One Shot #1- My Brother Dipper
"My brother Dipper..." The microphone boomed and echoed as Mabel paused. The silence was killing her.
She peered up from her paper on the podium and gazed into the crowd of people in front of her. Her mother and her father were in front, trying their best not to cry. Her father comforting Mrs. Pines as best as he could. Although, words could only do so much. A row behind her parents were Wendy and Soos, dressed in black. It was obvious Wendy was trying really hard not to cry. Behind them sat Candy and Grenda. They were smiling up at Mabel and giving her a thumbs up, encouraging her to continue this dreadful speech. Some other townsfolk, extended family members and even Gideon Gleeful filled the rest of the seats in the church, wearing dark and bland colors, ones that very much upset Mabel.
The one person that was absent at this terrible event was Grunkle Stan. He was being held in prison on two counts of child negligence. Mr. and Mrs. Pines had tried to do what they could to make sure Stan didn't end up in a cell during the ceremony because they knew it wasn't really his fault. He had to be the fall guy, there was no other option.
"My brother Dipper..." Mabel said again as the microphone echoed throughout the high ceilings and stained glass windows of the large cathedral.
Mabel looked down at the paper she had so neatly typed up on the computer over the past few days. The words just seemed to jumble up on the page. They had no meaning, they had no emotion in them, they were just there on the page. Mabel picked up the paper and ripped it in half in front of the audience as they watched in shock. She threw the paper behind her and turned to her left. Next to her on an elevated platform was an open coffin. Dipper Pines was inside. The shell of the kid he once was. This body had no laugh, it had no worry, it couldn't solve a problem, get the twins out of a jam or try to impress Wendy. The shell couldn't comfort Mabel when she was sad or venture into the depths of the unknown with her. It was curiosity that had gotten the better of Dipper in the end, and Mabel regretted being there with him.
Mabel stepped down from the podium and went over to the open coffin next to her. She took the blue and white Pine Tree hat that was on the closed part of the coffin next to a black vase full of white flowers and a picture of Mabel and Dipper together. She placed the hat on her brother and wriggled it on tightly before turning to everyone who was watching the events unfold in front of them.
"My brother Dipper was not my brother at all..." Her voice boomed and trembled to the people in front of her. Mabel walked back to the microphone and stared out at the crowd in front of her. "No... he was not my brother. Because he was so much more than that. He was my best friend, he was a comrade, he was my soul mate... He was me and I am him. I can never get that part of me back again. It's gone, forever. Lost in the wind. Taken by a triangle shaped fiend who I will seek and have vengeance on, even if it kills me." Mabel paused, and swallowed the large lump that was forming in her throat.
"My brother Dipper... was more of a man than any of you could ever imagine being half of. He might not have hair on his chest or big manly muscles, But he had something many of you men out there lack. A heart of gold, worth more than any amount the government has in Fort Knox. Dipper always wanted what was best for myself and for the family, never putting himself first. He was a true class act. A hero." Mabel thought back to the day of the Mystery Fair, where Dipper had given up a chance to be with Wendy to get Mabel Waddles.
"My brother Dipper... was a part of me that I'm never getting back. Those bridges have burned and crumbled, and can never be rebuilt or repaired. Without Dipper what is the point in being happy? What is the point of sharing a smile if one can't be shared back? What's the point of staying up late if there is no loud click from a pen? There is none."
"My brother Dipper... would not want me to avenge his death. He would have put me aside and fought to avenge his own death, even if that meant losing his life a second time." Mabel looked up at the audience one last time from the podium.
"My brother Dipper... is going to sit in that coffin and rot. He will never graduate high-school with me. We will never get married to our spouses on the same day. We will never grow old together, stay in touch and have fights with each other. We will never die on the same day together." Mabel got down from the podium and scanned the audience.
Mabel began to walk towards the exit of the cathedral with her head down. When she reached the door she turned and saw everyone staring at her. Her mouth opened up for one final time to the public. "And while you all sit here and weep, remembering the hero who once was. I am going to go out and do something about the man you cry about. I'm going to stare the demon who killed my other half right in the eye and I'm going to kill him... and it will all be for my brother Dipper."