Chapter Ten: Wimps, Men and Heroes
Dipper was sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by the girls, and he didn't even seem to notice. Pacifica and Candy sat on either side of him, holding his hands, and Mabel rubbed a hand on his shoulder and Grenda just watched him sympathetically.
Wendy's looked at this scene furiously. That thing – she thought it called itself a manotaur – had had the nerve to call Dipper a wimp. For some reason, he listened to him and ran to the kitchen to be alone. Too bad, than, that the rest of the girls followed him. Wendy would have gone with them, but there was one thing she needed to do first. No one hurt Dipper like that. No. One.
"Where do you think you get off picking on Dipper like that?" Wendy said, glaring up at Chutzpar, who seemed proud of himself.
Neither of them seemed aware that they had a small audience. Stan had been walking by with a fresh pit cola in-hand when he'd heard the manotaur berating his nephew. He'd originally meant to join in for kicks, before he saw the kid's face; this was really getting to him. This had also gained the attention of Soos and Multi-bear, who'd struck up a friendly conversation before.
"Seriously girl?" Chutzpar asked, looking somewhere between condescending and genuinely confused. "The kid's spineless. He –"
Stan, Soos and Multi-bear each had mind to say something about this, but none of them got to because before Chutzpar could even form his next word, Wendy delivered a very sound punch to his face.
"Listen up, ya smelly old weregoat." she said in a voice that commanded respect. "What have you been doing during all this. Running and hiding from the real threats? Dipper's been risking life and limb to rescue his sister and saved all of us. And if he had to, I know he'd do it all again and again for however long it took. And you call that a wimp?"
Chutzpar was silent for a moment, clearly having been caught off-guard. "He's still no man." he persisted.
"Your right. He isn't a man." Wendy said, seeming somewhere between still furious and chillingly calm. "He's a hero."
The two stared each other down for a few moments before the girl turned her back and headed into the kitchen to join the rest of the girls.
"Heh." Soos chuckled happily, Stan and Multi-bear blankly glancing at him. "She told you, dude."
The four peered into the kitchen to see the kids, Wendy now embracing Dipper from behind and tussling his hair. While still clearly sullen, there was a small smile on his face and seemed to be in somewhat better spirits from the attention.
Stan chuckled in amusement. "Hehe. Kid's a real ladies man."
Multi-bear tried not to look too smug at Chutzpar as he spoke. "Ya know, manotaur, you can say whatever you want about whoever you want, but ya know what? I don't see you being fawned over by a bunch of girls."
Quickie here and, in my mind, a natural extension of Wendy's awesomeness in canon. Because nobody messes with the kids when she's around, right? Also, log live Multi-bear. Review.