Disclaimers: I Do Not own Gravity Falls
Author's Notes: So here we are with another chapter of I'm In Love with a Dorito. Please let me know what you think :)
(Back with Bill...)
To say that he was enjoying himself was a stretch, however to say that Bill wasn't at least having a little fun would be a down right lie.
At first the idea of going to a large store full of flesh bags sickened him that was until he saw all the clothes! Now a lot of people may not notice this about him, but Bill had a passion for fashion, as Mabel would soon describe it. However, everyone else looked at him as if he had grown a third eye or something when he started pulling clothes off the racks to try on.
"What?" he snapped as he noticed Dipper's sideward glance.
"Oh nothing." Dipper said. "I just didn't think you'd actually enjoy this."
"Kid if you're going to be successful." Bill explained as he picked out a few yellow and black sweater vest. "Then you have to dress successfully." He gave the kid a wicked smile. "You know you could benefit greatly from a new Wardrobe yourself."
"What is wrong with what I wear?" Dipper whined.
"Mmm." Bill pretended to think as he looked him over. "Torn up jeans, plaid shirt, and sneakers that are falling apart at the seams." He scoffed. "Oh yeah you look like God material to me kid…not!"
"You know maybe he's right." Mabel suggested. "I mean you are the God of the multiverse, you should look the part."
"I'm not a god." Dipper snapped. "I'm not some all-powerful being who can bend time and space."
"Not yet." Bill corrected him. "But you will be, and if you want any of your enemies to take you seriously you've got to look the part kid."
"People take me seriously." Dipper shouted.
Gideon coughed quietly. "No offense Pines but no one takes you seriously." He revealed. "Half the town doesn't even really believe you're more than just another kid."
"Seriously?" Bill snapped. "You mean to tell me you don't have these meat sacks bowing down before you?"
"No I don't." Dipper snapped. "Frankly a lot of people here can't get over the fact that you forced me to kill all those people."
"So what you act all wimpy so they'll like you?" Bill scoffed. "That's some weak sauce kid, even for you."
"It's not being wimpy!" Dipper argued. "It's called being kind! Something you could try!"
"Fine." Bill said. "I'll try." he added, surprising them all.
"What?" Dipper asked.
"I'll try being nice, if you try acting like the God your supposed to be." Bill added.
"Absolutely n-" Dipper began but Mabel pulled him by the ear.
"He'll do it!" She cut in.
"Wait what?" Dipper gave Mabel a look of confusion, and she pushed him aside away from Bill and out of ear shot. The rest of their friends followed, all but Malia who decided to keep Bill busy. "Mabel what do you mean I'll do it!"
"Dipper this I our chance." Mabel said. "Bill has agreed to be give being good a try."
"Yeah so he can brain wash me into becoming a power hungry god!" Dipper snapped. "You heard him!"
"Look Dip." Ollie cut in. "He's just going to make you look the part."
"What is wrong with the way I look?" Dipper snapped more loudly. "This is me, and I like me!"
Mabel sighed. "Bro you've changed." She told him. "We've changed, our lives have changed. And that's okay."
"But I don't want this part to change." Dipper said. "I never asked to be the Star Child, I never asked for any of this."
"But you got it." Pacifica said. "Look I changed because Mabel showed me I could." She explained. "And maybe this is your way to change Bill."
"How?" Dipper asked.
"Embraced the fact that you're an all-powerful being, like Bill is." Pacifica explained. "Learn from him, become strong and He'll see you as his equal."
"And then still be the kind and heroic guy we know you are." Candy added.
"Then Bill will see that just because you're all powerful doesn't mean you have the right to step all over others." Pacifica finished "Just like you and Mabel taught me."
Mabel gave Pacifica a heartfelt smile, and she returned it.
Dipper however was not smiling and for good reason, Bill had a bad habit of influencing Dipper to make wrong choices. There was their first deal, and then of course the last deal where Bill used Mabel's own life to trick him into making another deal. Both times Bill brought out the worse in him and threatened the safety of his family.
And Dipper wasn't exactly looking forwards to giving the Demon another chance at that.
"Bro this is the only option he's giving us." Mabel reasoned.
"Exactly!" Dipper said. "It's an option he's giving which can't be good."
"Yeah but this time we have the advantage." Ben reasoned. "Now he's human just like the rest of us."
"It's an even playing field." Mabel added.
Dipper shook his head, it was never fair fight as far as Bill was concerned, and yet Dipper knew they were right. This was the only option Bill was giving them, and once that annoying Dorito had his mind made up there was no changing it.
But could he really afford trusting Bill again?
The answer should have been an easy no, but if he wanted to save them all from certain doom than the prophecy said he'd have to trust Bill one last time.
In the meantime, while Dipper was wrestling with a decision Malia decided to make a move of her own.
"Are you even going to acknowledge me?" She asked him.
Bill pretended to be interested in a certain rack of clothes with his back turned on her. "I have nothing to say to you."
"Seriously?" Malia snapped. "I should be the one mad at you!"
"Then why aren't you!" Bill snapped as he finally turned to face her. "You said it yourself I used you!"
"You used all of us!" Malia corrected him, "But I still see you as my friend."
"Why?" Bill snapped. "I don't need you."
"Right because you have your demon friends." Malia mocked. "Where are they hu?" She asked. "Did you use them until they couldn't stand you either?"
"NO!" Bill yelled. "They betrayed me!"
"Oh you mean how you betrayed me?" Malia asked. "Is that what happened? The great Bill Cipher got a taste of his own medicine? is that what happened Bill?"
Bill hissed dangerously, his eyes glowing gold in the most dangerous way possible, but Malia didn't even flinch.
"Look like it or not you need me." She said. "Once you accepted your demon side you didn't need to bother with the basics."
"So because I skipped the basics you think I can't teach them?" Bill snapped.
"Can you?" Malia asked. "It's been a long time since you were human. I on the other hand am half human, and stayed that way, besides you don't know anything but dark magic, Dipper needs to know good magic."
"We're going up against Demons not pixies!" Bill yelled. "Pine Tree needs to know how to fight like us." He pointed to himself.
"And if he only learns dark magic you'll ruin him!" Malia snapped. "Like you almost did four years ago!"
Bill flinched at her words, and it was his new human emotions to blame for it. Ever since he became human all he felt about his past attempts for conquest was a deep seeded guilt. He knows that once he becomes a full demon again it won't matter, but at this very moment…
It did matter, and Bill was finding it harder and harder to ignore his past crimes.
Malia notices the painful look in his eyes and softens. "Look Bill I know we may never have what we once did, but I'm not making the same mistake again."
"And what mistake is that?" Bill hissed masking the guilt with a scowl.
"I left you." Malia said. "You pushed me away and I let it happen, and look at what you became!" She was near tears now. "And now we finally have a chance to fix you, I'm not leaving you again." She said.
"Look I don't need fixing." Bill snapped. "I'm a demon, this is how we act." He paused, and to Malia's surprise he added. "But you're right, Pine Tree needs to learn proper balance so-"
"Will?" Malia was surprised. He was actually going with her plan?
"Look I'm only doing this because I know they trust you." Bill snapped. "And maybe if you stay close to me they'll stop breathing down my neck!" he gestured with his head towards the store across the mall and Malia notices for the first time that several members of the Order are spying on them through the glass window.
"They followed us here?" Malia was stunned.
"Of course they did." Bill snapped. "You think they're actually buying that "I'll become good crap?" Please! As if!"
"So why do you suddenly need me?" Malia asked.
"I told you Pine Tree is not going to stand a chance fighting Bares, Not with just bending the elements alone. In less I teach him some of the darker and advance stuff we're screwed." He told her the obvious.
"So you need me to what? Convince them it's for the best?" Malia asked.
"No they'll hate the idea no matter." Bill reasoned. "Some of them already think the kid's tainted. But at least if we teach him the good stuff we can convince them it'll balance him out."
"Will it?" Malia asked.
Bill struggled. "Honestly I don't know, the kid's always been a mystery to me." He admitted. "Besides no one really knows how much a Star Child can take or what their true potential is. Hell most see them as a failed experiment."
"But you think Dipper is different?" Malia asked. "Why?"
"Trust me if any human can find the balance between dark and light magic than it's going to be Pine Tree."
Malia smiled slyly. "You think awfully highly of him." She mused. "I wonder why that is."
"Oh no you don't." Bill shook his finger. "I know that look, and you couldn't be more wrong."
"So you don't have feelings for him?" Malia asked smiling. "Because I know that look, you know the one you're always giving him."
"And I'm going to stop you right there." Bill growled. "I am a demon Malia A DEMON!" He snapped. "And we feel nothing."
"Right." Malia laughed. "That's why your heart beat quicken the moment I mentioned it."
Bill clenched his fist in rage. "For the last time I feel nothing for-" he stopped as Dipper marched up towards him and stopped right in front of him.
The kid had that look of determination on his face, the one that told Bill he was absolutely serious. "Bill Cipher I accept your terms."
"What?" he asked dumbly his initial anger gone in the moment?
"If you promise to be good long enough for us to destroy Bares than I promise to act like a higher being." Dipper said.
"Seriously?" To say Bill was surprised was an understatement, In fact he had only said that in the first place because he knew Dipper would never take the bait. Which meant Bill would never have to try and be a good person. The plan was supposed to be full proof, but like always Dipper Pines had a bad habit of ruining his plans.
"In less of course you don't think you can't handle it." Dipper added with a sly smile.
Bill's eyes glowed dangerously once more, oh he did not just say that he couldn't handle something. "I am an all-powerful God of Chaos." He hissed. "I think I can handle anything you dish out."
"So than we have a deal?" Dipper asked holding out his hand.
"You're kidding right?" Bill asked stunned, he couldn't believe this kid was actually suggesting they'd make another deal! He almost tells him off when he notices Sixer out of the corner of his eye from across the mall. The rest of the Order was holding him down as he tried to his best to get over to them and stop him from intervening. And the fact that he could still get under that nerd's skin made an old familiar smile slip onto his face. "Why would you want to go and make a deal with me anyhow?" He asked.
"Because you need your powers to come back as soon as possible." Dipper reasoned. "And I thought a deal could help things along. Besides a deals the only way I know for sure you'll actually keep your word."
Bill's smile widen. "So you think you can out due me in a deal." He scoffed. "Okay kid show me how much you've learned." He said grabbing Dipper's hand. "What are you terms?"
"No using this deal to some sick twisted advantage." Dipper said simply. "You are only to teach me how to be an all-powerful being who's strong enough to take out Bares and his goons. And in exchange for my cooperation you promise to be good long enough for us to destroy Bares."
Bill's smile widens at the kid's woods; they're good, but this deal still has plenty of loop holes he can exploit. "Okay." He mused slyly. "Deal!"
Dipper knows that smile of his can't mean anything good, but something in his gut tells him this is it. This is the moment that decides their fate for the better. Sure he wasn't for this plan when Mabel first suggested it but now things were different. He wasn't sure how, or what had changed his mind, but some internal instinct told him that this was the right thing to say.
This one deal was their ticket to victory.
"Deal." Dipper said and the two shook hands as their arms were engulfed in blue flames.
Bill chuckled as he felt a wave of power enter him, turns out the kid was right one deal really could give him the head start he needed to getting his powers back. "Alright first order of business." He let go of Dipper and gave him a look of discuss. "I cannot be seen with you looking like that!"
Dipper frowned. "Seriously?" Dipper whined. "Are you still on this?"
"Ahahha." Bill shook his finger from side to side mockingly. "I'm the teacher here." Bill mused. "And I stand by what I said. If you want to be all powerful you've got to look the part and….?" He gave Dipper a sly smile.
"And dress for success." Dipper answered in defeat.
"Girls do you know what this means?" Mabel asked with a girly squeal.
"Make over!" The girls screamed happily.
Dipper gave Bill the most hateful look possible. "I hate you." He growled.
Bill laughed as he looked through the rack of clothes beside him once more. "Now I'm thinking we go with a more sophisticated look. What do you think Shooting Star?"
"Absolutely." Mabel mused. "Nothing says all powerful god like a long sleeve collared shirt."
Dipper gives his sister another hateful look. "You are dead to me." He told her halfheartedly.
"Oh come on Dip-dot this will be fun." She insisted as Pacifica held a blue long sleeve collared shirt.
"I've been dying for this day since we met." Pacifica admitted.
"I will never wear that!" Dipper said.
"Why not?" Pacifica pouted. "It looks nice."
"Oh you'll wear it." Bill mused. "Cause once we get back I'm burning all your clothes."
"You wouldn't dare." Dipper gave him his best warning look, and Bill had to admit the kid could look downright intimidating when he wanted to.
Bill smiled, his left hand engulfing with blue flames as he spoke. "Try me." He sneered.
Dipper stomped off in rage as Bill's laughter of enjoyment followed close behind. He knew he was making a big deal out of nothing but Dipper was sick and tired of everything changing. Somedays he would give anything to go back to being the ignored little dweeb. Sure he hated being the awkward and sweaty nerd, but at least he and Mabel would still be the same they had always been.
And at least their parents would still love him, and be by their side and not on some unnamed farm pretending he didn't exist. Why was he always the one to bare all the weight of the world? What had he done to deserve this?
Dipper didn't realize he had entered the changing room area until he found himself locking the door of the stall and sitting down with a huff.
"Dipper?" Mabel's voice sounded meek from the other side of the door. "I'm sorry we shouldn't have pushed you too far."
"No it's not that." Dipper managed.
"Dip-dot." It was Pacifica this time. "At least try it on." She insisted draping the shirt over the door for him.
Dipper looks at it but makes no move to reach for it.
"Take your time." Cady assured him.
Bill however was less patient. "Well if you're not trying on clothes I am!" he declared phasing through the locked door and entering the stall.
Dipper looked at him in disbelief.
"Thanks for the extra juice by the way." Bill said with a snicker. "I think I'm finally starting to feel like me again." He added.
"Great just our luck." Dipper mumbled.
"Okay kid what's really going on?" Bill as he peeled off Dipper's plaid shirt to try on one from the pile he had brought in. "Why are you so hung up on this?"
Dipper's eyes widen as he noticed the zodiac had appeared on his back. It wasn't there when Bill had been unconscious in the woods.
Bill notices his glace and gives him a weird look. "What?"
"Your back." Dipper managed.
Bill turned to face him so he could look at his back through the dressing room mirror. He sees what all the fuss is about and a smile forms on his face. "Yes I'm back baby." He exclaims as he tries to change into his demon form.
Nothing happens.
"Well sort of." Bill mumbled as he made his flames appear once more. "I wonder if I'm strong enough to bend some reality." He said giving Dipper a mischievous look.
Dipper however was a bit preoccupied with Bill's frontal appearance, the demon in human form had a well-defined six pack and Dipper was beginning to wonder if that had been there before.
Bill's mischievous smile grows wider and more wicked as he notices. "So finally got over Red uh kid?" he joked.
Dipper blushed, realizing he had been caught and looks away. "Hu yeah." He managed to answer. "Wendy's away at college."
"And still thinks you're totally too young for her." Bill scoffed. "Pity she could have hook a god."
Dipper's blush depends as Bill strips off his pants, and Bill laughs. "like what you see?" He asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Dipper managed to say.
"You're a god kid." Bill reminded him. "We're not tied down by gender rules." He assured him.
Dipper shook his head and looked away once more, as Bill pulled on a pair of black slacks and dress shoes.
"Much better." Bill praised as he looked himself over. The demon was wearing a yellow and black sweater vest with his slacks and shoes. And Dipper had to admit the guy did look pretty good. "Now all I need is a top hat."
Dipper couldn't help the smile that slipped on his face, the guy was still the same Bill Cipher, and for some reason that made him happy.
"Okay kid seriously." Bill said as he threw him the blue collared shirt that was still hanging on the door. "What's eating you?"
Dipper caught the shirt but looked to the door expectantly.
"They're gone." Bill assured him. "They left to give you your space."
Dipper seemed to relax upon hearing this and decided he might as well try the shirt on. Besides he knew he'd never hear the end of it if he didn't. "Ever since I beat you everyone treats me…differently."
Bill watched as Dipper peeled off his shirt and tried the new one on. The kid looked pretty good as far as mortals go. His muscles were well defined, not as good as Bill and his six pack, but not bad looking either. 'The kid should be running from a flock of girls.' He realized. He shook his head. "Look kid humans are fragile." He told him. "Trust me I know."
"You don't know anything!" Dipper suddenly snapped. "My parents can't even look at me! They left me because of what you made me do!"
"You think I don't know how that feels?" Bill snapped. "My own grandmother disowned me!" He yelled back.
Dipper felt like he had been hit by a truck. "What?" he asked.
"When I was four or maybe five." Bill said. "My father ticked off my Grandad and I heard him think some awful things about him. I was young and couldn't control my powers, and I ended up accidentally burring him alive in a fit of rage." The dream demon answered honestly.
"Bill…" Dipper was floored, he could actually see the pain in the demon's eyes.
"You should have saw the way my grandmother looked at me." Bill said, he could actually feel the tears coming. "Like...like."
"You were some kind of monster?" Dipper asked.
Bill nodded and threw Dipper a pair of black slacks. "Yeah I understand now that my father had manipulated the entire thing, but back then I couldn't understand..."
"You were a kid Bill." Dipper managed to find the nerve to pull his own pants down. It wasn't that he was shy, but that didn't mean he was proud of his sexuality. Hell he didn't even know what his sexuality was anymore. Pretty Girls didn't seem to faze him and neither did guys until Bill showed up that is. Not that it surprised him, of course he'd lose interest in dating the moment he became attractive enough to win people over. And there had been more than a few girls and guys who had tried to win him over.
However, over the years they had giving up, not that Dipper could blame them; he had distanced himself from all humans besides his family and the Order. Dipper didn't even go to school anymore. Instead Ford began homeschooling him, and just like Ford, Dipper had already earned several PHD's in a matter of years.
"Humans distance themselves from things they don't understand." Bill continued. "Because deep down they fear the unknown. It's not their fault, it's a survival instinct." The demon reasoned.
"I don't want things to change." Dipper whined.
"They already have." Bill pointed out the obvious. "Look Kid I've been where you are." He admitted. "I pretended to be a normal human because of what happened with my grandparents. I thought if I pretended then things wouldn't have to change, but they still do kid. It's a part of life."
"I know." Dipper said as he pulled on the slacks and sipped them up before looking in the mirror.
"Not bad." Bill mused. "Wait let me try something."
Dipper stiffened as Bill ran his fingers threw his hair pushing it back away from his forehead, revealing his birthmark. "Wow." Dipper couldn't help but be stunned as he looked in the mirror. With a simple change of clothes and a new hairdo he looked…older, maybe even wiser than he had just seconds before.
"Now that looks like a god to be." Bill said looking rather proud of himself. "Now all we need is some shoes."
"Bill I can't afford these." Dipper said looking at the tag, the pants alone were 50 dollars.
"Seriously you're a god and you have no riches?" Bill shook his head in disbelief.
"Says the dream demon." Dipper countered. "Where's all that gold you're always bragging about?"
"In my pocket dimension." Bill answered.
"You have a pocket dimension?" Dipper asked stunned. "Where?"
"In my hat." Bill said. "You know the black top hat that I can't seem to materialize at this given moment!"
Dipper smiled at the demon's obvious show of frustration. "So much for the God of Chaos."
"If I were you I'd have these people eating out of my hand." Bill exclaimed as he opened the door.
"Bill I have to change back into my normal clothes." Dipper complained.
"No you have to go find some nice shoes and your sister is going to need to see you in those clothes in order to find them." Bill instructed.
As he spoke Mabel and her friends had walked back over, they had several more clothes in hand all for Dipper no doubt.
"OMG you look amazing Bro-bro." Mabel praised. She smiled at Bill. "You don't look bad yourself."
"Please I could be wearing a sack and still look good." Bill reasoned.
"Guys we can't afford this." Dipper cut in.
"It's already taken care of Pines." Gideon said.
"For both of you." Pacifica add. "With as much allowance as my parents give me I should even have enough for the rest of us Girls to get something too."
The Girls squealed around her, so badly that Ollie and Ben had to cover their ears.
"But first let's fine you some shoes." Pacifica said grabbing Dipper by the arm and pulled him away.
Maliah looked Bill up and down and shook her head.
"What?" Bill asked slightly annoyed.
"Not even your taste in clothes have changed." She said with a laugh.
"Of course not." Bill answered as if it was obvious. "I'm not the one who's fashioned challenged."
Maliah laughed. "You coming with?" She asked.
Bill his head. "I'm going to try a few more on." He said closing the door once more. Honestly he could care less about the rest of the clothes. They were all the same size so he knew they'd fit, Bill just wanted time to himself. Time to think and get his emotions under control. "Stupid human emotions." He growled under his breath. "Nothing but trouble."
"You think so?" a scratchy voice said.
Bill nearly jumped ten feet in the air as the Oracle Mekhi appeared within the mirror. "Seriously lady how many times do you plan to do that?"
"You force down emotion." Mekhi said, ignoring his outburst. "It will be the end of us all."
"You want my help?" Bill hissed. "Then stop speaking in riddles and tell me what the Hell it is you want out of me."
"To consume or to bond." Mekhi Said. "Only you can decide our fate."
"Seriously lady you better start making sense before I burn you to a-" Bill was interrupted as Mekhi's hand reached out of the mirror and grabbed him by the face.
"Tonight the rain returns, our hope is a new at the sight of the falling Dipper's bright light. But alas this joy will not last. His birth shall mark a time of serenity and a world of darkness. A deal will be struck with the king of dreams, gravity shall fall and earth will become sky, fear the beast with just one eye. As soon as the sky turns red, a broken promise shall cause the world's end. But the love of a brother will save us all. And Upon the day the mark is revealed, a resurfaced destiny shall bring the fall of a false god and the rise of what was once forgotten."
Bill trembled as he realized what this was, this was Dipper's Prophecy. He could see flashes of the future dance before his eyes, images too quick to grasp or make full sense of. He was floating above Gravity Falls, all the power of the world at his fingertips, his defeated enemy at his feet. The world, no the multiverse was his for the taking all he had to do was grab it.
Bill shook the vision away and forced himself out of old hag's grip, before falling to his knees in shock. What had he just seen? His future perhaps? But why would she show him this? Why give him a reason to betray them? "What sick game are you playing?" Bill asked looking up at the mirror once more.
But the old hag was gone leaving nothing but his own reflection staring back at him.
Chapter End Notes
Thanks for reading, the next chapter will be up soon.
Until then this is...
Emily signing off :)