"Bill get down here this instant!" Dipper shouted at the young boy who was half way up a large tree. The only response he got was a loud raspberry as the boy kept climbing. "Bill you can't float in this body, come down!"
"Yeesh Pine tree you're bossy." Bill laughed, the echo in his voice only slightly noticeable in his laugh.
"If you make me come up and get you I will drop you on your fat little head! Get down here!"
"Oxymoron!"
Dipper was ready to scream. Bill had been immature enough when he was an all-powerful demon with too many years to count but now that he was regressed to a child state he was almost unbearable. Over the last week he had driven Dipper nearly to his wits end. Though Mabel seemed to have gotten a handle on controlling the little monster the first day Dipper still hadn't figured it out.
Now he had no idea what to do, should he stay below the tree to catch Bill if he fell or should he go up and get Bill before he had a chance to fall? Dipper yelped watching Bill start swinging from one of the high up branches.
"Bill you're going to break it! You'll hurt yourself stop it!"
"Good! Pain is hilarious!" Bill shouted back. Dipper grabbed a handful of his own hair, could he go get Mabel? What if Bill fell while he was gone, no he had to be here, why had Mabel had to go to her girlfriends house and leave Dipper alone with this little monster!? She had promised that the crafts she had left for the seven year old would keep him busy but they both should have known that Bill would do something like this if only just to any Dipper. Wait crafts that was it!
"If you don't come this instant I will take away all you're glitter!" Dipper said firmly pointing at the ground in the cartoonish way he never seemed to grow out of. Bill shrieked and went to let go of the branch to let himself fall, "Carefully!" Dipper shouted quickly "Come down carefully." He could tell by the way Bill was grinning at him like the Cheshire cat that he was about to make a deal.
"Only if you'll let me make the tree on your hat sparkly!" Bill demanded. Dipper face palmed angrily.
"What about I let you watch Alice in Wonderland again?" Dipper tried to wheedle, Bill had made both Mabel and Dipper sick of the movie his first three days he had been with them, now he wasn't allowed to watch it because neither of them would watch it and he had been deemed to young to watch them alone. Bill seemed to think about it.
"Can I make my hair sparkly?" Bill said after a minute.
"As long as you don't use any glue." Dipper shrugged, it was Bill' hair why would he care.
"Okay!" Bill yipped skittering down the trunk of the tree he grabbed the hem of Dippers vest and started to drag him back to the house.
"I love Alice in Wonderland! I want to be just like the Cheshire Cat!" Bill babbled for the hundredth time. "Do you think Mabs would make me a Cheshire sweater if I asked her nicely? I can't do patterns very well yet and you keep taking my needles away from me." Bill frowned up at Dipper but Dipper couldn't help but chuckle.
"I'm sure she would, she loves any excuse to knit." Already Bill was wearing a yellow sweater with a black eye and brick pattern like that of his old triangular form. As soon as they were inside Bill ran to get his craft supplies and plopped down on the floor in front of the tv staring up at Dipper with wide expectant eyes. Dipper set up the tv and put in the old VHS, it wasn't the Disney version but some old made for tv movie that much more resembled the book.
In this one the Chesh was varying shades of gray rather than pink and purple which seemed to please Bill more. In fact when Mabel had rented the Disney one just to try and give them a change Bill had thrown pillows at the screen shrieking about what an 'undignified colour scheme' it was and they had had to turn off the movie. Once the movie was playing Dipper went back and flopped in Grunkle Stan's old chair watching in amusement as Bill tied to comb gold sparkles through his hair with his fingers.
Bill's attention to the glitter didn't last long though and soon he was as engrossed in the movie as if he was seeing it for the first time. Without even seeming to mean to Bill leaned back against Dippers leg, his mouth hanging open slightly and his almost yellow eyes wide with wonder and fixed on the screen as his favorite disappearing cat talked of madness. Dipper smiled down at the small demon, there were times when he wondered if this change had been worth it, after all Bill still got into a lot of trouble as a kid and it could be really annoying having to look after him. Still one thing that Dipper couldn't deny was, Bill sure did make a cute kid.