Love Unheard

Chapter 10

(Dipper pov)

Opening my eyes I am once again back in this darkness. I clutch my head as the ringing is once again amplified. Why does this keep happening? I know that it's just a bad dream but I am sick of it. Please, someone, please make this stop! It hurts just please make it stop!

The ringing finally stops for good and as a test I snap my fingers by my ear. My eyes widen in amazement as I am actually able to fully hear the snap.

"What....how...." I can even hear my own voice.

Sensing that I'm not alone I turn around and see the man again, looking the same as he did before and I still can't get a clear view of his face because the yellow glow is just too bright. But this time, I can clearly make out what he's trying to say.

"Pinetree...."

Everything around me just gets cold. I know I should run, do anything as he approaches me but I can't. My body won't do anything. He stands in front of me, his hand gripping my throat lifting me in the air and I'm unable to do anything still. I can't even make myself try to get free from him. I feel my lungs burning trying to get air but the rest of my body just won't listen to me.

He brings me closer so I feel his breathe hit my ear and his voice whispers in my ear.

"Thank you for the assistance, Pinetree."

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I gasp awake in bed, clutching my chest as I try to control my breathing before putting my hands over my ears as the ringing is back but it's like the dream made it so much worse. I snap my fingers by my ear but just like always it's nothing. Just the ringing and silence. Why does this keep happening? And that dream.....it couldn't have been Cipher. There's just no way.....

I sigh as I lay back down looking up at the ceiling, my hand clutching at the necklace Bill gave me. I rub my eyes but then look at the cieling confused. Why does my room have a red tint to it?

Sitting up I see the red glow is coming from something outside. Getting out of bed I go over to the window and gasp in horror seeing the sky blood red and high in the sky, just floating there, is the fearamid.

No no no, this can't possibly be happening. He's back? But how?! And how did he bring weirdmageddon again? We can't even stop him this time. The Cipher Wheel is incomplete without Mabel. What the hell do we do?

Think, Dipper, just think. Someone must have opend the portal in the bunker, that's the only way that this could be happening. But how could anyone know where that is? The only people who know about that bunker are me, Ford and.....oh fuck. He wouldn't, but if he did....this is really bad.

I pull on my jacket and hat not bothering with shoes. I open my window and climb out of it, jumping to the nearby pine tree and climb down it before sprinting through the woods.

Please please just let me be wrong. There must be some sort of mistake, he coldn't have opened it. I warned him about the dangers of it and he even promised. Why would he go opening the portal anyway? Did he do it all for me to find an answer to my dreams? No, he wouldn't have done it just for that especially with all my warnings. There is something else going on here, I know there is.

I stop running as I see him standing there, all dressed up like the man from my dreams and just looking up at the sky. I force myself to swallow the lump in my throat before I feel myself saying his name.

"Bill?"

He turns to me and his face has zero emotions on it at all. What happened to the guy who kissed me earlier and has been my friend for the past two days?

I feel my hands shaking as I sign to him as I speak.

"What did you do? You opened the portal? You promised and I warned you of what would happen! You know it's dangerous!"

To my horror his face breaks out into a wide smirk and he throws his head back in what I think is him laughing before he looks at me again, shaking his head slightly. His composure makes it seem as if he's just scolding a little kid for doing something stupid.

"Why don't we stop pretending that you don't know why I did all of this, my dear little Pinetree."

My blood goes cold as I slowly try to back away from him, my hands shaking so bad that I can't even bring myself to sign anymore.

"No......no no no! Y-You can't!"

"Oh, but I am. I am actually disappointed in you for failing to figure it out. All the clues were laid out there for you to see. Same name, me just living in the middle of the forest, the Gremloblin just vanishing out of nowhere, the triangle necklace I gave you, all my questions about Ford and my interests in these bunkers, my vague past, you must have known who I truly was. Or maybe a small part of you did, but you ignored it. Not wanting to believe the truth."

I trip over a tree root and trembling in fear I scoot back from him as he slowly approaches me. "Y-You tricked me...."

"Boo Hoo. I trick a lot of people, don't think you're special. You aren't the first and won't be the last person I step on to get my way."

"What do you want from me?"

"Why would I want anything from you?" He kneels down pressing his knee on my chest trapping me there. "I already have everything I need. You, now, just need to stay out of my fucking way."

His finger taps my forehead and the world around me goes dark.