Hey y'alls! I'm back! (sorry bout that.) But hey... thanks to Kat's (guest) comment I got back on the horse. I honestly had no motivation to keep going and I honestly probably wouldn't have updated today if it wasn't for their comment so I think I talk on behalf of more than just myself when I say thank you for the motivation and the well needed hit on the head. (ouch!) BTW tried something new with this chapter. Thoughts are in Italics. Tell me what you think about that.

Dipper's POV

Dipper awoke to pain. Lots and lots of pain. His side was killing him, all his muscles ached, and he had a massive headache from … wait… whiplash? He peeled his eyes open to see - "Mabel?" he croaked.

"Dipper!" she elatedly exclaimed. "Your awake!" She seemed so excited.

"Uhm yeah I guess," the boy stammered. The pain was so very evident when he moved that even the smallest of his tiny muscles would not comply to his wishes. So in his feeble attempt to stand up, his knees buckled and he started to fall. Mabel caught him and slowly helped lower him back to his slumped position on the log. His fall also had part to do with something heavy he had clutched in his right hand. He felt the weight holding him down and looked down to the sore appendage to find A HATCHET! WHAT WAS HE DOING WITH THIS THING?

Then, finally he looked down at himself. "Oh my god. I'm… is that," Dipper paused not wanting to finish his thought, "blood?" Dipper looked more closely at the stains on his clothes. His shirt was more blood stained than it was clean. He brought his eyes back up to his sister whose sweater now had small splotches of still fresh blood. Did I do this? Did I hurt her?

"Mabel. Did I do this to you? Did I hurt you, again?" He was on the brink of tears. He couldn't hurt his sister, he just couldn't have …and yet. I had done it once before.

He was really starting to freak out. He was starting to feel claustrophobic and nauseous. "Dipper?" she said trying to catch his attention, "Dipper I'm fine. What I'm really worried about is you. Are you ok?" Mabel's words and her worried tone quieted Dipper's fears. He hadn't hurt her. He felt a pain much more intense than the rest of the sores all over his body and decided that he should investigate. He took off his shirt carefully, with the help of Mabel, so that the stabbing pain in his side would not flair with too much pain, but what he found did not help him calm his fried nerves. A gaping wound, not too deep but gushing with blood was present on Dipper's upper right torso. Dipper took a long look at the fresh wound and then over to the hatchet still clutched in his hand. Did I do this? For the life of him he couldn't remember how he had gotten to where he was, how he had gotten into the state he was now currently in, or even how Mabel had found him. Whose blood is all over my clothes? Is it mine? Dipper started frantically hyperventilating.

"What happened Dipper?" Mabel questioned, tears threatening to cascade onto her face.

"I- I don't know Mabel. I just –just couldn't sleep. And now I'm covered in blood. I don't even know if it's mine or what happened. Mabel… you got to believe me." He frantically explain, the words were falling out of his mouth faster than a raging waterfall. A silence befell the twins as they sat comforting one another. Mabel on the verge of tears hugged her brother, she dug into his side a bit too much and he had to hold back a cry of pain, but he felt much better in his sister's arms. Mabel looked up to the sky and found the sun was still rising, but if the pair was out for too much longer than their Grunkle would start to worry.

"Dipper?" Mabel tried in a calm comforting voice to grab the boys attention, "We need to get home. Stan will be worried."

"Yeah, you're right Mabel. We should head back. But first," Dipper had to think a second, "There's a plant somewhere in the forest that I think might be able to uhm…" He didn't know how to say the next words without freaking Mabel out, but then he realized that she had seen the wound as well and was still in a fairly stable condition. "You know patch me back together pretty quickly." With that Mabel helped Dipper to stand up and get balanced. Mabel had gone up the trail to scope out the plant he had described so that he would not have to waste his energy. Dipper looked back to the log to maybe find a clue as to how he had gotten to this specific location but no such luck, all he found was a thumb?... What was that doing here? Dipper brushed off the leaves near the finger to find a whole arm? What the… how? "I found it! I found it!" Dipper heard Mabel yell from where she had supposedly found the healing plants. Dipper hurriedly covered up the appendage he had found and mentally marked where he had hidden it on his mind map of the forest.

Much of the journal was warnings and dangerous monsters to avoid at all costs but a few of the helpful pages contained healing remedies. There just so happened to be a plant with the ability to numb pain and heals wounds with almost no time required. Mabel and Dipper came to the conclusion that they needed to find enough of plant to heal the Pine's boys wounds. There was no hospital in Gravity Falls. The closest one was two hours away. But even if there was Stan wouldn't have the money for it. He would have to ask the children's parents for it and once he did that the twins would no longer get to stay in Oregon. Luckily the siblings came across a growth of the healing plant and were able to gather enough to heal Dipper right up. They set the leaves over the wound completely and then started the trek back to the shack.

-Time skip: 15 to 20-

Mabel's POV

The twins had made it home and snuck into their room without being seen because, thankfully, Stan was in the bathroom when they came in. They changed quickly into their pajamas and hid their dirty clothes under each of their beds. It wasn't hard for Mabel to find something to wear since she wore something different every day. Making your own clothes does have its perks. Must be hard for Dipper though. They would need to wash their clothes before Grunkle Stan found them and Dipper hated laundry day. It wouldn't be suspicious that Mabel did the laundry because she normally did it anyway, but the fact that she was doing Dipper's as well might peek Stan's interest. I'll just offer to do Stan's as well and tell him I'm just trying to get on his good side. She just had to make sure that Dipper was healing and was going to be ok. The twins put on their best playful faces before they ran to the table to greet their grunkle and eat their breakfast.

Ok... so I didn't add the event that I wanted to because it is late here and I really wanted to get this chapter up today for y'all! I really really wanted to update cause I haven't in a while. Always, always, always feel free to pm me (cause I am a loner and love to talk to people who like the same things as me!). The next chapter will have a creepypasta I swear. Anyway... review and all that bis cause I love it and I'd love to hear what y'alls think!