Through The Triplet's Eye: A Gravity Falls Fanfiction

The Last Dance

"There it is, fellas! The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn!" Wendy announced, all of us peeking through the fence we would have to climb over to get to our desired destination.

"Ha! Cool!" Lee and Nate shout synchronously, sharing a high-five in the process.

"Neato!" Mabel comments.

"Why'd they shut it down, was it like a health code violation, or-" Dipper asks, anxious and curious to know about things as always.

"TRY MURDER!" Nate shouts.

"Some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since!" Lee added.

"This town has such a colourful history!" Mabel noted cheerily, with not even a scintilla of nervousness present in her voice.

"Wha... Are you guys serious?" Dipper questioned in a tone that was the antithesis of Mabel's.

"Yeah! We're all gonna die!" Wendy mocked playfully. "Chill out man! It's not as bad as it looks!" 

Dipper only chuckles nervously in response, Wendy's attempt to calm him clearly failing.

After all the teenagers and Mabel had climbed over the fence, Dipper was still left straddling the fence as I began to climb it.

"Come on, Dipper!" Wendy shouts in encouragement from the other side of the fence, coaxing Dipper to come down.

"Come on, Dipper. Just follow me," I demonstrate what to do, turning my body around and scaling the fence, managing to reach the other side with relative ease.

Dipper copies my actions, albeit with more hesitation but still manages to get to the other side anyway.

"You okay?" I asked, looking over at my brother who was sweating profusely. I pat him on the back, hoping to allay his fears. 

"Yeah," Dipper managed weakly, giving me a feeble thumbs up. Both of us then walk over to the group, who was now standing directly in front of the locked glass doors to the convenience store.

"Wow! This place is amazing!" Wendy exclaimed in wonderment, cupping her eyes to peer into the interior of the store.

Robbie tugs and pulls at the glass doors repeatedly, the doors holding firm and refusing to yield to the force he exerts on them. "I think it's, it's stuck!" 

Dipper walks up to the door. "Let me take a crack at it!" 

"Oh yeah. I can't get in, but I'm sure Junior here is gonna break it down like Hercules!" Robbie shouts sarcastically, taunting Dipper and putting his hand on his hips.

"Come on, leave him alone, he's just a little kid," Wendy defends Dipper, though she uses the wrong words to do so as evidenced by the frown Dipper now wore. 

However, Dipper being the stubborn kid that he was, was determined as ever to prove the teens wrong. He walks over to the dumpster and jumps on it, already formulating a plan to open the doors as substantiated by the look of concentration that was glued on his face.

"Kid, what are you doing?" Tambry yells, Dipper's action galvanising her to look up from her phone.

Dipper disregards her question and after climbing the dumpster, he proceeds to walk on the roof and strides over to the vents. He punches the vent cover several times angrily to Mabel's cheers.

"Go Dipper! Punch that metal thing!"

He eventually manages to punch the vent cover into the vent and forays into the store, disappearing from our field of vision.

"Who wants to bet he doesn't make it?" Robbie asks proudly after a minute flew by, with Dipper still nowhere to be seen.

The timing could not be less opportune for Robbie because at the very moment he says that, the 12-year-old preteen boy held the door open and gestured for everyone to come inside.