The Dark Shadows That Haunt Me

by thomaspheasant

Pacifica finally stood up to her parents and helped destroy the ghost that haunted their family by letting in ALL of gravity falls into the party. But what consequences will she have from her parents for her actions? This is a dark story of how Dipper learns that Pacificas life as a Northwest isn't as luxurious as he thought. In fact, its a total nightmare. Dipifica/Dipcifica

3. Chapter 3

Chapter 3: I'll Protect Her

Dipper's POV

I lead her into the forest running as fast as we could together. I gripped her cold hand as tight as I could with my sweaty palm and fingers. I needed to take her away, get her as far away from that place, that hell which was supposed to be called a home. We didn't stop running in what seemed like a lifetime as we traveled through the dark forest. At least until the hand I was pulling gave a slight tug. I looked back to see an exhausted Pacifica trying to catch her breath by panting fast and bending over to rest on a close bye tree.

After a few large breaths of air to her lungs, she finally was able to speak.

"Dammit Dipper!" She said still breathing hard

"Will you give me a second to catch my breath?!"

"S-Sorry", I said muttered. "I guess I let the adrenaline go to my head", I said.

"And your feet! I never knew you could run that fast even last that long…", She said after finally catching her breath.

"By the way… are you going to keep… holding my hand?", She said blushing

I looked down to see their hands still gripping each other tightly even though they've stopped running.

I quickly pulled it away saying nervously, "Oh God! I'm so S-Sorry Pacifica!"

She looked away still blushing, "It's ok, I didn't say you had to stop. I'm fine with it if it's you."

I was now blushing as red as an apple and started being interested in his feet.

After a minute of thinking about it he said, "Ok, then I won't." and slowly grabbed her hand again.

They stood there in silence for a minute then Pacifica asked, "So where are you taking me?"

I hadn't thought about it, he was just trying to get her as far away from that mansion as possible. But now he had to come up with something.

"The hospital" he finally said. "You're probably going to need sti-."

"No!", She interrupted

"We can't go there, they'll contact my parents and they will know I escaped!"

"Then we'll go to the poli-"

"No Dipper! My parents will accuse you of kidnapping and convince the police that you did this to me!", She interrupted again.

"But Pacifica, you need help!", I screamed

"That's why I have you! I can't trust anyone else. They are either afraid of my parents or be bought off by them… It's not like I haven't tried to escape before…", She said

"Ok, but if you trust me, you can trust where I'm taking you!", I said

Before she could argue, I started pulling her through the darkness again to the only place I knew she would be safe and I could hide her from the rest of Gravity Falls. It wasn't till the sun started to rise when we reached our destination and she finally realized where I brought her. The only place I could take her, the Mystery Shack.