Author's Note's: Yes another update! You know this writing is really making me feel better, emotionally sure, but hey I'll take all I can get right now!


… Fast-forward...

(Leaving Day)

This was it,

This was the day he was leaving Gravity Falls.

Dipper Pines sighed deeply as he packed his last novel into his already stuffed suitcase. "Well that's everything." He said heavily. "How are you doing over there Mabel?"

Mabel Pines folded one of her boy band posters with a bittersweet look on her face. "Not so good." She admitted. "I'm really going to miss this place."

"Yeah me too." Dipper agreed. "I can't even believe we once begged our parents to take us with them to Africa."

"Africa would have been fun." Mabel agreed. "I would have loved seeing the happy faces on those poor people when Dad brought them all those new computers."

Dipper smiled his father's company had raised a lot of money to help install computers in third world countries. Their first stop was Africa and Dipper had been looking forward to seeing the wonders that dwelled there, but now he was very much thankful for his parents' decision to send them here.

To Gravity Falls!

And now it would appear that this small chapter in their lives was over. Would they be coming back next summer? Dipper sure hoped so, but as far as he could see it unless his parents went on another trip they'd never come here again; well at least not alone. Dipper's Parents were usually over protected, and never let them out of their sights, even for a sleep over at a well-known friend's house. In fact the only reason why they ended up going to Gravity Falls, instead of Africa was because Ebola had recently broke out there and all children under 18 were forbidden to travel there. His parents had no one else to accompany the shipment of the computers to the expecting schools so they had no choice but to call up Stan to take them in.

At first Dipper was furious that he couldn't go, and all because he just might get sick! He wanted to have an adventure, an escape from his usually boring life; and he thought Africa would be the ticket. Of course now he knew better, and besides now that he really thought about it he had no doubt his parents' overprotected nature would have ruined it for him.

Like it had done throughout his entire childhood thus far!

"Alright you knuckle heads the guest have arrived so let's make this party worthy of Mabel's scrapbook or whatever." Stan said as he barged into the room.

"Gruncle Stan everything and anything is worthy to be in one of my scrapbooks." Mabel said.

"She's not lying you know." Dipper said with a shiver as he remembered some of the more embracing chapters of her past scrapbooks.

"Okay I'm not even going to ask!" Stan said and began to push them out of the door. "Come on you two you can pack later, because at this rate your ice cream cake is going to melt!"

"Ice cream cake well why didn't you say so?" Mabel exclaimed. "Race you downstairs 'little brother' "Mabel charged downstairs with Dipper hot on her heels. "Alpha twin! Alpha Twin!" She chanted all the way down.

"Hey, look it's the members of Several Times!" Dipper said pointing to the side.

"Where?" Mabel stopped and looked, and Dipper took the chance to race down the last remaining stairs.

"I Win!" Dipper shouted.

"Hey you cheated!" Mabel exclaimed.

"No I used my brain and outsmarted you." Dipper pointed out the obvious. "Smarter Twin! Smarter Twin!" he chanted.

Mabel couldn't help but laugh. "Okay fine you win, but only because it's our birthday!"

Dipper fist pumped the air happily. "Success!"

"Okay you goofs look alive the party is outside!" Stan said shuffling the two outside.

"Whoa!" Dipper was amazed, the whole town was outside! 'And they're here to celebrate our birthday!'

"Alright everyone the guests of honor have finally arrived." Stan declared.

The town's folk cheered.

"Yah man it's about time!" Wendy exclaimed.

"Alright everyone settle down!" Ford said interrupting the cheers.

The crowd settled down as he instructed, and he continued.

"We'll start the festivities by eating the cake before it all melts in the summer heat!" The crowd cheered once more, as Stan came back out with the Cake!

"Wow this must be how a celebrity feels on their birthday." Mabel said in awe.

"Alright you two blow out the candles and make a wish before this cake turns to soup." Stan ordered.

Dipper and Mabel stood on two different sides of the cake and blew it out together.

The crowd cheered happily.

"I now dub you technically teenagers!" Wendy declared. "Welcome to aches and pains for the rest of your life."

"One of us!" All the teens shouted. "One of us!"

Dipper laughed, but the happiness was short lived. He looked over his shoulder suddenly as he felt the unshakeable feeling that someone or something was there, but there was nothing. 'He's gone!' Dipper reminded himself as he took several deep breaths and began to open gifts with his sister. 'He's gone and he's never coming back.'

He wanted to believe those words, and yet Dipper couldn't shake the all too familiar felling that Bill's existence brought him.

And that was an uncontrollable sense of fear!

'It's nothing!' Dipper assured himself as he watches Soos being crowned as the new Mr. Mystery.

'We're safe, he is gone!'

Oh how he wanted to believe those words, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't shake this feeling.

'Something really bad is going to happen.' He thought to himself, though he wasn't really sure how or why he even knows this. He just knew it to be true.

Yes there was no denying the overpowering sense of danger! Something was wrong somewhere in the Multiverse, he could feel it, and Dipper didn't like this feeling. No he didn't like it one bit…


...Fast-forward... AGAIN!...

"Ready to enter the unknown?" Dipper asked his sister as they boarded the bus.

"Nope!" Mable laughed and followed her brother's lead.

"Goodbye kids!" Stan yelled as he, and the rest of the gang followed the bus as it started its long journey home.

"Goodbye everyone!" Mable exclaimed as they waved goodbye, and continued to do so until they were out of sight.

Dipper sighed and sat back in their seat; he couldn't believe it was finally over! And to think this whole thing got started just because he found some hidden journal in the woods, Dipper sighed again, and looked down at the paper that was still in his hand…

"Open it the next time you think about Gravity Falls…" Wendy's words echoed in his head.

Dipper opened the letter with a steady hand and smiled at what he found.

SEE YOU NEXT SUMMER!

Written in black along with signatures from the rest of the town.

Dipper smiled. 'Next summer!' he liked the sound of that! But still he doubt there would be another one! Not that it matter, for he had more pressing matters to worry about. He tried his best not to, but he failed miserably as he gave in to the urge to look over his shoulder yet again.

NOTHING!

'Stop this!' He demanded to himself as he forced himself to calm down. 'He is gone! So what if we didn't follow some ancient prophecy and used our human energy to banish him like we were supposed to.'

"Dip you okay?" Mabel asked.

"Oh yeah just sleepy." He lied, and leaned his head against the window and closed his eyes.

Mabel gave him a weird look, but didn't think much of it, and soon opened up her scrapbook and began to look through it thinking her brother was really falling asleep.

However Dipper was wide awake under those eye lids. 'Prophecy or not it's not like it's going to make that big of a difference' he told himself 'Right...'

'Right!' Dipper assured himself and with a mighty yawn he forced himself to fall asleep for real hoping to escape the suffocating feeling of dread. Unfortunately for him however there was no peace in slumber,

And there wouldn't be for a very long time…


(Somewhere in a dark void...)

The first thing he saw was darkness…

'Where am I?' Bill groaned and looked around. He was in a dark void of some kind. 'What why am I here, aren't I supposed to be dead?'

'What if I am dead?' Bill couldn't help but shiver at the thought. To go down in history as a trickster being out tricked by a human! 'Wait the resurrection spell!' Yes that could work He could still pull this off. 'All I'll I need is a sacrifice of 13 innocent souls, and then I can return to my physical form and-'

"Wait! It's not that simple stupid!" Bill lectured himself out loud. "Your back where you started genius! No pawns, no power; and trapped in a decaying world! How are you going to get 13 souls sacrificed to you without a pawn to do it?!"

'Then I'll find one, there's got to be someone stupid enough to make a deal with Me.' he argued.

"Hey news flash genius everyone in Gravity Falls knows about you now. They know you're no good, so they won't make a deal!"

Bill sighed in defeat! He hadn't thought about that. 'It's a shame I don't have any more puppets.' he thought. 'Cause if I did I'm at least strong enough to take over their bodies while their asleep. Then I could finish the resurrection ritual and regain my physical form.'

"Yeah well maybe you should have installed a backup plan!" he yelled at himself some more!

Bill rolled his eye. 'Maybe there's a way out of here…'

The Demon began to move forward within the void but was stopped by an unknown force. "What!" Bill turned to see that one of his blue puppet strings was still attached to him. 'Well this can't be right.' The demon thought as he tugged on the string. 'I don't have any more pawns! All the deals I've made have been completed. I kept my end of the bargains, and they all kept theirs. No one owes me; and I don't owe them!'

And yet there was a single strand that proved otherwise!

Bill pulled on the string again, 'It seems strong enough, perhaps strong enough for me to take complete control of the owner; while their sleeping of course.' The demon thought as he began to follow the string. 'But who do I have unfinished business with?'

'It has to be someone you possessed.' Bill thought answering his own question, 'Someone who allowed you to enter their mind, and then forgot to verbally call off the deal; thus allowing themselves to be unknowingly a part of you. Someone that you forgot to pay up to!'

'But who?' Bill asked himself in frustration. 'Who did I forget to pay up to that would be dumb enough not to call off our deal?' Bill's eye widen as he was sucked out of the void and into the mindscape. The string then pulled him into what appeared to be an empty bus. 'So here we are again Bill.' Bill shook his head in disbelief. 'Living in a world where no one can see, feel, or hear you without you invading their dreams. You'd think you'd learn by now!' The demon scowled himself as he continued to follow the strings lead.

Until it stopped…"What!" Bill froze to see…

"Dipper Pines!" the dream demon looked at the sleeping teen practically stunned. And then it hit him…

He had promised Pine Tree all the power in the universe in exchange for a puppet! And it didn't matter that they kid had no idea the puppet was him; Pine Tree willingly shook his hand. And Bill used his body, but never paid up! And since Bill never followed through with his promise he still owed the kid, and even worse Dipper never officially called off the deal which meant their contract was still in play!

"Pine Tree is still my puppet!" Bill's eye slowly squinted into a wicked smile. "It would appear I'm not out of the game after all." He laughed softly. "And to think out of all people you would be my salvation." The demon went to pat the boy's head but froze. The kid was wearing a new hat, one he knew from somewhere. "This is Red's hat!" He whispered angrily. "so she plans to steal you away from me? Fat chance no one is taking you away but me! You're mine now!" he growled as he slipped his hands under the hat slowly running his hands threw the locks of his hair.

Dipper groaned as he seemed to struggle under his touch, as if he could detect the unseen danger!

Bill chuckled. "You can feel our connection can't you?" he whispered, as he continued to run his sharp claws threw Dipper's hair. "Deep down you know I'm not gone."

Suddenly Dipper's struggles became more frantic.

"SHHHHH!" Bill hushed him. "There's no need to worry kid" Bill said, trying to assure him. "I didn't realize your value before, but I do now." Bill mused as he continued ran his fingers threw his hair almost possessively. His chestnut locks felt soft to his skin, and the demon had to admit it felt almost soothing to comb his fingers through it. "Just you wait kid because soon you will help me regain what's mine…But." The demon smiled. "I will not make the same mistake as last time, I let Sixer chose to leave me. But you, you don't have a choice of the matter. I'll rip you apart," he leaned down, and as his eye turned into lips and he brushed them along the corner of Dipper's, "-and put you back together again. And once I'm done with you the only thing you shall crave is my sweet embrace, and you'll have it." The demon smiled. "Once you give me back my crown I will rule this dimension once more, and as your reward you will finally have that knowledge you so desperately seek!"

Dipper grumbled in his sleep and shifted, turning towards Bill.

The demon snickered. "Aww, Pine Tree," he cooed cupping the brunette's cheek, "you look so sweet." He let out a breathy sigh, thumb stroking under the boy's eye. "You're so lucky I'm still weak from the memory eraser experience. Otherwise I'd just snatch you up right now and take the driver seat of that body of yours while you're all quiet and vulnerable."

He paused in his exploration of Dipper's cheeks and thought about those words. "Then again," the demon mumbled almost absently, "It'd probably be more fun to use you to regain my physical form first, and then take you away while you're awake." He snickered. "You'll probably scream at me and, try to kill me as I drag you away from everything you know, and love!" The demon let out an almost dreamy sigh as he pictured it.

Dipper, cursing up a storm, eyes blazing, and narrowed as he struggled to free himself from Bill's grasp with defiance, and fire; and just a touch of fear. Bill moaned, eye falling shut and forming into a mouth once more. And to the demon surprise he couldn't stop himself from matching his lips against the sleeping teen's briefly.

"I can't wait to break you Pine Tree," he confessed, "You're gonna look so much sweeter falling apart for me. And even more sweeter by my side, I can just imagine the look on Sixer's face when he sees you willingly offering your services to me." Bill licked his lips before they reformed into an eye full of raw lust. "Body, mind, and soul."

Yes every inch of him would belong to him! But he'd have to be patient after all he only had one puppet string on the boy, which meant he could only control him when the child wasn't conscious enough to know what was happening. 'I'll use him when he's asleep to finish the ritual, and soon I'll be able to regain my physical form.'

He had to be careful though, if the kid caught on to what was going on, he could start fighting his control, and even break off the deal.

"I need to trick him into making a new deal." He thought out loud, and suddenly looked to Shooting Star who had drifted off asleep beside him. "That shouldn't be too hard." He answered to himself, "After all where there are Pines twins bickering and raw sibling rivalry is bound to follow!"

And better yet there would be no Sixer in the way!

A quiet mumble leaves Dipper and Bill can't help but laugh. "Well, as much as I love this talk kid." He chirped. "I've got to find a safe place to hide in that head of yours and get my strength back until I can use you! But don't worry," the demon pecked him briefly on the lips once more before floating up with a grin, "Everything's going to come together real soon. And then," his eye flashed a bright gold, lips curving into a pointy, toothy smile, "we'll have all the time in the world."

With those words he pushed himself into Dipper's mind and settled down in a nice dark and quiet place. The teen shuddered in his sleep, curling in on himself as his dreams were suddenly plagued by an all too familiar echoing laughter and the flash of a golden eye!


Chapter End Notes

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