Title: Stop the Pain
Part 2: Unspoken Words

Morty successfully completed two full weeks of school without going on one of Rick's 'adventures.' If it weren't for the family dinners every night he would have never seen his grandfather. Rick would come out for a quick meal and disappear into the garage. Beth and Jerry noticed the tension any time the two saw each other. It was as if the two were ashamed to be in the others presence.

Morty was washing the dinner plates contemplating the last two weeks, he missed the 'adventures' although he would never tell Rick. Morty dropped a plate when he heard Rick's voice say his name behind him, both watched as it shattered.

"MOURGHty come to the garage with me."

"Aw geez Rick, it hasn't even been a month." Morty said, he knelt down to grab the broken plate, "Now mom is going to be angry."

Rick bent down quickly picking up the pieces and tossed them into the sink. "It won't take long. We'll clean the plate after."

Morty sighed, "Fine."

Rick walked toward the garage with the kid in tow. Morty watched as Rick grabbed the portal gun and two small bracelets from his work bench. "Put the bracelet on." Rick said snapping his on as Morty watched him.

"What's it for?" Morty held onto it nervously.

"Just do it."

Morty snapped his on, there was no use arguing with Rick.

Rick shot a portal and the two walked in. Morty looked around the room. "The living room? You had us go through the portal to get to the living room?"

"M-m-morty, I want you to see what everything would be like if you did jump. In this universe, this Morty jumped. This Rick wasn't able to stop this Morty. This would be the family two weeks later."

Morty felt his heart stop. He never thought about another Morty having the same issue.

Morty watched his mom walk into the room with a bottle of wine in her hands. She slunk to the couch. "Your mom hasn't stopped hitting the bottle since that day. She can't sleep. She j-j-just drinks." Rick grabbed his flask and took a swig.

Morty sat up on the couch next to her as she polished off the bottle. He went to touch her, his hand went right through her. Morty stare at his hands.

"I've been perfecting these bracelets for the last two weeks so I can show you this universe. These bracelets make us intangible to any organic matter and some inorganic such as clothing in any dimension other than our own." Rick said standing next to Morty.

Summer walked into the room. She looked disheveled; Morty had never seen his sister like that. Her eyes were red and puffy. She couldn't cry anymore.

"Whoa, Summer looks like the walking dead." Rick said laughing.

Morty shushed his grandfather as Summer spoke up.

"I can't believe he did it." Summer said sitting on the couch.

"Same." Beth said.

"I'm right here!" Morty yelled.

"Let me show you, yOURGH pathetic father." Rick said walking away from the kid.

They walked into the dining room; Jerry was sitting at the table in his normal spot. He had his balloon game on his tablet. Jerry wasn't popping the balloons; he was just staring at them.

Rick took a swig of his flask. "Your father hasn't talked since that day. He blames himself."

"But it wasn't his fault." Morty said.

"Doesn't matter. He barely made it through your funeral without breaking down. Guy nearly lost it, Beth had to console him."

"My funeral?" Morty whispered.

Rick walked off. Morty followed closely behind. They walked outside where the sun was shining. The two went down the street. Everything else was happy here. The sun shined, kids were playing, and everything was at peace.

Rick walked into a cemetery and pointed down at a block.

Morty fell to his knees as he read his name on the cement block. Below his names, the date he was born and the date he was going to jump.

He put his hand out to touch it. Morty looked up at his grandfather. "I don't get it, where's Rick in all this? Did he leave the family behind?"

"Yeah he left the family." Rick said then pointed next to the stone. The stone next to his read, Richard Sanchez. The end dates on both stones were the same.

"You…" Morty couldn't say anything.

"When this Morty killed himself, Rick couldn't make it through the night." Rick made his hand look like a gun and put it to his temple and pretend to fire the trigger. "This Rick ended it just as quickly as his Morty did."

Morty felt tears run down his cheek.

Rick sighed. He knelt down and forced the kid to look him in the eyes, "Morty listen carefully because this is the only time I will ever say this, you dense piece of shit. I know you think I use you. I know you think that I don't care but it's obvious that I do care. I can't live without you. You want me to break down the wall and cry, I won't. But I will make sure you outlive me. If you ever think I'm going to let you die before me and make me live alone on this miserable piece of shit we call Earth you have another thing coming. And when I die, if you shed one tear I will haunt your ass."

Morty let out a chuckle.

"You are better off without me and to ever think that I'm better off without you is the most dumb and most asinine thing that I have ever heard. And I've heard some dumb shit; I do hang out with you after all."

Morty smiled. He wrapped his arms around his grandfather. "Thanks Rick. That was what I needed." He said.

Rick hugged his grandson back, it felt nice to hug for once. Rick rubbed the kid's back as they hugged for much longer than Rick wanted to admit.

Morty took in the hug, it wasn't the words he wanted to hear but it was all he needed. He needed to know he was loved. Tomorrow, Rick would go back to being the same Rick and Morty would be forced to follow him aimlessly. However, right now, at this moment he was happy. They were grandfather and grandson and they loved each other without ever saying anything.

Rick and Morty knew they had an unspoken love.

How else would a bond be so strong that it went through every dimension? How else would their bond be so strong that Morty would be the reason why Rick would come back to see his family?

Fin.

So, the original story was actually following the two that killed themselves. The original story had Morty slipping off the building when he backed away from Rick. And Rick reading the note, realizing he was the cause and choosing to end himself instead of finding another Morty to destroy. But alas, I chose to let our favorite characters survive and have my characters in the background as the lesson.

Anyways thanks for reading, please review!