For a moment the only sound that Mabel can hear is the ringing in her ears and the beating of her heart. It is only when her brain is signaled to breathe, breathe! does she put air back in her lungs.
Dipper is broken on the ground in front of her, literally. Her brother, the one who had always been there for her through thick and thin, was dead on the ground. His eyes were closed, his face ghostly pale. Brown hair covers part of his face, and Mabel can't see his hat anywhere. It must have disappeared during the fall. His right arm is sticking out in a strange direction (and she tries to tell herself that the white stuff is not bone), and his other is hanging limply. His legs are bleeding. There is no question about it: Dipper Pines is dead.
It feels as though some part of Mabel has died. She had never been dependent on her brother, they were not two parts of a whole, but they had been close. So many of the people that Mabel knew hated their siblings. Though Mabel and Dipper had their moments, they had a far better relationship with each other than most did. People had even called them lucky. Tears are forming in her eyes. This was supposed to be a fun summer. Solving mysteries had been fun, a way to pass the time. They weren't supposed to kill you.
Some part of her mind comes back to her and she begins to look for Gideon's body. He fell with Dipper. It was stupid of her to think that she could control Gideon's amulet. She looked down at the green stone in her hand, and then watched it suddenly glow. Why did she finally gain the ability to control it when it was too late to save her brother?
But the amulet floated out of her hands and into the hands of another. A leaf and dirt covered Gideon walked out from the trees, rubbing brown dirt off of his suit. Other than a few cuts and bruises, he was free of harm. Oh, and his hair was an absolute mess, completely flat against his head.
"How bad does my hair look?" he asks in his Southern accent. His amulet glows and it returned to its normal look.
Her brother's dead body is right in front of her and he was worrying about his stupid hair?
He cocks an eyebrow at Dipper. "Oh my," he says. He places his amulet back on. "Now that isn't a pretty sight."
"Can't you fix him?" Mabel asks. He'd done so much else; Mabel won't be surprised if he can raise the dead. "Can you bring him back to life?"
"I'm no necromancer." He turns away from her. "Besides, your brother would be a zombie. You might as well just leave him dead."
"But he's my brother!" She chokes back a sob.
Gideon gave her a sad look. "I'm sorry, Mabel. I'm psychic, not a raiser of the dead. The best I could do was disturb his ghost." He sighs. "I'll be seeing you when this is done, I suppose. Goodbye, peach dumpling."
"That's it?" Mabel stops damming the tears and let's them fall. "You're just going to leave him to die?"
"There is nothing left for me to do." His amulet glows green and then he's gone.
"Jerk!" Mabel screams even though she knows there's no one around to hear her. "I hate you!" The tears fall faster and faster. "I thought you loved me!"
But he doesn't hear her.
Neither Gideon or Dipper do.