AVAVA

( Author's Note )

VAVAV

Guess what's back? Back Back back.

Back again? 'gain 'gain 'gain.

Dip-Her's back. Back Back back.

Tell a friend. Friend friend friend.

Dip-Her's back. Dip-Her's back. Dip-Her's back.

So, I tried to close it out. Tried to end it. Damn thing is stubborn. So yeah, seems it's not over, I realized. Robbie's not been found. And There was not fluff. What kind of Sadi fiction doesn't have fluff? I was lacking on this one. I'll be honest with you on that. I just... I just got so sick of everything I rushed through it.

That's over, and I think my tantrum I over. Sorry about that. But yeah.

AVAVA

( Daphne/Dipper Pines )

VAVAV

'I'm not a freak. I'm not a freak. I'm not a freak.' She chanted in her head over and over, looking in the mirror. She didn't think that Wendy or Tambry would lie to her. But the words Pacifica's friends had said, still haunted her. Still hurt her.

'Whoever said, 'words can never hurt you,' lied through their teeth,' She thought to herself. And even though she knew that they were just words, she couldn't shake how they made her feel.

She felt like trash, garbage.

She felt gross.

Yeah, the words were taken back.

She had found out that Pacifica had feelings for her, but that didn't change how she felt. She felt that if Pacifica did have feelings for her, she should have stood up to her friends. Should have told them that she wasn't a freak, or gross. She would have for Pacifica. Even now, after being hurt by her words. She would still stand up for Pacifica if needed. Because that was the kind of person she was.

'You're not a freak.' she said, looking into her reflection's eyes, then let out a big sigh, not feeling much better before walking out of the bathroom.

"Morning, Daph." Mabel yawned passing her in the hallway.

Mabel must've been up late, Daphne thought to herself, as she heard the bathroom door close behind her. Mabel was normally wide awake and on the go before she woke up. Daphne had been a bit surprised that Mabel was still curled up in bed. But shrugged it off to her twin staying up late doing something.

"Mornin', Dipper." Stan grunted from the stove, making breakfast. "Sorry, meant, Daphne."

"It's okay, Grunkle Stan." Stan wasn't the best at remembering first thing in the morning. Their first summer here, it had been 'You'; Daphne. And 'Other You'; Mabel. So remembering she was Daphne or Dipper, was better than 'You'. "Good morning."

"So want the usual?" The usual consisted of scrambled eggs, cheese grits, and bacon, mixed together. With buttered toast.

"Sure, if you don't mind. But y'know, you don't have to." Daphne said. It was nice that their Great Uncle wanted to, since he hadn't always been the most friendly person in the world. But she wanted him to know that he didn't have to.

"Oh no, last time I let one of you cook, I ended up vacuuming glitter out of the burners for a week. I don't even want to know what Mabel was cooking. I'm glad it burnt up in the fire." He laughed at the end. He was gruff, and rough around the edges. But the truth was, he wanted to do something as simple as cook them breakfast. He just wouldn't admit it.

"Yeah, I wasn't looking forward to eating it either." Daphne chuckled slightly, and realized it was the first time in three weeks that she had laughed, even if it was small.

"So, whatcha got planned for today?" the older man asked.

"Plan to visit a friend that I've neglected visiting. I need to apologize, for how I ran out on her." Daphne said as her bowl was placed in front of her, then he began eating, just before Mabel bounced into the room.

AVAVA

Daphne walked through a path in the woods that wasn't far from the Shack. It actually had amazed her that no one had stumbled upon the place where she was heading. Or if they had, maybe they hadn't realized it was special. She gazed at the flora around her. Lovely flowers, of all colors littered the forest floor, instead of leaves. Daphne had never found out if some creature removed the fallen leaves or if they never fell.

Leaves that never withered and died... Now that wouldn't be something logical. Then again, not everything in Gravity Falls was logical.

Including the friend that she was going to meet.

She stepped into a clearing, near the base of the mountain that almost surrounded Gravity Falls Light shined in from above to dance and sparkle across the water that was encircled in stone. Spring time, was what always ran through Daphne's mind when she entered this place.

No matter how hot it was, it always felt cooler here, as if this area was stuck in Spring.

"Dipper!" A voice seemed to come from all around her, and she smiled as the form of a young female formed in the middle of the clearing. At first it seemed as if moisture from all over the clearing had been drawn to the middle, until the form gave shape to a female of about Daphne's age. And in no time, the shape took on a solid form, then mimicked her coloring, though had her own unique features. She had never asked her if she appeared this way because of her, or if she actually looked like that in a human form. "I was so worried about you! You ran off, and never came back. I feared something happened to you."

"I'm sorry, Aqua." Daphne couldn't help but stare at the other female's form. It seemed while Aqua mimicked human appearance, she didn't care for clothing. So, when she visited, it was always to a sight of a nude female. Which Daphne wasn't complaining. And hadn't asked once, why the other female did it. "A lot happened."

"I can see that. You do not look like a boy. Did you know that?" The sprite asked curiously, as she walked around Daphne, seemingly to inspect her.

"I did know. And it's okay to call me Daphne now. I... I told some people I was a girl." She felt sheepish under the other female's smile.

"Oh that is wonderful! You are such a pretty girl!" The sprite clapped and giggled, which made parts of her body jiggle.

"Thank you, but I'm not. I mean. I'm alright, I guess. I wish I could look like you." She said eyeing the other girl. Smaller bust than her's, but that wasn't a bad thing. Daphne assumed smaller breasts would be more comfortable. Tight, taunt, stomach, where her's wasn't flabby, but didn't have the definition that the other girl had. Everything about the other girl seemed flawless, and beautiful. The only real thing that showed the girl in front of her, were her eyes. The whites of her eyes were blue, that surrounded an even darker blue for the iris, and then black water drop pupils.

Daphne hadn't thought to ask if there were others like Aqua, a flame for an iris, or maybe a leaf... or anything. It didn't seem polite to just ask. She wasn't yet sure about how one asked questions about different species, without sounding insulting.

"But I see nothing wrong with you, Daphne." Those eyes seemed to look into her very soul. "You do not believe you are a beautiful girl, do you? I have seen many vein humans. Along with selfish, and egotistical ones. I've also heard about the humble ones, and the ones lacking self confidence... I had always thought they were a fantasy. Very interesting."

Lacking self confidence. Yeah, that was her all day long. Then again, when you pretend to be something you are not, it's hard to have confidence in a self, that you tried to hide for so long. It was hard to see anything good in the person she'd been hiding. Most of her life, who she was had been rejected by others.

She was Daphne. Nothing special about Daphne.

Dipper! Now there was a person. Dipper was courageous. A genius in his own right. Girls had thought he was cute, before the found out who Dipper really was. Dipper had faced weird monsters, and creatures in the woods of Gravity Falls.

Daphne? Daphne was just hidden away in a corner, trying not to cry, because she didn't fit in anywhere. Because no matter how awesome Dipper was... Daphne would always be the end result.

"Daphne? Hello?" Daphne jumped when she realized that Aqua was calling her.

"Sorry, Aqua. I was just lost in thought." Daphne apologized.

"I can see that. Must have been important!" Aqua sounded excited... Actually. Aqua always sounded happy. Daphne wished she could feel that way. "So, since you didn't bring a towel, I guess you didn't come for a soak."

"No... not today. I came by, because I realized I had just ran off, and left you to worry." She looked up to the sprite. "Can you actually leave here?"

"Why couldn't I?" She asked curiously.

"Well I've never seen you around town. And sometimes in myths, or fairy tales sometimes people are bound to an area. I figured since you were... water, that you'd have to stay near your springs." Daphne explained.

"Oh yes, that was long long ago. I can go anywhere there is water. Long ago, houses and businesses didn't have an abundance of water, so I couldn't go too far. But now! Water is everywhere!" Then Aqua smirked a little. "And I'm always in town! I've seen you lots. But I don't always look like me now. So maybe you never noticed me."

"I see. So, if you wanted to... you could go to someone's house and hang out?" Daphne asked.

"I suppose so, I mean, I've never done that before. But I don't see why I couldn't. Do you want me to come... hang out?" The sprite looked at her questioningly.

"You've seen my sister, but... have you ever met her?" Daphne wondered, because whenever Mabel had come with her to the hot springs, Aqua had never appeared.

"I have seen her! She looks like so much fun. She comes here to the springs, and splashes a bunch! Looks like so much fun, I wanted to join in. But I didn't know if she would be like you. I didn't want to scare her. So, I stayed hidden." She frowned a little, more sadness than she had ever seen on the sprite's face.

"But you have to..." Daphne started to tell the girl she needed to wear clothes to visit... then realized that she had been all through town. In clothing. "Aqua? Why are you always naked here?"

"Why? Because, this is my home. And it's more natural... to be natural in nature." Aqua smirked a little. "And maybe because I knew you'd like it. So should we go hang out now?"

"Sure, I didn't have anything planned for today anyways. But you need to..." Daphne stopped as clothing materialized on Aqua. "Yeah that. Say. Do you need to think to stay solid, or if you like... go to sleep, will you turn back to water?"

"Hmm? Oh! No, I'll stay like this, until I change back. Even if I'm sleeping. So, you don't have to worry." And with that it seemed there was nothing else to ask, as they started towards the town.

AVAVA

( Pacifica Northwest )

VAVAV

'This is not stalking...' she found herself repeating to herself again, as she followed Daphne, and another girl through town.

Pacifica hadn't seen Daphne look as happy as she looked today, since her first Summer in Gravity Falls. It was nice to see her smile again, she just wished that she had been the one to make the other girl smile like that.

She really had felt horrible for what had been said about Daphne. And she honestly did have feelings towards the brunet girl. So, maybe that was why she was following her around, trying to figure out who this other girl was, with the strange eyes.

"Oh, I just love this store!" The other girl spoke in an excited voice. A voice vaguely familiar, but she knew, that she had never seen this girl before.

"Yeah, they have a lot of stuff in there." Daphne mentioned. She looked at the shop, it was an antique store, that sold a little of everything.

Pacifica couldn't help but be upset at the fact that this other girl was making Daphne smile. She wanted to be the one that made her smile.

Okay, so that was a new, and weird thought for the teen girl. Something that she could barely admit, but she felt it. And jealousy was overriding her embarrassment. She wanted to go over than and just grab Daphne, and pull her away from that other girl. She had known Daphne longer, and she was the first to find out that she was really a girl!

Then the jealousy faded as she thought about it.

Yeah, so she could go over there. And drag Daphne away. And it would upset Daphne. And take the smile off of her face... she couldn't do that to Daphne. It wouldn't be fair to ruin her day, because she was jealous.

Another weird feeling for the girl.

She was Pacifica Northwest! She got everything she wanted, when she wanted it.

But, this strange feeling she had... she couldn't take what she wanted at the expense of Daphne's feelings.

So, she just went about what she had supposed to of been doing going to meet her... friends. Actually, today she had planned to set everything straight, and to be damned with what happened.

"Seriously! I didn't do that!" She heard another familiar voice, but this time she knew that weaselly voice from anywhere. Robbie Valentino.

"The police said you beat up some fifteen year old girl." She didn't know the guy's name, only he was standing with the other, male, members of the 'crew' that Wendy hung around with.

"I'm telling you! It was Dip-Wad. He was talking out the mouth... and... he threw the first punch. So, y'know. I'm not just gonna sit there and take a hit from him. So I hit him back. And that's when people started making a big fuss." The older teen lied. "I don't even know where the girl thing came into it."

"Look, everyone is saying you beat up on a girl. I mean..."

"It's..."

"True!" Pacifica almost yelled as she stomped her way over to the older males. "Daphne is a girl!"

"Dipper..."

"Is Daphne you idiot!" Pacifica snarled, as she pulled out her phone and dialed 911. "And it didn't happen like that. You were kicking her in her stomach! Me and Mabel had to get you off of her."

"Oh hell no, I'm not hanging around..." He started to run, only to be stopped by one of the other guys.

"Friend or no. Man, you beat up on a girl! No way you're gonna get away!" One of them tackled the other teen to the ground.

AVAVA

She had given up on meeting her friends after waiting for the police to show up to get Robbie. She had enough excitement for one day, and really didn't want anymore. Who could blame her? She had to listen to that greasy headed boy's threats about what he was going to do to her, and to that 'he-she' Dipper. So she really wasn't in the mood to confront her friends anymore.

Instead she had gone back to her house, and collapsed on the couch in her suit upstairs in the mansion. It was nice, she had her own little area, own living room, kitchen and even two spare rooms. She didn't even eat with her family anymore, not since she had started to learn to cook, she made her own meals. And while, at first, they were not like the staff made it. She was becoming better and better everyday.

-Bzzt-

Her phone buzzed, and vibrated across the table.

'Hey! I thought you were gonna come to the mall today.' A text from Tiffany.

-Bzzt- Again her phone buzzed, a similar text from Amanda. She wasn't in the mood for either of the, Though her phone kept vibrating.

-Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt-

"Ungh!" She groaned at the phone continued it's riot on the table. She picked it up, deleting message after message. She didn't care.

'...Robbie's in...' was all she managed to see before the message deleted. It had been from Mabel, along with a few others that she hadn't noticed.

'Robbie's where?' She wondered to herself... did he get out on bail and go to The Mystery Shack? No... couldn't be. Mabel would have phone the police and not message her... It could be that Mabel found out Robbie was locked up.

But...

Why would she contact her? She assumed they were all mad at her, for upsetting Daphne. So she decided to call Mabel.

"Hello? PAZ! Didja hear? Someone found Robbie! His butt is in jail city! On his way to being someone's lady!" Mabel's voice was excited. She was fairly sure, the stuff you see in movies, didn't really happen in prisons. Yeah, so it was a bad place, but she was sure that things like happened in movies were exaggerated.

"Yeah, I found him... Actually I saw him talking to the other guys from the group, and told them what he did to Daph, and well they held him until the police got there. I... uh... Might have told them Dipper was a girl though... I didn't have a choice." Pacifica muttered, just now realizing that she had let out a secret that wasn't hers to let out.

AVAVA

( Author's Note Two )

VAVAV

This was not the complete chapter, I know I was supposed to end it... but I didn't... and now Aqua has appeared, which makes more story... I completely forgot about Aqua from the beginning. But now... she's here. And she might be a new love interest. Dunno what's happening here.