Episode 3: Unpleasant surprises
Arc: "Child of a demon"

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"Come on, Mrs. Pines, keep pushing!" The doctor encouraged as Alexis groaned in pain but refusing to scream for help; she was finally going to see her precious baby. "I can already see the head!" He yelled. She pushed harder and then heard an ear-piercing scream echo through the room; the first thing she wondered was the baby's sex – she decided it would be a surprise ever since her pregnancy had been discovered. Then the doctor held out the baby and shouted loud enough for her to hear over her child's wails: "Congratulations, Mrs. Pines! It's a healthy baby girl!" Alexis' eyes widened with surprise and her lips curved into a tired smile as she extended her hands to hold her child, when she felt something else.

"Ah, something is coming!" Alexis roared with all of her might as she kept pushing. The doctor gave the girl to another nurse and looked between his patient's legs, and his eyes widened. Would that be…?

"There's another one!" He announced, both to Alexis and to the other nurses aiding him. What was actually five minutes looked like an eternity to Alex as she kept pushing and moving as little as possible until she heard another cry; she was praying it was another girl – she couldn't deal with the fact that she would lose one of her children. If her first daughter had been an only child, Bill wouldn't have any child to pry away from her; she crossed her fingers and waited for the doctor to say the sex. "Ah, what a surprise! We now have a pair! It's a boy!"

Alexis felt her world fall apart.

. . .

"Here are your children, Mrs. Pines!" A nurse said cheerfully as she handled Alexis her kids. Alexis smiled to the nurse before she left the room, closed her eyes and then sighed in pain – not only physical pain that she felt during and after the labor, but the pain in her very soul. She was hoping to have only a girl, and the contract would not have been able to have been fulfilled. Then she decided to direct her questions to another subject: her children. What did they look like? Did they have her eyes? Did they have Aaron's hair? She slowly opened her eyes and then looked down; in her arms, there were two bundles: one was pink, and the other was blue – as cliché as you could get.

She decided to check her daughter first.

The female infant had a small tuff of brown hair and pale skin. Her eyes were brown and she looked like Alexis a lot. The now-mother smiled softly; her child hadn't been affected by Bill's curse, after all, until she remembered the boy in her other arm, and her smile dropped. She checked her child after that, preparing for the worst. After all, she was right. Her son looked normal, after all; he had brown hair and eyes, like her, her daughter and Aaron, but something was very wrong. In his small tuff of hair there was a streak of golden hair.

No…

NO…

NO!

Her son… He would be taken away…

Taken away before she could meet him, see him grow and call him 'mommy', 'mother' and 'mom', and kiss her on the cheek before going to school. Before he could call Aaron 'dad' and roughhouse or play videogames with him. No… he would call that triangular monster 'dad' instead, which boiled her blood with rage, but she couldn't be mad at Bill, nor could she blame him… It was her own fault, her fault. But Alexis couldn't blame herself forever; she had a daughter to take care of, and, maybe, could still have a few hours with her son.

What would she name them?

She had already decided names if it was a baby girl – because she was praying for one: Mabel, definitely. Her little Mabel… She looked sadly at her son, her heart tugging in pain. "Your name is going to be Micah, my little one." She smiled as Micah giggled, until she saw something on his forehead. It wasn't very visible, but she could still see it. A birthmark, without a doubt; it looked like the Big Dipper. "Well, might as well nickname you my little Dipper, then." Mabel giggled; she probably liked her younger twin's nickname.

Alexis laughed until her smile twisted into a scowl and tears streamed down her cheeks; she would lose her son, she was going to hand him to the devil. She was sacrificing an innocent child because of her own selfishness. Just thinking about the horrible things Bill could and would do to her son made her heart twist in a way it never had before, and she felt nauseous. Just then, Dipper sneezed. The golden streak in his hair shone brightly, although briefly, in comparison to the room's light.

And it began raining chocolate milk…

…Inside the room.

There was a literal brown and pink cloud above Alexis, as she looked at her son in awe. Dipper could do that? If he could make it rain inside a room, then he could do anything. Was it because of Bill? Did that have to do with that streak of hair?! So, her son had demon powers; probably not a normal situation but nothing to stress over, maybe? Dipper sneezed again, and Alexis prepared for the worst. When nothing seemed to happen, she opened her eyes; her son giggled and, when he did so, fire came out of his mouth.

Ok, so Dipper can breathe fire.

Oh, god.

OH GOD.

"Someone help me," she prayed, watching the cloud above her.

A/N: Ok, so I can't explain.

I've been having a major author block for this fanfic and I can't really think of anything to write. But I'm still going! So, the chapter's short, and pretty much ALL of the chapters will be short, because this is a short fic, but meh, who cares, have some babbu Dipdots causing havoc.

Awakened Niwana, off.