Chapter 5

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Dipper inspected his gun before he slid the clip back into place with a click.

"That's not going to help you." Mabel said quietly. Dipper just grunted even as he removed his coat, putting his gun into the back of his shirt. Pacifica stared at him worriedly. After a few seconds Mabel huffed and stood.

"Let us help Dipper!" she yelled.

"No! I need you to stay in here under the protection!" Dipper yelled angrily.

"No! I will not sit here hiding while my brother is killed!"

"And I won't be helpless to stop Bill from killing you!" Dipper returned. Mabel blinked and sat down. "Bill… you know he wants me to suffer… and he knows that the best way to do that is to hurt you… I've lost too many people in my life Mabel… I can't lose you to." Mabel just sat at the table looking heartbroken. After a few seconds Dipper hugged her. "Mabel… I… I love you." Dipper said with a sickening note of farewell. Pacifica just looked at Dipper as he walked out of the house. She was clutching the cipher book that Dipper gave her close to her chest. He paused in the door way and left a lingering look on Pacifica and Mabel and even Soos, who was half hiding in the doorway before he stepped out of the Mystery Shack.

Dipper stood in the circle of candles. He was silent for a few seconds before he took a deep breath.

"triangulum, entangulem, vidiforis dominus mentium! Vidiforis medis disarmium!" Dipper shouted into the forest. In an instant the surround forest went silent. Dipper fell to his knees as pain wracked his form. Like Mabel had described the world seemed to slow to a stop around him, but unlike Gideon, Dipper held control of his body so he did not chant that strange phrase Gideon had. Quiet suddenly the flames of the candles rose into ten-foot towers. Dipper stumbled back as the flames whipped around dangerously

"WELL WELL WEL!" his voice suddenly screamed out. "If it isn't my old buddy old pal SSSSTTTTAAAANDDDFOOORRRDDD!" suddenly Dipper was in the center of a large white eye with a slit like pupil. "Oh… oh no! Oh this is too good! It's you! PINE TREEE!" he screamed, eye and body turning red and black.

"Bill…" Dipper began before a thin black hand encompassed his throat and lifted him off the ground. Bill was before watching as Dipper chocked for air, hand scrapping at his grip. Bill was staring with a twitching eye, as Dipper's own eyes seemed to flitter around franticly.

"Death is so weird… why do you need to breath… why do you need your blood to be pumping around you… why are you so frantic to catch your breath. Give up Pine Tree. Just let go." Bill muttered as he squeezed a bit tighter. Dipper finally tried again.

"I… I ha… ve a … dea…l Bi…ll." Dipper gasped out. Bill instantly dropped him. Dipper landed on his back roughly knocking the last of his breath out of him. He stopped breathing for a few seconds before he gasped and began choking heavily as he rolled onto his hands and knees.

"Well! I'm waiting! What do you want Pine Tree! And what could you possible offer me?" Bill asked impatiently. After a few more moments Dipper stood shakily.

"I'm fairly confidant you'll accept this deal." Dipper said quietly. Bill laughed.

"Really? Must be pretty good." Bill said rubbing his hands together in anticipation. "Well, name you offer."

"I'll let you out of the dreamscape." Bill's eye widened and he shook with suppressed laughter. "You'll be free to roam our world… and I'm also willing to help you break the field around Gravity Falls." Bill actually laughed at that.

"You're signing your death warrant Pines! What do you want in return? Money? Power? Your own galaxy?"

" I require you to tell me everything you know about a single subject completely truthfully." Dipper said quietly. Bill laughed again.

"Ultimate knowledge huh? I knew I had you pegged for a nerd! So what do you want to know huh? The meaning of life? The answer to time travel?"

"I'm not falling for that twice Bill." Dipper said harshly. He held out his hand. "Do we have a deal?" Bill thought for a second before his eye expressed a vicious smile.

"Fine! It's a DEAL!" he shouted lighting his hand alight with his trademark blue flames. Dipper took his hand and instantly the world burst into color and life. Slowly but surely Bill grew in size and cackled. "PINES! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!" he screamed looming over the man.

"Oh Bill." Dipper said in singsong.

"WWWHAAAAATTTT?" Bill shouted angrily. Dipper lifted her hand, which was alight with blue flames, reminding Bill of his end of the bargain. Bill looked at it angrily turning red and shaking. "GGGRAAAAWWWHHHHHH!" he screamed before he shrunk down to normal size, though he was still red. "What do you want to know? Make it snappy! I want to kill you already!"

"Tell me everything you know about Pacifica Northwest the first." Dipper said clearly. Instantly Bill turned into a blank white triangle. His pupil was no longer a line but a small dot. He stared straight ahead unmoving. Dipper waved his hand in front of the creature but Bill did nothing. Then he started to shake, vibrate really, then his hands curled into fists. Then he emitted a terrible awful scream. Dipper clutched his ears as the triangle squealed like endless feedback. Then he exploded in a bright white light that Dipper was consumed into. Just as quickly as it appeared the light disappeared and in the spot where the two had been were two stone statues.

Dipper landed on an old dirt road with a thump

"Ugh…" he groaned picking himself up again. Suddenly Bill landed in the dirt beside him. As Bill stood he blinked.

"Ow…" he said quietly. "What was that? It… it felt weird." He commented. Dipper stared at him in confusion.

"You mean you felt pain?" Dipper asked. Bill rolled his eye.

"No, pain is funny! That was anything but…" Dill said he stood still for a second then he frowned. "What the… why aren't I floating…" Dipper frowned further.

"What… wait…" Dipper reached out at a nearby tree but he phased right through it. "We're not real." Dipper said incredulously. Bill laughed.

"Ha! We must be in another dimension! Well, see ya in a billion years Pine Tree!" Bill said before he disappeared. But two second later he dropped out of the sky again.

"Ow." Bill repeated. Dipper frowned.

"So… you have not power… we're both not real… where are we?" Bill scoffed.

"Where ever we are I don't like this dimension…" Bill said before he leaned forward and fell into the ground. "Okay! That's it! What is this weird feeling? I hate it!" Bill shouted angrily. Dipper rolled his eyes before he looked down the road.

"Well this has to lead somewhere, come on." Dipper said before he began walking down the road. After a few steps he frowned and looked back. Bill was still standing in the same spot. "Well?"

"Oh I'll follow." Bill assured him "Just as soon as I figure out how to move." He was frowning heavily trying it seemed, fruitlessly, to float. Dipper huffed.

"Try taking a step. You know, with your legs?" Bill looked at Dipper like he had agreed to take over the world with him.

"What… you mean… walk?" Bill asked incredulously.

"Yes, it's how we mere mortals move around. You should try it some time." Dipper said with a roll of his eyes. Bill looked down at his foot before he lifted it and took a step.

"That was a complete waste of energy." Bill commented matter of factually. "I literally felt how much energy I just wasted… you move around like this?" Dipper huffed, swinging his arm behind himself in a dismissive action before continuing down the dirt road. After a few minutes Dipper looked back. Trailing behind him Bill was literally panting, arms trailing limply behind him. Dipper smacked himself in the face and pulled it down while groaning in annoyance. Bill saw the look and glared at him.

"What!" he snapped "This is exhausting!" Dipper sighed in defeat before his kneeled down.

"Climb onto my shoulder." Dipper said. Bill stared at him blankly.

"What?"

"I'll carry you, come on hurry up I'm not exactly a teenager and kneeling is murder on the joints." Dipper complained. Bill did as he was asked. He sat on Dipper's left shoulder and looked around.

"Huh… nice view." Bill said. Dipper just rolled his eyes before he started walking forward again.

Pacifica paused in her analysis of Stanford's journal and looked at the stone statue lying in the bed beside her. Dipper looked scared, his arms thrown up to defend himself, frozen in grey. Pacifica looked to the other bed where Bill Cipher lay in a similar state, arms and legs straight, eye empty. He looked dead inside. Pacifica sighed and looked back to Dipper. Her silent vigil was broken by a knock. Soos was standing in the door.

"Pacifica... your mom is here." Pacifica looked up and nodded. Mrs. Northwest stepped into the room and looked at the slanted roof, the stone bodies on the bed, and her Pacifica sitting a ratty chair with a ratty book and huffed.

"What are you doing here in this vagrant house standing over a Pines?" Pacifica sneered.

"I am here waiting for him to wake up." Pacifica said defiantly. Her mother snorted.

"Almost better if he didn't, then maybe you will get these foolish ideas about leaving home out of your head." Pacifica stood angrily. She fumed for a few seconds before she took a breath and sat back down. After a few seconds she spoke.

"Do you know why Dipper is turned to stone? He made a few deal with Bill Cipher to learn about the first Pacifica... but the truth is Bill and Pacifica were in love. But her father, a Northwest, was cruel to him…" Pacifica looked up at her mother with burning eyes. "Our family is the reason Bill Cipher is a viscous monster! And Dipper may have given his life to fix our mistake… I wish he hadn't needed to… I wish the Northwest's could be as good and brave and strong as he is… I love him." Pacifica admitted to her shocked mother. "I love him as Pacifica loved Bill… and if you can't accept that… then... goodbye Mrs. Northwest… it was a pleasure speaking with you." Pacifica said. Mrs. Northwest stared at her before she turned and left. Pacifica knew that her life was changed forever. She was no longer a Northwest. But she wasn't sure if that was a bad thing.

Bill was still sitting on Dipper's shoulder when they crested over a hill and a town came into view. The pair took in the sight before Bill groaned.

"its Gravity Falls… but before it was interesting." Bill said with a derisive tone.

"Late 1840s… just after its founding… this is when Pacifica was here… " Dipper commented thoughtfully. With that he made his way down the hill. Eventually they reached the town. As they weren't real no one stopped to say hi but Dipper could recognize some definite ancestors. The town doctor had McGucket's nose. A lumberjack had Wendy's red hair. Even the undertaker looked a bit like Robbie, though with a thick Italian accent. When they reached the town centre Bill jumped off Dipper's shoulder.

"Hmmm… this place is familiar." He said looking around the vicinity with a frown. Dipper looked around.

"Were you around here? Did you strike a deal with anyone?" Dipper asked. Bill looked over at a crowd.

"I'll check." He said before he made his way over to them. After a few seconds Dipper heard Bill talking.

"Stop and be amazed as I, Bill Cipher, will make a bird appear out of thin air!" Dipper rolled his eyes.

"Bill, no one can see you and you don't have any power remember?" Dipper said. Bill walked up beside him.

"I didn't say anything." He said with a frown. The crowd suddenly thinned. There before the pair was a tall blond man in a waistcoat with a bow tie. He had a black cane in one hand and a tall top hat. Dipper and Bill stared at him in shock with wide eyes. With a gesture the blond released a plume of smoke before a red songbird burst from his palm. After a few seconds there was minimal applause and a few coughs from the smoke. The blond looked a bit distressed.

"I see you are not intrigued by such a simple trick! No matter, for this next trick I'll leave you truly amazed!" the Bill sound alike insisted.

"The only thing that amazes me Cipher is that you're still aloud to perform. Your act is so boring I'm surprised you haven't killed anyone yet. " One man calls from the small crowd. The crowd laughed and cleared as the blond watched them leave, stress lining his tired face. When they were all gone he whipped off his hat and threw it at the ground in anger. Bill was staring at the man then stepped back.

"My… my god… I… remember this day… no… no it's not possible…" as Bill panicked the world turned a bit grey and distorted. Dipper realized with a jolt where they were.

"Bill… I think… I think we're in your mindscape." Bill looked at him with a panic filled eye.

"No! There's no way! I'd be able to escape!" Bill insisted. Dipper looked at him harshly.

"You made a deal Bill, and my price was clear… I think we're trapped until you reveal how Pacifica comes into this… what you know about her." Dipper reasoned staring at the frozen human that had once been Bill Cipher. The Bill beside him was shaking again, this time in minor fear.

"I can't… it… I can't even remember!" Bill cried in panic. Dipper could see that the world around him was being distorted as Bill tried to make sense of what was happening. Dipper placed a hand on one of his sides. Bill looked back and the world slowly stopped becoming warped.

"Don't fight it Bill… I've been fighting my past for twenty years and I almost lost everything. You've been fighting it much longer… it seems like you already have lost everything… but you won't know what you can get back until you look back… until you look back and you forgive yourself." Dipper insisted. Bill stared at him for a few seconds before the memory around them started again. Human Bill was leaning against a wall, cane in hands, as he appeared to be lost in thought. As he stood there the bird from before landed on his shoulder.

"Hello Periot… I don't have any crumbs for you I'm afraid." Bill said to the bird that was now balanced on his finger. Human Bill sighed a bit before he looked at the old fob watch in his pocket. The sun was staring to set and the lamps were being lit. After a few seconds human Bill sighed and began walking down the street. The watching pair followed, Bill once again perched on Dipper's shoulder as the blond walked through the darkening streets.

"Hey… I remember this too." The triangle commented. "Matilda's inn… she was a witch I swear… just watch." Dipper followed the blond. The pair walked through several walls until they appeared before the blond arguing with supposedly Matilda.

"I can't pay you Cipher."

"Come on… how bout a deal?" the human Bill offered, making Dipper snort. "I'll play all night in exchange for table scraps." Matilda was chuckling darkly at him.

"Oh how the mighty have fallen. Alright Bill, get to that piano." Matilda said evilly. Human Bill looked ashamed of himself as his took off his top hat and placed it beside his cane behind the bar before he walked over to the piano. After cracking his knuckles Bill began to play the piano. He played beautifully, with so much emotion behind it. Dipper stared at the Bill on his shoulder. Triangle Bill was following the blonds every move as he swayed and plunked away at the keys.

"I forgot I could do that…" Bill commented quietly. Dipper looked back to the human Bill that was bringing the song to a grand crescendo. As he began to taper the song off a family of well-dressed people entered the inn.

"Are you sure darling?" the mother asked wearily looking at the light layer of dirt around the place.

"Yes mother…" the blond in red all but whispered. Her two sisters dressed in lilac and bluebell flipped their hair.

"Well mother, we're going to freshen up, come Ariel." The eldest directed. The middle bowed her head.

"Yes Bianca." She replied. Dipper gaped.

"Wait, Bianca and Ariel… that means…" he looked at the blond in red. It was shocking really how much she looked like the modern Pacifica.

"That's her… Pacifica Northwest the first." Bill murmured in Dipper's ear.

"Will you come up darling?" Pacifica's mother asked. The young woman shook her head.

"No mother… I'll be up soon." She still whispered. Human Bill was watching her now, intrigued. She slowly moved towards the piano as Bill started a new song. She looked at him a few seconds before she smiled.

"Sonatina No.1: 1st movement… you play beautifully." Pacifica said quietly to Bill. The young man shook his head.

"Naw, I'm not that great…" he murmured. If Dipper didn't know any better he'd say that human Bill was blushing.

"True…" Pacifica whispered again causing human Bill to frown at her. "It's better as a duet." She whispered before she motioned Bill to scoot over. She brushed the keys before she began to play alongside Bill. The two played as if in sync. The Bill on Dipper's shoulder was staring at Pacifica. Unbeknownst to them both he was crying. The Bill beside her simply smiled at her as the continued playing until the song was over. There was a tingle of coins as for the first time in a long time Bill was receiving tips. After the coins stopped flying Bill looked into the jar and motioned for Matilda. She looked at the jar angrily until Bill handed it to her.

"Just take out a bit for two drinks, one for me and one for this lovely lady here." Bill said smiling at Pacifica. Pacifica laughed a bit but still at a whisper. The two sat at the bar talking for a few hours. Bill finally looked at Pacifica and asked his big question.

"Alright… out with it, why do you constantly whisper?" Pacifica a smiled slightly.

"Well… my sisters are so brash and loud… they're constantly vying for a husband… but I am the youngest… my father is a firm believer that young woman are meant to be seen not heard." Pacifica said quietly. Bill was looking at her incredulously.

"Wow… your dad sounds like a jerk." Bill commented. Suddenly Pacifica paled. Her father walked over and grabbed her forcibly of the stool.

"Up stairs now young woman!" he said angrily. He glared at Bill darkly before he marched his daughter up to the rooms. She glanced down at Bill before she disappeared from sight. Bill was watching her go with a slight frown. After she was gone he turned back to his drink. Matilda was in front of him holding a plate of scraps.

"She's way out of your league Cipher." Matilda said before she walked away. Bill just looked at the plate before he dug in ravenously. The memory slowly faded away to the forest again. Bill was standing apart from Dipper staring at the ground.

"I remember… I was a New Yorker… I was kicked out of my home… but I could play piano like no one else…" Bill murmured quietly. Dipper looked up into the strange sky.

"Did you see her again?" he asked the triangle. Bill laughed.

"Oh yeah. We took every opportunity to slip away." Bill said quietly. Memories flashed around them; Meeting in secret alcoves, playing chess in the woods, laughing at each other's jokes, Bill teacher Pacifica codes, stargazing in the forest. Bill and Pacifica seemed to grow more and more in love as the memories flashed. Suddenly one memory flashed red and Bill shook. "But!" the world seemed to rumble as everything flashed between white and red. "Deirt I!" Bill began to scream gibberish. "Llef ehs!" the world seemed to pulse, as Bill's mind grew more and more unhinged. Dipper tried to make sense of what Bill was screaming but it was nonsensical. "Deil yeht! Deil yeht! DEIL YEHT!" Bill screeched.

"BILL!" Dipper shouted. Instantly Bill began to reduce in size and returned to yellow, though he was paler. The triangle was panting heavily as he weakly propped himself up on his hands and knees. Dipper walked over to him and placed a hand on each of his sides.

"Tell me what happened Bill… please…" Dipper begged. Bill was silent before a few tears dipped out of his eye.

"Bianca and Ariel tricked me." He murmured quietly. There was another memory , but Dipper wasn't paying attention, he was paying absolute attention to Bill. "I had asked Pacifica's father if I could marry her and he said no…I knew he would… but I had to try… but Ariel came to me one day and told me that her father had changed his mind… like an idiot I believed her." Dipper looked up to see that hopeful face Bill had worn with a bright smile. He pitied Bill and started understand how he'd become so bitter. "But when I got there… Bianca was waiting for me… she started flirty with me… she wanted to get away from all the expectations of being rich… by any means necessary…" Bill trailer off. Above them Bianca's voice echoed hollowly.

"Oh Bill, you're so handsome! I know you only love Pacifica for money… why would you love a girl, when you can have me… I'm far more beautiful than Pacifica, choose me instead…"

"I was such an idiot… Pacifica overheard my response… only part of it…" Bill said weakly and his response echoed around them making Dipper feel sick.

"Of course you're right Bianca…why would I pick Pacifica when I could have you?"

"Cipher, you fool." Dipper murmured in pity. The triangle was weeping openly now. But the voices continued.

"Really?"

"No, you're a cow and I hate you."

Dipper snorted.

"Crude but effective…" Dipper began but he trailed off. Bill was clutching his own head shaking with sobs.

"I wasn't always a demon… I was human… the summer I turned fifteen I met a demon… he gave he a choice… I could take ultimate demonic power and become what I was destined to be at the price of my soul… or deny the power and retain my soul but never reach my full potential… I had made a deal with the demon… I wanted the choice to follow me until I turned twenty years old… but there was another layer to my deal… I still had the ability to make the choice before I was twenty…" Suddenly Dipper was in another memory. Human Bill was running through the forest screaming out Pacifica's name frantically.

"PACIFICA! PACIF- NO! NO NO NO!" Bill screamed, looking up. Dipper followed his eyes and paled. Pacifica was standing on the edge of one of the Gravity Falls cliffs. She looked ready to jump.

"Oh god…" Dipper murmured in horror. Bill was holding his right hand up, finger's ready to snap and at once Dipper understood. When Pacifica turned, he along with human Bill breathed a sigh of relief. Then she stepped off the cliff backwards.

"NO!" human Bill screamed. He looked between his fingers and Pacifica before he snapped. In an instant he began to scream as everything about him changed and his soul was ripped from him and replaced by something harsh and dark. Finally he opened his one eye and looked up at Pacifica. She was falling and then suddenly she rippled and before the Bills' and Dipper's eyes Pacifica turned into a flock of red song birds, identical to Bill's pet bird Periot. The newly formed Bill stared up in horror before he began to shake. Then he screamed and turned red. "NORTHWESSSSTTTT!" the memory of Bill screamed. Instantly the furious demon was in front of the trembling Northwest family. Pacific's father and Bianca and Ariel where shuddering as Bill trapped them in a wheel of fire. "BIANCA!" Bill screamed. "You wanted to be low born? You get it!" with a snap of his fingers Bianca was dressed as a prostitute. She screamed as the earrings she wore melted away, burning her skin. Bill turned to Ariel. "ARIEL! You get what you always wanted! A marriage! I hope you HATE IT!" Bill screamed. But Ariel got her ring just what she'd wanted. She fell to her knees in relief. "And NORTHWEST!" Bill said as he caused Pacifica's father to lift off the floor so that he was in front of his eye. "Hmmm… you know, maybe you'll change…" Bill said thoughtfully, causing the Northwest man to shake in fear. "Maybe you'll stop being such a cheating lying jerk! Maybe you'll learn to be kind… you know maybe you'll see all the wrong you've done to me… maybe you'll learn to Bahahaha! Okay I'm sorry I can't anymore! LET'S NOT GET CARRIED AWAY!" Bill Cipher screamed manically. "You've always been a huge piece of SHIT! IF I COULD KILL YOU I WOULD! But murder is frowned upon in most countries! Having said that… BURN IN HELLL!" Bill screamed before with a great burst the Northwest mansion was encompassed in evil blue flames. As Bill floated above it all laughing a black hole suddenly opened behind him. "What the? Hey! Hey what is this?! No! No I'm not done yet! NO! NOOOO!" Bill screamed before he, and all the flames were sucked away into the void. The sound echoed even as the memory faded away. Bill was standing, tears still streaming down his face.

"What happened to you?" Dipper asked

"The demon 'forgot' to mention one detail… demons aren't meant to live in the mortal realm… when I cursed the Northwest family; Bianca could never touch the Northwest family gold again, Ariel could never have a happy marriage, Northwest could never win a bet, and the Northwest's themselves could never leave Gravity Falls; I was banished to the dream realm… " Bill said quietly. "Of course the curses are mostly useless now… except for the last one…" Dipper sighed. He was afraid that would be the case… suddenly another memory played. He turned to it and frowned. It was a memory of Pacifica and Bill stargazing.

"You know Bill…" Pacifica murmured "I've always dreamed of having my very own galaxy… someplace I could be whatever I wanted… where I could help anyone… protect them… guide them… maybe someday…" Dipper watched as Bill stared at it. Suddenly Dipper remembered something. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the still encrypted latter.

"Bill." The triangle turned to him, tears still falling "I have this letter from Pacifica… it was addressed to you… it's encrypted… but I'm fairly certain you can decipher it." Dipper said holding the paper out to Bill. The demon took it and quickly scanned it. In an instant his eyes flooded with more tears. With a light of his hand the letter was reduced to cinders. In any other case Dipper would be angry at the loss of evidence but for once he was almost glad that letter was gone. The forest was silent now. As they stood there Bill suddenly floated off the ground. Dipper stared at him as he floated away a bit. "Bill? What are your plans now? You're free? What do you intend to do?" Bill said nothing before he disappeared and Dipper's world was encompassed in a white again.

Pacifica looked up in shock. A flash of light had startled her. Bill's statue was gone. Suddenly a groan made her look to the other side.

"Dipper!" she cried happily rushing to his side. Dipper groaned again.

"What day is it?"

"You've been stone for three days now…" Pacifica said quietly. Dipper huffed and leaned back into the mattress.

"No wonder I'm stiff." Dipper joked weakly. Pacifica laughed anyways. The door to the attic opened and Mabel rushed in.

"Dipper!" Mabel said happily attacking Dipper with a hug. Dipper weakly patted her back.

"I'm fine… just tired." Dipper said leaning into the pillows again. Mabel looked to the other bed and saw that Bill was gone.

"Where's Bill?"

"Who knows? Honestly I don't care. It's his freedom. Anyways… I found out what happened to Pacifica." Dipper said. Mabel and Pacifica fell silent as Dipper took a deep breath.

"It was really a huge misunderstanding… she had always been pushed around by her father… her eldest sister tried to steal Bill away and Bill made a few comments that would sound bad out of context… she was heartbroken… so she threw herself of Presidents Point." Pacifica and Mabel gasped here in horror. "But Bill… he gave up his humanity to save her… but you know Bill, he only deals with weirdness. The magic he used to save her turned her into a flock of red songbirds." Dipper finished tiredly. Pacifica and Mabel were shocked. Mabel opened her mouth to ask a few questions but Pacifica held up her hand.

"You need some rest… we'll leave you alone… sweet dreams." Pacifica said as she and Mabel left the room. Once they were gone Dipper realized just how tired he really was. His eyes dropped and he easily drifted into dreams.

Dipper was sitting on a picnic blanket beside Pacifica. She was laughing and smiling and Dipper felt his heart race. If only he'd moved passed the awkward phase. As he sat there admiring her, a hand patted him on the shoulder.

"Oh man, you've got it bad my friend." Bill said as he floated though the dream.

"Bill, what are you doing here?"

"I was bored, plus I'm free and I need inspiration for what to do. Dreams give me the best inspiration… Candy has a scary mind." Bill said with a touch of fright. Dipper opened him mouth to berate Bill for doing something immoral when Pacifica pointed to the sky.

"Look Dipper!" and look he did, high above him two phoenixes had begun a mating dance. As the two watched the pair fly around with flames of red and gold trailing behind them Bill looked between the two and chuckled.

"Yeah Pine Tree... You've got it bad." Bill said leaving in a white flash. Dipper looked at the spot he'd been with a slight frown. Suddenly a weight settled on his shoulder. Pacifica was leaning her head on his a shoulder looking at the phoenixes.

"They're beautiful..." she murmured. Dipper looked up at them then sighed before he leaned his own head onto her and placed a hand on her waist.

"Yes you are… I wish I didn't have to leave…" Dipper muttered sadly. Pacifica was oblivious as the phoenixes danced into the twilight.

Dipper closed his carry compartment on his bike again. He had everything packed. Now it was just a matter of leaving. He wasn't exactly looking forward to it, but it had to be done. As Dipper entered the Mystery Shack again and moved to the kitchen he saw Wendy, Mabel and Pacifica sitting around the table.

"Hey Dipper, just coming to say bye real quick before work. It was great seeing you again man." Wendy said before she walked passed him. He turned to the other two.

"So, are you leaving too Mabel?" Dipper asked. Mabel sighed.

"Yeah, I wish I didn't but there are tons of meetings at the firm…" Mabel sighed. Dipper frowned.

"Mabel... how did you get money exactly?" Dipper asked. Mabel smiled.

"I started a company that makes personalized sweaters as well as knit accessories. I have at least a hundred stores across America." Mabel said. Dipper laughed.

"I should have known." Dipper said with a shake of his head. Mabel smiled before she lit up.

"That's right! I brought one for you!" Mabel said before she attacked Dipper with a wad of wool.

"What! Mabel, quit it! Ow that's my hair! Mabel, stop it!" Dipper exclaimed as Mabel pulled and tugged in various placed. Finally she stepped back. Dipper was wearing a dark green sweater, the same color as a pine tree that read 'Best Brother Ever' in Bill Cipher yellow. Dipper stared at it and huffed.

"Fine… but I'm taking it off when I get home… it's like eighty degrees outside." Dipper complained. Mabel smiled then lifted up two other sweaters.

"I made these for the next family reunion, which you will be coming to." Mabel said with a smile. One was purple with pink lettering the other was red with Orange. The purple one read 'Superior Twin' the red 'Inferior Twin' Dipper made an annoyed face.

"I'm not wearing that." Dipper insisted. Mabel looked at with sadly.

"What? But they're cute."

"I'm a foot taller then you!"

"So! I'm a still superior!" Pacifica watched as the two bickered with a smile on her face. Finally the two seemed to come to an agreement.

"Alright alright! I'll wear the sweater if you entertain cousin Brenda."

"Thanks Dipper!" Mabel said giving him another hug. Dipper rolled his eyes.

"The things I do for you." he muttered. Mabel turned and left the kitchen. Pacifica followed her. Dipper noticed that Pacifica had left his uncle's journal on the table. Pacifica returned to the kitchen a few minutes later. Dipper was filling a water bottle.

"Hey Dipper… what are you gonna tell my cousin? Not the truth I hope…" Pacifica said worriedly. Dipper shook his head.

"Oh no… no I'm going to tell her that Pacifica fell in love and that her and her lover moved to New York under assumed names… they lived happily ever after." Dipper said with a sigh. Pacifica looked a bit sad.

"I wish that were true…" Pacifica murmured.

"As do I…" Dipper replied. He held out Stanford's journal to her. "You left that on the table." Pacifica took it and held it to her chest.

"Thanks." Dipper just nodded and the two left the Mystery Shack. Instantly the mood got more somber. Mabel was standing in front of her pink limo. She walked up to Dipper and gave him a hug.

"Bye." she murmured in his ear. Dipper nodded. As she stood about to go into her limo she stared at him for a few second before she ducked down and the limo drove away. Dipper stood, watching it leave before he turned to Pacifica. He held out a card for her.

"If you ever get out of Gravity Falls… look me up." Dipper said before he stepped back. Pacifica looked at the card and smiled.

"Pacific Pines Investigation Firm... yeah, I'll definitely-" she was cut off as Dipper's bike roared away. She looked up and began running after him, but he was all ready far ahead. Pacifica stood there for a few seconds watching as the leaves fluttered back down to the ground.

Mabel looked out the window as she passed the Gravity Falls water tower.

Dipper sighed sadly as he sped up down the road.

Soos flipped his door sign to closed.

Wendy wiped up a table before she turned the neon off and shooed two gnomes away from the diner.

Pacifica walked through the town forlornly before she sat down on a park bench. She reached into her pocket for Stanford's journal. She stared at it for as few seconds before opening it. In-between the page that she had been reading last was as letter addressed to her. Pacifica frowned before she opened it up. It was encrypted with a number cipher. Pacifica frowned for a second before letters began to jump out at her. Slowly but surely Pacifica smiled addressed she figured out the whole message.

My Dearest Pacifica,

I know that you'll be mad at me by the time you're reading this, as I have no intention of saying goodbye, but I can't.

Goodbye is final.

And I don't want this summer to be our last.

So I'll offer you a piece of knowledge that I received the summer we met.

Pacifica flipped over the page.

See you next summer

You're beloved Dipper Pines

Pacifica laughed through her tears, looking up from the letter to the sky above. With that she stood, folding the letter gently before she walked through town, on her way to the dingy motel off Whillifred Street. It was awful but she knew she wasn't welcome at the mansion anymore as she all but disowned herself. But as she was walking she noticed something strange. One of the streets had rearranged itself. Where there hadn't been a road was now a quiet street. The buildings had moved so that there was room for it. She walked down the new street in confusion. Finally she reached the end of the street and stared in shock. There at the end of the impossible street was an inn called Illuminati. The 'A' had been replaced with a yellow figure not unlike Bill Cipher. Pacifica took in the address. 0 at Top and Hat Street opening to bowtie lane which Pacifica notice linked up to Main Street next to the inn. Pacifica stared.

"He wouldn't..." she murmured before she stepped into the building. She looked around at the elegant yet homey features of the inn, the grand piano that took centre stage, and the portrait of Pacifica the first as described by Dipper on the wall above it. She looked around in shock.

"Ah Pacifica!" Bill said behind her, causing the woman to jump. Pacifica whipped around to see a tall, thin blond with strange pupils laughing slightly. He was wearing a bow tie and a top hat resting his hands on a cane between his legs.

"Bill?" Pacifica asked in shock. Bill smiled showing all his teeth including strangely sharp canines.

"The one and same… nice huh? Took a bit of dimension morphing but I think I got it perfect." Pacifica noticed that Bill's shadow still showed off his demonic form. But besides that he looked human.

"Hiding in plain sight huh?" Pacifica asked. Bill smiled.

"It's always been my style… room number 1 is yours." Bill said handing her the key. Pacifica looked at it and frowned.

"What's the catch?" she asked. Bill smirked.

"The catch is that I'm not always this generous, just take the room." Bill insisted. Pacifica smiled before she sat at the bar. She opened up the later, staring at the numbers as Bill shifted things around. "I forgot what depth perception felt like." Bill commented as he covered on eye then the other. "It's weird." Pacifica chuckled a bit before she held the letter to her heart and smiled. Outside Gravity Falls life went on.

Maybe Dipper would visit again…

Maybe Mabel would be back…

Maybe life would just keep going…

As the rising moon passed over the illuminati symbol weather vane atop the inn a flock of red songbirds crossed the sky.

The End

7-12, 14-2, 23-22-26-9-22-8-7, 11-26-24-18-21-18-24-26;

18, 4-18-15-15, 26-15-4-26-2-8, 15-12-5-22, 2-12-6;

2-12-6-9, 25-22-15-12-5-22-23, 25-18-15-15, 24-18-11-19-22-9;

You find yourself in a strange dimension of words that flash by before you can read them

Hey there!

You jump as a purple feather shaped demon with a triangle pupil wearing a black buttoner and hatinator appears

What are you doing in the creativity dimension? Are you lost?

You think for second, realizing that you really have no idea where you are

Oooohhhhhh so you are lost… well then…heh heh heh

The demon is looking at you with a dark look

How bout we settle this nicely… you give me a story and I'll write you free hmmmmmm?

You know you probably won't get out of here without this demon's help so you nod

Alrighty then! Let's shake on it!

She lights her hand aflame the black flames flowing strangely like ink as the demon shudders in anticipation

A/N: DON'T DO IT!

What?! *Gasp* YOOOUUU!

A/N: don't give her a story, she'll turn it into a crackfic with Mary-Sues and bad OC's!

Damn it Canary! Don't you have something better to do?

A/N: aside from stopping you from stealing my fellow authors good stories… not really.

I really hate that…

A/N: don't I know it, now go away Missy…

*Sigh* fine…

A/N: sorry about her… I went Gravity falls fan fiction searching and I found the demonic guardians AU… I thought it was an awesome story idea and I was instantly mauled by so many plot bunnies I was spitting out fur for days, but the thing is I don't want to write anything for it until the tumblr comic is done… most unfortunately one of the bunnies turned it Missy Script… and now she won't leave me alone!

You asked for it! Curiosity killed the cat and fan fiction writer!

A/N: Missy!

Fine fine I'm going I'm going…

A/N: *groan* I'll never be free of her… anyways… feel free to message me for the answers to all the various ciphers in the fic.

Expect much berating you lazy arse!

A/N: MISSY!

-TheTransfiguredCanary and Missy Script

A/N: Missy!

What? I helped… a bit… kinda…

A/N: *face palm* *groan*