It's In Our Blood

Chapter 6

(after an awful lot of consideration, I have chosen not to write accents since I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with what the characters sound like.)

It was probably illegal for an 11 and a half year old to be walking around in a paranormal forest without adult supervision past 10 PM. 

But after all the insane (and mostly accidental) stunts he had pulled before, sneaking out of the house wasn't such a big deal anymore. Besides. His father probably didn't even know that he was gone, if he even cared. 

Junior kept walking while repeating the text now copied onto a small piece of paper instead of on his hand over and over to himself. He regretted not doing this sooner, as the grey stain on his pale skin didn't look like it was going to wash out anytime soon.

He was being a bit loud, but since he was pretty sure no one else was out there with him, he decided it wouldn't be a problem. Besides. He had to be louder than the voices in his head to remember things anyway. 

He suddenly froze on his tracks when he felt the same unsettling, tingling feeling that he felt when he used his amulet for too long or stood in front of mirrors. It used to scare the living daylights out of him, but since it had been happening to him since he was 6, he was pretty used to it by now. 

So obviously it wasn't the fact that the feeling came over him out of no where that was sending chills down his spine. It was the fact that he had been holding the paper with his hands rather than the amulet's blue-green aura, and there were absolutely no reflective surfaces nearby. 

His icy blue eyes darted around as his heart pounded, probably loud enough so that anything near him could probably hear. 

(In case if you wanted to more realistically imagine the characters, Junior has a very light southern accent, being Gideon's son and all)
"H-hello? Is anyone there?" He managed to ask, feeling a bit ridiculous. Anything that was smart enough to understand English was probably fast asleep in the safety of their own homes by now. 

The terrifying fact was, he was absolutely wrong. 

"Nope! Absolutely no one!" A feminine voice replied. Whoever this was, they seemed pretty far away from him. But that didn't stop Junior's stomach from doing a 360 and his heart from nearly stopping. 

"No one you can hear or see anyway." The voice continued. "But I can hear you. I can see you too. If you could hear me, I would probably ask what the heck a kid like you's doing out here at this time. But you can't. So I won't. Only the fact is, I just did. Doesn't matter. You can't hear me anyway." 

Junior was trying to process what they were saying, but the fact that his heart was pounding at such a fast pace he was sure it would explode soon wasn't helping.

Should he run? Should he confront whoever they were? Should he stay put? A bunch of options and possible scenarios raced in his mind. 

After a while of standing there like a complete idiot, he was able to see one scenario that seemed like the safest option. Ironically, it was the complete opposite of running back to the safety of his own home. (As safe as it could get, anyway) 

He started walking in the direction he heard the voice from, which was now mumbling to them-self, instead of talking to him. What puzzled him most was the fact that they kept mentioning how he could't hear them, but he clearly could. Perhaps this person was insane. There were plenty of those type of people to go around in a town like Gravity Falls. 

He slowly walked up behind a tree where the voice was at its loudest. He could literally sense that the person talking was right around the corner. Junior wished that he could make the voices and his heart shut up for once. Currently, those were the only things stopping him from looking at what was happening. 

He took a deep breath, and brushed his hair out of his face and peered out from behind the tree. He was expecting to see some one who actually looked like they were insane. You know, like they've completely lost their mind. But no.

The girl pacing...was she pacing? Her legs were moving, but if it wasn't Junior's brain in desperate need of sleep, it looked like her feet were a couple inches above the ground. 

She was dressed rather sharply, in a dress shirt that was white enough to blind you with not a single wrinkle to be seen, and a perfectly tied black bow tie, which really impressed Junior, since he never seemed to be able to figure those things out. She also wore a yellow skirt, which was a bit short and in his opinion, varied sharply from what she had on the top half. Her bright blonde hair was as close to the color yellow hair could possibly get, and despite the fact that it looked like it could use a nice brushing, it just seemed to flow naturally with the rest of her appearance that included knee high socks and shiny black shoes. 

The only part of her appearance that Junior thought made her look insane, was seen when he accidentally locked eyes with her. 

The girl's single visible eye (he assumed the other one was covered up by her fringe) was gold in color, with a thin black slit for a pupil. He didn't know how to put his finger on it, but she looked like she had seen countless terrible things in her past. And enjoyed every second of it. It gave him this eery feeling that this girl looked strangely familiar to him.

Junior gulped, and used up all of the remaining courage he had to step out from his little comfort zone, and ask: 

"Who...who are you?"

The girl stared at him, obviously in shock for what seemed like hours. 

"Are you talking to me, or is there someone behind me that somehow haven't noticed yet?" 

"I'm...talking to you." 

The girl...seemed confused, to say the least. "No you're not. You can't hear me. You can't see me! You can't talk to someone who doesn't exist, and I'm exactly that! I don't exist!"

Now it was Junior's turn to be confused. "I can see you....and hear you pretty fine actually."

"H-how is this possible!? Who are you? ...WHAT. Are you?"

"Uh....last time I checked I'm just a human being..." 

"No no no this isn't possible, this isn't okay! This is not okay." The girl kept repeating the last part of herself, brushing stray pieces of hair out of her face, all besides that annoying fringe covering her left eye which was beginning to annoy Junior more than how she was acting. Like seriously brush that dang thing over your ear already it's not that hard. 

"Look, I'm talking to you, and I can hear and see you perfectly. Can we just leave it at that?" Junior asked. 

"I-..." She stared at him for a long time again. "Yeah... I guess."

"Great. Before anything. Who are you?"

The girl brushed all stray pieces of hair aside except for that annoying fringe again.

"I'm mostly called Jill" she replied. "Jill C-....Yeah. Jill."

Junior wondered why she stopped, but he decided not to push, being a guy who liked to keep his secrets as well.

"Okay. I'm Junior." he replied with a small smile. He obviously didn't tell her his real name. He could've, but what was the point of telling someone a name you weren't even going to let them use?
"Not from around here are you?" He decided to just try and start a casual conversation. "Most sane people tend to stay away from the woods at night"

"You're out here" Jill bluntly pointed out.

Junior stopped. "Yeah. And I really should be heading home now that I think about it. Do you live nearby? I could walk you home if you want." He added. He was a pretty nice person when he wanted to be.

"Nah, I'm good. I'm not exactly done here" Jill replied with a shrug.

"O-K then...I guess...I'll see you around?" Junior asked.

Jill hesitated for a second before giving him a breathless "yeah".

Junior decided not to hang onto that thought too much. "Well...it was nice meeting you" he said before turning on his heel and actually leaving. He didn't really get to do what he originally came for, but now he wasn't sure if he could when there was someone else in the woods. The best thing he could do now was to go home and sleep. He had a full day he needed to function in ahead of him.