Darker Than The Woods [ Gravity Falls ]

"003"

Again... very sorry you guys. School sucks.

Mabel felt numb. The words still rang in her ears, she tried seeking for some double meaning that was positive, but there wasn't. She mumbled the words she heard from the detective, "They died . . . three years ago . . ." Mabel had no clue on the detective had meant, but she was not planning on grasping the fact that her Grunkles did die three years ago.

"This isn't some sick joke you can play," Dipper had interrupted Mabel's thoughts. "You think you could manipulate the facts? The facts are set in stone!"

"But these are the facts!" Samantha argued. "They did die three years ago- So, maybe, what you saw was someone else-"

"How would two men who died three years ago be killed again three years after? Think about it for just a second- for just a millisecond! I know my relatives when I see them, and those were my great-uncles!"

Samantha had had just about enough with the lad. But it was protocol to let things slide smoothly. "Facts are facts. And the fact that's standing on thin ice is you can't just accept the fact that they did die."

Dipper furrowed his eyebrows. "Excuse me?"

"Sooner or later you'll drop this 'in denial' act and accept the fact I'm right about the fact they did die three years ago and not this year."

"I'm not in denial, you're not the one who saw them freshly murdered in their TV room."

"You have that 'in denial' tone I always hear with my clients."

"But I'm not!"

"You so are, right, Jade?"

Jade rolled her eyes.

"Yep. You said it."

"See? Tell 'em Jade, you saw the corpses three years ago."

Mabel flinched when Samantha addressed her deceased family members as corpses. They are not corpses, they're still alive. But she did say corpses are people too. People who happened to be decaying slowly as time turns into this black void that swallows up the ground that shook beneath their feet. Mabel shivered at her thoughts. It was a miracle to see herself standing at this kind of position. Sitting before detectives who were ought to catch the man or woman who held responsible for digging the rusty knife through her Grunkles' heart.

"People," Mabel spoke up. The three were caught off guard. "They're addressed as people."

Samantha chuckled at her mistake, glancing at her. "People, I meant. But they are kinda the sa-"

"People," Mabel repeated. "People. We are all equal, no matter how many cuts a living person or a dead person has."

Jade blinked. "Well that's something you don't hear everyday." She mumbled.

"People, yes." Samantha said through gritted teeth, She faced Dipper with a cold stare. "And these people died three years ago."

Mabel didn't like the movie screen all too well. Because as the two main characters continue to fight, the colors began to fade into a dark black and white, spontaneously jumping into red streaks whenever the two would bark at each other. It was a movie Mabel never thought of watching in the first place.

"You are hopeless!" Mabel flinched as Samantha had raised her voice. "You are helpless!"

"Well, where's the damn proof!"

"At the cemetery! Where else?"

Mabel gasped as she raised her head. "Ce-Cemetery?" She spoke up. To be honest, she was shaken, she had actually wished they weren't dead.