Full Summary: Mabel loves her brother, she really does. Just because she trusted her Grunkle one time doesn't mean she doesn't trust Dipper all together. But Dipper doesn't know that. During his time of anger, Dipper makes a deal with Bill, completely blind of what his actions caused. Now Mabel has to sacrifice things more than she ever had to save her brother, but will Dipper ever trust her again? Will Mabel be able to save her brother before it's too late?
Author's Note: Hello people of the Gravity Falls community! This is my first time ever writing a Gravity Falls story. I guess like everyone here in the fan-base, I fell in love with the relationship between Mabel and Dipper Pines, not to mention my Dad was a twin himself, which inspired me to write this!
I know a lot of you have written your own story on how Dipper reacts to the "Button Incident", but I wanted to add a little twist on it myself. Bit of a warning though, I've only recently began to watch Gravity Falls. So, I apologize if I got something wrong in this story and for spelling/grammar mistakes. But, enjoy!
Disclaimer: Gravity Falls is owned and created by Alex Hirsch. Cover by Yvette14, otherwise known as TrinRose.
Trust
Mabel knew that Dipper was angry with her, but she never thought he would go so far to strike a deal with Bill. Then again, he was emotionally vulnerable, a perfect opportunity to use her brother against his own family. But she didn't blame Dipper. No, she could never blame her twin for all this destruction. The only person she has to blame is herself.
She knew what started all this in the first place, when she didn't push that button. That's what started it all. Mabel listened to her desperate Uncle and didn't push the button, something that her brother Dipper told-no, trusted- her to do. Now she just broken her brother's trust on her.
That was only the beginning. When Mabel didn't push that button, Grunkle Stan's brother, the real Stanford and the Author the Journals, appeared before them all, and Dipper didn't even look at his direction. That confused Mabel, the Author was someone who her brother wanted to so desperately to know. Even more surprising that when she asked if he was alright, Dipper barely even looked at her direction, picked up Journal 3, and left without even a word.
Things only got more worse as the days went by. Dipper had locked their room from the inside, leaving her outside with no way in. With barely any response from Dipper, Grunkle Stan had to have Mabel sleep on the couch since it was clear that Dipper was not going to unlock the door anytime soon.
That day worried Mabel to no end. She became even more distressed when she rarely sees her brother out of their room. And when she does, it's only breakfast, lunch, and dinner, all of which he ignores what anybody is saying to him.
"Give him space, pumpkin," Grunkle Stan tried to assure her. "Kid's just going through a tough time."
That didn't make her feel any better.
A few more days went by and now Mabel had reached her limit. Taking a exhale of determination, Mabel marched herself up to her brother's room ignoring the protests of everyone. She knocks on the door.
"Dipper! I want to talk to you!"
There was no reply.
"Look bro-bro, I know you're upset and probably really mad at me, but I'm sorry! Can't we just talk this out?!"
Still nothing.
Getting even more frustrated, Mabel banged on the door harder. Can't he see she's trying to make an effort on this? Only to her surprise, the door slowly creaked open like it was open all along.
Now she was confused again. Didn't Dipper locked the door all this time? Once again gulping a huge breath of determination, Mabel opens the door wider to see the room and what she left her jaw dropped.
There's papers. Papers everywhere. Covering from his bed, the walls, and to the floor was an ocean full of papers. There was also their window open, but Mabel didn't let her mind focus on that. Instead, she focused on the sea of papers, more specifically, the pictures and words on them.
Every paper had something on them, there were no blanks, but a part of her which there was because the things she saw were disturbing. A few of them hold pictures of the portal with a few words that she wouldn't even bother to understand are circled. Others hold pictures of Bill and a few more words circled. However, there was one paper that stood out to her out of all of them, and it was the most disturbing.
Gently picking it up with shaken hands, Mabel scanned her eyes through the picture of Bill and the words written on it.
Although it pains me to do this, I've agreed to give this "Rift" to Bill, the Dream Demon.
Before anybody who reads this asks, no, I am not being influenced by Bill. This is my decision.
But my reason, I don't know…
I know that Bill is not to be trusted, but then again, nobody can be trusted.
My Great Uncle lied to me about what he'd been doing this summer…
My Other Great Uncle once had a deal with Bill, so why should I trust him?
Then there's Mabel-
Mabel quickly looked away from the paper once she saw her name on it. Fear quickly coursed through her veins at the possibilities of what Dipper could write about her. But the curiosity of knowing what's happening to her brother won over the fearful side as she turns back to the paper and continues to read;
-Mabel, my sister, the one person I thought I could always trust.
I was wrong.
I can't trust my own twin sister. She didn't trust me, so why should I trust her?
Then again, I shouldn't be really surprised. Mabel always did teased me without having a second thought. I should have seen it coming.
I have no choice but to believe Bill,
I'm supposed to meet him by the Floating Cliffs soon to give him the "Riff".
He may not be trustworthy, but he's not my family.
After all, in Gravity Falls; Trust No One.
Even if they're your own family…
Even with tears beginning to burn in her eyes, she ignore them as she ran out of the room. Even when both of her Grunkles called out to her, she ignore them as she ran out of the shack. Even when she heard everyone behind her calling out for her to stop, she ignore them and continues to run into the woods. Her mind was set on one thing; Find her brother and stop him from making a deal with Bill Cipher.
She didn't know how long she was running, but at the moment she didn't care. Mabel had to find her brother before he does something he's going to regret and she'll lose him forever. Before she even realize it, she made to the Floating Cliffs, where stood Dipper, with his back turn on her, and Bill.
Bill was rubbing his hands very eagerly when Dipper is beginning to hand the Rift out to him. He didn't even notice the others in front of him until Mabel yelled out "STOP!"
Jumping from hearing his sister's voice so sudden, Dipper whipped around, the Rift still in hand, and faced his entire family with a shocked expression. "Mabel?"
"Dipper, what are you doing?!" Ford yelled, his hands flying to his head once he sees the Rift in the boy's hands.
"You can't give that thing to him, Kid!" Stan begged. "Just trust us!"
However once he said the word "trust", Dipper's face quickly darkened. That was a look that Mabel didn't recognize on her brother's face, and that frightened her.
"Trust you? TRUST YOU?!" He screamed. "Give me one good reason why I should?!"
"Because we're your family, kid!" Stan answered, but Mabel knew those words meant nothing to Dipper.
With one last dark look at his family, Dipper turned back to Bill and stuck out his hands with the Rift in them. "Here."
Bill's eye lighted up like a child on a christmas tree. "Gee, thanks kid!" He said as he took the Rift from Dipper's hands.
"So, now you have this "Rift" thing, are you going to alter my memories like you promise?" Dipper asks, completely unaware of the looks of horror that came onto his family.
"Yeah, about that kid…" Bill said hesitantly before he drops the Rift from his hands. "Opps!"
"NO!" Ford screams, but it was too late. The Rift hit the ground with a loud CRACK, the glass shattered while the strange goo began to float.
"At last, AT LONG LAST!" Bill shouts as he rises up into the air where a strange yellow light is forming in the sky. "Weirdmageddon has finally begun!"
"Wait, WHAT?" Dipper shouts as he looks around rapidly. Suddenly heavy winds began to form, making everyone use their hands to somewhat block the force.
"This is what I was trying to tell you, Kid!" Ford shouts over the wind. "The Rift is the only connection from both the Mindscape and our world! Now that it's broken, all the demons from Bill's world are free to come into Real World. It's the end!"
Hearing that, Mabel could feel a deep pit form right in her stomach. No, her brother did not just start an apocalypse. He didn't know what he was doing. Yeah, that's it! Dipper didn't know what the Rift was, he wouldn't have made a deal with Bill!
A deal, with Bill… He made a deal with Bill, and for what? So he could alter his memories. What does that even mean? Did Dipper wanted to forget what happen with the the button? Or, no… Did he wanted to forget he ever had a sister?
The very thought spilt her heart into million of pieces. "Dipper…" She made the small sound before she even realize it.
She only realize it when Dipper suddenly looks towards her. At first his gaze was hard that almost brings tears to her eyes, but then it gradually became softer. She didn't recognise it at first, but now she knew the look that's familiar on her brother's face; regret.
Before she could say anything else to him, Dipper turns back towards Bill, who suddenly became larger and is now floating back down to them. "Bill, you lied! You promise me once I get the Rift, you leave everyone alone!" He shouts.
"Yeesh, kid, relax!" Bill tells him like a child that was denied candy and is having a tantrum. "I know what I said. But how can I make that part of the deal happen, if you're not alive?"
That's when Bill snaps his fingers that bring them all back to the present.
Before Dipper could run to safety, the ground began to shake, making all of them begin to lose their balance. Dipper tried his best to run back to his family, but a rock pillar suddenly pops out of the ground right in Dipper's path. Startled, he jumps back away from the pillar, but that only brought more that keeps making him jump back towards the edge.
"Dipper!" Mabel screams once she sees her brother disappear from behind the pillars that are now currently blocking her path to her brother. Not caring about Ford's panicking ramble and Bill's shrill laugh, Mabel dove right into the pillars.
"Mabel, no!" Stan's voice shouted her to stop, but Mabel ignore it. She struggle to find the biggest open spot in the pillar that she could fit through to get to the other side. After a few minutes of narrowly being stab by more pillars that came to stop her, Mabel found a spot that she could fit throught. As quick as she could, Mabel dove right into the hole right before it was covered up.
Continuing to ignore her Grunkles calling out to her, Mabel quickly scans the small area for her bro-bro. A big drop of dread forms when she didn't see Dipper, that could only mean…
Shooting up to her feet, Mabel quickly hurries over to the edge of the cliff where she drops to her knees and bends down to look over to the side to see a sight that almost makes her heart stop.
Dipper is there, hanging onto a dead branch that's sticking out of the cliff. What really made her heart stop is the small cracks coming from the branch. It can't hold on for long and Dipper's knows that, which is why he's shutting his eyes so tightly.
Mabel barely just got her brother and she is not going to lose him again.
"Dipper! Grab my hand!" She calls out to her brother, sticking a hand down to him. Although he appeared surprised to hear her voice so close, Dipper's eyes shot open and look at her extended hand. Just when he let one hand go to reach her hand, the hand that's currently holding a death-grip on the branch suddenly became loose, causing the boy to scream and went back to using both of his hands to do the death-grip on the branch.
"I can't hang on!" He cries, looking so scare. Tears began to pour from his closed eyes as a small sob escape his throat. "I-I'm gonna fall!"
Hearing the terrified tone in his voice torn Mabel's heart into two. From there, she regret everything she got from her brother's sacrifices for her. It was her job to be the older sibling. Her job. But she let Dipper take that role. Now because of her selfishness, Dipper reached a breaking point where he had to trust Bill of all people and now his life's in danger.
It should be her life in danger. Not him.
But seeing Dipper's position somehow gave her a new sense of determination. She may have fail being the sister her brother deserves before, but she's not going to fail him this time.
After all, he never fail her before.
"It's okay, Dipper!" Mabel yells in some way to comfort him. Operation Big Sister is commencing. "Just try to climb up on the branch, then try to grab my hand!"
"B-But what if the branch breaks when I try?" Dipper's broken voice asked. To prove his point (and to probably tick Mabel off), the branch suddenly lurches downwards, making the poor boy scream. Although the branch is beginning to hang loosely off the cliff, it's still somewhat sturdy enough for Dipper to climb. All Mabel needs to do is convince him to climb it.
"It won't break, Dipper!" She once again tries to comfort him. So far so good for Operation Big Sister. "Just trust me!"
"GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD?!" Whoa! Mayday! Mayday! Operation Big Sister is going down! Mabel jumps from her brother's sudden outburst. It was completely far from the terrified tone that was around a few moments ago. Now, it's back to that distrustful one that she saw the last few days.
"Because I'm your sister!" She tries, hoping to get a bit of the old brother who would always do anything for her back.
It didn't work. "SOME SISTER YOU ARE!" Dipper shouts, though his tone sounds more upset than angry as more tears drip from his eyes. "ALL THE TIMES I DROPPED EVERYTHING FOR YOU, WHEN DID YOU RETURN THE FAVOR?!"
At this, Mabel is at lost for words. How was she suppose to answer that?
"NEVER!" So Dipper decide to answer for her. "YOU'VE NEVER BEEN THERE FOR ME! THE ONE TIME I ASKED FOR YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME, YOU TRUSTED A CONMAN OVER ME! SO WHY SHOULD I TRUST YOU?!"
"...Because I'm here."
Dipper's red eyes pop open at that deadly serious tone from Mabel. It sounded so unlike her usual goofy self. Looking up with his tear-stained face, Dipper's mouth slightly opens when he sees Mabel's solemn gaze staring right down at him with her own tears running down her cheeks.
Before he could say anything, Mabel beat it to him with a broken voice of her own. "Dipper, do you really think I've never trust you? Sure I trusted Grunkle Stan when it came to that button, but that was one time. And yeah, I ask you sacrifice so many things for me, but that's because I knew I could always trust you to be there for me.
"Why else would I spend so many times trying to get you to come out of that room when you started to shut me out? I was so worried about you, how do you think I feel right now?"
At this, Dipper couldn't look at her anymore. So instead, he look at the ground miles below that awaited death for him. He always hated it when Mabel puts him on the spot where he needs to decide; his happiness or her's. But for some reason, it didn't feel like that.
Before he even knew it, Mabel continues. "Dipper, I nearly got crushed by cazy rocks just try to make it here for you. But if that doesn't convince you, then do you really think I'm the bad guy?"
That did it. Although it would never get rid of the pain in his heart when she chose Grunkle Stan over him, but it did somewhat heal him. Despite everything that's happen, Dipper still loves his sister. Which is why he was so desperate to make that deal with Bill. He wanted to alter his memories so he can forget about the Button and things can go back the way they were before.
But it's too late now. Now all they need to do is face reality.
With every strength he could muster, Dipper swung himself up until he's using his elbows to keep himself on the branch. With a shaking hand, Dipper reaches up to Mabel's still outstretched hand.
Mabel smiles as she begins to grasp her brother's hand. Maybe Operation Big Sister will turn out okay after-
Loud noises that at first sounded like it came from a distance but then slowly began to become louder and closer stopped her from pulling her brother to safety. The two of them look down and became even more afraid at their situation than they've ever been.
A large laser-like beam is hitting the cliff, destroying it and sending rocks and boulders everywhere. What really scare them is that it's beginning to descend upwards, right towards Dipper.
Quickly, Mabel grabs Dipper's hand with both of hers and tries to pull him up. But she was too late.
The beam already reach to where they're standing, cutting the branch in half as rocks flew in Mabel's direction. In a desperate attempt to keep the rocks from flying to her face, Mabel quickly use both of her hands to cover herself.
But in order to that, she let Dipper go.
Realizing what she's just done, Mabel quickly looks down and stares in horror as Dipper begins to fall to his death.
"DIPPER!"
Author's Note: Cliffhanger...