Dipper & Wendy vs The Future

Part One

Dipper Pines stirred as an alarm pierced the previous silence of the apartment that he and his wife Wendy shared. Rolling over, he took note of a light coming from the direction of the bathroom across the hall. Rubbing his eyes, the twenty year old man got up from the warmth of the bed and placed his feet on the cool hardwood floor. Adorned in a white t-shirt and green flannel sleep pants, Dipper made his way to the bedroom door, where he heard a sound that had become commonplace the past few mornings. Not wanting to scare his lover, he waited outside the bathroom as he heard the redhead get sick yet again. Concern raced through the man's head as he thought it odd for her to be ill for a few mornings in a row. On his suggestion, the two had enjoyed a relatively bland meal of grilled chicken and white rice in the hopes of settling her stomach. That plan had clearly failed. The sound of the toilet flushing, along with the tap to the sink turning on was enough to shake him from his thoughts, as he knew Wendy would emerge from the bathroom. "Morning…" the twenty-two year old woman said with an exhausted tone. "Again?" Dipper asked his wife. "Y-Yeah… I don't wanna call out of work again, but I guess I'm gonna have to…" the alabaster skinned woman said as she pulled her cellphone from the pocket of her pink sleep pants and placed the call to her boss.

"H-Hey… I-It's Wendy… I won't be in again today… I guess I'm still sick with whatever this is" the ginger woman said as Dipper looked on. "I-I know I've missed the past three days… I-I'm gonna go to the doctor's office today… I'll call you as soon as I know what's up… I-I'm sorry… Th-Thank you… Bye…" Wendy said as she ended the call, her eyes full of tears. "What'd they say?" Dipper inquired. "They said that I need a doctor's note if I'm going to be missing any more days… Ever since the current administration cut back funding to the Parks Service, we've been running a skeleton crew… So me missing work is making everyone else's job that much harder… I-I just wanna get better, Dip…" the redhead said as she began to cry. The taller man walked over to his wife and pulled her in for a hug while stroking her hair. "I-It'll be okay honey… I-I'm sure it's just, like, food poisoning or something… I knew going to that food truck get together was a bad idea…" Dipper commented as he tried to calm his upset lover. "I-I hope so…" Wendy said with a sniffle. "Why don't you go get in the shower? I'll call the doctor to get you in as soon as possible while you're in there…" the hazel eyed man suggested. "That would be wonderful… Thank you honey…" the ginger woman said as a small smile broke out across her face.

As his wife drew a warm shower, Dipper walked into the bedroom and retrieved his phone from the nightstand next to the bed. "Hello… This is Mason Pines… My wife has been under the weather for the past few days and I'd like to get her in today so we can figure out what's going on with her…" the call began. "H-Her name? Gwendolyn Pines. Date of birth is November 4th, 1996…" the young man informed the receptionist. "Y-You can get her in at 10:30 this morning? Yeah! That'd be great! Thank You! Okay, bye!" Dipper ended the call as he heard the shower turn off. Opening the door slightly, he stuck his head into the steamy room. "Wen, they said they can see you at 10:30. I'll put on a pot of coffee and we can watch some TV until it's time to go…" the brown haired man offered. "Okay… I'll be out in a few…" Wendy said as she stepped out of the shower. Dipper retreated to the kitchen to make the warm breakfast beverage as Wendy stared at her reflection in the still somewhat fog obscured mirror. Her slender body had barely changed in the past few years. The large scar that covered the inside of her left forearm was now concealed by an elaborate tattoo of a forest full of pine trees. The young lady had continued the artwork on her arm, eventually completing an entire sleeve. The top of her shoulder had a brilliant golden shooting star with a watercolor rainbow trail streaking behind it in honor of Mabel. A little further down resided an incredibly realistic compass on a pearl chain. The needle of the navigation tool pointed northwest as a tribute to Pacifica. On the inside of her bicep was her family name of 'Corduroy' written in cursive on top of a black and red flannel pattern. A black and red nautical star graced her elbow. The rest of the sleeve was of a starry night above the forest on her forearm; complete with The Big Dipper constellation. The back of her bicep was a collage of several small tattoos of things she held dear in her life. Illustrations of Stan's fez, Ford's six fingered hand, a bag of ice, Soos' question mark, Robbie's bleeding heart, and a cellphone for Tambry completed the work of art.

"Man… I hope they figure out what's wrong with me…" the redhead said to herself as she finished drying off. After walking across the hallway to the bedroom, the young woman selected an outfit. Seeking comfort above all else, she chose a pair of blue jeans and a heather grey tank top. Smelling the freshly made pot of coffee, Wendy headed to the kitchen, where her boyfriend had assembled not only a cup of the java, but also an inoffensive offering of plain toast and cheese grits. "Aww… Thanks honey…" Wendy said as she pecked the cheek of her husband. "No problem babe… Anything for my special woman…" Dipper commented back. After completing the meal, the pair made their way to the living room and curled up on the dark leather couch with a warm blanket. Finding an 80's teen romcom, the couple spent the rest of the morning relaxing. After the movie, the pair left for the doctor's office, where hopefully the cure to whatever the auburn haired woman had awaited. The clinic was a short drive from the apartment. On a normal day, the pair would have gladly walked, as it was a wonderful September morning. A golden sun hung in the clear blue sky and not a cloud was to be seen.

Pulling the emerald green Fjord J-150 into the parking lot, Wendy began to worry once again. "What if I'm not okay? What if it's something serious?" the redhead began to fret to herself. Almost as if he had heard the troubling thoughts of his wife, Dipper placed a hand on top of hers and gave her a knowing look. "Look… I know you're worried… But it's probably nothing…" he said as a small smile broke out on his face. "I-I know… But what if it isn't…" she said in a concerned voice. "Well… If it is something serious… Well, then… We'll face it together… I'll never leave your side… I Promise…" Dipper said in a reassuring tone. "Alright…" the alabaster skinned woman said in a confident tone as a determined smirk adorned her face. The couple entered the doctor's office and walked to the receptionist window. "Hi… I'm Wendy Pines… I have an appointment for 10:30…" the auburn haired woman said. "Okay… just fill out these forms and Doctor Aleshin will be out to see you shortly…" the brown haired woman in scrubs instructed from behind a desk.

After about twenty minutes or so and a hand ravaged by writer's cramp, a tall blonde woman in a white coat entered the waiting room. "Wendy Pines?" she asked before spotting the redhead at the far end of the room. "Hey Tiana…" Wendy greeted her doctor as she rose from the chair. Dipper was about to join his wife when she turned around. "If you wanna chill out here, it's cool. I know you kinda have a thing about doctor's offices…" the emerald eyed woman said with a chuckle. "Thanks dear…" the brown haired man deadpanned before returning his gaze to an outdated magazine, much to his relief. There were few things that managed to scare Mason Pines, but the doctor's office was one of them. "So… Wendy… What's been going on?" the doctor asked as they made their way to the examination room. "Well… I-It's just the past few days, I've been absolutely sick to my stomach… I can't keep anything down…" Wendy answered. "I-Is it just the nausea, or are there other symptoms? Fever? Chills? Body Ache? Fatigue?" the blonde woman asked as she grabbed a tablet. "Nah… Just nausea… Well… I have been feeling a bit run down too… But, I guess that might just be because I can hardly keep anything down…" the ginger woman replied. Tiana placed a digital thermometer in the young woman's ear and took her temperature. The result came back normal, so the doctor continued her examination. Placing a cuff around the redhead's bicep, she proceeded to take her blood pressure. "103 over 72… A little low, but I see here that you've always tended to have a lower blood pressure than average, so I'm not too terribly concerned" the woman in the white lab coat, who was in her early thirties, commented.

"Well… I suppose we'll collect some blood and urine samples and send them off to the lab… I'll give you a call later on in the day when I get the results back… Okay?" the tall blonde woman asked as she called in a phlebotomist to gather the samples of blood. Tiana left the room for a minute and the young woman began to cry. Lost in her thoughts, she failed to notice the doctor and her lab tech re-enter the tiny examination room. "Wendy… Are you alright honey?" Tiana asked in a concerned tone; her eastern European accent a bit thicker than usual. "I-I'm just, like, scared… Okay?!..." the auburn haired woman said as she sniffled and wiped her nose with the back of her hand. "It's alright to be scared… I know that I would be if I were in your shoes… But right now, we don't know anything… It could end up being something like an ulcer or some sort of digestive dist-" the doctor tried to reassure the emotional twenty-two year old before being cut off by an emotional outburst of her patient. "O-OR IT COULD BE CANCER! WHAT IF I'M DYING?!" Wendy shouted. Tiana placed a hand on the shoulder of the shaking woman before continuing her thought. "The simple answer is that we just don't know until the results come back… So I would like for you to go home and just spend the day with your husband… Just do something fun… And most of all… Don't worry…" the tall blonde woman advised her patient. Wendy looked up as her emerald eyes met the soft cerulean gaze of the doctor. "Okay… I-I'll do that…" the redhead said as she continued to regain control over her emotions.

Dipper remained in his chair as time seemed to have come to a halt. "At least I didn't have to go back there… I hate the doctor's office! The only place worse is the dentist! Ugh!" the twenty year old man thought to himself. The door to the examination rooms in the back part of the building opened and soon Wendy emerged. "I'll call you as soon as I have the results…" Tiana said as she waved goodbye to her patient. "So… Any news?" asked Dipper as they exited the clinic and walked out into the bright sunlight of the September day. "Nah… The doc said that I'm not running a fever… And my blood pressure is alright… So… She said that between the blood and urine samples that they should be able to figure out what's up…" the redhead replied as she tried her best to put up a façade for her husband. The last thing she wanted was to worry the brown haired man, especially since it was likely nothing serious. "Well… Let's go to the store and I'll get you some chicken noodle soup and some ginger ale. Then we'll get back to chilling out like we were before… Okay?" Dipper asked his wife. "Sounds like a plan…" Wendy said as she wrapped an arm around her lover.

After an uneventful trip to the corner store, Dipper and Wendy Pines returned to their apartment in Downtown Gravity Falls. True to his word, Dipper made a pot of soup for his ailing wife and brought it to the living room. The sight before him melted his heart. The ginger woman had fallen asleep on the couch; wrapped up in a blanket. The young lady's mouth was wide open as a small trail of drool escaped the corner of her lips and ran down her chin. Dipper debated whether to clean it up or not, but decided that she needed her rest, as it had eluded her lately. Placing the bowl of soup into the microwave to try and keep its warmth, the man returned to the living room and grabbed his laptop. Not wanting to wake up his slumbering wife, he plugged in a set of headphones and began to watch a documentary about an abandoned mental hospital in New York and the ghosts that were said to have inhabited it. Two hours into the movie, he noticed Wendy wake up and reach for her cellphone, which resided on the coffee table in front of them. Her eyes lit up and she answered the call as Dipper paused his film and removed the buds from his ears. His wife had gotten up and left the living room, which he thought was a bit odd. Nevertheless, he decided that Wendy wanted her privacy and that he would respect that as he placed the earbuds back in and resumed.

"H-Hello?" Wendy asked in an apprehensive voice, not sure of what news lay ahead for her. "Hi Wendy… It's Doctor Aleshin… So… I got the results back from your bloodwork…" the woman said in her slightly accented voice. "I-Is it bad?" the ginger woman asked in a trembling voice as she entered the bedroom and closed the door behind her. "Well… The good news is that the tests came back negative for any sort of infection or elevated white blood cell levels, which would indicate something more severe…" Tiana informed her patient. Wendy had taken a seat at the end of her mattress as she sighed with a bit of relief. "Your urine sample did come back with an interesting result though…" the doctor continued. The alabaster skinned woman perked up at the new information she had just received. "What would that be Doctor Aleshin?" she inquired. "Well… Wendy… You're going to be a mother!" Tiana said with joy in her voice. "I-I'm pregnant?! Are you, like, for real right now?!" the redhead asked as she leapt from the edge of the bed with a mixture of relief that she wasn't dying and happiness that she was going to be a mom. While she and Dipper weren't exactly trying to become parents, they were putting in the work necessary to do so. "Yes! Definitely! Absolutely! You are about five weeks pregnant Mrs. Pines! Congratulations!" Doctor Aleshin reaffirmed. Wendy nearly dropped the phone as she squealed with excitement. She was pretty sure that people in Seattle could her and she didn't care a bit. Dipper, meanwhile, remained seated on the couch. He was unaware of just how much his life had changed in the period of a few hours. "Th-Thank You doctor! I-I have to go! I have a ton of calls to make!" the twenty-two year old said in a high pitched voice. "Of course! I understand! Congratulations once again Wendy!" Tiana said as she ended the call.

Wendy dropped to her knees as tears of joy rained from her emerald eyes. "HOLY SHIT! I'm going to be a fucking mom! Holy shit!" the young woman once again shouted as she placed her hands on her stomach. "I-I have to tell Dipper…" the auburn haired woman said as she rose to her feet and opened the bedroom door. Walking down the hallway, she was unsure of how to reveal the pregnancy to her husband. That was, if he hadn't already heard her announce it to the entire western hemisphere. Entering the living room, she noticed that Dipper remained seated on the couch, blissfully unaware of the life changing news that his wife had just received. "This could be fun…" she thought to herself as a devilish smirk came across her face. "Who was that?" asked Dipper as he once again paused his movie and removed the earbuds. "It was one of those NNC phone polls on how I thought our town, county, state and federal government were doing…" the young woman said as she thought on her feet. "Oh… Okay…" the brown haired man replied in a confused tone. "So… I was thinking… With everything that's been going on these past few days… C-Can we take a trip to our spot?" the redhead asked, referring to a clearing in the woods by the Mystery Shack that the couple had gone to in order to experience many important events in their relationship. It was where Dipper had confessed his crush on Wendy his first summer in Gravity Falls, only to be let down gently by the slightly older woman. It was also where Dipper and Pacifica ended their first date the next summer. His first kiss had happened there, as well as his first make out session. A few years later, amidst the turmoil in their lives, Wendy and Dipper had gone there to reflect on the loss of Mabel and Pacifica. Since then, the couple would occasionally have picnics in the clearing and think about what had transpired in their lives. "That's a great idea…" the ginger woman's husband commented as he rose from the couch and took the hand of his lover.

A short drive on the winding roads of the middle Oregon forest led to their destination. Parking at the Mystery Shack, they took note of how empty the parking lot had become now that the summer travel season had drawn to a close. Following the path that cut through the dense woods, the couple stopped when Wendy observed what had become an occasional sight. "Hey Dip! Look!" the redhead said as she tugged on his arm to stop the man who led the way. "Huh… Would you look at that…" the twenty year old commented as he took in the sight of what had caught the attention of his wife. Trapped in one of the low hanging branches of a tree just off the path was a swatch of bright pink cloth. There was no doubt in either of the lovers' minds that it had once been part of a sweater belonging to the late Mabel Pines. "Good to see you again sis…" the slightly taller man said as he held the cloth between his fingers. Next, it was Wendy's turn to feel the fabric. "Hey Mabes… I guess you know too, huh? Well, let's just keep it between us girls a little while longer, 'kay?" she said just out of earshot of Dipper. Taking a moment to absorb the fact that there were still reminders of the fallen Pines twin in the forests of Gravity Falls, the couple continued on.

The path ended and the clearing emerged from the dense forest. The pair walked over to a now familiar fallen log and took a seat. "Sure is peaceful out here today…" Dipper commented as he looked up at the sky. "Yeah… An absolutely perfect day…" the redhead retorted as she thought of just how to unveil to her husband that he would become a father. "Every time we come here, I can't help but think of just how special this place is… It's, like, the center of my universe or something…" Dipper said as a smile formed on his face. "Like, no matter what's going on in my life, I can come here and have somewhere that is a good place… A place where I can escape whatever bad things are happening and just relax, ya know?" the brown haired man asked as he looked his wife of a little over a year in her eyes. "I totally get what you mean…" the now expectant young mother said as she was but mere moments from revealing her pregnancy and creating yet another cherished memory for the couple in the forest of Gravity Falls.

Author's Note: So, this kinda came to me in a dream. The reason that pregnancy never really crossed either of their minds is because the young couple had always played it safe when having sex and thought that it was enough. It's probably gonna be a two-parter, but might go longer. I hope you enjoy and look forward to your reviews!

My Playlist for this chapter:

The Airborne Toxic Event – "Changing"

Joywave – "It's A Trip"

Muse – "Panic Station"

Passion Pit – "Take A Walk"