Dipper decided he needed to pour water on my face. In retrospect, this may not have been his best choice, as I get kinda violent when surprised. I'm actually kinda violent anyway. I may have accidentally slapped him. Never mind.

After I ended my unconscious attack on Dipper and hopefully mumbled something that sounded like an apology, I forced my eyes open and everything spun for a second… until I focus on my water bottle sitting on a branch a hundred feet above me. Wait… A HUNDRED FEET?! No. Freaking. Way. No. I couldn't have fallen that far, this hurt, but I'm not dead. Okay, to be clear, I'm not 100% sure I'm not dead, but holy crap… a hundred foot fall would kill somebody. I would know. Hey, what's that sound?

Suddenly I register that Dipper has been saying my name for the past minute.

"WENDY! Wendy, Oh my god, are you okay, oh my god Wendy, I'm so sorry, dammit, crap crap crap, Wendy?! Can you even hear me? Wendy! C'mon! Dangit. Hm. Probably temporary hearing loss due to the impact. Should come back in a minute or two. No reason to panic. Geez, I didn't think we were that high. Man, I am really bad at keeping kids safe. Welp. Better not tell Mabel about this one."

{a minute or two}

"Wendy? You back, dude?"

"He-hey Dipper… Ow… am I dead?"

"I don't think so. Unless this tree can magically make you undead, you're not dead."

"My arm really hurts," I say, and now the pain is starting to set in, in my back, my butt, and MY ARM! Aw man, this… This sucks.

Dipper braces my shoulders, and I probably blush, but I'm in too much pain to really know, and he slowly pulls me up. I cradle my arm and look at him meekly. "Sorry. I shouldn't have gone so high, and I wasn't paying attention. I was being dumb." Now I know I'm blushing.

Dipper gets this look on his face like I slapped him again, and then consoled,

"NO! Wendy, this was completely my fault, I shouldn't have let us go so high! Your arm is probably broken now, and crap, we have to walk back, ugh, I'M AN IDIOT! This is all my fault, It's okay if you don't want to hang out anymore, I'll pay for the cast and stuff, but how do I get you back- " I get the feeling Dipper is probably going to assume I don't want to be friends at all anymore if I don't say something. This isn't even really his fault but he's taking the blame. I can't let him think that!

I interject, "He-Ey!" yuck, voice crack.

I clear my throat, and start again. "Hey, Dipper, it's okay. Not that I'm mad at you worrying or anything, but I think I'll be fine. This isn't the first time I've hurt myself and it probably won't be the last. I don't know how in heck I'm not dead from that fall, but I'm not dead, sooooo… maybe that's all that matters? And now, haha, we know I'm pretty much invincible, right?"

I think I see something pass over his face when I mention my miraculous invincibleness, but it disappears so quickly it probably wasn't even there at all.

"Are you sure, man?" He looks down at me hesitantly.

"I'm sure. I don't need my arm to walk back. Wanna go and tell Mabel we got into a fight with some gnomes?"

"Yeah, except then she'll question me on why we didn't bring the leaf blower."

"What?"

"Ohh, so back in our first summer here…"

This was a painful, fun, weird, good day.

And when he asks if I want to explore the old church next Saturday, I already can't wait.

Author's note-

Ok, this was a fun chapter, I'm finding that if I write these really early in advance I'm able to shape the story better, leave little nuggets, and improve the characters. I have a hard time writing cute conversations so I apologize if it was a little ooc. I'll try to get better. I'm starting to really get into this story, and thank you to all of you who have let me know what you thought! If have any suggestions or requests, PM me or leave a review, this story is now also posted on AO3, under 618gnomes, of course. I'll slowly move my stories over there so they're available on that platform as well, but I'm gonna keep using as my primary site. Next chapter will be posted soon! Thank you for the support, and go rewatch some Gravity Falls! Or Over the Garden Wall. If you haven't seen that, you absolutely need to. PEACE OUT!