He has returned (Gravity Falls fanfiction)

chapter nineteen

The twins took Bill with them into the bathroom to brush their teeth and get ready for bed. Ford gave in and helped Stan with the dishes because both of them didn’t want to burden Mabel on her first day of return with something like cleaning. After all, she was looking after Bill right now, which also took a lot of energy. 

Upstairs, Dipper showed Bill a toothbrush:“ You use this to clean your teeth so they dont get bad and fall out.“, he smiled, showing his teeth. They were not sparkly white but he thought that Bill couldn’t make that difference yet. Bill made an absolutely disgusted face and Dipper closed his mouth again quickly. Why was Bill this disgusted with his teeth, Dipper asked himself, they weren’t that bad! Bill answered his question:“ Why would the human body do that to itself? Otherwise it works great! Oh well, sometimes not. I have seen things… and I have done things. But that’s not the point! The human body is so imperfect in all ways it can be. A vessel out of flesh, meat and blood that only doesn’t decay because it is moved, fed and exercised! All that is so exhausting. And now you tell me that on top of all that, I also have to brush my teeth? And they dont even repair themselves when they get damaged like the rest of the body! That’s so useless. I want to have my perfect form of energy back, not this … thing!“

Now the twins were really disgusted about this picture of the human body but Dipper was glad that Bill hadn’t reacted badly to his yellow teeth. Dipper agreed that brushing your teeth twice a day could be quite exhausting, especially if you were a mastermind like him and needed to focus on important studies. Mabel loved brushing her teeth for two reasons: 1. She enjoyed going over her teeth with her tongue after brushing when they felt fresh and clean and also she needed to do it more often than others because of her braces and 2. She could down a bottle of toothpaste in a day but due to it not being socially accepted she stuck to brushing her teeth more often. The twins showed Bill how to brush properly and ignored his continuous wailing about how dumb the human body was. When Bill breathed in after and particularly long sentence, he chocked on the toothpaste which made him shut up and brush his teeth quietly.

Through out the entire time Bill had felt a weird feeling in his lower stomach. He hadn’t really cared about it because it was not too uncomfortable but now the feeling became more pressing and he felt like he would explode any second. The sound of the running water from the faucet only made it worse and he thought it best to just ask the twins how to make it stop. 

„So, Pinetree, Shootingstar! I have a quiz question about the human body for you. Why does the body sometimes make on have a pressing feeling in the stomach like its about to burst? Isn’t that rather un-nice of this meaty ball? If you can tell me what that is I might just give you a reward!“, Bill smiled wide. He had talked with his toothbrush still in his mouth so when he smiled it fell out. He tried picking it up as fast as he could and then hit his head on the bathroom sink, played it off and still smiled the same smile when he stood straight again. The siblings looked at each other, Dipper was dumbfounded while Mabel played long with Bills acting. 

„Hmm, that could mean anything, you know? Either you have a slight tummy ache, need to visit the toilet or, most likely, you will die a gruesome death where your organs punch their way out of your stomach and then eat you alive!“. Now Dipper understood too and added to the horror. 

„To help you, Grunkle Ford will have to cut open your stomach and take out your organs himself before they can eat you! Then he has to replace them with others and that repeats every week!“. 

Bill looked down to his stomach. His vision was now dizzy and a cold shock ran over his body. He didn’t want to be cut open. Would his organs really eat him? Whatever was going on in his stomach really felt like it would make its way through his belly. He looked up at the twins, absolute fear in his eyes. „Why does the human body hate its owner?“, he asked with a shaky voice, he was near tears. Dipper started laughing. He loved seeing fear in the demons eyes, especially after he had flirted with Wendy. Mabel also started laughing but after looking at Bill a bit longer and noticing that he still was afraid, she started feeling bad. „Dipper, stop!“, she told her brother. He continued and under short breaths asked why. Dipper didn’t feel bad. He had no reason to like the boy. He would laugh about him all he wanted. Thats what Bill had done when he had been in the powerful position so Dipper had every right to act the same way now. He also liked feeling the superiority of the situation. That for once he knew more than Bill and had tricked Bill once again.

At that moment Ford knocked on the door:“ Are you done in there?“.

„Yeah, just give us some more minutes“, Mabel replied. Dipper hadn’t expected Ford so he abruptly stopped his maniac laughing episode and stayed quiet. He still felt satisfaction though. Ford didn’t reply but the three could hear him walk away a few steps.

„So Bill, either way you have a tummy ache from eating too fast or you just need to go to the toilet. Best way to find out which of those two it is, is to go to the toilet“, Mabel explained and pointed to the toilet in the corner. She continued explaining the human anatomy to Bill and how to clean up afterwards and all that. When she was confident that Bill knew what too do, she dragged Dipper out of the room before Bill could start his complaining session over the human body again. There they met Ford. The old man then explained that he would soon contact the oracle and that is the reason they should go to sleep now and especially for the first night, he wouldn’t like Bill sleeping alone, even though he would be tied up. There he also gave both of them a small knife that should be able to harm Bill if his powers would return. That made Dipper feel a lot safer. Mabel trusted that Bill was fully human and she would try everything to make him a nice human. Nevertheless she also took the knife.

Then Bill exited the bathroom, with a proud look on his face and an overall more relaxed vibe. Seems like his tummy ache was gone now. They all went into the twins room where now a third bed was standing at the foot end in the middle, but sideways to the others. Bill still knew that room very well from the times of possessing Dipper and watching over the twins. That all felt so distant now and he could not remember all the details to it anymore. In all of his life, he had never forgotten anything and it made him feel small and afraid. What else would he forget? And seeing the third bed made him ever more anxious. He now really had to sleep. He was so afraid, the whole room seemed to spin around him, the only stable thing being the bed. It didn’t make him feel better when Ford put his hand on his shoulder and slightly pushed him towards it. Bill put one small step infront of the other, trying not to show his unsteadiness.

„Just lay down and give me your arm please.“, Ford said in a soothing tone. Ford had understood that while Bill was a demon and had brought a lot of pain the the pines family, he now had the brain of a 12 or 13 year old and Ford would not like to harm a child. Only when said child started the fight, then Ford would take actions.

Bill did as he was told. His body was so exhausted and stiff, even if Bill had wanted to fight back he couldn’t have done anything. Laying down also felt like a huge relief at this point. Then he felt Ford tying his hand to the bed.

„Hey hey HEY!! What do you think you are doing there?!“, then Bill felt the magic rushing through him. It made him all tingly, but it disappeared again after some seconds. Bill felt even more drained and powerless now. Whatever that rope was made of, it seemed to be working. Ford didn’t think it necessary to answer the boy. He said good night to all three and left the room to go into the lab.

Stanford Pines had a lot of places for meditation. He liked to meditate whenever he got a quiet minute, which wasn’t so often anymore so he was really looking forward to todays evening. For normal meditation he mostly stayed upstairs, in his study room for example, but speaking to the oracle needed a bit more effort so he needed a place where he would not be disturbed.

He went into his old meditation room, the one that once had been for his muse, Bill Cipher. For some reason that room was still filled with spiritual energies more than any other and here Ford had always succeeded conecting to the oracle. He had just finished putting on a lot of candles and lighting incense. But as soon as he sat down to relax and get started a sharp wind shot through the whole room, blowing out all the candles at once. What was going on? There were no windows in the room, it was underground, this was not possible! It must have been something else…