The blackness slowly receded into… black and white? Dipper sat up, confused at his surroundings. He was still notably in the attic, and he, after a bit of moving his body, realized Bill to be separated from himself. "Hey, Pine Tree." Bill said, appearing out of nowhere. "Bill! We… we're separated!" Dipper said, excitement filling him with boundless energy. "Don't get your hopes up yet. This is the Mindscape. Our body, really YOUR body, is down there." Bill said, pointing to the form of a sleeping Dipper. His voice carried a hint of gloomy hopelessness in it's irritated tone, catching Dipper's attention. "So… we're asleep?" Dipper asked, his voice not daring to ask the more important, horrible question. Thankfully, Bill answered it anyways. "Yeah. We're still stuck together." Bill said darkly, the world around them blazing away into light.
Bill sat them up, feeling Dipper's sorrow in bright rays. It was… hard to describe the way the other's emotions felt, but Dipper's current emotions of sorrow and sadness pierced Bill like laser beams; focused and powerful. Bill realized with a quick backwards jump, triggered by Dipper, that Mabel Pines was peering at them from the end of the bed. Bill just, as he'd done many times before, rolled their eyes. Bill and Dipper could actually feel the suspicion coming off of her in the form of a small breeze of emotion. "So, I take it you don't trust me anymore." Dipper and Bill said, strangely, at the same time. Whenever Bill had spoken with their body, it was still his voice; a bit of a shout accompanied by a strange, crackling undertone. Dipper's voice when he spoke had remained the same as well. But, when they'd both talked at the same time, the voice was Dipper's with Bill's electrical undertone. They froze, letting their emotions do the talking for them. Dipper seemed to be a bit embarrassed, annoyed and even fearful. But, most prominently, he was SURPRISED. The surprise hit Bill like a cannonball to the eye. Powerful, unfocused and out of control. Bill assumed that Dipper had gotten a similar emotional whack as their body flinched. "So… Who just spoke? Bill or Dipper?" Mabel asked, looking only a little confused now and much more suspicious. "I think it was both of us, Shooting Star." Bill said, his snarly tone bearing toxic rage. He was so indescribably mad that Bill couldn't help but force their body to lock it's jaws in rage. Dipper seemed to mentally pry them open, willing his voice to squeeze out. "He's right… It… was both of us." Dipper said, out of breath. Bill widened their eyes in surprise. Was his power really that hard to fight? Mabel nodded, scrunching her eyes to the point of halfway closing them. "Okay… weird… So, Dipper, what's it like?" Mabel asked. Her voice was questioning, yet intrigued. Bill backed down, allowing Dipper to talk more easily. "It's… weird. Seeing… it isn't the same. I can kinda feel Bill's emotions, too. Most of them come in a powerful, fiery burst. It's kinda hard to walk 'together' as well." Dipper explained, obviously having no idea how to describe their… ordeal. "Way to speak for yourself." Bill muttered, making sure it was just loud enough for Mabel to hear. "So, how did this happen?" Mabel asked expectantly. Bill muttered a few curses again as Dipper shook their head. "We don't know. We just kinda… woke up like this." Dipper said sadly, his self-disappointment coming through to Bill in large tiles. Mabel didn't seem to understand. "What do you mean? This kind of CRAZY stuff doesn't happen without an overly weird explanation." Mabel said, her innocent tone driving Bill past insanity. Just because he was in a back row seat didn't mean he had to put up with this torture. "Pine Tree! Shooting Star! Are you going to let me speak?!" Bill asked, letting his rage overwhelm Dipper to the point of forfeiting control. Mabel nodded absentmindedly, looking a bit awkward with the situation in general. "Good. Okay, Shooting Star, we don't know how this happened. We don't know WHY it happened. BUT, we need to sort SOMETHING out before I crush Piney here with my annoyance triggered by your insolent, nonsensical speaking in this situation alone. In other words, actually talk about what happened before I get angry enough to KILL Pine Tree out of this body WITH MY RAGE." Bill screamed. He didn't care who heard him. He was pissed off and in a foul mood to boot. Not to mention the incessant ranting these two had been about to start. He wanted a say in it and he wanted the conversation to revolve around the problem at hand. It was just a weird Bill thing, maybe. Sadly, however, the two twins not only went silent as the second dimension, but footsteps approached the room. "What's going on?" An enraged Stan Pines asked in his huffy, gravelish voice,swiftly opening the door. Damn, those locks had to be fixed. Dipper made their body face Mabel, as though she'd have an answer, and, much to Bill's surprise, she DID. "Attack glitter!" Mabel yelled, throwing sparkly, pink glitter at her uncle's eyes. "AGH! HOW CAN SOMETHING SO PRETTY HURT SO MUCH?!" Stan screamed to no one, trying to get the glitter from his eyes. Mabel ran past him, Bill and Dipper following. They ran out of the Shack and into the ever-changing, strange forest of Gravity Falls, leaving behind them confused murmurs and shocked voices asking about what had happened. There was only one place to go; to the secret cave of the Multi-Bear.
Hey guys! Had a bit of a crummy day... So, this chapter has two cuss words! Yay! So, enjoy everyone! Hope you like it!