Afraid of the Forest

11

 "Thank you for helping me." Dipper spoke up and faced Bill with a smile. "I know you were kinda freaked out by the idea of takin' these home."

Bill's stomach clenched when he heard the word 'home' leave Dipper's mouth. "It's alright. I know how weak you humans are."

"Yeah, yeah. Like you weren't scared of the thing when we first walked up on it." Dipper chuckled and rolled his eyes before looking back down to Bill.

"The only reason why I was scared was because I didn't want to have to explain to Mabel how you were attacked by some animal I knew was dangerous." Bill grumbled with a pout clear on his lips and furrowed eyebrows.

"Yeah, right." Dipper laughed and threw an arm around Bill's shoulders; a mindless act. However, Bill was running around in his mind laughing hysterically at the warm, tingling he felt on his shoulders and heat in his face.

"You okay?" Dipper asked after a minute of walking and holding a light animal on one arm before he realized that he had an arm draped on both of Bill's shoulders. He quickly removed his arm. "I'm sorry, I didn't even think about it."

"It's fine." He mumbled. He felt like he was being ripped in half because the tingling was still there, but the warmth was gone. They walked back in seemingly comfortable silence after Bill went back to petting the animal. Once they arrived at the Mystery Shack and Mabel was seen on the front porch with a bored look on her face, but once she saw that Bill and Dipper were walking out of the forest, she shot up with a wide smile on her face. However, when she sat the strange cats in their arms, she tilted her head to the side a little and lost some of he smile.

"What happened to them?" She asked as she walked up and met them half way.

"Their mom was hurt." Dipper stated. "I know that you miss Fuzzy, so I thought that it wouldn't be horrible if we brought these cute things back to the Shack."