What cuts the deepest

Dipper was sat in the Mystery Shack living room, watching one of Stan's old movies cause there was nothing better on, stretching out and reaching for the bowl of popcorn that was resting procariously on the arm of the chair he didn't notice his twin sister Mabel sneak up behind him

"Whatcha doin' bro bro?" She asked cheerfully, making him jump and spill the entire bowl of popcorn over himself, the chair and the floor

"MABEL! Stop doing that!" Dipper snapped, trying to slow his heartbeat from the million miles an hour it was now racing at thanks to his sister's prank.

"Sorry Dip" Mabel apologised earnestly "I just wanted to get your attention" she added

"Umm, just asking me, or tapping me on the shoulder would work"

"No, it doesn't I tried that ten minutes ago"

"Oh, umm sorry then hehe"

"It's okay"

"So... What's up?"

"Want me to help you clean this up first before I tell you? Still need to work up the courage to talk about this"

"uh oh, sounds serious" Dipper gulped

"It is" Mabel confirmed as she dropped to her knees and began to pick up the kernals of popcorn that had been thrown all over the living room. Dipper got down on his hands and knees and began to help Mabel to tidy the mess up.

Once the popcorn was tided up and back in the bowl Dipper sat Mabel down on the sofa, took one of her hands and sandwiched it between his

"You wanna tell me what was so important you nearly had to give me a heart attack for?"

"I do wanna tell you, but it's hard, and I'm afraid"

"Afraid of what?"

"Afraid that you'll hate me"

"Mabel... You're my twin, I could never hate you silly, I love you" Mabel's head dropped and she stared at her feet

"That's the problem Dipper, I love you too, but more than that... I'm IN love with you" She admitted

"Huh?"

"I love you Dipper, in more ways than I should. I look at you and I feel complete, you make me feel things that no other boy has ever made me feel, with you I can be myself, with you I feel strong enough to take on the world, with you I have my soul mate. I know it's wrong and it shouldn't be like this but this is how I feel and it's killing me cause you're so perfect and everything just hurts" Mabel confessed before yanking her hand free from Dipper's grasp and running off upstairs to their attic bedroom.

Dipper sat on the sofa, speechless from Mabel's confession. a flood of emotions washing over him, fear that if anything were to happen they'd be disowned and abandoned by everyone they love, pride at the courage Mabel had shown to admit these feelings to him and elation that she had called him her soul mate. Letting these emotions simmer he got up and slowly made his way over to the bottom of the stair case, staring up towards their bedroom he silently debated whether or not to go up and chase after his sister.

Upstairs Mabel was laying face down on her bed, her sweater pulled up over her head, tears staining the fabric

'Stupid Mabel, should have kept your mouth shut, he probably hates me now, you stupid, stupid girl' Mabel scolder herself silently, Dipper was stood outside the door listening to his sister's sobbing, feeling it tear his heart apart. Clearing his mind of everything that wasn't to do with Mabel. A millions miles a second his mind raced thinking of nothing but Mabel and the memories they share. A single word came from these thoughts. Soulmates. Mabel was right, they were soul mates in every sense of the word. Taking a deep breath he pushed their bedroom open and tiptoed across to where Mabel was spread out on her bed, placing a hand on her back her began to try and coax her into talking to him

"Mabel, please just look at me, I'm not mad at you, I don't hate you. I just want a chance to reply to what you said downstairs."

"Mabel's in sweater town and isn't talking to anyone" Mabel sniffed, Dipper quickly moved away and grabbed the duvet from his bed and dragged it over to Mabel's bed

"Does Mabel want to leave sweater town and move into duvet city?" Dipper asked, throwing the duvet over Mabel and sitting down on the edge of her bed. Feeling Mabel shift around from behind him Dipper turned around and peered under the duvet meeting Mabel's tear stained gaze, she gave him a small half smile

"Duvet city is quite nice, but a bit lonely"

"How's this?" Dipper enquired as he got under the covers making a small, cozy, safe space for them

"Better"

"Mabel..." Dipper began

"Dipper, don't. I shouldn't have said what I did"

"But you're right, we are soul mates, we've always been soul mates. I don't know what it means for us. We both know that we shouldn't feel this way but we do, we can't help it. So if you want to... We can give... Whatever this is gonna be... A chance. If this is love then I guess we'll know soon enough" Mabel looked up at Dipper, meeting his gaze for the first time, her eyes gleaming with drying tears, hope and optimisim

"Dip... Do you mean it?"

"Yes, BUT this has to stay with us. Promise?"

"I promise" Dipper placed his hands on Mabel's cheeks and brushed her lips lightly with his own.