Haha this one is supposed to be all one big story sort of about the aftermath of NWHS sooooo enjoy!
A Thousand Words
A collection of Gravity Falls drabbles
Honest
"I…look, I should've been honest with you." "Yeah, you should've, and it's a little too late to start now."
Heritage
Dipper stares at the man who has stepped out of the portal, the man with six fingers, the author of the journals. He doesn't know what to say, what to do, but when he hears something about "grandkids", and Mabel rushes forward with a squeal, he knows that he's lucked out this time around.
Recluse
"You've gotta come out of your room sooner or later," Stanford says. It only causes Stanley to shrink into his book further, which in turn causes his twin to sigh. "Fine, bro, whatever. You wanna be a recluse for the rest of your life, that's your problem."
Greatest
"Not just a great uncle–" "The greatest uncle!" His heart splinters, because they couldn't be further from the truth. He's horrible, because he's lied to them for so, so long.
Emerge
The portal has fallen from its perch on the wall, most of the glowing symbols burned out, but a few flicker and keep the portal working for a few precious moments. Then Stan's brother emerges, and it's the beginning of the end.
Relearn
When he comes back through the portal, Stanley realizes that he has to relearn a few things, like how to socialize properly, and how to sleep for more than two hours at a time, and how to not be afraid of the dark.
Forgiven
Mabel forgives him quickly, because she knew there was a good explanation for what he was doing. Soos comes around, too, and even Stanley forgives him for opening the portal despite all the warnings – thanks him, even. But Stanford watches his nephew, and worries that Dipper will never come around.
Fight
He never forgives himself, and when Stanley returns through the portal three decades later only to berate him further, Stanford wonders if that fight they had gotten in all those years ago was worth all this pain.
Crackpot
His brother is the only one who believes him, who sees what he sees, who is willing to listen and test his theories with him. Stanley Pines searches for answers in the strange town known as Gravity Falls, trying to show the world that he was right all along.
Disbeliever
Until the monsters start following his brother home, Stanford scoffed at the idea of there being a supernatural element to the little town of Gravity Falls. Even now, he's still not sure that his whole life isn't just one very long, very bad dream.
Apology
"Mabel, Dipper, Soos, I'm sorry, okay? I should've told you – especially you two, kids – but I…the time was never right…and I didn't know how. I'm sorry."
Dimensional
He gazes in awe at the stretch of portals before him. They never could have guessed that there were so many gateways to other dimensions, other planes of existence, just waiting to be discovered.
Fallout
Mabel and Dipper don't talk for a week afterward. Stanford worries, and blames himself, to which Stanley responds by smacking him and saying that yes, it might be his fault, but that doesn't mean his heart was in the right place.
Pull
Despite everything his brother warned him about, he doesn't hesitate to pull the lever. He's waited and searched for so long, and he's not going to stop now.
Absent
There's been a void for the past thirty years, an empty space haunting the entire Pines family, and it's all his fault.
Begging
"Dipper, I'm sorry. Come on, kid, you've gotta forgive me! Please!" Dipper just curls into a tighter ball, trying to escape Stan's constant begging. He doesn't know if he can forgive the man, not after all he's done.
Aboveground
When they emerge from the bunker under the Shack, everything is in ruins. The Shack itself suffered damage, but the town, too, is littered with debris from the sudden switch between no gravity and gravity. (There are dead bodies, too, but the Stans make sure the kids never hear about those.)
Promised
He crossed his fingers behind his back, and he was certain that Dipper was going to do the same thing, but it was too soon for him to tell the kids about what he was doing with the portal. Dropping everything on them at once could be just as bad as never telling them and waiting to see if they found out and confronted him on their own.
Battleground
They meet in a clearing for the end of the world, hoping and praying that they can stop the crazy triangular demon here before he destroys everything they ever cared about.
Finale
Their parents arrive to pick them up at the end of the summer, instead of having Stan send them back on a bus, only to find a town in shambles and a battered, beaten group of kids and teens with Stan – along with a man the twins' father thought he'd never see again.