From Monsterhighcleoaddict: "I have a request: Can you write about how dipper felt betrayed in "not what he seems" when Mabel didn't press the button and dipper gets angry at Mabel and Stan"
Aaaaand we're back to Not What He Seems requests. Enjoy! (I totally didn't listen to Imagine Dragons writing this, nope)
I Bet My Life
"I trust you."
Dipper's eyes nearly bulged out of his skull as his twin floated up towards the portal. What was she thinking? What was she doing?! Didn't she know she had just doomed them all?
"Mabel, are you crazy?! We're all gonna - !"
And then everything exploded and all he registered was the screaming from everyone. Everything was so bright and he could barely see. Everything hurt as he fell to the floor, groaning as his knees ached. Soon he found the brilliant light was gone and everyone was on the ground by him, all in pain too.
A scowl made its way onto his face as he looked at Mabel. She'd trusted the man who had lied to them over her own brother? Why did she still believe Stan, if that even was his real name? How could she?
The scowl deepened as he rubbed his head and thought about his "great-uncle". His heart in turn ached at the memory of the man bursting into the room, pleading with him not to press the button. Not out of guilt, but out of pain.
He wouldn't trust Stan ever again. He wouldn't succumb to his emotions like his sister had. Stan must have known she decided with her heart more than her head and used that against her. It was the only logical explanation because Mabel couldn't have betrayed him.
But she did. Stan probably didn't trick her, he might have a good reason for wanting the portal open. A quiet voice that still believed whispered in his head. Besides, if the universe was destroyed, why are you all still alive?
It had a point, but he refused to believe Stan wasn't lying to them. Not after all the evidence. Not after lying to them all summer long about who he was.
As a figure stepped through the portal, his last thought on Stan and Mabel was Maybe the author was right about trusting no one.
Short one, sorry. But feels ahoy!