A/n: Update time!Quick thanks to everyone who likes, favorites, reviews or who already did all that stuff seriously thank you. It means so much to me. Anyways I own nothing.
Part 1:
Dipper sat inside the Mystery Shack impatiently. He just had to see Mabel again. He needed to make sure she was alright. Maybe he's just being overprotective but that's his twin, sister and best friends. Without her he'd be nothing. He was actually a little surprised he was the same Dipper he was in this timeline without her. That didn't matter though. In his reality they needed each other and just had to know if she was safe.
Mabel walked in the store and Dipper ran up to her.
"Hey Mabel!"
"Hi Dipper," She replied looking down a little.
Most people wouldn't have noticed this detail. However Dipper did.
"Huh? Is something wrong?"
Mabel almost panicked but tried to play it cool like she usually did.
"Nothing wrong. Why do you ask?"
"You're looking down like you're afraid to face me."
"Oh that's nothing I'm just a little tired," Mabel replied legitimately yawning.
"Didn't sleep well last night?"
'You have no idea…' She thought to herself remembering of beating her mom had given her at 4 in the morning which had given her a black eye. Mabel's mother was abusive and usually abused Mabel after her father left after an argument to go drink at a bar or something. Mabel's mom was really only abusive when she was drunk and she drank only when her and her husband got into arguments which was very frequent. When she was sober she was just neglectful. Her father knew about the beatings but was in denial that the women her loved (despite arguing with her constantly) was doing this for no reason. When Mabel told her father what her mother did her father just told her that she was just trying to toughen her up. If Mabel didn't know her dad wasn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box she probably would have believed him.
"Hello Earth to Mabel," Dipper said with a playful smirk snapping his fingers in from of her face pulling her out of her thoughts.
"I'm sorry what?" Mabel asked accidentally snapping her head up.
Dipper didn't seem to notice anything wrong with her eye.
'I guess I put on enough make up," She thought.
"I was asking if you had seen a golden rock lying around. I asked you about it last night but you ran away before I had time to get an answer."
Mabel thought for a moment before answering.
"I can't say I have sorry. What do you need a golden rock for anyways?"
Dipper was about to pull out the journal and explain but stopped himself.
He loved his sister dearly but he wasn't sure he could trust this version. She seemed…. Different….from the Mabel he knew…..
"I was just curious," He said as an excuse.
"Okay…" She replied looking down a little once more.
'Something about her presence makes me feel like she's really upset,' dipper thought to himself, 'I know I have to find that rock but I can't stand the fact that Mabel isn't smiling. I got an idea!'
"Hey you want to hang out?" Dipper asked.
"What?" Mabel asked confused. Nobody ever wanted to hang out with her. Then again she didn't really have any friends because to her shy personality with was a repercussion of all the abuse she had endured all of those years.
"Hang out. You know go to the arcade or something?"
Mabel was a little hesitant. The rational part of her brain screamed no it's a trap but something about Dipper made her want to trust him.
"Okay…"
"Great! Gruncle Stan I'm leaving! Let's go!" He exclaimed as they walked out of the Mystery Shack.
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Mabel couldn't believe her eyes. She hadn't ever been to an arcade. She never found it important since she could barely survive as it was. But all the colors, all the smiling faces it made her feel pretty happy she decided to take Dipper up on his offer.
"Mabel over here!" He called to her from a corner in the arcade.
She walked over to him and saw he was standing in front of the arcade cabinets.
"What game is this?" She asked.
"This is Fight Fighters. It's one of my favorites," Dipper replied.
(A/n: Yes that's actually the name of the game. I looked up a picture of the cabinet and that's what it was called.)
"How do you play?" She asked.
Dipper put two quarters into the machine.
"Okay so you use the joy stick to move the cursor and press this red button to select a character and an opponent. Once you do that you do the same thing to select a course and then the game starts."
Dipper continued to explain the controls as he played the game. Once he died he asked her if she wanted to give it a try.
"No thanks. I didn't bring any money,"
"Don't worry. You can use some of my cash," Dipper responded. He really didn't mind. After all in the reality he was from Mabel always needed to borrow cash from him.
"Oh. You don't have to do tha-"
"I insist," Dipper replied popping two more quarters in the machine and gently pushing her up to the controls.
Since the girl was new to the game and had never played a videogame before needless to say she lost fairly quickly. Dipper wanted to smack himself.
'This Mabel must not play Videogames often. I should have started off on an easier game," Dipper thought to himself thinking she had just took a blow to her self confidence. After all Mabel never liked losing.
"I'm sorry Mabel I-"Dipper stopped when he heard Mabel start…. Giggling?
He looked at her with a very Mabel-like smile on her face giggling in a Mabel-like way.
"What's so funny?" He asked very confused but at the same time kind of relieved Mabel was acting like Mabel.
"That was actually kind of fun!" She exclaimed.
Dipper smiled.
"You still have two more lives," He pointed out. The screen saying: PRESS START TO BEGIN
"Awesome!"
A/n: Kind of cute right? Dipper's having a good time with his sister how sweet! Originally I was going to include a flashback of the abuse happening but decided to save that for later. Anyways until next time guys.
