14-year-old Dipper Pines sat at the back of the 16-seater bus, gazing out the window at the familiar pine trees as they rushed by. Beside him, currently doodling in a notebook was his twin sister Mabel Pines. She stared intently at the vibrantly colored cat she had created, analyzing its faults. Over the years, Mabel had taken a liking to art, though she didn't consider it seriously, she did enjoy it as a hobby, and she was quite good at it too.
"What do you think?" she asked, leaning in to show Dipper.
"I think it's making me blind," Dipper responded jokingly.
Mabel smiled and playfully punched his shoulder. Since they'd left Gravity Falls the first time, their relationship had grown even stronger. They had survived 8th grade and their first year of high school together, there was nothing they couldn't do.
The twins hadn't changed much; their sense of fashion remained the same, only changing in size to match the their bodies.
Ahead of the bus, a familiar building came into view, the Mystery Shack. It looked much like it did before, except slightly more overgrown, but they'd been good about keeping things from getting too messy. They'd completely given up on trying to get the S to stay on the sign; it now was propped up against the side of the building.
The bus pulled to a stop in front of the building. Dipper and Mabel stumbled over each other trying to collect their things, when they excited the bus they found their great uncle Stan waiting for them with huge smile on his face.
"Dipper, Mabel," the con man said happily pulling them into a hug.
"Grunkle Stan…Need…Air," the twins complained
"Right, sorry," he said, releasing them, "come on, lets get your things inside, then we can catch up."
Dipper, Mabel and Stan grunted as they hauled their suitcases up the stairs and into the attic. The attic bedroom now actually looked like a bedroom, Grunkle Stan had managed to rafrain from converting it into a storage room again. At Mabel's request the mold spots on the ceiling were even kept. They made their beds and shoved their suitcases under them and went downstairs to talk with Stan.
The twins entered the living room to find that Wendy and Soos had also come to welcome them, and after exchange greetings, began to tell their tales. When they had finished, they let the Shack staff fill them in on what had happened while they were gone. Nothing much did happen, in terms of society and supernatural. The gnomes had somehow found a way in and had stolen every bottle of Grunkle Stan's aftershave. After they were all done filling each other in, Stan announced that they'd all be going to the diner, to celebrate the return of the mystery twins.
They sat in the car, casually chatting about high school until they arrived at the diner. Dipper climbed out of the El Diablo and began walking to the front door. He held the door open for everyone in his party, and was about to go in himself when someone grabbed his shoulder and roughly pulled him aside.
The someone in question was taller than Dipper by a few inches, and wore worn out clothing, he had a slightly crazed look in his eyes.
"Hey!" Dipper beagan
"Listen to me, Dipper," he said
Dipper looked at the boy in confusion, "How do you know my name?"
"Not important," the boy replied, his whole head twitched, "you and Mabel need to leave."
"Who do you think you are?" Dipper asked angrily.
"You never should've come back, you have no idea how much danger you're in, you have to leave before-" the boy went rigged and his eyes glowed blue for a second.
"Oh no, I-I've said too much," they boy said horrified, he started to walk backwards but tripped and fell.
"Trust me, Dipper, just leave," he said before getting up and running off.
Dipper stood staring after the boy in stunned silence. He didn't know what he meant by, you're in danger, he didn't even know how he knew his name, but what really put him off, was when used Mabel's name. He saw the kid's eyes flash, but shrugged that off as a trick of the night. Do I have a stalker? He was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard something hit the ground to his right. He looked and saw a rustling bush, just an animal he thought. He turned and went back inside.
"Dipper, did 'ya find a cute girl to stare at?" Grunkle Stan teased
Dipper laughed, "ya, she said her name was Carla."
Grunkle Stan's face went serious, "Not funny, kid."
Everyone at the table excluding Stan laughed. Dipper kept what had went down outside secret, he didn't want to spoil the good mood, he'd tell Mabel later.
Lazy Susan eventually made it to their table, taking their individual orders. Dipper ordered a grilled cheese sandwich, as it was the only thing that had taste on the menu, while Mabel ordered pancakes. She explained it by saying that she felt like pancakes.
Mabel, being as close as she was to her other half, noticed his disturbed expression when he walked in, and his slightly altered mood.
"Dipper, are you okay," she whispered in his ear
"Tell you when we get home," he whispered back
When their orders arrived, Dipper acted as if nothing happened, he ate his sandwich, which still tasted bland, and talked with everyone normally.
When everyone finished eating, they headed for home, Soos took Wendy home in his pickup, and the Pines drove home in the car. Mabel stared at her brother the whole ride home, trying to discern what would've shocked him so much. This only made Dipper more uncomfortable.
They arrived home, and Stan informed the twins that he was tired and going to bed. The twins each bid him goodnight, and headed for the attic. They entered their bedroom and Mabel immediately wanted to know what happened.
"Spare no details," she said.
Dipper told her everything, even the eyes flashing, which he thought was just the night. Mabel listened intently to his whole story, not interrupting at all. She would've thought this was a prank to scare her, but Dipper's emotions seemed too genuine. She believed every word Dipper told her, but didn't believe it was real.
"Relax, Dipper, it's probably just Pacifica trying to mess with us, remember last time," Mabel said
Dipper shuddered at that memory, last summer, Pacifica managed to trick Dipper that Gravity Falls' entire water supply had been poisoned and that it would turn you in to a monster when you drank it. Dipper went online and bought an entire case of sealed water from the 1980's for his family. He went ballistic when he saw Mabel drinking the "poisoned" water.
"Ya, you're probably right," Dipper said, still slightly unnerved.
" Of coarse I am, what would you do without me," Mabel said happily.
"Well for starters I'd still have a case of unopened water from the 1980's" Dipper replied.
When had Mabel heard that the majority of our bodies are water, she thought drinking it might send her back in time.
"It made sense at the time," She said
"Come on let's get some sleep," Dipper said through a yawn.
"Agreed," Mabel said, yawing.
They each got ready for bed, leaving the room to give the other privacy while they changed clothes. They then turned of the lights and got in their own beds.
"Goodnight, Mabes," Dipper said.
"Goodnight, Chipdip."
New story, here we go. I'm not going to spoil anything, but I have BIG plans for this one. A7.13A5h
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