Not so little problem
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
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Dipper was excited! He whistled a triumphant tune as he walked through the forest back to the Mystery Shack. He found the size-altering stone! Once he fired it up, he and Mabel would be the same height! Then no one would laugh at-
"-at you again? Oh, maybe not this week...but they will next week. Just like they did last week. And the week before that. And the week before that"...
Dipper breaks from his pleasant thoughts in shock! To the right of the road was a tent he was fairly sure hadn't been there; within it lay the freakiest(Yet somehow indescribable) Gypsy Fortuneteller he'd ever seen!
"Hello, Dipper Pines! I've been expecting you...Or should I call you 'little Dipper'." He teased.
Dipper frowned at this. "Okay man, I get it. I've seen this situation in enough movies. Obviously your some kinda real fortuneteller with something to 'help' with my problem...well guess what? Whatever it is; I don't need it." He holds up the mystic stone cockily. "With this bad boy, Mabel won't be teasing me ever again." He states as he continues to walk past him.
"Oh, you mean like how she stopped teasing you after you were proven right about the gnomes?" Asked the Gypsy.
Dipper stopped in his tracks. "Wait, what?" He asked confused.
The gypsy snaps his fingers and causes the crystal ball to show the scene at the diner where Mabel and Stan mocked his masculinity...
The Gypsy shakes his head at this. "You rescue her from gnomes, fight off lake monsters, fight living wax dummies, bite the bullet for her when it came to Gideon, saved her from ghosts...yet still she mocks you...(snort) well that's gratitude for you I suppose." He states sardonically as he tosses down the ungrateful pig card.
Dipper was floored by this! He'd never thought of it like that...but now that he brought it up...
"And let's not forget today's debacle!" Continues the Gypsy as he snaps his fingers and causes the channel to change to the scene where Mabel mocks his height.
Dipper finds himself gritting his teeth. The Gypsy mockingly makes to look like he's pondering deeply.
"Refresh my memory...what have you done lately?" He ticks them off on his finger. "You risked getting arrested by the government trying to make Mabel feel better about herself. Then you get beaten up by a videogame...and...and something else...something...about a pig?" While doing this he tosses down the shackles of fate card.
Dipper just growled as he began pacing back and forth. "I don't believe it...but your right! I've done so much for her...and what do I get in return? Ridicule? Mockery?"
"A gruncle that seems to hate your guts?" States the Gypsy as he changes the channel once more-
...Yeesh! How am I related to that?...
...The kid's a loser. He's weak! He's an utter embarrassment! I just wanna get rid of him...
Dipper couldn't help it anymore...he was crying... "Why...what did I do deserve this?"
The Gypsy hide a smirk...he was tempted to just let things go as they were...but no; there was still a chance the blasted 'Status Quo' could reassert itself...besides...some philosophizing needs to be done!
"Well...if it helps...I don't think Mabel is trying to be intentionally cruel"... He pauses to toss down The Amnesiac Card.
"Indeed, she likes to indulge in what we in my 'profession' like to call Aesop Amnesia...she's completely aware of how her actions have hurt others, but she's so afraid of growing up that she still refuses to change...and that's just part one of her mental instability"...
"Wait, what? Whoa! Hold on there!" Shouts Dipper suddenly. "Mabel might be...quirky...a lot...but she's not insane."
"She went crazy for a month over a PIG she barely knew for a day and didn't shed a tear over Wendy- HER FRIEND -getting hurt to get her said pig...mind explaining to me how that's healthy behavior?
Dipper pales...he couldn't...he really couldn't...
Suddenly he feels determined. "Alright...if she really dose have a problem...I'll stand by her...no matter what...
The Gypsy rolled his eyes. "I'm shocked." He said in a deadpan sort of way.
He then brings out more cards. "Well, let's just see where that gets you, why don't we?"
The Rising Autumn and Key to success cards...
"Oh!...at summers end you will be given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make all your dreams come true...
Dippers looks at this with interest...
The Broken bond and Bittersweet farewell cards
"Oh, but accepting it will mean parting ways with someone you care about deeply."
"mabel". Said Dipper under his breath.
The Gypsy nods then continues...
The Desperate deal and Tragic mistake cards.
"To stop you leaving; she will make a deal with someone she shouldn't...and in doing so will bring down calamity to everyone she loves...
Dipper jumps back in fright as the cards burst into flames...the flames...the screaming...the terror...it all flashes before Dippers eyes...
"Oh, Mabel." Groans Dipper. "What have you done?"
The Gypsy kept at it. Switching to ruin stones and tossing them into the air. He watches them land.
"The two of you will reconcile...You will give up the 'golden opportunity' to help her deal with growing up...in fairness she dose offer to let you do it anyway...but you still wish to be by her..."
Dipper smiles..."well that doesn't sound so bad..." He says happily.
"Oh, really?" States the Gypsy flatly. "Well, why don't we take a peek into the consequences of this 'decision' shall we?"
He turns to the crystal ball and turns it on again...
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A forty-something year old Dipper enters his parents house and takes off his fast-food uniform with a sigh as he looks down at his meager paycheck.
A forty-something Mabel (wearing a crazy sweater and surrounded by dozens of cats); looks up.
"Hey Dipping sauce! Guess what!? I made a 50 ft butterfly made of comics...which I then set ablaze! I'm still the goddess of destruction!...also the police are here again to fine us for burning stuff without a permit...also for unintended arson damage to the neighbors house"
"Wait, what!?" Shouts Dipper just as a policeman steps out of the shadows and snatches up Dipper's paycheck.
"Ah, come on man! I worked overtime the whole week at the drive-through to earn that!" Shouts Dipper. But the Officer had already left.
Dipper feels a drop of water on his head...the ceiling was leaking...
"I also created a new water slide for Waddles!"
CRASH!
The ceiling gives way as a giant hog crashes down and breaks the floor; water soaking everything!
The cats scatter in panic; breaking various household objects as they do so.
Mabel laughs at this. "Ah, they're cute when their crazy!" She shouts as she takes a picture of them.
Dipper sighs as he goes to check the emergency fund...only to find it empty...
"Hey Dipping sauce! Can we have Pizza tonight!? Duck-tective will be on!" Shouts the ever cheerful yet oblivious Mabel.
Dipper just hangs his head...and cries...
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Dipper stares at all this horrified. "WHAT THE BLOOD!?" Screams Dipper.
The Gypsy puts down the Two birds on a wire card...
….( music starts playing in the background)...
Two birds on a wire
One tries to fly away
And the other
Watches him close
From that wire
"She gets over her fear of growing up...but only when your at her side...why would she have to fear it then?
She says she wants to as well
But she is a liar...
After all...why grow up when you have a sibling who's always there to love, protect, and give you whatever you want whenever you guilt-trip him enough? Who's willing to never marry, have no independent life of his own, and dose enough work to provide for both of you?"
Dipper was truly terrified now...it felt like a dark abyss had opened before him...it seemed to be devouring his future...
I'll believe it all
There's nothing I won't understand
I'll believe it all
I won't let go of your hand...
"I- I need to tell-
"Tell who?" Asked the Gypsy. "The sister who called you a dork for believing in ghosts AFTER seeing gnomes, living wax, and mystic psychotic psychics? Or your grunkle who apparently wouldn't know supernatural if it smacked him in the face?"
The Gypsy shook his head. "Let me tell you what'll happen if you go back to your Shack right now and confront them with this: Despite everything you've been through they won't believe you and mock you, you'll have an argument with them or another conflict will pop up, then you have a wacky misadventure, you have a hug, say your sorry, learn a 'valuable' life lesson...which you immediately forget next week come the next hi-jinx! Rinse and repeat...sound familiar?" Asked the Gypsy inquisitively.
Two birds on a wire
One says come on
And the other says
I'm tired
The sky is overcast
And I'm sorry
One more or one less
Nobody's worried...
Dipper paled. "Your...your right...that's exactly what happens! Week after week! How did I not see this before!?"
Dipper gets down on his hands and knees. "Wha- What am I suppose to do?" He sobs.
The gypsy once more lies down The Shackles of fate card...
Two birds of a feather
Say that they're always
Gonna stay together
But one's never goin' to
Let go of that wire
She says that she will...
But she's just a liar
"What else can you do? You fly off that wire and NEVER look back!"
The Gypsy jumps onto the table; card still in hand. "You want to break free of this cycle? You need to kill the Status Quo! You need to Wham this episode of your life so hard that it can't be brushed off!" He shouts as he rips the Shackles card in two...
Two birds on a wire
One tries to stay
And the other...
A desperate Dipper looks up the strange man. "How?" He pleads.
The Gypsy smirks as he twiddles the Desperate Deal card behind his back.
"I can take it away; your love for your family, your willingness to forgive them, your bond with them...I can take it all away"...
He suddenly appears to be in deep thought. "Hmmm...you know ordinarily I'd charge for this...but since I like you AND since said bond is actually pretty valuable...I'll make removing it my fee..and in exchange I'll give you a clue about finding that 'author' of yours."
Dipper looked at his journal hesitantly. "I...I really don't know."
The gypsy sighs. "Dipper my boy...your relationship with your sister is essentially 'Co-dependent and Enabler'...is such a dysfunctional relationship really any good for you? For Mabel? Do you really want her to be a man-child/crazy cat lady?"
Dipper sighs...Then shakes his hand. "Do what you have to do." He states simply.
The Gypsy smirks. "With pleasure my boy." He says as his hands began to glow.
Dipper braced himself. "It's for the best." He rationalizes to himself. For me and Mabel.
And just like that; the Gypsy's hands were plunged into the very essence of Dippers being .
The Gypsy laughed as he lifted up a strange rope. "Ah, the ties that bind us." He says with malicious glee. And with a flick of the wrist, the bond was severed. The universe quaked as an essential component of it's infrastructure was violently destroyed.
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Mabel gasped; she fell to the floor of the Shack and clutched her heart. She didn't know how or why...But something horrible had just happened...
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Dipper keeled over and feel into a deep sleep. The Gypsy breathe in the savory aroma of the love of family being deleted and replaced with sweet apathy and savory contempt. He also sprinkles a pinch of endorphin's on all thoughts of being independent to help his transition; with all the tenderness and care of someone marinating a ham their about to devour...
The Gypsy suddenly had a thought. "Huh...I wonder if I should have elaborated that those memories of Stan were out of context and that future I showed was just one possible future among many...NAH!" Shouted SLENDERMAN nastily as he tore his Gypsy disguise asunder.
He turns to the readers. "If your wondering why Dipper was OOC and willing to listen to the words of a complete stranger...I used the plot device!"
"Hello!" Shouted a nearby female robot...
With one last cackle, Slenderman vanished and invisibly watched as the chaos unfolds...
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TO BE CONTINUED?
The song is by 'REGINA SPEKTOR' and the song is 'Two birds on a wire'...
AN: I know it says "in-progress" but really I just don't like boxing myself into a corner. For now this is more of a one-shot that I might continue one day...but probably won't.
But, hey. Feel free to use whatever elements you want from this, if you want! Or maybe give me ideas?
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