wanted to.”
“No, he did what he did because he knew…” Sage struggled with a way to voice her suspicions that didn’t make her sound like she was ungrateful or bitter at the way he spent less and less time around her lately.. The late nights, the fact that he occasionally slept in his office under the guise of ‘work’..
Something hadn’t felt right in weeks now.. Something about him had kind of covertly nagged at her subconscious from the beginning. And her soon to be mother in law absolutely hated her.
“Knew what?” Marla tensed, sharing a look with her sister. True bit her lip and repeated Marla’s question. “He knew what, Sage?”
“He knew it was the easiest way to get into my life..”
True took a deep breath. Things were tension filled enough without her losing her hairtrigger temper and going on a rampage that ended with a high heel protruding from her soon to be brother in law’s eye.
Mrs. Gaines peeked in, a scowl on her face.
“ Can someone come out and explain to this.. Man.. that he can’t sit on our side of the church? He’s making a spectacle in front of my guests.”
Marla glared and as soon as she heard their father’s drunken voice, she and Sage and True all shared a look and took a collective deep breath.
Sage laughed quietly and Marla stood, making no effort to hide her own bitchy smirk as she shoved past her sister’s soon to be mother in law. “Monster in law is what they oughta call you.”
“If I had my way, your sister and the rest of you would be.. Nothing.. To my family.”
“If only miracles happened, hmm?” Marla stopped to look at the woman, a hand on her hip. “Sage, just.. Think about what you’re getting into for fucks sake.” and with that, Marla ventured out into the church in an attempt to both give her sister time to really think about what she was going to waste herself over, and to reign in their father who’d apparently picked today of all days to fall face first off the sobriety wagon.
Marla gaped almost as soon as she saw who was with her father, the two holding each other up. True hurried over with Carl and Ian in tow.
“We tried to stop them.” Carl explained as Ian chuckled and nodded to Carl. “He did. Me? I let ‘em go. I’ve got a bad feeling about the douche she’s about to marry.”
“Oh?” Marla eyed the ginger male and Ian got her off to the side detailing exactly why he felt like the wedding was happening and what Sage’s father and Lip apparently spent half the night before and this morning itself talking about.
“Where’s Sage, darlin? Daddy b-bought ‘er a w-wedding present.” at their father’s words, Marla turned away from Ian and sighed. “Daddy, what the hell..”
“W-where’s Sage? I-i need t-to talk to her. G-gonna s-stop this whole thing.”
That was from Lip and Ian, Carl, True and Marla shared a look and Marla took a deep breath, pinching the bridge of her nose to ward off a fit of irritation. Marla eyed her father and Lip, who lingered nearby, not really saying anything.
The wedding march started and Marla and True shared a look as Ian and Carl told them both, “We’ll get these two in a seat.. You guys just get back there.”
True stole a kiss from Carl and hurried to the back. The door closed behind the three sisters and Sage stared at it solemnly, swallowing hard.
“Was daddy okay?”
“He fell face first off the sobriety wagon.”
From nearby, Sage’s soon to be mother in law let out an exasperated breath. “But of course he did. Your entire family is..”
Sage was sick of biting her tongue. And she was not about to let this woman spend her entire life talking down to her like she was trash. “Shut the fuck up or get the fuck out. No one asked you to come in here.”
“No, but I had to make sure you two actually walk down that aisle..”
Sage’s brow knit as she gazed at the woman.
Was Zack having cold feet too?
“Whether you two like it or not, you will be marrying today. I’m not.. Willing to risk any further scandal with my son. Between him choosing.. Well, you.. And all the time he spends down at that god awful club..”
“Club? What club?” Sage’s stomach churned and if she’d had a thought about just making a break for it, that thought was intensifying with each word Zack’s mother said.
“You know perfectly well what I’m talking about, do not play coy with me. You and he have your little arrangement, he’s chosen you specifically to teach me a lesson.. A lesson in which he will be learning for himself, because despite what he believes, he will be getting nothing from his father and I in the future. You know exactly what I mean. You two were in on this together, you little gold digger…”
Marla’s entire body tensed and she stood body to body with Sage’s mother in law, -mostly to keep Sage and the woman separate, because for a split second, she’d seen that fire back in her sister’s eyes and she’d felt it the second Sage tensed up.
“ If I call this entire thing off, there’s not really much you can do.”
“I don’t think you’re stupid or brave enough to do that. Now.. Get your makeup fixed. Go on.”
Sage tensed even more. She was beyond fed up with the woman and the way she acted, the way she treated her and the rest of her family. “No.”
“What the hell do you mean no? You get in that chair and get your makeup fixed this instant! You will not like the..” but the threat was cut off in mid sentence when Marla grabbed the woman’s elbow and guided her roughly to the door, opening it and shoving it out. “If she needs time to think you uppity bitch, you will give her that.”
Before the woman could reply, Marla slammed the door shut in her face, but not before Lip and Sage got a glance of each other again and Sage stood there, biting her lip, staring helplessly and sighing at his disheveled appearance.
True caught the look her sister was giving Lip Gallagher and she leaned against the door, picking at her nails as she told Sage quietly, “If you want this called off.. All you have to do is say the word. I’ll go get Joe Jr to say something. People tend to really listen to him.”
Sage paced, letting everything her so called mother in law spouted off at her sink in. She honestly believed it was an arrangement of convenience between Sage and her son. She hinted that Zack might not be entirely truthful either and when Sage really stopped to think about things lately between them, her stomach churned as she realized that as much as she hated to admit it, Zack’s mother was right.
She hadn’t felt secure about this at all and lately, the insecurity was more than double.
Zack stayed away more, he stayed at work later. Anything to avoid seeing her.
To be fair, she found herself thinking, she’d done the same on more than one occasion.
“Well? They’re starting the whole thing..” Marla asked and True tapped her combat boot against the floor impatiently, her arms folded as she stared at her sister intently. Marla did the same and Sage bit her lip.
Before she could get the words out of her mouth, the door burst open like someone ninja kicked it and Lip stumbled in with Carl and Ian in tow, both trying to keep him on his feet. Lip stumbled over to her and grabbed her, pulling her completely against him. Not caring who saw, his hand cupped her jaw and he pulled her mouth against his, lifting her off the floor slightly. Sage could smell the booze on him, she could taste it in his mouth.
All she could do was what she felt.. Her lips parted and she went from trying to push him away to gripping a handful of his tee shirt, raised to tiptoe before he picked her up a little.
She’d ask him what happened and why he was drinking again later.. For now, this was more important.
“Was s-supposed t’ be me.”
“Oh Lip..” she mumbled quietly, breaking the kiss to look up at him, raising a hand to rest it at his cheek.
Marla grumbled and True cleared her throat.
“The wedding is off.” Sage said the words without a second’s hesitation and True smirked, sharing a look with Marla.
“So, which one of us is gonna go tell Monster In Law, hmm?”
“Oh, no.. let me.”
Before either of them could go find her so called mother in law to break the news, Sage strode out of the room, straight up to the woman, tapping her shoulder.
She took the microphone the woman held and cleared her throat. “If you came to see a wedding today, I hate to tell you that’s not what will be happening. If you bought a gift, pick it up on your way out.”
“You little… ungrateful…”
Zack eyed Sage with a raised brow, “Babe? What’s going on, talk to me… We have people here. I’m going to look stupid in front of all the partners at the firm..”
“And I give a fuck? Why don’t you ask Mommy Dearest here why I’m calling the wedding off?I mean.. She did practically threaten me if I didn’t go through with this. Thinks we’re working together to rip her off. Little does she know, I could give a rats ass about her damn money. Or yours, for that matter.”
“What the hell are you saying right now? Are you dumping me?”
“Wow.. you really are as slow as I kept telling my sister.” Sage’s brother Clint gave an annoyed roll of his eyes and spoke up. Marla snickered and nudged Ian, leaning in. “So… do we just watch the fireworks? Frankly, I feel it’s beyond time this asshole rips off his mask and shows his real ugly.”
“Yeah.. I’d say so. If he starts saying anything about her, You try to reign in your brothers, I’ll try to get Lip under control so he doesn’t get hauled in…”
“Stay the hell out of this, Clint.”
“Or what? You finally gonna do what you threatened last year when you found out it was me and Carl who took that shitty BMW for a joyride?”
Sage’s gaze fixed on Zack.
“You seriously threatened my brother and Carl?”
“They’re out of control. The authorities..”
“So you’re the fucking reason my brother and his best friend were sent off to juvie for six months. Yeah, this wedding is definitely off.”
“Think about what you’re doing here.. I can get you the hell out of that neighborhood. I can give you things.”
Marla rolled her eyes and mocked him. “They sell vibrators every day.”
“How dare you insult my son!” Zack’s mother spoke up and Sage rolled her eyes. “Oh will you just for once in your entire life.. Stay the fuck out of a personal matter? You and your helicopter parenting, I swear to fuck..”
Zack cleared his throat. “You’d better watch your mouth. She is my mother and she has done a lot for us. You especially.”
From the back of it all, Lip was overheard telling Carl, “It’s not f-fuckin workin. Can I hit the a-asshole now?” and before anyone could stop him, Lip shoved through the crowd gathered and gawking and pressed against Sage from behind, his fist sailing over her shoulder and connecting neatly with Zack’s nose.
“She said the wedding’s off, damn.” Lip stood taller, defiant gleam in his eyes, practically daring Zack to say or do anything. He’d put Sage behind him, now it was him standing toe to toe with her so called groom, a malicious smirk on his face. “C’mon. Let’s see y’ lose all that cool and calm.”
“You seriously want to fight me.. Over her?”
“No, I just wanna beat ya ass. She doesn’t need me to defend her. Probably would one hell of a lot better than you, I mean from what I’m hearin, you’re always gone, leavin her all alone. No way in hell would I.. do that.”
Zack shoved him and Lip shoved back, the fight breaking out before anyone could really stop it. And in the midst of it, a man ran up, pulling Zack away, swearing and shit talking Lip all the while.
“You’d better keep your hands off my man or I’ll..”
“You’ll what, hmm? Bitch about it to all ya little high society friends at brunch? Come at me, man. Your man started all of this.”
Sage blinked as what was happening registered. She managed to quickly grab hold of Lip just as the sound of sirens filled the air and the two of them were leaving out the back door of the church, her siblings and his hot on their tail to beat the cops away.
The further away the sirens got, the more Sage grew to hate her stupid dress. She tapped Lip and stopped him. He leaned against the brick wall in the alley behind The Alibi Room and Sage tore away the bottom portion of the dress, throwing it towards a dumpster with a disgusted face. Their siblings had all gone into the diner Fiona worked at, leaving the two of them alone. Sage stared up at him intently, migrating closer and closer with each second that passed, the palm of her hand resting against his chest, fingers curling in the fabric of his shirt as she used that to pull his lips d own to her lips.
“We are still having a very serious discussion about you drinking again.. Among other things.. But I.. seeing you today, Lip. I realized how much I… wanted this to be me and you and just how close I came to wasting all that… I’m so so so so so sorry..”
Lip tilted her face so that she had to look up and directly at him when he chuckled and leaned down, pulling her into another deep kiss. “Nothin to apologize for. I’m right here, baby girl. Right here and I’m not goin anywhere.”
“Me either.”
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