Hello Boys, Girls and Inbetweeners!

Get ready for the letters from home. I had a lot of trouble with the codes/ secret messages if you want you as the read have the ability to figure out the messages (maybe not the first letter, but who knows, you might have the same dictionary as me) if you can count, have a journal 3 and think outside the box.

I'll post the messages with the next chapter, I want to see what you guys have to say, just like the real show.

To Mabel, Grunkle Stan and Ford,

Bill was nice enough to give me a way to talk to you while I'm here. I hope you will be able to find the letter box, I'm sure it will pop up somewhere that is easy to find, maybe outside the shack. Look out for it; it wouldn't be hard to miss.

If you wanted to use it as a tourist attraction, Grunkle Stan and Soos I'd be happy to send you weird stuff as you talk to the tourists about how mysterious it is. They'll probably think it's a ghost sending messages from the grave and give you lots of money for it. It might even be enough to pay for Ford's hospital expenses.

Please try to write to me as much as you can it boring being stuck inside this bubble all the time. I don't think I'll be allowed to contact you at all after Mabel leaves to go back to Piedmont so I want to be able to talk to you as much as possible in the time we have left.

I'll be sending you each a letter soon so be sure to read them and respond as soon as you can. Bill said that he would let me say goodbye to Mabel on our birthday, the last day of summer.

Sidenote: I have all these notes from Ford's research but I need your help Mabel. I need you to look up these words for me. I know what 'bankrupt' means because of Stan but I have a problem understanding what an 'argot' is as well as 'aerobic' and 'assert'. I will not 'capitulate' to my lack of knowledge. Thanks for the help. Every time I try to decipher their meanings are I 'breakaway' from the research and its 'agony' to do so.

I hope I'll hear from you really soon, send me lots of letters,

Dipper.

Hey Great-uncle Ford,

I hope you're doing alright without your apprentice, Ha Ha. I know what you were like when you worked solo when you were younger, I don't want you to fall into old habits again. I'm sure Grunkle Stan's looking after you though. I don't want you to blame yourself for what happened... for what's happening. I swear I know what I'm doing, okay?

It's weird though, I'm getting really confused about things, Bill's acting really nice to me and I don't know whether what he says is genuine or not. I'm sure you know what I mean. He acts like my friend and I know what he did to you but when he talks to me it's like I can't quite remember why I hate him and why he's bad. I think it's the body. He walks around in a human skin and I can't quite put two and two together. It's like he isn't the same Bill Cipher that tried being the end of the world.

It's so peaceful here, I keep losing track of time. I haven't seen anyone else around apart from a few magical and non-magical creatures you've already categorised.

I hope you've gotten better after what Bill did. I know what he's like when he gets angry, It can be really painful sometimes but I guess that's what it's like living here with him.

I don't want to sound like Grunkle Stan but please don't lock yourself down it the basement, you need to take care of yourself and both Mabel and Stan will be taking it hard as well. You need to be there for them.

You can't become like the man you told me about. The one you met on your travels. The crazy weird one with stupid blue hair right? You told me he let his bad choices consume him and made him crazy depressed... I don't want that to happen to me, you know? I want to be able to accept the choices I made and allow them to define me.

I remember reading the bible and thinking nothing of these lines at the time but now I think I know what they mean. I hope you're about to learn more about both you and me through them.

John 3:7- "You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'"

Peter 1:3-8- "Confirming One's Calling and Election"

John 8:7- "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Just remember Ford if only you were able to save both Stan and Fiddleford sooner if only you had called for him two years before you did, in 1980.

I'm a hero, Ford... Ironic I guess.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Mason Pines.

Hey Mabel,

I'm so sorry this had to happen to you, Mabel. I never in a million years wanted to leave you to go through this alone but I have no choice. I never wanted to hurt you but I know you're going to get hurt either way and this is the only way to keep you and everyone else safe.

Bill... Well... He's not bad sometimes, you know. Don't tell Ford that though. He just gets mad sometimes but he's never hurt me. I just hope that doesn't change.

It's too dangerous for you to come looking for me so please just stay safe with Stan and Ford. I wish I could tell you more about my time here but he probably wouldn't like that.

It sucks that I'm missing so much of Ducktective. I wonder if you could send me a copy of the last few episodes I've missed so that I can keep up to date. The last episode I saw was the one where the mysterious villain hurts Ducktective and Ducktective and his evil twin brother have to work together to defeat the mystery villain. If you could send me all the episodes after that, that would be great. I get bored a lot here and I need something to take my mind off of the whole thing.

As you know my favourite episodes are episodes 63, 28, 14, 13, 49, 22 and 12, in that order of course. If you could put them on the VHS that would be great as well. Because as you say, 'you can never have too much of a good thing' except for Smile Dip, you can always have too much Smile Dip.

I love you Mabel, I hope I get to see you soon,

Dipper.

To Grunkle Stan,

I feel like I've said sorry so many times in these letters but I can't apologise enough to you, Stan. I really have no idea what it would be like for you now. I need you to know that it isn't your fault and that there's nothing you can do. We might as well rip the bandage off quickly now. You have to tell my parents.

I'm going to talk to Bill about how we're going to handle this. I know my parents will want all of Oregon searched and won't stop until they've at least found my body. I don't want you to get into trouble so we'll have to all work together to come up with a plan that won't be suspicious. I know they'll find out somethings wrong soon because I haven't sent them any letters for a while.

I was coming up with ideas the other day I was thinking we could make it look like it was a bear, it's believable and you won't get into too much trouble. Bill said we could just use Fiddleford's memory gun on them but that is way too horrible to even think about. Plus I don't think Fiddleford would want to remake it anyway. We'll have to come up with a plan soon, summer's almost over.

I'm trying to stay strong Grunkle Stan but I'm scared, I don't know what's going to happen to me after summers over. I'll be fourteen but I won't be able to be with you guys, I can only say goodbye to Mabel. I don't know if I can say goodbye to Mabel Grunkle Stan, I've been with her since I was born. I'm sure you know what it's like. It's something I can't talk to Ford about. He wouldn't really understand like you. I would give anything to stay with her but I don't want any of you to get hurt.

Sorry, I'm getting off topic. I hope to hear from you soon with some more ideas on how to fix this. I'll talk to Bill about helping us with our plans. I mean we can't do anything without his help.

Can you please do me one final favour and photocopy these pages out of journal 3, I wasn't allowed to bring it with me. Ford's first journal entry as well as the page on Spells, the Gravity Falls timeline, the Truth Teeth map, the page on Haunted Paintings, the Category Nine ghosts' page 2 and the page about the Palm Reader Ford hates talking about. If you could send me these pages that would be great. I haven't really had much to do here and I find these pages very interesting. Thanks.

I miss you Grunkle Stan.

Dipper.

Dipper folded each letter up and slid each one into their own envelope with the family members names on the front. It had taken him more than an hour on each letter to come up with a coded message for each member of his family. And even after all that work he still had no idea if they would be able to understand what he was trying so hard to tell them.

Of course he would have to show each letter to Bill but he hoped that his coding would be something that Bill hadn't seen before and therefore wouldn't be able to pick up on it.

He was also using mediums that Bill was mostly likely unaware of, a dictionary, a Bible, the Ducktective series and Journal 3. So with the demon's lack of power there was a good chance that Dipper was home free. As long as he used something different each time he could do it until he eventually slipped up.

Despite these facts running around in the boy's head he still began to sweat as he presented the letters the Bill. Bill was seated on one of the shiny, black leather couches on the lounge room that was located down the hall from the kitchen. Neither of them spent much time in the room as it became awkward for Dipper to spend any time at all sitting in silence with the demon that was holding him captive.

"Finally, Axolotl, what took you so long?" Bill growled, snatching the letters from Dippers hands and pulling them roughly from their covers. Dipper had become used to Bill's erratic mood swings. Even the fact that he would use this mysterious Axolotl character in the place where a normal person would say God didn't bother him as much anymore.

"I... I didn't know what to say," Dipper answered truthfully, but not totally.

"Yes... Well... Everything seems to be okay, I don't want you asking for too much stuff from the outside world," Bill murmured as he shuffled through each page. From where he stood Dipper could see his eyes flick from left to right at in human speed. He knew he was searching for hidden code.

"I know, I wouldn't make a habit out of it," he replied, biting his lip.

Dipper stood there lamely for what felt like years as sweat poured down his face in rivers. The tension was palpable and if there were a clock in the house it would have echoed harshly through the silence.

After an age Bill handed back the letters, which had been placed back into their respective envelopes.

"You can go out and post them now, but don't forget to take that stick with you. I don't want you wondering too far away from the house, go straight to the box and back." The demon almost looked dejected as though he wanted to find something wrong with Dipper's letters. Dipper let out a large breath that he hadn't even realised he had been holding until he felt light headed and a bit dizzy. It was as if Bill wanted any reason to punish him but of course he didn't really need a reason to bruise or even cut the boy whenever he was in the mood for it.

Dipper had become used to the strict instructions whenever he wanted to go outside the house for any length of time so he simply nodded and turned to leave. Even though Bill had given strict instructions he still followed Dipper towards the door and watched him as he held the stick out in front of him and began to walk towards the lone letterbox. Just like the one that they had found last summer as soon as he had closed the lid on the letters there was a loud sucking sound coursing the box to rattle dangerously. When Dipper opened the box they were gone.