Hey guys. For anyone who was reading this, I found a direction and have deleted everything of the old one. I don't like writing without a direction, so here goes!
Silver
Chapter One: Triangles
It wasn't unusual for Katie to come home late on a Friday night. She wasn't drunk or out partying, oh no. She was at work, folding pitas and cooking pizzas at the little Greek restaurant she worked at. She worked late, so showing up at 11 at night, tired and smelling heavily of bread and hummus, was hardly out of place. However, something was certainly out of place tonight. Her two room mates, Jo and Shea, exchanged glances when she walked in.
"Katie...what is that thing you're carrying?" Shea asked, straining herself off the couch to get a better view of the thing cradled in her arms.
"I'm not exactly sure." Katie walked in and laid the thing in her arms gently on the wooden coffee table. Both young women gasped in surprise.
It was...a triangle? A gently glowing yellow triangle that was about a foot on each side. It looked like it was made of some type of brick or stone. It had a large eye in its center that was closed, and a black bowtie hung below the eye. A small top hat and cane were laid next to the creature. All three women stared at it in silence for a minute before Jo spoke in a whisper.
"Katie what the fuck?"
"Look, I saw it lying kind of out of the way when I was walking home. I took the back way, you know, the shortcut around the back of the psychology lab and up around that old computer place? I found it lying outside there. I don't know what it is but I couldn't just leave it there!" Katie tried to defend herself.
"Yeah, you totally could have. Katie, that friend of yours that told us about this place warned us about shit like this," Jo waved her arms over the creature, "He said Gravity Falls was a weird town!"
"I know he did, but he never mentioned magic triangles!"
The three continued to argue, not noticing the creature stirring until it shot into the air, cackling.
"Well that was unexpected! I didn't expect him to come after me like this! Hahahaha!" It spoke in a strange, almost metallic voice that range loudly in the small apartment. It hovered over their heads and waved a hang, hat floating onto its head and cane grasped firmly in a small hang. It began twirling the cane as it looked over the three stunned fleshsacks gawking up at it.
"Thanks for helping me out there, you got me out of a real scrape. I'm lucky you moved me before he came back for me. Can't believe that boner was so bold. Anyway, the name's Bill Cipher!" He turned to look down at the one who had rescued him. She was in her early twenties, wearing a black uniform, with short brown hair and tired gray eyes. She wasn't anything special in appearances, but who was in the eye of a omnipresent dream demon? The fact that she had helped him at all was enough to catch his interest.
"Uhm...I'm Katie, these are my room mates Jo and Shea."
Bill gave a cursory glance to the other two. Jo was shorter and more compact, with brown hair and broad shoulders. Shea was taller and lankier, with bright blue eyes and a smile that came from several well-crafted puns. He shrugged and returned his attention to Katie.
"Okay. Look, I'm a little busy at the moment. I've got things to work on and I can't do them here. So take this." Bill waved his hand and a card appeared. He held the paper out to Katie, who took it curiously. Like her friend who had lived here for a few years before he moved to learn more from schools in Europe, she had a deep curiosity for the...unexplained. The card simply had a triangle with an eye in the middle on it in yellow ink, shining against the black paper.
"What is this thing?" She asked.
"Heh heh. I thought you were smart, Pita girl. It's a card. Think of it as an I.O.U. I'll show up once I get things settled and I can figure out how to repay you. You got me out of a real scrape. Remember, nothing is what it seems around here ladies! Bye!" With a flash of light Bill was gone.
Katie sat in the armchair across from the couch in their living room and gazed intently at the card. She wasn't sure what she had just gotten into. When she had told her two friends about the open space in the town her friend had been talking about for years, they had heartily agreed. They all attended graduate school at the university close the apartment, though the place was tiny. She hadn't expected this. She would have to write to her friend to see if he had any knowledge of a creature going by the name Bill Cipher.
"Ugh. I need a drink. A stiff drink."