Unsuspecting love (billdip)

Chapter 12

(Dipper pov)

I slowly open my eyes and first thing I realize is that I'm being carried over someone's shoulder. I look at my hands seeing they are bound together with a lamp cord. I struggle kicking my legs trying to get free but that only results in a painful slap on my ass that makes me cry out in pain. The person carrying me gets to the bottom of the stairs and walks into the room setting me on the floor sitting against the wall. I recognize this as Bill's basement but the more horrifying thing I realize is the monster that carried me down here. "You miss me Pinetree?"

"No no no no!" I scream as tears flood down my cheeks. "I was free! I was rescued! I escaped you, I can't be down here again!"

"You should know that you can never escape me." He kneels down and whispers right in my ear making me whimper as I feel the cold blade of a knife against my throat. "No matter what happens I will always find you and make you mine, we are meant to be together. If I can't have you then no one will." I see him raise up the knife and bring it down towards me.

I gasp awake feeling a hand on my shoulder. "You okay Dipper?" I look up seeing Dr. Reid and remember that I fell asleep in his hotel room last night. He's dressed different but then I remember he said the trial would be today.

"Y-yeah, just a dream." I sit up rubbing the remaining sleep out of my eyes.

"If you say so. I called a friend of mine yesterday and have it where she will bring you to your house so you can change into something for the trial and then she will bring you to the courtroom. I will be sitting next to you in the courtroom the whole time along with Hotch. You have a suit right?"

"Yeah, one. I had to wear one when my aunt died last year."

Before he can say anything there is a knock at his door. He gets up answering it and lets in a blond woman dressed formally like him. She makes her way over to me and sticks out her hand for a handshake.

"Hey, I'm Spencer's friend Jennifer Jareau but my friends call me JJ. You prefer if people call you Dipper, correct?"

"Yeah, that's right." I shake her hand. "I'm guessing your the one who's giving me a ride home in order to change."

"That would be correct. We should get going if that's alright with you."

"Yeah." I see Joker laying on the floor and pick him up as I follow JJ out of the hotel and into the passenger seat of her car as she drives towards my house. ".....will I have to face Bill in court?"

"He will be in the same room but you don't have to look at him and we'll make sure that he can't get near you since armed guards will be escorting him wherever he goes." We drive in silence for a while as I pet my cat in my lap. "So Spence tells me you named your cat Joker?"

"Yeah, my favorite game Persona 5 Royal has this character named Joker and his outfit is all black."

"So you name your black cat Joker. Makes sense." She parks outside my house. "Do you want me to come in with you?"

"No it's fine. I'll be real quick." I get out and go into the house closing the door quietly behind me. I head upstairs and using a paper clip I manage to unlock my door and slip into my room closing my door behind me. I set Joker on the floor and open my closet pulling out the suit I wore to my aunt's funeral last year. I strip out of my clothes and put on the suit struggling with the tie a bit but manage to get it done half way decent. I write a quick note for my parents explaining where I went last night for when they wake up. I notice Joker looking up at me as I open my bedroom door. "Sorry Joker but you have to stay here." I take off my hat tossing it on my bed as I head downstairs and run a hand through my hair as a last attempt to tame my messy hair. I leave the note on the table for my parents for when they wake up. I walk out my front door and get back in JJ's car buckling my seat belt.

"You good to go?" I give a simple nod of my head as she drives to the courthouse and I see the dozens of journalists and news reporters standing outside the courthouse.

"What are they all doing here?"

"They just want to make sure that you're okay."

"That's a lie, they just like making money off of other people's misery." I mumble as I get out of the car.

"Dipper hold on." JJ gets out and comes over to me and fixes my tie. "Not used to dressing like this?"

"I don't like dressing in suits, it feels like I'm being choked constantly."

"Well we'll try to make this go as fast as possible so you won't have to wear it for long."

"What if the jury doesn't believe me?"

"They will. Trust me they will." She puts an arm around my shoulder leading me into the courthouse her pushing through the crowd of reports who shout questions at me and shove cameras and microphones in my face. Once inside she leads me to the room where the trial will happen and I see Dr. Reid talking with a man at a table on the right side of the room.

Once Dr. Reid notices me standing there he walks over to me. "You doing alright?" I give a weak nod yes. I glance at the left side of the room and see Bill sitting there looking down at his lap as his lawyer talks. He wears a yellow button up shirt with a black suit jacket and tie. I feel my body trembling and my stomach turning just from being in the same room as him. "Dipper?" I look up seeing Dr. Reid giving me a concerned look. "You alright?"

"Y-yeah....just need to use the bathroom real quick....." I leave that room before anyone can say anything and rush into the bathroom slamming the stall door open. I fall to my knees in front of the toilet and harshly puke into it, my breathing getting rapid nearly hyperventilating.

Fuck fuck fuck I can't do this! I couldn't tell Dr. Reid or those cops what happened, how am I supposed to sit in that room and tell a whole room of complete strangers and tell them how he hurt me?! W-what if he tells people about us having sex! I-I don't even know if I love him or hate him still. I hate how he hurt me but before those FBI agents barged in I had been convinced that I loved him...fuck fucking fuck I am fucking fucked! "Dipper?" I look up and see my dad standing there looking down at me with a comfused and worried look on his face.

"Dad....I-I....." Before I can say anything he kneels down next to me and pulls me into a hug as I break down crying. "i-I c-can't do this dad....no one will listen no one will believe me....."

"You can do this Mason, I know you can. You are stronger than you think and can do anything you put your mind to. They will believe you and if on the odd chance they don't, we'll make them believe you." He wipes my tears away gently. "All you need to do is tell your story. Do you think you can do that?"

I....I think so...."

"That's my boy." He helps me back to my feet and takes me back to the courtroom. I see him go take his seat as I go back over to Dr. Reid.

"You okay Dipper?"

"Yeah, I'm good. Just needed some air."

"Alright, Dipper this is Aaron Hotchner, my boss who agreed to represent you during the trial." He introduces me to the man he had been talking to earlier. I shake the man's hand mumbling a small hi to him. We take out seats as the judge enters the room and sits in his big judge chair.

"Prosecution call your first witness."

Hotchner rises from his seat. "I call Mason Pines to the stand."