Bill was terrified. Stan had started walking over to his car and every step he took would send a severe wave of pain through Bill's broken leg.
"Mr. Pines! I order you to release that child this instant!" Blubbs and Durland raced forward.
"Don't you realized who this is?! It's fu-" Stan stopped halfway when electricity shot through his body and made him crumple to the round in uncontrollable jerking motions.
Durland stood five feet away holding the two Tasers triumphantly while Blubbs walked forward and handcuffed Stan's hands behind his back. Dipper and Mabel rushed forward. Dipper went to check on Bill, who was trying his best to crawl away from his unconscious attacker but failing when immense pain kept shooting through his broken leg. Mabel, however, ran right past the two, giving Bill a look of disgust as she passed, and went to try and help Stan.
"Leave him alone! My Grunkles' haven't done anything wrong! Why aren't you arresting the DEMON who started the FLUFFING APOCALYPSE!" Mabel screamed as she tried to pry Blubbs away from her unconscious great uncle.
Blubbs opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted when a choked sob broke the tense air and made them all look up, trying to find the source of the crying.
Bill was curled into a tight ball and his face couldn't be seen from any direction. Dipper was holding onto the small shaking child and whispering calmly to him.
"Dipper! What are you doing?! Did you forget who that is?!" Ford had come forward and was taking long swift strides towards Bill.
"No, I just couldn't leave him to die in the forest though! Look at him great uncle Ford! He can't talk, stand, sleep, or even eat properly!" Dipper had pulled Bill against his chest and was staring daggers into Ford's skull.
Mabel stopped trying to free Stan from the handcuffs and was now staring at her brother and Bill. She didn't know how she missed all of his injuries before. Now she just felt horrible for defending her Grunkles who had caused most of it.
"Dipper, he destroyed his own dimension and killed billions of innocent lives! How can you defend that?!" Ford had started reaching into his coat but stopped when Bill uncurled from himself and grabbed ahold of Dipper's shirt.
"I-I d-diwdn't meawn t-to." Bill stuttered through his tears.
Mabel's heart broke at the sound of Bill's weak, broken voice and his tear covered face. She knew that he was terrified and scared, but she couldn't do anything about it.
"Of course you did! How can someone accidentally destroy and entire DIMENSION?!" Ford held a gun in his hand and was about to fire when Dipper shot forward and swatted the gun out of his hands, leaving Bill alone on the grass.
"Take it back!" Dipper demanded.
"No! Why should I?! It's the truth! How can someone ACCIDENTALLY DETONATE an ENTIRE DIMENSION?! Not to mention their own family!" Everyone fell silent at Ford's last remark, but the quiet was short lived as Bill started to cry uncontrollably.
"I-it w-was an a-acci-iden-nt! I diwdn't meawn t-to k-kill W-Will!" Bill managed before curling into a ball and sobbing.
Dipper stopped staring daggers into Ford's skull and ran back to Bill while everyone else watched. Ford felt sick to his stomach. He had broken this child beyond repair; thanks to him Bill would fear him and Stan. Ford watched as Dipper lifted Bill up and started to walk towards the shack.
"Dipper, wait!" Mabel called after them, but either Dipper didn't hear her or he didn't care.
"Alright. That was the most intense five minutes of my summer." Blubbs said as he helped the now conscious Stan to his feet.
Mabel and Ford turned to face the policemen.
"Now that we have your attention, both you and Stanley here are going to be put under house arrest for the next week. That means no Mystery Shack and no monster hunting for either of you. We would bump up the punishment but since you saved the entire town last year we decided to cut you some slack." Blubbs said as he handed a very disoriented Stan over to Ford. "You can have people over, just not in large numbers. And for the sake of the kids, we won't call their parents. Now ya'll take care now, we have some cantaloupe stuffing to watch!" With that said Blubbs and Durland hopped back into the police cruiser and drove off.
"House arrest… Well, I've had worse." Stan said as he, Ford, and Mabel started heading back to the Mystery Shack. "Now where's that little bastard? I'd like to teach im' some manners." Stan managed to support his own weight and broke away from
Ford for a moment, before falling back into his brother's arms again.
"Stan, I think we might have taken it a bit to far this time." Ford adjusted his hold on Stan so he could look his younger brother in the eyes.
"Ford, you gotta be kidding me. He caused the fu-" Stan was cut off by Mabel.
"Swear Jar!" Mabel spun on her feet and pointed an accusing finger at Stan.
"Aww sh-" Mabel's stare intensified. "-oot." Stan finished while avoiding eye contact with his niece.
"That's right, now I'm gonna go upstairs and find my bro-bro while you two talk it out and pay your debts to the swear jar. Bye!" Mabel dashed up the stairs in a blur of pink and brown as he went to find her brother.
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"Shh. It's alright Bill." Dipper hugged the small crying child to his chest as Bill continued to sniffle.
"Ineree, my tomach huwts." Bill's muffled said as his sniffles turned into a coughing fit.
Dipper didn't respond verbally and instead rushed Bill to the bathroom. Bill's stomach churned and he felt what little was in his it rise to his throat. He wasted no time emptying the bile into the toilet as Dipper removed the lid and leaned Bill over the porcelain bowl. Bill heaved again and instead of bile on partially digested food, blood came and he started to panic.
"Iner-" Bill's weak voice was silenced as another wave of nausea overtook him and he heaved a fourth time.
"It's okay Bill just calm down." Dipper carefully hugged Bill to his chest as he stood up and flushed the, now blood filled, toilet.
"Ineree, I'm scawed." Bill's weak, hoarse whisper barely made it to Dipper's ears, but when it did it broke his heart.
"I-I know Bill, but it's gonna be okay." Dipper grabbed a towel and got it wet before looking down at the bandage wrapped form in his arms.
"Sisser was meawn." Bill said as best he could with his speech limitations, it made Dipper chuckle.
"He was, wasn't he? Stan and him have been acting weird the past few days…" Dipper trailed off as he started to clean off Bill's mud and blood-soaked face.
They sat in silence for a while as Dipper cleaned Bill up as best he could with the towel. Bill was lost in thought when Mabel's voice pierced the welcoming silence the world had given them.
"DIIIIPPEEEER! WHERE ARE YOU BRO-BRO?!" Mabel's voice had startled both of them and had made Dipper accidentally poke Bill in one of his golden cat eyes.
"Ineree!" Bill yelled in his childish voice as he reached up and rubbed his irritated eye.
Footsteps pounding against the wooden floor could be heard as Mabel approached the door.
"Dipdot? You in there?" Her voice sounded concerned so Dipper carefully set the towel down and picked up Bill before heading to the door and opening it.
"Yeah, I'm right here Mabes." Dipper looked at his sister to see the worry and guilt in her eyes. "What's wrong?"
Mabel looked at Bill, who then nervously hid his face in Dipper's shirt.
"I wanted to apologize for not standing up for you against Ford. Maybe if I had said something yesterday we wouldn't be in this mess." Mabel looked at the floor and Dipper felt a wave of guilt wash over him.
"It's not your fault Mabes, this would have happened even if you hadn't defended me. I get that you don't like what I'm doing, but I couldn't just leav-" Dipper was cut off as Mabel pulled him into a hug.
"I don't care that you defended Bill! I know where you're coming from Dipper, but I was worried that he was doing some weird, nacho magic on you!" She paused. "Now I see that you were just trying to save this adorable little guy! Who is obviously not as bad as he used to be." Mabel stepped back from the hug to look at Bill who was now looking at her with big shimmering gold cat eyes.
Bill stared at her with a curious expression on his freckle-covered face. Mabel finally got to see what Bill's human form actually looked like, what she saw made her gush over how cute he was. His chubby cheeks were covered in freckles and his face was rosy from his fever. She was about to comment on how cute he was when Dipper cleared his throat and snapped her back to reality.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about what sweater I should make this little monster." She leaned forward and booped Bill's nose, causing him to bury his face back into Dipper's shirt.
Dipper opened his mouth to object but was silenced by a knock at the front door.
"DIPPER! GET THE DOOR!" Stan yelled from his spot on the recliner downstairs.
"Ugghh, COMING!" Dipper yelled back before Mabel, Bill, and he went downstairs to answer the door.
As they reached the end of the stairs the person knocked again.
"Alright, alright we're coming!" Dipper unlocked the door and opened it, the bright head of pink hair on the other side startled him with a simple greeting.
"Hello, Pinetree~"
Well, there you have it. Chapter 6. Feel free to guess who the mystery person is. Don't forget that I need some suggestions for half the story, so please request at your will.
And don't forget, cats are our superiors, cows will one day take over, the sky is sentient, chow!