Happy Valentine´s/Single Awareness Day!

Okay, I´ve never actually seen the play in person due to where I live but I have the story nailed down.

There WILL be changes, though. Also, I'm not looking for historical accuracy, so the speech is a little more modern.

I thought it´d be ironic to have Mabel as Viola due to their different views on love. You´ll get it when you see who Orsino is. Trust me. TW, this is major AU=Alternate Universe, so don´t try with the show´s logic in here.

I REALLY hope you like it and, if you don´t, tell me why.

She heard the storm getting worst. The water, the strong wind and the darkness of the night messing with her eyes. She didn´t know a lot of things but she knew something: She had to find him and escape.

She heard the captain of the ship calling out to everybody, helping them get on the life boats. She smiled, what a nice man, she knew they were both safe when he was there. She ran to where he was and asked if he had seen him, the "No" he gave her was like a dagger in her.

The young woman desperately called out for her relative, had the strong breeze not been in her eyes, she would´ve cried. The captain told her to enter the life boat but she refused to leave until she knew where he was. He forced her to get to the boat, she didn´t have much of a choice in this situacion, it seemed.

With a loud Splash, the boat was in the water. She looked desperately to the water and called for her brother. No answer.

The sailors got out the oars and prepared to paddle, but they were not fast enough to dodge the wave coming toward them. The black wall crashed down on them, throwing the tiny boat into the ship, shattering it to pieces.

She felt herself drowning and closed her eyes. Normally, she was the greatest swimmer ever but this wasn´t a normal situation. It was dark, there was a terrible storm, she was wearing the most uncomfortable dress and the only thing she wanted was to see him again.

She felt a hand dragging her out and she opened her mouth to breathe. She felt the man taking her to a big piece of wood that would hopefully keep her afloat. She felt the man slipping away.

"No. NO. NO! NO! NO!"

Everything went black.

The morning after a tempest was always calm and tranquil, nothing like the previous night. That morning, a sea captain woke up next to the remains of his broken ship. A little chubby but very strong, he knew he was going to get out of it easily but... Where were the others? What about the sweet children he was suppoused to take to Paris? Was he the lone survivor?

No, he wasn´t. For, a few feet away, he saw a young lady; fainted against the cruel waters but still able to hold on to the piece of wood that got her safe to shore. He gasped and rushed to carry her to the beach, laying her head on a hard rock.

He pressed her belly until she started breathing again. Just then, the man´s shock washed out to recognize who it was.

"Lady Mabel!"

She coughed out water and slowly opened her eyes. "Captain Jesus?"

"Thank goodness you´re okay!"

"Goodness and YOU, Soos, thank you for saving me."

"I´d do anything for the Pines family and you know it."

They hugged but then Mabel remembered something. "Where´s my brother?"

The captain hung his head in shame and sadness. Mabel ignored it and started running around the beach shouting.

"ALEXANDER! ALEXANDER!"

The captain tried to approach her but he just couldn´t bring himself to. She cried and he cried too. Was her twin brother really lost in the storm? Had his smile been varied under the salt so it´ll only become a vague memory? She called again.

"ALEXANDER! AL...! Dipper" The young lady kneeled down, face to the sand, letting her tears run freely. Her only childhood friend was gone and Hastings was left with no leader. Soos placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I´m very sorry but he would want you to be strong and go on."

She sniffed "I know." She looked at the beach once again. "Where are we?"

"Oregon. Duke Mermando´s territory."

"Oregon? That´s far away from Paris AND home. What are we gonna do now?"

"Well, first thing first, we got to get somewhere to sleep in."

"But we´ve lost it all." She sighed.

"Not EVERYTHING!" Soos gasped and pointed at something in the sea. Mabel ran towards it and discovered it was Alexander´s louggage. She opened the case to see, inside of it was her brother´s clothes and five pots of gold. She counted the money and figured it was a lot but not enough to travel back home. It was like a gift from Heaven. She looked at the sky and sniffed.

"Thank you, twin brother."

"Yeah, that´s really good luck." The captain smiled. "You know, I grew up in Oregon and I know this place like the palm of my hand." He explained, at the same time observing his own hand only to be surprised a mili-second later. "Whoa, that´s new."

Mabel chuckled. "So you know where the nearest city is?"

"Do I? The answer´s yes. Gravity Falls is the nearest city, litterally nothing from here."

"Then let´s go."

They soon found themselves staying at an inn called Mystery Shack. The owner, an old woman who called herself Sussan, was happy to welcome the both of them and offer them a meal. Deep down, Mabel wanted to cry and tell her whole story to the woman, that she was Lady Mabel; Duke Alexander´s sister and she was in desperate need of help; but she knew she couldn´t. That woman seemed nice but not trustworthy. Who knew? Maybe she´ll think Mabel was lying.

After all, even her servants and family told her from time to time that she was nothing like you would expect nobility to be like, so why would anyone believe her? She was all on her own with no solution... Except for Soos.

"So, what do you think we should do?" She asked her friend once Sussan was gone.

"I don´t know. I don´t have enough money for the both of us and we have to inform Hastings of our situacion some way."

"Maybe I can get a job or something. I don´t mind cooking or cleaning and sewing and knitting are already kind of my thing."

"That sounds like a good idea, meanwhile, I can go to Hastings and tell them. It will take a while, though."

Mabel nodded. "What do you know about Duke Mermando?"

He shrugged. "Not much. Last I heard, there was this rumor that she was after a late count´s daughter. Lady Pacific, I think. "

"I think you mean Pacifica."

"That. He doesn´t hire much women, tho."

"And what of the lady? You think she´ll hire me?"

"Doubt it! She´s in mourning. She doesn´t want to see anyone."

She sighed. "Just my bad luck, I guess."

When they were finished with their meal, the two retired upstairs. The innkeeper had lent them some needle and thread to mend her dress. What she´d said to Soos was true, she was completely capable of sewing anything and yet her dress still looked awful even after working on it. She looked at herself on the mirror.

No one´s EVER going to hire me if I look like THIS. She thought. I might as well be wearing my brother´s britches!

Then an idea came to her. It was just like she always said, so crazy, it may just work. She rushed to Soos´ room and knocked the door so hard, it might as well had fallen down. He opened it to her quickly.

Captain!" she shouted from the doorway. "I just got the most brilliant plan!"

"Whoa, whoa, milady!" the minotaur said, putting his hands on the jumping girl's shoulders. "What's with all the excitement?"

"Shut the door," Mabel whispered.

He did so and they both sat down on the bed.

"Then listen carefully." She glanced around and gestured for them to come closer. "I will serve the Duke Mermando as a page."

"Um, page´s a job for males. No offense, milady."

"EXACTLY!" She got out her brother´s clothes and examined them. "Dipper and I were identical twins, weren´t we?"

"That´s perfect!"

"So you´ll help?"

"Of course! You´ll be the Duke´s page until I can get word to Hastings."

"You got it."

He ruffled her hair. "You´re an idea machine, Lady Mabel."

"Not Lady Mabel, captain" She smiled at the mirror. "Leo."