Stand up (a willdip)

Chapter 14: Will finds out.

Will's POV

"Are they done yet?" I asked. We were making chocolate cupcakes and it smelled so good. Bill looked over to me.

"Dude you need to be patient. Give it a minute." He told me. I've always had a sweet tooth and am impatient when baking cupcakes or cakes. I was talking to Dipper Pines trying to cheer him up. He had a rough day and I wanted to make him happy. I touched my eye patch.

"You know, you look a lot like your brother now." I laughed and nodded.

"Yeah," I realized I didn't really know what happened when I passed out. "Hey what did happen when I was out?" Dipper Pines bit his lip.

"Well Tyrone opened a portal and came here and we went back to your guys' room and he explained to Bill what happened and he freaked out. I calmed him down and Tyrone passed out. Bill used magic to disinfect your eye socket," I interrupted him.

"Wait, say that again." he looked at me confused.

"Bill used magic to disinfect your eye socket,"

"No no, the thing you said before that."

"Tyrone passed out?" he said.

"I'll be right back." I said. I speed walked over to Dipper and grabbed his wrist. "You and I need to talk now." I said.

"O-okay." I dragged him up the stairs and went into the guest bedroom.

"Dipper, I need you to be honest with me. Did you pass out after making a portal from our dimension to this one?"

"Yeah so what?"

"Mason you don't understand. You're not just starting magic. You've been doing it for five years, four of them I was teaching you. Sure I would understand being a little disoriented or needed to sit down for a second that's normal. But if you pass out from a simple spell like that and you've been doing magic for as long as you have, you're weak, dying or depressed. I'm worried." He gulped.

"But when we were attacked by the hellhounds, you passed out. And that was just the forest to the house." I let go of him.

"That was because I was physically weak and spending all my energy healing myself from everything. I didn't get much food or sleep either. So I never used my magic to clean unless I absolutely needed to. Like when I saved you from the hellhounds."

"Will, I'm so-" I cut him off.

"No shut up."

"What?"

"Shut up, it's the past. What I'm worried about is you.You're not physically weak as far as I know and you're only nineteen so I don't think you're dying. Are you depressed? What's happening Mason?" He didn't answer me. "Dipper, if this goes on, it could kill you and I can't have that happen. You're all I have I," I paused, looking down. Tears were threatening to fall. "I can't lose you." My hands drifted to my side. I started to cry and covered my face with my hands. I didn't like crying in front of Dipper cause I knew that it reminded him of when we first met. Arms wrapped around me and pulled me into a tight embrace. I cried into Dipper's shirt.

"Hey Will the cupcakes are," Dipper let go of me and we both faced my brother. His hair and eyes turned red. "What did you do?" He asked. I cursed to myself. Of course my overprotective brother came in while I was crying my eye out.

"I didn't," Bill surged forward and grabbed Dipper's shirt.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MAKE MY BROTHER CRY! DID YOU PUNCH HIM? WHAT DID YOU DO?" His voice started to sound demonic. Dipper looked terrified. I grabbed Bill's arm and tried to pull him back.

"Bill Dipper didn't do anything to me please don't hurt him!" I managed to get Bill to let go of him. He looked at me.

Are you sure he didn't hurt you in any way?

Yes, I'm sure. I'll be down in a bit. Now go before I get Pines.

"If I find out you hurt my brother in any way, I'll send you to the nightmare realm." And with that Bill left. I closed the door.

"Dipper are you okay? Did he hurt you?" I asked. He smiled.

"I'm okay." I sighed in relief. 

"Thank god." 

"I'm sorry Will, I-I should've told you." I hugged him.

"It's okay Dipper. I just want to know what's happening with you. Just tell me what's wrong." We both sit on the bed. 

"I've been," He looked like he was trying to find the right words. "I've been having these dreams. Nightmares are more like it. But they're real." If it's a dream maybe I'll be able to understand what they mean. Nightmares are more of Bill's specialty but I am a dream demon. So I handle both.

"What do you mean?" I asked. He bit his lip.

"They're like flashbacks of when we first met, me torturing you, and the day you saved me. That's why I kept saying that I was sorry about how I treated you when we first met. IIt made me remember how horrible I was to you. You deserved so much better than me. I'm worse than my Great Uncles and my sister. I'm a monster." He had started to cry.

"Mason Dipper Gleeful don't ever think that again!" I hugged him tight. "I love you. You are not a monster you never have been and never will be. You are so much better now than you were five years ago, so much better. Even then you were so much kinder than your sister or your uncles. You are so much better than your family. You're kind, sweet and caring. I know you, You will never hurt me on purpose. And even when I get hurt, you blame yourself too much when it's not even your fault." He hugged me

"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." And kept saying it over and over again to me. I rubbed circles on his back. Dipper was crying into my shirt.

I muttered, "You're okay, you're amazing. I love you. You're enough, more than enough. You aren't a monster." and other things. I didn't like it when Dipper cries, cause he never cries, ever. He only cries when I get hurt or something is really really wrong. He hasn't cried when he gets hurt, or when he's yelled at. He only ever cries when someone he really cares about is hurt, like me or Paz. (and even Mabel when they were really little.)

"I'm sorry I shouldn't be crying." he said laughing a bit at the end.

"No it's okay Dipper. It's okay to cry, I cry so freaking much and you put up with it. So you can cry in front of me." He pulled away from the hug and smiled softly. "Now, you have to promise me that if this ever happens again you tell me. No matter how sad I am you tell me. Got it?" he nodded. "Good. Don't ever think those things again. Okay? I can't lose you."

"Okay. I won't Will. I'm sorry." I laughed a bit.

"Stop with the sorry Mason. It's okay."

He stood up, "Now," He grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet. "Let's go eat those cupcakes!"

"You sure?" I asked.

"Yeah definitely. Let's go." 

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy this edited version of this chapter. I think it's better than the first two versions in my opinion. So Will found out about Mason's nightmares and is going to help him. Soon they'll be getting a hell hound specimen for Great Uncle Ford. But what's going to happen? if you have any suggestions put it down in the comments and it might just appear in the story. (no matter how stupid they may sound to you) Stay safe, stay healthy, but most importantly, keep on keepin' odd everybody!

-Rj