HAT: Inspired by Lil' Wayne's Mirror Ft. Bruno Mars. Focuses on the chorus.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls or Mirror. They both belong to their respective owners- I just own the plot.


Stanley pushes himself out of the bed with a grunt despite how his body wants him to just give up and lie back down on the bed and sleep forever.

Today- for some reason- it's difficult to get out of bed, but he manages and gets himself up and soon he's going through his usual morning routine. He puts on his shirt first and then his pants- stuffing his shirt into them while doing so- and he then grabs his jacket and pulls it on over it. Once it's buttoned he adjusts his sleeves and then grabs the red ribbon he uses as a tie and ties it in the mirror while trying not to think of the former owner.

And then he stops.

Normally this is the time he would take ten minutes to fix his hair, but for some reason he finds himself staring in the mirror on the wall- or rather the man standing in the mirror. He can't seem to look away from his own eyes. There's something about those eyes that makes him feel like he's crumbling. They're full of guilt and they're tired, lonely, and broken- and the worst part? He knows that those eyes have been the same as they are now for decades. At one point they held anger- but a year into his forty year seclusion that anger started to leave. It would return in bursts, but generally the look in those eyes nw are how they've been for forty long years.

He presses his forehead against the cool glass and his breath immediately begins to fog up the mirror. "Why do we always end up here?"

Stanley means standing in front of the mirror and finding that he isn't as put together as he makes himself seem and breaking and talking to his reflection as if it's his lost brother.

"You know... I haven't had a true friend because of you, don't you?" Stanley murmurs to his reflection. "You've been my only friend for my entire life... which is why I need to find you and save you... I can't look at the mirror and see a dead man anymore."

He doesn't know whether he's blaming his twin brother in another dimension or himself.

Yes, Stanford didn't stand up for him when their father kicked him out which led to a life on the run with guilt, loneliness, and weariness inside of him for ten years and then decided to try and use him after all that time and let his ambition get in the way of family, but Stanley can admit that he's also guilty. After all, he broke his brother's project and was the cause that his brother was across the safety line thus getting sucked into the portal.

Before and after their relationship was ruined Stanley never had another friend other than Stanford and after he lost that friend he was left with himself and now Stanley can only see a dead man in the mirror. Stanford- who could still be alive and hopefully will be- and himself. He hasn't seen genuine joy and life in his own eyes in decades and any time it starts to look like he's going to get even a little of that in his life, it's ripped away without warning and leaves him dead again.

Maybe he's talking to both.

Either way, he knows that either life will be brought back when he finally brings his brother back or he will die as he already knew himself to be.

A dead man.


HAT: Wow... is there something wrong with me? Because I've noticed that I've been writing some depressing stuff lately... actually, for a while now... I need to come up with a humor story because this is getting to be too much.

Robbie: Maybe it's because of the music you come across on youtube and all the depressing stories you've been reading?

HAT: ... could be.

Robbie: Um... what'm'I doing here again?

HAT: To tell the readers the thing.

Robbie: Oh, yeah. Review, or whatever.

HAT: *shrugs* I'll take that.