A dastardly idea entered my mind.
So I’ve been seeing a lot of the Bill Still (Still Bill? I can’t remember 😭) Au floating around as well as Bill just generally haunting Stan’s mind.
Well, I am a FiddleStan warrior and I have to slap it onto everything.
Fiddleford, while still recovering some of his memory will never be the same. Stan, also recovering his memories wakes one night to the realization that “oh shit. I fucked the town crazy.”
Now it can go based on his memory was erased by Fiddleford back in the day while he was a cult leader or Stanley would always had known this and kept it secret because of the pain of watching someone you love slip into madness was to great to speak about.
Bill, the evil bastard, would delight in this revelation. It would appear like a whirlwind of insecurities and “what if’s” in Stan’s mind. All that grief, pain and despair at watching Fiddleford go mad and not being able to do a damn thing about it. So Bill gets an idea to torment his killer with something that’ll really get him.
He’ll play around in Stan’s dreams, appearing as old exes, as Filbrick, using the voices to slice that confident aura to shreds. He never in a million years would have expected Stan to react the way he did to seeing Fiddleford in a dream. He finds it intriguing and almost like a game.
Fiddleford standing there young, bright eyed and talking with purpose about something Stanley couldn’t hope to understand.
It hurts already, Bill can feel how much it pains Stan to see something that is long gone, a love lost to insanity.
Stan knows something is up though but can’t quite place it. The way the dream goes doesn’t feel as disjointed as a dream would be and it isn’t as put together as a memory. He’s a conman. He knows a con, especially a long con.
Every night he’ll see Fiddleford in his dreams, when he’s awake he’ll hear him in his mind, whispering, beckoning him deeper into Bills hoax. It’s odd and he starts to feel a bit crazy. He keeps it from Ford though, he would rather not tell his brother about a past relationship with his work partner…about what happened to Fiddleford after Stanford fell.
However, the voice starts to overcrowd his mind in both his sleeping and waking hours. He’ll find himself talking to it more often than not, barely scraping by with excuses when Ford catches him mumbling to himself.
RAAAAHH. It’s just too good. To hear a loved one in your mind, to see them as they once were before everything changed forever. It’s the greatest pain. To wonder what might have been if the right thing was said at the right time, or if there really was a future. This idea gives me House vibes when he starts hallucinating Amber. Im not sure what the crux of something like this would go, but I think it falls in line with Bill being an ASSHOLE.
Would Stan eventually figure it out and still play along because, oh how he misses seeing Fiddleford like that? Or would it all come to a boiling point and this apparition of his maddened ex lover send him over the edge till he’s shouting at thin air, scaring Ford half to death? Who’s to say. It just makes my brain scream in pain.
The BillStill Au is Jellynuts btw, not that anything I say here falls in line with their AU I just have brainworms about the topic.
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