A/N: Well here is the next chapter. Fairly short (a wee bit more than fairly but whatever) but we will be getting on to some action soon including time jumps. Please enjoy and rate and review.

That afternoon Kat was decked out in the much more comfortable outfit of a leather jacket, tank top, jeans cowboy boots and her favorite necklace sitting on the hood of her car lemon-lime slurpee in hand relaxing. She had just finished helping with two tours and now felt she had earned some relaxation time. Although she would never tell her dad she had honestly missed working at the Mystery Shack. Usually she had worked the gift shop, had ordered supplies or made oddities but when she had the opportunity to do a tour she would jump on it. She viewed tours as a way to test her story telling skills and they got her out of the Shack for a while. She had taken up one of her Dad's tours specifically to get out of the Shack and reacquaint herself with Gravity Falls. She had just finished a tour of her own when she had opted to get her slurpee and bummed a ride back with some tourists who asked her the way to the Mystery Shack. Her dad had then started a tour of the forest which highlighted on the spirit tree ,a tree that was supposedly inhabited by fairies that trapped the souls of anyone who died in the forest, and then decided to fake a possession. It was surprisingly believable, probable due to all the practice she had doing creepy things to scare off ignorant suitors of either of her parents and the fact that lemon lime slurpee look rather ectoplasmic in forest light, and led to buying a bunch of spirit tree sticks and other merchandise. Mabel who had been goofing off with Dipper in the woods saw the fake possession and decided due to her acting skills, awesome fashion sense, world travel, and becoming a fiction writer she would endeavor to learn her smiled and walked up to the car.

"Hey, girl!" Mabel said trying to scramble on the hood of the car.

"Hey, what's up?" Kat said helping her up on the car's hood.

"Nothing much, just wanted to see what you were up too." Mabel said giddily

"Just relaxing after some tours is all." she said taking a sip from her slurpee.

"Oh that's cool," Mabel said trying to get into a sitting position like Kat's and then looking for a conversation topic decided to jump on to the topic of clothes "That's a cool jacket."

"Oh thanks my boyfriend got it for me to wear when we go on motorcycle rides." She said smiling

"You have a boyfriend?" Mabel said finding her long-lost second cousin even more interesting.

"Mhmm, his name is Paul, we met when I was doing a story in Germany." She said

"Can I see a picture?" Mabel said excitedly.

"Sure," Kat said fishing her phone out of her pants pocket, flipping through it then handing it to her. "This is him at Loch Ness, when we were visiting his parents in Scotland."

The picture was of a tall, muscular, blonde guy in a german soccer jersey and a kilt pointing at the Lock Ness sign. Mabel frowned at it.

"Where's he from?" she said flipping the picture in hopes of shedding some light on him.

"He was born in Scotland but when he was twelve his family moved to Germany so they could be closer to his mom's parents who were getting older and after they passed away he didn't move back to Scotland." Kat said

"Oh,"Mabel said nodding " He's pretty cute."

"I belive that the word you are looking for is gorgeous." Kat said smiling.

Mabel burst into giggles followed by Kat doing the same. Mabel tilted her head and looked at Kat's necklace.

"That's a cool necklace, where'd you get it?" Mabel asked.

the necklace was a leather chain with a silver charm that was made of a circle that had an arrow pointing to the left and right and lead to a rhombus shape.

"Oh, my dad gave it to me for my eighteenth birthday, really cheesed off his older brother Cornell." Kat said

"Why?" Mabel said.

Mabel had no idea who gruncle Stan's brother Cornell was. The only sibling of Stan's that she knew anything about was his older twin brother, her grandpa Duke.

"He's a minister, he got all mad when my dad started the Mystery Shack and gave me this because he was convinced that Stan was being blasphemous and being a bad influence." Kat said with a hint of disgust squeezing her slurpee bottle to the point that the lid shot off and the left overs fell onto the ground.

Mabel frowned slightly uncomfortable and Kat noticed, then she was struck with an idea.

"Hey, how about you go get Dipper and we head into town, see what sort of adventures we can find?" Kat asked

"Sure!" Mabel said.

She then ran off to go get Dipper.