Going over the Falls

Disclaimer: I own neither Disney nor Gravity Falls

"So in conclusion, I suck at cheering people up and I don't know the first thing about cheering up girls who aren't named Mabel," Dipper said, leaning against the Dusk 2 Dawn convenience store.

Tambry nodded, not looking up from her phone.

"Thanks for listening," he told her. "I thought I come here to be alone, but talking to you has really helped put things in perspective, you're a good… no a great listener!"

The corners of her mouth twitched and her cheeks darkened for a second, but she didn't stop texting or look up. "It helps if you try and look at things from the other person's point of view," she said after a minute, nearly giving Dipper a heart attack as he hadn't expected her to speak.

Dipper tilted his head to the side and looked up at the sunset. "That make a lot of sense, but I have a hard time seeing it from her point of view."

"The girl thing?" Tambry asked.

"No, Mabel has educated me on the subject, often against my will," he replied. "My problem is I just can't see anyone liking Robbie, he's a dick."

"Do you really think we'd be friends with a dick or that Wendy would like one?" Tambry asked thumbs never pausing in their work.

"I'll say no, but then I have met Robbie," Dipper admitted.

"Reverse the roles," she ordered, glancing up from her phone.

Dipper sighed and closed his eyes, trying to picture himself as the 'cool' guitar playing teen with the tight jeans.

*flash*

He spotted Wendy and began to smile before reminding himself that he had to play it cool, something that came naturally to him, when he spotted a new guy hanging around Wendy… and making her smile and laugh!

Later…

He'd tried to be casually dismissive, but that Dipper dude had pulled it out and saved his friends from the ghosts. If he was into puns he'd make a kindred spirits joke.

He'd have to step up his game, but what could he do? What did Wendy like?

Still later…

He raised his fists, but couldn't bring himself to hit the kid. He'd been hoping to scare him off Wendy, since he didn't have the common decency to back off himself now that they were dating, but the kid had pushed him and thrown his faults in his face. Did the little bastard have any idea how hard it was to control himself around Wendy? To not just follow his… He shook it off and concentrated on the now. The kid had let himself take one hell of a beating to keep that weird guy from trying to kill Robbie, not that he'd have been successful, but it was still impressive.

And finally…

He'd blown it, big time! He'd wanted to get Wendy alone so he could explain, but he'd screwed up. He couldn't ever get mad at the kid since the songs of he'd picked had turned out to have something funky hidden in it. Talk about bad luck…

*flash*

"I was the dick," Dipper said with a groan.

"Happens to all of us," Tambry told him, her eyes flicking up to meet his for a moment.

"Yeah, but now I have to go and get her to take him back, not to mention apologize for my part in the whole thing," Dipper said with a sigh.

"All part of growing up," she told him, "even for insane nine year olds."

Dipper laughed, she'd just been joking at the time but it had given him the drive he'd needed to save them from the ghosts. He still couldn't help saying, "I'm twelve though."

She didn't look up, just grinned for a moment and kept typing.

"I'll see you later, I have some… painful things to do and make up for. Bye!"

"Bye," she said as he left, a noise in the bushes, barely louder than the wind caused her to tilt her phone to the side and snap a quick shot, while hiding the fact that she'd noticed. Bringing the picture up she saw a touch of color in a dark shadow and what looked to be a gun in the figure's left hand.

She went over the last half hour in her hind while she continued to search the web on her phone, investigating pictures of crop circles a few towns over. She was pretty sure she hadn't let anything slip, certainly nothing that would anger Dipper's guardian angel, still she didn't breathe easy until she heard a rustle at the fence and the sound of an air cartridge firing followed by the snapping of twigs heading away from the store.

She wondered if Mabel knew what she had released, but quickly returned her attention to her phone and compared the number of times Wendy vanished during the day when she was with them and the temperature and humidity on those days. She had other puzzles to solve for the moment, the twins would have to wait.

Typing by: Azuresky123

AN: Trying my hand in this fiction. Lots of in jokes and secrets, so unless you watch the show and actually study the extras you'll miss a lot.