Sup everyone ! Welcome to my fic ! This is a MaBill fic I'm still writing at the moment. Hope you enjoy !

Please, remember that I'm french, so it's not perfect. If i do mistakes, please tell me, I only want to improve !

I do not own the characters or the universe of Gravity Falls

Her head hit violently the front seat as the bus stopped. She moaned, emerging from her deep sleep. Her visions was blurred for a few seconds, she put her hand on her forehead and tried to remember where she was. All she could see was a bunch of seats covered by some very ugly colored carpet. Some unknown people were moving slowly, a tired look on their faces, she tough she probably had the same. With a finger, she tried to put out of her mouth some of her brown hair with a disgusted look when someone shook her shoulder.

'' Come on Mabel ! Are you going to wake up ?''

She looked above her, a bit confused. Her twin brother was looking at her, huge dark circles under his eyes and a livid face. He already had his backpack on his shoulder and was waiting for her to finally stand up and get out of that bus they have been spending hours in. With another moan, Mabel finally bent down to take her bag under the seat and followed Dipper in the alley to the exit. She took a look to the outside. Behind the dirty windows, heavy rain was falling. The whole sky was completely grey, the empty parking lot was just a huge pond sometimes troubled by an imperfection of the old tar. There was a few cars waiting, she could see some people running away from the smelly bus and disappear in a car or in a street further. She was a little sad to see that city under the rain, the city of her holidays. Gravity Falls seems sadder that day, but after all, she wasn't here for holidays.

As they were getting out, she could remember the reasons of her presence in the middle of April in that town and it made her a bit nauseous.

After high school, parents wants to see their children in some college or university, and Dipper and Mabel couldn't escape from it. After an entire school life together, they were asking them to suddenly leave each other to go to a foreign city all alone. It was hard to accept but they both found schools that would be interesting for their futures. Their parents didn't have enough of the money needed to enter any school, so they let a year off to the kids to work a bit and earn a little something, the twins also learnt to drive but Mabel didn't have the strength to get to the end of it, only the boy successfully got his licence. After all this, Dipper tried to enter a very prestigious science university in Virginia while Mabel tried her luck in an art school in California, not far from their house. Nothing could have told they would fail the exam to enter, after all, they were both geniuses right ? But they did, they both failed and purposely. It's only after sabotaging their exams they realized they may have done a mistake, the shouts of their parents helped a bit. What would the twins do now ? Wait for the next year to try again, including they would spend a year doing nothing ? Of course parents don't want to see their children wasting their time, and the twins needed to understand they couldn't just wreck their future like this just because they were afraid to leave each other. So that's what has been decided, sending them to that small town in Oregon to work at their great uncle's shack for the year. It could have been worst.

Speaking of the devil. Mabel looked at the red car, the only one left on the parking lot. She lifted her suitcase out of the luggage compartment and made her way to the car, side by side with her brother. As they approached, a man slowly exited the vehicle. A huge man, still strong for his age, with his black suit and a fez on his head. Grunkle Stan was the same, only today he didn't seemed as joyful as she remembered him. His tired eyes behind his glasses were staring at the two kids approaching. His look was strong and frightening. She wasn't expecting a smile anyway.

The old man breathed in, she knew what he was about to say, exactly the same thing they both heard from their parents a hundred times. He knew about their failure, of course it wouldn't be nice to hear. They both looked down as they were waiting for another sermon.

'' Well, you kids are very clever. '' Grunkle Stan simply declared.

The kids looked up to their grunkle with surprise.

'' What. . . What do you mean ? Replied the confused Mabel

- What I mean is that you two are way to clever to only have failed your exams. Come on, give up on the sad face, put these suitcase in the car and let's enjoy another year together ! He happily shouted and rubbed the kid's brown messy hair.

In a second, the bags were in the car, the rain was still falling hard but it wasn't a big matter anymore. The twins were too happy that their dear great uncle could understand their choice. Before entering the car, Stan threw the keys to his young nephew.

'' I heard you got your licence Dipper, come on, I want you to show me your driving skills !

Dipper replied with a huge smile, his driving licence was one of the achievement he was the most proud of.

You can count on me ! ''

The way to the Mystery Shack made Mabel in a good mood. Everything around her was a childhood memory, the mountains, the pine trees, that old car always smelling like mold and dust. Even the rain seemed joyful. Stan was laughing loudly, patting his nephew back while he was trying to drive the hot-tempered car. Many signs for the Mystery Shack passed outside, more and more as they were approaching. The woods were the same, dark, infinite and full of mysteries. How many times have they explored it, looking for magical creatures and wonders a mysterious journal was describing. So many memories were floating around the trees, good and bad ones. That was all Gravity Falls was about, crazy holidays of monster hunt. After that summer they spend here when they were twelve, it was the only place they wanted to go for holidays. Every holidays, years after years and every time was the greatest. They always wished for it to never end, that perfect life of innocence and adventures. Maybe it's why they failed their exam, just to have more of those wonderful times.

The car finally parked in front of the famous Mystery Shack. That old house was the same, with its huge sign on the roof, 'Mystery hack' since the big S fell. Just a few windows were enlightened, making the shack even more mysterious. It was crazy how much that place didn't change, still all moldy and wacky, a wonderful place for holidays. But as a workplace, she didn't know how it could be. Maybe she'll ask Soos, she thought while taking her suitcase, it might not be that bad. That year was their last chance to live great adventures, like the kids they still wanted to be, the last time they could worry about nothing else than fun. They couldn't waste their time, it was the last chance to be kids again.

It's short I know, it's only to make everything clear before really starting, I think it's important to know where you are in a story