Chapter 10: I Just Want To Go Home, Alex

After his shower, Bill came out of the spare room dressed in clean clothes, Alex's clothes. Alex had to suppress his laugh at the face Bill was making, a look of disgust and annoyance. With a click of Bills fingers they were Bills size "I look like a mini version of you!" He said unhappily, with another click the flannel shirt turned yellow, "Perfect, yellow flannel works, don't you think?" he asked Alex, Alex nodded "I suppose, hey I need to visit my sister and my Mom today, you wanna hangout with 'Sixer' for awhile?"

Bill nodded, "Sounds cool, as long as he has Doritos and doesn't go all Fordsy on me"

"Fordsy?"

"Yeah, you know, smart and annoying and...old"

Alex burst into laughter "I'm sure J.K. Won't be that mean, he likes you"

"Unlike Jason"

"Yeah well, we all can't love you your Majesty" Alex said with a grin,

"Ha Ha very funny" Bill said with an eye roll.

Time spent with J.K proved very fun, Bill ate a ton of Dorito, played some old Video Games with his oldest son Joe, Joe was smart, he was almost Ford smart, when Bill beat Joe at the the Video games, Joe got grumpy "You've never even played these games before! How are you beating me at them all!"

"I'm smart, I have some some of my infinite knowledge in my head, plus its easy to work out"

Joe rolled his eyes "Keep forgetting your Bill Cipher, annoying triangular prat"

Bill winked and laughed ignoring the rude comment "Another round or are you too pissed off?"

Joe laughed "I actually have to get back to work"

"Yawn, boring, wheres Sixer?"

"Dads busy"

"Ughhh dumb!" Bill moaned.

A few hours later and J.K. wondered out of his office to check on Bill, Bill looked up from a book he had found "You and Fordsy have one thing in common"

"And whats that Bill?"

"You both lock yourselves away in your 'office' and work, ignoring everyone, loosing track of time, until your so old and its to late" Bill said closing the book, "I'm bored out of my mind here, can't we go do something?"

J.K sighed, "I suppose, what you wanna do?"

"Does this city have a library?"

The library proved even more boring, Bill noticed all the books in this library were so easy to read, most of them he had read "Ughhh there's nothing to read!" he moaned, a few kids who had noticed him waved "Hey Bill!" one boy said, he was on a computer playing a game "Ooo what you playing?" Bill asked coming over, "Minecraft"

Bill studied the landscape "Hey iv been to a dimension almost exactly like this!" all the other boys on the computer looked up "Really?"

"Yup! I suppose if I came into existence because of Alex then that dimension must of come into existence by who ever created this game"

"That would be Markus and Jens"

"Are those guys names?" Bill asked, they nodded, Bill laughed "Those a some dumb names" he said,

"Hey that's rude, your names old!" one said defensively

"Yeah but I am old, and its actually William, Bill is just the short version of it, plus my real name isn't even Bill, I just use it as a multi-dimensional username, my real name would kill you"

the boys nodded, "We know! Ben's just being mean cause he really likes Minecraft and hes just offended"

"Hey Ben haven't you even read the journal or all its Canon history online? If you had you would know Bills old" one boys asked him, Ben just scoffed clicking at the mouse on the computer.

"Wait did you guys say Journal?" Bill said fingers twitching,

"Yeah Alex created Journal 3, you can buy it stores, there's even a limited edition black light version, its real expensive though"

Bills eye widened "Oh Alex is gonna get it from me!" he said angrily, one of the boys grabbed his arm "Please don't kill Alex"

Bill scoffed and grinned "I ain't gonna kill him, hes just gonna get a talking too about keeping secrets"

The boy let go "Oh"

When Alex picked him up he gave him the silent treatment, alerting Alex that something was off "Okay Bill, whats wrong?"

"When were you gonna tell me you had the journals"

Alex sighed "I have the 3rd Journal, the other 2 exist only in Gravity Falls, its just a Merch copy for the fans, Bill"

"STILL! YOU HAD A WAY FOR ME TO POSSIBLY GO HOME, AND YOU KEPT IT FROM ME!" he yelled,

Alex pulled up to the house and Bill got out slamming the door shut, "Bill! Please even if there was a way to build the portal and get you home, there wouldn't be anyway to get the materials to build it, alien spacecrafts don't just fall out of the sky everyday!"

Bill spun around "Give me journal 3, now!" he growled, Alex put up his hands "Okay, okay, hang on a sec"

He unlocked the door to his house and went to fetch the journals, Bill went to the lounge, Alex grabbed both the original and black light edition "Here" he said dropping them on the table, he also gave him a folder "And here's all the info I had of Journals 1 and 2, its not much, mostly illustrations"

Bill heard Alex go to his room, he felt kinda bad for yelling at him, but it was Alex's fault for denying him a way home, Gravity Falls wasn't much of a home, but it was his.

He spent the rest of the evening looking through the books and pages. He sighed and let the black light edition drop to the floor, Alex was right, even if he could build it, which he could, the materials he needed weren't available here on earth, he needed a UFO, or something otherworldly.

In his case, he was stuck here.

Bill felt warm liquid run down his face, putting a hand to his cheek his fingers came away wet, he was crying, his insides hurt, everything felt pointless, he just wanted to go home, even if Alex was the coolest, even if he somewhat considered him like a big brother, Alex wasn't enough.

Alex came out of his room, Bill looked up at him, his eyes still swimming with tears. Alex's face softened, and he sat down, pulling Bill into a hug "I, I just want to go home, Alex" he choked into Alex shirt, Alex pat his back soothingly, "I know Bill, I know, I'm sorry"