And we're back! Sort of! I do have a very nice working schedule for Mom Can I have, I'm really excited for some of them, but I don't know how fast I'll be able to crank out chapters because life stuff (school).

"Mom, can we talk about what happened last night?" Isabel asked, acting as ambassador for her siblings, since she was the oldest triplet.

"Right, yeah, talking should happen. Pines family meeting!" Isabel was a little startled by that, they essentially never had family meetings, so clearly this was more drastic than a nightmare and some haircuts. Mabel took the initiative to herd her brother and nieces into her living room, with the triplets. They all crammed onto the furniture together. Dipper, Meg, and Jess were all super glum as they sat together. Neither girl seemed mad at Dipper, both just seemed extremely confused.

"Guy's, we have something to tell all of you about, from our past." Dipper looked panicked, but was as silent as Mac. Mabel had wanted to protect her kids from even the knowledge of Bill, but they owed their children explanations.

When everyone was quiet, Mabel began, "When Dipper and I were almost 13 we went to Gravity Falls for the first time, and discovered all the weirdness of the Falls." Dipper picked up the story.

"There were robots, shapeshifters, ghosts, and gnomes we had to fight off, but the greatest evil we ever faced was a geometric demon named Bill Cipher." A chill ran through the air as Mabel took over once more.

"The triangular terror broke through reality and tried to take over the entire world. He turned people into statues like it was nothing, and he trapped me in an altered reality, using my dreams as weapons against me. Bill is 100% evil, and it took everything we had to defeat him. And I mean everything."

"But we knew it wasn't going to last forever. Bill was much too powerful to stay down. When I was younger Bill once possessed me. And last night, he possessed Jess. I was absolutely terrified, and I panicked and made a drastic choice. The metal plates in your head will make sure Bill never possesses either of you from now on. I'm sorry babies... That that's what I felt I had to do. You didn't deserve it forced on you with no explanation or choice." He hugged them close and kissed their clean shaved heads.

"The bad monster is gone?" Jess asked, trying to understand everything.

"Yes baby girl. And now you're like daddy." He knocked on the plate in his head. She smiled.

"What about us?" Ty asked, concerned.

"What do you mean?" Mabel looked down towards him, gently ruffling his reddish brown hair.

"Are we safe from Bill?"

"Well, you don't have metal plates, whether or not you want one is up to you."

"Why'd you never tell us?!" Isabel asked, sounding angry while Ty just looked scared.

"I didn't want to frighten you while we didn't know if Bill would be coming for us. Now it's clear he poses a threat, so now we're telling you."

"I don't want to be turned into a statue!" Ty yelped.

"Yeah! You should have told us sooner!" His sister backed him up.

"Tyrone, Isabel, calm down. I will not let Bill get his hands on you. Ever. YOu have nothing to worry about. Besides, you three have magic." Ty let it go. Isabel did not.

"You should have told us sooner." She repeated before storming out and going to her room, slamming the door. Mabel sighed and looked at her two boys.

"Go finish your weekend homework kiddos." They ran off to their room.

"How'd we handle that?" Mabel asked her brother. He sighed and shrugged.

"As well as we could've. I mean, Uncle Ford gave me the official "Bill Talk", but only after I already thought he was a traitor. I'd say it went better than that." She sighed again and nodded.

"Okay Dipper, watch my kids, I'm taking yours wig shopping."

"Oh, yeah. Right." Dipper nodded and nudged his girls forward.

"Come on pumpkin, come on Button. Just us girls." The three of them left and Dipper went to check on his nephews.

Ty was deep into a required reading book as Mac worked on an art project. Dipper sat beside Mac on his bunk bed watching him work. It wasn't very good, but it wasn't terrible either.

"Hey bud. Are you upset by what your mom and I told you guys earlier?" Mac hadn't seemed to react. He shook his head now.

"Not scared or angry?" Another head shake.

"Have you ever seen Bill?" Dipper asked out of the blue, remembering how Mabel had feared that her middle child was vulnerable to the demon's attacks. Mac shrugged and kept working. Dipper let out a low sigh and put a hand on Mac's shoulder.

"I know you don't like talking, but if you ever feel like it, let me know. I'll be here to listen to anything you have to say." Macon nodded and put his assignment down turning and pulling his Uncle into a hug. Dipper just smiled and hugged back. Then he heard the smoke detector begin to beep, and ran to check on Isabel.

"I know, I know, I should have opened a window." Isabel says with an eye roll, flicking off the flames at her wrist.

"This is why your mom isn't scared about Bill getting to you. I have a feeling you could hold your own against him."

"Maybe I want her to be scared." She muttered.

"What was that?" Dipper asked for clarification.

"I want her to be scared for me the way you're scared for Meg and Jess." Dipper sighed.

"Your mom wants you guys to be safe. She's terrified of Bill's influence on any of you. But she's been in denial for awhile, trying to convince herself that there's no way you won't be safe. So she doesn't seem as scared as I am, but she is." Dipper gave Isabel a small hugh.

"She loves you Isabel, and so do I." Seh resisted for a second and then hugged back.

"Dipper! Mail for you!" Mabel yelled as she returned with Jess and Meg.

To be continued.

I'm really excited to be back writing for you guys, as much as I can be.