Stanford "Stanley' Pines had know for years that Johanna wasn't his nephews child at least biologically. He remembers his brother Ford who disappeared through a portal of his own making, he should never have stepped foot in Gravity Falls maybe Ford would still be in the right dimension now who knows. A couple of months after Ford disappears he tells his family (he finds out Sherman's Son Joseph got married last spring) his father is furious and blames him (that's okay cause he blames himself too) and his mother's distraught. Stanley Pines dies four months later around the same time "Stanford" Pines opens the Mystery Shack for the first time.

It's fourteen years later when he hears from his family again and it's his brother Shermy. He wants his help talking their mother out of an idea, once he finds out what it is, he agrees. Ford had apparently (he shudders to think about it cause ew it's his brother) put some of his (okay he's just gonna call it DNA cause again ew) DNA away before he got himself clipped in case he wanted kids later in his life and his mother had somehow acquired it. His mother is a great liar he will admit, he just has no idea how she pulled it off, Stan persists for weeks trying to get her to throw it away but in the end , Joseph and his wife want kids and were told it would be unlikely Joseph would father them in a moment of weakness ( and his father daring him to argue) he caves.

In September 1996 Marie Pines nee Walker announces she's expecting his mother is ecstatic.

Stan doesn't know what to think. Of course he's excited to become an uncle again even if it's at 55 but it feels wrong Ford should be here it should be his wife having this baby not his nephews and when he's really depressed he wishes he was never born. It's a surreal thing Fords kid coming into the world 15 years after he disappeared, he wonders what his brother would have thought about it, and he doubles his efforts on the portal.

In March of 1997 Stan laughs at the situation...it's twins of all of the ironic situations, and according to the ultrasound they're boys...or from the version he gets from his mother instead of Joseph (who wants two running backs) they only know that one is a boy for sure the other is shy but everyone is sure it's another boy, Joseph tells him they're going to put his brother down as the father on the twins birth certificate to honor his brother and he advises against it.

The Mystery Shack is taking off he's finally got something he's good at ripping people off and people know he's doing it; he loves his job by day but at night he tries harder and harder gaining only milometers in his research of the portal and every night becomes even more of a disappointment, he gets frustrated and takes it out on almost anybody who asks what's wrong. He begins the search for the other two journals.

Filbrick and Stan don't talk much but as hard assed as he is, he knows that just because he disowned Stan doesn't mean everyone did so when his mother invites him to New Jersey in at the end of may Stan goes but stays at a hotel as far away from his father as he can get, whenever they talk to each other they butt heads so they tend to ignore each other when in the same room.

'Marie looks ready to pop' is the first thing he thinks when he see's his Niece in law for the first time in 8 and 1/2 months. The boys have grown quite big and she has been forbidden from doing just about anything. That why he's here to Help Shermy and Joseph with the twins nursery, he helps build cribs and a changing table and he paints the room green and watches as Marie fills the closet with clothes for her boys and his mother donates things from his and Fords Nursery. He senses a disaster coming.

On June 20th at 12: 55 pm Stanford James Jr. and Joanna Beth Pines come screaming into the world only a few minutes apart. They're red skinned and blotchy,their eyes can't focus on anything but his mother looks like the little boy is his brother reborn. Stanford has brown hair ten fingers,ten toes and is a quiet little one his eyes are the blue all newborns are but he can tell already they're his mother's green eyes in fact it seems like he inherited a lot of his mothers traits but Stan thinks it might change.

His parents seem quite content to keep cooing over little Ford, Marie is dosing and Joseph went to go buy some clothes for his little girl jokingly saying he'll have to play tea party now, as he walks over to the bassinet he sees the little girl for the first time and falls in love. Little Johanna is born with 12 fingers a trait she inherited from her father and 10 toes like her brother she has Brown hair but it has more auburn in it like Fords did scooping her up he smiles when little Joey as he dubbed her coo's happily. Stan knows his brother would have loved this girl, he would have loved them both but Stan knows for sure that Joey would have had her Daddy wrapped around her tiny finger and in return she would have been Daddy's little girl.

-Don't mind me I'm a line break-

He waits til the twins are home before heading back to Oregon in his wallet are pictures of the twins first days as he has promises from Marie and Joseph to send him pictures and videos as they grow, he won't be able to visit a lot but at least Uncle Stan won't be a complete stranger to them he puts the pictures in a frame on his desk and Smiles more freely than he has in a while.

The twins are a month old when he gets the call Stanford didn't make it through his first month of life SIDS they said, baby Ford went to sleep and just didn't wake up in the morning, He closes the shack and heads up to New Jersey for the funeral. Filbrick and Stan talk civilly for the first time fifteen years, the loss affects Marie and his mother the most & father and son talk about how to help Marion but come up with very few ideas.

Johanna won't stop crying she knows somethings wrong and she wants her twin, Stan offers to take her out of the room and calm her to give the grieving mother some space and distraught Marie takes him up on the offer and hands him the baby bag. 'It's surprisingly simple to calm a baby down' Shermy had told him once when he was fifteen and holding Joseph for the first time he had said if you project calm and security in your body language the baby picks up on it.

So that's what he does and Joey calms down considerably whimpering every now and then but she's calm now and that's the good thing. He takes advantage of her silence to check her diaper and all the necessitates, but all she seems to want is a cuddle.

He can sympathize with Joey he knows what it's like to lose a twin, even at her age she knows he's gone and up until now they've shared everything together, never been separated and to have that suddenly ripped away, he remembers Fords rejection of him and knows how heartbreaking it is.

It's his mother Marion who comes out a little later and finds him making silly faces at the baby girl who only giggles and coos at him and tells him it's time for the burial and Marie was wondering if he could hold on to Joey til after, he agrees without question no parent should have to bury their child. He knows Marie only needs him to have her so she doesn't drop the baby if she collapses.

Marie does end up collapsing in tears it's her Baby boy who will never crawl, or have his first day of school, or even reach his first birthday. Joseph and Marie pines grieved for their son during the funeral they often said how well he was doing and the hopes they had for him.

Stanford J.R

June 20 1997 -July 20 1997

Gone too soon