AN:I don't own GF, Wish I did, but I don't so I will just have to find solace in owning my pants. Anyway enjoy, review if you want and all that.
Chapter 6- A Mysterious Present
Hazel stared at the page quietly, Amber had long since gone to bed, cuddle up with Odin and Waddles. She couldn't bring herself to doze off, and after an hour of staring into darkness, she had given up and decided to study the newest clue. She glanced at the little pad of paper that she had written down anything that she could find from that one sheet of paper. So far all sh had was that he was a three dimensional triangle with one eye, a demon, and apparently very powerful. Other than those few details and the big bold 'Don't summon at any cost' Written across the bottom of the page, she had no idea what was on this paper.
She sighed and leaned on her hand as she traced the triangle drawn on the page. There was nothing for her to go off of, and she was concerned that if she didn't figure it out soon, then there would be another penalty. She glanced at her sleeping sister and shuddered at the chill that ran up her spine.
Hazel shook her head and stood, deciding to make a run to a twenty-four hour gas station she had seen when they had come to the hotel. She slid on a pair of jeans and changed into a different tank top before moving to leave, writing a quick note incase her sister woke up and grabbed her wallet.
the drive was relatively short less than five minutes, and Hazel found herself just sitting in the parking lot, staring at the brightly lit neon lights. She felt restless, and didn't want to go back to the hotel for a while. On impulse she pulled out of the parking lot and drove in a random direction. She didn't even know where she was driving really, just that she would know when to stop, or when to turn back for the hotel.
The trees loomed over her car ominously in the late night hour. When she was younger the shadows that the trees were casting in the moonlight would have frightened her. Her young mind would betray her by coming up with awful stories about what those shadows were and what they were capable of. But now, she knew that the most she had to fear was the spiders that lived in the out of reach branches of the bark covered giants.
Hazel watched the yellow lines lost in her thoughts, in Cali it might have been dangerous considering the idiots who would speed without abandon. But from what she had seen of the city she wasn't too terribly concerned about wrecking.
The road became almost hypnotic, yellow lines, with a small break of solid black pavement. the occasional crack in the road or leaf or branch breaking the monotony of the road. She gave a small yawn as she stared ahead, her eyelids drooping slightly, the road lulling her into a sense of calm rest.
Her eyes drooped and her head tilted forward slightly as she dozed off. She jumped when her phone chimed alerting her of a text, though that wasn't what scared her the most. She was shocked to see the man from the beach standing in the middle of the road. Her car was fast approaching and he wasn't moving. As a matter of fact he stood on the dark pavement grinning wildly as her car got closer.
Hazel gave a yell and made a split decision, knowing she couldn't stop in time, she swerved off of the road into the waiting ditch. Her face connected with the steering wheel as the ground caused the car to jerk to a stop. She sat there gasping for a moment and holding her forehead as pain shot through her head.
After a moment she regained her senses and turned to see if the man was still standing there. He wasn't, in his place was a box that had been in the closet at the Mystery Shack. Hazel climbed out of the beeping car and walked unsteadily to the road to pick up the box.
Hazel put the box on the back of the car and leaned on the trunk dizzily. She definitely had a concussion, and the front of the car was definitely damaged. She gave a sigh and looked at the box, Amber would probably kill her if she did anything concerning their impromptu investigation without her. She picked up the cardboard box and moved to put it in the back of her car. She looked at her car and sighed, she could back out, but her insurance would go up. Her mom was going to kill her, but then again she was probably going to kill her for fleeing the crime scene of her dads murder, and leaving the town when she had specifically told her not to, and traveling to Gravity falls without her mothers knowledge. Yeah she was just continuously racking up reasons for her mother to be furious when she finally caught up with them.
Hazel clamored back into her car and sighed as she started it back up. It of course gave a few warning beeps that her car would obviously make after a wreck. She just ignored it and carefully backed out of the ditch, thanking the gods that the dip hadn't been that steep or deep. She backed out and turned around to head back to the hotel, ignoring the throbbing in her head. If they were still back in Cali, and that had happened during gymnastics class or at home, she would have already been in the hospital, though she knew it wasn't too big of a deal.
She pulled into the hotels parking lot, and stepped out of her car. She remembered the text she had gotten and glanced at the screen to see a text from an unknown number that was just a bunch of zeroes.
"WAKE UP BABY PINES"
Hazel frowned and tucked the phone away uneasily. She knew her moms last name was pines, but she and her sister didn't publicly go by that last name. Only when they were in trouble was it used. She grabbed the box from her car and hurried into the hotel room, unable to shake the feeling of being watched.
"Amber." Hazel whispered quietly setting the box down and shaking her shoulder.
"What is it sis?" She answered groggily, turning to face her sister, slight annoyance on her face. Hazel bit her lip trying to figure out how to explain what had happened to her sister. She finally decided to just blurt it out.
"I was driving and I fell asleep at the wheel. I got a text and looked up to see the guy from the beach, you know the one you saw me with, the one that had caught me before I fell. Well I swerved to avoid him, he just stood there smiling and I couldn't stop." Hazel explained ignoring the concerned look on her sisters face at the mention of swerving. "I ended up in a ditch-"
"Are you okay?!" Her sister demanded interrupting her and reaching to inspect her sister for any broken bones. Hazel let her do as she pleased, continuing with her story.
"I'm fine, anyway I had a small crash and hit the wheel, when I turned around he was gone and a box that had been in the Mystery Shack was sitting in the road. And when I got back to the hotel a few minutes ago, I looked at the text I got. The number was all zeroes and it said wake up baby pines." Hazel explained ignoring her sisters concerned look.
"How hard did you hit your head, you could have a concussion. You could have seriously hurt yourself and might need a hospital." Amber said in concern turning on a light and trying to get her sister to sit down. Hazel sat when her sister pulled on her arm and looked to the box on the bed.
"Amy, I'm fine, really. If I wasn't okay I wouldn't have driven back I promise." She said trying to assure her twin. "Look I'm not worried, I'm fine. I'm more worried about the box and the fact that that man managed to pull it out of nowhere, place it in the road, and disappear without me noticing. I'm more concerned about whats in that box." Hazel said brushing her sisters hands off. Amber sighed and turned to look at the cardboard box on Hazel's bed.
"Okay fine, we will look at whats in the box." Amber said and turned to grab it and set it beside her sister. She cracked the lid and rose her eye. "Its a bunch of papers." Amber muttered, Hazel frowned and reached into the box to sift through them, there were papers on top of the contents of the box, but as she shifted through the box she began finding pictures and tapes and little items and such. She frowned and shook her head.
"I don't understand. Why steal this and leave in in the middle of the road?" She demanded picking up a tape labeled 'Mabel's guide to fashion' and setting it aside.
"Gah I don't understand any of this!" She said in frustration, putting her arm over her face and laying back on the bed her frustration obvious. Amber sighed and began sifting through the papers.
"Most of this stuff is complete nonsense." She said in thought, setting aside what she thought could be useful information, and what was just random scribbles. Though if she was honest with herself she wasn't entirely sure what she was looking for. Hell she was pretty sure Hazel didn't know either.
"Sis, what are we doing? "Amber asked after a moment. "I could understand when we had actual clues on what we were supposed to be doing, but now, he is just giving us worthless pieces of paper that have no information on them. " Amber said setting yet another sheet of paper to the sid and looking at her sister. "By now it seems like he is just messing with us. Why don't we go back to California to mom and just try to figure our lives out from there. I understand you wanna figure out why he killed dad, but I don't think this is going to help us any." Amber said taking her sisters hand to make her look at her.
"Well what else do we have to go off of Amy? I mean I get it, it seems like a dead end journey, but the police would never find him." Hazel said sounding slightly desperate. "We can't just turn and leave." She said running her free hand through her hair.
"Well what has this rat race gotten us? Family memories? All that has told us is that our uncle died in a drunk driver accident. Random cryptic messages left behind by our fathers murderer? Yeah okay, so we know where the culprit is, but still have no idea who he is. Literally all this trip has brought us is misery and confusion. Hazel our father died not three days ago, we should be with our mother mourning the loss of one parent and accepting the condolences of those close to us and him. we should be planning a funeral, not chasing down a murderer!" Amber said pulling Hazel to look at her. "I understand you are upset, I am too, but we have no answers, to anything!" Amber hadn't realized she was crying until a tear splattered on her hand. She quickly wiped the tears away ignoring that they were replaced by more. "Lets just go home. I want mom, I want to go home, or at least go home with mom." Amber said in desperation "Please Hazel, I don't want to be here anymore, all its doing is upsetting you and pulling up bad memories for everyone." She pleaded, Hazel sniffled and nodded.
"Okay Amy, we can go home, we can head out in the morning. I think we should give the box of stuff back to Soos and Wendy. I have no idea how we will tell them we ended up with it all, but we probably shouldn't take it home." She said looking over the mess of papers in thought feeling slightly at a loss. Amber quietly thanked her sister and stood to pull her up.
"Lets get some rest." She whispered moving to the clean bed. Hazel nodded and went to change into her Pjs before crawling into bed beside her sister, Odin and Waddles situating themselves at their feet. All drifting off to sleep, not hearing Hazel's phone go off, both unaware of the text message that waited on them.
AN: That took forever for me to write. I am so sorry if it was a little boring, chapters will get more interesting I promise. I have several chapters already mapped ut and since I got my dinosaur laptop up and running again (Its from 2001) I will be able too update more often again. Sorry for the long wait. As always stay safe and stay awesome.
-fangy.
