Summer with the Pine Twins

Little Dipper: Part 4

Dipper's p.o.v.

(y/n) slightly back up and I put myself in front of her as Gideon starts to control himself again. "Steel yourself, Gideon! You can use them...You can use them..." He starts to whisper before going over to the phone on his dresser.

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

I walk into the main room to see it covered in mirrors, creating the mirror maze and I call down to Soos. "Soos, this maze of mirrors is your best idea that I'm taking credit for yet! We're gonna make a fortune!" I come down and stop at a dressing mirror and take off my fez, soon looking in the mirror and asking "My ears always been this big?" I hear the phone ring and I go to answer it, leaving my fez behind. "Ugh," I answer as I pick up the phone and internally groan when that brat Gideon's voice comes on. 

"Stanford Pines, listen to me closely, I have not only your niece and nephew but your precious adopted daughter, hand over the deed to the mystery shack right now or great harm will befall them! This is Gideon by the way," I burst out laughing as I grab a soda telling him "Oh yeah, this is gotta be your worst plot yet, they're fine, I saw 'em playin' in the yard minutes ago."

"I have them in my possession, you don't believe me?! I will text you a photo!" "Text me a photo? Now you're not even speaking English," I tell him since most phones in Gravity Falls were old school phones. He tries to talk again but I quickly hang up not caring to listen to any more of his nonsense, the kids were fine.

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

"Hello? Hello?!" Gideon asks before tossing his phone at us in anger and I grab Dipper as we duck and cover our heads from the falling tech. He starts to maniacally laugh, asking himself "What am I doing?! I don't need ransom! I have this! I'll shrink Stan and take the shack for myself! Y'all be helpless to stop me and if any of you step outta line...SMASH!" He shows us the popsicle figurines he made of us and breaks them as he continued to laugh and I feel Dipper hold me tighter as we stared up at this little psycho. 

"Gideon! The ice cream truck is here!" We hear Bud shout. "Comin'!" He starts to leave but quickly turns around and places his gini pig on the dresser, ordering him "Guard them Cheekums, I'm comin'!" He leaves the room and Dipper pokes the gini pig with a Q-tip. Nothing happened so we got to Mabel as Dipper said "We gotta get outta here and save Stan!"

"I know! I will see you later," Mabel exclaims, placing her gummy in the sweater pocket as I helped her out of the bag, Dipper pacing as he thought of ideas. "Ok, how are we gonna do this? Gideon's got magic and like a zillion inches on us, on the bright side we're finally on the same height again."

Mabel and I look at him before looking at each other and wincing as I told him "Actually..." After digging around a bit we find a ruler and I hold it up for the two to measure themselves to show that Mabel was still taller.

"You're still taller?! Ugh, how did this happen?!" Dipper asks in disbelief and Mabel responds with "I guess it's just another mystery!" "Just another reason we gotta get that flashlight back," I frown at Dipper.

He didn't know it but within the last few weeks he had helped my confidence when it came to socializing and I wanted to return the favor, he was always so insecure about himself and it only got worse when those two pick on him.

So I plan to help him with his self-confidence as much as I can, starting with what all the teasing is about after we save Grunkle Stan.

Peeking over the edge we see just how high up we were when our attention turns to Mabel who was sitting on Cheekums. "Cheekums! To freedom! To freedom! Aw...You're just a big ol' dummy-dum!"

Dipper and I start looking for a way down when we hear Dipper say "I have a plan," We end up using the string in Gideon's hairbrush to create a rope to get down and I compliment Dipper. "Nice work Dipper, I gotta say I admire how resourceful you are."

He gives me a small smile with a nod as his cheeks go pink. "Thanks (y/n) but you're pretty smart too," I feel my cheeks going pink, I hadn't been expecting to get a compliment back when Mabel starts to drag us out stating "As cute as you two are and how I'd love to watch you flirt some more we gotta go!"