Hello, and welcome to my brand-new Gravity Falls fan-fic.
Thank you so much for the wonderful reviews. They mean a lot to me, especially since this my first Gravity Falls fic :)
This story is set before Not What He Seems.
All characters belong to Alex Hirsch/ Disney
Story belongs to me
Young Grunkle
"Oh no, Dipper! Grunkle Stan is shrinking!" Mabel shrieked as she and her brother watched their great-uncle became smaller and his hair became darker. The man wore a befuddled expression on his face before he suddenly closed his eyelids and laid outstretched on the couch, which made Dipper's heart thunder in his chest. Mabel jumped onto the couch and tried to shake him awake. While she noticed that her great-uncle regressed into a ten-year old boy and that his clothes didn't fit him anymore, her priority was to make sure he wasn't dead.
"Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Stan! Gomphers somehow got into the Shack and is eating all the money!" the girl waited for the moment for a response. Her heart sank when their great-uncle didn't respond.
"That's not supposed to happen! He's only supposed to feel young!", the young boy shook his head. He opened the journal on the page about the Youthshroom, "If only my black-light was working. Oh man...Grunkle Stan will hate me-"
"Ugh, what happened?" Grunkle Stan uttered as he finally came to. If they weren't so relieved to hear their great-uncle is fine, they would've teased him about his voice. Who would've thought Grunkle Stan would sound like that when he was young?
"Grunkle Stan! You're awake!" Mabel and Dipper bubbled happily.
"Where am I? Who are you?" Stan's eyes darted from side to side the moment he noticed his surroundings. The twins glanced at one another nervously before they dared to glance back at their young great-uncle.
"Well? Who are you, and where are my Pa and Ma? Where is my brother?"
"Oh, we're your cousins! You're staying with us at our uncle's home for the summer holidays." Mabel let out a small chuckle before she gave Stan a friendly punch on his shoulder.
"Why only me; and not my bro?"
"Well, your folks told our uncle that they and your brother are going to this very nerdy, boring place for the holidays and they don't want you to be bored out of your mind." Dipper chuckled.
"...Okay...if you say so. I'm Stan. What's your name?" the young boy smiled before Mabel shook his hand.
"Hi Stan, I'm Mabel. This is Dipper, my bro. We're twins!"
"You're twins? Me and my bro are twins too." Stan beamed happily while he shook Dipper's hand.
"Really?! Wow! That's great!" Mabel cheered. She stopped cheering when she felt Dipper tap her on the shoulder.
"Mabel, a word, please?" the male twin whispered in his sister's ear.
"Okay, Dip-Dip. Stan, we're just going to get such food from the kitchen. Just stay right and watch T.V., okay?"
"...Okay. Why am I wearing these clothes instead of my own?"
"We were playing dress-up."
"...Makes sense." the young boy shrugged before his eyes were glued on the screen. He didn't even notice that a pig was staring at him from the floor.
The twins gave a worried glance at their de-aged relative before they rushed to the kitchen.
"Grunkle Stan has a twin brother?" Mabel's jaw hung open before she waved her arms to try and shake the shock out of her body.
"Well, remember how Mom and Dad kept quiet whenever we asked if we had any other relatives? Maybe Grunkle Stan and his twin brother had a bad fight and refused to speak to one another?" Dipper pondered out loud as he racked his brain for answers.
"Oh, yeah. Huh." Mabel shrugged as she stared at the floor in worry.
"Since Grunkle Stan has the memories of when he's a kid, we must pretend to be his cousins. When Wendy and Soos come in to work tomorrow, we must explain to them about what happened to Grunkle Stan."
"Yeah, and we must also get him some clothes. Do you think any of your clothes could fit?"
"I guess. It might be a bit too big, though-"
"Great. Now, let's make some toast and celebrate that our grunkle doesn't have back-pain for awhile."
"It's only temporary. I think. When Soos comes in tomorrow, I sure hope he'll have my black-light fixed so that I can check what the author could have written about the Youthshroom in invisible ink."
While the twins were making toast for dinner, Stan sat quietly in the chair. He shifted in the chair while he waited for his cousins to come back.
"I wonder if Pointdexter would've liked Ducktective?" Stan pondered out sadly as he watched the duck on television. Waddles crawled onto the couch and sat next to him.
"Our uncle can't be that bad if he allows you in the house, right?", the young boy smiled as he gave Waddles an ear-rub, "But, why are we left on our own?"
"Dinner's ready!" Mabel announced as she barged into the living room.
"Great. I'm hungry. Hey, do you know where my clothes are? I can't find them anywhere." Stan wondered out loud as he stood up from the couch.
"Oh-oh! I'll call Dipper quick." the poor girl blushed before she rushed to get her twin.
"Okay-" the poor boy was confused what made his cousin blush.
An hour may have passed, but it felt as if time stood still as Dipper, Mabel and Stan sat in the kitchen to eat toast. The twins didn't notice at first how much their great-uncle resembled the male twin until he got dressed into Dipper's spare clothes. The resemblance was uncanny.
"So, where is our uncle?" Stan pondered out loud. If he noticed how rigid the twins became, he didn't mention anything.
"Our uncle?! Erm-he had to go out of town for a couple days." Dipper and Mabel hastilly replied in unison.
"-And he left us on our own?"
"Yeah! He said that we're big enough to live here on our own. Besides, this town is quite safe."
"So, what's the name of this town?"
"The town's name is Gravity Falls."
"Gravity Falls, huh? That's the town that has all the weird stuff going on, right? My brother would've loved it here."
"Really?!" Dipper's face lit up.
"Yeah. Still find it weird he's not here instead-" there was suspicion in Stan's tone.
"Well, your parents did take your brother to this science camp thingy. Very boring. Trust me." Mabel pointed out while Dipper felt quite insulted.
"Oh, yeah. Who wants to go to such a boring place." Stan laughed, although it was quite forced.
After they had lunch, Mabel and Stan drew and made crafts together with Waddles' help while Dipper decided to let them bond on their own. Guess Grunkle Stan bonded so well with Mabel because they're so similar after all?
When it was finally bedtime, the twins got dressed into their pyjamas.
"Hey, what gives?" Stan fumed when he entered the bedroom.
"What's the matter, Stan?" Mabel dared to ask. Dipper tensed.
"Where's my bed?" Stan huffed as he pointed at the beds.
"Oh, that! You have your own bedroom. Our uncle said that you're big enough to sleep on your own. We'll show you where it is!" Dipper explained before he lead Stan to his, well, Grunkle Stan's bedroom.
"Well, here's your bedroom. Your clothes should be in your drawers, or somethng. Night, Stan." Dipper left as fast as he could out of habit.
"Ah. Okay. Night, Dipper." Stan sighed as he climbed onto the bed that was too large for him. He was out like a light the moment he closed his eyes.
"Hey Dipper, did we treat Grunkle Stan right?" Mabel pondered out loud as she stared at the ceiling above her head.
"What do you mean, Mabel?" the male twin asked groggily.
"I mean, all those lies we told him and we didn't even buy extra clothes for him either. We're terrible babysitters."
"...Mabel, we didn't expect him to suddenly de-age into a young boy. We did as well as we could in our current situation. Besides, I'm sure our lies didn't hurt him."
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Thanks, bro-bro."
"You ignoramus! Your brother was gonna be our ticket out of this dump! All you ever do is lie and cheat right on your brother's coattails. Well this time you cost our family potential millions! And until you make us a fortune, you aren't welcome in this household."
Poor Stan shot up from bed in horror. He felt his heart thunder in his chest. Hot tears ran down his cheeks, but he quickly wiped them off with his small fists.
To be continued...
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