Author's Notes: Sorry for the lack of updates in my other stories, my plate has been full lately, but hopefully I will get some time to update this coming up week. So until then enjoy some dark BillDip!

Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls.


(Sunday August 2nd…)

Dipper yawned and looked outside the window of his bedroom to see the final rays of the sun start to disappear behind the houses.

It had been two days since he and Mabel had returned home, and while everything had finally seemed to return to normal, Dipper still couldn't help but admit that something seemed to be missing. Maybe it was the fact that after all the things he went through this summer it was a lot harder to go back to his old quiet life; or maybe it could have been that he felt home sick.

But how could he be home sick from Gravity Falls?

He was just visiting there after all? Plus the place had so many demented secrets, that it had nearly drove the now thirteen-year-old boy crazy. Still, Gravity Falls felt like where he had Mabel truly belonged. It sounded crazy, but Dipper had seen some pretty amazing things, even if they could be dangerous. Not only that, he also made some great friends back there.

Soos had always been there to help him whenever he needed him; and the two always had time to get themselves into trouble. Then there was Wendy; the teenage girl that Dipper couldn't get out of his head, even now. She was the one person Dipper seemed to miss the most. Even though he knew she was still too old for him, he still missed spending as much time as he could with her while trying to keep Robbie away from her. However with those happy feelings aside, Dipper couldn't help but also feel as if he should have never left Gravity Falls at all. For ever since he had, an overwhelming since of danger had fallen upon him.

He wasn't safe, and he could feel it!

Dipper forced himself to shrug it off as he heard yelling coming from downstairs. He slowly opened the creaking door to hear the sounds of their mother screaming and Mabel crying.

When they left Gravity Falls, Mabel couldn't bear to leave her pet pig, Waddles, behind; so she decided to bring him home with her. Unfortunately their mother was less than thrilled with Mabel's new pet and the two had engaged into a heated debate about the pig. Knowing how cheerful Mabel usually was, Dipper knew that if she had given Waddles up, she was going to be devastated.

"Mom he's not bothering anyone!" Mabel was yelling.

"It's stinking up the whole house Mabel, please just put him outside." Her mother argued back.

"But he could get hurt out there, we don't even have a fence for him to stay in, I can't just tie him to a tree and hope nothing happens to him!" Mabel yelled.

"Mabel Mr. Wade is taking him to his farm, and that's final." Their father's voice cut in.

"Then let him stay with me in my room until than please?" Mabel begged.

Dipper could hear his mother sighing. His parents had arranged for Waddles to go live on a farm down the road, so he and Mabel could still be somewhat close. But there was one catch! Mr. Wade as well as every other farmer in California had a strict limit on how many livestock he could have on his farm. So naturally He had to wait until one of his currently owned pigs were big enough to…well you know…be turned into ham!

Of course Mabel had no choice but to agree to send Waddles to a farm, but she made it very clear to Mr. Wade that Waddles was a pet, NOT FOOD!

"It's only a month," Mabel cried. "Please dad!"

"Alright, but he can't come out, and you keep your window open so that smell goes outside." Their father said. "You know how sensitive your mother's sinuses are."

Dipper decided to close his door as it really was starting to tug at him to have to listen his sister's pain. So instead he walked over to the backpack on his desk to pull out his journal, two days ago when they had first arrived at home, Dipper had started rewriting the journals that had been burned during Weirdmageddon. He wasn't sure why he was recreating them, but he felt like they were important to remake and continue; especially the pages about Bill.

But why?

Perhaps it was because he had this feeling like nothing had really been solved? "Everything you know will change..." A voice seemed to echo in his mind.

Dipper could recognize that voice almost instantly as he looked down at his arms. He still had scars from Bill when the dream demon had taken over his body. The day he had lost control. A part of him had to wonder, had Bill been right all along?

"Maybe everything did change..." Dipper thought, sadly, and froze as he heard someone coming up the stairs. Dipper went to open his door to see Mabel climbing up the stairs; her usual cheerful face was now stained with tears, Waddles followed her whining sadly.

"Mabel..." Dipper tried to say.

But Mabel shook her head sadly before going into her room, and quietly shutting the door behind her and her beloved pet.

Dipper went downstairs to see his parents in the TV room. "Mom...can we...?" He asked.

"Dipper can we talk later please? Your father and I had a rough day." His mother simply stated.

"But Mom..." He protested.

"Dipper go upstairs!" His father ordered.

"But I want to talk now! Why are you making her get rid of Waddles?! He means so much to her!" Dipper yelled.

"Pigs are for eating, not as pets!" His mother scoffed. "I can't even believe Stan let her keep that thing! I'm starting to think that sending you to Gravity Falls was a mistake!"

Dipper was about to retort, but he knew what would happen; he would try to tell his parents how he felt before his mother would claim that he didn't respect her and would cry. Then his father would scream at him until he would start crying.

The boy only sighed before he went to hug his mother. "I'm sorry..." He said, quietly.

His mother only returned the hug half-heartedly before pulling away. "Please go upstairs and get ready for school tomorrow. I promise we'll talk then."

Dipper nodded before wishing his parents goodnight and walking back to his room.

He walked passed Mabel's door to see that it was cracked open. He looked through the crack to see his sister lying on her bed hugging Waddles tightly.

She was completely silent, but Dipper could see her eyes were completely glassy from crying.

"Waddles..." He thought he heard her barely whisper. It almost reminded him of when he had used Blendin's time traveling gadget to make his day at the Fair with Wendy perfect. Because he altered to the event, Mabel had lost Waddles to Pacifica and the result had really cut her deep. Thankfully Dipper made things right so his sister could be happy.

But now it seemed that Mabel wasn't destined to keep Waddles after all.

Dipper was tempted to go comfort his sister, but he knew that she just wanted to sulk by herself. The boy walked back into his room, and walked to the wall adjacent to Mabel's room.

He slowly sat down as he gently knocked on the wall.

To his surprise, Mabel answered back by knocking on the wall as well. He could even hear a couple small sobs escape her throat.

Dipper knocked again to let her knew he was still there. His sister knocked back quietly.

Now Dipper knew for sure that he really was homesick for Gravity Falls and everything that lived there.

And now he was sure that Mabel did too! Mabel knocked on the wall one more time. Dipper smiled sadly as he stood up. "Mystery twins...?" He asked, sadly.

There was silence for a minutes.

"Mystery twins..." Came a quiet response. Bill was right, everything had changed.

Dipper decided to turn in for the night, and tuned off his light and got into bed hoping for a restful night before school.

Unfortunately for Dipper his wish didn't even come close to coming true, and before he knew it he was plunged into the worse nightmare he had ever had!


(The first Dream…)

It was Dark,

And Dipper could tell by the position of the moon that it was well past midnight.

He was running through the woods, his breathing was heavy, and uneven as adrenaline pumped through his veins.

Why was he so excited? And where was he going?

His questions were soon answered, as he existed the woods, and walked up to a two story yellow house. He noticed a green swing set in the yard, and a small white picket fence out back. He walked up to the door, and with a snap of his fingers it opened on its own accord!

'Magic?' Dipper asked himself. 'Since when could I do that?'

He walks into the door leaving it open behind him, he's really confused now! What is he doing in this person's house?

Again he soon gets his answer as he enters the kitchen, and he watches helplessly as his hand picks up one of the kitchen knives from the set on the counter. He turns towards the stairs, and as he begins to climb them he realizes what he is about to do.

He's going to kill whoever lives here!

He tries to stop it, but it's like he's watching a movie play out through the killer's eyes; he can do nothing to stop it!

He reaches the second floor, and is greeted with three doors. He opens the first with another snap of his fingers to see it is a bathroom. And soon moves on to the next door, he snaps his fingers again, and the door opens slowly without a sound. He creeps inside the dark room noticing immediately that the floor was littered with action figures of some sort. He approaches the bed of a sleeping child.

He knows him.

It Conner from school, one of the many boys who made a habit out of bullying him.

'This is Conner's house!' his mind screamed.

The fat boy with blond hair slept soundly on his bed before him, And Dipper watched helplessly as he raised up the knife, and stabbed the poor boy in the throat, while muffling his sudden screams with his free hand.

Conner's eyes shot open as the blade buries into his skin, he struggles to free his mouth, to call out for help; but after a few more stabs the boy grows still.

Dipper is stunned, what has he just done?

He turns away than, and with another snap of his fingers; the door creeps close own its own. He doesn't even hesitate to continue onto the next room, even though in his mind he is trying desperately to stop. He reaches the door, he snaps once more, it opens again without a sound! He goes for Connor's Father first, but the boy's mother is apparently a much lighter sleeper than her son. She sits up and bed and her eyes fall on him standing over her husband with a blood knife. She goes to scream, but suddenly with the wave of his free hand she slams into a wall face first. Her neck then snaps before she falls to the floor.

The husband wakes up to the sound of the loud thump, only to have the knife stabbed straight into his skull. He stabs several more times, again until his victim is undoubtingly dead.

Then he walks over to the wife, slowly…

'No she's already dead.' He said to himself realizing what he was about to do. 'Isn't that enough?'

Apparently not because he bends down, and to his horror he rips her head off with his bare hands, then with a snap o fingers he's suddenly back outside, and just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, he realized he still had the woman's head! He watched helplessly as he used the blood dripping from it to write something on the front door…

Three down, and Ten to go!

His eyes widen as three white orb like spears float out of the roof house, he jumps up several feet off the ground and lands on the roof of the house snatching up the orbs in his hand.

'Are these…souls?' he asked himself sickly. He wanted to say no, but he knew the truth; these where the innocent souls of the family he just killed.

And as he watched himself devour them greedily he realized two very important things:

The first being that this wasn't his doing, it was a monster! A monster with powerful magic, a sadic black heart, and a thirst for innocent souls. And second: Whatever this monster was doing it was far from over…

No it had only just begun!


(Back to Reality...)

Dipper screamed as he jumped up from his bed wide awake! He froze surprised, he was home in bed!

He couldn't believe it!

It had all been a dream, a sick twisted dream!

Dipper got up on shaky legs and staggered down the hall and to the bathroom where he quickly turned on the water to splash it on his face.

'Why did I dream that?!' his mind screamed. 'It felt so real!'

So real that for a moment there Dipper thought he was seeing some kind of vision, about a monster that could be plaguing his home town right now at this very moment! Dipper breathed a sigh of relief, it was just a nightmare, a normal, yet freaky and twisted nightmare! But still entirely normal. He opened his eyes, and what he saw made his blood run cold.

On his hands, the water was…red? Had blood been on his face just now?

Dipper suddenly look down at his PJ's to see several leaves, and sticklers caught in them. Like he had been running in the woods!

"But it was a dream!" Dipper said out loud shakenly. Or was it? Dipper didn't know for sure, but he was sure of one thing! Dream or not there was nothing "normal" about this! No something was undoubtingly going on, and somehow Dipper had found himself right in the middle of it!

Was it real?

And if so had he commented the murders himself, or had he witnessed it through the killer's eyes? And if it was some physic vision then how did the blood, and forest debris get on him?

And if he really committed the murders, why didn't he remember leaving his room, and sneaking out? Why doesn't he remember the walk, or rather run back over here?

And why wake up in bed moments later as if it's all a dream!

'It had to be someone else.' He thought after all he would never kill Conner no matter how cruel he was to him in school. Plus he didn't eat souls! That and of course if it had been him than he would know what the bloody message meant.

Three down, and ten to go!

Sure he could tell that the murderer meant he needed to kill 10 more which meant thirteen in all, but why?

Why was he having these visions that were so realistic that actual blood and forest debris had appeared on him in his bed as he slept?!

Why did the killer need to kill innocent people and eat their souls?

Did it have to be thirteen, and if so why?

What did the monster hope to gain from all this anyway? And worse still, what would it mean for humanity when it finally got what it wanted?!


Chapter End Notes

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