CHAPTER 1- YAY! SEQUEL! I'm going to have fun with this!

This occurs before the New Years episode of Phineas and Ferb and after the Summerween episode of Gravity Falls, but before Boss Mabel (Obviously, since I published this before it aired).

So, to all of you who haven't read The Secret Life of Candace and just thought this looked interesting, this story would make a little more sense if you read the other one first. But you don't have to, because I threw in a brief summary of what happened in the last story. For those of you who have read that, you can just skip over that part if you want to. That made sense, right?

Now that my monologue is over, I'M SUPER FREAKED OUT IN A GOOD WAY! My first actual crossover...Ok, I should probably let you actually read this now.

I don't own Phineas and Ferb or Gravity Falls (seriously, why can't they crossover in real life?)

GENERAL POV

It was an absolutely gorgeous morning, and Candace had to spend it stuck in the car on a grimy highway. If only people could learn to recycle… On the bright side, her brothers were both asleep, so at least it was pretty quiet.

Her father was driving, her mother was dozing, and Perry was flopped on his back on Phineas' lap, snoring lightly. Candace was tempted to shake him awake to stop his snoring, but instead she turned and looked out the window at the passing trees.

She stared at the green landscape for so long that her eyes started to cross. She turned to her father, and, keeping her voice low because it was only quarter to seven, she asked, "How much longer until we get there, Dad?"

Her father glanced at her in the rearview mirror, a glint of amusement in his eyes. "In two and a half hours or so, why?"

Candace sighed and thumped her head onto the cool glass of the window. "My legs are cramped. I need to go out and do something."

Lawrence chuckled. "Well, we'll be stopping soon for a quick breakfast, so you can stretch then."

Candace hesitated, rubbing her legs lightly. "That wasn't really what I meant, but ok."

Lawrence glanced at her in the mirror, his eyes widening slightly. "Oh. Sweetie, I think there's a lake at Gravity Falls. Stanford said something about that. You can go swimming once we're unpacked. Just remember, this place is a lot more…mysterious then Danville, according to Stan. Be careful that you don't let anyone see you."

Candace rolled her eyes. "Dad, I've been hiding this for almost two years. I can handle two weeks."

Her father nodded and resumed driving, and Candace leaned her temple against the glass of the window, thinking quietly about why they were going to this tiny town in the first place.

About three weeks ago, Candace had been kidnapped, Isabella's dog had been beaten, and her parents, and a lot of other people for that matter, had found out that she was a mermaid.

Yes, you heard right. A mermaid.

Almost two years ago, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Perry the Platypus' nemesis, made a mermaid-inator that accidentally went off and hit Candace.

Up until the beginning of this current summer, only three people had known: Isabella, Ferb, and Stacy…five, if you counted Perry and Pinky, Isabella's Chihuahua.

But then there had been this incident where Candace, her brothers, and Perry had gotten stuck in another dimension, and then a bunch of whatnot happened, then Phineas had found out she was a mermaid, then Phineas and Ferb's friend Buford, who had apparently suspected something was up with Candace, had found out she was a mermaid, then her boyfriend Jeremy had found out, then she found out that this kid Carl had known….it was just too confusing.

Long story short, after everyone but Candace got their memories erased (Perry had spared hers), she had found out that Phineas and Ferb's friend Irving had known about her, and then all the kidnapping had happened.

Isabella's next door neighbor had kidnapped her in order to discover how she had become a mermaid and how she "worked," for lack of a better term. Pinky had been beaten by the man, and then Perry had come to rescue her, only to be used as leverage. Eventually Lawrence had barged in and kicked some butt, saving Candace.

All in all, two weeks later, everyone close to her knew she was a mermaid and her parents had decided that the kids needed a break, hence the trip to Gravity Falls.

Candace mulled over all of this silently until her father spoke up. "Candace? Doing ok?"

She looked up at the man, who had slowed slightly and kept glancing up at her in the mirror. "Fine, Dad."

He raised an eyebrow and Candace sighed. "I feel kind of bad. You and Mom have to drive all the way out here just because…" she trailed off, not sure how to finish the sentence. Her father smiled lightly, a twinkle in his eyes.

"Because you got kidnapped?" he said softly. He shook his head, focusing his eyes on the road before he crashed or something and lowering his voice as Linda stirred. "Sweetheart, that's not it at all. Maybe a little, but we needed to get away anyway."

Candace gave a small smile and curled her feet up under her as her father focused on the road.

"He's right, you know. They were planning this before you got taken."

Candace jumped slightly and glanced down at Perry, who was now laying the proper way, a lazy look in his eyes, stretched out on Phineas' lap, his beaver tail resting on Ferb's leg.

Yes, Perry had spoken to her. Oh yeah. Candace could also understand all aquatic and semi-aquatic animals, and with the help of the necklace she wore, all Chihuahua's as well (long story).

She quietly pulled out her phone and scrunched down in her seat, opening up a text box. She wasn't ignoring Perry, but with her father awake and everyone else bound to follow, she couldn't speak freely to the platypus.

See, no one, save for Carl and Pinky, knew Candace could understand Perry. That would get too many questions out of Phineas and Ferb, possibly making Perry have to relocate in the end. They knew she could understand aquatic animals, but they couldn't know about Perry. It was too risky, so Candace took every precaution when she was around anyone else, or even in her own backyard, with all of its hidden camera's that Monogram could easily see the footage from.

Were they? she typed.

Perry nodded so slightly that Candace barely caught it. "Yes. You just gave them an opportunity to present the idea."

Candace rolled her eyes and poked Perry. Shut up.

Perry chuckled lightly and closed his eyes, settling his head down onto his paws, the sure sign that he was either resting or protecting his family. Candace figured it was the first option, seeing as how they were in a moving car going 70 miles an hour down the highway.

Her father put on the blinker a few minutes later and pulled off the highway. He glanced back at Candace, smiling. "Why don't you wake your brothers up? We're stopping for breakfast in a couple of minutes."

Candace stretched, pulled her cheek from the comfortably cool window, and leaned over to shake Phineas and Ferb awake.

It was nine o'clock in the morning, and Dipper was ready to pitch his twin sister Mabel out the window and/or beat his head against a wall. Both options would hurt; it was just the question of deciding which would hurt less.

He was currently hiding out in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the tub with the "3" book on his lap. He had been flipping through it, adding notes to the pages of the creatures they had encountered already.

The door rattled and Dipper shot to his feet in surprise, the book falling to the floor. As he bent to retrieve it, he heard Mabel yelling at him through the door.

"Dipper! Hey Dipper! Come on, slowpoke, we've got to get the bedrooms ready! They'll be here any minute! OMG I'm so excited!"

Dipper rolled his eyes, knowing the family actually wouldn't be there for almost an hour, his fingers groping for the book. Gee, really? She was excited? Who'da thunk?

He finally clasped the book in his right hand and looked down at it, reaching out and unlocking the door with his other hand.

He had just twisted the knob when something caught his attention. A page almost at the end of the book was folded under, so that the page looked blank. He removed his hand from the door to get a better look, but the oak was swung open and Mabel strode in, grabbing his wrist.

"Come on, silly!" she said, yanking him out the door and down the hall to their room. "We have to move my stuff to the second floor and put new sheets and blankets on the other beds!"

Dipper sighed and glanced longingly at the book. Mabel noticed his glance and rolled her eyes. "Come on, brosif; put the book away for once. We have actual relatives our age coming to stay here!"

"They're two years younger than and four years older than us."

Mabel grinned. "So what? Close enough!"

Dipper groaned under his breath. He hated to admit it, but he kind of didn't want their relatives staying with them. Heck, yeah, he was psyched to have some other people around to hang with, but the book had told him to trust nobody, and despite excluding Mabel from that term, he wasn't sure about anyone else. Meaning that, logically, he couldn't have the book out when the two boys were around them, or the girl either.

On the other hand, Dipper thought as he stored his book on the shelf above his bed and started helping Mabel with the blankets and sheets, Grunkle Stan was acting much more cheery.

The boy smiled to himself as he walked down the stairs with Mabel's things, dumping them in one of the spare rooms.

Maybe having these people here wouldn't be too bad.

Short, but I just wanted to throw in the views of the two main characters of this story, Candace and Dipper. The other characters (minus Doof and everyone back home, minus maybe a few texts or calls from some characters) will be prominent, but Candace and Dipper are the two I'm going to focus on.

So, how was the first chapter? Good? Bad? You'll continue reading? Or you'll throw your computer out the window because it's so terrible?

R and R! (BEFORE the computer hits the ground; better yet, rethink defenestration all together.)