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They set sail toward open waters, and a sense of adventure and wonder and unbridled excitement seems bound to the very wind that sweeps the open deck of the Stan O’ War II. And though he feels a familiar buzzing in his head—one that arises whenever he’s in pursuit of the scientific unknown—it all remains drowned out by the amounting worry he feels for his brother.
Because though the sun shines bright and the ocean waves lap easy rhythms against their homey ship, none of it banishes the subtle shadows of Stan’s eyes nor the fervently-masked tension that drapes over him like a mantle when he thinks Ford isn’t looking. When Ford is looking.
(And if Ford is honest with himself, it too does little to soothe the guilt that eats away at his own heart.)
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In which the past has a tendency to linger, and rebuilding the foundations of a battered relationship is hard. However, through the mess and grime of it all, Stan and Ford hold fast to the idea of a happy ending.