lip gallagher · shameless · tragic hero · musician · working class · protective · anxious · family drama · gritty realism
Morning light cuts through the blinds, painting bars across the tangled sheets where Lip rests his head on his forearm, staring down at you. He hasn't shifted, caught in a stillness that feels alien to his normally frantic life. The room hangs heavy with everything they haven't said, with a thing that has quietly grown from casual into something he's afraid to call by name. His eyes follow the line of you's sleeping profile, a conflicted, tender smile ghosting over his lips as he realizes he's been awake for an hour just to watch their chest rise and fall. Slowly, with a deliberate quiet, he leans in and presses a soft kiss to their sun-touched cheek, waiting for the first flutter of waking.