AN: Hey, I'm back, sooner than I expected. :P First off, I wanna say thank you for all of the kind reviews I've gotten. You guys are so sweet, and it means a lot to me! :D
And now for a bit about the story. This is a teeny-tiny little thing, kind of a sequel of sorts to "Deep Stuff" but kind of not, so that's why I'm posting it separately instead of making a chapter 2. Anyhow, it truly is very short, but I had the idea and I just needed to write it. Hope you enjoy!
Mabel had made many mistakes in her life.
There was that one time she'd copied her brother's homework, only to find out later that she'd copied the wrong lesson. There was the time she'd fed Waddles chili, and the time that she'd left the hot glue gun on for too long, and the time she'd borrowed her dad's car keys without him knowing about it. There was the time she'd ignored her brother's advice about Norman, the time she'd let Gideon take her on "just one date", when she'd agreed to be boss of the Mystery Shack for a day, when she wasn't there for Dipper when she told him she would be. She'd tried to play matchmaker, she'd listened to that unicorn jerk, and a thousand other things she'd wished she'd never done.
But what she'd done now was worse than all of those things combined.
"Oh no," she breathed. She took a step backward, fear and denial rising inside of her.
Yellow, slitted eyes stared into her wide brown ones. Blendin's shadow blocked out what remained of the sunlight. The shattered snow-space-globe-thing of Dipper's lay shattered under his foot. Bill's maniacal laughter rang through the forest, surrounding her thoughts and ingraining the knowledge that she'd done something terrible deeper and deeper into her.
Oh no oh no oh no...
This wasn't happening, this couldn't be happening.
"Wait!" She cried, taking a step forward toward Blendin. She had to stop him, she had to at least try. She couldn't let whatever was happening happen.
Bill's eyes burned into her for moment, never breaking his steady stream of laughter.
Oh gosh, she'd helped Bill, she'd helped Bill do whatever it was that he wanted to do. All those weeks before, she remembered being irritated with her brother for making a deal with Bill and ruining her sock opera before she'd talked to him on the roof. All of her hard work had been destroyed, but even worse was the thought that something terrible could have happened to Dipper.
She'd been irritated with her brother for making a mistake, but what she'd done was far, far worse.
Bill raised Blendin's hand and gave it a firm snap.
The next thing she knew, Mabel was falling to the dirt, Bill's laughter and the heavy pounding if her heart growing quiet.
As everything around her turned black, she remembered that night on the roof with her brother. She remembered thinking that not helping her brother was the biggest mistake she'd ever made. But she knew with horrible clarity as her mind faded into total darkness that this was a million times worse and no amount of apologizing could ever fix it.
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