#papa bear alan is all about respect

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"You're on thin ice, pal." 😠

While Alan would consider himself a romantic, he doesn't take too kindly to finding this rancher sitting on HIS porch, drinking HIS iced tea, with HIS daughter. A formal introduction would go a long way with this one.

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I’m going to do a Brook Headcanon to what happened before & after Dewey’s Death:

Brook was there when Dewey collapsed in their bedroom from the bubbles that were a result of the illness that he had. She rode in the ambulance that took Dewey to the hospital, leaving Harold in charge of the kids who were understandably upset that their papa was close to dying.

The next day, she woke up to the news in the hospital that Dewey was comatose but was still alive but he would unfortunately have to spend his remaining months alive in hospital.

When Brook walks in, she sees wires going into him and nasal cannula which broke her heart into thousands of pieces unlike the hundred before.

She would try everything to wake him up before getting a response from Dewey by a small squeeze to her hand and he slightly woke up.

She would stay with him for his remaining months alive, she would get more & more depressed when she realises that each day that he’s getting closer to death, but she remains strong for him.

The kids will visit the hospital but Wade can’t bring himself to say anything, staying silent while Alan, Lake & Eddy do the talking.

When Dewey does pass on, Brook breaks everywhere emotionally & mentally. She has to be coaxed by both her brother & and emotionally wrecked Alan to stop hugging Dewey and let the doctors take him to the morgue, she does take his wedding ring from his finger and puts it in her pocket.

She screams as Dewey is taken away to the morgue, saying that she won’t leave him, she punches Harold across the face but he holds strong and tells her that Dewey is gone in which she shuts off.

The car ride home is sad where Lake is sitting on Brook’s lap and both are just broken and upset but Lake makes it sad when they ask if their papa can come back.

When they get home, Brook runs off back to her room, not before taking everything that was Dewey back to her room.

Over the coming week, she stays in her room as she looks at her and his wedding ring and she places it in her jewellery box, never to put any sort of ring on her finger ever again as Dewey was the only person that she will be married to.

For the week in her room, she would cry at medium volume before she cries the loudest when she wakes up and goes to bed as Dewey is not there to kiss her, give her a giant bear hug with more kisses and do their favourite thing in bed.

Multiple attempts by her kids, Harold & her mother & father to get her out of the room but she doesn’t say a word and ignores them until Dewey’s Biological Father, Jerry II & Adoptive air mother, Brie breaks into the room and talks to her, while they get thrown out eventually, they tell her to please come out of her room.

The next morning, the combined efforts of Jerry II, Brie, Alan, Wade, Lake, Eddy, Harold & her parents slowly bring her out of her room and they see that she is a mess, hair disheveled, eyes all red from crying and her dress smells.

They see her attempts into get back to normal life but she is too depressed to do anything, all the things she can say is Dewey-related.

For the funeral, she is a sobbing mess and when she is on stage about to give her final respects and stand by Harold as he delivers her euology, she cries out for Dewey to come back which makes everyone from her family, friends & Dewey’s Childhood to professional friends cry their eyes out.

Before he is lowered into the ground, she says “I love you and I will miss you Dewey.” Still upset, at wake she is silent and doesn’t talk.

While the kids except Wade get through the 5 steps of grief at a normal rate, she takes the grief at the slowest pace in the world, lasting for the better part of 3-4 years.

She recovers enough to work again but when the kids are gone and she’s alone, she likes what she was the night he passed.

Half her bed is empty and she fills the space with a 6ft Teddy Bear that Dewey bought her and is conveniently named, Dewey II. She puts his cologne on the bear which slightly fills the void in her heart when she goes to sleep and wakes up.

Until one day, she sees things that she can’t explain

Before then, she didn’t believe in ghosts but one night when she goes to cry in the living room, she hears the family photo fall into the water which gives her hope that the ghost of Dewey is visiting.

She then pulls the old trick of putting pillows in bed to make Dewey think that she is asleep while she hides in the shadows of her room.

When she catches Dewey, she gives him a hug and kisses and instead of phasing through him, her kisses touch his lips and her hug’s wrap around him, she cries as she asks for Dewey to keep visiting her which he does for the rest of her life every-time she feels down.

He tells her that he saw her cry and stay awake all those nights for the three to four years before he got permission from God to visit her which he submitted the day after he died.

She tries to tell her kids what happened and they agree just to please her because they know she is not the same mentally as they are about their late father.

That is before Dewey appear behind Brook and the kids believe her and they hug their ghostly father.

With this, she recovers a lot better to the point where she was when Dewey retired and had all the time in the world to be with their kids.

She becomes extremely protective of Dewey’s image and terrifies those who try and make anything about her late husband.

Around the time of Elemental and after, she still misses Dewey a lot and finally makes Wade come to peace with his dead dad.

When she says “Mend that Broken Heart.” Everyone including her family look at her as they know her heart hasn’t mended yet from the loss of Dewey.

She often dreams about an alternative life where Dewey was cured and lived to the present, where would they go, would they had tried for anymore children, and as she got older, she got more excited about seeing Dewey again

On her deathbed, she watches as the light gets bigger and she hears Dewey telling her not to be afraid and her final words would be all excited and says “Dewey!”

Her & Dewey would be buried together and she would run into his arms in heaven and they would be lovey dovey in heaven for all eternity.