What cuts the deepest
"Oh shit!" Mabel muttered, looking down at Dipper's hand. She looked up at Dipper with a nervous look in her eyes, he met her gaze with an equally worried look etched on his face. Before either of them could utter another word they heard Grunkle Stan calling them both down stairs, Mabel's face drained of colour, fearing the worst. Dipper sat up on the edge of the bed and put his hand on Mabel's shoulder
"It'll be alright" he whispered to her gently. She nodded and swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat. She stood up and thew on a nightdress while Dipper quickly threw on a pair of pyjama shorts and they both made their way down stairs into the living room. They were met by an extremely stern looking Stan Pines, holding the telephone to his ear.
"Your parents." He mouthed to the twins.
"Yep. Here they are now" He confimed to the voice on the other end of the phone. He handed the phone over to Dipper and sat down in his armchair. Dipper put the phone on to loud speaker and held it between himself and Mabel.
"Hello?"
"Hello Dipper"
"Hey mom" Mabel squeaked
"Kids we need to talk..."
"...Okay" Dipper acknowledged
"There's no easy way for us to say this. So I'm just going to ask you a question and I want an honest answer from both you" Mrs Pines warned
"Are you two involved romantically?" Mrs Pines asked. The question left the twins speechless. They looked at each other with panicked expressions
"I'm going to take this silence as yes you are. Me and your father were sent some photographs of you both earlier in a restaurant from a concerned friend, I can understand their concern but your father and I don't share the concern. We are downright disgusted. This is wrong from both of you and you know it!"
"We know that but..." Dipper began to try and defend himself and Mabel but was cut off by their mother
"NO BUTS! This is absolutely sick and disgusting. Not to mention ILLEGAL and if something isn't done about it. WE will do something about it." Mrs Pines threatened. These words made Dipper see red and from nowhere he launched into a defensive rant.
"YES WE KNOW THAT IS ISN'T A CONVENTIONAL RELATIONSHIP. But we can't help these feelings. We've tried to deny them all our lives but we just can't okay? And we aren't going to do 'something' about it and neither will you. What do you think will work? SEPERATION? You'll keep me and Mabel on opposite sides of the country for god knows how long. Because I'm telling you now. That won't work. We'll find a way, there is no power in heaven or hell that can tear us apart!" And with that Dipper hung up on his speechless mother and turned around to apologise to Stan.
"Grunkle Stan. I'm really sorry about that. I don't know what made me snap like that"
"Kid... I never knew that this was how serious you felt about this" Stan admitted
"Yeah. It is" Dipper replied, getting defensive once again. Stan sighed loudly and looked over to his great niece and nephew.
"I'll speak to your parents. I'll sort something out."
"Thank you so much" Dipper smiled, Stan montioned for Dipper to come over to him so Dipper did close enough for Stan to whisper into his ear
"Go and look after Mabel, she looks about ready to collapse" Dipper looked over at his twin and saw what Stan had meant. She hadn't moved an inch from where she was stood when their mother was shooting down their relationship. On the verge of tears she was just rocking back and forth gently on the spot. Dipper nodded and made his way over to Mabel and wrapped his arms around her tightly, pulling her as close to him as she could be.
Dipper led Mabel back up to their bedroom, not letting go of her hand, rubbing her thumb with his, letting her know at all times that he had her. Mabel sat down on the edge of Dipper's bed, put her head in her hands and immediately burst into tears. Dipper once again wrapped his arms around her and burried her face into his chest.
"D-D-Dipper are w-we gon-gonna h-have t-t-to b-b-break u-up" Mabel sobbed, clinging on to her brother, afraid that if she loosened her grip on him he'd fade away from her.
"No! Of course not. Like I told mom... Nothing is going to tear us apart. Okay?"
"B-but w-what m-mom s-s-said"
"Mabel... Look at me" Dipper instructed. She pulled away from his chest and stared into his eyes, she saw a burning determination in them in contrast to the doubt and tears that filled hers.
"I love you andI'm not letting ANYONE tear us apart, not even our parents. It's me and you, like it always has been. We can face anything that comes our way. I promise you I'm not going anywhere" Dipper reassured her. Mabel wiped her eyes and nodded
"I love you too. Thanks Dipper" She gave him a small half smile. Laying down she snuggled up to Dipper and fell asleep instantly, Dipper stared down at her for a moment before pulling the duvet over both of them and closing his eyes.