It was finally done Bill was gone and the town was restored to normal but Gruncle Stan wasn't who he used to be. With memories gone he couldn't even remember the town he risked his life for. Devistation ran through Dippers mind crushing the faith he had once felt. All they had done and it didn't matter without thier Gruncle Stan. He could see the despair apon Fords face and it hurt even more seeing how upset Mabel. Slowly they helped thier gruncle home and into his favorite chair where he made a snide comment of his butt remembering the seat. They argued over restoring his memory and on a stroke of luck Mabel uncovered her scrap book. She sat next to Gruncle Stan and went through it on a miracle he began to uncover his memories. The next day they had thier party and was sent off with sad goodbyes plus a waddles. Though from that day on Dipper was more enstranged with the mysterious mysteries had even started happening closer to home then he expected. Sometimes he could even find strange things in the woods near his home. The mysteries even small ones brang back gleeful memories of his summers at The Mystery Shack. Slowly the years passed faster and faster Dipper becoming enthralled in the mysterious that appeared more and more often around him. Mabel had gone to college for Fashion and Design while Dipper with his high intellect had completed college by the age of twenty three. He was now making a job of exploring the mysterious around the world. With a simple invention Dipper had been able to sell it off for enough money to last for his life time. He bought the mystery shack and visited often enough he had his old room back. One summer Soos called him on his mobile phone with news that broke his heart. Gruncle Stan was dying in bed Ford not far behind. That moment at a lonely bus stop his phone hit the ground and in years tears rolled down his cheeks. His hearing died out his vision blurring with sadness that overwhelmed him. He knew this day would come but didn't hurt any less. There was no way someone could prepare for loss, no way that someone could make the pain not appear. He took the quickest way back to Gravity Falls to find Mabel crying over a cold body. Dippers eyes widened the pain fresh just from seeing the body. His heart had shattered in a million pieces over and over again his mind unable to react his body stood there clenching the door frame. "F..ford...Wheres ford!?" Dipper sputtered out his pupils had to be as small as can be pain plastered apon his face. All he recieved was Soos pointing a finger to the next room over before it even processed he was rushing into the room to a pale older Ford Pines. He couldn't hold it in more a sob ripped through his mouth waking a disgruntled older man. "Dipper..." Ahoarse voice whimpered through obvious weakness. "I'm sorry...He tried to hold on until you got here." Dipper just shook his head unable to form words those words stabbing straight through his heart like a hot knife. "Dipper I don't have long...I made you something." He handed him a red book with a pine tree numbered four on it. "I made it for you." Was the last words he said before his grip went weak and the book fell to the floor. "No!" Dipper screamed sobbing wildly and holding his hands tightly as he shooking him. "No Gruncle Ford come back! Don't leave me!" He cried over and over again causing Mabel to come running in grabbing Dipper off of him. He fell apart too weak to hold himself up before he fell onto his knees. Mabel knew this was one of the moments he needed support but not touching. He needed space so she helped him to thier old room handing him the book Ford had dropped. He sat on his old bed staring at the book in his hands chuckling softly at the small tears and rips just like the other ones. He opened the pages running through them with an even bigger smile. More mysteries more demons as it seems Bill was only of many but the most powerful. Everything was changed now he knew he had to pick up from where Ford and Stan had left off. He shivered at a cold chill almost as if there was a hand on each of his shoulders. He had believed in ghost for years now the proof was far too much maybe just maybe they were here with him. But he wasn't like the others he dare not try to bring them back to life. He knew the pain of those who tried the agony that the dead faced being forced from where they slumber. "Stan...Ford I...I promise I'll keep your legacy going...I'll keep you guys living..." He spoke weakly his oice cracking for the first time in years since he had gone through puberty. He ran his hand over a page feeling the indents of Ford writing them himself. Maybe if Bill was still alive he would blame him but he hadn't seen a trace of that demon in ages. The few monsters that helped him said he was dead that they had never seen him again. That was an complicated moment his feelings stuck on happiness the demon was gone but also he was let down. That triangle had kept him busy for summers always challenging his mind forcing him to find a way to defeat him. He looked up at the triangle window with a small smile before laying back clutching the book to his chest and fell asleep.

It had been a few years since Dippers Gruncles had died and he had recieved the fourth book from Gruncle Ford. He spent those years finding every mystery he could filling two more books hoping he was making them proud. He had gotten in dangerous sitatious but always pulling through with the thought that he was doing this for them. He always had that small bit of sadness he carried with him everywhere sometimes it became a black gaping hole that swallowed him as he recalled Fords final words. Recently Mabel was a hot shot fashion designer naming the line The Pines fashion line. So often he got comments on his last name the media eventually finding out that Mabel was his sister and he was the scientist that had created instant meals. Though that was old news and everyone had instant meals now making cooking only useful at home. But back to the topic on hand Dipper berated himself for letting his train of thoughts get away from again. He was on the quickest way back home to Gravity Falls after Soos had called him and said that he was retiring. Wendy was in college still trying to get whatever degree she was working on now trying to bat Dippers intellect though they both knew that was impossible. But nothing stopped Wendy when she decided to stay for the long haul. It took about a day and a half before he finally stepped onto the back porch of the mystery shack his bag dropping on the porch. He could feel tears filling in his eyes. He hadn't been back here since they died...Everything was like seeing a friend he hadn't seen since he was a kid. The memories of his summers danced in his head playing before his eyes as he walked in. He remembered Mabels pancakes and Gruncle Stans bacon he usually shop lifted. Ducktective they sat and watched whenever it came on and the swear jar Mabel had put up in the gift shop. The memories felt they were happening all over again his childhood...The best days of his life that happened when he was here. He picked up a picture on the front counter of them all infront of the shack. The last picture he had of Grunckle Stand and Ford. Setting the picture down he made his way to Fords old room his favorite room because of all the books. He set his bags down with a heavy sigh this room in particular bringing up painful memories of the last time he had seen them. It would be hard he knew but he made his way outisde towards the edge of the forest to stop before the two grave stones marked with his two Gruncles names. He smiled sadly putting a hand on each getting that chilly feeling as if two people were behind him. "Hey guys it's been awhile..." Everything was normal until he saw something he never though he'd see again. A small black top hat sat behind fords grave and adreline ran through Dippers viens as he looked around then looked around. It wasn't a hallucination because still that hat sat there untouched from any dirt or rain so it had to be left there recently. "Bill!?" He cried out looking around and expecting a small yellow triangle to appear before him but what he saw suprised and startled him beyond possibility. A blonde haired male stepped out from behind a tree his face leaning up to reveal an eyepatched face the eye patch having a brick pattern. "Miss me Pine tree? I missed you..." The man stepped forward causing Dipper to stumbled back and fall onto his rear. "Don't worry short stack I'm not here to hurt you...I don't do that anymore..."