Chapter 24: Regret

'Have you ever wondered what someone really thought of you? If you ever found out, how would you react? What would you say to that person? After overhearing Stan and Soos's conversation, Dipper turns his back on Stan, no longer determined to defeat Bill to save him. His biggest regret, ever agreeing to help him!'

(Takes place if Dipper never returned to the memory to learn the entire story from Stan)

~(Dipper's P.O.V.)~

"He's Weak, a loser, and an utter embarrassment! I just want to get rid of him!"

That sentence, that one sentence keeps echoing through my mind and with each time it rewinds itself, I feel a void forming in my heart, the part of my heart that once held a space for that man, but is no longer there. The one man who took my sister and I in for the summer, who our parents trusted with us, and who only pretended to care, I now truly know how he feels about me. With him being family, I thought that he would love us, love me the way family is supposed to, but I guess such a thing doesn't exist! So much for family ties! I regret spending my summer here with the one person who doesn't think anything of me!

From the first day Mabel and I arrived here, Stan immediately began picking on me. I had a hunch about the forest that surrounds this place, but telling him was a bad idea as he didn't listen to a word I said.

Flashback

"All right, all right, look alive people." Stan says, now entering the shop with four signs tucked under his right arm. "I need someone to hammer up these signs in the spooky part of the forest."

"Not it!" Dipper quickly speaks up.

"Not it!" Mabel follows suit.

"Also not it!" Soos speaks up.

"No one asked you Soos!" Stan harshly replies to the man.

"I know and I'm comfortable with that!" Soos replies, now taking a bite from his chocolate bar.

"Wendy, I need you to hang up these signs!" Stan says, trying to recruit Wendy.

"I would, but I…can't reach it." Wendy replies, now reaching out her left arm while her right hand and eyes remain on the magazine.

"I'd fire all of you if I could!" Stan snaps. "Alright, let's make it ennie, meeny, miney, you!" Stan now points to Dipper.

"Aw what?" Dipper gasps. "Grunkle Stan, whenever I'm in those woods, I feel like I'm being watched."

"Ugh, this again!" Stan replies with a face palm.

"I'm telling you, something weird is going on in this town." Dipper continues. "Just today, my mosquito bites spelled out beware!"

Holding his arm out to the older man, Stan now notices what the marks are spelling out.

"It says, Bewarb." Stan corrects. "Look kid, the whole "Monster's in the forest" local legend thing was trumped up by guys like me to sell merch to guys like that."

The bald man is laughing idiotically to a Stan bobble head.

"So stop being so paranoid!" Stan growls, now throwing Dipper the signs with the boy sighing with exasperation.

End of Flashback

Since being in Gravity Falls, any and everything I say to that man gets ignored, but when it comes to Mabel, he just adores her! Naturally he would adore her because she's nothing like me! I believe he loves her more than he does me. No, I know he loves her more me! When Robbie threatened me, he even took bets on that big jerk over me!

Flashback

"No, no, no!" Robbie snaps to the twelve year old. "You want to get into it huh? Let's get into it kid! You don't think I don't know what's been going on? You have a thing for my girlfriend, don't you? Don't you?!"

"What?! No! C'mon man!" Dipper defends himself.

"Yeah, I'm sure she's just DYING to ask out a twelve year old that wears the same shorts every day! Hey, here's an idea: Why don't I call her and see if she wants to go out on a date with you!"

"Hey! Look, you don't have to—" Dipper stutters.

"Oh don't! Please! Man!" Robbie mocks Dipper. "What are you going to do huh? What? Huh?"

Robbie then pulls out his phone and auto-dials Wendy's number. The other line picks up after a minute with Wendy's voice coming in over the speaker.

"Hello?" Wendy's voice answers.

In an attempt to evade the angry teenager, Dipper's flailing arms smacks the phone out of the boy's hand and sends it to the ground, it breaking into a million pieces.

"My phone!" Robbie wails.

"I'll buy you a new one!" Dipper offers.

"Oh no, you're not getting off THAT easy!" Robbie growls, now lifting the boy off the ground, his death gaze meeting with Dipper's horrified one.

"Hey, I know a fight when I see one!" Stan shouts from a window on the side of the shack. "Stay right there!"

Robbie then throws Dipper against the garbage cans.

"You! Me! Circle Park, 3 o'Clock." Robbie instructs. "We finish this!"

The angered boy then proceeds off, leaving Dipper out of breath. Stan now runs out of the house with a bag out popcorn.

"Aww! He's gone!" Stan pouts. "I was going to call the boys over and place a few bets. The smart money is on skinny jeans!"

End of Flashback

He was going to bet his money on me getting beat up and after all I've done to keep his miserable home from being taken by Gideon, it all goes unnoticed. He just can't seem to have the soft spot for me that he has for my sister! Sure, when I was convinced that Robbie was brainwashing Wendy, he helped me out then and even offered to take me bowling with him when Wendy refused, but that hardly ever happens. I'm always doing the jobs that he won't, including chasing that wretched bat out of the kitchen that he just wouldn't take care of! I was badly injured after that thing attacked me. That's just like Stan to put me in harm's way because he is too lazy to do it himself!

Having wondered away from that memory, I now catch up with the others, still disgruntled at what I heard from my wonderful uncle. Soos, Mabel, and Mabel's dream boys are looking for Bill, who obviously got away with the door containing the memory of Stan's safe code.

"Come on, we gotta save Stan!" Mabel panics. I honestly don't see the point, especially after what I just heard.

"What's the point?" I ask in a rage. "Why should I save Stan huh? I work for him day and night when all along, he just wants to get rid of me!"

"Dipper, I'm sure that's not true." Mabel tries to reason with me.

"I saw it with my own eyes in one of his memories Mabel!" I snap. "Stan has always picked on me and now I know why! Stan hates me!"

"Dipper, it doesn't matter what you saw." Mabel continues trying to reason with me. "If we don't stop Bill, we'll lose the shack!"

"No! You know what? Not this time!" I reply firmly to Mabel. "For once, this is one of Stan's problems that I'm not going to fix!"

"Fine!" Mabel replies. "Come on Soos! We're going to save Stan ourselves!"

"Dipper, you're a cool dude, but right now, this isn't cool dude." Soos says to me.

Turning my back to them, I look over my shoulder to see Mabel, Soos, and Mabel's dream boys walking away to go search for Bill. Let them go, I can care less! What's the point in helping a guy who has nothing but bad things to say about me? Walking away in the other direction, tears begins streaming from my eyes.

The hole in my chest created by Bill is one thing, but the hole created in my heart knowing my uncle, my own flesh and blood, hates me is another. The hole in my heart created by my uncle is one that can never be closed or fixed. I refuse to help him, I don't care what the stakes are! While I don't have many regrets, there is one regret I do have and that is ever agreeing to come to Gravity Falls to visit this man to begin with! But my biggest regret is ever agreeing to help save him!

After watching Dreamscaperers, I had to write this! So what do you think? Also Prophecy's Light's update will be up on Monday due to some last minute business popping up on Sunday and Behind The Mask's update will be posted next Thursday or Friday! Stayed Tuned and the second part season 1 finale will be airing August 2nd at 9pm! Mark your calendars! :)

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