Night Falls (Nightvale/Gravity Falls Crossover)

Late Night Conversations

Cecil and Carlos didn't go to bed right away.

They couldn't sleep, there were too many questions, too many unsettled topics, so, with nothing better to do, they talked.

"Cecil, I keep getting this nagging feeling like I'm missing something."

"What do you mean my love?"

Carlos sighed

"I don't know what it is exactly, but that name they mentioned, Grunkle Ford I think, It rings a bell."

"Mmn, I didn't remember them saying anything about a Ford, they did talk about a Grunkle Stan though..."

"That's it!" Carlos shot up from his previous sitting position on the bed.

"Shh, honey you'll wake them up."

"Stanford Pines, I read it in this old Newspaper clipping I found! He was very close to developing the first Perpetual Motion machine." Carlos had lowered his voice a little, but still spoke with excited, scientific energy.

"So these are his Great Grand children or something?"

"I don't know what the exact word for it but yeah, pretty much."

A silence fell for a few minutes. Cecil was the one to break it.

"Carlos, we should probably go to bed."

"Yeah, probably."

And so they did.

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Meanwhile, in the other room, Dipper was having a nightmare.

The room was pitch black, but it wasn't dark, he could still see his hands in front of him. It was more like walking in the void, with nothing but yourself as a lantern. In front of him a shape began to emerge. It was a man, looking very much like Cecil, but his color palette and demeanor was more like someone familiar. An old enemy, Bill Cypher. His smile looked like it should have belonged to a bigger man. It was huge, thin, and crept all the way to his ears, cut like The Joker from all of those Comic strips. His eyes were dark, his third eye empty and oozing black liquid. He held a knife in one hand, and-

He woke up as the knife pierced his gut in the dream. He must have made some kind of noise because it woke his sister up.

"Dipper, you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, just a Nightmare."

She looked concerned for him.

"Are you sure, you look like you've seen a ghost."

Dipper considered confiding in his sister. He thought it wouldn't hurt to let her know, after all, it was just a Nightmare, right?

"I saw a man in my dream. It.. looked like Cecil but... It acted like Bill."

"Do you think..?"

"No, I don't think so, he doesn't act like that, and it's not like he wears glasses or anything, if he was under his control he would have the eyes."

They destroyed Bill awhile ago, but they were never sure that he was gone for good. A demon that hard to create is equally hard to destroy.

"Well, then I think it was just a dream, you should go back to bed, Kay?"

"Mmhm.."

And so they, too, did.