A/n: Hey guys update time. Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Also the reviews I got for the last chapter, most express how bad they felt for Mabel, to be honest I actually started crying a little while writing the last chapter because I love Mabel and she is my favorite character. Anyways enough about me, on with the chapter! I own nothing except the storyline and I guess OC's.

Dipper breathed in the fresh air as he sprinted down the street in an excited manner. He had found a lead on where the rock could be! While reading the journal it said the rock appeared in the least likely of places. If that was true maybe it was in the exact same place him and Mabel had found the rock before. As he ran however he wasn't paying attention to where he was going and accidentally bumped into someone causing both of them to fall to the ground.

"I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry," Squeaked out a small voice. Whoever it belonged to they sounded like they were about to break down in tears.

"Hey hey its okay please do-Mabel?" Dipper asked.

Mabel didn't respond. Just kept her head down so no one could see her face. Even her voice sounded different. It sounded as if it belonged to a small child who had lost their parent and was scared. The only way he knew for sure it was Mabel was because of her brightly colored sweater…which was dotted with red.

"Mabel are you okay?" Dipper asked.

Mabel didn't respond. Instead she got up and kept walking as if nothing had happened.

"Mabel?" Dipper asked.

Mabel just ignored and kept walking. As much as Dipper wanted to find that rock he had to find out what was wrong. Dipper ran in front Mabel blocking her path.

"Mabel looked at me," Dipper said in a stern voice.

The girl visibly flinched and as if coming out of a trance raised her head just enough so only Dipper could see. What he saw made his jaw drop.

Mabel had a black eye and a busted lip. She had a cut on her cheek that had dried blood around it as well as a bloody nose.

"Mabel what happened?"

Mabel hid her gaze and whispered, "I fell down some stairs…"

Dipper didn't buy it but didn't push it. He more important things to do like treating his sisters wounds.

"C'mon let's go get you fixed up," Dipper sighed grabbed Mabel's hand to make sure she followed.

Mabel didn't say anything. Just allowed Dipper to take her to wherever they were going.

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"And….there. That should do it," Dipper said putting the last band-aid on Mabel's face.

Mabel looked on the mirror. She wasn't as good as new. You could still see her black eye and lip but Dipper had made her nose stop bleeding and had put something on her eye to make it heal faster. As well as put something on her lip so it wouldn't get infected and put a band-aid on the cut.

Although he had done all this Mabel was confused. After what had happened last night she had thought for sure he was just pretending to be her friend.

*Flashback*

Mabel wheezed as she took air into her lungs after it had all been forced out after a boot to the stomach.

"Look at you. Pathetic!" Mabel's mom sneered.

"Please….stop…I'm sorry…."Mabel was able to force out between coughs.

"Damn right you are! Honestly who the hell would want to be friends with you? Your pathetic, you have no money and you're so needy. The only reason someone would even think about being friends with you would be to laugh at ya. I'm gonna go and let cha' think 'bout that for a while," The mother said stumbling out of the room.

Mabel curled up into ball.

'She's probably right…Dipper probably doesn't even want to be friends with me….for all I know Dipper probably using me just for a good laugh,' Mabel thought as she cried herself to sleep.

*End of Flashback*

"Hey is something wrong Mabel. You seem kind of distant today,"

"I thought you hated me…"

Dipper was shocked. Where in the world did that come from?

"Mabel I don't hate you why would you think that?"

Mabel just shrugged.

"Mabel I could never hate you. If I hated you why would I have hung out with you all day yesterday?"

"To gain my trust just so you could betray me in the end," Mabel whimpered out.

It wouldn't be the first someone did betray her. When she was 5, before her mom and dad got into arguments almost every night and before Mabel's mom started abusing her, Mabel became friend at school with a girl named Pacifica Northwest. They were best friends….that is until second grade happened. The summer before second grade is when the abuse started. So when Mabel came to school one day with a face full of bandages due to her not knowing at the tie how too properly dress wounds Pacifica decided Mabel wasn't "pretty" enough to be her friend. To make matters worse since Pacifica was so shallow and didn't want people to think she used to be friends with "Scar-face" as the kids sometimes called her, Pacifica had bullied Mabel ever since.

"Mabel I could never betray you. You're my best friend," Dipper said to her. 'And sister.'

Mabel didn't respond.

"You know what I'll prove it," Dipper said taking out the journal. Although this wasn't the Mabel he knew he did know he could trust her.

"What's that?" Mabel asked.

Dipper smiled half because he finally got a response out of her and didn't have to coax it out and half because of his idea.

"This is a journal that contains records on most of the weird things here in gravity falls," Dipper explained while flipping through the journal looking for the page on the golden rock.

"Ah-ha here it is!" Dipper exclaimed when he found the page he was looking for.

"Golden rock?" Mabel read the title looking confused.

"It says here that whoever finds this rock will get whatever wish they want granted. I was actually going to see if I can find it. Wanna come?"

Mabel was a little skeptical. A rock that could grant any wish didn't make any sense. But then again what did she have to lose?"

"Okay. Let's go," Mabel said her usual smile forming on her face and that spark in her eyes igniting again.

'Mabel I don't know what you're going through but I promise it will all be over soon,' Dipper thought as the two walked outside.

A/n: Another chapter done. You'll have to wait next chapter to see if Dipper finds the stone. Until next time.