It was 11 pm at night in Gravity Falls. Dipper, Stan and Soos were all upstairs in their beds asleep, while Mabel and her Grunkle Ford were downstairs watching a late night movie on t.v.

Ford looked down and saw his great niece fast asleep on his chest. Ford yawned. He decided it was a good time for him to hit the hay too. He picked up the remote and turned off the t.v.

He was pretty close to fall into slumber, when he felt his niece squirming around and muttering some words in her sleep.

"I'm gonna get you, Dipper," she muttered. "You dumb dork…. Think you can use my needles to pick your teeth?"

Ford chuckled softly to himself. "Boy, she sure is weird," he said to himself. He continued listening to Mabel's sleep talk. He sort of found it enjoyable.

She grabbed Ford's waist. "Ha! Gotcha!" She laughed. "Tyler! Craz! I'll be with you guys in a minute…. First I have to teach my brother a lesson….."

She then tickled Ford playfully on the waist. "Ha, Ha! Tickle! Tickle!"

Ford gasped. He started to snicker. He was pretty ticklish and was struggling so hard not to laugh loudly from it. He didn't want to wake up his great niece from his slumber.

Little did he know, that Mabel wasn't asleep at all!

She opened one eye and looked up at her Grunkle Ford with a smile. Her plan was working. Since coming out of the portal, she noticed that her Grunkle Ford hadn't smiled very much. She came up with all this to finally get a big smile out of Ford and make him laugh.

Then, to go for the kill and really make him laugh, Mabel tickled her Grunkle in his most ticklish spot…. His armpit.

Finally, Ford couldn't handle it. When he got tickled there….he burst out laughing like a maniac.

Even Mabel chuckled happily to herself, proud that she had gotten her Grunkle to smile after a long time.

"Alright, missy," Ford smirked as he grabbed Mabel and pulled her up. "I know you are not asleep anymore! But that was a big mistake because I have an extra finger to tickle you with!" He started to tickle his great niece.

"Ah! No!" Mabel laughed very hard. "No! Grunkle Ford! Haha! I'm sorry!"

Even though she ended up having to be tickled by her Grunkle Ford, who was so good at tickling, Mabel was proud that her Grunkle Ford had smiled and laughed for the first time in probably forever and learned to loosen up a bit. And that's all that mattered.

Another little Mabel and Ford bonding fluff fic. Hope you all enjoyed it :)