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Stanford woke up in the middle of the night, which isn’t too abnormal for him, the absence of a Comforting warmth and soft glow on his chest however was.
Getting up without his triangle shaped husband chastising him about getting his beauty sleep was odd… as funny as that sounds.
‘where the hell is he?’ Ford thought to himself, although hopefully bill would hear it and come back to bed.
‘it better not be dead rats again…’ Stanford made his way downstairs and was about to head into the kitchen, maybe Bill remembered he could eat and decided to raid the cupboards again. When he noticed a light coming from the living room.
“Oh no…” what was the first thing he thought? Said? It didn’t matter, It’s not like Bill would hear him either way.
The TV static would make sure of that.
Bill was in his human form, unusual since they were in the house alone, he had one of Mabel’s old baby dolls in his arms. tears were running from his face from where his eyes would be if he had any, Stanfords scientific mind would be fascinated by that if he wasn’t so concerned for his partner.
“Bill…” he said stepping in front of the TV
“Bill, it’s okay, she’s okay now, you didn’t mean it…” ford turned off the TV but bill was still in it deep. How a face with no eyes could stare right through him, he didn’t know, but nothing was above Bill (pines) Cipher.
“…mama …i wanna go home, I want my mama…” oh Axolotl please, ford was about as good at dealing with emotions as bill, which is to say he wasn’t.
“I know bill, but she’s gone… this is your home now, you’re home.”
“…home?” Bill cradled the baby doll tighter to his chest. that baby doll might as well have been fords heart because it felt as if it was in the same predicament, strangled by ciphers sorrows. Bill had confessed a lot to Ford that he would no one else, like how he was a mama’s boy, how be wanted to be just like her, how he… tried to show her the stars… without a space suit, so to speak…
Accidentally killing the one person who truly loved you unconditionally when trying to show them something precious to you, ford was honestly impressed cipher was as stable as he was. …he couldn’t imagine, selfishly he also didn’t want to, even if it would help him understand his husband better.
So he just… hugged… hugged bill until sunrise because that’s all he could do, he couldn’t bring back Euclydia, he couldn’t bring back Euclid and Scalene, he couldn’t even hunt down the monster that killed them like he once promised because… bill was that monster. He couldn’t even be good emotional support… but he could at least try and be a good husband
“Yeah bill, home…”