merman bill x ford

Part 8

(I'm so so sorry this took so long!)

Bill woke up feeling dizzy, drained and weak. what was wrong with him. He felt as he did when he was out of water for too long.

"SIXER HELP!" bill shouted in a croaky voice as he tried to get off the bed. All he could think was that he needed ford. Ford could help him, he has to.

Ford was sleeping rather peacefully on the sofa as bill had taken his bed and he didn't have another bed in the house as it was just him. Ford heard bills yell and was abruptly awoken, almost toppling off the sofa. He scrambled to his feet and rushed to his bedroom to see what was wrong. He found bill on the floor next to the bed, it seemed he had attempted to crawl out of the room but seemed too weak. Ford kneeled down next to bill

"Bill, what happened? Whats wrong?" ford asked urgently, tilting bills head up to look at him.

"I not really sure...I think I need water...thats what it feels like I need..." bill answered

Ford nodded and picked bill up and carried him to the bathroom and started to run the bath 

"do you think you'll be able to get in by yourself?" ford asked and blushed lightly.

"I think..." bill said weakly while Ford went to wait outside. 

Bill clumsily removed his borrowed clothes and sank into the water. in a few seconds, his scaly legs turned back into a tail and he felt refreshed and well again 

"I feel great now!" bill said loudly, splashing happily in the water 

Ford heard through the door and smiled, happy that bill was well again. He loved it when bill was happy.

"this must mean that your body still needs water every now and then," Ford said as it seemed to fit and make sense.

"yeah that seems right!" bill called, starting to flop onto the floor to dry off. He wanted to spend today with ford, closer to ford than he'd ever been before.

once hed regained his legs again, he dressed in the same clothes he had borrowed from sixer. and stepped out of the bathroom, meeting fordsy outside it.

"so what are we doing today?!" bill asked excitedly, bouncing where he stood

Ford smiled at the adorable enthusiasm bill possessed "well first breakfast then I think we should go to buy you some clothes that fit you" Ford decided

bill nodded with a big smile on his face "I can't wait!" bill exclaimed and ran downstairs but because he still wasn't completely used to his new legs, he tripped and fell down the last two steps 

"I'm ok!" bill assured ford who had hurried down to check he was ok. 

After a tasty breakfast of pancakes, which bill gushed endlessly about how good they were, they set off to buy bill some clothes of his own.

It was rather difficult to keep bill from wandering off as his attention kept flicking to different things around him

"bill, you need to stay with me, I don't want you getting lost" Ford said, starting to get a little anxious 

"hm? did you say something?" bill asked as he got distracted by yet another road sign. "oh-oh whats that?!" bill practically shouted, bouncing up and down and pointing, which made bystanders stare at the over-excitable blonde

"that's a dog," Ford said, blushing in embarrassment as they walked

"and whats that?!"

"that's a bus"

"and wha-"

"that's a bird" 

ford was starting to get a little tired of constantly explaining things to bill but then again it was always nice to see bills eyes light up as he understood another thing about human life. Bill was now starting to walk off after the bird, saying something about wanting to see how it flies. Ford gasped and held bills hand and pulled him close, so as to stop him wallking off

"hey what are you doing?" bill asked, slightly annoyed at being dragged away from the bird but happy at being pulled close to ford

"I'm keeping you from wandering off" Ford replied briskly, walking closer to there destination which was starting to come into view.

"there's just so much to see, it's hard to stay focused" bill admitted, trying to keep his eyes where they should be and not on the butterfly that had just flown by.

"I know it must be hard, being from where you are but we have things to do. We can look at all that stuff later, I promise" ford said kindly as they entered the shop and bill nodded, looking distracted again by there new environment but at least this was actually what he was supposed to focus on.

"I didn't know humans had such a huge choice of clothes," Bill said as he looked through a line of jackets giddily 

"now we don't want to spend too much time here in case you get dehydrated" Ford warned him worriedly 

"yeah yeah, now what are these?!" bill said loudly, holding up a blue skirt 

"bill, shhh there are other people here. And that's a skirt, it's what women wear sometimes instead of trousers but men don't wear them" Ford explained in a low voice as a few people looked at them but bill didn't seem to care instead he started to get excited when he found a yellow sweater, apparently yellow was his favourite colour.in the end, they got a selection of clothes, most of them being yellow and including the yellow sweater bill was so fond of. It was rather awkward for bill to try them on with all his questions and having a hard time putting the clothes on but he did it I the end.

"now that we're done, how about we go for a walk and I can explain some more things for you" ford suggested and bill agree to it enthusiastically.

They had a nice walk around some of the town and into the forest, bill asked more questions and ford answered them with a sigh but also a smile. Bill watched as ford spotted a scampfire, a strange spiderlike thing that looked like a walking campfire. Ford observed it as it slowly walked away deeper into the forest and took notes on a notepad he had brought with him

"interesting things, aren't they?" Ford said, talking more to himself than bill

"you really like weird stuff" bill commented as he watched how excited ford looked as he took notes

"well...I guess I've always been drawn to it...with my six fingers and such..." Ford said, staring at the grass below him "these sort of creatures..are different from others...and I've always felt different myself..." Ford said quietly 

" you don't sound happy...isn't different good?" bill asked, frowning slightly

 "well I think it's good...but...most people dont...they prefer normality...so someone like me will get pushed away..." Ford said sadly as he shook his head and looked back up at bill "but it doesn't matter...ones I have this research done ill have done something to earn respect and fit in" Ford said, looking more hopeful

"but you don't need to do anything!...you're special...people should already like you...I do...a lot" bill said honestly, he meant it

"...thanks...but not everyone is as nice as you...we should probably head back now...you'll probably need more water," Ford said turning away and starting to walk back with bill following. He never knew how much he would appreciate someone like bill being with him...but it was certainly making feel better about himself.