Slices of Life and Family

by bluefrostyy

PART 3 of The life of Sebastian Pines! (Read that first, I doubt you'll understand what's going on) The story follows Seb's life after Gravity Falls. Bill was defeated, but the Pines family still have thousands of adventures together. Old characters will come back, new characters will make an appearance, all to accompany Seb through his journey as a human (Cowritten with Mizuuma)

5. Baby steps can go forward or backwards

Hi guys! New chapter here! Enjoy! as always, drawings in Deviantart and I'm startnig to put all my drawings in Tumblr, so follow me xD. One drawing is from Miz, so follow her too!

For That One Draconequus Miz says this: I get the reference, but ew ew ew zombies are gross. Give me a giant chicken any day!

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"Sir, I'll ask you again, was there any dangerous loose cable or candles close to the children or any flammable object? You know that's really irresponsible, right?"

Sebastian wanted to die.

The entire building had to evacuate because the fire had started in one of the apartments. The bright blue-ish (then turned yellow) flames had been blazing from a window and it was a neighbor just about to enter the building who saw it and called 911 and pressed the emergency alarm.

"No sir, no flammable object to cause a fire…" He mumbled to the firefighter as he tried to use the 1 year olds as a shield. Only though, Yes, in fact, there was, his kids were flammable, HIS KIDS CAUSED THE FIRE.

He got distracted for a SECOND, just a SECOND, and left them playing in the living room. Zoe and Zully used anything they could reach to help themselves stand up, so apparently they thought it was a good idea to hold onto the curtain.

When Seb came back, the blue flames had consumed half the curtain and smoke was leaving from the window. He recognized he had been pretty shocked, and took a while to react. But it had been the first time he actually saw the kids use their powers! he felt excited! And horrified! Excitedfied! Before he knew it, the building's emergency alarm was blasting all over the damn place, and the fire was slowly consuming the things around his living room. He slowly picked up the babies (enchanted by the pretty fire) and walked out with the panicked neighbors. Luckily the firefighters got there, but were very confused about how the fire started.

Zoe sucked her fist as she watched the firefighter and whine at him. Don't shout at Daddy!

Wanda just arrived in the middle of the chaos, with the firefighters coming and going. She ran towards her family in a panic. Where they ok?! What happened?! Seb was chilling with the twins, and the three lit up when they saw her. "Wands!" ""Mama!""

"What happened!? Did you burn the house?!" The blonde cried. Seb shook his head and whispered. "It wasn't me, it was the twins! Their powers have ACTIVATED! I'm pretty sure it was those Mozart songs Sixer gave us for 'enrichment', whatever that meant…" He frowned in thought. "I'll murder him if he was doing an experiment on us." He declared. Wanda hugged them all tightly. "I'm just glad you're all safe…"

Seb couldn't hug her back since he was holding the babies but he kissed her lips softly. "I'm glad we're safe too." Wanda rolled her eyes. "Dork. Now we have to replace everything burnt. My books better be safe." She pouted. They didn't want to stay at the house that night, it still smelled of smoke and what Seb sniffed and described as 'baby magic' so they went to a family restaurant before going to a hotel.

Seb called his brother the next day while he and Wanda were out shopping with the babies, one on his back and one on his chest. "Hi, Sixer." He didn't give the man time to respond. "Your experiment on us worked! The babies now have their powers!" Seb drawled in annoyance.

Ford apologized to the group of scientists he was working with and got out of the lab to take the call. "My...experiment?" He didn't remember asking Seb for help with any experiment?!

"Yes. Mozart. Babies getting rich?" Seb scoffed as he picked out new curtains. Ooh~ this burgundy would look nice, matched their new couch he wanted.

Ford's eyes widened in recognition before bursting out laughing loudly, which annoyed Seb more. "This IS serious!" "Se-Seb, that was not an experiment, I just thought the girls could be introduced and educated at an early age with the classics. And it's enrichment, not getting rich." He snickered.

"Well, whatever! Your fancy music must have kick started their powers since they burned down our living room!" Seb complained. Ford blinked. "Ah, I don't believe the music did that, perhaps they're simply old enough that their powers work now?" They had seemed normal enough in their 1st birthday a few months ago. They had walked around squealing and ate cake for the first time. Zoe and Zully had shrieked excited as they tasted sugar for the first time. Mabel followed the two blonds around and took photos. LOTS of photos.

"Umghh!" Seb whined again. People who walked past him cooed at his daughters. Cute baby in the front and oh my god! Another one! Ford laughed again. "Well, you seem worried-"

"Are you kidding me? They're like little matches!" Seb groaned. Ford hummed in thought. "I could give the babies a check up if you wish? It's just a normal simple routine to determine the levels of weirdness on something and according to the type of reading, I could find a solution."

"Would you do that for me?!" Seb gasped. "Zoe, no!" The baby girl was pulling at the fabric and trying to eat it. "I'm going to move you to my back if you keep that up, young lady!" He warned. Ford grinned. "Sure, it would be interesting to finally see how your powers work and how they were even passed through genetically…"

He KNEW Seb had been demon and all...but...they were identical triplets...shouldn't they all have the same genetic code? Were their genetic codes actually different? How did Seb managed to use his own blood and fool the police with it saying it was Ford's then? Was his body later modified? Where could a 'power' gene even be?! It would have to involve a production of cells resistant to fire and the ability to use his own body as combustible fuel and ignition at the same time! It was all so exciting and intriguing.

"Oh, I see~ You want to use us as lab rats~" Seb raised an eyebrow. "Yes, well-NO! No,no,no! That's not it!" The scientist quickly assured. "Just...study your body…" Ford frowned a bit. Still sounded bad... "I won't perform experiments on your or my nieces, Sebastian. It'd be just scientific research, scanning you weirdness and seeing what's going on."

"That sounds fun...Sure, as long as you help me control the babies' powers until they are conscious enough for me to teach them. Can you believe normal human babies don't really understand what people around them talk about?!" Seb laughed. "Babies are adorable~ and dumb. YOU were a pretty dumb baby~" Sebastian laughed. Ford frowned. "Well, we were all dumb babies I'd reckon."

"Nah, I was perfectly aware of myself since day one. Ugh, it sucked! I was SOOOO bored!" Ford looked at his phone with a confused expression. "I mean, my body could just sleep and I spent most of my time floating in my mind, gosh, Ford, it was horrible not having a developed mind!"

Ford blinked. He was...aware of himself? But humans didn't have memories until they were...4-5...But, he had always wondered, since discovering Seb's past, just, HOW he knew he was Bill and how he had his memories growing up. How he managed to accept calling himself Sebastian and be a...hyperactive crazy kid growing up, but in a way different to the demon he used to be. If he had been Bill, he must have been as evil, but...Seb could just pass as a (kind of) normal child growing up. Uh. More things to find out then~

"Alright, well, you can come whenever you want." The oldest triplet finally said. "Yay!" Seb exclaimed. "Ya heard that, girls? We're welcomed whenever we want!" He pinched their noses. Zully made a face and sneezed, making Seb shiver with the sudden rush of energy that Zully's fire gave him. The baby squealed at their hand on fire and Seb screamed, then screamed again because screaming would draw attention to themselves, and 'ate' his oldest child's hand.

He was a good dad.

Wanda came back with some new cushions (having taken a few days off work to help get the house fixed from the fire) and her eyes widened. "Seb! What are you doing?!" She cried as she saw her boyfriend with his mouth enclosed around their baby's fist. Seb shrugged. "Mm twying tah puff oof da fffire." Zully whined annoyed. They wanted their hand back! They wanted to bite it as well!

Seb absorbed the fire from the baby's hand and finally freed Zully's hand, all while Wanda stared deadpan at him. "Hey, look at that! I can absorb their fire!" Seb focused on his phone again. "Did you hear that, Sixer? Sixer, you there yet? I sucked Zully's fire!"

A few customers turned to look at the weird couple. Zoe giggled and held out her hand, wanting daddy to eat her hand too! "Bllaahh!"

Ford could just hear weird noises and baby babbling. He was very confused. "Alright, um, see you later, then…" He hung up, but Seb didn't really notice, he was focused on nibbling Zoe's hand now. "Om, om, I'll eat this baby haaannd!" Wanda was blushing and trying to go pull Seb's mouth away. "Seeebb~ Noooo~ Your mouth is dirty!"

Seb let go and pouted, but pouted harder when he saw the cushions. "Wands, darling, we are not taking that to the house."

"But I like them…What's wrong with them?" Wanda frowned and looked down at the pillows she'd picked out. Seb grabbed them and threw them away deadpanning. "No. The color is simply ghastly!" He snapped his fingers a few times and turned his head, flipping his hair dramatically. Wanda sighed.

The twins on his back and chest clapped with laughter.

-.-

Their house was now repaired. They had a nice new couch and cushions THAT MATCHED! He loved Wanda so much but her fabric choices were awful, so silly~ He wrote on his arm how great his fashion AND interior design taste was. Now that the twins had powers, and he had to find some time to go to Gravity Falls to get some help, the easiest way to keep them from burning down the house again was absorbing their fire. It left HIM with an excess of energy all day though, but it was worth it. Wanda loved how the excessive energy made Seb always eager to do things~ She was quite thrilled because Seb could go for hours now, instead of getting tired and falling asleep after a few rounds.

Dr. Linda didn't find it too amusing. He was bouncing on the couch, laughing. "Never have magic children! They'll burn the curtains! But we got new ones! I chose them! Wanda likes them! But aahh! Baabbiiesss!" Seb fell from the couch, laughing and kicking his legs.

Linda sighed. "Did… you have an espresso shot before our session?" He was jittery. More so than usual. Seb rolled around on the ground. "Naaaah~ B-but I've been eating magic fire! IT's so tAsTY and-" He stumbled back up and attempted to crawl onto the couch, slumping over it. "-it's so much energy and… and I feel GREAT!"

"Have you been taking your pills?" Linda raised an eyebrow. Seb shook his head dramatically. "I RAN OUT of pills like, 2 months ago!" Linda's eyes widened in worry. "And the heck didn't you tell me!?"

"No,no,no! But I'm cured now! Really!" Seb smiled. "Hadn't had a panic attack in months! and see!" He showed her his wrists. "All are old scars! I write the nice things I do every day! That works amazing!"

Linda sighed. "Well, even if you're doing better, I'd like to know if you're off your meds." She would prefer if he kept taking them...but in the end, it was his decision, she was there to give him advice...Maybe she should talk to Wanda, she was good at convincing Seb to do things...Seb pouted and rolled over again. "Right, ah… sorry? I didn't think it was that important…" Linda raised an eyebrow. "You don't have to tell me everything, but this sort of thing would help a lot for me to know."

Seb pouted dramatically. "Ok~ But I'm fine! I'm not a demon! I'm not a monster, I know that now!" Linda was a little worried but she was going to have to trust Sebastian for now. If he seemed to have a relapse, she would insist that he go back on his anxiety meds.

"Alright, I'll trust you on this…" She was still talking to Wanda though, to know how Seb was doing at home. "YAAYY! YOU TRUST ME!" Seb squealed with a big smile. "Can I continue with my story?"

"Go ahead." Linda smiled a bit. They had time for her to tell him about the results of his tests. Meanwhile this whole 'passing on his demon powers' thing was a metaphor she still didn't quite understand yet.

"So, I never knew I could eat magic fire you know? I am basically immune to normal fire, but magic fire?! Baby magic fire! That's something new! It REALLY tastes super Sweet! And MY theory is that it tastes like the kids' formula! I'll try a bit of formula tonight~ But Wanda's going to get really confused! I won't tell her! You can't tell her either!"

"So...What...What do you think about your kids having your magic powers?" She was thinking it was related to his imaginary monster identity. He was fine now, but he maybe had a deep fear of his twins being...like him? That was the best she could think of at the moment, it did make sense that he wouldn't want his daughters to suffer like he did growing up. Sebastian shuddered. "Ugh, it's cool that they have my powers, but they burned down the living room! I wanna teach them to control their powers but they're too young to understand. I tried talking to them about all sorts of things but I don't think they get it!" Linda smiled.

Seb huffed, looking severely put out. "I don't know why though. 'Cause I understood what was happening around me perfectly as a baby. I just couldn't actually talk to tell people how I was feeling. Also, there's not much you can do as a baby. It's just lying there or sleeping or eating or pooping yourself, which was DISGUSTING." He shuddered again. "I'm gonna try and potty train the kids as SOON as I can. It can't feel nice for them to have to lie in their own shit until we clean them." Seb scowled and punched a pillow away. Ugh, NOW he could imagine the lizard's smug face during those years! How annoying damn it! That's why he learnt to do things faster than his brothers, being a baby was horrible. The only good thing was being held, but it didn't make up for it.

The blonde therapist blinked slowly. "Are...Are you telling me...you can remember being a baby…"

Seb sat cross legged and moved his legs up and down. "Eh~ Yes. I mean I just discovered that humans can't remember because human babies don't understand stuff, but it would explain why my Mindscape was formed when I turned 2, my soul was fucking old but my brain didn't have anything to make a mind with. To be fair, I can't remember being a baby in Flatland, but I thought it was because they're a completely different species." He shrugged.

Linda massaged her eyes. These stories hurt her head. "Alright, so the twins can be monsters too-"

"NO." Seb growled. "They-they have my powers because I was a monster! But they aren't! They're innocent!"

Linda nodded. "Alright, so having powers doesn't make someone a monster. So." She leaned back and observed Sebastian calmly. "What is it that made you a monster? If having fire powers doesn't make you a monster, then why do you think you are a monster?"

"Uugghh, Lindaaa!" Seb whined. "Didn't you hear anything I said beforeee? Because I am! Bill Cipher is a literal demon! A monster! Who tricks and possess people! And-And I...I will never get rid of my past…" He sighed. "But my daughters don't have a bad past, they had never been monsters…They, they are the most perfect babies...no scars, or a deformed yellow eye…" He smiled a bit. "They also have 5 fingers, but I wouldn't have minded if they had 6…"

Linda nodded slowly. "So...you told me you deserved being hit by Filbrick because you used to be a monster, right?" Seb nodded. "Yes, I deserved it." Linda internally groaned. "Alright...so...if your daughters had...had been born with the same deformities you were, that...they were somehow...reincarnations of other monsters...I guess that would mean they would deserve to be hit and punished too…?" The blonde asked with a raised eyebrow.

"N-NO! My daughters don't deserve that!" The man sniffed. "But IF they were demons before, like you, then it means they deserve to be hit and punished, to be bullied at school and hit by a father who has EVERY right to punish them…" Linda asked in a leading way, she needed Seb to understand and get over this hurdle himself.

"NOO!" Seb sobbed loudly. "NO! NO! THEY DON'T DESERVE IT! THEY'RE INNOCENT! THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE DEMONS! I WON'T HIT THEM!" Seb's breathing was going faster.

Linda was unfazed and continue to speak calmly. Seb was still very convinced he was a monster and he deserved what happened to him. She wanted Seb to realize he DIDN'T deserve what happened to him, that it WASN'T his fault . "Then why did you deserve it? Why was it your fault?"

"Because… because…" Seb shuddered. It hurt to think about. But then he thought about what it would mean, if his daughters HAD been demons in their past lives, like, him. If they HAD been evil and...and…

"No! That… they…" Seb sobbed, tears streaming down his right cheek. "But Zully and Zoe are so small! And- and they're helpless! They can't even defend themselves and… even if they were demons they can't even do anything right now! They're just babies!"

Linda calmly regarded her patient. "You were a baby too." She pointed out. Seb whimpered as he held his head. "But… but…" Linda knew he was getting close. "So, if your daughters were demons, and you still think that they don't deserve to be hit, then, why do you think YOU deserved it back when you were also a helpless child?"

Sebastian wiped at his tears. "I…" He thought about it. "I… don't know…" He slumped on the couch. "I don't know...I…" Linda waited. Seb looked up at her, distressed, confused and unsure of himself. Linda held out her hand for him to take, Seb sometimes needed some physical touch to ground himself during his breakdowns. Seb took her hand and squeezed. "I…" He was just a baby. A toddler. A child. Why HAD he deserved it? He hadn't done anything bad as a kid, he had NEVER done anything to-to Filbrick to be hated so much...Seb shook his head. No. Even if he DID deserve to be punished for his crimes as Bill Cipher, Filbrick had NO RIGHT to treat a child that way. That…

Just imagining doing the things that Filbrick did to him, to his own children made Seb sick to his stomach. It was WRONG, he would NEVER ever hurt his daughters. It was… horrible. "...how could he do that to me?" Seb asked weakly. "I was so small. I couldn't fight back… how could he have done that to his own child?" Why did Filbrick treat him like that even when he did nothing wrong as a human? It's not like Filbrick knew he used to be a demon in his past life, right? So, why had he treated what he knew to be his own child in such a way?

"Filbrick hurt me…" Seb's fresh new tears fell. "And-And I had never...done something bad to him…" Linda nodded. "And...and if my daughters were...were demons...I'd-I'd never hit them… Because-because I love them…" He wiped his tears again.

Linda patted his hand. "Because you're a good father, Sebastian. And a good man." He looked up at her with a teary eye.

"It...It was his...his...I'd never hit them...but Filbrick did...and it was-it was the same situation…" Seb frowned a bit and let out a loud exhale. "It was not my fault he hit me...He hit me because he was bad, because he was a horrible man, who shouted at my mom since we were babies, who told Sixer mean things too...and HE...HE wasn't a demon...he didn't have...a REASON to be punished…"

Sebastian gripped his shirt tightly. He was shaking. "Filbrick was always mean. For no reason. He… he just hated me and Sixer because we were born different. Because we were freaks. He… he never loved us…" It finally made sense to him. Filbrick didn't punish Seb because Seb was a demon, he punished Seb because Filbrick was a fucking asshole. Seb slumped over, exhausted now.

"I-I knew Filbrick hated me...He didn't care that I was so scared of living in the attic, and-and he hurt me, and then he kicked me out when I was just a kid...But, but I always thought he-he had...every reason to hate me for who I was...but...but he hated my triplet too…" He looked up at Linda with puffy red eyes. "I didn't deserve it, did I?" Seb asked tearfully. Linda squeezed his hand again. "No. You didn't deserve all the abuse he put you through."

Linda hugged the crying man when he reached for a hug. "It was not your fault, Seb…" "N-No...it wasn't...even-even if I deserved it...I didn't deserve to have my father hit me and-and making me feel...totally useless…" Linda rubbed his back, poor Sebastian.

"But you still think you are…" Linda said and Seb nodded slowly. "It's ok, Seb...It'll be ok." She pulled away from the hug. "You'll be fine...Sebastian, your father hurt you, and he made you BELIEVE you deserve everything that happened to you! But it's not true. Nothing you went through was your fault. Everything he blamed you for, your hyperactivity, your lack of attention, your clumsiness, Seb, you have ADHD…I have your results." Linda told him. "Remember the exams we took? You do have this condition."

Seb rubbed his eye. "So...my brain...it-it's broken?" Like he always thought it was.

"It's not broken, Sebas." The blonde reassured him. Your brain works different, and we will practice ok? So you aren't as distracted or impulsive anymore. Your body is not broken, many people have ADHD, and it's mostly genetic, someone in your family has it, before you think it occurs out of the blue or-or an Axolotl put it on you to bother you."

Seb sniffled loudly. So his body wasn't really broken like he thought...If it was...genetic...it means it really wasn't the lizard's intention…

"Your meat sack is stupid, and yes, it does have a problem in its brain, and you will never, ever get cured! You are destined to be a stupid, mediocre, failure all your pathetic life! The shadow of Stanford Pines!"

Bill2...He always called him stupid...He-He still remembered...He always called him horrible names...He was the first one to tell him his brain was broken...He must have known about his condition...and used it against him! He was more of an ass than he remembered...

"Can...Can you cure me?" He asked Linda with a soft voice.

"No, Sebas...You can't get cured of that, but we will work on it, ok? You didn't get treated as a child, but now you learn to control it..." Linda gently massaged the man's hand.

"I can't control this...this thing...It's not my fault I-I was loud or...or impulsive...and no one...No one understood...They called me a spoiled brat...and misbehaved...and stupid...but I-I wasn't...I-I'm not stupid…"

"No, you aren't." Linda repeated. "None of that was your fault."

"It wasn't…" Seb repeated in a whisper. He slowly slid back to the couch and curled up there. "Um…How are you feeling?" Linda asked and the brunette smiled tiredly. "Fine, I feel fine...but-but my energy was all burnt out…" Before Linda could ask, Seb rolled his eye backwards and passed out, completely exhausted. The doctor sighed and dialed Wanda again.

Wanda came in a taxi to pick him up with their little twins (they had grown up so much since the last time Linda saw them!) and planned to drive his baby back. "He needs to stop wearing himself out like that." Wanda joked. Linda nodded a bit. "We're making progress, Wanda...He finally realized it was not his fault how his father hurt him."

"I've only seen that man like, once…" Wanda mumbled. "He had a pawnshop back in New Jersey…Gosh, I hate that man." She bounced Zoe who had woken up from her nap and was cranky and wanted to sleep again. Struggling, the two small women carried Seb into the car and sighed in relief.

"He really should stop passing out here." Wanda smiled before saying bye to Linda and driving off.

-.-

After his epiphany with Linda, Seb had been feeling much better with himself, even more than before. Aling with his daily supply of pure unadulterated baby fire to keep Wanda and the house safe, he had much more energy and confidence. He could do ANYTHING! He was going to EAT this world! He was great! He was the best! He. Was. Perfect!

This was not the reaction Dr. Linda expected, but Wanda loved how happy he seemed and the therapist had to admit this was his own way of coping with his problems. He was healing, everyone had their own way to do it. He continued to claim he hadn't had panic attacks in months and his arms were clean of any new injuries...Linda just hoped this didn't pile up and lead to Seb having a complete meltdown all at once.

Sebastian carried the babies with him as he worked, on his back and chest. They drooled all over his clothes and Seb was forced to… buy DAD clothes (ew) so his nice suits and dress shirts stayed clean. Linda had chuckled at his (justified) complaints. He yelped when Zoe pulled on his hair again. "Oww!" He gently pried her fingers off but she reached for his face instead, pinching his cheek by grabbing a whole handful of his skin. "You like daddy's face, huh? Is it because I'm so handsome~?" He teased. Zully babbled and smeared their drool onto his goatee. "Ewwwww! Zully!" Seb wailed.

These babies were going to kill him.

He cleaned himself with a bib and narrowed his eye at Zully, who was easier to glare at because they were on his chest. "...Do you think I'm handsome?" He asked his one-year old. Zully made a babbling noise and Seb smiled, patting their head softly. "Alright, as long as I'm the ONLY man you consider handsome it's ok~ You'll date boys? If you do, PLEASE don't be like your cousin Mabel and date anything with a Y-Chromosome. Please choose normal boys…" Zoe laughed on his back and smacked Seb's head.

He rubbed his head with a hand and went into the kitchen. He had to clean the house, he hadn't done that in a while and dust was EVERYWHERE. It wasn't good for the twins, they were so small. The doctor told them about how prematures (especially C-section ones) tended to have respiratory problems and weak immune systems, he informed them (looking pretty surprised) that the twins were really healthy considering the circumstances of their birth. Despite that, Seb wanted to keep the house as decently clean as possible for them to crawl around and take whatever they wanted to their mouths. "Ok, babies, we have stuff to clean up. Because I don't trust you crawling and trying to walk around while I'm working, you're stranded on my body like baby koalas until I'm done and the perimeter is CLEAR!" The two babies looked at their dad, unimpressed, as he pulled out the things he needed. Zully hiccuped and their arms engulfed in fire. They started sucking their hand until Seb noticed and absorbed the energy instead. Zully glared. Thief. That was theirs!

"Alright~ There you go, wouldn't want dust to get in your faces, would you?" He put little masks on the babies' faces, ignoring their wrinkled noses. "We're READYYY!" Seb swung his broom dramatically and pressed 'Play' in his phone, before loud rock music blasted from it. Zully jumped and awkwardly covered their little ears. Noooo the sound was louuuud! Zoe on the other hand, was squealing in excitement. Oh! What was this!? She LOVED it!

Zoe laughed loudly as she squealed, hitting her daddy's head. The loud music sounded REALLY funny! And daddy's funny faces made it even better! Zully pursed their lips and grimaced. Stop it~ "Ah!" They whined but realized that strange noise wasn't going to stop and sighed, resigned. Dad wasn't going to stop until he finished cleaning, swinging them around the house.

"Are you HAppEH are you satisfied? How long can you stand the heat?!" Zully's sulking decreased just a bit when Seb waved a flame in front of them for dramatic effect. "Out of the doorway the bullets rip! To the sound of the beat YEAH! DUN, DUN, DUN! Another one CLEANS the dust!" Seb slid to the side dramatically. He made the broom move on its own with his mind as he cleaned the windows and decorations. "Hey, I'm gonna get you, too! Another one bites the dust!"

Zoe was in some sort of trance with the music, in bliss and in awe at the magnificent sounds, the guitar and the easier to recognize beat. With her green and brown eyes widened and dilated, the little girl started hitting her dad's neck along with the beat. "Dah! Dah! Dah! Ah-bahbah bah da dah!"

"Oooohhh!" Seb looked up at his daughter with a big grin. "You like daddy's favorite baaanndddd? Yes? You like it? YOU LOVE IT DON'T YOU?!" The little blonde baby giggled. "Dada!"

Zully sighed, unsure why their daddy and sister were so happy about those strange sounds. It was loud and didn't make any sense to them.

Seb was really happy as he finished his chores, which was weird, no one was so happy as they vacuumed and cleaned. A few more songs passed, both from when he was young as well as new tunes he learned recently, and before he knew it, everything was done and sparkling! (He did use magic, but no one needed to know). Wanda was going to love this! He put everything away before starting his nice list for today. "I always leave everything clean!" He wrote on his arm.

He put the kids down so they could crawl around the clean apartment. As he pulled out his laptop and tablet to begin sketching, the music changed to one of the children's songs that Wanda's mother had snuck onto his playlist.

"If you're happy and you know it, CLAP YOUR HANDS!"

Sebastian was happy. He was clapped wildly, laughing maniacally as he did so. The children didn't clap, being very confused about what was exciting daddy so much. Still, daddy seemed happy, and that made them happy. Sebastian finished his work and checked the time. The children were also tugging on his pant legs, demanding food. "Oh, I guess it's time for lunch!" He bent over to pick up his babies. "Who wants gross food paste? You do~ yoooou doooo~" He sang as he carried them to the kitchen to put them in their high chairs.

As per usual, more food ended up on the table and splattered on clothing than in their mouths. The kids were slowly starting to eat food instead of just baby formula. Zully liked this new funny stuff, it was sticky and they could rub it over daddy's face. Zoe hated it. She wanted her bottle back. It was fun to suck on it. And bite it! But this new goopy stuff wasn't fun to chew on. She could hardly even call this chewing!

So she threw it at daddy to show her displeasure. "Yucky!"

Seb scowled and wiped his face. Uggghhhh! "Well, I didn't want to do this, kid, but you've forced my hand!" The twins eyes widened when they felt, or rather couldn't feel, their legs and arms. "Ah gah gah aah!" Zoe shrieked. Seb nodded solemnly. "It's the only way to feed you…" He mixed a bit of the milk with their food, making it even more gross looking, but the twins seemed to prefer that. Besides, they couldn't move and could only eat now! HAHAHA!

They already had a routine. After eating they got a bath and a clean diaper, played for a bit before taking a nap. The twins loved to sleep. Sleeping was great when Daddy carried them. He'd hold them tight...rock them just enough, which soothed them, and hum or sing softly a song.

As the brunet worked on feeding the girls, his phone buzzed and he floated it closer to his face. (He shouldn't forget to wear his contacts anymore. He was almost as blind as his brothers. He couldn't see well past a few meters.) It was a message from Wanda! Eehh! And it said!...That she wasn't coming home until late in the night! Yay-wait what? 'Dont worry about me, eat lunch seb, love you!'

Oh...But he...he wanted to eat lunch with her...

Did he do something wrong…? Why didn't she want to be with him? What if she-No. He slowly pulled away his hand from his wrist before e could do anything and took a deep breath. It-it was fine. She was busy because of work. He knew that she would be. She was always working so hard to earn money for them.

Even if he was a little lonely at the thought. No. It was fine. HE was fine. He was okay with this. And he already got to spend all his nights with her. Seb knew how much Wanda loved her job. He wasn't going to be selfish and hold her back from that. Besides, he would call her later on facechat and show her how the twins were doing.

Seb was cleaning the twins' mess when his phone rang. "Yellow~!" He chirped, hoping it was Wanda.

It wasn't Wanda, it was Stan. "Hey Seb, eh… I dunno if you're busy or not, but ah, do you have time to talk for a bit?"

"Sure. I've got all the time in the world Fez." Sebastian wiped Zully's mouth with one hand while tickling Zoe with the other. The blonde baby giggled and pulled at Seb's finger. Stan cooed at the sounds of the babies. "Well, ah, you remember high school?"

Seb's shoulders dropped for a second before he shook off the melancholy and grinned. "Yeah? What about it?"

"Well they're having a class reunion and… ah… we got invited." Stan said. "One of our classmates is hosting it, they contacted me and asked if we were going to come."

Seb stayed silent for a second before saying. "You've been back for a year and people from high school are already licking your feet again~ I bet they'd want two famous stars there~ It's cool you two got invited, it's nice to be updated on what's going on with you two." He gave Zoe another little spoonful of mashed sweet potatoes and rice. "Hey, how's Diego by the way?! He must be so big now! And Dillon is ok with him now?"

Stan laughed sheepishly. "Haha, yeah, they're fine...and actually yes, Dillon is much-hey! you're changing the topic." The man huffed. "Seb, we were all invited."

"No."

"N...o?"

"You know I wasn't!" Seb laughed humorlessly. "You probably asked them if I could come...I didn't even finish school with them…" "Uh-uh-but-" "I've been here for 14 years, Fez, and I've never gotten anything before from any of them. No calls, no contact, no invitations. I don't believe you, they haven't invited me...But-but it's ok! I-I have Wanda and my daughters and they need me to stay and they care about me-" Zully was suckling his finger, to prove it. "-so...enjoy your meeting…"

"...Seb…" Stan said sadly. "Look, you can still come, show people how great you're doing. Wouldn't that be fun?" Seb sighed. "No. I'm sorry Fez, I just don't want to meet with them. They all sucked. That's all it was."

"...Please?" "Oh my circles did you just say Please?" Seb laughed, completely ignoring the topic. He didn't want to go and he wasn't going.

"Sebastian…" Stan sighed tiredly. "Look...the reunion is still a while away, you have time to think about it ok? If-If I convince Poindexter?" Stan suggested.

"No. I don't want to go!" Seb screamed into the phone. Zoe and Zully startled, jumping and looking at their dad with teary eyes. "See-See ya later, Stanley…" The youngest triplet hung up and massaged his eye. He hated them, they hated him, everyone mocked him, everyone knew he was a freak, monster, that's why he was never invited before, that's why he would never be invited, he was horrible, no one liked him, they would have preferred if he was DEAD! He was useless, he was worthless, he didn't serve for anything!

"Papa, n-no!" Zoe called out, scared, trying to reach daddy's hand. She knew what 'No' meant by this point, people said that to her often enough. Seb opened his eye when his babies' sobs brought him back momentarily. He was panting, just on the verge of a panic attack. "I-I…"

He picked up his daughters and hugged them as they cried. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't need my pills, I won't do this again, I promise…"

Seb looked at his wrists and rubbed them, trying to remember the nice things he wrote there. Linda said he didn't deserve the pain he went through! He didn't do anything wrong in this life! He had thousands of good things! He could do things right! He was perfect! They didn't deserve HIM because he was perfect and he could do anything!

But he was still crying and he couldn't stop. Despite how hard he was trying to believe it, to cover up his fear and sanity, deep in his heart he knew he wasn't quite right yet…

His heart was racing and he just held onto his children and tried very hard to calm down, for their sake. He wished Wanda was here. He needed someone with him. His babies were lovely and he was glad they were here but it just wasn't the same.

He stayed with the twins all day, just the 3 of them. They missed their mommy too, she always left but always came back. Why wasn't she coming back?

Seb decided to take the kids to the park after their nap. He needed air, they needed air. He didn't take them frequently, everything was dirty and the twins took everything to their mouths, but after almost breaking down, he guessed he needed to relax a little bit, same for the babies, after seeing him break down. And all because stupid Stanley called to tell him about stupid school and stupid class reunions!

He put a blanket on the ground and sat the babies there. "We'll...protect your sensitive baby skin from the sun~ because the earth is warming up more than necessary and there's more radiation and I wouldn't want you getting a skin condition, right~?" He cooed as he soaked the babies with sunscreen and gave them little sunglasses. "You two look so faancy~"

Zoe, annoyed, threw away hers and the twins crawled towards their bag and slowly stood up to get some of their toys out. Zully eagery hit their toy against the blanket as Zoe bit her plastic toy. She got bored quickly though and thought it would be an excellent idea to throw it at her crib companion.

Seb gasped in shock when Zully fell backwards, thrown back by a flying plastic cube to the head, and they started wailing loudly. Zoe tilted her head to the side and walked over to retrieve her cube. "ZOE WHAT THE FUCK?!" Seb ran over to Zully who was still sobbing. "NO! BAD! DON'T HURT YOUR SISTER, DAMN IT!"

Zully curled up against Daddy's chest, crying and extremely distressed at Zoe for hitting them, as their arms flickered with flames. "Sshh, sshh, it's ok princess~, it's ok...She won't hurt you again, ok?" Seb rocked his oldest kid. Ugh! Zoe was going to be grounded for this! Um! Trapped in her crib for-for 2 hours!

Zoe had started to wander off, gasping in awe at the pretty flowers and pulling them up to show daddy and mommy. Well, mommy wasn't here so she'll show mommy when she comes back. Zoe also ate a few of the flowers, wondering what they tasted like. Bleh. She spat out the petals. They didn't taste good. She looked back at daddy to see he was still hugging Zully. Zoe pouted. She wanted a hug too!

She ran back towards him, tripping and falling face- first to the grass a few times. Zoe forced herself to sit up and spat grass, wrinkling her nose. "Papa!" She called, glaring at the green yucky grass. Seb looked up at Zoe and with a sigh, he walked over to pick her up. "Now what? Will you apologize to your twin sister? You hurt her, we don't hurt family, kid." Seb crouched next to the younger baby, sitting Zully on his leg.

Zoe blinked before rubbing her aching cheek, she hit herself with a branch, and raised her arms. "Hu!" She wanted a hug, that fall was an ouchie, but she didn't cry like Zully. Zully cried over everything! Seb sighed and picked Zoe up, putting her on his other leg. "Zoe, I'm being serious here. You don't hurt your sister. Now apologize."

Zoe had no idea what daddy was saying but she hugged him, grinning as she pulled on his shirt. Daddy was warm~ Zully was sniffling quietly. Zoe's eyes landed on the huge structure a few meters away from them and wiggled like a blonde worm to go there. "Ah! AH!" She pointed to the structure, which Seb recognized as a kid playground. "No, first apologize to your twin."

He grabbed Zoe's hand, much to the baby's confusion, and he made her pat Zully's forehead, where a small bruise was forming. "You see? You hurt her, Zoe, don't hurt her again." Seb explained, still assuming his daughters understood what the hell he was saying.

After the twins 'apologized' Seb finally took them to the baby swings. Zully seemed pretty excited to play, their sadness forgotten. The brunet sat his babies in the swings and gently pushed them, smiling widely at their happy squeals. Unknown to him, a few moms and nannies with their toddlers were watching him with dorky smiles. Cute dad and oh~ no ring~

They looked him up and down. Handsome, no ring, two adorable baby girls and he was clearly a doting, loving father…

Some of the single women were grinning like sharks that had smelled blood.

Sweet, innocent Sebastian had no idea what was about to happen, he was too busy pushing his babies on the swings.

One of the bravest of the group, a young woman in her late twenties, early thirties, walked up with her own kid, who looked like he'd preferred playing instead of used as a tool, but he was used to it. His mom did this every time she saw a man she liked. "Oh, hi! I've never seen you around here~ Are you new?" The woman asked sweetly. Seb turned to look at her without stopping his push at the twins' swings. "Eh~ Not really, I've been living here for two years now but I've only just started taking the twins to the park, they just turned one..." Seb didn't know this woman, he had to be careful with the information he gave strangers.

"Ohh~ I'm sure your beautiful baby girls would be best friends with my little Jimmy when they grow up! He's two!" The woman cooed at Zully, who was closest and sat Jimmy in the nearest baby swing. "They're so pretty!" Jimmy reached to grab Zully's forehead, curious about their light bruise, and Seb tensed up when the stranger hugged him. "Look at them~! GASP! They get along super well! My baby is a ladies' man! They can be little boyfriends and girlfriends!" The woman squealed.

Seb laughed awkwardly, with a very dramatic grimace and escaped from the hug. "Hahaha...that's creepy, don't say that…" Zully didn't like the strange boy touching them either, leaning away from his grasping hand and copying their dad's grimace. Zoe thought it was hilarious, kicking her feet and reaching to pull on Zully's swing ropes. "Ah! Nah!" She wanted to see the new kid too!

"Why don't you come over to the other moms and nannies over there?" She could hear the relieved and very grateful whispers from her mom companions. "We've seen you alone over here and we thought you might feel lonely~" The woman pursed her lips. "We even have healthy snacks for the kids and some snacks for us~"

"Um...I-I think it would be fine?" Seb shrugged a bit, still feeling awkward. Maybe he would feel better if there was another dad but nope, all were moms. Wanda should be here! But WORK! UGH! He got the twins out of the swing set and picked up his discarded bag and blanket to drop it closer to the group of giggling women. "Hi~" "Hello!" "What beautiful babies!" "What's your name, cutie?"

"Um...She's Zoe and-and she's Zully." Seb presented his daughters with a proud smile. "Name's Sebastian." He was a little nervous, surrounded by strangers like this. They all converged around him. He was starting to feel boxed in. Breathe, you have lungs for something, use them.

Zoe shook her arms widely, staring at all the other babies. Woah! They were small like her and Zully! She'd never seen another baby! (Diego was still carried, too young to play with the twins) What was she supposed to do? She stood up, pushing herself up with her hands and walked over to a kid, Zully toddling after her.

BAM! Zoe pushed another girl, making her fall on her diapered butt. Zully gasped before giggling. When she did it to them it wasn't fun, but it was fun when it was someone else!

"Zoe no! What did I say about hitting!" Seb gasped as he quickly grabbed her. "I'm so sorry! She plays rough!" He pulled Zoe (who was whining because she wanted to push more people) into his lap and decided to just hold onto her, less chance of her hurting the other kids. Zully was much better behaved, quietly sitting near one of the other kids and waving at them. The other women cooed at the children. "Oh, it's alright, they're just playing."

The baby who fell over was blinking in confusion, but she wasn't hurt. Zully grabbed some of their toys and brought them closer. Some other kids squealed and grabbed them, but Zully didn't get too upset. As long as they didn't grab the one they were playing with…

Zoe sobbed at her dad, pulling his sleeve. "Pwa!" She pointed at the kids. Seb rubbed her curly blonde hair (He loved it because it had grown and he could comb their hair and give them tiny adorable hairclips~). "Nope. You lost your rights. Trapped."

"Oh~ You're clearly an EXCELLENT daddy to them~" A woman poked his arm. Seb looked down at his poked arm and frowned, wiping it. "Uh...I try to be good, I don't want them to be like me growing up…"

"Oh? I'm sure you weren't that bad as a kid?" One woman asked. Seb laughed, only a little bitterly. "Eh… I was a really hyperactive child, didn't know my own strength either." He pinched Zoe's nose, making her gasp for air. She whined. Daddy!

"I bet you were the prettiest baby." Another woman cooed. "Judging by your beautiful daughters!" "And how handsome you are now~"

Seb's face was red and he was trying to keep his breathing steady. This was getting so overwhelming, he only liked when his family complimented him, and it still made him blush, it made him feel weird when others did it. He was still working about it with Linda.

"I-I really wasn't...I-I bet my triplets were more….were prettier?" He stuttered. The women all gasped. "You have triplets?" They all grinned at each other. "Are… they single?" One asked. Seb shook his head, still unsure what was happening now. "Stan's going to get married soon-" "Aaaawwww!" "-but… Ford is single…" "Ooohh~"

Zoe wiggled her way out of Sebastian's arms and she crawled towards the kids playing with Zully. "Uh-ee!" She called her sibling. Zully looked at her and smiled, offering a toy. "Bah?" The twins didn't really have a secret language between them, but they could understand each other pretty well. Sometimes they just knew what each other were thinking. Zoe grabbed the toy and started biting it.

Zully smiled widely, glad to make their sister happy, and looked up. Their brown eyes widened and Zully cried, raising their arms excitedly. "MAMA!" Everyone turned around, women and Seb, to see an awkward looking woman dressed up in a smart looking suit jacket. "Hey! There you are! I've been calling you and you didn't pick up!" Wanda told Seb, narrowing her eyes a little bit at the sight of the shocked women around him.

Seb was SO relieved to see her. "You came home earlier!" He stopped when she raised an eyebrow. "Oh, uh well… I probably didn't notice…" He searched around his bag and found his phone buried underneath some of the twin's toys. There were some missed calls from Wanda. "Sorry Wands. I was just taking the kids outside today, you said you weren't coming home until later tonight and the kids need more sunlight." He stood up and walked over to her, making the other women frown even more when he kissed her lips.

"Oh, um..." Seb looked at the mothers. "They're some moms I met? The twins made some friends and they're playing." Wanda scowled just slightly, pulling Seb closer to her. Hmphh! The people she was supposed to meet with cancelled the meeting so she decided to come home early...Only to find it empty and then Seb surrounded by like 10 women… She knew Seb would never even think of looking at other women, but those harpies were trying to prey on her man.

"Mama!" Zully and Zoe toddled over to Wanda, raising their little arms to be picked up. Wanda cooed and complied. "I missed you too! Yes~ Were you having fun~?" Zoe giggled. "Ah bah bah!" She waved her hand down at the other babies. They were small and easy to push over! Much cooler to hit too! Even more than her older cousin Dipper! His forehead was nice to hit because it had a drawing on it.

Zoe's hands started heating up and Wanda quickly passed her over to Seb. "Code blue." She said calmly. Seb gasped dramatically and started nibbling on Zoe's fist, subtly absorbing the fire before it even appeared. "Nom! Nom! I'll eaatt you!" He ran away with her, meters away from the group of kids and mothers.

"You two aren't married, are you?" A mom asked Wanda once Seb was gone. Wanda grinned at the other women. "Not yet, we've both been too busy." She said sweetly. Wanda not-quite glared at them. They slowly backed off. Yeah. He's mine. Wanda couldn't help but realize that this WAS an issue. Since they weren't married, her poor innocent Seb would be under threat by bloodthirsty women. And she couldn't allow that to happen. She sighed dramatically. She'll need to protect him again, just like she did when they were teens. Zully had leaned against her chest and was suckling their finger. They loved mommy so much, all her hugs must be for them! Not daddy! Maybe Zoe, if they felt like sharing.

Wanda packed up their belongings, bid the other women a farewell, and walked over to catch up with Seb. She found him noming Zoe's fists, who continued creating fire just to see Seb eat it. "Hey, do the kids need more sun or should we head home?" She asked. Seb smacked his lips. "Well, I think they're good for now!" Wanda laughed and booped Zoe's nose. "Bad girl, no fire."

Seb skipped all the way home, singing loudly and jumping. Wanda stroked her chin. They should find a way to keep the babies' powers at bay or all this energy would make Sebastian explode one day.

More than that…

Wanda bit her lip. Marriage. She… she DID want to ask him, but a part of her was a little afraid of doing so. She loved Seb. She knew he loved her too. But marriage was… it was a big step. And expensive, if they wanted a big ceremony and everything. But she didn't want to just have it be a legal marriage without any ceremony… but maybe that was just her own selfishness speaking.

She shook her head. She had to think about it, think about responsibilities that came from being married and what it all meant. She had to think of the twins as well, and how she'd even start suggesting it to Sebastian...Maybe he needed to have...more peace of mind? Maybe she should ask Linda? He could take it pretty bad and she didn't want to pressure him into doing something he wasn't ready for. There was A LOT to think about...She couldn't help but smile and chuckle though. She bet Mabel would be more than excited about it if they did get married.

Wanda startled, placing a hand on her chest when she heard a loud thud next to her. She looked at Seb on the floor, laughing. "What the heck happened?!" She could actually tell though. There was a small climbable wall, Seb had his shoes untied…

"I wanted to walk over the wall but fell...haha-hahahahahahahaha!" Seb rolled around on the ground as Wanda rubbed her forehead, stressed. The babies squealed and clapped at their silly dad.

She seriously wanted to marry this dumb idiot…

-.-

Seb huffed as he left Linda's office. She was wrong. She didn't know what she was saying. He was CURED. He didn't need the pills anymore! He LOVED himself, he was the GREATEST human being in existence! He didn't have panic attacks anymore, he didn't hurt himself, he still nibbled on his finger when he was distracted or working, but he didn't make them bleed anymore.

"Forgiving yourself for what happened is NOT that easy, Seb." Linda had said with her soft, doctor voice, but she was wrong! Because he was fine! He knew it wasn't his fault that everyone hit him when he was a child. He was a monster and a freak and didn't deserve the nice family he had, yes, but it didn't mean he-he was a bad human! He was good now, he worked hard to be good and ignore Bill2 during all his life. Now he was gone. He would never bother Seb again and whisper horrible things in his ear. He was fine. He didn't...he didn't hate himself anymore, because he felt GOOD now, Linda said he was AMAZING, he had the best babies and the best girlfriend and he was amazing at his work and he had the best family and he was very handsome and he could do ANYTHING!

(Seb carefully ignored the thought of how his stupid brain didn't work right and he forgot things all the time and how he apparently had a condition that made him even more distracted and dumb than normal.)

The weather was warming up. Summer would be here soon and with it, a family trip to Gravity Falls. Seb couldn't wait to return. It had been his home for so many years. His home was with Wanda and the twins now, but he still missed that weird little town. The day he agreed to visit Ford's lab with the twins before summer for the twin's check ups finally arrived. Seb found himself saying bye to Wanda with the twins sleeping on his back and chest. She couldn't come with them, she was busy with work and had something important to attend. "Don't worry, I'll be fine." Wanda laughed. "But who will make you eat?" Seb pouted. "I'll tell your mom to bother you." "More?" The woman sighed.

The twins received a kiss from their mommy and Seb got on the plane. He wished he could teleport, that would make things so much easier. Zoe and Zully squirmed the entire flight but didn't cry, lucky him. The flight attendant gave them two lollipops and the twins busied themselves with the treats for the rest of the flight. They eventually reached town, and to the brunet's surprise, Ford was actually waiting for them in the house, and not hidden in his lab.

"Hey Sixer! I brought your baby patients!" Seb cheered loudly, making Ford jump. "W-what? Oh Sebastian! Oh! You're here!" The scientist looked somewhat frazzled, his hair was a mess and his eyes kept darting around. Seb, who had been let into the house by Soos, frowned at his oldest brother. "Are you okay, Sixer?"

"Y-yes. I just, haven't slept very well recently…" Ford rubbed at his eyes under his glasses. He'd been growing more worried as he found himself up late at night trying to figure out why Sebastian's children had his powers. If Sebastian got his powers from being Bill Cipher in his past life, it didn't… couldn't make sense for it to be heritable? Right? Unless there was something more happening here…

The theory that kept him up at night was the idea of 'If Sebastian was a Bill Cipher who reincarnated as a human, what's to stop the Bill Cipher we defeated from doing the same?'

The idea that his baby nieces might secretly be that demon who had tortured him for so many years… that perhaps ONE of them was secretly Bill… or both?! Could that happen? It left Ford feeling faint, horrified and a little sick. He needed to check, he… he needed to make sure they weren't!

And if they were… if his nieces were actually Bill Cipher…

Ford, in his (sometimes dark) thoughts late in the night, had wondered if perhaps it would be better to… to what? Kill them? No. That… that wasn't right. He couldn't do that. Sebastian loved his children. But.. if they WERE Bill Cipher, or worse, another demon like him or even more insane!, it would be too dangerous to let them…

Ford shook his head. No, that wasn't important right now. His brother was visiting and he was going to run some tests to see what was giving these children their powers.

(Ford tried very hard not to think about what he would do, be forced to do, if the babies were really Bill Cipher…)

Seb smiled at his older brother, unaware of his paranoid thoughts. He freed the twins to let them hug Soos, who was holding himself back from jumping (in glee at the sight of the babies) so he could cuddle the girls. "Aww doods! I missed you both! Do you remember me? It's me! Uncle Soos!" They didn't, but Zoe grabbed his fat cheeks with a happy squeal and pulled. She liked this weird looking gopher!

"Oh, well, maybe you should try some kind of sleeping pill? Maybe you're just overworking your brain, now it can't shut down and keeps thinking and thinking and doesn't let you relax?" Seb suggested as he patted his brother's shoulder. Ford managed a tired smile. "F said something similar, but with more of his odd southern curses." Seb laughed.

The scientist rubbed his eyes. "I'll worry about it later, but first, let's check your-uh, little children." Seb raised an eyebrow. "No, first we need to eat, the twins have a schedule and we've broken it by spending HOURS in a flying metal trap. I can make lunch! Hey Question Mark! Missed my cooking?!" Soos' happy shout was heard, mixed with pained cries at Zoe biting his very chewable cheeks. "AHH! IT'S SHARP! CUTE, BUT SHARP!" The former handyman wailed.

Ford bit his lip. "Can't we do this first?" "Nooo! The twins need to eat or they'll eat Soos!" Seb laughed. "And I bet you haven't eaten either! It will do us good!" Seb poked Ford's cheek before marching to his old kitchen. Oh, memories~ "Watch the twins for me, you can see them but not examine them without me!" he called back.

Ford looked down at the babies helplessly. Soos was gently trying to pry Zoe's mouth off him. "Ow. Heh heh, you've got some sharp teeth little lady. Ow!" Soos winced through his chuckles. Zully was waddling over to the couch, pulling at the pillows. "Ah… Dr. Pines? Help?" Soos asked helplessly from his position, kneeling over on the ground. Ford shook himself. Right. "Yes, hold still while I dislodge her from you…" He was able to carefully pull on Zoe until she let go, Soos sighed in relief. Ford blinked at the blonde child as he held her up, arms stretched and as far away from his face as possible. She giggled, a bit of blood was trailing out of her mouth.

"Oh my goodness! Do you need medical assistance?" Ford stared at the injury on Soos's cheek. The round man laughed it off. "Naw, I've actually gotten worse bites from the squirrels that attack my FCLORP group."

"Ah, um, you should...still wash that thing off, though, it could get infected..." Ford awkwardly carried Zoe to the bathroom because despite how horrible it looked and how much it creeped him out, Zoe had Soos' blood in her mouth. "Ok...um, clean it? How do you clean yourself?" The clueless man asked. He let the water run and waited for Zoe to do something. She was sitting on the edge of the sink, a little confused.

Zoe stared at the man intensely, heterochromatic eyes wide. He...looked like Daddy, but he definitely wasn't daddy. Her eyes narrowed annoyed. "No Daddy!" What was his name again? "Is-sher!" Yeah, that's what daddy called the man.

"I...sher?" Ford asked softly. Zoe nodded. "Isher!" She looked at the water and splashed Isher with water while laughing loudly. Ford frowned in annoyance. "Hey! Zoe, no!" He scolded loudly but the little girl gasped and started screaming in distress (she didn't like to be shouted at!) and he froze. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He just didn't know how to deal with a baby.

He took her back to the living room, almost getting bitten in the process, and practically dropped her on the couch. Zoe calmed down when she saw her crib companion playing with the chewable gopher, it was safe now. Zully was here. And Isher wouldn't shout at her again.

Ford sat far (far!) away from the kids and pulled out his journal to write a bit about their interactions. "Sebastian, when were they born?" He called out to his brother in the kitchen. "April 24th, 2013!" Seb called with a proud, sweet voice. Alright, so they were a year and 2 months old. He marked that down. But, Wanda should have conceived them sometime in the fall… did the timing mean anything?

Wanda did say the doctors told her her uterus had been burnt… What was different from her pregnancy to their mom's?! Sebastian didn't burn her. He called out again. "Do they have...birthmarks?" Seb hummed. "Birthmarks as in Dipper kind or my kind?" "Yours!" "Nopey! Nothing, Zoe just has a darker splotch on her arm."

Ford crawled over to the kids to examine that birthmark. He lifted the girl's arm with his pencil, not wanting to risk getting bitten. It was just a splotch, not even anything resembling a distinctive shape. Certainly not a triangle. Still, this didn't really reassure him. Zully played like what he would call an average baby, they made baby sounds, wobbled when walking and had a big smile. Zoe on the other hand was starting to worry him...

He watched her cackle as she threw her toys around. She even bit onto the neck of one of the dolls and shook her head around, growling.

"Holy shit…" Ford stared at his niece, terrified. Zoe's hand suddenly engulfed in flames and she burnt her toy, laughing when she threw it against the wall. "S-S-Seb! Sebastian!" Ford screamed, the blue fire reflecting in his glasses.

Seb poked his head into the room and looked at the babies. "Shoot!" Zoe noticed him and raised her arms. "Dada!" She screamed in excitement before falling backwards, almost hitting her head. "Ooops~ Baby you have to be more careful!" He picked her up and floated up the flaming toy before Ford's house caught fire (like his and Wanda's did). "Sorry about that, their powers still get out of control, haha, that's why we're here, don't worry, they can't really hurt you." Seb put the toy in water, he wasn't going to eat that fire, and called everyone to eat. Abuelita had seen him a bit ago and decided to join him in the cooking.

"I made hamburgers! So you can't deny my food!" Seb scolded his brother with a grin. Ford was still trying to get his breathing back under control. He observed Zoe more closely during lunch. The babies got some chicken, barely seasoned, rice and some weird looking puree which both of them seemed to like. Ford was trembling a little, the memory of that blue fire running through his mind again and again. What would he have done if Seb wasn't there to put it out? Would his living room burn down? Could that blue fire even be put out with an extinguisher? Dumping the toy in water seemed to help, but still! That fire was blue! It was magical! What if it wouldn't have gone out without Seb's help?

Bill's certainly wouldn't have. Ford hid a shudder. He'd had more experience with Bill's burning flames than he would like to admit. That demon visited him every few nights back behind the portal, as soon as he left the safety of William's side.

After lunch, Zoe and Zully started yawning, and Seb suggested that if he needed to draw blood or whatever, to do it now. "They comply more when tired." Ford chuckled a little. "Well, I doubt anyone would enjoy complying to having their blood taken."

They went to Ford's lab, he had gotten prepared for this weeks ago, and carefully swabbed the insides of their mouths (barely escaping before Zoe bit him) as well as took some blood samples (might as well cover his bases). The children complained after it and Seb rocked them in his arms. Ford shook his head slowly. Seb loved his kids so much...Would he still do so if they were...

"Alright...this is to study yo-your genetic composition, no one will see the samples, just me." There was no way he was asking for help from the other doctors. "No-Now, the weirdness scan…" As he prepared his machine, Seb rocked and burped his sleepy kids. "We won't see each other for our birthday, right?" Seb asked sadly. Stan was going to be busy this summer. Ford had many things to do with setting up the center… and Shermie was taking Mabel and Dipper with him and Abigail on a family vacation.

"I-I don't know…" Ford fumbled a little with the buttons on his machine.

"We can still see each other at the end of the summer, to celebrate Dillon and the twins' birthday, and Diego's! He will be turning 1 in September don't forget!" Seb exclaimed happily. It was fine if he could see everyone at LEAST once this summer.

"I'll keep it in mind…" Ford finally got everything ready. He connected the little wires to the babies' temples for a better reading. Then did the same for Sebastian when he sat down next to his sleeping babies. As the machine made weird science stuff Seb didn't understand, his brother looked down at him. "So...Sebastian...what-what would you...what would you do or-or think...if the kids used to be...demons?"

Seb smiled. Oh, easy question. He already had it with Linda. "It wouldn't matter, they're my daughters, and they don't deserve to be punished for something they did in another life."

"Alright, but it actually matters quite a lot!" Ford laughed humorlessly, gritting his teeth. "If you hadn't been a demon, you wouldn't have gotten a demon eye, or powers. Which you somehow passed down! I mean there must be a reason you still aren't entirely human…"

"...I-I AM human, Ford…"

"Humans don't have powers or transform into 6 armed monsters with disconnected torsos." The older triplet said, sounding just slightly accusatory.

"...Uh-uh…" Seb stuttered, holding Zully's hand for support. "It's magic…"

"It's weirdness, Sebastian." Ford shook his head. Magic and Weirdness wasn't the same. "I'm not saying you're bad or anything, just that, maybe your past is not separate from you by a clear line…"

There was a moment of silence before Seb whispered. "I'm not Filbrick...I'm not going to hurt them…" Ford waved his hands. "I-I never said-" He bit his lip. Well, he didn't say it, but that was what he had been thinking… did that… make him like Filbrick? Ew, no, never. He-He might have thought about it...but only for a second! He-He actually didn't want to hurt his nieces! He didn't want anything bad happening to them!

That's why he was really hoping they-they weren't demons…

Ford trembled as he ran the scanner. The readouts were… odd. "You're human… but you're also… Weirdness…" He wasn't sure what that meant. How could Sebastian have such powers, and pass on such powers, when his DNA was 100% human? But there it was, the reading stated quite plainly that he was human. He just happened to be emitting Weirdness energy.

The readings of the twins were similar, but not the same, just like the quick basic scan he did when they were born. They had the same powers but they didn't have the same weirdness waves...WHY? He wanted to map Seb's DNA already. "What was your deal with the Axolotl again? You asked to be human?"

"Why would I EVER ask to be such a dumb creature?" Seb laughed. "I wanted to be brought back, it had to be in a different form, different time...MAYBE I should have been more specific...but, heh, I had just died for the first time, I wasn't thinking straight...haha, get it? Straight~" Ford didn't get it but let him talk. "And then...when he brought me back that summer he said he would let me keep my powers…" Seb shrugged. "Which at first I thought gone, I only got them back when I came to Gravity Falls where the seal was broken, so maybe...the twins have powers...because they don't have seals?" Seb suggested.

Ford thought about it. It...It made some kind of sense...If they didn't have magic seals...then their powers were free...and if they don't have seals...it means they don't have zodiacs which means they weren't Bill! He managed a small smile. That reassured him at least a little bit… Putting the still kind of confusing readings aside, the older triplet gently pulled off the soft plugs on the twins' heads, he didn't want to wake them up, but was more harsh with his triplet, just to bother him, like good ol' siblings always do. "OW!" Seb glared and his brother sent him a smug grin. "Don't scream, you are going to wake up my nieces~"

"You little-" Seb grumbled but let it pass. He would get revenge at some point, he must be patient~

They moved to another area of the center so Ford could study the three samples of blood he had. It was going to take a while, but Seb wasn't allowed to bring food into the room so his tablet and sleeping kids would be enough. "Ok, what are you going to do now?"

"Your DNA is human, but if you have powers, and you passed them down, I'm going by the theory you must have them as part of your DNA, so that's why you are 'human' but still have powers that can be passed down." Because if Zoe and Zully didn't get powers because of that...Then how? His other theories were much darker and he'd prefer NOT to think about them right now. Ford shook his head. "But that doesn't make any sense. You have the same DNA as me, as Stan. Well, aside from a few mutations causing our extra fingers…" Ford looked down at his hands. "And Zoe has different colored eyes, so, mutations are a thing that seem to happen…"

"Mutations are literally the creations of new alleles, so I'm guessing one or a few of your chromosomes have different alleles compared to us that came from a mutation, a mutation that could be the product of...being a reincarnation of a being of pure energy with powers? Your past life should be clearly separated from you now, but it ISN'T because you clearly remember being Bill and you have physical traits that relate you to him, so…" Ford groaned loudly and pulled at his fluffy (and greasy from not showering) curly hair. "UUURGGHHH!" Perhaps the Weirdness was latched onto Seb's Soul? And the radiation from that energy had caused some cellular mutations? Radiation DID cause mutation, so it was possible, perhaps the Weirdness altered Seb's body to be able to contain and produce the powers he had?

Seb laughed at his expression. "Come on, Sixer, don't get stressed, you'll find out what's going on." Seb patted Ford's hair, grimaced in disgust, wiped it on his pants, and went to sit down next to the kids. "From what I'm aware, the Axolotl created my vessel from your bodies...I'm not sure HOW, but I...doubt we were all created at the same time…"

"Or we were." Ford commented as he looked into the microscope, very concentrated. "And the mutation happened when Bill's soul, got into the human body that is yours now…" Reincarnation was fascinating, and very complicated. Frankly, most of the scientific community didn't even believe Souls were real, and Ford only knew that Souls were real because of all his experiences with the paranormal.

Normally, with how small DNA was, it couldn't actually be seen that easily. They had to be treated with dyes and placed into multiple chemicals in little trays to make sure the cells were alive and would grow to divide. Fiddleford and he had worked together to build the equipment for the lab. His knowledge of the technology he encountered in space combined with Fiddleford's brilliant engineering helped to build this special microscope (along with all his other lab tools and machines, unique, patented and far more advanced than any other equipment) that COULD zoom in enough to see the samples he had carefully treated with some chemicals more easily than normal ones.

It would have normally taken long hours to look at the chromosomes and weeks to get the results he was looking for gene per gene. Now it would take him barely an hour. "Thank Ax for your incredible, perfect and almost magical technology!" Seb fake cheered. Ford huffed softly and focused back on the sample he was studying. This was Seb's, he wanted to study his first. Now that he thought about it, he should have gotten a sample of himself, to compare just how different their DNA could actually be.

"Look, Sixer! I made a suit! It's inspired by you! I call it Nerd & Greasy!" Seb showed his brother his tablet with a large grin and Ford glared at the stick figure drawing he did. "Stop it! I'm working!"

"You don't like my drawing?" Seb pouted with mock sadness but Ford wasn't going to fall for that. "No. Now let me see how we can fix your children."

Seb stopped and stayed quiet. He...He didn't like how Ford said the kids needed to be 'fixed', as if they were wrong. They weren't...

Ford focused on the samples, unaware of the effects of his words. He never noticed those kinds of things. His super intelligent brain could memorize almost anything, but when it came to human emotions or anything subjective, the oldest Pines brother was utterly clueless. Interpersonal intelligence was the only intelligence he lacked, while Stan excelled in that. He understood people (and used it to his favor). In simpler terms, Stanford Pines was a jerk. But an unintentional jerk.

The scientist waited for the cells to reach their metaphase state so he could see the chromosomes. Finally, when they were condensed and properly dyed, he could take a good look at them. It didn't take long for him to notice what wasn't normal. First of all, the pair of chromosomes marked as 1 was longer than their siblings, as if it had an additional piece just in the lowest chunk. The chromosomes were dyed red, and while a few tiny parts were tinted yellow, this particular one was extremely bright. He zoomed in and found that, that particular gene was glowing.

"Ok...I think I found something…" Seb looked up from stroking Zoe's round head. "You have an additional gene which is glowing yellow so I'm going to suppose that's where your powers originate." Ford adjusted a few dials. "None of the others have that glow to them. And it's quite distinctive…" Though, to Ford's surprise, the glow faded even as he observed it. The gene segment appearing to… decay rapidly as the cell finished dividing. Within a few minutes, and a few more divisions, there was no trace of that extra gene at all. Ford stared. This was… amazing.

That gene, which Ford mentally dubbed the 'Weirdness Gene™', decayed quickly once it was removed from the body. Well, that would explain why Sebastian's blood tests came back normal. The machines used to test blood in regular hospitals took hours, the gene would have destroyed itself long before then, leaving behind completely innocuous samples that were probably near identical to the rest of his triplets. No one would have ever known that Seb's DNA wasn't entirely human…

… which explained how he could pass it on. His children probably inherited that extra gene from him. Perhaps that gene sequence didn't decay as quickly in sperm, or, it made it to an egg quickly enough that it was kept alive? Ford would have to do more tests. ...could he ask his brother for a sperm sample…

"What?!" Seb sputtered when Ford voiced his question aloud. "Heck no! That's gross, man!" The younger man made an embarrassed face and blushed.

"But- science!" Ford (didn't) whine. Seb glared. "Hell no. Nope. Nah, ah! No way." He shook his head. "Now what did you find out?" The youngest triplet asked. Ford was disappointed at the refusal of DNA samples, but turned around in his seat to face his brother. "So, you DO in fact, have slightly different DNA. An extra gene segment on your first Chromosome. However, it seems to destroy itself and vanish within…" Ford checked his watch and thought about how long it had been since he'd drawn blood from his brother, "...10 minutes or so. Which is why your DNA could pass as mine. Once the rest results came back, no one would have any way of seeing that there was something extra."

Seb stared. Then he got angry. "That stupid lizard just stuck my powers onto the FIRST chromosome?! That lazy little bi-!"

"Well, regardless. I think this supports my hypothesis that your powers are indeed, heritable. Somehow. I would need to check your children's blood and other samples to be sure that they have the gene as well. Though, by this point, they must have decayed like yours did." Ford adjusted his glasses. Which would mean that he wouldn't be able to find the glowing gene, but it didn't mean he couldn't run other tests on their blood for more research. Especially for the whole, comparing Ford's own blood with his brothers. He could do that later.

Seb was still ranting angrily. Ford went back to studying the blood samples. "You know, I believe that this Weirdness Gene™ must be in charge of making you generate your odd energy signature. With that Seal on your back, that energy would build up but it couldn't be expressed or released, which caused you lots of pain. Perhaps it simply took 18 years for the energy to build up enough to hurt, and it would leak out through your seal, which must have been agonizing…" Ford spoke casually, not realizing how insensitive it was to speak about Seb's suffering so simply.

Seb twitched. "Yeah. Agonizing…" He sighed. Stupid Axolotl. Stupid seal. At least his children didn't have that damn thing. He wouldn't have been able to stand it if they had to suffer like he did. He'd surely revive Cipher just to make him heal them, he'd have never known if Gravity Falls would break their seals...

Ford got a new saliva sample from the babies (disappointed because he couldn't take blood from them again, unless he wanted to hurt them, which he DIDN'T) who were starting to wake up, to repeat the process. He used two microscopes this time, to work at the same time. "Come on~ Show me my hypothesis verification~" Again, their chromosome number 1s were larger, but the gene didn't glow yellow, it was green in Zoe's and a soft blue in Zully's.

"Why is it a different color? What's changing it? I used the same dye." Ford mused to himself. It was definitely the same additional gene, sitting there as if it owned the place. The only thing Ford could think of was that they produced a different… 'flavor' of Weirdness.

He looked closer and was a little intrigued at these observations. He remembered the first results from his Weirdness scanner had given him plenty of readouts. He checked them and did a double take back then. All of them still registered as human. But with Weirdness energy. Ok, this was the base for this problem. Humans naturally born with weirdness. That wasn't normal. Ford decided to try and isolate the Weirdness energy by itself to try and figure out what 'species' of Weirdness it was coming from.

Perhaps they would develop different powers once they were older? Or maybe they would express their powers in a different way? He was getting more and more excited about this. The possibilities! And he was the first to see it! All by himself!

He went to get his scanner and changed a few settings. This was a new function that Fiddleford had helped him add last month. He held the machine up to his brother to take another reading. Yup, Sebastian rated as 50% Weirdness levels.. He checked the twins, they should have similar levels, or at least ratios.

Ford read the readings and thought about it. No that wasn't how it worked. Seb was 50/50 from being half demon and half human (energy wise) and since the twins were more human, their percentages should ACTUALLY go down…

...and yes. Zoe's Weirdness levels were around 25% as Ford suspected. Zully was…

Ford froze. Zully was clocking in at a little over 75% Weirdness. How was this possible?! Her readings were HIGHER than Sebs! Ford went cold. If Seb was 50/50 because of his soul being Bill Cipher… and he would pass on 25% weirdness to his kids, as shown by Zoe's reading, the only POSSIBLE way for Zully to get higher would be if... Zully's soul wasn't human...

No. That couldn't be right. Ford shook his head. There had to be some other reason. He needed more tests.

"Why don't you wake them up? I need to see them use their powers." The scientist said quickly. "They need to sleep." Seb frowned a bit and stood in front when his brother wanted to grab Zully. "They're stirring anyway!" Ford pointed out. "I need to study them." He was staring at them. Seb glared. "My CHILDREN are not your test subjects. Leave them alone." He didn't like the way Ford was saying it, maybe if he had been more tactful, Seb would have accepted, but Stanford wasn't tactful. He was speaking as if the twins were...

"But you need to see what their powers are anyway! They could be dangerous, they might hurt you and Wanda- And if you know what they can do, you can better control them, fix them-" or seal and contain them, if they really were...

"Stop! Saying! That!" Seb hissed. "My children are FINE. They don't need FIXING!" Seb trembled. They weren't broken. They were perfect, sweet babies. Nothing at all like him… Seb shook his head. "I'm gonna go put the twins somewhere they can sleep better…" Seb cradled his children and made his way back to the Shack.

"You-You were the one who wanted my help! You wanted to know how their powers worked to control them!" Ford shouted with a glare. "Sebastian this is important!" Ford didn't have time for his triplet's foolish stubbornness! Zully might be dangerous!

"I wanted your help, I didn't want you to… to tell me that their powers were something wrong that had to be FIXED!" Seb's eye teared up. "I wanted help to teach them how to control their powers better, you said that if I knew what weirdness it was, you'd be able to help me stop them from hurting themselves!" Seb sniffled "B-but I don't like how you-you see us as some stupid experiment for your entertainment!"

...or as a threat to be fixed...

"But it is...it IS an experiment, it's research! You have Weirdness in your DNA because you were Bill Cipher, and now your children have the same defect, but it doesn't look like yours! If you don't let me do my research- I EVEN VOLUNTEERED to do it for YOU, then who is to say their powers aren't from another demon?!" Ford cried, almost desperately. If they were another demon, then everyone was in danger- what if Bill was reincarnated too? If it happened to Sebastian then-

Seb stopped and slowly turned around. "You...That's why you asked me before...You don't care about the twins' powers at all, do you?! You just think the kids could be reincarnated monsters?! Are you stupid?!"

Ford twitched. He wasn't stupid! "Not as stupid as you, who clearly denies that something's wrong here! And I care about them, they're my nieces, but my scanner shows high concentrations of Weirdness in Zully- and you HAVE to admit that if YOU are a demon, nothing-" Ford shook, "-nothing stops THEM from being one too! Do you really want monsters as kids?" The scientist asked, attempting to joke about it, but his brother hugged the twins closer.

"...What if they were!? You-You clearly don't want a monster as a brother...I thought you had...gotten over it…" Seb turned around and walked away faster. Figures. Ford STILL didn't… didn't trust him… or his children! Seb clenched his eye shut. That awful feeling was growing in his chest again. He itched. He could feel that awful urge to begin clawing at himself again.

He… he wasn't alright. He… he wanted Linda… he wanted to talk to her. To cry and scream and let her know how awful he felt because his brother was a fucking stupid head who made him feel bad and she said no one should be allowed to make him feel bad for being himself! The twins opened their eyes and stirred restlessly at the agitation they could feel from their dad. Seb winced when he heard them whimper. "No, no, no, don't cry! I'm fine! I promise!"

He quickly went back to the Shack, and locked himself and the twins there. Seb put the kids on the bed. His chest was tightening and breathing was getting harder. No! NO! BREATHE! BREATHE! He refused to-to- "AAAAHHHHH!" Sebastian screamed and hit his head against the wall. Zach and Zoe jumped, startled at the horrible noise. Their daddy began hitting the wall with his hands now until his knuckles bled. The babies sobbed in distress. No! No, daddy don't cry! ""Papa!"" they wailed, scared of what was happening.

Ford sat in his chair, slowly stroking his right sixth finger. He-he didn't understand. What had he done to upset Sebastian this time? Why did he always end up upsetting him when he was simply trying to help? He was just worried for his brother's safety. If the twins were actually demons… Sebastian could get hurt! Wanda could get hurt! Ford was just trying to…

He sighed, rubbing his face. If Stan were here, he'd probably call him an idiot. And demand that he apologize to Sebastian. Not that Ford knew what for. He probably should though. He didn't want Seb to be angry at him. He should tell his brother that this was for Sebastian's own good. He said it himself! The twins burned down their living room! If Sebastian had, had powers as a baby, he was sure their parents would have done something as well! Some way to make him stop using his powers, or bind them down or… or...

Ford put his elbows on the table and sulked.

Ford was clearly ignoring the fact that the twins didn't have a father who hated their very existence. He wasn't even connecting the dots to see what Seb's point of view was on this topic.

All Ford could think of was his reading and what it could mean. Having a high concentration of Weirdness might be possible, genetics were strange sometimes, but it couldn't be possible for a human child to contain more Weirdness than the parent they got their powers from-

Unfortunately, Ford had yet to make a machine capable to seeing Souls, so he had no way to figure this out.

It took Seb a while to calm down. He had to get a warm drink and a few bandages for his hands. He didn't mean to hurt himself this much, it just...happened, and now he felt terrible, Linda and Wanda would be so disappointed. He had thought it was a good idea. Now he saw just how stupid he was. The babies calmed down when he calmed down, and were accompanying him with warm bottles of milk. "You aren't wrong, you're perfect just the way you are, Stanford's wrong…" He rubbed their tummies. "You can burn anything you want, I shouldn't have asked him for help, I can handle this myself... "

It wasn't until tomorrow that Ford looked for his brother to apologize. He had thought about it and he came to the conclusion that calling his nieces monsters was bad and he didn't mean it that way, he wasn't trying to insult Sebastian or the babies. Seb accepted Ford's apology, even as he bit back his own angry words about how he REALLY felt about Ford's off-handed hurtful comments.

Seb still took the kids and left, making the long trip back across the country. This had all been a waste of time. At least know he knew that he really DID have some kind of weirdness gene that he could pass on. But he left without anything to help him control the kids' powers, because Ford had cared more to see what made them tick, what made them monsters. He hoped Ford liked their samples, he was surely going to publish another paper about it or something and be even more famous…

"Papa, I-Isher?" Zully asked as they played with Seb's extra finger. Seb stroked their hair. "I'm ok...we just didn't have a good time in Gravity Falls, did we?" Zully rested their head on his chest. No, Daddy was sad there. "But it's ok, sometimes we-we fight with family, but-but it doesn't mean they-they don't love us, even though they're mean."

Zoe puffed her cheeks and hugged her dad's hand. Isher made daddy sad. But her and Zully will make him happy...Mommy seemed to join, because she was very worried after they came back and Seb didn't look happy. Dad was always happy after seeing his family. Mommy wanted to kiss him and Zoe allowed mommy to kiss her daddy, just because he needed love...

"And...And he found in my DNA a gene that proves that I'm a monster and it explains why-why I still have my powers and how my past really isn't my past because there isn't a clear line, and then he said I passed it down to my kids so now they're monsters too, or that I didn't pass them down and they could be reincarnations too, but he called us monsters and said my kids needed to be fixed, and it hurt me when he said that and-and I got so stressed and angry and it hurt and I punched the wall until I bled, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…"

Linda rubbed her eyes and sighed. So Sebastian had another fight with his brother...the one whom he had always had problems with because he used to call him names, and then that summer when he 'came back from the portal' he called him a monster and a demon (his brother also seemed to believe Seb's invented backstory?) And now...he 'confirmed' Sebastian and his kids were demons and backed it up saying he found a GENE?!

What was even going on with this family?

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