Gravity Heroes

Chapter 18

Piedmont, California Thursday November 1st, 2012 8:30 PM

Mabel's room

Mabel is sitting cross legged on her her bed video chatting with Pacifica, and Pacifica was just finishing up telling her about her day.

"And then I dropped the guy down straight in front of Blubbs & Durland, told the firefighters how & where to find my father. After that I flew back to the Mansion, taking several back routes."

"Sounds like you had fun, Paz." Mabel said looking at the joy on her friend's face.

"Oh, it was, like, awesome." Pacifica saw Mabel lean forward and tap a few buttons before a sticker appeared on the bottom corner of her screen saying "You're a Super-Star!"

"Ok, that was corny even for you, Mabs." Pacifica snicked at the joke the sticker made. "And I heard I have you to thank for getting my old room refurbished."

"Well the girls and I thought you might like to have a place you could go to get away from your parents for awhile when things get rough. We were gonna do it at the Shack, but really that's one of the first places your dad would look for you anymore. And after the whole power circle incident we knew your dad would never think to look for you a McGucket's." Mabel said with a smile, before she added in a Dipper like near whisper, "Probably the best part of this week so far."

"What?" Pacifica asked as she barely heard her.

"It's not been a good week at all," Mabel said, losing all of her normal cheerfulness. "it's been hell." she then started to break down and cry.

"Whoa Mabel, what's wrong? Don't try to keep it held in, remember you're the one who taught me that. So com'on, spill."

"It's *sob* been a terrible week so far." Mabel started as she tried to calm down enough to talk. "Remember the three bullies from school?" she saw Pacifica nod so she continued. "Well they weren't at school Monday and as we walked home we found out why. We stopped at lil store to get snacks and the clerk had a TV on, there was a news report about a series of fires. I recognized one of them as Jimmy's place."

"Oh no, how bad was it?"

"Th, there were three fires. Jimmy, Lumps, and Tyson's houses were burned down. No survivors. 11 lost. And then Dip did one of the most stupidly idiotic things ever, he tried to break off with Wendy before they ever got started."

"Wait, he tried to what? He's been crazy about her since you guys were first came up here." Pacifica said with a shocked look on her face.

"Well with it being 3 fires that just happened to hit the three people tormenting us, he was wondering if her 'otherside' knew anything about it. After she swore to him she didn't he got flustered with himself and nearly hung up on her with out waiting for her to finish saying bye. Knowing something was wrong she came by to check on hm and at first he refused to talk to her. Finally she got him to talk and he tried to break everything off saying she deserved better than him." Mabel Said as she remember the night.

"Selfish." Pacifica muttered.

Not completely registering what she said, Mabel continued. "After she asked him why, he said he had betrayed her twice now. This by even remotely believing she could be involved in the fires and an earlier time, while we were all trapped in my bubble. It had the power to offer everyone their greatest wish, well guess his. But he saw through it and rejected it. But he still felt as if the fact he was even tempted was a betrayal. She didn't know about that part of the bubble and actually felt even more honored that he was able to resist the temptation because he was offered a perfect version but he still wanted the real her. During this time he had punched the side of one of his bookcases twice. After the two punches he had almost broke it."