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Chapter 1 : Grave news in Gravity.

"Can't catch me Dipper!" Mabel sung out into the warm fall air. She was dashing around the grounds of the Mystery shack teasing and calling for her twin to chase her. It was late august and the last week the Pine siblings had with their Great Uncle Stan in Gravity falls, Oregon.

Dipper smiled giving his twin a lead. In a moment she would be back around to this side of the shack. He took a moment to breathe in the change in the air. The leaves had begun to turn vibrant and some had even started falling. Tourist buses were fewer and farther between. Grunkle Stan predicted they would see the last bus of tourists this week and it would be the same bus that would take the Twins home. Suddenly a shadow moved just in the tree line. It caught Dipper's eyes and he stood, moving off the pouch, taking a few steps towards the forest.

"Ooh!" he yelled out as something soft and heavy collided with him.

"Dipper?" Mabel asked rubbing her head. "How'd you get in front of me?" Clearly confused since her brother had apparently passed her. Dipper gently pushed Mabel off of himself standing. His eyes darted back to the woods but the shadow was gone.

Turning his attention towards Mabel he smiled and helped her up. She looked at him. Even before the twins had come to gravity falls she had always been able to read him. Her eyes quickly darted to where he had been looking but he patted her shoulder. A sign to his twin that everything was okay. "C'mon, we've got packing to do."

"Race you!" Mabel smiled and giggled grabbing Dipper's hat and pulling away from him. Dipper growled playfully knowing full well her taking his hat was pretty much a guarantee that he would chase her.

Dipper found Mabel in there attic room. Hands behind her back giggling softly. Dipper narrowed his eyes. "Alright Mabel, where'd you hide it?"

"Why Dipping sauce I don't know what you are talking about." She said, pretending to be hurt by his accusations. Turning away she pulled out her suit case from under the bed and beginning to pack it.

"Mabel" Dipper's voice was low and warning. He watched as she stiffened just a little. He gave her a moment to come clean but when she didn't he smiled. She really was in a playful mood.

"Okay, you asked for it." Dipper lunged at her and Mabel dashed to the side just slipping from his fingers. Dipper landed in the pile of clothes on her bed. All there monster hunting and running away over the past three months had really increased their reflexes and senses. Dipper was just as fast as could be, rebounding off her bed and heading right for her. Mabel was just a second to slow as Dipper's already wigging fingers made contact with her belly. Sending them both down to the floor into a laughing giggle heap.

"Tell me where my hat is Mabel." Dipper teased while he continued tickling her. She may be the alpha twin but Dipper knew her every weakness.

"Hahaha heeheehee giggle No stop! Hahaha giggle Ahaha. Never!" She shouted between giggles.

"Okay fine have it your way." He said doubling his tickling attack. Mabel batted at his hands weakly but the laughter was taking her strength.

"Okay! I'll hahahaha talk! Just please heeheeheehee." Dipper pulled his hands a few inches away and gave his sister a moment to catch her breath.

"I gave it to the invisible wizard." She said glancing to the closet.

Dipper sighed and stood, walked to and opened the closet door. There was his hat. Placing it back on he turned to his sister who stuck her tongue playfully out at him. They spent the rest of the day in the attic. Talking and packing.

"Are you taking the book with us?" Mabel asked.

Dipper nodded. "Yup, I think its dangerous to leave it here with Grunkle Stan. I mean what if Gideon found it?"

Mabel shivered with disgust. "Eww Gideon. But don't you worry that the things in the book will follow us home?"

Dipper stopped mid packing. He had not thought of that. He shook his head. "I don't think they can leave the woods. We should be perfectly safe."

"Kids! C'mon, you want dinner tonight don't you?" Grunkle Stan called from the first floor. Despite his rough demeanor towards the twins they had really grown on him over the past few months. Earning him more money at the Mystery Shack had certainly helped. To celebrate there last night in gravity falls their normally penny pinching Grunkle was taking them out to dinner. Something they had not done since arriving.

They arrived at the diner in town. Dipper gave his Grunkle Stan a questioning look. "What? Now your too good for diner food kid?"

"No, it's great. Thanks Grunkle Stan." Dipper gave his Grunkle a smile and Stan turned away a bit, muttering to himself.

Seating themselves in a booth Mabel looked happily out the window before turning to her Grunkle. "Grunkle Stan?" she questioned. "I want pancakes."

"Sure thing kid, get whatever you want. You too Dipper." He said from behind a menu. He hoped the kids knew how spending his money was his way of trying to say he would miss them. Grunkle Stan's vocabulary was missing quite a few words for nice things. Heck the inability to say please had lost him a ton of money. His niece and nephew had already taught him so much and made him, yuck, feel things again. He didn't want to admit it but as he watched them eat there pancake for dinner, playing with the maple syrup packets, he was going to miss them.

"So um…" Grunkle Stan started rubbing the back of his neck shyly. "I hope you two had a good time here…so maybe I don't know you might come back again next year? But hey whatever."

"Heck yes! Mabel shouted.

"Yeah!" Dipper agreed. "There's so much more I want to figure out. This place is so mysterious."

Grunkle Stan laughed and dismissed Dipper's thoughts as best he could. Dipper was too young yet to know the truth but Grunkle Stan knew neither of them lied unlike him. If they said they saw Gnomes they probably did. Same with all the other monsters.

The ride back to the Mystery Shack was quiet. Even Mabel with her eternal bright look on life was quietly thinking about tomorrow and saying goodbye. That night after the twins had gone to sleep in their room Grunkle stand came to check on them. He did so almost every night since they had been here. Thankfully neither of them had ever woken up.

Around 3am Grunkle Stan was awoken by the phone ringing. "Whoever this is, this better be important…Yes this is Standford Pines…they what?...when?...I see. No, both of them are with me. Yes, I understand. Thank you." Grunkle Stan sat back on his bed and covered his eyes. "Not this," he thought "The twins can't handle this. He can't handle this"

The next morning Dipper and Mabel raced down to the kitchen only to come to a sliding hault. Grunkle Stan was still in his house clothes sitting at the kitchen table. There was no breakfast out not even cereal. Grunckle Stan's eyes were red with terribly dark circles.

"Are you aright Grunkle Stan?" Dipper asked. He looked at them wearily.

"Sit down kids." He asked in a voice neither twin had heard before. Sensing something was off Dipper took Mabel's hand into his own as they sat down across the table from there Grunkle.

Stan swallowed hard and for once in his life wished he was better with words. "I got a phone call last night, there was an accident and your parents were in it. They….they didn't make it." Grunkle Stan covered his face with his hands unable to look at the kids but Mabel's soft crying and Dipper's sniffing confirmed that they understood.

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