What If?
AN: Set during the following summer after the events of the current show. I do not own Gravity Falls or any of the characters except for my OC(s). In this story the Stan brothers were able to quickly reconcile their differences rather than the heated ending from A Tale of Two Stans. The overly affectionate behavior between Pacifica and the Pine twins is due to them having a lot of secret phone calls and skypes while Pacifica was grounded to the estate for the summer.
This is rated T for the later chapters and my own paranoia. Depending on how the story plays out, it may be jumped up to an M, but only for high levels of violence, and possible death.
Chapter 1:
It's the end of the summer and it's finally time for Dipper and Mabel to head back to Piedmont. Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford, after dealing with their differences and ending a lifelong argument, decided to have one last full blown bash for the kids. The Grunkles set up a big bonfire and held a cookout for the kids. All their friends showed up, both the normal and the supernatural. For their final goodbyes of the summer came Grenda and Candy, Wendy and the gang, Soos and Melody, Blendin Blandin, and Old Man McGucket. Dipper and Mabel were so happy to see everyone; however, they were sad that Pacifica couldn't make it since her parents had ended up grounding her for the rest of the summer.
That was until a cab pulled up to the Mystery Shack. The twins looked up to see no one inside the cab. The door opened up on the far side of the cab and you could hear the raspy voice of the driver say to a yet unknown occupant, "That'll be $37.50."
The twins perked up right quickly when they heard a familiar voice say "Keep the change."
"Thank you kindly miss," said the cab driver with much enthusiasm before putting the car into drive and pulling out of the parking lot.
Dipper and Mabel jumped and ran when they saw Pacifica standing there, both of them yelling in unison "PACIFICA", Mabel practically tackling her with a hug.
"What are you doing here Paz? I thought your parents grounded you for the summer," Dipper said.
"Yeah, I know we said goodbye on the phone last night, but how did you even get here?" said Mabel, releasing Pacifica from her death grip.
Finally able to breathe again, Pacifica said, "I snuck out, duh. What, did you think I was going to let a little grounding keep me from seeing my two best friends before they leave for 9 whole months?" There was a pause in her speech before she continued, "You are coming back next summer, right?" This she said with a slight quiver of her lip and the start of puppy dog eyes.
"Of course we are, although it will be a little weird to explain to our parents how there are now two Grunkle Stans." Dipper said.
"I heard that," said Stanford, "I told you to call me Grunkle Ford. It's less confusing that way. Besides, my brother and I already talked to your parents and they said if you want to you can come back next summer as soon as school lets out. Just make sure you focus on your studies, okay sports."
Dipper shakes his head in the affirmative while jumping into a big hug with his uncle. Pacifica gives herself a small fist pump for next summer while whispering "Yes, my dipper will be back." Unknowingly, to her Mabel hears what she said. Pacifica looks over at Mabel and sees a huge grin appearing on her face. Just before Mabel is able to squeal in excitement, Pacifica grabs her and pulls her to the other side of the Mystery Shack.
"Not a WORD of this, you hear me Mabel." Pacifica said.
"But Paz …" Mabel started before she was cut off.
"No buts Mabel, I may be ready to accept my feelings but I don't know if he is, especially just before you both leave." Pacifica was saying, "Just promise you won't say anything to him. I plan to tell him next summer when you guys get back."
"Come on Paz. Please?" insist Mabel, practically crawling on her knees begging.
"NO Mabel," said a stubborn Pacifica, "and I mean it."
"Okay Paz, you win, but just so you know, I was only going to tell you how happy I am. The two of you look SO CUTE together. You definitely get the Mabel Seal of Approval." After a pause, Mabel askes "So when did this start anyway?"
Pacifica gets a shy expression on, looks away and whispers "It started the evening of the party." Mabel just gets her usual super excitement smile and squeals.
Meanwhile back at the party Dipper was talking with Blandin.
"I can't believe you came to this." said Dipper.
"Are you kidding?" Blandin said, "After all you and your sister did for me, there was no way I was going to miss this chance to celebrate. Especially with what's coming next sum… I mean, uh, STEAK. I'm gonna go get one!"
Well that was weird, Dipper thought to himself just before Mabel tackled him yelling "DIPPER, NEXT SUMMER IS GOING TO BE SO AMAZING!" Pacifica gives Mabel a look, but she just keeps smiling.
The next few hours were spent in merriment; delicious food, good friends, and fun times all around. Some of the more entertaining events were the Stan brothers performing a 40 year old song on the karaoke machine, Soos telling jokes and stories from the summer while Melody just laughs along with him, and when Nate and Lee get Thompson to try and tape a tail on Waddles telling him it was a party game.
The whole gang continued on with the party until it was getting pretty late. Pacifica called for a cab and was getting ready to sneak back home. She walked up to the twins and gave them both a hug. A slight blush spread across Dipper's face, but of course, eagle eyed Mabel didn't miss a thing.
"Don't forget to keep in touch," said Pacifica, "otherwise I may be force to come down to Piedmont myself to see what's wrong."
"We won't," said the twins in unison. Dipper continued "You just be sure not to let your parents give you too much trouble. We'll see you in about 9 months."
After everyone left Dipper and Mabel made their way to the attic one last time and slept a relatively sound night. When they awoke the next morning, Stan had made them breakfast and they said there last goodbyes before getting on the bus to Piedmont.
NINE MONTHS LATER
The day had been a usual one for Pacifica, but she was happier now more than she had been all year. It was the last day of school and less than a week away from her favorite peoples return to Gravity Falls. After dinner she did her normal routine of shower, preparation, and bed. Comfortable in her favorite hot pink llama pajamas, she laid herself down to sleep.
"Heeeyyy," a whispery voice said, "Heeyy, Llama."
"HEY," it finally yelled, "WAKE UP LLAMA, THERES SOMETHING YOU SHOULD SEE."
Pacifica opened her eyes to a gray world and saw a triangle floating in front of her. Before she could say anything, there was a bright flash of light and then only darkness remained. Pacifica looked around and saw her clock 2:43. She was about to go back to sleep when she heard a noise coming from the main hall of the house. As she got up, slipped on her slippers, grabbed her phone, and crept downstairs to see what was happening, she noticed what sounded like a strange chant. She got to the main hall and saw her parents kneeling in front of the fireplace chanting something that almost sounded backwards.
Suddenly the fire turned a bright blue and the color of the rest of the house slowly started to fade around it. Her father turned and she saw a fearful face, almost like that of a zombie. In a voice more like the one from her dream that awoke her rather than her father's, came the words, "YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET INTO THE PANIC ROOM."
Without so much as a second thought, Pacifica opened the door to the panic room, jumped inside, and closed it. As soon as she did she heard an explosion. She tried looking at the monitors to see what happened but all the screens were static. She switched the feed to one of the external cameras and saw something that terrified her more than the bell ever could. Here entire house was gone, just a few parts of the exterior walls. Floating in the middle of the wreckage was the slightly familiar form from her dream. It turned around and she saw a yellow triangle with one eye, a bowtie, top hat, can and scrawny little arms and legs.
The mysterious triangle said "MAN, IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK IN THE PHYSICAL PLANE. NOW TO WORK ON RESTORING MY BODY, BUT FIRST I'LL NEED A HOME."
After it said that the debris from the wreckage started to fly through the air toward the triangle. A huge creepy looking tower started to form almost directly above her. Suddenly the feed cut out and she was left alone in the tiny room. She pulled out her phone and did the only thing she could think of, she tried calling Dipper. Unfortunately, he didn't answer. She looked at her phone to try and make another call when she noticed the battery was about to run out. She had just enough to send one text.
She typed as fast as she could, fumbling with her phone from the fear. Getting just a few words she sent out a message to Dipper. All caps it read 'PLEASE, HELP ME'. The sent message sign appeared on her phone then it died without a care in the world.
Pacifica checked to make sure the panic room door was locked, then laid down and cried herself to sleep, partially out of fear, and partially out of sadness thinking how everyone in the house but her was now dead, and there was nothing she could have done to save them.
That's it for chapter one. I will continue to work on this but I don't know when I'll publish the next update. Please review and let me know what you think. This is my first official FanFic and I can't wait to see what you all think. The rest of the chapters will probably be longer, so for those of you who like big stories, please be patient. Please follow or fav if you like it and hopefully you'll see chapter 2 within the next few days or so.