Twinstones
Chapter 8
Sick as he was, reverse Dipper took great joy in his duplicates pain. He interrogated him for every last piece of information, up until the point where he started saying random things just to make the pain stop. But he still thought that he was holding something back, so he stopped, thinking that his twin sister would have better luck. Mabel broke off her telepathic conversation with Diana and walked over to him.
"Diana says that Gideon, Pacifica and his sister are going to try something to rescue Dipper." Mabel told her brother. Ha! Let them try, he thought. He and Mabel heard a crash and she ran out the door as Dipper turned to Diana.
"Watch Dipper." He ordered. When she didn't answer, he muttered under his breath. "Stupid meditation." It was a useless excersise. He didn't do it, and his powers are huge. But maybe I can increase my powers, he thought as he walked out the door. He put the thought on his mental to do list. When arrived at the crash, he found that the sound came from a knocked-over stack of jenga blocks.
"Why do we even have this?" He inquired. After a heated arguement, during which Dipper impatiently tapped his foot, a lone employee stepped up.
"Begging your pardon, sir, but that tower was a birthday present for one of the workers." He bowed his head. "And if anyone is to take the blame, it should be me. I was the one who got it for him." Normally Dipper would have fired both the giver and the recipient, but this time he remembered that he never even celebrated his birthday. This fact made him more lenient.
"Very well. Just don't let it happen again." The man, expecting something else, looked at him with confusion. Even his sister stared at him oddly.
"You heard me. Now scat, before I change my mind." He hurried back to the group and they continued to clean up the mess. Dipper swiftly turned around and strolled down the hall to the room. Mabel jogged to catch up.
"What was that?" She asked.
"What was what?"
"That!" She looked at his confused expression and explained. "You usually would fire them both. This time you let them go with just a warning!? What happened?"
"I remembered our childhood." He whispered quietly. "We never celebrated our birthday, or any other holiday for that matter. No presents, no cards. Not even family and friends."
"That's it!? One little memory and you get soft!? What's wrong with you?"
"I am not SOFT!"
"Fine then." They approached the door. Dipper stopped Mabel.
"Whoever knocked over that jenga tower is a complete moron." He said.
"I agree."
"You know, I think that the other Dipper is holding something back, and I want you to find out what. Use whatever means nessasary." She nodded and walked into the room they were keeping Dipper in as he walked into his private workroom to experiment with the Twinstone he had found on his doppelganger.
Mabel Pines grabbed the bowl of water, the disinfectant and the cloth from Pacifica and ran over to the shirtless-for-his-own-good Dipper.
"This will probably hurt, Dipper. Just warning you."
"It's okay, Mabel. It can't be any worse than what I went through in there." She nodded grimly and set to work, soaking the cloth in water and cleaning his wounds of blood before scouring them from bacteria and infection with the disinfectant. Pacifica sat down on the other side of him and started to help. Gideon just stood there, watching.
"Aren't you going to help?" Mabel asked.
"I have no experience with this sort of thing." He replied, but she could see plain as day that his fingers were itching to help.
"Then why don't we teach you?" She offered. Immediately his face lit up, pleased by the prospect of learning something new, and helping. "Come here, then." She patted the ground next to her, and Gideon took the spot quickly. "See, what you do is soak the cloth in water. Not a towel, those are to rough, and not thin fabric, they are too sharp. Then wash the wounds out with the cloth. Yes, that's it, like that. Now get the disinfectant and pour a few drops into the wound. That will kill any bacteria and stop infection. Whoa whoa whoa, not too much. Just a few drops. Perfect. Your doing great!" She smiled at Gideon. She never failed at teaching.
Afted what seemed like forever, they were finally done. Mabel mopped sweat off her brow as Dipper sat up, stretching out cramps and wincing at the pain it caused. Forgetting the state he was in, Mabel gently punched her brother in the arm.
"Ouch!"
"Don't you ever scare me like that again, Dipper!"
"Mabel."
"Do you hear me? Ever!"
"Mabel! Calm down. I won't scare you like that again."
"Promise?"
"Promise. Awkward sibling hug?" He asked.
"Awkward sibling hug." She confirmed. And they wrapped their arms around each other.
"Pat. Pat." They said together.
"Holy smoke, that was one of the cutest things I have ever seen!" Remarked Pacifica, completely ruining the moment. "Why can't we do something like that?" She asked Gideon.
"Because we're cousins, not siblings." He replied. Dipper and Mabel smiled. Suddenly Dipper remembered something.
"Dang it! We can't go home yet! The Gleeful twins still have our Twinstone! What will we do?" The answer was simple for Mabel. She smiled.
"We get it back."