Chapter 14: The Nightmare
Pacifica's POV
It was a dark and stormy night and I was in front of the shack. No lights were on as I walked onto the porch. Since the shack felt like a second home I let myself in. Nobody was there to greet me. I began to get worried, so I tried to turn on the lights. But when I turned the switches nothing happened. The only thing that lit up the house was the lightning that frequently flashed outside.
"Dipper?" I yelled but did not receive any answer.
"Mabel? Stan?" I yelled again. But still no answer.
I began to search the house. I went through the kitchen and living room and found nobody. I was about to check upstairs when I noticed a candle light shining through the crack of Stan's office. I went and slowly opened the door.
"Stan?" I asked as I looked into the room.
After a few moments of shock I screamed finding Stan's dead corpse lying on the ground with a bullet to his head. The pool of blood that surrounded his body made me shiver. I quickly ran upstairs to find Mabel and Dipper.
I burst open into the attic room in a panic but tripped over something. As I looked back, a flash of lightning lit up the room revealing Mabel's corpse with a bullet to the chest and another pool of blood surrounding her.
"Mabel!" I screamed as tears ran from my eyes.
"What's happened?" I tried to ask but the corpse would not answer.
Then, a horrifying realization revealed that Dipper was not in the room. Where was Dipper? Where was my brave prince who loved me?
I heard an engine outside. I was able to look out the attic window fast enough to see a limo speeding away from the shack. Have my worst fears come true?
I quickly ran back downstairs and outside. It was beginning to rain. I jumped into the Mystery Shack's golf cart which thankfully still had the keys inside it. I started it and drove after the limo which I knew where it was heading.
As I reached the Northwest Mansion, I saw the limo parked in front of the entrance. I quickly jumped off and burst through the doors to find my parents standing there waiting for me. Next to them kneeling on the ground was Dipper, his mouth taped, hands tied, and eyes filled with tears from the death of his family.
"Welcome back!" Mr. Northwest said
"It's good to see you dear!" Mrs. Northwest said.
"What did you do?! Why do you have Dipper?!" I screamed
"Pacifica darling, we haven't seen you in so long and the first thing you have to say is about the Pines?" Mr. Northwest said disappointed
"See dear, it was a good idea to kill them. The sooner they are gone, the sooner Pacifica will forget them and completely return to us." Mrs. Northwest said.
"Are you saying you killed Mabel and Stan just so I would return to be your punching bag?!" Pacifica screamed.
"Now Pacifica, we wouldn't have to lay a finger on you as long as you do as we ask and stride to be perfect." Mr. Northwest said.
"And we are not going to stop with them, we are going to kill this boy that you have feelings for!" Mrs. Northwest said
"How you could ever love somebody like him is beyond me, he isn't even rich! How is he going to benefit the Northwest name?" Mr. Northwest said.
"No! Please! I beg you! I'll do anything you ask just leave him alone! Don't hurt him!" I screamed
"Now Pacifica be reasonable. As long as this boy lives and he loves you, there is the risk that you will run away with him again. And we can't have that!" Mr. Northwest said as he pulled out a pistol out of his pocket.
I fell to my knees, tears hitting the floor. "No I promise I will never run away again, just let him g-"
I was so hysterical trying to convince my parents that I never heard the shot fired. But I did see Dippers body fall to the ground. I saw him lying on his side as blood started to pool around him and the life in his big, teary brown eyes faded away.
"NO! DIPPEEEERRRRR!"
"Pacifica! Pacifica wake up!"
My eye's snapped awake. Dipper was holding me by the shoulders and Mabel was sitting right next to him. We were back at the shack lying in three beds pushed together in the attic. I didn't want to leave Dippers side after he left the hospital so for now on, instead of me sleeping in that guest room, the Mystery Twins and I had been sleeping in the same room together. I thought I'd be the one protecting Dipper, but he ended up protecting me from a horrifying nightmare.
"You were screaming our names in your sleep Pacifica! It sounded like you were having a nightmare!" Dipper said with a worried look.
I opened my mouth to speak. Instead, I started sobbing into his shoulder.
Both Dipper and Mabel tried to calm me down and tell me everything was ok, but there words had no effect on me this time.
"They found me! They killed you! All of you because of me! There was so much blood!" I yelled sobbing hysterically.
Dipper put me in his lap and held me in his arms, hugging me tightly. He whispered to me in a soft voice that they haven't found me and we were all alright. That it was just a nightmare.
Mabel sat in front of me and hugged me too. My tears soaked the twins as Waddles, Mabel's pig sat at the front of the three beds watching his masters care for the crying girl.
But Waddles wasn't the only one watching. Stan was peering in through the door that was cracked open a little bit, listening to sobbing Pacifica. But after seeing that I was starting to calm down, he then went back to bed.
The twins sat with me for an hour in the darkness even after I had calmed down.
"You should try to get some more sleep Pacifica…don't worry. We will be right here with you." Dipper said
He then laid me in the middle of the three beds and the twins both laid close to me and wrapping me in their arms. I felt safe and warm. There arms reassured me that they weren't going anywhere as I fell back asleep.