Little Dipper

Black Magic

"Mm, that had to be the best turkey sandwich I have ever eaten." Mabel said as she and Gideon left a restaurant. "We're going back there next ti—ohh!" She ran over to a poster. "Oh. My. Gooooooooooosh! Gideon, look! Sev'ral Timez is coming to town~!"

"Oh yeah, Pacifica was talking about that." Gideon walked over to look at the poster.

"I have gotta go! Can we go? Please?" She looked at him.

Gideon chuckled. "Your wish is my command, darlin'. I'll buy the tickets today."

"Eee!" She hugged him happily. "Thank you~! I've never seen them in concert before, this is gonna be amazing!"

Gideon smiled and hugged her. "Anything for you, Mabel-cakes."

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"And so we're gonna go see them in concert tonight!" Mabel said, leaning on the counter happily. "Wooow, I feel so lucky!"

"You know, I'm pretty sure that all those boy bands are clones. I mean, they all look alike." Wendy said, lowering her magazine.

"Eh, more likely they're brothers." Bill commented. "Humans haven't really managed to properly make stable human clones. No offense, Tyrone."

"No offense taken, Mr. Cipher." Tyrone beamed at him.

"See? They're brothers!" Mabel looked at Wendy.

"I dunno, they seem a little TOO alike. But, eh, maybe I just haven't seen enough twins to recognize one." Wendy raised her magazine again. "Slow day today?"

"Everyone's saving their money for the concert tickets, I guess." Bill shrugged. "Hey, where's Robbie? He's late."

"He'll be here, said he wanted to bring something for me." Wendy reached for her can of Pitt Soda.

"Well, if he's much later I'm gonna smack him with his guitar." Bill huffed.

"Relax, Bill." Mabel grinned. "Business is slow, we might close early today. Stan's not even on the shop floor right now."

"Yeah, where is he?" Bill went to look outside, where he last saw Stan go.

Stan was talking with Susan on the couch, Dipper on his other side. "So, y'know, I figured since it's such a slow day we'll close up the shop. Gideon's keeping it open for his current group, but there were so few he's thinking of closing the Tent of Telepathy for the day."

"Well, what will you do with your day, then?" Susan asked.

"I dunno, I was kind of thinking of going to have your pie." Stan grinned.

Dipper climbed off the couch and went over to Susan. "Can I call you Grauntie Susan?"

"Oh my!" She gasped.

"Dipper, it's a bit soon for that!" Stan laughed.

"But, you are gonna marry her, right?" Dipper looked at him.

"IIII...uhh...I think this is an uncomfortable subject for either of us right now! It's too soon, we've just started dating! Go back inside!" Stan nudged him gently.

"Go on, dear. I put some pie in the kitchen for you all." Susan smiled.

"Okay!" Dipper walked over to Bill. "Let's go have pie."

"Stan, there's no customers right now. We closing?" Bill asked.

"Yeah, flip the sign. Robbie ever show up?" Stan frowned.

"Nope. Want me to use my Sight and make sure he didn't get grabbed by a monster?" Bill asked.

"Nah, don't bother. He's fine." Stan looked towards the road, where Robbie was getting out of Thompson's van.