Oak Tree | BillDip

Chapter 20 - Rome

Dipper flopped back onto his bed, his arms splayed out. Today has been quite the day. First, he left the Mystery Shack, then world-wide Weirdmageddon happening, finding out that he might and will be the one to fall in love with Bill Cipher (which seemed impossible), and voicing to said demon that someone might want to kill him.

Tad Strange. He was sure of it.

Someone knocked on his door as soon as his eyes started to droop. "Knock knock, it's Pyronica, it's dinnertime!"

Dipper raised an eyebrow. Usually, he would go by himself to dinner. Oh, wait... the matchmaking stuff. Dipper made a face and stumbled out of the bed after just laying down.

But when he opened the door, Pyronica wasn't there, but Bill. "Where do you want to go for dinner?"

Where? Dipper thought. There's nowhere to go except here...

Bill must've read his emotions. "I rule the world now, remember? I can go anywhere I want, do anything I want. So where do you want to go?"

Dipper thought for a moment, leaning against his door. "Anywhere?" He asked. Bill hummed an answer. "Well, I've been kind of wanting to visit Rome, I guess."

Bill's glow brightened. "Done!" He grabbed Dipper's arm. Before he knew it, Dipper was transported somewhere with Bill. Dipper recognized the bright, beautiful buildings with arches and domes. He looked around his feet and realized that they were standing inside the actual Colosseum!

He smiled and ran his hand along the rough edge of the arch they were standing in. But that's when he noticed something...the sky was blue and there were people. A lot of people. They looked like they were panicking, but the sky but chaos hadn't reached this part of the world yet.

Bill seemed to notice his confusion. "The locals here seem to have just gotten the news about the chaos," he glanced sideways at him. "Would you like to eat and then walk around, see the sights? Weirdmegeddon won't reach this place until a few hours from now."

Dipper beamed. "Of course!"

Oddly, Dipper wasn't that much bothered that the locals knew about the apocalypse...he could hear screaming and people speaking rapidly in languages he couldn't understand, but he felt...great. He knew he should be like them, panicking. He would have found out a way to try and stop Bill. But he didn't want to.

When they stopped for dinner, Bill was invisible so no one could see him except Dipper, oddly enough, but they would speak telepathically to each other, but that's the only part of his mind he allowed Bill to have access to. During that dinner, whenever Bill was looking proudly out the window, he tried to see through him. Tried to see that human soul in there. Sometimes, he could see human emotions in that eye, but when Dipper blinked, it was gone. Like it was never there.

When the waitress came, Dipper spoke and she had no idea what he was saying, so he just sighed and pointed at the menu. She nodded and walked away. It was like that when he ordered his food too.

How are we going to pay? He asked Bill.

Don't worry about it, Bill replied.

Dipper knew better than to question him. Fine.

When they went back outside, it was dark, but people were still freaking out, but they paid them no mind. Dipper almost cried when he saw the stars. The bright, brave stars without a care in the world. The stars that he'd always looked at when life seemed too hard. The stars he'd always look at whenever he just wanted to look at them.

"You miss the stars." Dipper jumped when he just noticed Bill beside him.

The boy blushed a little. "Uh, yeah. I guess."

Bill shrugged. "You could've always asked me to make you a window to see past Weirdmageddon."

Dipper barely believed that this was Bill Cipher that he was talking to. "Bill...why are you being extra nice to me? Why have you? I mean, aside from the sock thing...."

Bill scoffed. "The sock thing was just me having fun," Dipper shot him an incredulous look. "But..." The Bill Cipher stuttered. "I don't know. It's just this feeling I have. That I have to keep you alive for some reason. At all costs." Bill looked at him in the eye. "As I've said before, you've become almost comfortable around me. You talk back to me. You talk back to me like I'm not your master," Dipper was about to say, But you're not my master! Bill Bill beat him to it, "I know. I mean, I could kill you at a measly little snap of my fingers, but I won't." Bill ruffled Dipper's hair. "You're special to me, Pine Tree."

Dipper's heart almost stopped. Seriously? Dipper shuffled his feet against the dirt road. "So you wouldn't mind me being your friend? If you want me to?"

Bill's glow brightened at the acceptance. "Of course! Let's go and see the Pantheon."

Before Dipper could walk a step, his feet were frozen to the ground. "B-Bill?"

The ground began to shake.

Bill turned red with inhumane rage that would have knocked Dipper off his feet if it weren't for the unknown force upon him.

Finally, purple light erupted around them.

It was Tad Strange.

Dipper passed out from what might have been fear, Tad knocking him out, or from the tiring events of the day, he didn't know.

But what he did know was that they were in danger.