Rely On Me. {Ford x Reader}

Rely On Me Chapter/Part 3

The moment the pair was having had quickly been ruined by a girl's voice,
"Grunkle Ford who is this??" Two heads turned to meet the voice. Five people stood in the doorway. Stan, and Dipper, two girls, and a guy. How many people live here?! Ford looked down to (y/n),
"Are you ready to meet more people, or do you need some time?" She lightly laughed and quietly said
"I just had a damn hole in my head sewn closed. I really don't want to be bombarded with more people at the moment." Ford smiled understandingly and turned his head back to the group,
"I will properly introduce you to her later. If you didn't notice before, she had a gaping hole in her head sewn closed. She needs some time before she's ready to talk. I also have her ankle to tend to." Ford turned and kneeled, signaling for her to get on his back, which she shyly did, after realizing she couldn't, and shouldn't, walk on her ankle again. Once she was securely on, Ford stood and made his way to the basement, only after Dipper said he left the ice and water down stairs.
"But Grunkle Foooord!" The girl wined,
"Is she your girlfriend?! Why didn't you tellll meeee?!" Ford stiffened, swiftly turning,
"I said we'll talk about this later." Then escaped down stairs. He could feel (y/n) lightly shanking, trying to contain her laugher, against his back. He rolled his eyes and made his way over to the couch, setting her down, then laying her legs on his lap. After looking at her ankle, he cursed himself for not taking care of it earlier. It had only swollen more. Ford sighed deeply, his brows furrowing together,
"How did this happen to your ankle?" (Y/n) everted her gaze, "Would you believe me if I said I tripped?" He gave her a look, and she laughed.
"No, huh? .... Metal baseball bat." Ford sucked in a breath,
"Who would do this to you?" (Y/n) gulped,
"I... I don't want to talk about it. Not yet." Ford quietly released a frustrated sigh,
"Okay. Not yet. But.... Promise that you'll explain all of this to me?" She nodded,
"I will. I just... I can't yet." She blinked back tears, trying to keep the memories away. Ford noticed them, so he changed the subject, telling her about who the three people from before were. Turns out the pushy one was his niece Mabel, the other girl was named Wendy, and she worked at the store connected to the house, and the guy was named Soos, he worked at and sometimes ran the store. After explaining that, he took the ice off her ankle and started lightly massaging it. Damn. It felt good. (Y/n) happily sighed, and closed her eyes. After a few lovely minutes, something cold hit her ankle and she cracked open an eye. Ford had a little bottle next to him and was putting whatever was in it on her ankle.
"What's that?" She asked, noting that her voice wasn't scratchy anymore. The power of water. "Hm? Oh, it reduces swelling, and has a healing aid in it. I um... I can stop if you want." She shook her head and answered all to quickly, "What, no! Oh please no. Keep going. Please." Ford laughed, and despite how flustered she was, so did she.

Notes: So the last chap I posted was short, have another. Just you wait till chapter 4 ;) it's cute