sixfingerednerd: (My bleeding heart)
Stanford Pines ([personal profile] sixfingerednerd) wrote in [personal profile] goodguygrifter 2017-09-24 02:59 am (UTC)

Ford wants, very much, to say he can take Stan at his word. He wants to say he knows his brother well enough to tell if he's being truthful or just reading a line.

He wants to say, with conviction, that Stan may be a dishonest man but he draws the line at lying to his own flesh and blood.

He wants to say this, but it's hard. Not because Stanley has given him any particular reason to distrust him, but because his ability to trust another living being has been very recently fucked all to pieces and that's not something that can be so easily fixed by a day's worth of reconciliation.

At the very least, Ford can comfortably say his brother at least deserves the benefit of doubt - not only for hopeful, sentimental reasons, but because over the past day and a half he's more than proved that he deserves it.

Huffing out a small, amused breath, Ford matches Stans's awkward smile with a smaller, wearier version of his own and cards a hand through his hair, which desperately needs a proper brushing but will just have to settle for his fingers.

"I know I wouldn't have blamed you, if you did."

He lets his hand drop back to his side, and sure enough his hair springs back up as surely as though he had never combed it back at all.

"Anyone else would've had me locked up in an asylum by now."

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