Hey guys!

I´m so sorry that it took so long this time. Even longer than I thought *sight* I made it through the exam of small animals and birds. But I failed swine in my second exam of horses, ruminants, surgery and swine. A got 100% points in horse and such but with our stupid System I need to do everything again. So still studying here *sights* But since I learned it once I don´t need to invest that much time in it again. So I hope the chapters will come more frequent now, and when February is over I hope that I can finally go back to my regular rhythm.

Again so sorry!

And thank you so much for your awesome feedback and of course that you staid with me all the time!

Again thanks to Lucile and Roddleday (best beta ever *cuddles*).

Have fun reading… and say good buy to little Dipper *muhahahaha*

Love you~

Fading

Mabel´s grappling hook made a snapping sound as it found its target. Dipper gave her a stern look when she tugged on the line to see how safe it was to climb over the large garden wall. But once she settled everything Mabel only grinned towards him.

"Oh come on Dipper, you know they would never open that door anyway, so come over here now and take a seat!" She ordered pointing to the pig carrier around her shoulders.

´No. Not even in your wildest dreams Mabel!´ The fawn gave her a look before turning around to lift his fluffy white tail in annoyance, just before two hands grabbed him from behind, making him bleat in surprise only to find himself back to belly with his sister, slowly losing the ground below his feet as Mabel began to climb up the stony wall. Seeing the ground vanishing while he was caught up in this compressing carrier unable to move, was enough for his heartbeat to fasten. Dipper didn´t register how his eyes got wide as he began to struggle against his sisters grip with desperate bleads. His movements made Mabel, who was already climbing back down, waver in midair.

"Dipper stop you-" But she didn´t even finish her sentence before she lost her grip on the line making them both fall to the ground with an inglorious sound. Dipper's bleats made her ears ring in protest, but all her reassuring words didn´t make him stop to escape. She hurried to unleash the carrier and once Dipper noticed that the pressure around his torso was gone he pushed himself forwards and leaped away from her in quick jumps.

Mabel watched him flee from her spot on the ground, Dipper's fear made her throat dry when she called out for him.

"Dipper!" But the fawn just took another step into the colorful garden before she cried for him again, her voice drunken with worry.

"Dipper?" This time her fur covered brother finally came to an halt, the small fawn turned around to spare her a confused look with his soft brown eyes. He blinked a few times before Dippers intelligence reappeared in his look as he slowly moved back to her, nudging her in the shoulder, asking if she was alright with a soft bleat. Mabel let lose a shivering breath which she didn´t remember to hold, as Dipper carefully helped her to her feet. But once Mabel saw him chewing the inside of his cheeks with a concerned look the fear rushed out of her system with a relived smile.

"Don´t worry Dipper, I´m fine. Told you it would work!" She grinned, moving ahead through the parklike garden right into the direction of the dark manor which dominated Gravity Falls from this hills wide like a golf facility.

Dipper's own stomach grumbled, the scene of the different type of roses all around him made his nose twitch in silent curiosity while his ears moved when the gravel path gave his steps away. Dipper swallowed he could still feel the rush of adrenalin fading from his system while his senses were going haywire. The small deer let out a shaky breath while he tried to follow Mabel with his still throbbing leg. He would have preferred to stay at home, but Mabel refused to let him out of her sight again, and with his mind becoming foggy more and more, he came to the realization that she might feel "it" just like him.

They were twins after all.

His time was running out.

The deer took over more and more why he had a hard time staying focused most of the time.

And truth to be told, he was scared.

It felt like slowly drowning in a lake of darkness and the deeper he sunk, the more light from the surface got swallowed in the shadows around him. His gaze moved to his sister who was already waiting for him at the entrance, her never fading smile still steady on her lips, but it couldn't quite reach her eyes this time. Because the desperate glimmer of worry mixed with her stubborn hope gave her away. Mabel knew what was coming, but was yet to afraid to let it get through her, so she still clung on the little bit hope that was left for him, pressing the doorbell once again.

The ringing tone in his ears made him flinch, but Mabel hand was already on his back, drawing reassuring circles in his fur while they waited for the Northwest´s to open the door.

But the wooden wall before them stayed close.

The only sound that was heard was rustling nasal tone from the intercom.

"We´re sorry, but the Northwests will not receive visitors today."

The cold answer, probably from the old butler made Dipper's heart sink, along with his ears, which brushed his fluffy cheeks. Mabel registered his defeated gesture for a second before she rammed her hand into the side of her hips, growling into the glassy black eye of the camera.

"Yes they will! They own it to Dipper, so let us in!"

"Again I´m sorry young Miss but I need to request you and your cuddly toy to leave this mansion, or I´m forced to unleash the hounds."

"Meeeahh!" ´Hounds!´ Dipper squeaked in a frightened tone. He grabbed his sister's sleeve with his snout, tugging at it in order to make her leave.

´Mabel let´s go. Just forget it! We find another way. But of course Mabel didn´t gave in to him, instead she shook her head in stubbornness.´

"No Dipper. We won´t give up now. We- I need to talk with them."

´Great!´ Dipper huffed, silently pounding beside her.

´One time you actually get what I´m trying to say you won´t listen to me!´

The rustling noise of the speaker coughed his attention again, when his ears picked up the new voice.

"It´s okay James..." The door opened to reveal the youngest family member in the doorway, looking down at Mabel in an annoying manner.

"...I´ll deal with them." She finished, inspecting her fingernails.

"What do you want Pines?" The blonde watched how the smile on the former mermaid melted away and even Pacifica knew that this was a rare sight to be seen on Mabel.

"I need your help." Mabel murmured in a low voice.

"Why should I-" But Pacifica was cut off again, by the big brown eyes of the girl before her.

"Please, it´s for Dipper." Mabel´s lower lip wavered when the blonde hesitated for a second before she gave in with an annoyed breath.

"Fine..., come in then." ´Before anyone could see me out here with you´, followed her sentence in an unspoken whisper. But even before she was able to close the door again, an animalistic sound echoed through the giant halls of Northwest Manor. Pacifica spun around to come face to butt with a white tail risen high in the air while the deer´s front was sprawled down on the freshly polished floor. She watched in silent surprise how the fawn´s attempt to stand up failed again and again, to end with him tangled in his own limps, while his bleats swallowed Mabel's suppressed laughter. Pacifica blinked- did the deer actually glared at Mabel? The questioning look it gave her caught underneath his foreleg definitely looked like it. Another blead finally made Mabel put herself together so that she approached the small animal with a smile.

"Okidoki Bambi, let´s untangle your furry mess." She grinned taking Dippers foreleg in the right position before she lifted his bottom from the ground. But before Mabel had the chance to repeat her gesture on the deer´s front Dippers shivering hind legs began to slide apart again, so that he fell with a dull noise back on the floor. He gritted his teeth when his bone´s arched again so that he didn´t complain when Mabel lifted him up underneath his forelegs, carrying him close to her so that he didn´t need to struggle with the slippery floor again.

"Mabel?" Pacifica's voice let her turn around with Dipper in her arms, but once the rich´s girls eyes met his Dipper avoided her gaze as best as he could while Pacifica looked back and forth between Mabel and the fawn.

"Why is there a deer in our house?"

Mabel could feel Dipper flinch underneath her fingertips; she looked from her brother back to Pacifica with a sight.

"It´s not a deer Pacifica..." The blond shot her a questioning look, rinsing one eyebrow slowly.

"Huh? Care to tell me what you´re trying to imply here-"

"This is Dipper."

These simple words made her world stop for a second, sentences of disbelieve and mistrust were already forming on her tongue but the simple fact that the small deer actually flinched when Mabel spelled her brother's name, along with the fact that the fawn clearly seemed to her avoided her gaze with his very human eyes made her hesitate while Mabel looked up to the rich girl with a shy smile.

"Told you that we need your help." She murmured into her brother's- no the fawns fur. But Pacifica's eyes were still glued on the deer and for the first time she noticed the strange formation of its dot´s at least the once which weren't hidden in gauze and bandages, that seemed to cover his whole body.

Why was he injured?

Who would hurt a small helpless animal like that?

´Who would dare to hurt Dipper?´

The deep silence that hung in the air made the deer hesitantly looking up to her again, with eyes she was jet to stubborn to recognize so that her own gaze quickly fell to the floor as she spoke.

"Into the backyard then..." She whispered and moved ahead for Mabel and the deer to follow.

"Wait- What? Are you seriously telling me that he´s like that because of us?" She snorted, giving the deer a look who was nose- or rather muzzle deep into the pink and yellow roses, while his jaw moved in an pleasured way.

"Is he stupid? Why would he even do that?!" Mabel only rolled her eyes, while she followed Pacifica's gaze.

"Duh- Because he´s Dipper, stupid." She let out a breath and shook her head with a small smile.

"He thought that he´s responsible for what happened to us. He was afraid that something bad might happen to us because of what we had turned into, like the one time you nearly turned your Mum to stone, remember?" The color that drained from Pacifica´s face was enough to answer Mabel´s question. Of course she remembered that… her parent´s wanted to extract the teeth of the golden snakes that covered her face like her hair once had, because no Northwest could risk to poison someone with anything, much less her hair. She tried to tell them that they were part of her, that she had them under control and if they hurt the snakes they would hurt her too. But of course her parents weren´t listening again, especially her mother, who from the beginning on had pitied her for her loss of femininity with those ugly things on her head. And then something in her had snapped, the heat that had bottled up inside her finally found a way out and exploded right from her eyes which had been fixed on her mother´s figure. Luckily she wasn´t able to control these powers yet, so only a small amount hit the plastic like frame of her mother so that the stone began to crawl slowly over her body. The needed help, so she searched for someone who might be able to stop the curse she had laid about her mother herself, and of course the only one who came to her mind had been…

Dipper… Pacifica shallowed while she watched the fawns tail swishing in delight while the white bandages that covered his small body burned in her eyes.

It had taken the cervitaure the whole day searching in the now- even more dangerous forest, but he managed to find a cure.

He saved her mum from her mistake.

And even if he observed everything with only a shy smile the inside of him must have known the dangers and fears that had lingered underneath their scales, fur, stone and feathers. He might have guessed that she dreamed about turning the whole city to stone, leaving her alone with only her mirror image before-

The blonde swallowed hard, enjoying the feeling of her soft air against her very human skin.

Now it was Dipper who needed their help.

To undo the deal, the pleased surprise to be fully human again. Because why all of them had only been half of a monster, Dipper was now loosing himself in his furry coat of self-loading.

But the price they need to pay for Dipper to return was high. Especially for a Northwest, the simply weren´t used to make deals like that, her family wasn´t used to do something for another one with nothing to gain out of it, but for simple kindness and humanity.

But- she wasn´t like the rest of her family, was she?

Pacifica took a deep breath, before she looked up to Mabel again.

"I- can I speak to him?" Mabel blinked in surprise, like she had said the stupidest thing ever, before he nodded slowly.

"I guess so. Even if he can´t talk back probably he´s still there… sometimes. But- where did he go?" She squeaked in suppressed panic while her eyes searched the rose bushes Dipper had chosen for a second lunch, only to find her brother gone, before a stifled snort asked for her attention again. She followed Pacifica's eyes only to find a smile widen on her own lips as well, even when her insides clenched themselves at the sight of her brother.

At least Dipper was still in the garden, or rather in the rose bed, rolling in the damp earth like a dog or a cat would do on its favorite spot. Only that it was Dipper doing it, obviously whit his instincts out of control again. But Mabel´s silent laughter died down at Pacifica´s next words.

"I don´t think my parents or our gardener will be pleased about this mess." But Mabel could clearly hear the satisfied grin beneath her words, before she turned to face her again.

"Is he doing things like that often? It´s so- unlike him to lose it like that." The second she saw Mabel flinch at her words, she wanted nothing more like to punch herself for the stupid question she just asked. Of course it was… why else would Mabel ask for her help. But the brown haired girl answered her anyway, the sad smile didn´t mixed up well with her bracelets which glittered in the sun.

"Yes it is…" He announced with a small nod.

"It´s getting worse,…fast." She whispered, more to herself than to her friend by her side. But with a delighted bleat form her deer brother rolling in the muddy earth, Mabel´s mind came back to focus again, as well as her smile when she called for him.

"Hey Dipdop, you better stop that now, or do you want Stan to chance your bandages yet again?" She questioned, while Pacifica watched in fascination how his name along with Mabel´s voice seemed to ring some bells in the fawns head, so that he stopped to blink at them in confusion.

"Come over here Dipper, Pacifica wants to talk to you."

Another blink.

An ear that twitched to them.

And then finally Dippers eyes gained their focus again, when he looked down at the ground, than to his dirty fur and Pacifica knew that he would be bright red now as he pictured together what he had just been doing before he totted over to them. Mabel only rolled her eyes, the reassuring smile never left her lips as she brushed trough his fur to clean it form the dirt, before she whispered something in his twitching ear. Pacifica didn´t quite understand what the discussion was about, but the embarrassed bleat Dipper let out, together with Mabel´s big smile when she stepped aside to give them some space along with the word "lovebirds" she might have heard was enough for her own face to flush bright red when she was finally alone with Dipper.

Or rather the deer that looked up to her with Dipper's eyes, before his flustered gaze moved back to the ground.

Again she could feel her insides begin to boil as she observed the multiple bandages his small fame was caught in.

Because small he was.

Nothing more than a fawn, a baby dear, barely reaching her hip with his head form where he stood.

"Dipper…"

She swallowed, wondering in silence how fast the lump in her throat had grown, making his name raspy and dry on her lips, when she kneeled down to him.

But when the fawn still avoided looking up at her she brushed the side of his furry cheek with her hand, raspy voice forgotten.

"Dipper, look at me-"She moved his head, directing his eyes to hers.

"-you stubborn idiot." But the annoyance glance the fawn now shot her made her heart jump in her chest.

He was still there.

Pacifica sight, shaking her head while she let her finger run through his fur.

"Really- after all what had happed you´ve still been the option that making a deal with Bill was a good idea?" She questioned, while Dipper's gaze wavered to the side, and even without him saying anything she knew what he was thinking.

´I know- I should have known better.´ She only shook her head, while her fingers drifted through her own golden hairs again, but her hesitation only lasted a few seconds.

"Well seems like it´s our job to safe you now- the great Mystery hunter of Gravity Falls." She smiled and watched how the eyes of were going wide in awe.

"Meah?" The shy bleat,that was nothing like Dippers former voice send shivers down her spine. But again- somehow she knew what he meant.

"Of course I´m sure Dipper. I´m a Northwest at least, and where're always confident in what we do." She retorted in fake arrogance, but of course it was Dipper she was talking to- so the small deer didn´t let her go that easily.

His cold wet nose nudged her hand, which still held a strand of her golden hair.

"Meeaaah?" He questioned, worry hidden in his dark brown eyes. Again she brushed over his face, before her hand rested on the fawn's cheek. A shy but determinate smile hovered on her lips.

"Don´t worry Dipper, I`ll be alright, since it´ll be you watching over me, right?" She could feel a light blush rising to her cheeks, while Dipper's eyes began to widen again, before she finally was catching herself again, only to stand up with a distance caught. Face still bright red, as she looked down to him again.

"Because you promised right? You promised the town to turn us back to normal- and since I´ll make that deal for you, I bet on you for holding your part of it too deer boy." Dipper blinked confused at her sudden outburst, before something like a smirk appeared on the deer´s face with a confident nod.

"See now we understand each other." But the cold, business tone vanished as soon as it had risen, before Dipper got to get back to Mabel.

"Don´t worry Dipper…" She whispered with a shy smile, but obviously loud enough to catch his attention again, when Dipper turned around to her to nod is head in a thankfull manner. Mabel hugged her tight, again, thanking her a thousand times before the two of them finally left through the now opened gate, while Pacificas eye's followed the strange pair of twins with a hollow feeling inside her while hot determination burned in her throat.

"Don't worry…"

´You´ll get all the signatures you need.´

"I´ll take care of it, from now on."

She promised.

Despite their successive encounter with Pacifica Mabel had gone silent during the walk to the forest back to the Shack. He shot her a worried glance while he padded by her side. His leg still arched and the damn stiches had already begun to itch, but he was glad that he was at least able to walk by himself again. But while he felt some sort of relieve that Pacifica promised to help him it was Mabel he was actually worried about.

Usually she would be relieved and happy, telling him a hundred times that she was right, just like she had told him, but now she was walking beside him, her usual smile missing. A small sight escaped his lips, while his ears moved down in annoyance. Normally it was now his part to lighten the mood, talking to her to elicit her spirit back again. Making a dump joke for her to laugh again, but now he couldn´t do any of those things.

He was useless, as her brother as well as her twin.

´Or as a human at all…´

Dipper grumbled, while he thought about nudging her with his nose, despite his embarrassment of being touched, but even before he could come near her a familiar scent tingled in his nose.

His ears moved by themselves as he raised his nose to order the smell.

´They must be near…´ A smile crept underneath his dark nose, with that he tugged at his sister´s sleeve to get her attention. Mabel looked down at him with surprise before he jumped a few steps away from her, deeper in the dark forest.

"Dipper?"

But when she called for him, her brother just turned and left for her to follow. Mabel had trouble to keep up with him, even injured his body was much more skilled to handle the natural barriers of the forest, so she could only follow him. Fear tugged at her heart, ready to plunge it in the pit back sea of panic that was growing inside her. She called out for him multiple times but Dipper never did so much as to slow down a little.

It nearly seemed like he was leading her somewhere.

´Or he´s simply running away from you Mabel, maybe for good this time.´ Mabel bit her lips and followed him even deeper into the forest.

´Please Dipper, what are you up to?´ When they reached the beginning of a wide green clearing her brother finally stopped, for her to catch up beside him. Mabel looked around at the green field in wonder, before her confused eyes met Dippers.

"What is it? Why did you bring me-" A snap on the other side of the forest edge, made her tense. What if these hunter´s that had hurt Dipper where still out there. Was that the reason he started to run on firsthand? Mabel instinctively got closer to him to hug her deerly brother in a protective way while her eyes never left the dark spot between the trees.

Dipper himself just let out a relived breath at the sound.

Good, they were still here.

He grinned and freed himself from Mabel´s grip and tried to ease her nerves with a small smile, but Mabel failed to figure out what all this was about.

´Okay... ´Dipper thought by himself, turning away from Mabel to face the dark shadows in the forest.

´...I need to show them that it´s safe to come out. Maybe some sort of noise will help.´ He figured, suddenly nervous of some sort. He took a deep breath before he let out two soft bleats.

He winced as his own voice was echoed back to them.

´Please, just don´t let it sound like it just got strangled or something.´ Well the only way for him to figure it out was to wait, beside him, Mabel didn´t move a muscle, simply observing her brothers strange behavior together with his bleats while her worry was rising even more.

´Please,...please come out.´ Dipper begged but the sibling didn´t had to wait long before a small twitch, made Dippers ears risen to the sound. Mabel strained beside him and reached for his fur in a silent whisper.

"Dipper, I don´t-"

But when she finally saw what was emerging out of the forest her voice got lost while her eyes grew wide.

A fawn, very similar to the one beside her stepped out of the shadows. Dipper didn´t even try to hide the smile that crept underneath his nose as he watched the sparkle return into her sister's eyes. Even if he himself felt rather strange in the presence of another deer, so that a lump tried to crawl up in his throat at the similarities between him and the wild animal, while at the same time his muscles seemed to relax in the presence of the small flock.

Because once the fawn had left it´s hideout not only one but a couples of deer's followed him into the clearing along with fawns, older or even younger than Dipper himself. They slowly approached the strange pair of twins with a healthy mixture of curiosity and unease.

His ears twitched along with theirs when Mabel let out a small breath.

"Whoa..." She smiled in admiration.

"Did you just call them?" She questioned, only to answer herself in an hushed overwhelmed tone.

"I really need to write that one down" Luckily she didn´t see him rolling his eyes beside her, of course Mabel would think of this stupid "Deerctionary" now of all times. But the attention of both of them was called back to the deer's when one of the does carefully took a step towards Mabel, coming closer and closer to the little girl. Dipper stepped aside, for the doe to get close enough to Mabel to sniff on her sparkling umbrella sweater she had chosen to wear today. The grown up deer seemed to be very interested in the colorful sparkle, enough to nibble on her shirt in shy curiosity, while Mabel needed to suppress a gleeful squeal.

She took a deep breath and slowly rose her hand for the doe to touch it. The animal took one caution step back before her nose slowly came back down again, closer and closer before fur covered skin finally met human fingers. Mabel´s eyes widen in joy, as the doe even allowed her to pet it´s head while liking the rest of her jelly dominated breakfast from her fingers. Mabel giggled softly before she called out for her brother in a hushed voice.

"Dipper? Dipper look...!"

But her called was left unanswered, so that her eyes swept beside the doe´s figure to meet her brother´s gaze only to find him gone.

Or at least that´s what Mabel had thought when she first observed the little flock of deer's and fawns with Dipper nowhere to be found. Before a cold realization stuck like an ice cold dragger in her heart. Dipper was there for sure- he only failed to recognize him, she simply couldn´t tell which of the small deer´s was him. Her eyes search for the familiar patterns on his flank, for the gauze and bandages he was covered in, while her breath stuck painfully in her chest.

The mingled colors of brown, black and white made her head spun. With the fawns huddled together like that it was hard to tell where one of them begun and the other one ended. They were all to close around something that had caught their interest, to identify anything, with all of them nudging and licking curious at the small one in the middle of-

"Dipper?"

She let out a relived breath, followed by a chuckle when he finally looked at her, annoyance written in bright letters on his furry face, as the younger fawn gripped one of his ears to chew on it, along with one which nibbled on his bandages, beside two others who sniffed and licked him here and there only for him to bleat in protest when one of them began to lick a delicious tasting spot on his face. But when he finally met Mabel´s eyes a small smile crept underneath his nose, at her joyful laughter. At least the embarrassment was worth it. So both of them stayed a little longer and enjoyed the deer's company, but the bitter taste of loosing her brother while he was right there took a lot of cuddling, licking and bleating for Mabel to ignore.

Of course even this day came eventually to an end. They had come through with Pacifica on their side, and even Stan who had told him that they smelled like a whole petting zoo still called out for a family movie night, with extra snacks for Dipper. So the sun had sunk, with a night full of laughter and bleating noises. Stan had even hugged both of them after he had carried Dipper upstairs before her brother finally became silent again, avoiding to look her in the eye.

And with that Mabel suddenly knew what had felt wrong tonight, not to say the whole day.

Dipper had tried to cheer her up, Stan had too and somehow the small things she had tried to ignore today where slipping into place.

The way he acted this morning when their Grunkle had tried to change his bandages, even the way he looked to Stan or even herself had been different from time to time. She had blamed it on the sun, the shadows and his fur that the human sparkle in Dippers eyes had come and gone, sometimes leafing them dark and soft- just like those of the other deer´s today.

While Dipper was still able to communicate of some sort he had been silent for a long part of today, not willing to catch her attention- or simply not… able to?

The way Pacifica looked down at him, not with her ignorance but real pity in her eyes, along with the fact that she nearly had to carrie him away from the other deer when they finally had left the clearing. And Stan… he had acted like he was about to- say good bye...

"No!"

Mabel´s shaking knees gave in underneath her, so that she sunk to the floor with a horrified expression, first sights of tears burning in the corner of her eyes.

Dipper only took a step closer to her, to lay his head on her shoulders, while his own body shivered in fear. But for now he tried to suppress the dark thoughts of losing himself in his frog filled mind so often today, he tried to ignore that it was harder to "come back" every time, because for now, he just wanted to be with her, to be there for Mabel, as long as he could.

Mabel only shook her head, tears falling freely down her cheeks wile a last stubborn expression was written on her face.

They were not too late yet, they were so close to fulfilling Bill´s deal, there was no way they could give up now.

No way.

She tugged on his furry shoulders to look him in the eye, to tell him that everything will be alright, but the look on her brother's face called out her lies and make her world shatter in barely a second.

The small fawn that was inhabited by her brother´s soul looked back to her with his warm brown eyes. Eyes that were so different from her brother´s while the little spark in them clenched to the last trace of humanity with a force that made him grit his teeth, marked the point until Mabel finally understood.

She knew why Dipper was never about to leave her side today.

She knew why he seemed to space out more often and why he even jumped at her tender touch at some point.

She knew why Stan tried to make them a perfect evening and Dipper… being there for her.

"No."

Mabel knew… that he would be gone by morning.

Because the only breathing thing by her side, would be nothing more than a little deer.

But Dipper would not be there anymore.

"No…"

And Mabel cried.

"Dipper…"

She hugged him close to her, while the small fawn followed the clear stream of her crystal tears in curiosity and licked her face in a small attempt to make the hurt go by, to make everything okay again.

Because while he was slowly forgetting why she was so important to him, as his eyes turned dim, he still felt that it was the right thineg to do. He let out a small supporting bleat, which brushed sofetly against her skin, before his world drowned into darkness, to leave her alone.

And even the umbrella on Mabel sweater wasn´t enough to shelter all her tears.