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marmorafarms · 3 months

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Does anyone read Gravity Falls fic still? Well I hope so because I'm writing one!

Friday I'm In Love

Ch 1

Rating: Teen+ (PG 13)

Pairing: Stan Pines/OC

Summary: When Elfie comes to Gravity Falls to help her friend propose, she wasn't expecting to experience the wildest summer of her life. With the return of demonic forces imminent, Elfie must band together with the Pines family, and finds love along the way.

You can also find the fic here on ao3!

“This is a stupid plan for butt faces,”

“Mabel, when will you understand that just because you don’t agree with a plan doesn’t make it inherently bad?” Dipper said, shaking his head at his twin sister. She was sitting on a log, glaring at the ground while Dipper fiddled around with a strange gadget. It looked exactly like a smart watch, but the words appearing on screen were odd sigils rimmed with red.

“I just think this could hurt someone if you’re not careful. And you and Grunkle Ford are never careful,” Mabel grumbled.

“That’s not true!” Dipper said. “Look, all it does is summon the last person to touch it. Other than me of course, because I’ve calibrated it to me, therefore I can’t summon myself if I’m holding it. The last person to hold it was Grunkle Ford. So when I press this button, Grunkle Ford will appear.”

“Are you sure that’s who had it last?” Mabel said nervously. “He set it down near the register in the Mystery Shack. What if someone else picked it up? You could be snatching someone from their family!”

“Mabel, just trust me. I know what I’m doing. And a one and a two and a…” the teenage boy pressed a button, and there was a sudden flash of blue light.

“And here we have Grunkle…wait what?!”

—

One second ago, Elfie had been mindlessly chatting with her best friend Melody in the parking lot of a place called The Mystery Shack. And now? Here she was, standing in the middle of the woods with two teenagers goggling at her.

“Do I need to up my meds?” Elfie said, looking around. “Where am I? What’s going on?”

“Dipper what did I tell you?!” the young girl said, turning to the boy next to her. “This lady here touched it last! And she’s freaked out because of your koo-koo-bananas machine doodad! You have to send her back!”

“I don’t know how!” the boy who seemed to be named Dipper said frantically.

“Are either of you Melody?” Elfie asked tentatively.

“You’re okay ma’am,” the girl said, standing up and brushing herself off. “Don’t worry, you don’t need to up your meds! Probably.”

“I’m so sorry,” Dipper said. “Um. Well. Did you happen to be at a place called the Mystery Shack recently?”

The brown haired boy looked very worried, his aviator hat askew. He quickly adjusted it and began to pace back and forth while the girl who must be his sister began to chastise him. Elfie took a moment to look around, before spying a sign shaped like an arrow, with a green question mark sloppily painted on. Okay. That was something she recognized. All she needed to do was ground herself and then—

“You must’ve been at the Mystery Shack, otherwise you wouldn’t be here right now. For some reason, you grabbed this, and now you’re in the woods with us.”

“I was in the parking lot just now,” Elfie finally said. “And then I disconnected from reality because there’s no way I just teleported.”

“Oh no, you totally teleported,” the girl said. “My brother here created a thingy that teleports people! Kinda cool, kinda messed up, but don’t worry! You’re fine. The Mystery Shack is down the road a bit. I’m Mabel, and the guy who messed up your day is Dipper!”

“I didn’t mess up her day!” Dipper said angrily. “Did I?”

“Okay, let’s say this is actually happening,” Elfie said, rubbing her temples with her fingers. “That means that my friend who is about to propose to her boyfriend is now probably freaking out. In the parking lot. Alone. At least she’ll be able to go into the store and find her boyfriend.”

“Why wasn’t he with you?” Dipper asked, frowning. “Was she really going to propose to him in a lame tourist trap?”

Elfie glared at the boy. “It’s not lame!” she said, stamping her foot like a child. “Her boyfriend owns the shack, so you better watch it kid.”

Dipper and Mabel exchanged shocked expressions, and turned to her, wonder in their eyes.

“Is her boyfriend Soos?” Mabel said slowly.

“That’s Jesùs Ramirez to you,” Elfie said with a sniff. “Or Mr. Mystery I suppose.”

“No, we call him Soos all the time!” Mabel said. “You’re friends with Melody? Dipper, how come you didn’t connect the dots?”

“What? Me?” Dipper said, annoyed. “What about you?”

“I’m not good at piecing all the puzzely things together,” Mabel said. “You’re the one who does that.”

“Look,” Dipper said, turning to Elfie. “Soos is one of my—“

“OUR!” Mabel interrupted with a shout.

Dipper sighed. “One of our best friends in town. Yes he’s eighteen years older than us, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter is—wait did you say Melody is going to propose?”

Elfie sighed. This day was going to hell in a hand basket very fast. But if these kids were telling the truth, getting back to Melody, and more importantly getting to where she had been trying to go, would be a snap. She really needed to get to her friend and help her with the proposal. They had a whole plan and everything!

“Yeah she is,” Elfie said. “And I need to be there to make sure it goes off without a hitch. But I guess things going perfectly to plan isn’t happening anymore.”

"We have to get you back!” Mabel said, slapping her hands to her face. “Where’s the golf cart? We need to get Soos engaged!”

Before she knew it, Elfie found herself zooming through the underbrush of the forest, ducking her head every few seconds when a branch passed by. She held on for dear life as they flew over stumps and tree roots. When they finally arrived, Elfie saw Melody in the parking lot. A tall heavy set man that could only be Soos stood next to her, along with two men that looked 30 years her senior.

They all had serious expressions on their face. One of the men wore a long trench coat, and everyone was staring at him as spoke at top speed.

“The logical explanation is that your friend touched the device, and Dipper decided to use it. Don’t worry Melody, we will find her very soon.”

“Maybe sooner than we thought. Is that her?” the other man said in a gravely voice, pointing towards Elfie and the two teens. Elfie swore she was seeing double as she looked at the two men. There were a few distinct differences, but she was definitely looking at a set of identical twins. Elfie’s stomach did a flip as she looked at the twin pointing in her direction.

He was a stocky man wearing a brown leather jacket and a deep frown. His five o’clock shadow was really doing it for her, and she had to look away. Damn her thing for older men.

“Dipper my boy!” the man in the trench coat said, spreading his arms wide. “I’m glad to see you!”

"And I’m glad to see you!” Melody said happily, looking at Elfie.

“You said this town was weird but I wasn’t expecting that,” Elfie said, glancing at Dipper, who was staring at the ground.

“Yeah my brother and Grunkle Ford get up to all kinds of crazy wacko shenanigans,” Mabel said with a laugh. “I’m just glad you’re safe um…uh…what was your name?” In their haste to get back to the shack, Elfie hadn’t had the chance to introduce herself.

“Oh, I’m Elfie,” she said with a smile.

“That’s a cool name!” the teenage girl said.

"It’s a nickname,” Elfie said. “You can thank Melody over here for it. She gave it to me in middle school.”

“Why?” Dipper asked. “I’ll tell you why I go by Dipper if you tell me your actual name.”

“Maybe in a second,” Elfie said. “I need to talk to Melody about something,” she said, giving her friend a pointed look. Melody looked nervous at these words and then sighed.

“I was going to tell you earlier, but then you vanished,” Melody said. “Our…plans…have to wait. Stan and Ford here, as well as Dipper and Mabel, are staying here for a few months, and Soos wants to get them settled in.”

No way. This couldn’t be happening! Elfie and Melody had been planning this for months, and two sets of twins were going to ruin it by staying here?

“Plans?” Soos said frowning. “I thought you two dudes were just gonna tour the Mystery Shack and then get going.”

“We kind of wanted to hang out with you,” Elfie said. “We thought we could go to the lake for a bit.”

“Oh,” Soos said, looking surprised. “Sorry guys, I gotta get them settled in. You’re not leaving today are you? I thought Melody said something about you guys staying for a bit.”

“Elfie is staying with a friend, and I’m staying with my grandma like I do every summer,” Melody said.

“Who’s your friend?” the older man with leather jacket said.

“His name is Dan,” Elfie said, thinking about her lumberjack friend. “Real sweet guy. I’ve missed him.”

For some reason, everyone was silent except for Melody, who was covering a grin with her hand.

“What?” Elfie said. “Why are you all looking at me like that?”

“Did you just say your friend is Manly Dan?” Mabel said with a gasp.

“And did you say he was sweet?” Soos said, cocking his head to the side. “That dude is scary!”

“Dan isn’t scary!” Elfie said, frowning. “He’s a really nice guy. What makes you think he’s not?”

“He broke the town clock by punching it over and over again. That weirdo’s got a screw loose,” the man in the leather jacket said, rolling his eyes.

“Stan!” Mabel said, slapping his shoulder. “Don’t say that!”

“I’m just saying it like it is!” Stan said. “He’s nuts!”

“Wait a second,” Elfie said, narrowing her eyes. “I know you. You’re the founder of this place, I saw a picture of you on the wall of the gift shop.”

“Yep!” Stan said proudly. “I’m—“

“The Mystery hack,” Elfie said, and Stan choked on air. Everyone looked at her with wide eyes, and she continued.

“Stan Pines, right? I’ve heard about you from Dan over the years and I know exactly what kind of man you are. Dan has a screw loose? Hello Pot, my friend’s name is Kettle. Are you really calling him black?”

“Well, wait, I wasn’t trying to—“

“He’s probably worried about me,” Elfie said, sticking her nose in the air. “It was good to meet most of you, but I probably won’t be seeing you.”

“Elfie!” Melody said scandalized. “Don’t be like this!”

Elfie whipped out her phone and began dialing. “I’m calling Dan to pick me up,” she said and stalked off.

“I like her,” Mabel said fondly. “She’s fun.”

—

“I really Stan’d that one up, didn’t I?” Stan said with a sigh, plopping down on the chair that Soos had saved just for him.

“Stanley, when people talk fondly about a friend, you shouldn’t start insulting said friend,” his twin Ford said with a sigh, sitting down on the couch and scrawling something down in a notebook.

“What do you know about friendship?” Stan asked. “You can barely stand to be around anyone in town. Why should I take advice from you?”

“I may not like being around other people, but I do know a thing or two about how people work, unlike you apparently. Considering how that situation went down, I’d say I know a lot more than you,” Ford said.

“She shouldn’t’ve talked to him like that though,” Soos said, entering the room with a bag of potato chips. “Melody said she’s going to do damage control. You guys’ll probably bump into each other sooner or later, this town is pretty small. She wants to make sure Elfie doesn’t stay mad for like, the rest of time.”

“I wasn’t trying to make her mad or nothin’,” Stan said. “It’s just that—“

“That your brain and your mouth aren’t connected!” said a voice from the doorway. Everyone jumped and turned. Mabel was leaning against the door frame, tapping away at her phone.

“Don’t worry, I’m like that too!” she said, walking into the living room. “My mouth sometimes says stuff that my brain hears and goes what?! It’s okay, I’m sure everything will be fine. Soos, do you know how long she’ll be staying here for?”

“Sorry dawg, I don’t know,” Soos said with a shrug. “Melody just said she’ll be here for “a bit” and I don’t know what that means.”

“Hopefully for a while!” Mabel said happily, turning the TV on. “She seems cool. Dipper likes her too, don’t you Dip Dop?” Mabel shouted into the hallway.

“Can you not call me that?” Dipper said, emerging from the kitchen with a can of Pitt Cola.

“Only if you tell them what you said about Elfie,” Mabel said with a giggle.

“W-what? I didn’t say anything!” Dipper said quickly, face flushing.

“You said she looks like a super m—“

“A super great person who is not anything more than just a super great person,” Dipper said, clapping a hand over his sister’s mouth. “What are you all looking at?” he asked the group.

“Was Mabel about to say super model?” Soos asked, sitting down next to Ford.

“Ugh, it doesn’t matter!” Dipper said angrily. “Look, okay, maybe I think she’s pretty, but I didn’t say anything else.”

“Yeah he did,” Mabel said smirking.

“Eh, makes sense,” Stan said with a shrug. “She’s a pretty lady. But she’s also an adult so don’t be weird about your new summer crush.”

“I don’t have a summer crush!” Dipper said, voice cracking. “You guys suck!”

“Wait, Stan!” Mabel said, looking at him with big eyes. “You think she’s pretty too?”

“Well. I mean, yeah. She’s objectively good looking. Pretty face, and a nice—“

“Choose your next words very carefully,” Ford said tersely without looking up from his writing. Just as Stan was about to fire back, Soos’ phone buzzed.

“Oh dudes, it’s Melody!” Soos said, reading the message. “She says she managed to convince Elfie not to uh…gouge Stan’s eyes out with a rusty spoon? That’s weirdly specific.”

“Yeesh, this lady is crazy, no wonder she’s friends with Dan,” Stan said shaking his head.

“A beautiful woman who threatens you with violence? Sounds like every woman you flirt with,” Ford said shaking his head. “You like crazy.”

“Yeah, but those were one night—“

“Aaand that’s our cue to leave,” Dipper said, yanking Mabel to her feet.

“Awww…” Mabel said sadly, but let her brother lead her out of the room.

“Look Soos. I’m sorry I got your girl’s friend mad. But she’s fine now, right? All’s well that ends well,” Stan said looking at Soos.

“Mr. Pines, I’m not sure everything went well. Sure she’s not going to like, murder you, but maybe you should apologize.”

A booming laugh sounded from beside the young man. Ford was wiping a tear from his eye as he laughed, journal falling to the floor.

“Stanley apologizing? That’s a good one.”

“I just said sorry to Soos,” Stan grumbled, “It’s not like I’m incapable of it.”

“Your apology amounted to “sorry I did a bad thing but who cares because it’s better now” which is a terrible one,” Ford pointed out. “Sincerely apologizing for hurting the feelings of someone and trying to get that person to be on good terms with you? That won’t happen.”

“You don’t know what I’m capable of!” Stanley said, annoyed. “I could apologize to her right now. Gimme the phone Soos.”

“Over the phone? Really Stanley? That’s the easy way out. Apologizing in person is something you could never do.”

“Oh I’ll do it!” Stan said, getting to his feet. “Tomorrow morning, I’m going over to Dan’s house and I’ll give the best apology the world has ever seen!” And with that, Stan stormed out of the living room, presumably going to his room to pout.

“Dude. That was amazing,” Soos said, looking at Ford with wide eyes. “How’d you do that?”

“Do what?” Ford said innocently.

“You were right, Stan never apologizes in a real way. But he’s actually gonna do it now! You got him to!”

“Getting my brother to do things is simple,” Ford said, picking his journal up. “All you have to do is piss him off by saying that he can’t do it, and then he will. I got him to investigate a sea monster near Alaska doing just that. We had to dive into the freezing waters, and he didn’t want to. Not until I told him that of course he couldn’t do it. Why would he? Obviously he didn’t have it in him. And then just like that, he put his gear on, and we got that monster taken care of.”

“Wow,” Soos said, eyes wide. “That’s like, super top secret information. I won’t tell a soul!”

“Eh, it’s probably something people should know,” Ford said. “It’ll make everyone’s life easier.”

“I should let Elfie know that Stan’s coming over in the morning,” Soos said, picking up his phone. “And probably send back up just in case she changes her mind about the rusty spoon.”

—

“Manly Dan, eh?” Elfie said, bustling around the kitchen to help Dan make dinner. Dan looked at her in surprise, eyebrows shooting up.

“Where’d you hear that one from?” he asked.

“Some teenager named Mabel,” Elfie said as she coated some asparagus in olive oil. “If things hadn’t been so strange today, I would’ve laughed.”

“What, you don’t think I’m manly?” Dan said good naturedly. “These muscles ain’t enough to prove it?” the red haired lumberjack said, flexing for his friend.

“Hmm. Not convinced,” Elfie said, and Dan sighed dramatically.

“I’m the manliest in town,” Dan said. “That’s how I got the name. Even manlier than the manotaurs.”

“Than the what?” Elfie asked as she began to close the oven door.

“Don’t worry about it,” Dan said nervously. “Just a joke.”

“No no no,” Elfie said, wagging a finger. “There’s something up with this town. What’s a manotaur?”

“Nothing’s up with this town,” Dan said firmly, putting a steak in a pan. “Why would you think that?”

“That girl Mabel? Well her brother teleported me from the Mystery Shack.” Elfie began to recount her day to Dan, who listened in stony silence. His face was unreadable, but Elfie didn’t seem to be paying attention. She was too busy ranting about Stan.

“Can you believe he said that?” Elfie said. “I wanted to punch him.”

“Elfie, you’re doing it again,” Dan said, putting some rosemary in the pan.

“Doing what?” Elfie asked, hand on her hip.

“Going wild over something small. Was that a big problem, or a little problem?” Dan asked. Elfie looked to the side, and her shoulders sagged.

“A little one,” she grumbled.

“Everyone thinks I’m a bit crazy,” Dan said. “It doesn’t bother me though because everyone in this town is a bit crazy. But Stan is alright. He saved the town once.”

“Really?” Elfie said skeptically.

“Really,” Dan said. “And he gave my daughter a job before she went off to college.”

“How’s Wendy doing by the way?” Elfie asked.

“She’s great,” Dan said with a wide smile. “I’m proud of that kid. She’ll be a sophomore in college come fall term. Gets straight A’s, even in classes she swears she’s gonna fail.”

“Cindy would be proud,” Elfie said. Dan stopped what he was doing for a moment, and then smiled at Elfie.

“I think she would. You know, you two were like peas in a pod. Probably why we all got along so well.” Dan said, a sad smile on his face.

“She used to call me an honorary red head from how firey I am,” Elfie said, playing with a lock of her dark brown hair. “I’m glad everything is going well. Are we going to make the trip to visit her?”

“Of course. The Valentino’s do a good job taking care of her headstone, but I like to clean it myself sometimes. Place some new flowers down.”

There was a comfortable silence before Elfie spoke again.

“Can I ask you a question?”

“Shoot,” Dan said, flipping the steak.

“Why weren’t you shocked when I said Dipper teleported me?”

“That boy is a friend of Wendy’s,” Dan said. “They met when he was 12. If there’s one thing I know about him, it’s that you should always expect the unexpected with him.”

“Does he know what a manotaur is?” Elfie asked casually.

“I think so,” Dan said. “Look they’re basically a minotaur with the power of toxic masculinity. They have dumb thoughts about what being a man is about. I try and teach the boys that being a man isn’t about being strong or mean or something like that. It’s about what’s inside. Being your own man isn’t about being aggro all the time, and nobody should think like that.”

“True,” Elfie said. “Where are they by the way?”

“They’re staying the night with some friends,” Dan said.

“All three?” Elfie asked surprised. Dan nodded.

“They’ll be back tomorrow. Marcus has been talking my ear off about how great it will be for me to have a friend, and Gus and Kevin have been speculating about gifts.”

Elfie laughed and shook her head. “Your boys know me too well. I did in fact bring them some stuff.”

“I think Marcus is right though,” Dan said casually. “I’m glad to have my best friend back.”

“Aww,” Elfie said, leaning against his shoulder. “You’ve got friends here though, right?”

“I have been getting to know Stan’s brother Ford,” Dan said slowly.

“Oh have you?” Elfie asked, an impish smile on her face.

“Not like that!” Dan said, swatting at her.

“He’s pretty cute, wouldn’t be surprised if you were,” Elfie said.

“I guess so,” Dan said with a shrug. “You must think Stan’s cute too then. They’re twins after all.”

“I mean…he’s not terrible looking,” Elfie said, pulling the asparagus out of the oven. Dan leveled her with a look, and Elfie sighed.

“Alright fine, he’s really hot. But! I’m still mad at him. So that docks him like, 100 hotness points.”

“You’ve always had a thing for the elderly,” Dan said.

“He’s not elderly!” Elfie said, slapping his shoulder. “He’s like, 65, max.”

“Which makes him over 30 years older than you,” Dan said.

“It’s not like I’m trying to date him,” Elfie said.

“Nah, you’d just be trying to fuck him,” Dan said, and Elfie almost dropped the plate of steak and asparagus that Dan had handed to her.

“You are so lucky your kids aren’t home,” Elfie said.

“Am I wrong?” he asked as they sat down at the dining table.

“I’m not answering that,” Elfie said, stabbing a piece of meat.

"That tells me all I need to know,” Dan said, leaning back in his chair. He handed Elfie a soda, and cracked open a can of beer for himself.

“Ooo, you splurged on the name brand stuff,” Elfie said, taking a drink.

“Anything for you, doll,” Dan said.

After dinner, Elfie walked to the spare bedroom and changed into her pajamas. Dan had been right, she had completely overreacted. But she couldn’t stand her friends being made fun of. She knew exactly how that went, and wasn’t going to stand for it. Right as she was about to turn the lamp off, her phone buzzed.

Hey emmy elf!

It was Melody.

Hey! What’s up?

She and Melody chatted about nothing for awhile. Just as Elfie was about to tell her she needed to get some shut eye, Melody sent a long message.

Look, I wanted to talk about earlier. Stan was out of line, but you kinda blew up at him. I think maybe it’d be better if we all just made friends and forgot about what he said. The town is really small, and there really isn’t a lot to do. You’re going to run into him at some point, and I don’t want any bad blood between you guys. Stan is like a father to Soos, and I think it’d be good if we were all friends.

Elfie sighed. Melody had a point.

Yeah okay, I won’t gouge his eyes out with rusty spoon, I promise.

She flipped her phone over and closed her eyes. This town was crazy, but hopefully she could learn to love it. Elfie dreamed of being captured by a giant minotaur who kept saying weird disrespectful things about women. Her dream continued, and Stan showed up to save the day. When Elfie woke up, she was slightly annoyed that the best part of the dream had been interrupted. Oh well. Sliding out of bed, she was about to grab her clothes and go take a shower when there was a knock on the door.

“Hold on!” Elfie said. She opened the door and saw Dan standing in the doorway.

"Someone’s here to see you,” he said with a big yawn.

“Is it Melody?” Elfie asked.

“Soos and…well you’ll see,” Dan said.

A feeling of dread washed over her, and Elfie walked to the front door. She flung it open to find Soos and Stan at the doorstep, both pointedly looking away from her.

Fuck.

She was wearing a tight tank top and mini shorts, both of which left little to the imagination. Slightly embarrassed, but willing to hold her ground, Elfie cleared her throat.

“Do you need something?” she asked.

“Stan wanted to talk to you,” Soos said.

Stan was looking at the ground, seeming to regret his choice to come here.

“I just wanted to talk about yesterday,” Stan said. “But uh, maybe I should come back later.”

“Give me one second,” Elfie said, and quickly rushed back in to her house. She caught the words “…take her to the diner” right before she closed the door. Today was shaping up to be something interesting.

#gravity falls #stan pines #ford pines #dipper pines #mabel pines #oc x canon

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intooned · 8 months

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As promised to a certain honeydew-drop, here is the most recent Dipper x Mabel x Pacifica fanfic, and it's sequel, I've read recently! It's a great read by Rotten Pines so definitely share your support for their work if you give it a chance!

Set six years after Dipper and Mabel's first summer in Gravity Falls, Pacifica invites the twins over to her home for a sleepover, but does she have an ulterior motive?

Set one month after the events of Pacifica's Sleepover, Dipper and Mabel plan another night alone with Pacifica, but first, the twins need to talk about certain events still left unresolved. What will they discover, and how will Pacifica react?

#dipper x mabel x pacifica #dipper x mabel #dipper x pacifica #mabel x pacifica #dipifica #pinescest #dipper pines #mabel pines #pacifica northwest #gravity falls #fanfiction.net #gravity falls fanfiction

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rainy-circle · 4 years

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WELL OKAY a whole 2 of you liked that post, so I decided to write up some context so I can post it anyway haha

once upon a time in the Gravity Falls fandom, some people theorized that Gideon's one-eyed star logo was its own character, and of course, starting shipping them with Bill. I'm not the only one, I swear I'm not crazy, I have photographic evidence. Because probably my sole purpose in life is to write fic for rare pairs, I started developing a whole canon-divergent-retelling-fic thing and here we are. Will I ever write the entire thing? Who the hell knows. (The rest of these context points won't make a whole lot of sense if you haven't watched the show but who am I to stop you)

You know how, in The Tempest, Prospero frees Ariel from being sealed in a tree and then just kind of has a little invisible fairy servant for several years? That's basically the relationship between Gideon and Stella, his humanized star logo in this 'verse. Stella, however, has no memories of her past and has no idea how or why she ended up there.

A bunch of stuff happens, and the Mystery Twins (and unknowingly Stan) end up freeing Stella from her servitude to Gideon. She drops by one night like 'hey, thanks for saving my life, if you ever need someone to like, get you groceries, you can count on me. Okay cool I'm gonna go back to wandering the woods' and Stan is like 'hey these kids just promised me that they won't go diving into danger but I feel like they're going to anyway, so maybe you can keep an eye on them for me? Also if you could turn invisible and convince customers we have a ghost here, that'd be great for business' and Stella's like 'DONE AND DONE' and now there's a weird kind of ghost lady as part of the Shack's employees. She's kind of the closest thing they're gonna get to a team mom, but she's also the anti-mom friend

Eventually, this verse's version of the Sock Opera episode happens, and Bill shows up to try and steal Dipper's body. Things end up going EXTREMELY haywire, and long story short, Bill is pulled into the physical world. He recognizes Stella, but has a meltdown when she doesn't recognize him in return. They clock him over the head and perform a spell that keeps him confined to the area immediately surrounding the Shack. So now we got person Bill in the Shack too, in an enemies-to-extremely-reluctant-friends relationship with everyone. I think that's all you need to know, why am I doing this, because I haven't 'finished' anything in ages and it feels nice HERE WE GOOOOO

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The second something lands on the roof of the Shack, Mabel is wide awake.

Their attic room is warm even in the middle of the night, but the jolt of excitement that courses through her reminds her distinctly of cool December mornings, every one carrying them closer to the holidays. She kicks off her blanket and is at her brother's side in a heartbeat.

"Dipper! Dipperdipperdipper!" she whispers, jostling his shoulder.

"Mmn... wha...?" she hears him mumble.

"Listen!" she hisses.

Dipper's eyes focus long enough for him to catch her pointing up towards the ceiling. He listens, hears some brief clicks and clacks, then turns over again. "Jus'sum squirrels, Mabel..."

"No!" she whispers, and flings the blanket and sheets off of him. "Stella's back from her date!"

"Who's... what?" Dipper manages to whisper, but Mabel is already dragging him through the door into the wider attic room, over to the window seat.

"...it 'Wendy's Ledge' personally. She's the one who set it up," they hear Stella's voice say from just above them. "But you, uh, probably knew that already, huh."

"'Course I did!" Bill's voice says back, and he says something else, but Dipper is suddenly wide awake and pulling Mabel as far away from the window as he can.

"Mabel," he says. "What. Why is- why do you know about this."

Mabel shrugs slowly, a small sheepish smile on her face. "He asked for dating advice and-"

"The dream demon that tried to steal my body asked you... for dating advice?!" Dipper's voice cracks mid-whisper.

"Man, do you think I can find a way to put that on a resumé one day? Because-"

"Mabel!" Dipper whisper-shouts, grabbing her by the arms and shaking her.

"Right, right, sorry! Geeze!" Mabel hisses back, squirming out of his grip. "Listen, I know Bill's like, entire thing is lying, but when he asked about how he could spend time with Stella he was really... I don't know, desperate? Sad? As big of a jerk he is to everyone else, I think he really does care about her."

"I guess it's... possible," Dipper admits quietly. The Multi-Bear had threatened to kill him, but only after giving Dipper a chance to leave on his own accord. pterodactyl that had stolen Waddles was trying to feed its baby. Even his own photocopies had just wanted what he wanted - to dance with Wendy.

Monsters weren't just monsters in Gravity Falls. They had dreams, and families, and insecurities. Stella did. And maybe Bill did too.

"Also, I figured if they spend some time together we could get some more answers to, psh, like, everything, and we can eavesdrop from the comfort of our own bedroom," Mabel adds.

"...I hate it when you're right," Dipper whispers.

"No you don't," Mabel whispers back. They bump their knuckles together and move closer to the window.

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"Dipper is going to freak out when I tell him we met the Mothman. And what was the name of that cat-snake thing he was hanging out with again?"

"Tatzlwurm-"

"Tatzlwurm, right. And that witch who was selling just hands? What was up with that? Is there, like, a demand for hands among cryptids? Don't most of them have claws, or hands, or paws? And you get there through a tunnel made of flesh? I know it was a black market, but what a market! And it's weird, it's not like it's the most welcoming place in the world, but just seeing all those different creatures in the same place... it was like a... community."

Stella laces her fingers together around her soda can, then scoffs and pulls a lock of gravity-defying hair back around her ear. "God, I must sound like a complete nerd right now."

She looks over, and Bill's resting his face in one hand, his smile as wide as usual, but quite a bit... sillier than usual, his eye filled with a softness she's never quite seen before. "Oh, you definitely do," he says eventually. "I knew you'd like it."

A strange look passes over Stella's face, her smile fading. She had been sitting with her legs dangling off the roof, but now she shifts back, pulling her knees up to her chest, her gaze settling on the trees.

"Was it something I said?" Bill asks, tone half joking.

"It's stupid, but yeah. You said 'you knew I'd like it'." Stella steels herself, takes a breath, then turns and looks him in the eye. "Do you know everything about me? Do you know who I was before... I got sealed away? You kept saying that we were 'just two dream demons passing through', but was that just you covering, or is that what I am?"

Bill doesn't respond right away. For a long moment, he simply watches her with a soft smile, long enough that Stella starts to feel a bit like a bug under a microscope.

"Stella," he finally says, "I've met a lot of stupid people over the years. A ton. You definitely aren't one of them, not by a long shot. 'Course you have questions! Pretty sure anybody would if they woke up inside a tree one day with no clue how they got there. Lemme do a lightning round here."

"Lightning round? Oh, like a game sh-" Stella says, and Bill knocks back a long sip of soda as though it's a beer. "O-kay."

"Yep, you're the same as me, 'dream demon' is the best term I've heard for what we are, wouldn't say I know everything about you, but definitely knew you before you got sealed away. In fact, I was there when it happened!" Bill fires off, hardly breathing.

Stella's eyes flick to his right hand, the one holding his soda, as it starts to shake. "Um, Bill, are you okay?"

"It's the one thing I wish I could forget about you!" he continues, apparently not having heard her. Some part of him wants to stop, but the words keep spilling out. "They made me watch! They wouldn't stop laughing, haha!"

"Bill," Stella says, his words crawling over her skin like spiders. She lowers her legs over the roof ledge again so she can reach out and take the soda can from his hand and put it aside, next to hers. He doesn't notice, just keeps shaking.

"If I ever see them again-" He breaks off, hearing their laughter in the trees all around them, echoing. He remembers her, her breath in ragged threads- she tries to speak and a bubble of blood rises and bursts between her lips. He can see it on her teeth, such a dark blue it's almost black, glittering darkly.

He's back in the present, on the roof of the Mystery Shack, the cool night air filled with the sound of crickets chirping. Stella's beside him, head bowed, her hands on his arm as though they're trying to put out the blue flames crawling up it.

Bill swears, pulls his arm out from her grip, forces the flames to subside underneath his skin. "Are you okay?" he asks, checking over her arms and hands. "Did I burn you?"

Stella takes a deep breath and leans away from him, before lifting her head with a sudden, intense glare. "What the hell was that, Bill? One minute you're pretending you're on a game show, and the next, your arm is bursting into flames!" she says, her voice hushed and angry as she gestures at him. "I'd really appreciate it if you gave me, I don't know, a warning before you try to burn down the Shack and everyone in it?! You can't just do sh- stuff like that!"

"I know, I know, just-" Bill grits his teeth, steels himself. "Just answer the question."

"What're you-?"

"Did I burn you?" he asks, voice quiet.

He's not looking her in the eye anymore, just staring down at their hands. His still have a slight tremor to them.

"...No," Stella sighs, and gingerly puts one of her hands in his, letting him turn her arm over to inspect. "Guess your fire doesn't affect me."

Bill says nothing as he checks her arms over thoroughly. His hands steady as they trace across her skin, her skin tingling slightly at the touch. Her face feels hot, and she's grateful that the night air is as cool as it is.

"Listen," he says, sliding his hands away. His sharp Bill smile is back. "It's been a few million years, and my mind isn't all there. Sometimes, it takes what I think's just gonna be a trip down memory lane, but it just keeps going down the track until it smashes into something."

Stella frowns at him, thinking. A memory you couldn't quite control, like a weed that grows too big before you even know where to prune it. Like a flashback.

"No, you listen," she says. "I want to know what happened to me. Mostly. Eventually. I have some reservations about it, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Apparently, you're the only one that knows, but talking about it clearly brings up a lot of trauma."

"Trauma?" Bill scoffs. "I'm not-"

"Shut up, yes you are," Stella bulldozes over him, and he laughs, surprised. "You pretty obviously went through something horrible, and I'm going to make a wild guess that you've never talked to anyone about it. You probably just kept pushing forward because stopping to think about everything meant giving up."

For a second, Bill looks stunned. He blinks and gives another short surprised laugh, though this one seems much less enthused. "Had plenty of time to think about it," he mumbles, but then sighs. "Not 100% right, but you did kind of hit the nail on the head there, babe."

"Don't call me that, and of course I did."

The quiet of the night steals over them, surrounding them in cricket song once again. She glances over, and Bill Cipher is staring at the stars, and he looks... lost. Tired. Like a man who hasn't slept in years.

Stella places a hand over top of one of his, resting on his leg. "What I'm getting at is, I want to help," she says. "I don't really know how but, I guess I want to at least try."

He turns, stares at her with his one good eye, and slowly the weariness gives way to a gentle, lopsided smile.

"You know," he says, "you're different from the Stella I knew back then. But I like this Stella a lot too."

She smiles back and thinks of saying something like 'you're stuck with her', but does that mean she was sticking herself to him? Did she want to do that to a creature that had tried to steal the body of one of the people who had saved her? What did it mean for everyone if she did?

"Well!" Bill says, taking his hand out from underneath hers and rubbing his together. "Guess we'll see how big of a disaster this ends up being tomorrow!"

"It's not gonna be-" Stella stops herself, thinks. "Well, your arm did burst into flames, didn't it. Guess we're gonna have to find somewhere fireproof to talk about this."

"I'll leave that to you, toots," Bill says, and pushes himself off the ledge.

Stella nearly screams, until she remembers that they both got here by flying.

Bill's grinning as he turns back one last time, floating just underneath the ledge, his arms crossed on it, like a swimmer might do with the edge of a pool. He rests his chin on top of his arms. "So aside from the arm bursting into flames thing, not bad for a first date, huh?"

"Not a date, you jerk," Stella says, smiling back.

"I mean, we went somewhere together alone, we explored some little niche part of town we've never really been to before, you're turning all red..." Bill says, counting each off on his fingers.

"Okay, okay, a friend date. Now get out of here before I push you off," she says, poking him in the forehead, hating how he's right about the heat in her cheeks.

"Friend date, huh?" Bill says, and pushes away from the roof, floating backwards towards the woods. "Guess I can live with that."

"See you tomorrow, I guess?" she asks, giving a small wave.

"See you tomorrow," he replies, tucking his hands into his pockets, and with a flash of gold light, is gone.

The wind rustles through the pine branches. She hears an owl call out somewhere in the darkness. And the crickets are still chirping away.

A drop of water hits her shoulder, and when she looks up at the stars, she sees dark clouds rolling in over them. Time to head back inside.

She pushes herself off the ledge just as Bill had, and stops herself from falling just underneath the window into the attic room below. She takes the small card out of her pocket - just a piece of cardstock Mabel had written SECRET WINDOW ENTRANCE DON'T TELL ANYONE on in highlighter, decorated with shiny dolphin stickers in every available spot - and slips it through the window panes, flipping the latch on the other side.

The attic room outside the twins' bedroom is empty, and she stares at their door for a long moment. She wants to tell them how Bill is willing to tell her just what happened to her, how he'd even accepted her help.

Stella lets go of a long sigh, and heads downstairs.

The kids are probably fast asleep, and there's always tomorrow.

#now to pretend this never happened #©#{ tv : gravity falls }#ch: mabel pines #ch: dipper pines #ch: starchan #ch: bill cipher

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brotps: Mabel & Grell / Faye & Abigail / Amber & Eden / Dino & Peter (even tho they don't hang much) <3

ALRIGHT HERE WE GO

AMBER & EDEN

who steals french fries off the other’s plate

if they go out for lunch, amber will order fries and eden will order a salad or somethiing and find herself picking fries off amber’s plate. amber won’t say anything and probably leave enough for eden to have a substanial amount.

who jokingly moves in for the kiss when someone asks if they’re a couple

this would be awkward considering the age difference and the fact that they’re practically siblings at this point. eden has known amber since she was born.

who has to bust or bail the other out of jail

oh god, eden would bail amber out after getting a phone call begging her not to tell luc. on the way home she would have a serious talk with her but she would be nice about it and promise not to tell luc about it.

who gives the other advice/comfort about dating issues

amber will definitely come to eden about any relationship issues or questions she has. she knows she can ask eden anything and eden has a very healthy, successful relationship with her brother so she’s a good person to talk to. she might even ask her if it’s weird that she’s not interested in dating like most girls she’s friends with.

who shamelessly cheats at games by reaching over to cover the other’s eyes

amber being the silly little sister and doing this to eden who would laugh about it and swat her away.

who immediately calls dibs on the top bunk

i think eden would be really quick to claim it. she’ll turn into a child and race across the room and up the ladder and stare amber down if she tries to take it from her. eden really likes the top bunk.

who starts and who wins the pillow fights

amber would start them and she would win very easily but she wouldn’t try to overly quickly just so they could play longer. eden is very quick with dodging though.

who says “your pants would look better on their floor” to the other’s potential crush

neither of them. amber would never say that to her brother and eden isn’t about to say that to her baby sisters crush. it’s a no for that.

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MABEL & GRELL

who steals french fries off the other’s plate

grell! mabel always has to protect her food because grell is a sht. she doesn’t mind much though because it always makes them both laugh.

who jokingly moves in for the kiss when someone asks if they’re a couple

once again, it’s grell. i think grell would do this with anybody if this question was asked. mabel always blushes but plays along, giggling a lot.

who has to bust or bail the other out of jail

see, i would say mabel would need to break grell out but she has powers and wouldn’t a) get caught or b) need the help. so, if mabel and dipper got themselves in trouble then grell would be able to break them out.

who gives the other advice/comfort about dating issues

god, they’re both such messes! and mabel doesn’t really feel like she can always ask grell for advice on that topic because it usually has to do with sebastian and that’s often been a sensitive subject. they have probably both asked the other at some point though.

who shamelessly cheats at games by reaching over to cover the other’s eyes

hah, grell! i just imagined grell playing a game with mabel and dipper and both mabel and grell cheating while dipper tries to play fair and is getting really annoyed at the other two. but i feel like grell is the most likely culprit.

who immediately calls dibs on the top bunk

i think that they would have an argument about it. grell is taller and faster though so she would win. mabel would be happy in the end though because it’s too hard to get waddles up to the top bunk.

who starts and who wins the pillow fights

mabel will always start pillow fights and she gets really really into them. however, grell would overpower her pretty easily.

who says “your pants would look better on their floor” to the other’s potential crush

superficially it would be grell, but this is way to complicated in acuality. yikes.

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FAYE & ABIGAIL

who steals french fries off the other’s plate

faye likes to make a game out of sneaking fries off abigail’s face without her noticing. she finds it really amusing, even if she has her own. and she has a really good big eyed innocent expression.

who jokingly moves in for the kiss when someone asks if they’re a couple

this would be abigail while faye just rolls her eyes and swats her away.

who has to bust or bail the other out of jail

faye would break abigail out of jail and tease the shit out of her the whole time for getting caught doing whatever she was doing. she’d find it really amusing.

who gives the other advice/comfort about dating issues

i sort of feel like they’re both too proud to ask the other for advice. faye likes to think she has everything sorted out, even if she really fucking doesn’t. and abigail is similar. neither of them are too fond of admitting weakness.

who shamelessly cheats at games by reaching over to cover the other’s eyes

abigail. faye cheats at games a lot but she’s far more cunning and less obvious about it so it goes much more unnoticed.

who immediately calls dibs on the top bunk

they would fight over it but faye would make sure she won.

who starts and who wins the pillow fights

abigial would definitely start them and i think they could both win depending. i sort of feel like they would get way too into it and then just collapse laughing, which is actually way more pure than any other answer in this one.

who says “your pants would look better on their floor” to the other’s potential crush

FAYE! to literally anyone that abi is even remotely interested in.

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PETER & DINO

who steals french fries off the other’s plate

dino is adorable and will steal fries from peter all the time only to be met by peter throwing fries over the table at him. they make a mess but it’s cute as fuck. emilio will come over and jokingly tell them off and fake grumble about having to clean it up.

who jokingly moves in for the kiss when someone asks if they’re a couple

once again, dino! peter will just blush and look at the floor while dino wraps his arms around him and aims kisses at his cheek.

who has to bust or bail the other out of jail

peter would definitely break dino out of jail and have to calm dino down from having a panic attack about the whole situation. he would hold him for awhile and then call emilio to pick them up.

who gives the other advice/comfort about dating issues

even though dino isn’t super knowledgable, peter will ask him for advice. he’s had more luck than peter after all. and peter has a lot of issues and needs a lot of comfort relationship wise. dino is someone he likes to turn to because he’s so sweet.

who shamelessly cheats at games by reaching over to cover the other’s eyes

definitely dino! peter plays games completely fairly and dino will just be a dumbass the entire time. peter doesn’t mind though, he thinks it’s funny.

who immediately calls dibs on the top bunk

i think peter would offer dino the top bunk and then dino would offer it to peter and it would just around in a circle. dino would take it in the end though.

who starts and who wins the pillow fights

aw, these two having pillow fights would be adorable. it would be 50/50 on who starts them but more often than not it’s dino. peter would win though, despite being smaller. he would win buy abusing his powers honestly. the one way he’ll cheat is when he can use his spider skills.

who says “your pants would look better on their floor” to the other’s potential crush

dino really is stupid enough to say this while peter’s eyes widen in embarrasment and he pushes dino out the door.

#omg i'm sorry i didn't do this until now #time to clear out my ask box #ask #v: lunakitverse #oc: eden blaisdell #oc :faye #ch: peter parker #ch: mabel pines #lunakit: eden x amber #lunakit: faye x abigail #lunakit: peter x dino #lunakit: mabel x grell #headcanons #kit 🥰

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