It's Where My Demons Hide

Chapter 17

Mabel

We kept running.

Not stopping for a rest.

I glanced at Pacifica who was giving me weird looks. I shrugged as if nothing had happened and continued running.

"Is it me or is the sky so light blue?" Pacifica asked, interrupting my thoughts.

I looked up and realised Pacifica wasn't joking. The sky was really sky blue, the one you usually see at afternoon. Last time I checked, it was midnight. So how come my watch says it's 12:41 pm? How did 12 hours passed so quickly?

Did someone stop time?

Now's not the time to think about why the sky is so blue, Mabel. I reminded myself.

"Where's the police station?"

No reply. Pacifica kept on running.

"Seriously, Paz. Are we there yet?"

Pacifica seemed to be surprised at my new nickname for her. She turned her head and answered, "We're almost there. Why are you calling me Paz?"

I shrugged. "It's a nickname I made for you."

"But why?" She looked pretty confused.

"Um... Isn't that what friends do?"

"Yeah... Friends." Pacifica smiled.

After our short conversation, the police station slowly came into view. Finally! I dashed to the door and opened it. Sheriff Blubs was calmly sitting in a chair behind a desk, sitting cross legged. Peacefully sipping his coffee, he was listening to some old 80s music. Deputy Durland was humming along to the song, rocking his chair back and forth.

"Hello?" I greeted them. The two men raised their head and noticed us.

Sheriff Blubs lowered his cup of coffee and questioned, "Aren't you that Pines kid?"

"Yep."

"Why're you here? A wax guy got murdered again? Cause we're not going to help you this time," said Blubs. Durland laughed and said "City Boy, city boy," in a sing song voice. Pacifica muttered few curses under her breath.

"Oh, you brought Miss Northwest here? Came here to cause that chaos again?" Blubs asked again. I could know he was enjoying this.

"Shut up. If you mention that again, I'm going to sue you!" Said Pacifica, raising her voice. "We only came here to prove that Dipper's innocent! We want him out of the jail!"

"No matter what!" I shouted.

"Look, we can't just get him out of the jail. But we can get Dipper to talk to you. Plus, you also need evidences to prove he's innocent," said Blubs, being serious for once. Deputy Durland stood up and walked to the Jail Hall.

We thanked the sheriff, but an alarm ringing cut us in mid sentence. "What the hell..." Muttered Blubs. He clearly had no idea what was happening. Neither did we.

"Run for our lives, girl! RUN!" Yelled Sheriff Blubs, spilling his coffee everywhere.

"But what about Dipper?"

"AH! MY DURLAND!" Blubs cried. "DON'T WORRY, I'M COMING!" He completely ignored us and ran to the hall, only to be pushed back by some force. The force might had been strong, because Blubs was knocked unconscious.

Suddenly we heard some sound on Blubs's desk. It was his walkie talkie. "Sheriff Blubs? We got a criminal on loose." A criminal? I grabbed the walkie talkie and asked what the criminal name was. I tried my best to make my voice sound low.

"You sound funny. But anyway, the criminal is Dipper Pines, the little guy that burnt the mansion. He just escaped. I want you to catch him. He probably ran to the woods."

"Ok."

"I can't believe we finally used our walkie talkie for something this serious!" The man said, sounding very happy.

"Yeah..." I said, my voice trailing off at the end. Pacifica rolled her eyes, couldn't believe that they were wasting precious time to listen to a police stranger talking about how glad he was.

The man went on. "Remember last time, we killed this stuffed panda doll? And there was this guy called Percy Jackson who was threatening us for some unknown reason? We didn't really understand what he was saying cause he was probably cursing in Greek. And we were like throwing walkie talkies at him? That was pretty awesome. And this Annabeach, pretty sure her name was Annabeach, judo flipped us? Boy was she strong. I wish I have a girlfriend like her, cause I'm gonna----"

Before I could hear more, Pacifica snatched the walkie talkie away from me and threw it at the wall, breaking it into pieces.

Then everything happened so fast.

Pacifica was suddenly taken by a group of people wearing orange jail clothes. Criminals who escaped, I realized in shock.

This was much worse than I had thought.