Chapter Eight

Dipper hadn't eaten anything given to him by his mother, trying to avoid being drugged again. He hadn't seen Mabel coming with the drugged soup she claimed to have made herself.

"Bro, your mom's making you take sleeping pills," Bill said.

"I'm not your brother," Dipper responded.

"Not the point, Pine Tree. You gotta stop this psychiatry stuff," Bill warned. "If you don't, they're gonna crack you and put you in a hospital for good."

"Leave me alone," Dipper said. "What do I have to do to get you to leave me alone?"

"Lend me your body," Bill answered.

"No," Dipper protested. "Not after what you did last time." He didn't need a demon who loved the feeling of pain to be inside of him.

"Oh, come on," Bill said. "I'll only have it for ten minutes. After that, you're free to take your body back forever."

"No," Dipper said again. His freedom wasn't worth giving Bill his body for any amount of time. What if Bill hurt his family using him?

"Fine. You're stuck with me."

Dipper woke hoping the dream had been a dream. Of course, all the other dreams had been real.

"Oh my god…" Dipper trailed off. Both of his wrists had been cut vertically and were bleeding profusely. He was done for. He would die.

Would he spend eternity with Bill?

Mabel wasn't in the room. She didn't see the cuts appear on his wrist. She couldn't vouch for him.

Dipper was prepared to let himself bleed out. Anything was better than having Bill in his head when no one would help him. Dipper allowed his eyes to close.

He was tired.

He was tired of fighting a losing battle.

He was tired of fighting his parents.

He was tired of seeing Mabel tormenting him in his nightmares.

Dipper allowed himself to fall back asleep.

Ariel was cleaning when she walked to her twins' bedroom. She was planning on cleaning up laundry, knowing her son would go weeks without washing laundry if he could. When Ariel walked into the room, though, she was greeted with her son bleeding on his bed.

Ariel thought he would have been sleeping much longer with the medication she had Mabel give him. Ariel had even sent Mabel into the living room to watch reruns of Ducktective so she wouldn't disturb Dipper's slumber.

"Oh my god!" Ariel exclaimed. She grabbed Dipper, wrapping his blankets around his arms to prevent further bleeding.

"Mom?" Mabel asked, approaching her bedroom.

"Mabel, don't come in here," Ariel ordered. She didn't want her daughter to see something like this. "Get me the phone, all right? Leave it outside the door and go back to the living room"

"Okay," Mabel said. She hastily grabbed their phone, leaving it outside their bedroom door. "It's here, mom," Mabel announced before returning to the living room.

"Mom?" Dipper asked groggily when he heard his mother speaking with someone. He cracked open his eyes to see there was an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose – no wonder his voice sounded muffled – there were also other people in the room.

"It's okay, sweetie. You're being taken to the hospital," Ariel said. Thankfully, the paramedics who came to their home were able to stop the bleeding.

"The hospital?" Dipper asked. He suddenly remembered what happened. Bill had tried to kill him because Dipper wouldn't make a deal. "No, mom, I can't go to the hospital."

"I'm sorry, baby, but you have to go," Ariel said. Dipper looked around to see there were bandages on his arms and he was buckled into a gurney, probably for transport to the hospital.

"No, what about Mabel?" Dipper asked.

"I'm riding in with you and your father's bringing Mabel after," Ariel explained. "I called him home from work after I called the ambulance."

"No, mom; I can't go!" Dipper protested.

"We'll be sedating him for transport," a paramedic said quietly to Ariel, but Dipper caught it. Dipper then noticed an IV insertion in his hand. The paramedic placed a syringe inside, pumping something into him.

It didn't take Dipper long to fall back into the darkness.

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