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"Memories"
"I´m gonna miss you James!"
"Lily I still can hide you in my backpack!"
"We already tried that!"
"Yes, and dad was not pleased, Apple."
James and Jane were saying goodbye to their beloved cousins. James and Lily were hugging each other and being a little too dramatic about the whole moment.
"At least you stayed for the cake." Lizzie commented while hugging Jane "It was delicious".
"Yes, but it´s my cake, so I will be the one who eats it from now on." Said the now 14 year old blond boy with a grin.
"Don´t be childish, Alex" Jane rolled her eyes at her cousin before smiling and hugging him "I´m going to miss you, idiot."
"Same, Moon" Alex hugged her back.
After Mabel´s husband finished putting everything in the car and after Mabel hugged with her entire force her brother and grunkles, the family of four started their trip.
"I wish they have stayed more time." Dipper commented before Pacifica took his hand in a comforting way.
"We'll see them in Thanksgiving, don´t worry." She said to her husband.
"Well, now we can go to our expedition." Lizzie said to her brother, her eyes full of excitement. However, her father heard this and raised an eyebrow.
"You want to explore the forest again?"
"I´ll be careful, I promise" she said, rubbing the back of her neck nervously "Besides, Alex will come with me. Lily! Do you want to come?"
"Sure!" the girl with straight hair smiled at her twin "I need a distraction, James was the only one who I could cook with."
"Stop being so dramatic" Alex rolled his eyes at his little sister "And dad, don´t worry, Lily and Lizzie will be okay with me."
Soon, the three siblings packed some food, walkie talkies and started to walk through the forest.
"So, there´s a statue of the triangular guy?" Lily asked to her twin, her eyes full of surprise "Cool!"
"I know! I want to see it again, maybe there´s more to it than we know." Lizzie was smiling brightly.
Alex, was behind his sisters the whole time, so he could make sure they were safe in front of him. He sighed, he knew he should have told Lizzie that they weren´t allowed to investigate things related to Bill Cipher, but the girl was so happy that he couldn´t break her heart, not again.
"We were attacked by the gnomes here… then…" the girl with glasses was trying to remember the way to the statue. "This way!"
"Are you sure we´re in the right path? Lily asked to her sister "I mean, you were escaping the gnomes before you encountered it, how are you sure this is the right way."
"I recognize some small places" Lizzie answered "Don´t worry Lily, we´ll find it."
"I know we can find it, I´m more worried about us getting lost" Alex commented.
"Don´t worry, I remember the way." Lizzie said happily.
"Sherlock, are you sure?"
"I'm pretty sure, Alex."
"But…"
"I think I see it!" Alex was interrupted by Lily "Come on!"
Lizzie gave her brother an "I told you" look before running behind her sister.
"Huh, I thought it was bigger." Lily said, watching the statue.
"He was only a triangle, what did you expect?" Lizzie stood at her sister's side with a smile.
Alex arrived at the place and looked at the statue, feeling… strange. He felt an odd energy near the statue.
"I don't like it." Alex mumbled.
"Huh? Why not?" the girl frowned at her brother "It's just a statue, it can't hurt us."
"I don't feel like it's safe to be here." Alex told her.
Lily looked at his brother, confused " But it's just a statue now… and I want to touch its hat, it's kind of cute."
"It's just a hat." Lily raised an eyebrow at her sister "What's so cool about one?"
"I don't know, they can look cute, I want one"
Alex ignored the conversation of his two little sisters and walked around the triangular rock. It was just a triangle, why did he felt so weird?
The blond boy looked curious at the hand of the statue. It was calling him, it was tempting to reach it.
"Tic-toc kid!"
It was like Alex was remembering something, yet, he couldn't place what he was thinking of.
He was seeing a nervous boy, who was looking deseperately at a really old laptop.
"Just a puppet? Fine!"
His hand, was really thin and completely black. He took the boy's hand and blue flames surrounded his and the boy's shape.
Alex shook his head, confused.
That hand in his memory… looked like the one the statue had…
Alex, shaking, took the hand of the statue.
Lily and Lizzie stopped talking when they heard a loud noise.
"Alex!" Lily ran towards her unconscious brother "Alex wake up!"
"What happened?" Lizzie was shaking and didn't know what to do "We need help!"
"I can go find someone!"
The two panicked girls didn't know what was happening in her brother's head.
Stanford Pines… the portal… Sixer believing he was his friend… a fool…
"When gravity falls and the earth become sky, fear the beast with just one eye."
A kid with white hair making a deal with him.
Entering the mind of an old con-man…
Two kids, two shiny guys, a man with a question mark in his shirt…
Dipper and Mabel Pines… Pine tree and Shooting star…
The Pines family… Stanley Pines…
"A-X-O-L-O-T-L MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN, I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN!"
He was defeated.
He was Bill Cipher, and he was defeated.
Suddenly, a bright light, and he began to cry.
He was Alex Pines now.
The boy woke up in fear, shaking, trying to make sense of his surroundings. Someone was carrying him.
"Alex? Are you awake?"
Pine tree… no, his father was carrying him.
"He woke up?" Alex could hear Sherlock… Lizzie's voice.
The boy couldn't stop shaking, he, Bill Cipher, was being carried by Pine tree…
"I'm not him anymore" Alex thought, angry at himself. "I'm Alex Pines, I'm not..."
He couldn't have more conflicted feelings at the moment. He remembered everything, he remembered his life as a demon, and yet… he just wanted to cry.
"What…?" he tried to talk, but Lily, who was presumably at her father's side, interrupted him.
"You fainted, Grunkle Ford is investigating the statue now."
Grunkle Ford?
Stanford Pines… he taking his body as a vessel… the man being tortured, the man's fear, the man's torment, the man's pain…
"Alex, are you okay?"
The boy couldn't answer, he was shaking, and not because of fear.
Alex opened his eyes, he recognized the ceiling and the soft bed under him.
"The attic?" he mumbled to himself "Did I faint again? Why?"
The events of the day reached his mind in that moment.
The boy gulped, and hugged himself, not knowing what to do. How could he face his family, now? How could he talk to them now? Their pain, their torture, their past… he hurt them too much.
They would never forgive him, now they would hate him. He couldn't lie to them forever, a soon as they saw him, they would probably want to know why did he fell unconscious, what he felt, what he saw… they surely wanted to know, specially Grunkle Ford…
Alex got out of bed as soon as the man popped in his head. He tried to hold back his tears and breathed deeply. They wouldn't find out.
"I can do this."
Alex opened the attic door and went downstairs, where all his family was, he could hear their voices.
"I can't do this"
"There was nothing unusual in the statue or its surroundings." Alex could hear Ford's voice. "I don't know what could cause Alex to suddenly fell unconscious."
The boy heard his little sister voice.
"We're sorry" Lily sobbed "We didn't know this could happen."
"We just wanted to have fun." Lizzie's voice was barely a whisper.
"It's not your fault, kiddos." Stan voice was surely helpful to the girls. "You didn't know this could happen."
"But I don't want you near that place again, understood?" his mother's voice was a mix between worry and anger.
"Yes, mom."
Alex tried to remain hidden in the stairs, however, it seemed like Dipper wasn't with everyone else.
"Alex!" Dipper was outside the kitchen and saw his son, with a cup of coffee in his hand. The teen froze when he heard his name.
Soon, everyone appeared in front of Alex. Lily and Lizzie literally jumped to him, making him fall.
"Girls! Let him breath!" Pacifica carefully took the twins and let his son sigh before hugging him.
"Seriously mom?" Alex let out a small laugh.
"I was so worried." Pacifica broke the hug and looked tenderly at her son, who gave her a small smile.
"Alex, how are you feeling?" Dipper asked to the boy.
"I'm okay." The boy answered while going downstairs "Just… tired."
"Tired?" Stan looked at him with confusion "You slept all day."
"I know." The boy didn't say more. He wasn't physically tired, but his mind… God, his mind was a mess.
"I know this may not be the best time, but I need to ask you something Alex." Ford talked with seriousness in his voice, yet his eyes were gentle and looked with worry at the boy.
"What is it?" the boy asked, having a feeling about what Ford was going to ask.
"What were you doing before passing out? Do you remember?"
"I only touched the statue." Alex answered, looking at the ground.
Stanford raised an eyebrow at this.
'I see... tell me, when you passed out, did you have any weird dreams, nightmares or memories?"
Alex wouldn't have found that question odd if the man hadn't say the word "memories". The boy looked at the man, who had a serious expression on his face.
Does he know…?
"No" Alex lied "I don't remember what my dream was."
"Are you sure?" Lily innocently asked "When Lizzie went for help you were mumbling weird things."
Alex really loved his sister, but in that moment he felt an intense desire to throw her out of a window.
"What things were he mumbling?" Dipper asked to the girl, oblivious of Alex discomfort."
"He was saying random words. Some of there were portal, failure, axolotl…"
"Huh." Ford seemed thoughtful at the girl's answer "Interesting."
"I don't think the mean anything." Alex said, trying to not show his nervousness. "I don't know why I said them."
"If only touching its hand makes you unconscious there must be a reason." Dipper said thoughtful.
Alex, however, was starting to get nervous.. Yeah, he may have been a powerful being before, but right now he was only a teenager who just remembered his past life.
"Stop worrying about it." Alex said, his hands were shaking. "Let's just forget about this."
"Alex, that statue affected you." Dipper frowned at his son "I can't let this slide."
"Maybe you should." Alex frowned at his father and cringed at the TV, Stan surely had it on to entertain the girls before the boy woke up. Suddenly every noise was too loud for him.
"Don't say that." Dipper looked at his son with a serious expression.
Pine tree defeating him in dreams.
Pine tree returning to his body in the puppet show.
Pine tree running away with Shooting Star.
"Alex, you don't know what Bill was capable of."
God, his father's voice was too loud.
"You don't know either."
"What?"
"Ugh, just shut up."
"Alex, are you okay?" Lizzie tried to reach her brother, but the boy backed away, her voice was too much.
"I'm fine."
"But…"
"Didn't you hear me, six-fingered freak? I said I'm fine!"
"ALEX" Dipper was furious and his face only showed pure anger. The man put a comforting hand in a shocked Lizzie. "What's wrong with you?"
"JUST SHUT UP, PINE TREE."
The room fell silent. Everyone was seeing the boy with shock and fear in their eyes.
Alex mind cleared at the lack of noise, and just then, realized what he has said.
"I… I…." he was speechless. The boy tried to reach Lizzie's hand. "Lizzie…. I'm sorry…"
"Stay away." Stan quickly took the girls and put them behind him.
To Alex, that felt like a knife stabbed in his heart.
"I just…"
The boy backed away and opened the door behind him. Without knowing what else to do, he left the shack.