Dipper & Wendy vs The Future
Part Ten
Wendy Pines awoke in a cold sweat as the darkness of her bedroom alerted her to the fact that it was sometime during the night. Pulling her phone out of her pocket, she pressed the power button; the bright light of the display momentarily blinding the young woman. As her tear filled eyes adjusted, they were able to discern that the screen displayed '3:42am' as the time. "Holy shit! That was too real!" the redhead exclaimed to herself as she caught her breath; recalling the nightmare that she had just dreamt. All she could really remember was that she was standing on top of the Gravity Falls water tower; her feet resting precariously on the thin handrail of the nearly two hundred foot tall structure. Wendy wasn't sure what she was doing up there, but looking down below, she spied a pair of teenage girls. One sported a long and fiery mane of hair much like her own at that age. The other stood in stark contrast with medium length silver braided locks; a streak of black contrasting the lighter hair around it. She couldn't hear what they were shouting, but the scared woman did notice that her husband was standing behind them with a grave look on his face. Wendy felt as if she were only a passenger inside her own body; feeling her feet leave the wooden railing and the rush of the cool air as she hurdled towards certain death below.
That was the moment the mother-to-be woke up; drenched in a cold sweat that only pure terror could produce. "What the fuck was that about?!" she questioned herself as she sat up in the queen sized bed and turned on a bedside lamp. Running a petite hand over her freckled face, she felt it wick the perspiration from her skin. "I haven't had a dream like that in a few months…" she commented to herself as she swung her legs out from under the comforter and placed them on the hardwood floor of the bedroom. The young woman got up from the warmth and comfort of the bed to fetch a glass of water from the kitchen. "I guess I'll get the journal and write it down again… Maybe if I read them over time I'll figure out what they mean…" the redhead thought to herself as she had reached her destination. A small light above the stove lit the otherwise dark apartment. Grabbing a glass from the cupboard, she inserted it into the fridge and pressed the water button. A moment later, she quickly downed the cool drink. Grabbing the blue tome from a shelf in the living room, the mother-to-be retreated once again to the bedroom. Removing a pen from her desk, she began to record the nightmare she had just experienced.
'September 14, 2019: I awoke once again in a cold sweat after having a nightmare. I hadn't had this one since I was going through my struggles a couple of years ago. I was on top of the water tower and felt like someone else was controlling my body. Two girls were at the base of the tower. One had red hair like mine and the other had silver hair with a black streak (Maybe my daughters? They looked the same, like twins would? IDK). Mason was with them and all three were shouting to me, but I couldn't make out what they were saying. Then I felt my body jump off the tower. I think I might have been possessed? A ghost or demon perhaps? Who the hell knows in this town? That's when I woke up. I'm scared. I can't wait until Dipper is home from the hospital later this week. I need him. We need him' the young woman wrote in the blank pages of the book that her late friend Mabel had gifted her with on what should have been the deceased teen's eighteenth birthday. Closing the blue journal, she fidgeted with her necklace; another gift from Mabel that was waiting for her when she returned from her twenty-first birthday adventure in Portland with Dipper. It matched the one that her husband had received for his eighteenth birthday and sported the same pendants. The redhead wracked her mind trying to figure out what the two mystery charms stood for. Upon finding out she was pregnant with twins however, she had her suspicions. An axe and a flame. It had to mean something. Pulling the piece of jewelry up to her lips, she gave it a quick kiss before letting fall around her neck once again. Placing the book on the side table, she turned off the light and attempted to get some more rest.
Dipper Pines tossed and turned in his uncomfortable hospital bed as he too was having a nightmare. The brown haired man was running through the familiar forest of Gravity Falls, Oregon. A sense of panic raced through his mind as he headed towards the water tower. Standing beneath it, he spied two teenage girls, who were bickering with one another. The red haired one was wearing an outfit consisting of a purple t-shirt emblazoned with a lavender pine tree and a grey knee length skirt. Her companion was wearing black skinny jeans and dark blue off the shoulder oversized t-shirt; a striking feature of the teen was the prosthetic left hand she sported. Finally within earshot, he picked up on the heated conversation. "You said they'd get rid of all this crap! That they'd make things normal for once!" the red haired girl shouted at her companion. "They should have! I don't know what's going on!" the silver haired teenager replied with a frustrated tone as she flipped furiously through a well-worn book. Glancing up, he saw the love of his life, Wendy, standing on the thin wooden railing of the tower. "Wendy! Honey! I'm here!" Dipper shouted with all his might as the two teens turned around. "Thank God you're here!" the redhead girl exclaimed with relief.
"What's going on?!" Dipper asked. He wasn't quite sure how, but felt like he knew the pair of girls. Taking a knee, he placed a hand on each of their shoulders; now eye level with them. "PJ summoned the Magic Killers! I told her not to, but she didn't listen!" the redhead shouted at the silver haired teen. "Whatever, MJ! You were the one who kept complaining about how things could never just be normal! It's not my fault that I'm hella awesome at dark magic!" the lighter haired girl said with a snotty tone. It reminded him of a certain blonde haired girl when she was about their age. "Oh! Would you just quit PJ! I'm just so over your shit! I'm the dark one! I'm so damn unique! I have a robot hand… Everyone look at me!" the frustrated auburn haired teen argued. "Shut up!" Dipper exploded, causing the bickering teens to stop. They shared a look of absolute shock. The brown haired man rose to his feet just in time to see his wife leap off of the tower and begin her plummet to the Earth below.
Dipper shot up in the hospital bed and glanced up at his heart monitor, which was beeping rapidly. A timestamp in the bottom left corner of the black and green screen showed him that it was '3:42am'. "What the fuck was that about?!" the injured man exclaimed to himself. Grasping his necklace from the table beside his bed, he ran held it close to his face and examined it. The Cipher Wheel he knew all too well. He understood what four of the six charms on the necklace stood for, but wasn't sure what the axe and flame meant. "Maybe it has something to do with those girls… What were their names? MJ and PJ I think?" Dipper thought to himself as the lights suddenly turned on in the hospital room and a nurse appeared with a concerned look on her face. "Everything alright Mr. Pines?" the aqua scrub clad woman asked as she walked over to examine the monitor. "Y-Yeah… I just had a nightmare… But I'm okay now…" he explained as the worried expression on the nurse's face faded away. "I'm sorry to hear that… Related to the accident? We have a great staff of psychological professionals if you'd like to talk to them…" the woman, who Dipper estimated was in her early forties, offered. "I think I'll be alright… Thank you though…" he replied in a tired voice. "Okay… Well, I'll let you get back to sleep…" the nurse said as she exited the room and turned off the lights. "I can't wait to see Wendy…" he thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep once again.
Wendy had woken up at nine in the morning, having successfully managed to get back to sleep after the somewhat troubling nightmare. Opening the book that lay on the nightstand beside her bed, she located the page she had written earlier. Reading it back, she began to think about it. "I have to talk to Dipper about this… Maybe he can shed some light on what it means… Maybe Ford had one of those dream analyzing machines in his bunker or something… It just seemed so real… Almost like I was looking into the future or something… And those girls… They looked like they could be twins… Maybe? Nah!" the confused young woman mused as she rubbed her stomach. She had noticed that over the past few days it had begun to poke out ever so slightly. Walking into the living room, she grabbed a throw pillow from the couch and walked to the bathroom. Shoving the pillow under her white cotton tank top, she looked at herself in the mirror. "Huh… So this is what I'm gonna look like? Weird…" she mused to herself before shedding her sleep clothes and getting into the shower.
After cleaning herself and drying off, the ginger woman walked across the hall and selected her outfit for the day. She chose to put on a pair of slim jeans, a black tank top and green Gravity Falls High School Track & Field hoodie, as she was going for comfort on the cool and overcast autumn day. Locking her front door, she began her trip downstairs to meet Tambry and head to the hospital. While she was grateful for the helpful role her best friend had taken on since Dipper was hurt, part of her wished she could just go visit her husband alone. Throwing on her black skate shoes, the young woman opened the door to her vestibule and saw the black two door import waiting for her. A soundtrack consisting of EDM remixes of popular songs awaited the redhead, who strongly preferred rock music. Locking the front door, she joined her friend in the vehicle. "Sup?!" she shouted over the bass of the song. Tambry noticed that her friend was yelling and turned down the music. "Sorry… Just feeling it, ya know?" she apologized. "It's cool…" Wendy replied, no stranger to cranking up the tunes herself. "So… When does Dip get to come home? I'm sure he's getting hella sick of that hospital…" Tambry asked. "I don't know… Maybe a few more days? They wanna make sure that everything is healing properly before he goes home…" she explained to the violet haired woman in the driver's seat.
A short car ride later, the pair of friends arrived at Gravity Falls Regional Medical Center. Retrieving their visitor passes, the duo made their way to the new hospital room the brown haired man had been relocated to. Wendy paused right before entering the room and turned to her best friend. "Can you give me and Dip, like, fifteen minutes or so alone? I just have to ta-" she began before being cut off by the olive skinned sidekick. "You two wanna get freaky… I get it… By the way… Hospital sex… Kinky…" she commented to the clearly embarrassed redhead. "Tambry… We're not gonna bang… I have to talk to him about something important… I swear…" she said in a somewhat annoyed tone. "Okay… Either way, Imma go try and land me one of these hot doctors… Later…" the violet haired woman said as she turned her back and began to meander down the hallway. Walking into the room, she spotted her husband trying to change the channel on the television. "Wendy! How are you?!" the brown haired man said in an excited tone. He noticed that his wife had forgotten her dry erase board and quickly reached for a pen and paper beside his bed. Wendy grabbed a chair that resided in the corner of the room and dragged it beside her lover. Sitting down, she clutched his hand as she drew a deep breath. "Thank you for believing in me…" she said as a look of shock came over the face of the bedridden twenty year old man. "Y-Your voice! I-It's back!" he exclaimed. "Yup… I got it back last night…" the freckled woman said as an easy smile formed on her face.
"I have, like, a million questions about that… But first… I have to tell you about this weird ass dream I had last night…" Dipper said as he looked his beautiful wife in her emerald green eyes. "A dream?" Wendy asked in amazement. "Well… It was more like a nightmare… You were on to-" he began before the auburn haired woman interrupted. "On top of the water tower…" she said in a soft voice, her mind full of disbelief. Any doubt she had about it not meaning anything had just gone out the window. "How'd you know?" an astounded Dipper asked as his eyes got bigger. "I-I had a nightmare too…" the ginger woman mentioned. "You go first…" the injured man offered. After recanting her dream, she clutched the hand of her lover. "No way… Mine was exactly the same… Except… You know… From my point of view…" he explained. "Those girls… Who were they? What were they saying?" she asked with a hint of desperation in her voice, hopeful that her husband had an answer. "Well… They called themselves MJ and PJ… They looked to be in their early teens and might have been sisters… Twins even… The one with the silver hair had a prosthetic hand… They were arguing… Apparently PJ is the one who summoned these people called the Magic Killers… I have no idea who they are, but she did say that MJ wanted all the weird crap to go away… That PJ girl also claimed to be, and these are her words, 'Hella good at dark magic'… And she had some sort of old book under one of her arms… I don't know…" the brown haired man explained as best he could. "So what were you doing up there? Why did you jump?" asked a concerned Dipper. It was now Wendy's turn to fill her husband in on some of the details. "I don't know… I felt like I wasn't in control of my body… Like I was just along for the ride… Ya know?" she informed her husband.
"Okay… So here's what we know…" Dipper began as he drew a deep breath. "These girls MJ and PJ, who may or may not be sisters… They summoned something or someone called the Magic Killers… MJ can cast spells… You felt like you were under one…" he recapped. "Yeah… I guess… I mean, I dunno…" Wendy said; unsure of what had happened to her. She pulled out her necklace and began to fidget with it a bit. "Those two symbols on our necklaces… I can't help but think that they stand for MJ and PJ… I just feel it…" Wendy said as she once again locked eyes with her lover. "You don't think?" the brown haired man asked as he looked at the midsection of his pregnant wife. "Maybe?" she answered in an uncertain tone. Realizing that the speculation was getting them nowhere, Dipper decided to change the subject. "So… How'd you get your voice back? When?" he asked with genuine interest. "Well… It was after I left here last night… I was feeling kinda angry… Kinda sad… So I went to the junkyard to beat the shit outta stuff… I guess it worked because I tried screaming and it just came out…" the redhead lied to her husband. She decided that it was best he never found out the truth when it came to his accident. She wrestled with her conscience over whether deceiving the man was the best thing to do, but came to the same conclusion that her best friend had. Right now he needed her. Soon her children would need her. If she could eliminate a stressful element from their already interesting future, then why not do it? "I'm just so damn glad to hear your voice again… It's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard…" he commented as tears filled his hazel eyes. The young couple embraced in the hospital room as the morning drew to a close.
Author's Note: So… This chapter is kinda setting the tone for a story I plan to write later on. MJ & PJ… Who are they? What happened to PJ's hand? Why did MJ want everything to be normal for once in Gravity Falls? Who or what are the Magic Killers? Just what was Wendy doing on top of the water tower? Will she survive? Did these mysterious teen girls have anything to do with it? And just what do Dipper and Wendy have to do with this anyway? I'd love to hear your ideas in the review section… Until then, thanks for reading! –iKLOT…
Shooting Star Falls AU Reading Order:
Underage Discoveries On A Reckless Night: A Shooting Star Falls Prequel
A Shooting Star Falls
Echoes Of A Nearby Future: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Scarred Summer: A Shooting Star Falls Story
The Dark Days of Candy Chiu: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Forever Memories: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Stable Times Or A Wild Ride?: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Grenda's Confession: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Birthday Weirdness In The Rose City: A Shooting Star Falls Story
The Gift Of Forever: A Shooting Star Falls Story
Wendy & Dipper Vs The Future: A Shooting Star Falls Story