Alone

Chapter 14

Mabel's POV

I sat on the bus ride with Dipper. It was longer than I remembered, but I didn't mind. It was relaxing...

Too relaxing?

Bill was being oddly quiet, and while part of me wanted to know why, the other part didn't care. As long as I could get a moment to clear my head. 

"Hey, Mabel?"

"Yeah?" I turned to look at him.

"Um, we need to talk about everything that's been happening with you." I looked away from him, not wanting to have this conversation. "Mabel, really. This is important. We can help you, but you can't shut us out. Ford knows what to do and-"

"NO! He doesn't!" I snapped. I looked back at Dipper, expecting to see a hurt expression on his face from me yelling at him. But he was angry.

"You know what! All we've ever tried to do is help you. But you can't seem to accept it. Why can't you just let us help you!"

"Dipper, please-" I looked back down.

"And we all know you don't even take your medication." I felt a tear slip down. "Do you even want to get better?" I opened my mouth to object, but didn't say anything. Instead, I got up and moved to a different seat. When I sat down, I pulled my knees to my chest and started crying. Yes, I want to get better.

'But you can't. And you never will.' I heard Bill snicker. I looked out the window and tried to clear my head. 

After about thirty minutes, Dipper walked over to me.

"We're almost there," he sat down and put a hand on my shoulder. "Mabel, I'm really sorry. It's just frustrating for me to see you like this. I want to help you." I sighed

"I know."

"We can." I looked up and gave him a weak smile. "Hey," he pointed out the window to a 'Welcome to Gravity Fall's' sign. "We're here." I smiled, but something didn't feel right. I didn't know what it was, but something was wrong. And it hit the second we passed that damn sign.

"Agh!" I screamed and clutched my head. I would have fallen over if it weren't for Dipper catching me.

"Mabel! Whats wrong?"

"I-I-" The pain started blinding me until I couldn't take it anymore and I blacked out.

Dipper's POV

I held Mabel's limp body in my hands.

"Hey," I shook her a little. "Mabel wake up."

"Is everything alright?" The bus driver walked over to us. I looked up and realized we had stopped at our stop. I jumped up and grabbed Mabel and ran outside to see Stan waiting with a car.

"Hey, kids hows it-" he stopped when he saw Mabel. "What the Hell!" 

"No time, get her to Ford now!" The bus driver threw out our bags and I shoved them in the trunk before we sped off towards the Mystery Shack.  

When we got there, I grabbed Mabel and we ran her into Ford's lab.

"Ford! Help!"

"Dipper, whats the-" He looked at Mabel. "Put her on that table!" He pointed to a table n the middle of the room. When I set her down, I checked her pulse.

Nothing.

"Ford hurry!"

"I'm coming!" I saw him walking over with two defibrillators. He set them down on her chest. "Clear!" I watched her body jump up when the shock hit her. Then it started to glow, yellow. 

"Ford?" I saw him backing away from her. I didn't know what to do. I just stood there, watching my sister. Then the room filled with laughter. And I swore if I ever heard that laughter ever again-

"Dipper, get down!" Stan tackled me to the ground, shielding me just as an explosion went off. 

When it was over, I quickly looked up to see if Mabel was alright. She was. I saw her slowly waking up. But then I saw another person standing next to her...

Bill

Mabel's POV

"Oh, it's great to be back," I heard Bill's voice chime. I looked up to see Dipper Ford and Stan staring at him in shock. No

"Oh yes, Shootingstar! I'm friendly free from your mind." He laughed and flew over to Ford. "Yeah, I needed you to be in Gravity Falls so I could escape, and thanks to sixer over here giving me that power boost, I could escape with my powers still intact."

"Cipher!" Ford turned to him. "What the Hell are you doing here? We defeated you!"

"Ha! That's where you're wrong. You only trapped me in her mind. And while tormenting her daily was fun," he smirked and looked at me, making me visibly flinch. "It grew boring. I was ready to get the Hell out of there."

"You've been the one hurting my sister!"

"That's right Pinetree. And you were too dumb to even notice." Bill laughed and Dipper looked like he was about to charge at Bill. "Well, this has been fun and all, but I think it's time for me to leave, you know, start Weirdmeggedon or whatever." He mockingly tipped his hat. "Until next time," Then he disappeared in a flash of smoke.

I started shaking on the table.

"Mabel," Dipper walked over to me. "Did- was he- all this time?" I started crying. And I couldn't stop. "Mabel," he wrapped his arms around me. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"H-he said he w-would-d k-kill you." I let go of him and pulled back, putting my head down. "I couldn't tell you."

"But you should have!" Ford yelled at me.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry," I felt myself start to shake. I needed to get out of here. I tried to stand up and run but my knees gave out and Dipper caught me before I could.

"Ford stop! It's not her fault."

"Well, now there's an insane demon on the loose because she couldn't tell us!" I felt my head get dizzy.

"She couldn't do anything about it!"

"She could have told someone!" I wished they would stop yelling and help me.

"We have no idea what he's been doing to her!" My chest started hurting and I couldn't keep my eyes open.

"Well, it can't be-" I heard him stop, then I vaguely heard them calling my name before I blacked out.