Soos' Job

SUMMARY: Soos and Melody now own the local hardware store and Soos is being the main town helper. Soos also recalls his grandmother.

MAIN CHARACTERS: Soos Ramirez and Melody Sloan (she don't got a known last name so I'm making one up)

Soos was walking back from the Mystery Shack with his tool box, even finishing helping Stan with fixing a few lights in the gift shop.

Once coming back to Gravity Falls after his tapestry hiatus and helping with the defeat of Bill Cipher, he wanted to follow Stan Pines in his footsteps of owning a business. He noticed that the person who had owned the hardware store never returned, so he took over since he knew a lot about the tools. With the help of Stan he reopened the store with Melody moving with him in the flat upstairs and helping with the store.

Soos still went to the Mystery Shack a couple of times a week to help with any repairs, and he even gave Stan a special discount card for anything he or Ford may need at his store. He even was showing Dipper how to help fix things in case Soos had no time to get to the Shack to help. Even Wendy got a second job to help Melody and Soos with the store, her still going back to the Shack a couple of days a week.

The people of Gravity Falls were overjoyed when Soos took over the hardware store, him even helping with the rebuilding of the town. As being part of the wheel people were ecstatic that he was personally helping with fixing their roofs, or walls, and just about anything. He enjoyed being so helpful to the town, people always asking him to fix something or how he helps them find a tool to fix something themselves.

Soos enters the hardware store, being greeted by Melody with her warm smile and wave. Soos goes over and gives her a nice hug, her giving off another brilliant smile. They have been dating for quite some time now, before and even after Weirdmageddon. One day he was thinking about proposing to her sometime, but he hasn't found the right words or the right way to do it yet.

Or he was just sad about his abuelita not being there…

After Weirdmageddon he tried to find her, but found out from his cousin that she passed away in her sleep one night. It had broken his heart as his abuelita was the one who had raised him for most of his life. His mom had died when he was very young, about four, and his dad couldn't handle raising him alone so he had dropped Soos off to his mother's and never came back…

Melody was there for him during that time of mourning, her have meeting abuelita a few times before and during the time of Weirdmageddon. She reminded him so much of her, probably why he loved Melody so much. Melody would bake randomly sometimes, even make different shaped cookies, and she made delicious cakes.

"How was everything at the Shack?" Melody asks politely, sometimes she would go visit as well to see the kids. Some of Mabel's handmade sweaters hung in the shop, people buying them and they would give the money to Mabel, who was extremely happy about it.

"Oh, it's all good," Soos tells her. "Just had to replace a few light bulbs and it was good as new."

"Well, we went up in sales, I guess Lazy Susan broke the motor for the dessert rack at the restaurant, so she had to buy one, and the tools, the batteries…" Melody tells him, showing him a paper with that day's sales. "And of course McGucket came in and wiped out our supply of screws and nails… I think he's building another one of his contraptions…"

Soos chuckles. "That is one crazy dude. Contraptions. That's a funny word." He looks at the paper again, he was still getting used to the idea of sales, he knew what inventory was since for years he had helped Stan. "I'll just order some more, business all across the world are getting back on their feet after what happened."

Gideon then walks in to the shop, him with Shannon in tow.

"Hello, Melody and Soos," Shannon cheerfully says, giving a wave. The two wave back as Gideon and Shannon go the back on the counter and goes through a door that led upstairs to the flat.

It was Soos' idea to take Gideon in. The kid had went through a lot in his life, and now he was a very decent young man. With Gideon's mother still missing and Bud dead, Soos took the kid in. Gideon learned how to fix a few things and even helped out in the shop and helped fix things at the Shack. Soos knew what it was like to not have his parents, so he basically pulled a Stan and began looking after someone young.

Soos enjoyed having his friends be his family, he enjoyed working between owning the hardware store and going to help out at the Mystery Shack. He feels that he would always be helpful to the town of Gravity Falls, and be helpful to his newfound family.

"Soos, you ready for dinner?" Melody asked, flipping the sign on the shop.

"Yeah, I am so, totally ready!" Soos exclaims excitedly. "What are you making?"

"Homemade pizza." Melody smiles.

"Oh, man, that is like, heaven." Soos laughs as he and Melody walk through the door to their upstairs flat.

A/N: Sorry this was very short... AND I FEEL BAD ABOUT ABUELITA! SHE WAS THE COOLEST GRANDMA EVER RAISING SOOS AND EVEN THREATENING TO KICK HIS DAD'S BUT IF HE EVER SHOWED HIS FACE AGAIN!

Thank you for reading as always!

~Skye Hendersen~