This chapter has a minor word in it (That's one of the reasons why it's rated T), so if this bothers you, you can skip this chapter and move onto Chapter 10 once it's uploaded. :)

Chapter 9

"Can you pass the chicken please, Tom?" Mori asked pleasantly. Tom shoved the plate of chicken across the table. Mori shot him a warning look.

"This was a good idea to have a late dinner, Mom." Mel complimented innocently.

"Thanks, hon. It was the least I could do considering how much you've been through. And Piedmont went to visit her grandmother for the week. She really loves little children."

"Where's Ryan?" Mel asked.

"Out with a friend," Mori replied. "And, by the way, since both of you seem well enough," she gestured to Dipper and Mabel, "Dipper can have Room 206, and Mabel can have Room 959."

"Room 959!? What is this, a hotel!?" Dipper asked incredulously.

"It's a mansion. We use room numbers to keep track." Mori answered with a little bit of defense.

"But- anyway- that's kinda far away!" Mabel protested, looking at Dipper in shock. He returned the look.

"Aww, it'll be fine! We live in a safe house!" Mori laughed. Mabel broke into a hard sweat, which she sometimes did as an after-effect of the drugs. She even sometimes went high out of nowhere, since it had only been ten short hours since the injection. She grinned.

"How many time have I told you not to sit there?" she laughed lightheartedly. She shoved an empty chair over and it crashed to the floor. Then she got up and toppled right over Tom. No one thought she heard him screaming at her. She just grinned goofily into space. She didn't even know they were there.

"She's so freaking high we need to kill the damn thing while we've got the chance!" Tom panted after Mabel waltzed right into him again.

"Tom! You'll do no such thing!" Mori scolded. "And whose fault is her condition, again?" Mabel fell on the floor.

"She's so confusing. She has three names... She killed my brother. She killed Dipper. I'll get my revenge. Someday. I'll kill her!" she laughed hysterically. "She'll see!" Tom's face grew red with the remark and punched her in the nose as he stormed away. Mabel started to cry and Mori ran to her side.

"Nothing too serious," she said, inspecting a screaming Mabel's nose.

"Her eyes scare me." Mel whispered, staring.

"She is pretty high," Mori replied. "I don't know why Tom did that!" Mel looked down guiltily. Soon Mabel snapped awake and looked around.

"Ow." she whispered.

"Okay. I think we can arrange to have you guys put in the room with double beds, right Tom?" Tom, who had come back in, merely grunted.