guilty pleasure

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3rd Person POV
~An hour earlier~

Mabel, Stan, Pacifica and Gideon headed towards the living room, hoping to find Ford. As they walked into the living room, they saw Ford sitting in the couch. He seemed to be reading something.

"Grunkle Ford?" Mabel carefully called and Ford hummed in response. "Can we go see Dipper?"

"Hmm, I don't know Mabel, didn't you get to see him just around a week ago?" Ford said, not looking up from his book.

"Well, why can't we just go visit him again?" Mabel asked.

"Because it's late and he is probably busy studying," Ford replied with a dry tone.

Mabel was about to blow up at Ford, why didn't he care at least a bit more? It angered Mabel that Ford was like this, and especially now that she knew that Dipper might be in danger.

Though Stan was quick to see Mabel's frustration as he laid a hand on her shoulder.

"C'mon Poindexter, the kid wants to visit her brother," Stan said.

"Stanley stop acting like she is a child, we can just go tomorrow," Ford stood his ground.

Stan growled slightly in annoyance, he was now forced to do it the hard way. Ford had always been stubborn, but now wasn't the time.

And after knowing that Dipper was under the same roof with the demon that tried to kill him and his brother in the past made Stan even more anxious. Even if they didn't get to exactly save Dipper by going there now, Stan still wanted to make sure his great nephew was alive and well.

"Sorry Stanford, but we are going there, now," Stan didn't give Ford a chance to protest as he just grabbed his brother by the arm and dragged him towards the front door.

Ford wasn't really happy about this of course, and tried struggling but it was for no use, Stan wouldn't let go.

"Stanley?! What is going on!?" Ford demanded to know.

"We are going to visit Dipper," Stan declared.

"I said that we could do that tomorrow!"

"No," After that short comment, Stan refused to answer more of Ford's angry questions and just ignored his twin.

While Pacifica, Gideon and Mabel just stared in shock as Stan was forcing, and succeeding, in getting Ford to go to where Dipper was located.

Mabel had never really seen Stan like this. Sure, he and Ford would sometimes argue and bicker at each other, but Stan was never really the stubborn one that wouldn't stop until he got what he wanted from Ford.

Though it was a relief to Mabel that at least one of her grunkles cared about Dipper's well being.

As they walked through the forest and towards Bill's mansion, Ford's loud complains had just turned into angry muttering. Mabel had to lead the way since she was the only one who knew exactly where Bill's home was located. Soon they stood in front of the mansion's big wooden door.

Just as Ford was about to knock, Stan stepped forward with a paperclip in hand.

"What are you doing!?" Ford whisper yelled.

Stan didn't answer but just proceeded to break the lock.

When Ford didn't get an answer, he turned towards Mabel, Pacifica and Gideon with the same question, "What on earth is he doing?!"

Though the other three refused the answer as well, knowing the had no explanation whatsoever. The only thing that was going through Mabel's mind at the moment was if Dipper was okay and Gideon didn't really care much about the fact he was breaking into another person's home, as long as he pulled off that sweet smile of his he could get away with anything.