I submitted a shittier version of this to the Transcendence AU Official Tumblr, but this is a much better version. Please enjoy your daily dose of feels.
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Blood Ties
(Or, Two Times That Ford Summoned Dipper)
When he felt the pull in his gut that meant that he was being summoned by family, someone familiar, he followed it without a second thought.
Dipper didn't expect to end up in a circle with wards strong enough to bind even him, with golden chains and pain and who why how?
He didn't expect to see someone he knew, someone that he trusted, looking down at him with immeasurable sadness in their brown eyes, making his own gold and black ones glow brighter in shock.
He didn't expect to feel the cold barrel of a familiar gun pressed against his forehead, right on the birthmark.
No no please what why how why?
Dipper didn't expect his great uncle to whisper, "I'm sorry, Dipper."
He didn't expect the world to explode with a click and a bang.
.
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When he felt the pull in his gut that meant that he was being summoned by family, one that screamed help anyone pain ending, he followed it.
He burst into the room in a flash of fire and fury, expecting to see cults or monsters or something, because who dares mess with his family (his his his).
Don't they know who they're messing with?
But instead of that, he finds his great uncle collapsed on the floor, clutching at his chest.
Later, Dipper will remember what he made the contract for. But at the time, all he knows are promises, blue fire, and a deal.
He can eat Ford's nightmares now, for all eternity, in exchange for momentarily fixing his heart.
But... That night, when he goes to devour the fear and anger and hate, he instead has to stop for a moment.
Oh, he still eats them.
They just aren't what he was expecting.
They aren't of Bill and death and please please don't hurt him I'll do anything-although there are a scattered few that are like that.
No, what made Dipper Pines so scared was that all of the nightmares were about him.