Chapter 23: A Better Solution (Four More, Ask for Collection!)
Once reborn, Lip certainly won't limit his scope of activities to the United States!
The world is so big, he wants to walk around and see more!
With a U.S. passport and access to almost the world, Lip won't let such an opportunity go to waste.
Nothing was said all night.
The next morning, Lip was sitting at the table enjoying the breakfast that Fiona had prepared early, when Jimmy walked in with a packed cup of coffee and donuts.
Lip glanced up at Jimmy, who was pretending to be calm, but didn't speak.
Fiona was looking for Frank all over the world with an envelope containing Frank's disability benefit check.
Despite the family's very difficult life, Fiona never had the idea of Frank's disability benefit, because she knew that this was Frank's bottom line, and once it was broken, Frank didn't know what to do.
Fiona has been doing her best to maintain the family for the past few years!
As for Lip blackmailing Frank for disability benefits in the name of a credit card that Frank overdrew in their name, it was because Frank was at a loss, and if he didn't compromise and Lip called the police, he would go to jail for credit fraud.
Frank is a jerk, but he hasn't really been to prison much, and he doesn't want to go in, in his words, "smart people should stay out of prison!"
Frank thinks he's a smart guy!
After looking around, but not finding Frank, Fiona made a deference, "Frank is missing!"
So, the Gallagher family launched the "Search for Frank Campaign"!
Together, several siblings, along with the enthusiastic Veronica, rack their brains together to find Frank.
Lip is indiscriminately filling up the numbers.
The reason why I am in such a hurry to find Frank is not only because Frank is the father of the Gallagher siblings, and the young Debbie, Carl, and Liam need a father when they grow up.
What's more, if Frank really disappears, or dies, then the Gallagher family will face a situation of falling apart!
According to U.S. law, minors who have lost both parents and do not have a legal guardian will be placed in the custody of a juvenile protection agency and sent to an adoptive family!
The Gallagher siblings have experienced being separated and don't want to repeat the same mistakes!
This incident also gave Lip a wake-up call to urge Fiona to find a stable job as soon as possible, and then take custody of several younger siblings from Frank's hands!
Frank, who has lost custody, can no longer pose any threat to the siblings!
As for Frank's life or death, Lip doesn't plan to care!
Anyway, according to the plot of "Shameless", Frank has the same vitality as Xiaoqiang, and he can come back to life in the dangerous situation of liver failure, and if his brothers and sisters don't care about him, he can't die easily.
Lip will definitely not let himself be dragged down by Frank in his future life!
With Frank's shameless and bottomless character, if he stays by his side, even if Lip can make hundreds of millions of family fortunes, Frank can find a way to defeat him!
Don't doubt Frank's methods, in the later plot, he once lost 120,000 dollars in one day!
That's the compensation he swindled from the Illinois government by breaking his leg on his own.
Lipp, who is about to flee Chicago's South Side, wants to see Frank rot on the South Side and live and die with the South Side.
In the nine seasons of "Shameless" that have aired, although Frank has occasional moments of warmth, overall, he is still an out-and-out bastard!
He always thinks only of himself and never thinks about others, including his children!
The pension of Aunt Jinji that he fraudulently received, plus the disability allowance he received by fraud, has never taken a cent from his family!
In the second season, he also teamed up with Monica, who had returned from home and had a bipolar attack, to steal the reserves that his siblings had prepared for the winter with an entire summer.
The parents of Frank and Monica can be said to have not had a positive impact on the Gallagher siblings, and only disaster has been brought to the siblings.
So, when Frank later suffered from liver failure due to alcoholism, no one of the siblings was willing to help him, except for the young and ignorant Carl!
Lip is just making the choice at that time and now just advancing it to the present.
For people like Frank, the sooner you get away, the better!
Especially for the young Debbie, Carl, and Liam, it is an immeasurable good thing for them to stay away from Frank's influence as soon as possible while they have not yet been poisoned by Frank!
Lip knew where Frank was now, so he wasn't in a hurry about the "Frank disappearance" incident at all.
And took the opportunity to find Jimmy, raised a frown and said to him, "Torontoha!"
"What? What are you talking about? Why can't I hear me?" Jimmy was still playing dumb.
"Forget it! I already saw the cigarette case you bought in Canada! Don't tell me that you stole a car and stole it to Canada!" Lip said.
"Uh...... Okay, I'll admit, I got Frank to Toronto!" Jimmy didn't deny it again.
"I don't have a problem with this, but Fiona will not be happy if you interfere in my family's affairs like this, how are you going to explain this matter to her?" said Lip.
"You've not done this well, Fiona will soon figure out that you are the one who did it!"
"Uh...... I just can't look past Frank's actions and want to ...... Punish him!" Jimmy said.
"Fiona won't accept it! she thinks so highly of our home that she won't let anyone destroy it!" Lip said.
"I don't have the intention of ruining your family!" Jimmy said hurriedly.
"But if Frank just goes missing, a few of us will be sent to foster care, and if that happens, our home will be ruined!" Lip said.
"I ...... Didn't think about it that much!" Jimmy said dejectedly.
"I don't want to go to a foster family! Ian, Debbie, and Carl don't want to go to a foster family! Fiona supports a few of us, and although it's hard, she doesn't want to send us to a foster home either! This is the situation in our family, if you can accept it, you can stay, if you can't accept it, I ask you to leave as soon as possible, and stop doing such things in a self-righteous way, hurting us, hurting Fiona!" said Lip.
"I know your family's situation, I've accepted you, I just can't accept Frank!" Jimmy said.
"If that's all there is to it, I have a better solution!"
"How?" asked Jimmy!