Prompt: kid!Bill and Dipper running around the woods and fooling around a bit? With Bill trying to show dipper that he somehow feels like a brother to him? Or saying it?
(Okay, let's see how I do. Platonic relationship here I come!)
Oh Brother
"Catch me if you can, Pine Tree!" Bill cackled as he swerved between trees. He wasn't going as fast as he would in his demon form, but he was still faster than Dipper.
"Get back here you stupid Dorito!" Dipper yelled angrily as he chased the demon.
Bill laughed as he scaled up a nearby tree easily. "There's no need for name calling!" he taunted down at Dipper while the kid searched for him.
Dipper looked up and glared at him. "Give me back my hat!"
Humming, Bill mockingly thought about it. "No." He tugged at the blue cap that fit snuggly on his head.
"BILL!"
"If you want it so bad, come up and get it," Bill suggested as he took a seat on a branch, swinging his legs back and forth.
With slight hesitation, Dipper did just that. He wasn't nearly as fast as Bill was at climbing trees, but he still scaled it rather quickly. "Alright, Bill, give me my hat," he demanded a few branches below Bill. He didn't dare climb up any further.
Bill just smirked down at him.
"Bill! Come on, man," Dipper whined.
"Come and get it, Pine Tree," Bill taunted, taking off the hat and waving it around.
Dipper grumbled and pulled himself up onto another branch when a cracking sound came. He barely had enough time to look up at Bill in horror as the branch broke underneath him. Dropping the hat, Bill's hand shot down, grabbing Dipper's tightly. He had to use magic to finish pulling the boy back up onto the branch next to him.
Dipper let out a breathy laugh as he relaxed against the branch. "That was close," he whispered as he tried to calm his racing heart. When he didn't hear Bill's snarky reply he looked over to see Bill visibly shaking. "Bill? Are you alright?" he asked as he put a hand on the other's shoulder.
Bill jumped at the touch as his head swerved toward him. "Don't you ever do that again!" Bill yelled.
Dipper flinched back as if he were hit. "Do what?" he mumbled.
"Fall," he answered completely serious.
"I can't exactly control that, you know," Dipper sighed. "Gravity's a thing to humans."
"No excuse," Bill huffed. "Do you have any idea how close you came to dying?"
Dipper shuddered. He'd rather not think about that, but it seemed Bill wasn't about to let him ignore it.
"What would happen if I didn't save you in time? You'd be dead! Who would I bug the hell out of constantly? Who would try to solve the mysteries of this town so I can constantly destroy their chances?" Bill rambled as he listed more questions that Dipper wouldn't mind him doing to other people instead. To Bill, Dipper was the reason he even got this body. He was that human term 'friend' or something to him. He wasn't ready to lose him when they just started their adventures.
"Bill, calm down," Dipper said as he grasped the demon's shoulders. "As much as your 'worry' for me makes me happy, you need to stop. You're going to cause yourself a panic attack."
Bill reluctantly stopped with a small glare.
"Now, if he want me to stay alive so bad, you'll just have to keep keeping an eye on me or something," Dipper stated as he tried to keep the demon from getting antsy again. "Like a big brother," he continued, thinking of how his parents call him that when they want him to take care of his sister.
"'Brother'," Bill mumbled, testing out the word. "I like that."
Dipper smiled and nodded. "Great! So, can you help me down? Unless you want me to fall again," he teased, elbowing Bill.
Bill shot him a glare and shoved him out of the tree, snickering at the boy's screams. Before Dipper could crash land, Bill's magic caught him and plopped him on the ground.
"That wasn't funny Bill!" Dipper yelled as he glared up at the demon. He shuffled to his feet and picked up his hat that Bill dropped earlier.
"That is where you would be wrong, dear brother," Bill cackled. "It was hilarious."
