"Hey! What is Mabel doing in the newspaper with that Gideon?!" Stan enters the gift shop, he holds up a newspaper with a picture of Gideon and Mabel. He looks furious. So far I've learned that Gideon is one of his rivals in the business. I wouldn't be surprised really.

"Oh yeah! It's like a big deal, everybody's talking about Gideon and Mabel's big date tonight," Wendy holds up her cellphone.

Stan looks surprised, "What?! That little shyster is dating my great-niece!?" He really does sound concerned for her.. Either that or maybe he just doesn't want her niece near the rivals.

"I didn't know, I didn't hear about it! Plus I told her not to!" Dipper says trying to stay out of trouble. Stan throws the newspaper to the floor. Going out of the living room, to get dressed I suppose. Right now he is wearing a tank shirt.

"This is not gonna end well..." I comment, Stan can get violent sometimes with other people, "Try not to kill anyone Stan," I joke, maybe a little serious.

Moments later Stan comes to the gift shop with his suit on ready to go out and maybe have a business fight. Cause you know-.. the suit? Yeah.. He also has his cane with an eight ball on top, "I won't, don't want the cops investigating me again," Sounds like he gets in trouble often. "Besides It ends tonight! I will go to that skunk's house and this is gonna stop right now!"

He opens the door, walks out, and quickly shuts it loudly.

Soos puts down the magazine his reading, "Dude, wouldn't it be funny if that was a closet, and he had to come back out again and go out the real door?" We look at him with blank stares. He approaches the door and opens it, "Nope real door."

I lightly facepalm at this, "Am I the only one getting creepy vibes from that kid?" I point out.

"What Soos? I mean we're all weird," Dipper replies.

"What? No no, I mean Gideon, when I went to his show. The 'magic' he used his too.. unusual."

"Yeah.. Even all the people of Gravity Falls seemed to like him too much, way... too much man," Wendy even agrees with me.

"Yeah, even Soos seems to obsess about it," Dipper points to Soos, we look at him, he seemed to be reading a magazine, the cover says something about both Mabel and Gideon. Damn, they publish fast.

...

William

"Look at this..!" I point the book to Dipper. Location update, right now we were at the attic in the twin's room. There's only two of us here sitting on the floor reading, Mabel was.. somewhere, no clue where.

I was looking through Journal 3, it seemed entertaining so Dipper let me read it, except that I read it here in the Mystery Shack, where no one would see me with it.

"I've seen that.. but I'm not quite sure what it's supposed to be, it looks interesting yet different from the other pages," he was right, the other pages of the journal didn't seem this complicated. It was even located in the middle of the book, which seems intentional.

Most of the other pages would be about creatures, while this certain page of the journal is full of symbols and shapes. On the bottom left of the page was a bunch of writings, symbols. It was hard to decipher what language or code is it.

At the top of the page, there was a semi-circle, with some weird patterned lines with symbols on the outer circle. The circle was connecting to a Triangle at the bottom right of the page. The triangle was weirdly shaped.

"This seems out of place.." I point out at the triangle he nods at me, "We should consider that there should be more journals.. there seems to be no more information about this, which if there are other journals, it could give us more answers..."

"That's true... Could be a possibility, I mean Journal #3, so there must come a first and a second," I nod at his intuition, "But where could it be... Gravity Falls is huge! This would take days or weeks or maybe months..!"

"I know... If we can't find it then-.. That would mean someone else is holding onto one of the Journals.. but who could it be...?" I was rambling my head for who could have gotten the Journals.. someone that's suspicious, "I know we already said this but-.. We really shouldn't trust anyone yet... We can only trust ourselves, and our friends."

"Agreed, you would never know who could turn against us."

We both sigh at the same time, "Look, let's talk about this another time I guess," I start, "We don't have much information, we can't say much yet. Also, I have to go back to work."

He closes the book and puts it inside his vest, "Yeah.. let's gather more evidence," he nods, "I'll see you later Will."

I nod back at him, "Try not to overthink it too much thought," I laugh, still standing from my spot as I head towards the door and went out, "I'll see you later man," I close the door behind me.

I hear his muffled voice through the door, "No promises!" He also seems too extremely obsessed with his book.

I went down the stairs hearing someone talking in the living room. I look over the room, It was Mabel, "..I mean, he's so nice, but.. I can't keep doing this. But I can't break his heart. I have no way out!"

I enter the living room, "You sound like you have a problem, mind sharing?" I haven't gotten to know her much really, just trying to make conversations now.

"Oh hey.. Will..." She seemed a little troubled, which is distinct from her natural energetic personality, she sighs, "It's just I was hanging out with my friend, then things happened. Well at first I was in the friend zone, and then before I knew what was happening, he pulled me into the romance zone. It was like quicksand! Chubby quicksand!"

Well at least her energy seemed to come back now, "Don't worry about it too much, you just have to reject him, I mean how hard could that be," I go down to her height level, "And besides at least you don't have to marry him."

Stan enters the room, "Great news Mabel! You have to marry Gideon!" I facepalm really hard. I tried, really tried. Stan just had to come in at the wrong time. Sigh.

"WHAT?!" She says quite surprised.

"It's all part of my long-term deal with Buddy Gleeful. There's a lot of cash tied up in this thing. Plus I got this shirt," The shirt was tightly covering his body. It was showing that his quite fat now.

Mabel runs out the door screaming, "AAAHHHHHhhhhhh...!" She screams as she runs away until I couldn't hear her anymore. For the second time today- probably, I facepalm.

"Bodies change, honey! Bodies change..." Stan calls out to her while zoning out, he was referring to his fat body thinking that's what chased her away.

I took a deep breath as I head out of the living room leaving Stan alone to his thoughts.

I found where Mabel went to with the door ajar. I entered the unlit room where Mabel ran off to, "Hey Mabel?" I found her in the corner, she was inside her slightly oversized sweater, literally feet and head inside the sweater.

"Mabel is not here.. She's in sweater town..." She rocks back and forth... That is-.. That's so cute.

"C'mon Mabel aren't you gonna come out of sweater town?" She shakes her head, I approach her while taking a deep sigh, I'm probably gonna regret saying this.. but I can't leave her like this, "Look.. Since you can't break up with him... How about I do it for you?"

She pokes her head out of the sweater with some tears threatening to come out, "Really? You would do that for me?" She says hope in her voice.

"Of course you're my friend!" I smiled at her reassuringly. "I couldn't exactly leave you like this."

Her smile falters for a moment at my comment but she still smiles, she wipes off some tears, "Oh thank you! thank you!" She tightly hugs me.

I fell on my butt from her sudden action. After realizing what she was doing I hugged back, "You're a good hugger ya know?" I let out a small laugh feeling strangled from her hug, "Now come on let's watch some tv. I'm sure Stan won't mind me slacking off for a couple of hours," I mumble the last part.

She giggles at the comment I made as she nods.

After a minute which felt like hours, she finally let go. We exited the darkroom and entered the living room, 'if Stan saw me with Mabel in there he will probably kill me...' I breathe a sigh of relief.

...

William

"Welp here we go.." I entered the restaurant where Gideon was waiting, I can tell that this was a very fancy restaurant. It was casino-like themed with the club-shaped building upfront- Not the club that you use to hit people with but the one in the cards, capiche? okay, and yep the place is called 'The Club'.

As soon as I enter, I spotted Gideon at one of the tables. The table was normal looking while the chair was a club, he was holding a menu with a club.

I clear my throat to get his attention, "Hey.." He puts down the thing he was holding.

"Oh. Hey, you were one of the guys in my show the other time... How are you? You look good, you look good."

"Look... I'm sorry but I have to be real with you kid, Mabel isn't joining you tonight, she.. doesn't want to see you. She says she's not into you, also she's weirded out by you," I say bluntly. Kinda harsh but people never learn when you say sugarcoated bs.

His eye twitches, creepy... "So what you're sayin' is... you've...come between us," He mumbles

"Well, technically yes, but no? I wouldn't say that, I mean You're aren't gonna freak out or anything... right..?" He may seem innocent to other people, but me nope... I don't trust him.

He puts on a smile, "Of course not. These things happen. Bygones, you know," I can just sense that he's just putting it on for the sake of image... I hate these kinds of people, I never get along with them.

"Okay then, sorry but yeah.. I'll see you somewhere... probably. 'Hopefully not...'" I head towards the door as I whisper the last part barely audible.

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William

"This is a nice book..." I was looking through Journal 3 again. Dipper said not to show it to Stan yet so I'm kinda extra careful reading it everywhere, last time I saw Stan was at the museum leading a bunch of tourists.

I hear the bell on top of the door ring signifying that someone entered the gift shop.

And that someone is none other than Dipper, he sees me reading the book, "Hey Will, you done with reading that yet?" He approaches me while I look up at him, "Also don't forget to hide it from Stan..."

"Don't worry bout it, besides it's not like Stan is actually interested in reading this kind of book," I shrug, "Almost done. Maybe half an hour more of reading I would say.."

"Alright then-" Before dipper could finish his thought the phone rang loudly in the gift shop, "I'll get it." He approached the phone and answered, "Hello?... Oh- hey man sorry for accusing you of murder last week..."

I look over my book- curious to see who's he talking to.

"Oh, finally! I thought nobody would ever ask! I have notes and theories!" he takes his notepad and a pencil out of his vest. "Uh-huh-.. uh-huh... 412- Gopher Road... Tonight? Got it." He writes as he says it out loud.

He puts the phone down, "Who was that Dipper?" I asked him.

"Oh! Uh.. It was Toby- he said he wanted to interview me and ask me about the weird stuff I've seen since I arrived here! This is going to be great!" He exclaims excitedly.

"Last time I remembered, Toby wasn't a real reporter... I dunno Dipper this seems kinda sus."

"Pshh! It's fine. This was the only time someone actually asked me about this stuff!"

"Welp.. Don't say I didn't warn you. Just be careful." I said as I went back to reading the Journal.

"Thanks!" He said while leaving the shack to play with Mabel outside.

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William

Evening rolls in the gift shop, I take a deep sigh. I would go home but I wanted to see where Dipper would go... Around morning he said he has to go somewhere around dark.

Speak of the devil, Dipper comes out of the living room to the gift shop, ready to head out.

He says goodbye to me as he heads out. I wait for a few moments, thinking if this was a good idea, but I guess it couldn't hurt to be curious.

I approach the door ready to follow him. I exited and saw Dipper not far at all from the Shack.

I didn't want him to get endangered, so I at least have to make sure he's safe, if something happens I don't want it terrorizing my conscience.

It didn't take long to get to where he had to go. It was an old warehouse- not abandoned, I'm pretty sure It's just very old looking.

I was hiding behind a tree near the doors while Dipper went inside. I know kinda creepy stalking someone but you gotta do what you gotta do.

He calls out from inside the warehouse trying to find someone, a few moments later no answers, he shrugs as he walks towards the exit.

The doors shut close as he tried to go out, "Uhmm.. What? There was no one there.. how could it close?" A few seconds after, the lights turned on, but I still couldn't see inside from over here. This was confusing as heck. Who was he meeting there?

I went to the door. There were voices talking inside. I walked to the side where the windows were, so I poked my head out slightly on the pane just visible enough to know who's inside.

It was... Gideon.. why am I not surprised. He's probably out for revenge for ruining things with Mabel. I don't know why he's arguing with Dipper though not me.

Gideon was screaming at Dipper, but I couldn't make what they were saying. He grabbed his amulet on his neck and it glows blue. It looks familiar.

Dipper floats off the ground while giving off that blue glow. Gideon launches Dipper across the room into a bunch of boxes, which has some Gideon merchandise.

I have to stop this... I tried the front door, luckily it was open. He didn't even think of locking it...

I went in without thinking of danger, "Hey! Stop it, Gideon!" I warn him as he looks towards me.

"Will! A little help here...?" Dipper looks a little dirty underneath all those merchandise, fortunately, no bruises.

"Well, hello there... Will... You liar!" He accuses me.

"We both know I'm not a liar Gideon! She will never date a creep like you!"

He looks more angered by the second, "You don't know that! You will regret messing with me Pines family!" He firmly holds his amulet, it glows blue.

Moments passed nothing happens, "Uh sure little guy," I was getting more confused about what he's trying to do.

"W-what... Why doesn't it work on you!" He looks more furious, "Fine! If that doesn't work then... How 'bout this!"

With his amulet, a scissor floats out of the boxes and launches towards me. I roll away before it hits me, "That's not fair!"

I roll out of the way to a few more scissors dodging those, At this point I'm getting too exhausted, just dodging around. Fortunately, someone came in the door which made Gideon stop with his thing.

"Gideon stop!" Mabel entered the warehouse, everyone looks at her.

"M-Mabel.. what are you doing here...?" Gideon drops all the objects that were floating.

"Look... We need to talk. I.. don't want to go out with you Gideon so you should stop this..." She says.

"W-What..." He looks unstable... The objects began to float again, "You just keep messing with me Pines..."

The twins also began to float, they look very worried. Almost all of the objects are now behind Gideon. Is here seriously gonna try and hurt Mabel...?

I clench my fist. I felt it again... The power, the surge of energy I felt back on the roof, with that gnome stuff. My eye began to hurt as I look towards Gideon. A moment sooner, his amulet rose while glowing blue and quickly breaks into pieces.

Both the twins fell to the ground landing roughly, the objects also falls to the ground. The pain in my eye starts to ease.

"No! My power! What happened..." He reaches for his amulet, "I'll get you for this..! Pines family..." He backs out of the warehouse and runs off.

I look at the window of the warehouse, my eyes.. it was red for a second until it changed back, "What the heck..." I mumble.

No time for this, "Mabel! Dipper! Are you both okay?" I approach them.

"Yeah... What happened there.." Dipper dusts himself off.

"I'm sorry I got you guys into this mess.." Mabel apologies, "I'm glad you're both okay.."

"It's fine Mabel, we faced harder challenges than this," Dipper smiles at his twin.

"Okay okay let's just get home," I motion for the twins to follow.

We exited the warehouse quite exhausted. The walk to home seemed fast, no one talked much, they were probably as tired. It was dark but the moonlight helped a lot in getting back.

The Mystery Shack was just ahead of our path, as soon as we got there Mabel and Dipper headed inside, but not before thanking me. Since it was night already obviously no shift. I used my bike to get to my home.

'This day is so tiring... What even happened back there..?' I took a deep breath. 'This day just got more confusing than ever...'

I need to figure this out. I can't let them know what happened yet.

But for now... One destination. Home.

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Episode End

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Chapter End