Little Dipper

The Room

"Are you still mad?" Mabel asked.

"You snuck up on me when you thought I was asleep and flashed a camera in my face." Bill stirred the pancake mix aggressively. "Yes, I am mad."

"Bill needs his own room." Dipper sighed. "Think Tyrone will let you have his cot?"

"Dudes, look what I found!" Soos came into the kitchen. "I found another room behind some peeling wallpaper!"

"Another room?" Bill looked over.

"Oh, heh, yeah I forgot that was there. Let's go see it after breakfast." Stan offered.

"Sure!" Mabel and Dipper nodded.

"Is Gideon coming over today?" Dipper asked.

"Well, he's working at the Tent, so probably." Stan shrugged.

Bill put the mix on the griddle and watched the pancakes cook, keeping his thoughts even away from Dipper. Dipper was feeling a bit concerned, but wasn't sure how to bring it up without causing a fuss from the others.

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"So...here it is!" Stan said, standing next to the open door. "The extra room I forgot I boarded up! Heh, I guess I figured I didn't need it, but that was before Soos was here otherwise I would've offered it to him as a break room!"

"That's okay, Mr. Pines, I like my current break room." Soos smiled.

"It's a storage closet." Bill said pointedly. "Anyway, it was probably better that you boarded this place up. A lot of black magic was cast in here."

"How do you know?" Stan asked.

"I can feel it. Even now, the trace energy is lingering." Bill stood outside the room, looking in.

"Ohh, a fuzzy carpet!" Mabel and Dipper ran in.

"Wait! Be careful!" Stan and Bill said in unison as the kids ran in.

"We're fine!" Mabel said as they ran onto the carpet. "Ohh, fuzzy!" She stamped her socked feet on it a bit.

"I like it!" Dipper did the same.

"No, no, no, don't do that!" Bill cried, and then a spark shot up from the blanket and hit both kids, knocking them down.

"Kids!" Stan ran in. "Are you okay?!"

"Pine Tree?! Shooting Star?!" Bill hesitated before stepping into the room after Stan.

"We're okay, Grunkle Stan." Dipper said, sitting up and rubbing his head.

"Bill? I feel funny. And my teeth feel funny." Mabel ran her tongue on her teeth. "Ahh! Braces! Why do I have braces?!" She looked over at Dipper. "Uhh...Maaaabeeeel?"

"Okay, wow, this is weird." Dipper started to play with his hair. "I can't let Gideon see me like this! How do we fix it, Bill?"

"Okay, calm down." Bill stood at the edge of the carpet. "It looked like you did it by causing friction on the carpet, so if you do what you did before, you should change back. Just to be safe, anyone else should get off it." He nodded to Stan. "Come on, Stan. Let's back off."

"You sure this will work?" Stan asked, looking at the kids that were starting to panic.

"I'm guessing." Bill admitted.

"Okay, kids. Try it." Stan nodded.

"Okay..." They did as Bill said to, looking at each other nervously. What if this didn't work? Suddenly the spark flew out again and they were both floored once more. "Ow!"

"Ohh, my head." Mabel groaned and checked herself over. "It worked! Dipper, are you okay?" She looked at him.

"Uh-huh. Let's not have the fuzzy carpet in here, it's weird." Dipper rolled off of it.

"Good idea. Off it, Mabel." Stan started to kneel down to roll it up.

"Ah, Stan, let me." Bill held out a hand. "And we can probably hide this thing away in the basement. Who knows, could come in handy sometime!"

"Yeah." Stan nodded, standing up. "So, what do you think? You wanna live in here?"

Bill pursed his lips. "...Might...be a good idea, yeah. At least until I can get rid of the excess energy. Who knows what it'd do to anyone else?"

"Good. I'll have to change the locks, I lost the key." Stan admitted. "But, that's not a problem. Easy buy and fix. No more girls sneaking up on you in the night, eh?" He nudged him playfully. "You casanova."

"Yes, thank you. I did NOT enjoy that. And one of those was your niece." Bill reminded him.

"She can look, as long as there's no touching." Stan shrugged.

"I can? Really?" Mabel asked as she got up and started to leave the carpet.

"Oh, great, now you've given her permission to peep on me!" Bill did a dramatic sigh. "You humans and your lack of personal boundaries!"

"No, most humans have those. Mabel just doesn't respect them, not even mine." Stan walked away. "While we're getting you a new doorknob, you wanna go pick out furniture? I'd say you've earned t, and we have loads of money."

Bill rolled up the carpet once Mabel was off it and headed for the basement. "Sure, sounds more fun than picking out clothes."

Dipper looked around the room before he noticed a pair of glasses on a desk and reached for them. "Mabel, I think Grunkle Stan forgot his glasses!"

"Hm?" Mabel walked over to look at them. "Huh, guess he had a spare in here. Let's take it to him." She picked it up and headed out of the room with Dipper following.

"I bet it's a really old spersciption." Dipper said as they got to the hall.

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"You're closing shop early?" Gideon asked curiously. "Why?"

"We found a room I'd boarded up--"

"You seem to do that a lot." Gideon commented.

Stan gave him a look and continued. "We found a room I'd boarded up and decided to let Bill stay in it. We're gonna go buy him a new doorknob and some furniture. No more taking up my couch!"

"How generous of you." Gideon looked over at Bill. "What caused this?"

"That sleepover your cousin was in." Bill said, sweeping the floor. "They snuck up on me while I was napping and took my picture, with the flash on. I need privacy and a locked door."

"Sounds unpleasant." Gideon nodded.

"Grunkle Stan!" Dipper went over to him. "Grunkle Stan, we found your glasses but you've been busy so I didn't want to bother you."

"My glasses?" Stan looked at him. "I have my glasses."

"We mean your spares. You must've left them in that room when you boarded it up." Mabel held out the pair of glasses.

Stan looked stunned as they were shown to him and slowly took them. "Oh...yeah. These. Thanks, kids." He pocketed them and then turned back to Gideon. "Anyways, you can stay open longer, or you can join us on the shopping trip."

"While that sounds fun, I think I'll stay here and bring money in. Especially since you're about to spend a lot." Gideon smiled a bit. "You all enjoy yourselves, though."

"Want us to get you something?" Stan asked.

"No, but thank you anyway." Gideon headed for the door. "I have to feed the Gobblewonker."

"Yeesh, good luck with that. Darn thing almost took my arm off." Stan rubbed his arm.

"Telekinesis." Gideon ran a hand over his amulet and opened the door. "I'd like to see the room when it's furnished."

"Sure, no problem with that." Bill gave a thumbs-up.

"Have fun picking out the curtains, then." Gideon smiled and walked out.

"Right. Everyone ready to go, then?" Stan asked, flipping the sign.

"Let's go!" Mabel grinned and headed out, Dipper following close behind.