A Human's Touch || BillFord (Gravity Falls)

First words

(mini a/n)

-sorry for spelling/autocorrect errors

Cringe warning: bad summary of Ford's portal accident

-note, when Ford comes back I'll probably have it just be like he was Thanos snapped bc I don't wanna write all of Gravity Falls in one chapter, but I'll allude to some stuff from between his travels don't worry

-Lund

[Stanley POV]:

I hadn't heard from Ford in ten years. I thought about him all the time, but I didn't know where he was or anything. I tried to call a few times but I just choked up before I could get any words out. After all I've done a couple gangs are after, my gambling addiction isn't getting me anywhere and I can barely keep on my feet. My hairs a mess, this motel shower barely works, and I don't even feel safe going to the laundry mat in this town. When I heard a knock at my door I knew it was over "Just gimme a few days Rico, I'll pay your goons off I swear!" I grabbed the bat by my bed and that's when I saw a card drop through the mail slot. I looked through the peephole and it was just a mail man. I picked up the card and it was from a place I've never heard of before. The name didn't even sound real: Gravity Falls, Oregon "Nothing to see here" it gave me the creeps but I flipped it over and my heart dropped at the name. "please come -Ford". Finally, after all this silence. I could win my brother back. I don't know what he's going through but nows my chance, and I can't screw it up.
I shuffled all my stuff into a trash bag and left the room key on the bed with the door unlocked. I threw my stuff into the car and burned rubber faster than ever.
I made it out to Gravity Falls as fast as I could.
I'll be there Ford. I won't screw it up.
When I made it to the town it was just as weird as I expected, or maybe even worse. It was pretty quiet and didn't look to bad though.
Everything seemed to be built by a large lumberjack business or something. When I saw Ford's place it wasn't as fancy as I was expecting, but it was probably still expensive and I bet he used it collage money for it, because it doesn't look like the rest of this town. It almost pisses me off that it looks so neat.
Getting out of the car and walking to the door was difficult though. "He's family, he won't bite" I told myself. I gently knocked on the door and it was ripped open in seconds by a decrepit version of what I THINK is my brother. He points at crossbow at me "WHO IS IT, HAVE YOU COME TO STEAL MY EYES?!" he holds it to my neck. After all I've seen I'm not surprised but, Jesus. "Good to know I can always count on you for a warm welcome" I scoffed. He stares at my eyes with that doe-eyed look he's always had before setting the weapon aside. He pulls me inside and shines a flashlight in my eyes. "Ow! What the hell?" I questioned. "Sorry I, i- just had to make sure you.. nevermind, just come in" He gestured for me to shut the door, he grabbed a book and clenched it to his chest as he began to pace the room. "Ford, are you okay? You're acting worse than Mom after her tenth cup of coffee" he noted. "Did anyone follow you here Stanley?" He questioned, still on edge. "No, why would they?" I wanted to tell him about the past few years I've had but I couldn't bring myself to, not yet. I need to help my brother first, whatever's got him worked up, I gotta make sure I don't lose him again.
The bags on his eyes look almost worse than mine. "Stanley ,I need to tell you about something, show you something. Something you won't believe, do you trust me?" He ask, anxiously gripping my shoulder. I nodded. I wanted to hug him but I know the time isn't right. "Of course Ford. Whatever it is, I promise I'll try to understand" I looked into his ghostly dark eyes. He nodded and showed me to his basement. "I've been doing a lot of research, ever since leaving collage, and my studies helped me get twelve PHDs and a large grant. I've been studying anomalies, and I made a grave mistake. I trusted a being who promised the power to change the universe, but by change he just wanted to destroy it" He pulled a dark tarp off of something. "This is the gateway he had me build. I shut it down and hid my journals which explain how to operate it. I don't know who I can trust anymore so I.. that's why I turned to you" he explains. I always knew my brother was a brainiack but THIS? What the hell am I supposed to make of this?! I thought maybe he was just going through some mental health thing. I half smiled "Ford, there's.. there's nothing about this I understand" I sighed. I felt like an idiot and was pretty embarrassed but I'll try to come to a compromise with him.
Ford thought for a moment, trying to think of a way to make this make sense to me. "Stanley, remember our old plans to sail around the world together?" He ask. Something sparked in me. I didn't mean to get my hopes up but, whatever Ford's going through, this has to mean he trust me, right? I mean he trust me enough to talk his nerd gibberish to me again, so everything's good, right?
I gave him an excites nod. He hands me the red journal from earlier. "I need you to take this book, get on a boat and sail as far away as you can, blurry it in the ends of the Earth where no one can find it" My heart sinks and I take the book, then look into his dark, paranoid, shaking eyes. I didn't want to get angry but, I really am my father's child sometimes. "That's it?.. are you kidding me?! You finally talk to me after ten years and it's to get as far away from you as possible?!" I hissed. "Stanley you don't understand what I'm up against!" He groggily snapped. I rolled my eyes "No you don't understand! I've been to prison in three different countries, I once had to chew my way out of the trunk of a car, meanwhile you've been living it up in your fancy house in the middle of the woods hoarding your money because you won't care about anyone but yourself! You want me to have this book? Fine! I'll do what I want with it!" I pulled out my lighter and tried to strike up a flame, consumed my my anger. "Stanley my research!" He shoved me to get it and we ended up fighting over it. "You left me behind! It was supposed to be us forever, you ruined my life!" I shoved him trying to get the book again. "You ruined your own life!" He yelled, shoving me against a metal machine of his. I screamed in pain as it burned something into my shoulder. I wanted to cry but there was too much feeling, too much anger, hurt, confusion. "Stanley! Oh my gosh I'm so sorry-" I punched him and he stumbled into a leaver. I grabbed the book. "Some brother you ended up being. All I wanted was.. you know what, no. You want your dumb mysteries instead of your own family? Then you can have them!" I threw the book at Ford and he fell again. The portal thing started to whir. He was about to get up to fight with me again but it started to drag him in. "H.. wait, wait- Stanley! Stanley help, do something!" He screamed, tossing me the book as it was about to suck him back out of my life. "Stanford, what do I do? Tell me what to do!" I began to panic and I reached for the book "Wait I'm sorry, Stanford!" And like that he screamed one last time before disappearing from my life again for who knows how long.
When the machine turned off I began to pound on it "C'mon, please, not again! I just- I didn't.. I can't lose him again!" I started rustling with the leaver but it was no use. I punched a dent into the machine and screamed out his name in guilt and pain. I lost him again. I didn't know how to live with myself over shit like this. The one time I have a chance to and I still fuck up. What the hell is wrong with me?