Chapter Notes

Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls

Author's Note's: And so things go from bad to worse! Thanks for reading Everyone!

(Back with Dipper…)

Fear…

It consumed his very being.

Dipper couldn't believe his eyes, his shoes were covered in blood!

'How…' he couldn't comprehend it, but deep down he knew where it was from and it made him queasy. No there had to be an explanation, he wasn't the killer. Then it crossed his mind, Bill's pawn must have snuck in, stole his shoes, and dipped them in the blood, then put them on his feet so he'd think it was him.

Yes, and he did the same thing with his PJ's back in California, and the leaves!

'Oh come on kid when are you going to believe it's you?' Bill piped in.

'Never!' Dipper screamed internally, and raced to tell Ford. "Great Uncle Ford-"

'Oh no you don't.' Bill hissed. 'Have you already forgotten last night's punishment?'

Dipper froze, a shiver goes down his spine.

'Do you want that to happen again?' Bill asked.

Dipper shook his head.

'Then let's make a deal, you stay quiet, and I'll stop messing with you about these dreams.'

Dipper was amazed. 'Really you'll stop?'

'Yep, besides kid your big mouth is getting me in a bind.' Bill admitted. 'And my pawn and I must agree it's for the best.'

'So it wasn't me?' Dipper asked.

'No kid, besides how could I control you? We never made a second deal.'

Dipper breathed a sigh of relief, and stuffed his bloody shoes under his bed. 'Okay I won't tell them.' He agreed. 'Besides the crime scene will speak for itself, you used the same MO!'

Bill chuckled, finally the kid was back under wraps, and no one would be the wiser.

"Dipper hurry up and come down stairs we need to talk." Ford's voice came from below.

"Okay give me a sec." Dipper rushed to get dressed, before racing down the stairs. "What's up Uncle Ford?"

"Well Dipper; Michel and I decide it's time to start training you." Ford answered as they sat down at the table.

"But what about Bill's remains?" Dipper asked.

"His pawn must have hidden him somewhere, we can't find him." Michel answered as he joined him. "You didn't happen to dream again last night did you? About Bill I mean."

"No." Dipper answered, keeping his side of the barging.

"Figures." Ford said. "Bill was trying to torture you, and you turned it against him by telling us about the murders, he probably doesn't want you to spill anything else."

"Makes since." Michel agreed.

Dipper nodded.

'That's a good boy Pine Tree.' Bill praised.

Dipper did his best to ignore him as the three stood up from the table. "Alright Dipper let's get started…"

(Back with Michel...)

He had never felt such Pride,

Dipper was only into the first hour of his training, and to both Ford's, and Michel's amazement he had already mastered the basics.

"Dipper I'm so proud of you." Ford said embracing the boy.

Michel smiled, the boy was showing much promise, and thanks to the awakening, his powers were developing at a much faster rate than the norm. Yes, most star children took forever to learn the basics, however Dipper had done it with in the first hour. "Well done Dipper, now if you're ready we can move forwards with the more advanced stuff."

Dipper nodded, a look of stern determination on his face. "Let's do this."

(Back with Mabel…)

Mabel bit her lip as she watched her brother from the living room window. She could tell from the look on his face that he was enjoying the training, she watched as he turned water in to ice and threw the ice shards like daggers using nothing but his mind.

He was incredible, and Mabel was happy for him, but there was a look on his face that she had never seen before.

It was as if he finally felt complete, like the awakening had brought a missing puzzle piece into place, filling a void she never knew was there; one she could never fill herself.

"How are you holding up Kido?" Stan asked as he passed her a soda, and sat down beside her.

"I don't know." She admitted.

"Look I know he's changing." Stan told her. "And I know your feeling left out right now, but you'll see he's still the same Dipper."

Mabel nodded, but deep down she wasn't so sure; she didn't know how, but she knew something was a mist.

Yes, something bad was going to happen soon… She just knew it!

(Back with Dipper...)

Dipper yawned loudly as he walked into the attic, he had spent all day training and he was bushed. In fact he was so tired that he almost forgot about his little secret hidden under his bed.

'THE SHOES!'

Dipper jumps out of the bed he just clasped on, grabbed the shoes and sneaks them down to the laundry room, he then takes the whole bottle of bleach and pours it in before starting the wash. The boy sighs in relief that was a close one!

He stays up very late into the night, restarting the wash several times, until finally his once

black shoes are completely white.

'Awe the shoes are still slightly red!' Dipper bit his lip. 'What am I going to do?' Sighing deeply he decided he'd just have to hide them back under the bed until Stan got more bleach, than he'd finish hiding the evidence.

Then again, he could always tell Stan he lost them and needed a new pair.

Yes that's what he would do.

With that mystery solved Dipper takes the shoes out of the wash, and sneaks them back into the room; hides them under the bed and then tucks himself in.

He is surprised that he actually manages to sleep.

And Just as Bill promised, he didn't dream!

(Back with Mabel...)

Loneliness...

She thought she knew the feeling well, however Mabel Pines couldn't have been more wrong!

It had been three weeks since she, and Dipper had discovered the truth about her brother's Birth Mark, and his destiny; And ever since the day after that Dipper no longer seemed to have time for her.

"Sorry Mabel, but Ford wants me to spend all my free time training, they really expect me to replace Time Baby and defeat Bill!" Dipper had told her when she asked him to come with her to explore a new part of the woods earlier that day. "Maybe later okay."

Mabel sigh as she flipped through her old scrap book from last summer. "Oh Dipper what am I going to do without you?" she wondered out loud.

Yes, she could see it, she was losing her brother; and she was losing him to this destiny. One that she wasn't even sure he wanted!

Yes, she can see it; this was all too much for him.

Dipper was always tiered, looking over his shoulder as if to expect Bill, or his pawn to be there; ready to take him so he could be consumed.

She knew he was scared, just like she knew that even though he said otherwise; Dipper was still having the nightmares about Bill's pawn killing people.

She wanted to reach out to him, they all did; but Dipper would just deny it, saying the dreams had stopped. He would say he was just worried that he wouldn't be strong enough! However Mabel couldn't help thinking that maybe he was lying.

She couldn't say for sure, but several hours later a young man was found dead in his summer home, written on his chest one a haunting message.

1 more, and 5 to go!

According to the news the coroner said he died on September 21st, the day Dipper's powers were awoken! Mable had begged her brother to come clean, telling him it wasn't his fault these dreams were happening. However, Dipper kept swearing he hadn't had any new dreams, finally 3 days later their answer came.

The Watson family had been discovered murdered in their home with the same MO as the other murders. Mabel wanted to ask Dipper why he didn't tell them. Why had he waited? Why had he waited for all those innocent people to be found cold and alone. Part of her believed he really didn't dream about it, but a voice deep inside told her he was hiding something! He was slipping; she could feel it, but like always she felt powerless to save him. After all Dipper was the hero, and Mabel, well she was the one who always needed his rescuing!

Mabel sighed again as she moves to put her book away that is until something catches her eye.

Dipper's shoes were under his bed, and they looked as if they had been hidden there intentionally. Mabel grabs them and pulls them out, only to drop them in shock.

The once black shoes were now mostly white, and smelled heavy of bleach however some parts of Dipper's shoe strings were still stained red.

'That's funny I don't remember Dipper having red shoe laces.' She told herself. 'And why would he bleach his shoes, and hide them, and lie about losing them!?'

'Isn't it obvious?' a voice in the back of her head said.

'Think about it first Conner's family, Then Amy's, a man, and now the Watson's are dead too!'

Mabel bit her lip, this wasn't the first time she found herself having these thoughts, all Bill's victims were people who had tormented her, and Dipper, and if that wasn't damaging enough Dipper was found in the woods by Amy's house just ten feet from her dead body. Even the latest victim, the man had a history with them.

The man was Lucas Wade, and Dipper had caught him spying on Mable once through her window when she was getting dressed. Dipper told their dad, and their dad called the cops. Lucas was given 10 years for peeping!

He got out in two.

And now Mabel had bleached shoes in her hand, with red blood like stains just visible enough on the shoe strings. It had to be a coincidence, there was no way Dipper was murdering people, this was Dipper they were talking about! He didn't even get in fights, so there was no way he could be murdering them.

Right...RIGHT?

Mabel wanted to answer her own question with a confident: Of course I'm right! But deep down she knew that the evidence said all these victims only had two people in common.

Her, and Dipper!

And she knew it wasn't her doing it so that left one person! Dipper!

Mabel burred her head deep in her sweater trying to will the thought away, but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't deny the facts before her.

Bill chuckled as he watch Mabel rock away in Sweater Town, sure she was in denial now, but their last victim would leave her with only one conclusion,

Dipper!

"And then my little sapling will finally be mine!..."