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( Pacifica Northwest )
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'Oh my God! Oh my GOD!' Pacifica thought as she stared at Dipper in the hot-springs. She couldn't actually see anything but Dipper's hair, insanely long hair, for a boy, and shoulders. But he wasn't a boy. He was a girl!
'Maybe it was Mabel. Has to be Mabel.' She assured herself.
'No, Dipper even said he and Mabel... uh... her and Mabel were girls!' Pacifica thought to herself. There was no way she could, maybe, possibly, have feelings for another girl.
No way!
She was just starting to, kind of, admit that she, might, have feelings for Dipper. But now 'he' was a she.
"Did you hear something?" Dipper's voice asked, sounding almost panicked.
"I think there is someone over in the bushes. Want me to go check?" The voice called Aqua asked.
She had to go, she had to leave. She couldn't be found spying on naked boys... er... girls in hot-springs.
She pushed herself up, no longer caring about being stealthy, or quiet, and made her escape as quickly as she could.
All she had to do was run. She'd be okay, she had a head start. She could see the edge of the forest...
'Almost... unphm!' She was interrupted by falling on her face after tripping over a root. And would have been alright if she hadn't hit her head on something hard. Her eyes weren't focused, and though she never had before, she thought that she might be passing out, even as the darkness crept in around her.
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She sat up quickly looking wildly around the room she was in.
She wasn't sure where she was, but she knew where she wasn't.
She wasn't in her room.
Nor was she in a hospital.
And she sure as crap wasn't in the forest on the ground where she had passed out.
Pacifica looked around the room. It looked familiar. Like it was in a house that she had been too, but had never been in the room itself.
"Wadda we do with her, Daph?" A voice as familiar as the room came as a whisper, from outside the door.
"I dunno, I dunno." That was Dipper. But the first voice wasn't Aqua, or whoever it was. "I'm just not sure, Mabes"
"Y'think she saw your flotation devices?" So it was Mabel. Pacifica hadn't recognized her voice at first. But she did now. "Think we should toss her into the Mystery Hole?"
Mystery Hole? Wasn't that thing supposed to be bottomless? Would they really kill her to hide the fact that Dipper was a girl? This was insane. She had to do something... but what if she got up, and they freaked out, and she freaked out... it would be...
'Bad?' She thought. 'Yeah, bad... to say the least.'
"What?! We can't do that! I mean..." Dipper almost yelled, but caught him/herself.
"Daph, I was teasing. But wadda we do if she saw your chesticles?" Silence. "We can't not do anything. She's the biggest gossip. She'll blackmail you, Daph. You'll end up her little errand girl! She might make you fold her underwear! And I bet she wears thongs! HOW DO YOU EVEN FOLD THEM? THEY'RE JUST STRING!"
"Mabel... you gotta stop yelling. I don't think it'll be like that. But... it'll be bad. I might just have to go home early, that's all. I mean. Gravity Falls, I don't think they are ready for lesbians." She had said it. She'd never actually called herself a lesbian before. She had said she liked girls, but never actually used the label.
"But... But... that's not fair. You shouldn't have to leave cause they are... are... jerk-faces!" Mabel sounded frustrated.
"Really? Jerk-faces? Are we twelve again?" Even if Mabel had threatened to toss her in a hole, she couldn't help but agree with the girl silently. Dipper did deserve to like girls.
"You know what I mean, Sis." Mabel huffed. "It's not like you choose to be this way. You can't help who you like, or don't like." Again she agreed, it wasn't a choice. If it was a choice, she would imagine that people wouldn't choose it, because of how hard it got. Dipper was desperate for affection, enough so she dressed like a boy to get it. Wouldn't it have been easier to have a boyfriend, if it were a choice?
"Maybe we can reason with her?" Dipper sounded hopeful, and Pacifica wondered if there was a way to sneak out of the room.
"There's always the hole." Mabel's voice sounded serious. "Or maybe we can convince her it was a dream? That she hallucinated."
"What if she wanted to confirm it, y'know. Check for herself?"
"We'll call her a pervert!"
Pacifica moved slightly, trying to slowly move off the bed. Hoping that she could get off the bed, and maybe find an escape. All hopes of that failed as her next movement caused the bed to squeak.
"What's that?" Mabel asked.
"Pacifica's awake." Dipper said, as Pacifica heard footsteps coming closer to the door.
'No.. No...' she thought as she tried to move out of bed faster, which resulted in her sitting at the edge of it, when the door opened.
"Hey Pacifica. You... uh..." Dipper started.
"Passed out in the woods! Yeah. You like... musta tripped or something, and boom! Hit your head. But luckily we were walking by, and found you!" Mabel said, a big smile across her face. A smile that you knew was forced, and hopeful.
"You're a girl?" She looked directly at Dipper. Who's face turned red, as she looked away. She didn't need an answer. She had saw as much for herself. Lack of a penis, and having breasts, kind of pointed to that conclusion.
"No. Nope! Uh-uh. We rescued you!" Mabel said seemingly giddy.
"You were going to throw me in a hole, and leave me to die."
"The Mystery Hole doesn't work like that! You'd have come back out! It would have been just to buy some time!" Mabel almost yelled. Then she looked panicked. "And I didn't say that!"
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( Dipper Pines )
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'This isn't good,' She thought to herself, 'Not good at all.'
Dipper knew that most people thought that Pacifica was just a dumb spoiled rich girl. And maybe she used to have been. Or it could have been the fact that Pacifica had played the role well. Though, Dipper knew that if she was able to get Mabel to tell on herself like this, she might have more wit than they anticipated.
Dipper shook her head, moving to the closet putting out a suitcase. She carried it to her dresser, and started packing her clothes.
"Daph! What are you doing?" Mabel asked, obviously she figured out there was no point in hiding it anymore. And there wasn't. Pacifica knew, so there wasn't a point in hiding it.
"Packing. I'm going home. I can't stay here anymore." Dipper loved it here in Gravity Falls, or did. This was the one place where she could have crushes on girls, and show it. Not be afraid of being looked at as weird. She knew she wasn't a boy. And maybe she was basically lying to everyone. But she wanted to feel normal. And being treated bad, for liking the same gender as herself? That wasn't normal.
That was hurtful.
It was painful.
"Th-there's s-something wr-wrong with m-me, Mabes." Dipper tried holding back the tears welling up in her eyes. Knowing if even one tear rolled down her cheeks, the others would soon follow. "I-I'm just... weh-weird!"
"No. No. Daph..." She felt Mabel hug her from behind. "You're not, Sis. I promise. Everyone else is weird. Alright, so you dress like a boy, and call yourself Dipper. You've even fooled an entire town! But... you're not weird."
"I-I wah-want to go home." She fell to her knees leaning against the dresser. "At-at least th-there, they kn-know I'm a girl."
'And I don't have to hide it anymore, I'm a freak there too, but at least no one teases me anymore.'
"There's... uh... nothing wrong with, you know. Liking girls, or whatever." Pacifica's voice caused her to stop crying, even though tears were still falling. "Mabel was right, you know. You can't help who you like. So... you like girls. Whatever. There are lots of lesbians in the world. You're not the first."
"See, Even Pacifica agrees. I don't know why she's agreeing... but she agrees." The hug got tighter. "How about we put this whole boy thing behind us?"
"I can't." She couldn't do that. She couldn't tell the entire town that she was lying to them.
"You can." Pacifica voice came again. "You never actually said you were a boy. We just assumed you were. And besides. You were leaving anyways, right? Not gonna come back?" Dipper nodded, even though she couldn't see Pacifica. "So, there you go. Show the town, who you really are, and if they don't accept it. You can just leave like planned."
"I don't like the leaving part, but I like this plan. It's a good thing we didn't throw her in the hole, huh?" Mabel whispered the last part in her ear.
"We'll start small. Wendy, Soos, and Grunkle Stan. Hows that? They're family, and like family. They'll accept you." Mabel turned her around and smiled down at her. "So come on, lets put you in some regular... Oh right, you dress like a guy all the time. And you don't like skirts and crap."
"I really don't." And she didn't.
"Okay, so Maybe we just let your hair down... y'know. And unbind those mammoths." Mabel's smile got wider.
"There's not big. Still a B cup!" Dipper growled.
"Bigger than mine or Pacifica's." Mabel seemed to think for a moment. "I think their even bigger than Wendy's. Anyways... lets get ready to introduce Daph, to Gravity Falls."
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"Alright, Short-Stack, you got us all in the living room, so what are we doing?" She could hear Wendy ask, and imagined her normal half smile on her face. A typical 'unsure, but game' smile.
"Yeah. Kid, what's the hold up. We're gonna lose business with the shop closed." Stan grumbled but then again, he was usually grumpy. "And what's a Northwest doing here?"
"Where's Dipper at?" Soos asked.
"I'm so glad you asked that, Soos. Because it's finally time I get to introduce you to Dipper. C'mon in Dipper and meet your family." Mabel called.
Mabel was so sure that she could do this... so she would. Because she had faith in her sister.
So, she straightened her back... which seemed to make her breasts look bigger, so she just went back to her normal stance as she stepped out into the living room. Her long hair, past her mid back.
She was nervous. Very nervous, considering she was now facing people she had basically lied to for the past three years or more.
"Hey."
"What's the joke, Mabel?" Stan asked.
"No joke. We figured it was time you met Dipper... actually met her." Mabel just looked back at Dipper.
"Whoa... are those fake..." Wendy started... then just stared. "Dude... you're..."
"Dipper's a girl?" Soos sounded amazed.
"Yeah, and?" Stan looked at them. And Dipper stared up at him. "What? I'm old, not stupid. Like I didn't know you were girls. Look, that first summer, I saw how hard Dipper tired to pretend to be a boy. So I treated her like one. Toughened her up. I figured there was a good reason for it. And when I saw her drooling a river over Wendy here, I kinda figured it out pretty fast," Everyone looked at him, "Oh c'mon. I'm the King of Cons."
"S-So, you knew?" Stan nodded at Dipper's question. "And... you... accept that I'm... that I..."
"Daphne. I'm your Grunkle. You are my great niece. I don't care if you like boys, or if you like girls. You're family, kiddo." He reached out and ruffled her hair. "And if you're ready to be who you are... I'm behind you."
"Me too!" Mabel called out.
"Me three!" Soos yelled.
"I'm behind you, Dipper." Pacifica said.
"You know I got your back, Dude...ette." Wendy joined in. "This is awesome. I'm so hot, I got lesbians and guys after me."