[He Will Be Watching Me] Bill Cipher x Oc

Chapter 9: Sock Opera

After almost ten days without talking to the Pines family I decided it was time I did. So when Clara told me they were going to the local library I asked her if I could go with them.
We reached the building where Dipper and Mabel were waiting for Clara. When the male twin saw me he stopped talking with his sister and looked at me with a serious face.
"Hello guys!" Exclaimed Clara throwing herself at Mabel, both of them started laughing.
"Hi" I awkwardly waved my hand with a nervous smile.
"What are you doing here? Why don't you go with Grunkle Stan to do whatever you adults like to do?" Dipper asked crossing his arms and scoffing at me.
"Dipper can I talk to you?" I asked him nervously and when I saw that neither Clara nor Mabel were leaving I added "Alone." When I said that Dipper blushed, nervously rubbing his arm. Both of our sisters nodded and run inside of the building shouting something about looking for a place for us to sit down. We walked to a bench nearby and sat down.
"Look, I know I was pretty harsh back there, but... I really worry about you guys." I started talking fidgeting with my hands "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. It's just that... I'm scared about who the author could be. For al we know it could be some psycho."
"Alice, I forgive you." He smiled at me, making me sigh in relief "It's only that... This is very important for me." I put my hand on his shoulder, shaking him lightly.
"So... We're good? No harsh feelings, right?" He smiled at me and nodded "Ok, then let's go inside, 'cause even though it's cloudy the weather out here is hot as fu- Heck." I said almost cursing, used to being able to curse around Bill and Jara.
I was surprised; it had been pretty easy to get his forgiveness. I had expect it to be far more difficult.
We got inside of the library and looked for Clara and Mabel. They were sitting in front of a table with an old computer on top of it. Behind it there was a big window with golden glass and some curtains covering part of it.
We sat down and Dipper started rummaging inside his backpack while talking.
"Alright, today is the big day."
"Big day!" Cheered Mabel.
"Soos finally fixed up the laptop." Dipper continued talking as he pulled out the laptop from his backpack
"Wait, is that the laptop from the bunker?" I asked, how much had I missed?
"Yup." Clara said popping the 'p'.
"If this thing works, we could learn the identity of the author and unravel the greatest mysteries of Gravity Falls. You ready?" Said Dipper, informing me.
"Oh, I'm ready, baby." Mabel opened a pop-up book with a drawing of a baby, and said with a high voice "Ma-ma."
"This is it. This is it." He powered on the laptop, it had duck tape on it and even a band-aid on the screen, which read 'Welcome' "Aha! It worked!"
"Blip, blap, bloobity bloop, twins." They did some things with their hands like high-fiving, bumping their fists... Leaving Clara and me looking at each other awkwardly.
When they finished an alarm started blaring. The laptop read 'UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FORBIDDEN' before changing to 'Enter password'.
"Ugh! Of course, a password." Dipper groaned throwing his hands up in the air.
"Don't you worry, bro bro. With you and Alice's brains and Clara and me's laser focus, there is literally nothing that can distract us from..." Suddenly music started sounding, making Mabel stop talking "Did you hear that?"
We all turned around and there was some guy around Mabel's and Dipper's age singing with some puppets in front of some kids. He was fully dressed in black and had blond hair in a ponytail.
Then he started making the puppets make out while he laughed (the puppets were actually a book and a bee).
Mabel opened again her  pop-up book, but this time there was a drawing of a heart, and she started opening and closing the book as if it was beating. "Ba bump. Ba bump."
"Oh, boy." Dipper face palmed as he stood up, losing his sister's attention.
"Just when I was getting over Mermando, of course, you show up at my doorstep."
"Oh, yeah, I forgot about Mermando. Did not care for Mermando." Dipper grabbed a library book off of the shelf.
"Who's Mermando?" I whispered to Clara.
"He's a guy, well, actually a merman, Mabel had a crush on." She explained to me in whispers and I nodded.
"Okay, this cryptology book says that there's 7.2 million 8-letter words. I'll type, you read. Okay, Mabel?" Dipper said and flipped through the pages of the book "Mabel?"
Dipper lifted his gaze from the book only to find Mabel's empty chair spinning.
"Clara has also left, I'll help you." I smiled at him as he sat down and I got near him, reading out loud possible words.
Suddenly there was a loud thump and I turned around. It was Mabel, she had fallen from a book cart and Clara was a bit further trying not to laugh. I chuckled and continued working with Dipper.
"Try with 'Password'"
He typed in the word on the computer and it beeped again, making him sigh.
Mabel sat with Clara next to us.
"So, how'd it go?" Dipper asked with an exasperated tone.
"Dipper, how hard do you think it'd be to write and compose a sock puppet rock opera with lights, original music and live pyrotechnics by Friday?" Mabel asked nervously playing with her hands.
After she said all the things she needed to do (in less than a week) I slowly lifted my gaze from the book, looking at her with wide eyes.
"What?" Dipper asked Mabel after the laptop beeped "Mabel, are you serious?"
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! I got lost in his eyes and his ponytails and I'm gonna be so embarrassed on Friday if I don't have ANYTHING." She started shouting and shaking Dipper.
"Is he really that great?" I asked Clara and she shook her head.
"I think he's a creepy guy with puppets." I snickered and nodded "And he's not even that hot."
"What about cracking this password? You know, mystery twins?" Dipper said and bumped his own fists.
"If you help me with this for JUST a couple of days I promise I'll help with the password! Please, pretty please!" Mabel grabbed him by the shirt and started begging "It's for love, Dipper." She finished whispering.
"All right, okay-" He said after thinking over it for a few seconds.
"YES! THANK YOU!! THIS GUY! HE'S NUMBER ONE!!!" Mabel screamed as she hugged him.
"Okay, okay, okay, shhhh..." I giggled at the scene before me.
"Alice! Clara's told me that you've composed a couple of pieces. Could you help me?" Mabel said and I looked at Clara from the corner of my eye.
"Well... I guess I could try to help you both..." I sheepishly rubbed the back of my neck  "Also, Clara's pretty good at sewing."
"GREAT!!" Mabel started shouting again, making people turn their heads at us.
After a few more minutes trying to decode the password and Clara and Mabel talking about the show we decide to leave.
"Man, I can't wait to get to the bottom of this laptop. We're close to something big here; I can feel it..."
Just as we were leaving the building I felt a shiver running down my spine. I turned around, but there was nothing there.
We went to a thrift shop to buy some socks and some cloth we needed and then we went to the Mystery Shack, where I started working in the music for the show and the passwords with Dipper.
Even after Clara and me left I continued helping Dipper talking over the phone, until almost 5 in the morning, then I made him go to sleep.
We continued working like that for the next days. Helping Mabel with her show in the day and trying to open the laptop in the night. (One day Dipper sewed his t-shirt to the sewing machine a Clara had to free him.)
It was Thursday, the day before the show and we were all reunited in the living room, which was a mess, working. And by we I mean the twins, Wendy, Soos, Clara and me
"Alright. This is gonna be called 'Glove Story: A Sock Opera'. Just to warn you, people's eyes will get wet. Cause they'll be crying. From laughter! From how tragic it is." Mabel explained waving her socked hands around.
"Yeah, um. That sounds great."Dipper said trying to rip some sock puppets that were glued to his face and coughed up some pom-poms.
"Come on, Dipper, you gotta roll with Mabel's craziness. It's what makes life worth living." Wendy said, she was drying some socks with a hairdryer. I scooted near him from my spot next to  Mabel, as there was where the piano was, to help him get the socks off his face.
Mabel signed me to get back to where she was sitting to play the piano (even though Clara played it better than me, the piano is not my instrument!) and she started singing
"Puppet boy, Puppet boy, you're the boy I-"
"Loooooovvvvveeee!" We all finished the song and Waddles squealed along.
"Not even gonna ask." Stan started to walk in but stopped and after he said that he left.
After a few more hours working everyone left the shack, the only ones left being the four of us, plus Stan. We had some pizza  and then Clara and I went back to our bungalow.
That night I talked to Dipper till 2:30 in the morning, even after I had heard Mabel, hours before, telling him to go to sleep. Or... He would start to eat his shirt? When we hanged up he promised to call me if he was able to crack the password up.
After a night without dreams, which I found really weird, but I was glad about it, we went to the Mystery Shack. I felt really rested; it had been almost two weeks without really resting. We had decided to meet up with the twins so soon that we had breakfast with Stan and Mabel, Dipper was still sleeping.
Mabel had been waving a Stan puppet in her grunkle's face while imitating his voice for a few minutes, trying to get some kind of reaction.
"Hey, I'm Puppet Staaaannn!"
"Still ignoring this." He sipped on his coffee and continued reading the newspaper.
Dipper walked in the kitchen and yawned.
"Hey, good morning." He yawned again.
"Woah, bag check for Dipper's eyes. Ha ha! Nobody?" Stan joked and when I chuckled he pointed at me and smiled.
"Dipper, I told you to get some sleep last night!" Mabel scolded him in a worried voice "Here, wake up with some Mabel Juice. It has plastic dinosaurs in it!" She held a blender full of red liquid with various objects floating around.
"It's like if coffee and nightmares had a baby!" Stan said looking at it with fearful eyes.
"I'm not sure if you should drink it" Clara said lifting her hands "Just saying."
Dipper asked us to go to the living room.
"Listen, last night I had a dream with Bill in it."
"Wait, hold up, the triangle guy?" Mabel held her fingers around her eye to make a triangle.
Oh no! That's why Bill hadn't bothered me last night! He was bothering Dipper now!
"He said he'd give me the code to the laptop if I gave him something. Like I'd actually trust Bill, right?" Dipper continued talking about the dream.
"Don't worry, bro. Today's the day that the mystery twins are back in action. I'll help you crack that code. I've just got to hand off my puppet stuff to my production crew." Said Mabel trying to calm him down.
"Production crew?" Dipper asked confused and in that moment the doorbell rang.
Mabel ran to the door and Candy and Grenda were outside covered in socks and other crafting materials.
"We read the script. Very emotional." Candy said while adjusting her glasses.
"I cried like eight times!" Exclaimed Grenda with her deep voice.
"Hey ladies." Gabe aka the creepy guy with puppets skated up to us. With his puppets still on his hands.
"GABE!" Mabel exclaimed excitedly.
"I was just bladin' by. Helps me dry out my ponytail after a shower." He took off his (pink) helmet and shook his hair.
"Hubbity-hubbuty." Grenada said as she eyed him.
And Candy whispered something in Korean while glaring at Mabel and also eyeing him.
"It's so great to see you! I was just working on the world's greatest puppet show. IT HAS PUPPETS" Mabel exclaimed as if it was the best thing in the world, after running to him.
"Your passion is so refreshing, Mabel. Unlike the girl from last night's puppet show." And that's the last thing I listened to. I didn't really care about how the puppets of that girl were made; I was more worried about Dipper and all that Bill stuff.
"Later, ladies." Gabe skated off, I had missed the whole conversation.
"GWAAA!! We gotta up our game, girls! Did you hear that thing he said about the stitches?!" Mabel shouted worriedly.
"Not really" I muttered.
"Don't worry, Mabel, your crew can handle it!" Grenda held up a puppet of herself, but then ripped its arms off "Oops."
"How many eyes does a face have again?" Candy held up a sock covered in googly eyes, making Clara facepalm as I looked at her in astonishment.
A bit far away from where we were Soos was trying to keep a mountain of stuff on top of Stan's car. But it all fell down with himself under it.
"Ahhh! Okay, I'm back on fabrication." Mabel started running with a box while she continued shouting "Get me my lint roller!"
Dipper grabbed her, making all the stuff fall.
"Whoa, whoa! Hey, you just said you were going to help me!"
"Dipper! This sock crisis just bumped up to code argyle! The laptop can wait!" She went down on her knees and started picking everything up.
"Mabel, do you seriously think that your random crush of the week is more important than uncovering the mysteries of this town? You're obsessed!" Well, he did have a point there, she almost had a crush per week.
"I'm obsessed? Look at you! You look like a vampire! And not the hot kind!" She said glaring at him. Dipper looked horrible, he had bags under his eyes, which where bloodshot, and his skin was sickly pale. I wondered if I also looked like that after so many nights with Bill in my dreams. Every day when I woke up I felt restless, as if I hadn't slept at all.
"But you said you were going to help me today!" He said looking at her with sad and tired eyes after rubbing them with his hands, as if trying to rub the eye bags away.
"Oh, I can help you. With tickles!" Mabel said making a voice and pretending to talk with the sock she had on her hand before tickling him.
Dipper started laughing but punched her arm away and Candy and Grenda laughed, while I separated the twins. "Okay, fine! You know what? I'll do it on my own!" Dipper stormed off and I followed him.
"Dipper, I can help you! I think I've finished my part of the work" he looked at me and smiled gratefully. We were walking up the stairs that led to the attic when I decide to bring up his dream with Bill "Dipper, don't make a deal with Bill."
"What? I'm not gonna make a deal!" He exclaimed looking at me confused.
I sighed in relief but continued talking.
"But really, don't even think about making it. He's pretty nuts and who knows what he wants from you." Dipper chuckled and shook his head.
When we reached the attic I threw myself on top of his bed as he sat down on the windowsill. We worked for half an hour or so when Grenda bursted in the room and lifted me, taking me outside, where everyone else was.
"How?!" I looked at her in awe when she put me down."How are you able to lift me?!" She laughed and flexed her arms. I walked to where Mabel was and sat down crossing my arms. "What do you want? I was helping Dipper."
"This is more important!!" She exclaimed and then started saying (more like shouting) that they were not able to reach some of the lower notes. Aaand I had to rewrite some parts of the sheets, until they were able to sing them.
When I finished I got up and informed them that I was going to continue helping Dipper with the laptop.
When I got inside I felt a 'whoosh' past beside me, which was Mabel, running to the kitchen, where apparently Dipper was.
"Hey Dipper!" I heard Mabel  quickly say from the kitchen's doorway "I borrowed your journal to use as a prop in the show I hope you don't mind. I'm gonna go before you process this sentence okay BYEE!!" Then she run off outside again. Man, that girl was fast when she wanted to be.
"Sure, sounds great, sister! I'll see you at the show!" Dipper answered even though she could not hear him.
"Hey Dipper, how's the laptop goi- Oh my God! Are you okay?" I asked him, quickly getting to his side after seeing a fork stabbed in his arm as he had it inside of one of the kitchen's drawers.
"Sure I am!" He said grinning widely at me.
"I'm going for the first-aid kit to patch you up." I run to the bathroom to grab it and I made Dipper sit down in one of the chairs of the kitchen so I could work. "What were you exactly doing?" I got some alcohol in a gauze to clean the scratches he had in his arms and legs, having to get on my knees.
"Just looking for something to eat. But I got distracted." That didn't really make sense, so I looked up at him and found him staring at me intensely, making me feel uncomfortable.
"...ok? You should change your shirt, it's stained with soda" I said finishing with the scratches and covering the biggest ones with band aids "This may hurt a little. I'm gonna pull the fork off your arm." I grabbed it and looked him in the eyes, which seemed to be more golden than his usually brown eyes "On three. One.... Two..." I pulled out the fork and he hissed, but it didn't seem like it really had hurt him. I cleaned the wound and bandaged it.
"Hey, sweethea- Alice! Why don't you sit with me during the show?" He asked as I cleaned a scratch I hadn't seen on his face. Making me get closer to him.
"Sure. But I thought you'd want to sit with Wendy." I sat down in front of him.
"You're the one who's been helping me. I want to spend more time with you."
After he said that we heard Soos' voice calling our names.
"You can get going to the car, I've got to pick a couple of things for Mabel!" I said to him before running to the living room.
"Alice!" I heard Dipper's voice call, in a desperate tone. I turned around but he wasn't there. I shrugged and continued picking everything up.
When I got outside Dipper was already sitting in Soos' car and seemed to be laughing (quite maniacal) at something outside the window.
"I'm here!" I said getting inside the car. I had to enter by the door on the side where Dipper was sitting as the other door was blocked with more stuff for the show. While getting inside I lost my balance and fell on top of Dipper's lap, making a groan escape from his lips. You see, trying to balance a box full of things without any of them falling, and also trying not to put your ass on somebody's face (with little space to move) at the same time is pretty difficult. "I'm so sorry Dipper!" I tried to get up but I lost my balance again and ended up falling (again) on his lap. I finally was able to get off of his lap, with his help, and sat down on the middle seat.
I looked at him, he wasn't even blushing, which was quite surprising, because he usually blushed when Wendy touched him (or I hugged him as I teased him). He had helped me to get off of him by grabbing me by my hips, which surprised me even more, for the same reasons. Dipper was staring at me again and it was really creeping me out.
"Man, stop staring at me, please." He quickly looked away and I saw his cheeks redden a bit, making me giggle.
After a few minutes of driving we got to the theater.
When we finally finished preparing everything and people started to come the sun had already set down.
I was sitting between Dipper and Wendy, his arms over Soos' shoulders and mine.
"Aw, nothing like the theater, huh toots? Hey Soos, wanna hear the exact time and date of your death?" I looked at him frowning. What was up with him?
"Heheh, okay!" Soos laughed, not getting weirded out.
"Hey guys! You all made it!" Said Mabel coming running to us.
"Are you kidding me? I would never miss..." Stan said making a pause before continuing talking "Whatever this is."
"By the by, Mabel, where'd you put my journal again?" Dipper asked her, still grinning widely.
"I used it as a prop for the big wedding scene! I still need a reverend, though." Mabel explained frowning when she said the last part.
"Hey, what if I play the reverend?" Her brother suggested while gesturing a lot "I mean, someone's gotta hold that journal, right?"
"Right! Let's go!" Mabel exclaimed and run off with Dipper. But before he got behind the curtains he turned around and winked at me as he waved his hand. I waved mine back, a bit confused with his... 'Flirtatious' behavior towards me.
He had been all the day right beside me, and took advance of every excuse to touch me or grab my hand. He also seemed really out of character, but maybe it was the stress and the lack of sleep.
The lights started to flicker and Grenda's voice filled the room.
"The show is about to begin! Please turn off your cell phones! Unless you're texting me, cuties!" I chuckled and proceeded to silence my phone.
The room's lights dimmed and, as people started to applause, the curtain opened.
The set was a glittery and colorful Mystery Shack. A light illuminated Candy, who was standing at a keyboard, dressed as David Bowie.
"Gather round, and let us sing, about a girl who had almost everything." The place where she was standing rolled off the stage.
It was time to see if all our hard work had been for nothing.
The puppets started to sing a song about Mabel and when Puppet Gabe appeared Puppet Mabel looked at him in awe. Falling in love with him at first sight. The show continued on for one more hour before the intermission began.
"Our intermission has begun! Mill about!" Grenda announced and the audience got up and out.
I also got up, looking for the twins or my sister, who was participating in the show. At the end I convinced Mabel to let her play the piano.  
I got behind the curtains and walked to the dressing rooms, but I found Dipper beginning to climb up a ladder.
"Hey Dipper! Wow!" I wolf whistled "You're looking good" He was dressed in a two piece black suit with a grey shirt, a pair of brown leather shoes with golden points and around his neck there was a loose bow and the black and white thingy priests have.
"Thanks!" He exclaimed "You also look really good! Well, as always." He winked at me and I blushed. Seriously, what was up with him?!
"A-anyways..." I stuttered nervously "Where are you going?"
"I'm just gonna pick my journal. To be ready for my part"
"Ah! True! Good luck with that!" I said patting him lightly.
"Why don't you give me a good luck kiss?" I looked at him in confusion and he realized what he had said "On the cheek. Just one tiny kiss on the cheek, to wish me good luck."
"O-ok" I got near him and leaned down to peck his cheek. He was acting really strangely today. The lights flickered again, signaling that the show was about to begin again. "Oh! I've got to go. A-and good luck again!"
"Hey! Why don't you stay here? You've worked really hard on this, you should be able to be in the backstage." Dipper suggested, stopping me from leaving. I shrugged, I guess he was right.
We climbed up the stairs, me first and he following me. When we reached the railing on top there was some kind of wedding cake (I'm not really sure what it was, I only knew it was going to appear in the wedding scene) hanging beside it. It started to fall and I rushed to grab it, but Dipper beat me and stopped it from falling.
Mabel was inside of it scrolling through the pages of the journal.
"Wait. If Mabel is here... Who's with the puppets?" I looked down, only to see them floating around. "What the Hell?"
"Come on, come on now, there must be a way to get Dipper's body back!" I heard Mabel say. I was getting so confused! What was going on?!
"But why would you want to do that?" Said Dipper laughing as he pulled the thing up and Mabel looked up to him.
"Bill Dipper! Bipper." Mabel said glaring at him.
"Wait! Bill? You're possessing Dipper?!" I exclaimed in shock as I took a couple of steps back. As he smirked in my direction and winked. In that moment I understood why he was acting that way, it was Bill!
"Shh! You wouldn't want to ruin the show... Whoops!"
He briefly released the cake, sending Mabel plummeting. "It's slipping! How's about you hand that book over?" Bipper was smiling evilly at Mabel.
"No way! This is Dipper's! I'd never give it away!" Mabel hugged the journal to her chest.
"Hmm, you didn't seem to have a problem taking it for your own play, ditching him when he needed you." I tried to take a couple of steps forward to grab the rope, but I found myself stuck. He turned in my direction and smirked "Not so fast, love. While you have that pretty little necklace of yours on, you're under my power. Even if this body isn't very powerful, the necklace still reacts to my essence." He turned back again to Mabel "So come to your senses, Shooting Star. Give me the book or your play is ruined." Mabel sighed and began to hand over the journal to him, making him change from frowning to grinning "There it is. I mean, who would sacrifice everything they've worked for just for their dumb sibling?" Bipper stretched out his hand, grabbing the rope with just one hand. Dipper's body was stronger than it looked, or he was using more force than the limbs were able to.
Mabel stopped herself from giving the journal at Bipper's words and looked at him in realization.
"Dipper would."
"Huh?" He looked at Mabel and she pulled him into the cake, making them fall to the stage.
I found myself able to move again, so I climbed down the leader, jumping when I was almost down. The cake had crashed to the floor and Mabel and Bill had tumbled out, grappling over the journal. The laser and fog going off.
"Get out of my brother's body, you evil triangle!" Mabel shouted as she pulled from the journal and got on top of Bipper. She hit him in the face with it and run away.
I threw myself at Bipper, tackling him down and pinning him down with my hands. He groaned but then smirked up at me.
"As much as I love the position we're in, I've got to move you aside." He pushed me lightly but I found myself being thrown to the other side of the stage. Bipper got up and started and shouted before lunging at Mabel "You can't stop me! I'm a being of pure energy with no weakness!"
I felt dizzy and my body was aching from the impact against the floor. I tried to stand up, but... Found myself, again, unable to move a muscle, making me groan in exasperation.
"True, but you're in Dipper's body. And I know all his weaknesses!" She smirked and lifted her hand.
"What do you mean his-" Bipper frowned in confusion before Mabel started tickling him.
"Tickle, tickle!"
Bipper laughed and fell on the floor, grabbing his side.
"Aah! Body spasms! What are these?"
Mabel quickly got up and far away from Bill's vessel.
"A little note about the human body- You haven't slept for 24 hours!" She stated grinning in satisfaction and started running around the stage, with him chasing her "Also, I got a full night's sleep and I'm on four mega-shots of Mabel Juice!"
Bipper started slowing his pace, sweating and wheezing, sleep deprivation finally taking a tool on him.
"Ah! What is this feeling My body is burning! I can't move these stupid noodle legs!" He groaned punching his legs, trying to make them move faster "Curse you, useless flesh sticks! Body...shutting down... must...scratch... mosquito bites..." Bipper stumbled around, then he finally collapsed.
The vessel's eyes opened again, this time they were the brown the usually were. Dipper was back.
"Hey! Yes! I'm in my own body! And it's... just as underwhelming as I remember." He stood cheering but then gripped his back in pain. "Ooh, everything hurts."
I got up from where I had been thrown groaning in pain. I was sure I was going to have a nasty bruise in my right side.
I got where the twins where, right when Bill started cackling. We looked over to see the Dipper puppet talking.
"This isn't the last you'll hear of me! Big things are coming! You can't stop me" Those words sent shivers down my spine. I looked at the puppet with fear in my eyes.
"I'm sorry, Gabe." Mabel muttered taking out a controller and pushing the 'Big Finish' button. Bill was situated on a pile of pyrotechnics, which exploded the moment Mabel pushed the button, sending fireworks shooting into the audience and blowing up the box of puppets. I even had to duck in order to not be hit.
The rest of the fireworks went off in a cacophonous boom, and Dipper gleefully stomped on the Dipper puppet when in landed near his feet. As the smoke cleared from the smoldering set, we turned to the audience. Some scaffolding crashed to the floor behind us, making me jump in fear.
"Don't worry. I've seen enough movies to know this is the part where the audience thinks it was all part of the show and loves it. Cue applause!" She turned to the audience again smiling.
They stared at us before starting to boo. They got up and left the theater, grumbling about how they almost had died. Gabe stood up, frowning.
"Gabe! Stick around for the wrap party? We've got mini-quiches!" Mabel said to him smiling nervously.
"Don't speak to me, Mabel. You've made a mockery of my art form. Let's go, my loves. "He walked away, kissing the puppets.
"Did he just make out with his puppets?" Dipper asked in disgust.
"Yup, he did. Ughh" I answered him staring at the door where Gabe was getting out.
"I might've dodged a bullet there." Mabel stated.
Candy ran past us and after him shouting something in Korean.
"Ugh. Mabel, I'm sorry about all this. It's my fault your puppets got ruined." Dipper apologized looking down.
"Well, one of them survived." She smiled, pulling out the Mabel puppet. "And she has something to say to you." She continued talking but as the puppet "I'm sorry, Dipper. I spent all week obsessing over a dumb guy. But the dumb guy I should have cared about was you! Bap! "She nudged Dipper's face, making me awe at how cute the scene was "Mystery twins?"
"Mystery twins." They fist bumped and Dipper gasped in pain. "Ow! What'd Bill do to my hand? Ahh!"
"Nothing a little sleep can't fix." We walked offstage. "Come on, bro bro, let's go home."
"Seriously, I need to go to the hospital." He groaned and I helped him walk.
"You should've listened to your sister and me. We told you to sleep and I also told you not to make a deal with Bill." I scolded him lightly "I had to patch you, well, Bill up. You had a fork stabbed in your arm. When we get back to the shack I'll check you out." Dipper nodded, blushing in embarrassment.
"A-Alice... Bill said... Err... Things about you." He said looking away from me. And I stopped walking, making him stop too.
"W-what did he say?" I stuttered in fear and embarrassment.
"W-Well..." Dipper was a blushing mess. Maybe I shouldn't make him say it if he was uncomfortable "He said he was dying to see you and... Touch you." I felt my cheeks redden "After you cleaned the mess he had made in my body he said he had to s-stop himself from doing anything to you. And when you fell on top of him in the car h-he..." Dipper stopped talking, closing his eyes, his face was red. Redder than mine, for sure.
"Dipper you don't have to say anything else if it makes you uncomfortable." He sighed and I ruffled his hair. "Let's go."
We went back to the shack and had dinner again with the Pines family, we celebrated the... Success? The show had had. But we were really celebrating that we had won in our fight against Bill. that night I was going to talk to him really seriously. Who did he think he was to possess Dipper?
Back in our bungalow I talked to Clara about Bill, but without any details, I just told her that he came almost every night to my dreams and bothered me. I couldn't really tell her that I thought I felt something towards him (other than somewhat fear, disgust and hatred). I was really confused, but at the moment I learned that he had tricked Dipper into making a deal with him, it didn't matter. I was angry.
After taking a shower, brushing my teeth and doing all the other things I had to do, I went to bed, eager to confront Bill.
I was in what seemed to be a cathedral. It was big and its windows were the only thing that weren't in black and white, they were very colorful and formed images of religious stuff. With the difference that Bill appeared in all of them, in his triangle form or his human one.
"Bill! Get here right now!" I shouted angrily as I looked around me to see where he was.
"Dear Alice, there's no need to shout." Bill came walking nonchalantly to me, dressed as a priest. "Why don't you sit with me and confess your sins?"
"Like Hell I'm gonna do that, Father Bill!" I scoffed glaring at him. "And don't you dare tell me not to swear! Because I don't fucking care!" My anger caused him to chuckle under his breath.
"You're quite a hot head, aren't you? What's the matter? Don't you like my new outfit?" He pouted at me "You said I looked good in it while I was in Pine Tree."
"That's exactly the problem!" I exclaimed getting near him and starting to poke him in the chest "So tell me, how are you sleeping easy? How're you only thinking of yourself? Show me how you justify telling all your lies like second nature."
"Wow, love! Relax! I didn't really lie to him, you know. I just... "He stopped talking to think "Didn't say which puppet I was gonna pick!" He laughed, making me mire angry.
"Listen; mark my words, one day you will pay. Karma's gonna come collect your debt!" I exclaimed and slapped him. He looked at my furiously and his eyes, hair and even skin turned red. Bill grabbed me by the wrist of the hand I had slapped him with.
"Karma?! I am Karma!" He exclaimed and angrily pushed me against one of the cathedral's walls, making me groan in pain when my back collided with it "Love; there's nothing that's able to hurt me, in any way." He got near my face, his lips millimeters from mine "But, I can hurt you, the Pines, your dear sister and any mortal."
"You can't!" I exclaimed and pushed him off me as I smirked "We've got a deal, don't you remember?" At the mention of the contract he seemed to cool, but literally, a few seconds ago there was smoke coming out of him. "When the time comes I won't resist you and do whatever you want. But in exchange you can't hurt them. And I think you've broken our deal." I pointed out as I smirked at him. "You hurt Dipper, and he was one of the ones you couldn't hurt."
"Sorry, sweetcheeks but I didn't break our deal." He started explaining floating in front of me and playing with one strand of my hair "I didn't hurt Pine Tree nor nobody else. I hurt myself inside of his body. And also, when fighting against Shooting Star she was the one to attack her brother's body." I stuttered trying to point him wrong, but I couldn't think of anything "Don't even try, for the time being you're stuck in the deal and there's no way for you to make me break it."
"Ok then." I glared at him "I want to wake up."
"What?! So soon?!" He exclaimed in disbelie, almost in an angry growl "Don't you wanna do something? Me, for example. I could be the priest and you the nun." He snapped his fingers and light appeared over my figure. When it stopped I was revealed to be in a nun dress. A slutty nun dress. Bill wolf whistled checking me out as I tried to cover myself with my arms. "God sure did bless you."
"YOU FUCKING PERVERT! THIS IS IT! WAKE ME UP!" I started hitting his chest as he scowled but then started laughing at me.
"Ok, ok." He lifted his hands in surrender "But what about a goodbye kiss?"
"No way you foul demon! You tricked me once, inside of a kid's body! I won't let it happen again!" He shrugged and proceeded to chase me to give me a kiss.
It didn't take to long for him to catch me, because I was too worried about my ass not being seen by Bill. When he did it he roughly pecked my cheek and I woke up.
I looked for my phone to see what time it was. 8.00 am, I groaned, but I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep, unless I wanted to see Bill again, and I certainly didn't.
I unlocked my phone and got to the contact list, looking for the one I had included about a week ago.
"Yes?" A sleepy voice could be heard from the other side of the phone.
"Hey, Jara!" I greeted in whispers, as Clara was still asleep. "How are you doing? Wanna go have some breakfast with me?"
"Err... Sure..." She yawned and cleared her voice "Let me guess, you can't go back to sleep because of Bill."
"Yup."
"Ok. I'll meet you at Lazy Susan's at... 9.00?" She asked and I agreed with her.
I climbed down my ladder slowly, my body aching from the grand impact it had taken while fighting Bill.
When I got down I shook Clara lightly until she opened her eyes.
"Clara, I'm going to have breakfast with a friend. Are you going to go the Mystery Shack?" She nodded and I patted her head in a loving way. It was best to treat her like a baby in the morning, because she really isn't a morning person. "Ok, just call me when you get there."
Clara went back to sleep and I got ready. By the time I had finished it was only 8.20. I decided to get going, without rush.
"Hey, babe! Long time no seen! What have you been up to?" A familiar voice greeted me, making me groan internally and flinch when he put his arm around my shoulder. It was Jerry, the guard.
I had actually seen him, but I had been able to go unnoticed by him and his creepiness.
"Leave me alone." I said flicking his arm off of my shoulders and looking at him with disinterest.
"Oh, don't be like that! How about when I finish my shift we go out somewhere." He said, and I realized he wasn't in his usual uniform; he was wearing a flannel and some jeans. For a creep he didn't have bad taste in clothes.
"Sorry, but I no longer do things that make me want to kill myself." And with that I left, leaving him staring at me in awk.
I got to Lazy Susan's a few minutes earlier than the hour we had set up. Jara hadn't arrived yet, so I waited for her leaning against the hood of a car parked in front of the dinner.
When she arrived, she looked at me and grinned, waving her hand at me. She looked so much more rested than the last time I had seen her.
"Hey! Good morning!" She greeted me and I did the same "I love your t-shirt!"
I looked down at my clothes, which were; a loose t-shirt with Iron Man's ARC, a pair of shorts, (my dear) black Vans and a flannel shirt tied around my waist. Even thought that moment the weather was pretty hot, at night it was really cold.
"Thanks! So... You like Marvel?" I exclaimed as I smiled, she nodded and we talked about that for a few minutes outside of the dinner.
We finally got inside and we ordered out breakfasts; I ordered some pancakes and coffee while Jara ordered some waffles and a chocolate milkshake. While we waited for our food Jara tried to make some conversation.
"So..." She put her hands under her chin, the tone of her voice was really whinny "Do you like someone?" I blushed, thinking about Bill, but at the same time asking myself what was she exactly doing.
"Err... No?" I answered awkwardly looking outside the window we are sitting next to "You don't have to do this if it's something Bill is making you do."
"Well, now that you mention him" she leaned over as if it we were gossiping "I shouldn't be telling you this, but... He's totally into you, gurl!"
"W-why are you talking like that? What kind of tone of voice is that?" I asked confused, and ignoring what she had just said.
"W-well... I don't really know how to interact with people, so... I was trying to talk about 'girly topics' " she said sheepishly and blushing "But seriously, the Boss likes you, he might even love you." I gave her a sad laugh, and our food arrived, making me wait until Lazy Susan had left to talk.
"It's impossible for him to love me. I'm sure he just like to tease me and make me think that..." I didn't finish the sentence, blushing as I sadly started sipping on my coffee.
"Alice, I'm not sure if he loves you, but he sure cares about you." Jara started explaining with a soft voice "For example; after what happened in your dream in the garden, don't ask me why I know what happened, Bill came to my dream and started asking me what he should do to fix it. Even though I don't have Andy love life!" She exclaimed lifting her hand in the air, chuckling "Also, the nights he leaves you alone, he's usually in my dreams rambling about you, about how cute you loo when you blush, how hot he finds you and... A lot of more things..." I blushed at her words, feeling a smile trying to creep to my lips. "So, if you like him back, I won't judge, for he can be very persuasive."
"I- I... I don't know..." I looked down at my half-eaten pancakes, confused. "I don't know how I feel about him."
"Ok! We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to." I sighed and nodded "So... Thanks for, you know, letting me sleep and eat." I chuckled and shook my head.
"Tell me something about you, I'm sure there's nothing much that you don't know about me." I asked her and she, my personal stalker by force, laughed.
"Well, when I'm not working for the Boss I like to read and draw." She started to explain me what things she liked and we actually liked pretty much the same things, such as Harry Potter, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, Hetalia, Steven Universe... Yup, I had found another fangirl.
When we finished we decided to have breakfast again. I tried to convince her to meet the Pines family, but she said it was better if they didn't know she existed. I bid her goodbye and walked to the Mystery Shack, where my sister was waiting for me.

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A/N:
Yay!! 7746 words!!
I really wanted to write this chapter, Sock Opera is one of my favorite episodes of Gravity Falls. Also, the deal has been revealed! I'm gonna explain it, because I'm not sure if I've made it clear. Bill can't hurt anyone of the town and Alice won't try to go against him when the time comes, aka during the Weirdmageddon. But she doesn't know (nor anyone else) that it's gonna happen.
I'm thinking about making the next chapter about fairies or the Hide Behind, which one do you prefer? Let me know! :D
Tomorrow I'm going on a trip, and I'm not sure if there'll be wifi, so I don't know when I'll be able to update the next chapter. But I'll try to write while I'm there.
Thnks fr rdng!
~Alicia
PS: okay, so I thought it got updated, but it DIDN'T.
I THOUGHT I HAD PUBLISHED IT A WEEK AGO.
SORRY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED.