It was getting late Pacifica was still not home yet while Priscilla paced back & forward-thinking to herself while Preston sat in his chair smoking his pipe, not a care in the world.

"Darling, if you keep worrying like that, you'll start to develop wrinkles…you saw her working in that diner this morning, so we know where she is."

"I just want this to be over."

"Soon, we will be back on top of this town at no real cost to us…."

Priscilla was about to respond when she heard the door opened. To his joy, he knew it was time & so did Priscilla to her dread. Pacifica was nearly dead on her feet; working to midnight was tiring and fun with her friends.

"Pacifica dear, come join your mother & me in the den."

Not wanting to, she decided just to see what they wanted so that they could leave her alone & she could go to bed to get some sleep.

"Yes, father."

"We have wonderful news, despite your behavior to our guests…AJ has transferred a large sum of money to my accounts; now we have the funds to not only restart our businesses but make them better than they were."

"Great can I go now…?" she asked sarcastically

"Not so fast; share a drink with us. Our family name will soon be restored."

"If it gets you off my case…" she thought

"Priscilla darling, why don't we fetch that last bottle of sparkling apple cider."

Priscilla & Preston walked to the kitchen, pulling out three glasses as she brought out the bottle of apple cider, pouring an equal amount into each glass. Then opening a drawer, she pulled out a bottle of pills; looking down at the bottle, she thought back to last night when it was given to them.

"What do you have in mind?" asked Preston

"My son has already come up with a way to rectify this, JR," he said, smiling as he turned to his son

Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a see-through bottle of pills; this confused the Northwest as the drugs looked like regular candy pills.

"Sugar pills?" asked Preston

"That a great name for them. I'll have to remember that." Said AJ

"These are a new drug that we've been perfecting. Those who take the drugs will become submissive willing to follow any command giving to them."

"You want us to drug our daughter." Asked Priscilla

"I see no harm in it; my son gets what he wants, your daughter's body & in return, you get your money."

"What's to stop her from reporting you the next day?"

"Two things 1. We'll be gone as soon as I have my fun & 2 our research show that the victim believes that everything they did while affected was their own choice when effects wear off. So long as they remain unaware that the drug was administered to their body plus the drug is non-traceable in the system."

"When do you want us to do this?" asked Preston

"Oh, we'll contact you when it's time." Said AJ

Both father & son readied themselves to leave, but JR decided to let them know one more thing.

"By the way, there are some side effects that might occur later as it works its way out of her system."

"Such as?"

Well, our earlier mixtures may have left test to moderate to significant brain damage, memory loss some were even lobotomized."

Priscilla was horrified to know this, but Preston showed no concern about what this could do to their daughter.

"This batch has been refined to minimize the chances of that happening, just make sure she takes two & call me after…it will take two hours for it to take full effect & I'll handle the rest."

After they left, Priscilla looked at Preston, who was staring at the bottle with nothing but greed in his eyes.

"So we're really doing this all for money?"

"No, for our family name its high time that brat make some sacrifices for our family…it's for the greater good," he said, placing the pills into the drink & watching them dissolve

"Yes, the greater good." Thought Priscilla

Returning to the living room, Pacifica was growing tired & impatient waiting for her parents; handing her the spiked drink, Preston raised his glass to a toast to their family name. As they down their drinks, Pacifica quickly down hers while Preston & Priscilla slowly drank theirs. When everyone was done, Pacifica handed her mother her glass. While thanking for the drink, she headed off to bed. With a sinister smile, Preston pulled out his phone, speed dialing JR.

"It's done."

"well done, I'll let my father know & I'll be there by 2:30. All you have to do now is stay in your rooms & make sure the door is unlocked & you'll be billionaires again…& as an added bonus, my men have caught up to that prick pines & the old man; he's with."

"Well, darling, it's a done deal now off to bed."

"Yes, dear."

An hour & a half had passed as the two slept in their bed; Priscilla slowly opened her eyes, trying hard not to wake Preston as she silently slipped out of their bedroom. Using his snoring as a cover, still wearing a red nightgown, she quickly made her way to Pacifica's room with one thought on her mind.

"I have to hurry!"

Once inside, she rushed to her daughter, pulling off her covers, showing that she was wearing a t-shirt & hot pants.

"Pacifica, wake up, child…hurry!"

"Mo.…"

Priscilla quickly placed her hands over Pacifica's mouth, gently shushing her in the process.

"Listen, there isn't much time put something on your feet & let's got we need to get to lake gravity falls fast."

At first, she was unwilling to believe her mother, but after seeing the concern & sincerity in her eye, she realized that it was severe. Not saying a word Pacifica slipped on some shoes & proceeded to follow her mother. As they opened the door, they were greeted by non-other than Preston, who was enraged; without warning, he pushed them both back in the room, knocking Pacifica to the side while he pinned his wife to her bed.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"What you should have done protecting our daughter."

"You brat, you should be out cold thanks to the drug I slipped in your cider…unless!"

"YOU DRUGGED ME!?"

"You bitch, what the hell have you done to my plans!?"

Priscilla laid there laughing at him, enraging him more as he slapped her across the face.

"I have no regrets. I finally see Preston, the monster you really are & the monster you turned me into; there was no way in hell I was going to let this happen, so when you sent me to make sure Pacifica was in the diner. I took the opportunity to put my own plan into action. To put it simply, I secretly bought some actual sugar pill & swapped it out with that poison you wanted to feed he the only thing you did was make it sweeter."

Both Preston & Pacifica were shocked upon hearing this; Preston became enraged as he strangled Priscilla while screaming.

"You bitch you ruined everything. I should have left you in the gutter where I found you!"

Seeing her mother in trouble ignited something in Pacifica as her anger grew & her right hand began to get hotter & hotter as she clenched her fist before finally if burst into blue flames.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!"

Preston turned around just in time to see a flaming fist strike him in the face knocking him off. Priscilla, quickly getting to her feet and gasping for air, watched as Preston screamed in pain as his hair & mustache caught on fire.

"Pacifica, we have to go…& get to the lake," She said, watching rolling on the ground

Pacifica still couldn't believe that her mother actually protected the woman leading her was not the same woman she's known for years. They ran out of the house, heading towards the lake as fast as possible, trying to make their way to the lake. Finally making it to Lake Gravity Falls, Priscilla looked around, worried as she tried to catch her breath.

"Where are they!?"

"Who…mom, what's going on?"

Before Priscilla could explain, a pair of headlights appeared, driving up to the feeling her with fear as the car drove up to them. Stepping out of the vehicle was non-other AJ & JR, both smiling smugly as they pointed guns at both mother & daughter.

"Were they, the..?"

"Pacifica get behind me & stay there?"

"Not so fast, Priscilla. I suggest you move, or I'll have to shoot your lovely daughter."

No other choice, she slowly moved away, praying that someone would help her daughter before AJ had her on her knees with his gun pointed to the back of her head, leaving just Pacifica & JR.

"You know I really didn't want things to turn out this way, but you force me to do this."

"You really think you'll get away with this mason is going to fry your ass for this!"

"I would be worried, but that loose end has already been tied." he mocked

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, right after your dad told us where to find you, my men called & told me that they finished off that loser, some six-fingered man & that guy who run that skate park."

Pacifica became frozen with shock & horror upon hearing that Dipper, ford & Gideon were killed off.

Moving closer, JR began to whisper into the horrified Pacifica's ear, telling her.

"This is what happens when you're selfish bad things happen to the people around you. This could have been avoided unless you want to add your mother to the list of people you selfishly killed. I suggest you take off your clothes now & give me what I deserve." He mocked

Hearing his mocking voice enraged her greatly. The fact that he killed many of her friends was too much to take.

"Now, how about a kiss for your new man…."

"KISS THIS!"

Pacifica grabbed his face with her left hand and quickly ignited it with Dipper's fire burning his face. Unfortunately, despite the brief, intense pain, JR quickly knocked Pacifica to the ground, tearing off her t-shirt & necklace and leaving her chest exposed. Though she burns his face, the damage was minor as she didn't hold on long enough, but it did leave him furious.

"You witch-bitch I'm going to…."

"Sure you want to try. I still got one in my right hand & I'll do more damage than just minor burns." Bluffed Pacifica

"Fine, you won't give me what I want, then I'll take it from your corpse!" He threatened to point a gun her

"You wouldn't!"

"I'm not above a little necrophilia…oh just so you know I'm going to make your mother watch as I fuck your corpse, then I'm going to killer finally I'm going to head down to that shack kill everyone in there & fuck his sister's corpse too." He said, smiling sadistically

"You sick bastard!" screamed Priscilla

"We're not the villains here. You are all because you & your daughter couldn't get with the program; we always get what we want, isn't that right, son?"

"We sure do."

Pacifica closed her eyes, prepared to face whatever was coming as JR slowly pulled the trigger while saying.

"There was no way in hell I was going to let a body like that be wasted on the prick pines."

Suddenly Pacifica heard a scream coming from both AJ & JR, looking at them both their gun were red hot in their hands, burning them. No longer able to hold on to them, they tossed them, leaving their hand with 2nd-degree burns. Taking this opportunity, Priscilla ran back to Pacifica, getting to her feet, then moving in front of her to protect her as JR continued to scream in pain. Suddenly, the guns exploded on the ground, tuning into blue flames that circled around everyone. Everyone was terrified but Pacifica because she knew who this fire belonged to.

"It's okay, mom; we're okay, but they're not going to be." She said, easing her mother's fears.

Suddenly an opening in the circle formed with first Ford walking in followed by Gideon, then finally Dipper. All three looked like they had been through hell ford's left palm was blistered from firing off his gun multiple time, Gideon's knuckles were bare, but Dipper looked like a went through the worse damage, but he also looked like he did the most damage as well.

"I warned you, you piece of Shit!"

End Of Ch. 8