Deerper Falls

Broken Dreams [2

It was deep in the night, the fawn was sleeping silently on his lap when Stan decided that enough time had passed. He took the sleeping animal in his arms and carefully climbed up the stairs flinching each time when one of the steps groaned underneath his weight. The door cracked a little when he pushed it open, just wide enough for the fawn to pass between it, before he settled the small deer back on the floor. His dark brown eyes wavered sleep drunken between him and the open door in confusion, lifting one ear questionably.

"Don't worry, she'll be glad you're there in the morning. That's not what she wants. She didn't mean half of what she said and I am sure she would only regret it if you're not there to wake her up." He whispered ignoring the blank gaze of the fawn, who obviously didn't understand a single word, when he shoved him inside the attic to close the door behind him.

Stan sighed when he let his hand rest on the door handle for a few seconds before he turned around to go back down to his own room with a near soundless sigh.

"Believe me kid...I know what I'm talking about."

The little deer however didn't mind being away from him for long when he recognized the soft breathing coming from the bed on the right side of the room. His tail wiggled happily when he crawled up the bed to press himself in the tiny space between the pig and the human, to let his head rest on the girl's stomach, slowly drifting into dream with the rhythmic movement of her chest.

Mabel sighed, her feet were slipping over the floor while she was walking.

'Heck Mabel, what floor!?'

She groaned brushing her hand through her hair. This space was a pure white nothing! She couldn't even tell where the ground began and the sky ended it was simply nothing! Was this- a nightmare? She blinked in confusion, this didn't look like a monster chase or falling down a staircase at all. To be honest she never had such dreams ever at least not that she knew of- of course she had tripped down in her dreams now and then, but she'd never fallen, either she landed in a mass of green lime yellow flowers or she got wings spreading from her back to rescue her. But this was nothing like her usual dreams, cause then this place would be filled to the brink with unicorns, kittens, sweets and- cute boys. Or cute unicorn boys with kittens on their back and chains of sweets around their neck, anything colorful and glittery not- this.

The white void she was now in right now, for what felt like ages. She was lost by now, that was for sure, it was like someone deleted her, erase her soul out of existence to leave this ridiculous nothing behind for her to get lost in.

She groaned, ready to collapse on the ground to wait for the big eraser to finish it's job when a noise reached her ear through the thick void of her mind.

"Mabel..., Mabel?"

The girl blinked, she- she knew that voice but-

"Dipper?" The soft question left her throat before she could have held it back.

Mabel listened in the dark white nothing around her, before her name resounded from the non-existing walls again.

"Mabel..."

Her heart skipped a beat when Mabel began running, following the ghostly voice while every fibre of her body screamed for her brother.

"Mabel?" – There! She was out of breath by now, when she finally recognized a dark spot in-between the white frog.

"Mabel."

"Dipper! I'm coming!" She screamed, making a run for the dark spot that slowly became a not so unfamiliar shape, Mabel gasped for air when she finally was standing before it.