Coping and the Funny Ways it Happens
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And maybe it was those words. Maybe it was the way Stan looked into Kyles eyes with such sincerity while declaring something with implications his drunken mind couldn’t even begin to comprehend. Maybe it was the tears which, at that moment, exploded from Stan’s eyes with such harsh and real sobs that came directly from his core and tore out his throat with the promise of rawness the next morning. Maybe it was the way that Kyle knew what Stan was saying, that he had thought those exact words continually while laying in bed and staring at the ceiling, sleep just out of his grasp. But he couldn’t take it anymore.
Not intended to be a ship but can be read as such.
I have chosen to ignore Tegridy in this, Stan never moved because… because.
READ THE TAGS. THIS IS NOT A HAPPY FIC. The first chapter can be read as a stand alone if you don’t want to get into the suicide bit.
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- Part 1 of Coping and the Funny Ways it Happens
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Then again, it was kind of nice to pretend. To play the role of a functional human. Pretend even for a moment that you are unbothered, indifferent. Though, that was a persona that needed to be shown in moderation. Cartman, for example, was honestly unbothered and indifferent. His character was without the faults of guilt and empathy, yet that in and of itself was an entirely new fault. He respected himself so much, cared so strongly about his own emotions and own comfort levels that he stomped over everybody else. Trampling them deep into the ground and wiping them off his shoes like they were nothing more than gum.
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Stan’s gone. No longer here. Never will be again. No one else seems to grasp that concept like Kyle as. He feels alone— isolated in the struggle to cope with what the world around him has chosen to ignore.
RECOMMENDED: Read part one of the series
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- Part 2 of Coping and the Funny Ways it Happens