Chapter 14: Pacifica 2
Before revealing who Mabel was with and to truly understand what was going on, we need to go back to Pacifica's little get together.
After Dipper stormed out when he got mad at Victoria for lying, Victoria went silent. Lucy and Elizabeth were checking up on her, seeing if she was crying.
"Vicky don't worry, it's okay." Lucy stated.
"Don't be like that, But I do agree with him, you shouldn't have lied, but It'll all be fine." Elizabeth said as she caressed Victoria's back. Victoria didn't say a word, she stayed in her huddle up position and remained silent. Elodie left the room, Pacifica chased after Dipper and Star saw the problem that was coming ahead and decided to leave. Elodie made her way downstairs to the main living room where the adults were. They were chatting with one another and each one had either a glass of red wine or a glass of scotch in hand. Elodie went straight to talk to Preston.
"Excuse me sir, may I talk to you for a minute?" She asked.
"Yes of course, what's wrong Elodie?" He asked her.
"Dipper's at the party and (h)e's (h)ere for your daughter. I saw them run out towards the garden." Elodie claimed.
"Thank you for telling me. Excuse, I must go." Preston said as he walked off. He was heading straight for the garden. He arrived at the entrance of the garden and saw Dipper and Pacifica talking on the other end. Preston had an angry look on his face, he never liked Dipper, first of all because of the whole lumberjack problem, but also in his eyes, Dipper was lower class filth. Preston started to run towards the two kids in the garden, he was filled with rage, for ever second he left Pacifica with Dipper, He felt like he was losing her to the commoner.
"HOW DARE YOU!" He shouted. As he got closer, he felt angrier and angrier. Preston saw Dipper opened a portal, he knew Dipper was trying to escape.
"DIPPER! YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY!" Preston yelled while running towards the portal. But the hole closed before he got there. When he finally got to where his daughter was standing, he stopped to catch his breath. Pacifica quickly put the note behind her back so it wouldn't be taken from her. Preston took a deep breath and said:
"I'll kill that kid if I have to, no one makes an ass of the Northwests." While he was monologuing, Pacifica snuck away from the garden. As she was heading out of the garden, she saw Elodie in the distance with an evil grin on her face. Pacifica knew what Elodie did, but didn't want to confront it now. Pacifica went up to her room and saw Victoria sitting on her bed with the other girls, they were chatting. She grabbed the chair from her desk and sat down with them. Victoria looked over at Pacifica and asked:
"So what happened with Dipper?"
"He left, I did talk to him about how he shouldn't of yelled. But he just left and gave me this note." Pacifica said as she showed the girls.
"What does it say?" Asked Lucy.
"I don't know, but if he left, it was probably for a good reason. He wouldn't just leave for no reason what so ever." Pacifica replied as she put the note on her desk.
"Hey, where's Star?" Pacifica asked.
"I think she's using the bathroom, she should be back soon." Said Lucy.
"Anyway, back to the Dipper problem. He left cause he had to, it's not up to us to stop him." Pacifica explained.
"Well he should have at least apologized to me! You know how he made me feel?" Victoria said as she started to tear up. Pacifica looked at Victoria, got up from her chair and said:
"Ah please, he may have yelled at you, but you flat out lied about the second date thing. If you hadn't of lied, he never would have gotten mad. You try and play the victim, but you're just as guilty."
"Oh I think Pacifica is right, you did step out of line Victoria, but not because you lied, because you don't deserve him." Elizabeth said.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Victoria while a tear ran down her cheek.
"Well why would Dipper want a lying little girl at his side when he could have a beautiful woman like me." Exclaimed Elizabeth while flipping her hair back.
"Where did this bullshit come from? You barely met him 12 hours ago." Exclaimed Pacifica.
"Yeah I know, but I don't even care about that, I have another goal in mind with him. When he comes back, I'll make sure that he's rapped around me finger." Elizabeth proclaimed provocatively. Pacifica stayed calm, she looked at Elizabeth and said:
"I highly doubt that, already looking at Dipper's history from what Mabel told me, you're nowhere near his type. Anyway, I think he's got his mind set on someone already." Elizabeth got mad, she went straight up to Pacifica's face and said:
"You saying I'm not pretty enough!? Do you want to fight? I can take you on any day bitch!" Pacifica didn't say a thing, she stood there, calm, with no expression on her face. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and when she opened them up again, she said:
"I don't usually take the violent opinion, I'm not the type of person to get into a physical fight with someone. Not because I can't win, but more because the last time I fought, I broke my teacher's back. So I am giving you one chance to stand down now!" Elizabeth saw the look in Pacifica eyes, she saw the determination and pure rage in the eyes of the young Northwest. Elizabeth turned away and started walking towards the door. When she got to the door, she opened it, turned back to Pacifica and said:
"I don't need him anyway, he's a little nerd, I just want him cause I want to take him away from you." And with that comment, something within Pacifica snapped, something inside of her started to burn, a hot flame of pure rage in her soul was ready to be unleashed. Before she could even think, Pacifica ran and jumped at Elizabeth with incredible speed. She pinned Elizabeth down to the ground and started slapping her across the face. After the third slap, Elizabeth punched her in the face but Pacifica didn't budge, she was determined on keeping Elizabeth on the ground and not giving her any room to move. Pacifica let out a cry of rage and punched Elizabeth in the face. With every punch, Pacifica through at Elizabeth's face, Pacifica was repeatedly screaming out:
"I hate you! I hate you!" Elizabeth pulled on Pacifica's hair and tried moving her legs crazily so she could get out of Pacifica's lock. Elizabeth succeeded on getting free, she got up and sucker punched Pacifica, then followed up by scratching her. This led to Pacifica rapping her arms around Elizabeth's hips and proceeded to ram her into the wall. As Pacifica pinned her to the wall, Elizabeth began to speak as she was struggling to get out of Pacifica's grip.
"Now we see your true colors! I truly understand you now! For the last few years we've known each other, I've been trying to see your true face. And all I needed to do was mention that little Californian of yours." Elizabeth explained
"Shut it! You think you weren't exposing yourself before by being cocky and provoking people. You always lead on that you're an innocent little girl, but from day one, I knew you weren't. You're just someone who always sacrifices people to get what you want" Pacifica exclaimed. And as she finished talking, Pacifica kneed Elizabeth in the stomach and followed up with a high kick to the face. Elizabeth was sent to the ground at top speed, smacking her head against the wooded floorboards. Pacifica looked down at her concurred foe, then looked at Lucy and Victoria who were both huddled up in the corner, terrified of their friend.
"Now, leave! I don't want to see your face for the rest of the evening. Lucy and Victoria as well, please leave unless you want to end up like her." She said as she pointed to Elizabeth who was face down on the ground. The girls quickly got out of the room and as Elizabeth left, she turned back and asked:
"Was it really necessary to go that far? You don't truly hate me do you?" Pacifica took a deep breath and replied with:
"I don't think so, I'll have to see. Plus I did warn you to back down." Elizabeth just nodded and limped away with a hand on her ribcage. Once everyone left the room, Pacifica fell to the floor with exhaustion. She looked at her hands and finally, her brain caught up with her body. 'Where the hell did all that rage come from? And why did I get so mad?' She thought. She looked over at her mirror and saw that she had a few scratches on her face. Pacifica got up and decided to go clean her face. So she left to the bathroom, but when she came back, there was Star sitting on her bed.
"Did you read Dipper's message?" Star asked.
"Not yet, but I need you to help me find him!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"First read the letter, then I'll help." She replied calmly. Pacifica nodded, grabbed the small note over from her desk opened it up and started reading out loud:
"Dear Pacifica,
If your reading this, then my cover as Diana has been blown. I'm sorry I left so quickly, but if I didn't, I would have been captured by your dad. Anyway, I went to a friend's place to lay low. I'll be back soon.
Sincerely Dipper." Pacifica closed up the letter and kept it in hand. Then, she turned to Star and asked:
"Can you take me to him?"
"Well I don't know which friend he's staying with."
"Then we have to check every friend Dipper has. It shouldn't be too difficult."
"Sure but let's clean up your face first. It's all messed up and stuff." Said Star.
"Yeah I kind of got into a fight with Elizabeth not too long ago." Pacifica explained with hesitation in her voice.
"No way! How come? Did you win?" Shouted Star in excitement.
"Wow, I didn't know you would be so enthusiastic about me fighting. Well I don't really know why, I remember she said something that really pissed me off then I attacked her. And yeah I won." Explained Pacifica.
"Elizabeth had it coming. I didn't really like her much. And I like everyone!" Yelled Star.
"I guess, But I should clean my face a little more." Pacifica said.
"Don't worry, I got it. I'll do it with magic. I have gotten better with using magic on the body, even since I turned Marco's arm into an evil octopus tentacle, I've studied up so that it wouldn't happen again. Ready?" Star asked as she pointed her wand a few inches away from Pacifica face.
"Well I guess." Pacifica said with uncertainty.
"Repairium scaratris!" As Star said her spell, a green and purple stream of light exploded out of her wand directly into Pacifica face. Once the spell was finished, Pacifica went over to the mirror and saw the scratches were gone.
"Wow Thanks Star." Pacifica said.
"No problem, I do it all the time whenever Marco gets hurt." Star explained.
"Hurt by someone else or mainly by you?" Asked Pacifica.
"Anyway, I think we should got see Mabel, maybe she would know where Dipper went." Said Star.
"And also I'd like to know if you are going to tell Dipper about your fight?" Star added.
"Great idea and no, that's something I'll try and keep him away from. Anyway, we should go now!" Exclaimed Pacifica as she started running out the door.
"Pacifica wait, we can just us the scissors and go directly to Mabel's room." Star said. Pacifica turned around and nodded in agreement.
Now that is part of the story has been revealed, we can now proceed with the story that's going on right now. Dipper and Pacifica saw Victoria and Mabel in the bedroom, they were singing and dancing before Dipper and Pacifica arrived. Both groups stood in place, looking at each other, silent, the only sound that could be heard was the sound of the wind chimes out at the front of the Mystery Shack. Suddenly both Victoria and Mabel ran over to the two who just arrived and hugged them.
"I'm so glad you're alright Mason, I wanted to looking for you with Pacifica and Star, but they wanted me to stay in case you came back." Mabel said with tears running down her face. Dipper took his sister into his arms.
"Since when do you use my real name?" Dipper asked.
"Whenever you be a retarded sibling or when I get extremely worried about you." Mabel explained.
"Pacifica, are you okay? You left straight after your fight and everything, aren't you tired?" Victoria asked.
"I fine, I guess sometimes, the body can survive when you're determined." Pacifica replied. Dipper looked over at Pacifica and asked:
"Fight? What does Victoria mean by fight?"
"I'll tell you later, now's not the time Mason." Pacifica said with a grin. Dipper rolled his eyes.
"Hey Dipper, I just wanted to apologize for lying last night. I know I went a little overboard." Victoria said. Dipper turned to Victoria, smiled and said:
"No problem, we've all lied before. Let's just put it behind us. Water under the bridge." Mabel got out of Dipper's arms and asked:
"Hey, are you guys hungry? I can make a sandwich or something." Pacifica and Dipper looked at each other and said in unison:
"Sure!" Mabel nodded and left downstairs.
"I can help you Mabel." Victoria said as she followed behind her. Pacifica let out a sigh and flopped onto Dipper's bed. Dipper laughed a bit and went to sit on the bed next to her.
"I'm so damn tired, you know how tiring it was to hunt you down? I just want to close my eyes and sleep." Pacifica said.
"Yeah I can see that, do as you wish, sleep if you want, I'm sure Mabel and Victoria don't really mind if you do or not. And I don't really mind, I'll just hang here, maybe I'll take a nap as well on Mabel's bed." Dipper replied. Pacifica yawned and said:
"Sure that's fine."
"How about I take a nap next you on my bed?" Dipper said with a grin. Pacifica turned to him, and with no emotion on her face simply said:
"Do that and I'll kick you off the bed."
"It was a joke, you know I wouldn't do that. Anyway, enjoy your nap, cause I'm gonna have one myself." Dipper said as he got onto Mabel's bed.
"Yeah whatever now shut up." Pacifica said as she rolled over away from him. Dipper started to doze off slowly as he thought about everything that happened from the morning till now: The date with Victoria; Bill truly becoming his enemy; meeting Elizabeth; meeting Kyle; learning about The Pentagon; seeing Jackie again; helping Marco; learning about the Dimensional Gap; getting his cover as Diana blown and being reunited with Pacifica after leaving her. So much had happened within the last 24 hours of his life. He just wanted to get some rest finally, but fate had something else in store for him. Dipper felt like his soul was being torn away from his body the closer he got to falling asleep, he tried to fight it, but Dipper was way too tired and eventually fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes, he realized that he was in Kyle's office. Dipper rolled his eyes and said:
"Can I once fall asleep and not be taken to another dimension! Is that too much to ask!" Kyle looked up from his paper work and saw Dipper standing a few steps away from his desk. Kyle put the papers down and said:
"Sorry Dipper, I would have let you sleep, but since there has been new development with your timeline, I really needed to talk to you, so I can prepare you."
"So what's wrong with it now?" Dipper asked.
"Nothing is wrong, but it's just you have a lot more coming up. You think the last 24 hours was that intense? Ha that's laughable! Laughable my dude. Trust me, everything you just went through is gonna seem like a delightful day." Kyle said as he continued to write some things down.
"Okay, and how does telling me that useless info help me prepare?" Dipper said angrily.
"Calm down Dipper, I just wanted to share some information, Sorry for trying to be nice. Whatever, water under the bridge. First thing's first, you got to work on your sword fighting, using your magic, get your body stronger and sharpening your reflexes." Kyle explained.
"How come? Will I get in a fight with someone where I'll have to use a sword or something? And how come I need to strengthen my body if I can use magic?" Dipper asked rapidly.
"Wow, you've got no clue how your magic works do you? Anyway, to use your magic fully, your body needs to get stronger or every time you use it, the backlash will be catastrophic on your body. But, keep your magic flow constant at 5% so that it can gradually get better, cause to use the Pentagon, you need to use at least 40% of your magical abilities. And this is the fastest way to get you ready for you battle with Gideon, remember he still may be going to create the Dimensional Gap. Also the sword fighting is only for an emergency, because it's only a 2% chance your timeline will go that path. And finally for your reflexes, I suggest getting someone to throw tennis balls at you till can catch or dodge 100 in a row. I'm sure Pacifica would be glad to do it." Kyle explained as he read his notes on his desk.
"Wow that's a lot to do to prepare." Dipper stated.
"Yeah yeah I know, but do whatever you want. It's not up to me to stop this, I can't interfere directly. Plus, it's up to you to make your own destiny."
"So I strengthen my body, work on my sword fighting and look for the next Pentagon piece right?" Asked Dipper.
"Yep, that's it."
"Alright, next piece is with Lucy? Am I correct?"
"Yep, I'll let you go get it Dipper." Kyle said.
"Also there's something that no one has told you and I think you need to know." Kyle added. Dipper looked at him with a perplexed look on his face.
"And what's that?" Dipper asked.
"Someone is out of place, as in they're not in the correct timeline." He stated.
"How is that possible? Isn't your job to keep the timelines in order?" Dipper asked in shock.
"Yeah but something else put him here, he may have even put himself here, he is smart after all. And I do understand why he's here if he chose to come here and like I said before, I can't directly interfere." Kyle explained.
"Well who is it?" Dipper asked.
"Sorry I can't say, I want to build suspense with the people reading the story." Kyle said with a grin on his face. Dipper's soul started to deteriorate and go translucent.
"No! Tell me Kyle, don't leave me in the dark about this!" Dipper shouted out. But it was too late, he was sent out of Kyle's dimension. Once Dipper left, Kyle went into the left draw of his desk and grabbed an old letter, it had sloppy handwriting on it. Kyle smiled and put it back in the draw. He looked at the family photo on his desk and said:
"I guess he and I are similar. We'd do anything for our loved ones, no matter the consequence."
When Dipper awoke, he thought about what Kyle said. 'Why does everyone like to leave out important information? Is it for drama or something? Do they get pleasure from briefly giving info to me?' He noticed the girl sleeping on the other side of the room, he turned over to look at Pacifica. She was laying still, her limbs were grouped together. Dipper smiled and said to himself quietly:
"Wow, she looks so fragile when she's sleeping, like if I were to lay a finger on her, she would break." Pacifica rolled over and mumbled the words:
"Bitch, get off of me." Dipper put his hand over his mouth trying to hold back the massive laugh he was going to release. He got out his phone and took a picture of the girl napping. He laughed to himself and whispered:
"At least if she ever black mails me for any reason, I have some leverage." Dipper laid back down on Mabel's bed, he started to think of a routine that he could do to get his body into shape. He thought of doing chin-ups, sit-ups, push-ups, squats and jogging. After a few minutes of thinking, he decided to write down the routine in a little book to keep him structured. Dipper got up and tiptoed over to his bed, he ducked down and looked under the bed for a book. He found one and pulled it out. As he got back up, he heard Pacifica sleep talk again, but this time, she said something a little more interesting, something that grabbed Dipper's attention. She said happily:
"Not at the table Dipper." Dipper's mind started racing 'Why is she dreaming about me!?' He asked himself. Dipper thought about all the possibilities with that sentence put into context. 'Not at the table Dipper? As in no dancing? no reading? no yelling? no what?' Dipper thought. He couldn't put his finger on it, the curiosity was killing him. Dipper wanted to know, he needed to know. He knew that Pacifica would never tell him directly, so he needed to get creative. He decided to deal with Pacifica's sleep talking later, he went onto Mabel's bed and started writing down his routine. But after ever few words he wrote down, he would look over at the girl sleeping on the next bed over from him. Dipper didn't know why, but something drew him to look at Pacifica every few seconds. After a 2 minutes, he realized that he wouldn't be able to write much with Pacifica sleeping close by. He shut the book, put it down and laid back on the bed, he rolled towards the wall. Dipper wasn't thinking about anything, he was just enjoying the sound of the wind chimes that were still blowing in the gentil breeze. But suddenly, Pacifica spoke again, but this time, she was awake:
"Pines, you still awake?" Dipper closed his eyes and didn't react, he wanted to pretend he was sleeping. The sound of the chimes were blocked out by the noise of Pacifica getting up from the bed, then the sound of footsteps took over room and suddenly the footsteps stopped by Mabel's bed. Pacifica sat on the bed next to Dipper's hip. Pacifica caressed his face and moved some of Dipper's hairs out of his eyes.
"It's weird how someone like him can separate a family like the Northwest's with almost no effort." She whispered. Dipper remained calm, he felt the mattress move as Pacifica moved herself closer to Dipper's head. And suddenly the chimes stopped, the room went completely silent, the air was still. Pacifica looked down at Dipper, her mind went completely blank as she took a deep breath then leaned closer to him. Dipper felt her coming closer and suddenly he was frozen in place as he felt the breath of the young girl getting closer to his lips. Just the thought of Pacifica being so close to his lips sent a cold chill down his spine. Pacifica got even closer, there lips were almost grazing each other's, but out of nowhere, the door to the room was sent flying open and Mabel skipped into the room shouting out:
"Wake up sleepyheads, sandwiches are waiting..." She cut herself off at the sight of Pacifica being millimeters away from her brother's mouth. Pacifica shot up faster than a bullet train. Meanwhile Dipper was still playing Sleeping beauty, but he knew he couldn't react, if Pacifica knew he was faking his sleep while she got so close to him, she would probably rip him limb from limb.
"Okay Thanks Mabel. I'll go down now!" Pacifica said as she left the room faster than road runner. Once Pacifica was gone, Mabel grabbed a hand full of glitter from her draw, went up to her brother and blew the glitter in Dipper's face. This made him shot up instantaneously.
"Hey bro bro, did you sleep well?" Asked Mabel.
"Yeah, till you blew glitter at my face!" He said as he spat out the glitter.
"Glitter wasn't the only thing in your face while you were sleeping." Mabel said with a grin. Dipper slowly turned his head to his sister then he ran to the mirror.
"Mabel, what did you do?" He asked as looked in the mirror to see if Mabel had done anything.
"I didn't do anything, well except the glitter." Mabel claimed.
"Mabel, I swear if you removed the 3 chest hairs I had." He said as he looked at his chest.
"Nah, that wouldn't be worth it. I already have your first chest hair in the scrap book. Anyway. Pacifica's downstairs and so are the sandwiches. Also, Victoria went into town to get some ingredients to make dessert." She said.
"Thanks Mabel!" Dipper said as he left the room. Mabel put her hands on her hips and said to herself:
"He was completely faking his sleep." Dipper made his way downstairs, slowly going down each step, thinking about Pacifica lips coming so close into contact with his. When he got to the kitchen, he saw her there, sitting down eating a sandwich that Mabel and Victoria prepared from them. Dipper joined Pacifica at the table and grabbed a sandwich from the plate in the center of the table. Dipper thought back to Pacifica sleep talking saying 'not at the table Dipper' and he decided to start quietly singing to see if she would react:
"Talking away, I don't know what I'm to say, I'll say it anyway." Dipper stopped at the sight of Pacifica looked up at him, she smiled and continued singing the same song:
"Today's another day to find you, shying away. I'll be coming for your love, Okay?" Then, the two teens started singing in unison:
"Take on me, Take me on, I'll be gone in a day or two!" Dipper smiled and said:
"Wow, you have a great singing voice."
"Why thank you, you're not too bad yourself." She replied as she took a bite into the sandwich. Dipper looked down at his sandwich, took a few bites and asked:
"You don't mind that I sing at the table?"
"Not really, you can do pretty much whatever, I don't care." Pacifica said.
"What do you mean by 'pretty much'?" He asked.
"Well I mean, dancing on the table and fighting isn't acceptable. But I think that was a given." She says as she takes her last bite of the sandwich.
"Alright, that's understandable." He said. 'Well I guess it was just a dream, I shouldn't read too much into it.' He thought. The room went silent after that, they couldn't talk to each other after what happened. Pacifica didn't talk because she didn't want to say anything that could hint to what happened upstairs and Dipper didn't want to say anything because he didn't want her to find out he was awake the whole time. Dipper thought about his discussion with Kyle about his preparation and remembered that he needed to strengthen his sword skills, and he knew that there was only one person who could possibly help him.
"Hey Pacifica, you've done fencing before right?" He asked.
"Ah yeah, of course, which family did you think I was part of? I'm a Northwest! We always do the most prestigious and experience of sports and activities." She claimed.
"Yeah I don't need you to gloat, I was wondering if you could teach me a bit?"
"How come the sudden interest?" She asked.
"Well the last time I had to use my skills, I fought a dragon, but I was swinging the sword all over the place. P, could you teach me please." He said. Pacifica looked over at the window as the sound of the wind chimes came back, she smiled and said:
"Sure I'll help, but you must do what I ask, No question asked!"
"That's fine with me, as long as you teach me." Dipper said. The two continued sitting there, but they stopped talking, both were thinking about what to say, when suddenly there was a knocked on the front door. Dipper got up and went to answer the door, he opened the front door and saw Ernest standing there. Ernest had a serious look on his face, he was holding a black bag, it looked like something heavy was in it.
"Hey Ernest, what's up?" Dipper asked. Ernest went up to Dipper, put his hand on Dipper's shoulder and said abruptly.
"We need to talk now!"
End of Chapter 14: Pacifica 2
Hey Everyone, I hope you all liked this chapter and I glad for all the support! Shout out to Proluxe for the help! Thanks dude (or dudette)! Anyway thanks for everyone's support, leave a comment if you're still enjoying the story and I hope to see you all in the next chapter!