Dibper Oneshots, Art, Headcanons

Patches Part 2

They eventually came to a clearing in the trees, next to a road. Dib walked along the road towards Gravity Falls. He didn't realize just how far they had gone, his legs were getting tired. He didn't dare stop though. He owed Dipper that much at least. Dipper had fallen asleep a little while ago, so Dub took the opportunity to make good progress on their trek back.

A car pulled up next to them and stopped. Dib recognized the guy driving from the Mystery Shack, but since he only met the guy in passing, he couldn't remember his name. From what he could tell, the guy was dumber than bricks, but really nice. "Hey dudes! Oh hey! I remember you! You're that guy Dipper likes, right?" The sound of the guy's voice caused Dipper to stir awake. He let out a tired and pained groan. "Mmmng.. Wha..?" The guy in the car waved at Dipper, but his expression quickly changed to panic. "Woah. Dude. You look rough. Get in, I'll drive you guys." Dipper smiled a bit, at least what he could manage. "Thanks, Soos." 

Oh, so that was his name. 

Dib and Soos carefully put Dipper in the back seat of the car. Dib sat next to him, unsure how to comfort him other than letting Dipper use him as a pillow. 

"Found a monster out there, huh dudes?" Soos asked, Dib felt awkward having a conversation at the moment, but figured he should try anyway. It was nice to be in a town full of cryptids, and people who were aware of such creatures. "Yeah. An Elaphocentaur." Dib replied. "A what?" Soos occasionally looked at them with the rear view mirror as he talked. "It's like a centaur, but half deer." Soos looked bewildered. "Wow.. Half deer, half horse. What a day." He chuckled. "Well that's Gravity Falls for you! All sorts of weird. Haha."

Dib didn't have the energy to tell Soos that wasn't what he meant when he described the Elaphocentaur. 

Soos pulled up to the mystery shack

"Welp. Here we are." He rolled down his window, and leaned so far out of it Dib was convinced for a second that Soos was going to fall out. "Mr Pines! Mr Pines! We need some help over here!" 

Soos and Dib helped Dipper out of the car as one of his... Great uncles? If he remembered right. All he knew was that Dipper called them his "grunkles" and he met one of them. He wasn't sure which one it was, apparently they were twins. "Soos, did you lock your keys in your car again?" 

Dipper's Grunkle, wearing a black suit and a Fez hat, walked down the wooden steps and approached the group. "I swear, you need a lanyard or something, this is becoming a- sweet Belgian waffles! What happened to Dipper!?" 

"Hnn… Grunkle Stan.." Dipper called quietly. Stan shushed him. "Easy kid, I got ya."

He grabbed Dipper, holding him bridal style and ran inside. Dib and Soos close behind. "Sixer! Get your medical stuff out! You two, stay here. You can catch me up on this later." Stan ran off into the shack, continuing to yell at "Sixer", leaving Dib and Soos in the gift shop. 

"Hey dude, you good?" Dib shrugged, his eyes glued to the direction Stan ran in. Soos patted him on the back. "Dipper's gonna be okay. Mr Pines knows what he's doing." Soos pulled his hand away and looked at his palm for a moment. "Hey dude? Your back has blood on it." Soos showed him his hand, which now had blood on it from patting Dib's back. "You have some on your shoes too." Dib looked under his feet, just now noticing that he left a trail of partial red shoe prints on the floor. "It's not mine. I'm fine." 

"You look a little roughed up too. Are you sure you're okay?" Soos put his hand on Dib's shoulder. "You saw Dipper, right? Why are you so worried about me?" Dib snapped. He really didn't need this. Dipper was way worse off, why did Soos feel the need to check on him? Not like he deserved it, anyway.