This chapter is dedicated to my friend Lily, because I promised.


He moved his hands to her throat and squeezed, catching her unprepared, she struggles, but he was stronger than usual. Stanford tried to pry them apart, but he couldn't. Dipper had some unnatural strength that stopped anyone from interfering. He squeezed tighter, and tighter. He suddenly stopped. His eyes were blue, but they no longer glowed. He jumped back, and held his head, crouching down. While Soos and Wendy tended to Mabel, Stanley and Stanford went up to Dipper while everyone else just watched.


Bill was getting impatient with the current situation. His plan was going astray. He attended the crisis manually, gaining control of Dipper again, but he was very resilient.


Dipper grunted, getting up and down again, eyes glowing when he got up, then fading as he crouched down again. Stanley went to reach out to the boy, when he jumped up and punched his grandfather. Stanford came forward, keeping the boy away, but not hurting him. He continued his attempted attacks, but to no avail. After a while, his eyes went back to normal, and he fell. He was breathing, but he didn't move.


Bill gave off an invisible grin, he was winning the battle. Now all that was left was to destroy the machine.


Dipper insisted he had something to restrain him when he woke up. No-one objected, it was too dangerous to have him fret move around. Soos held his arm and he had plastic bindings around his wrists. Pacifica looked at him sadly, and looked sympathetic.


After what seemed like hours, they found the machine. They went to it, but Bill was there, Gideon looking scared and picked up the machine from its pedestal, Bill was clearly happy. Then he saw them, and yelled,
"Gideon! Get them! They can't get to the machine!"
Gideon dropped the machine and was just about to fight them, but stopped. He stood there, and sat down, like a stubborn child not getting what they wanted.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"I'm not going to hurt myself just so you can hurt me even more. You've been lying and I'm pretty darn sure I've held up my end of the deal."
"When this is done, I'll make you hurt the worst."
Gideon got up and left, then ran. The recently arrived group was given back the attention of Bill.
He seemed to grin at them, then dived at Dipper. He immediately took control of the body. He kicked Soos and broke one cuff on a sharp rock, but stabbed his own wrist in the process.
He grabbed Robbie and held the knife he had gotten so long ago, to the struggling teen's neck. "Go throw the machine in that lava pit over there or the kid gets it."
Stanley pondered over the choice, but went to shoot Bill, even if he was in Dipper's body. Before he could, Bill dropped Robbie and fell back into the pit, leaving the body and letting it fall.


I'll try to make the chapters longer and more frequent.