Exonemesis

Chapter 50: Does He Love Me Too?

~"Dipper!" Mabel yelled, shaking her brother, "Dipper what's wrong?!" She cried out again. Dipper began to slowly blink but when his eyes opened, a tear fell down his cheek. Dipper quickly sat up wiping the tears from his eyes. "Dipper why are you crying?"

Dipper shook his head as he kept trying to stop his tears from spilling, "The journals have my memories and I finally saw why I wanted Bill to take them away in the first place."

"What did you see?" Mabel asked carefully, knowing what happened back then was very scary and horrible to witness. "Are you going to be okay?"

Dipper nods, "I'm more mature now and I don't hate Bill. If anything, this only made me want to run into his arms and apologize for the fact I even said all those horrible things." he sniffed a little. "But how am I going to save him?"

Mabel went silent, still patting Dipper's back as he continued to feel so hopeless, "What did you see?" She repeated.

Dipper slowly looked back at her, finally able to look her in the eyes again. "It was me who let Bill free. After I found out Paul was the one who killed our great uncle Ford, I knew Bill was just an innocent child who got caught by a human's greed for power." Dipper pauses, "Paul Daniel is the bad guy in this story, he's the one who murdered the royal family in the Underworld because he was not satisfied by the gift the first king gave him in the first place."

"So the first king of the Underworld wasn't planning to torture us?" Mabel asked and Dipper shook his head no. She couldn't believe it but at the same time, everything she saw down at the bunker only made more sense of Paul's behavior. "If the first king gave us the gifts of magic then can't the current king take them back? So that Paul could be powerless?"

Dipper shook his head, "Only if the people gave Bill their permission but we both know Paul would rather much die than give it up." Dipper looked back down at his hands, "I should have let Bill kill Paul when he had the chance." he muttered with shame.

"Hey," Mabel sat on the ground and grabbed Dipper's hand to comfort him, "Don't say that, it's not who you are and I'm sure Bill knew that and loved you for that. If he was still angry about you letting the man live then he would have never agreed to be with you." Dipper stayed silent, "We can't just keep thinking about what we could have done in the past, all we could think about is what we could do right now."

Dipper looked up at his sister with shocked eyes, "Who are you and what have you done with my sister Mabel?" he teased, and when Mabel elbowed him the two chuckled. "I've never heard you be so wise before."

"Maybe having a girlfriend has wisened me up," Mabel said with pride.

Dipper couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Oh that's right, you're dating that rich brat Pacifica." that earned another shove from Mabel who then frowns confusedly.

"Wait, how do you know that?" Mabel asked, looking at Dipper suspiciously.

Dipper pursed his lips, "I think we should stop wasting time and go save my boyfriend?" he didn't even let Mabel say anything else cause he has already walked away quickly.

"Hey!" Mabel yelled, following right behind Dipper only to freeze when they came face to face with an actual hellhound and demon. She held her breath but her brother didn't, Dipper began to talk to them as if they were his friends which made Mabel's breath a little normal again, but still not really. She was still freaking out.

"So how come Paul didn't remember you before? Or did he remember you?" Moddey asked, confused a little by what Dipper explained to him about his memory.

"What I shot Paul with was the memory wipe gun, maybe even the same as the one he used to wipe Old Man McGucket with. So the whole time Paul was trying to see if he could trust me back at Exonemesis was just a gut feeling he was having, not remembering me just like I didn't remember him." Dipper explained.