A/N:

Keep calm

and

Love Gravity Falls

(I just had to! :P)

The afternoon sun glistened on the wet trees of the forest behind the Mystery Shack where Mabel and Pacifica wandered aimlessly getting to know each other. "So how long have you been playing mini golf?" Mabel asked curiously making conversation.

"Oh, for as long as I can remember! I used to love playing it with my mom and dad until..." Pacifica trailed off.

"Until?" Mabel encouraged.

"Until my dad got a huge business offer a year ago and it's just never been the same since." She said reluctantly. "I felt alone... My parents just ignored me. I felt- I felt like I was the only one going through this." The two stopped walking as Pacifica leaned on Mabel's shoulder and hugged her. To her surprise Mabel hugged her back.

"It's okay, Pacifica. Everything will be okay in the end. It always does," Mabel assured her.

"I'm not so sure, Mabel." She confessed, "I mean, you were always an oddball ever since I saw you. Dipper was the nerdy geeky one and I didn't like that either. So I took out my pain on both of you and tried to make your lives just as miserable as mine but you were so cheerful it was hard too. But now-"

"Hey, hey, hey, that's all in the past now. We're friends!"

"Thank you, Mabel. Thank you so much," Pacifica sighed in relief. "You still smell like pig though."

"Now let's just enjoy this day while I'm here." Mabel said and continued walk with Pacifica next to her smiling for the first time in months.

Dipper chased after Bill quickly but silently careful not to reveal himself. Dipper had been, yet again, searching for the dream-demon nonstop ever since he devised his plan. This one was going to work this time. He just knew it. Keeping a safe distance, Dipper followed Bill deep into the forest. The forest? What was so special about the forest? He just went with it.

Finally, after what seemed like hours, Bill came to halt at the base of a tree. This tree wasn't like the others. It was very tall, gnarly and twisted, thorns grew instead of leaves, even the moss that clung to the trunk had a bad vibe. Bill whispered something inaudible and the tree literally disappeared in front of his eyes and a black pit took its place.

It was all Dipper could do to not gasp I in shock.

Bill dropped in the hole and soon the tree started to materialize again. So Dipper took his chance and jumped in after him.

Nothing could have prepared him for what he saw.

Imagine a mansion that was completely yellow, black and white. That was what this was like except it looked like a nightmare lived there. It was the creepiest thing Dipper had ever seen and that was saying a lot coming from him.

He then realized that he lost track of Bill but caught the front door swinging closed. Set on getting the Journal back Dipper raced through the door and caught up to Bill. The triangle looked like he was getting ready to go to sleep when he glanced behind him. Dipper hid behind a scary looking piece of furniture and held his breath hoping and praying that he wouldn't see him. Luckily, he didn't and soon enough snoring echoed throughout the home.

"That was close," Dipper whispered to himself.

Getting up the nerve to peek inside Bill's room he checked to see if the coast was clear. He hovered in not daring to look in Bill's direction. Dipper scanned the room and to his utter surprise the tattered old book was just lying there out in the open. His first thought was that it was a trap and that if he even got near the book an alarm would set off and he would have to face Bill's wrath.

Dipper decided against his better judgment to risk it and gently set a hand on its cover. No alarm. He gripped it firmly. No alarm. He swiftly grabbed it and made a break for the door. Still no alarm. Dipper couldn't believe his luck! He couldn't believe that Bill would be so careless and leave book three unguarded.

He laughed in delight as he flipped through the yellow pages. Dipper flew up the tunnel he came down and soon found his way back to the shack. He avoided his parents careful not to freak them out with a floating book. As soon as he was in the attic, Dipper turned to the page about Bill Cipher, 'DO NOT SUMMON AT ALL COSTS' it read in large red bold letters.

"Yeah, well, too late," he muttered to himself.

Dipper reviewed the page, 'beware the most powerful and dangerous creature I've ever encountered. Whatever you do, never let him into your mind. It is possible to follow the demon into the mind.'

"Been there. Done that," he mumbled.

As Dipper scanned the pages about Bill Cipher he noticed a small flap sticking out from… inside the bookmark? Curious, he pulled in out and unfolded it: Bill Cipher is a deceitful being and is bent on controlling Gravity Falls. Why I do not know but he seems trapped in the Mindscape. He can only communicate through reality in the Dreamscape. Bill has been alone

Dipper read on and his eyes widened as he realized he could talk to Mabel in her dreams. He quickly flipped to the page with the chant on how to enter dreams.

Mabel and Pacifica were smiling and laughing as they strolled out of the woods.

"I never knew that we had so much in common!" Pacifica said with a grin.

"It's as if we were meant to be BFF's!" Mabel chimed in.

The two girls walked inside the Mystery Shack without a care in the world. Mabel seemed to have forgotten all about Dipper. He looked at them with longing and realized how much he missed them. Mabel said goodbye as Pacifica's car showed up and climbed up the stairs to the attic and almost immediately fell asleep.

"Here goes nothing." Dipper squeezed his eyes shut and read the text out loud. "Fidentus omnium. Magister mentium. Magnesium ad hominem."

Once he opened his eyes again he was bombarded with flashing lights and colors. This must be Mabel's dream. Squinting his eyes, Dipper searched for his sister.

"Mabel!" He called out walking over the gumdrop ground.

"Dipper?" He heard his sister's voice reply. "Dipper, is that really you?"

"Yes it's me but I need to tell you something!" He said urgently.

"What is it?" Mabel asked nervously.

"Listen, Bill turned off your power to see me so I haven't been able to get through to you. I need to tell you that Bill is trapped in the Dreamscape and that he's... well... alone." Dipper explained.

"Oh poor Bill! No wonder he's so mean all the time!" She realized. "Just like Pacifica."

"Well I was thinking that we could use this against him."

"We could, but how?"

"We could ask him to bring me back to reality in trade for.. I guess friendship."

Mabel started jumping up and down the idea of getting her brother back. "But you have to do it by tomorrow because that's when your... that's when I need to go home." Mabel looked at the deep cut in Dipper's throat, still dripping blood, not able to take her eyes off of it. "I'm so sorry, bro bro... This never should have happened to you."

"Hey, you know what, it'll all be okay," Dipper assured her. "I'm a ghost on a mission. Nothing will stop me now!" With that said Mabel woke up next morning and Dipper set out to come up with his new plan.

A/N: The REAL ending is coming up soon. ('bewarb' the summerween trickster is out to get you!)