I know, I know. I said I wouldn't publish anymore stories until I finished my other ones... But I just had to publish this one! While me and my friend were camping, we came up with the cutest idea. We though "What if older Dipper found a small Bill in a box and took him to the Mystery Shack and basically took care of him" And well, I had to make it a fanfiction! Takes place after Weirdmaggedon, with the AU that the zodiac actually worked. It won't be mentioned much though. Anyway, hopefully you enjoy!

Dipper emerged from the wood surrounding Gravity Falls, flipping through Journal 3, not really looking where he was going and nearly bumping into a few townsfolk. It had been almost two years since they had defeated Bill Cipher and stopped his Weirdmaggedon. Him and Mabel were fourteen now, and this summer Mabel finally agreed that she wouldn't be mad at him if he became Ford's part time apprentice over the summer. Him and Ford hadn't found anything REALLY interesting yet, but Dipper had gotten his own journal. It was a navy blue with a golden pine tree on the front, the number four proudly drawn onto it's golden surface. Everyone said that everything was as good as it could get in the small town. Except Dipper.

He didn't know why, but ever since Bill was defeated, he had felt like there was something desperately important missing. As much as he hated to admit it, he kinda missed the triangular demon. Nothing interesting had happened since they defeated him. He looked up from the journal as his foot bumped into a small cardboard box. He marked the page he was reading, and turned his attention towards the medium sized box. Curiosity getting the better of him, he slowly opened the box. He froze in fear when he saw the contents of the box. Inside was Bill Cipher, the demonic dream demon who had nearly caused the end of the world, peacefully sleeping. He quickly closed the box again, and worriedly thought about what to do next. He couldn't just leave him here, that was sure as hell. Who knows who would find him, and more importantly, what they would do with a powerful being like Bill right at their fingertips. Someone like Gideon could find him, and it would be like Weirdmaggedon all over again. Although the possibility of Bill casing Weirdmaggedon all over again was highly unlikely, considering Ford had already told them that once they had activated the zodiac, all of Bill's powers would be stripped away. Also his link to the mindscape, but that was getting off track.

After a good amount of time passed, Dipper finally came to a conclusion. He decided he would have to take Bill back to the shack with him. God knows how Ford would react, but he would have to handle that later. He quickly stuffed journal 3 back into his vest and picked the box up with great caution. The box was surprisingly light, but then again, what could he expect? After all, Bill was really just a triangle, how could he be anything but light? He slowly started to trudge off in the direction of the Mystery Shack, making extra precaution to try and not wake the dream demon.

Dipper slowly budged the door of the shack open, *hoping nobody would notice him. Thankfully Grunkle Stan's attention was glued to the T.V, and Ford was most likely in his lab researching the supernatural. Mabel was nowhere in sight, and he could only hope that she wasn't upstairs in their old room. Since the both of them were going through different things, Dipper had gotten the room on the other side of the attic. The one where he had made his first and last deal with Bill to be exact. He slowly walked up the stairs, hoping the stairs wouldn't creak enough to attract attention and that Bill wouldn't wake until they were safely upstairs where he could stop, or at least muffle Bill when he finally woke up.

Dipper's hopes had been fulfilled once he reached the top of the stairs, seeing Mabel was nowhere in sight. He quickly walked over to his room and gently budged the door open. He set the box onto his bed temporarily, sighing as what felt like a enormous weight was lifted off his shoulders, and closed the door. He ran his hand across his face, and plopped down onto his bed, realizing a moment to late that he had set a *certain item onto it. He inhaled a sharp breath, hoping that he hadn't just wasted all his effort on keeping Bill asleep at this moment. Sadly, he heard a small noise emerge from the box, sounding much like someone who had just been woken up before they had wanted to wake. Dipper braced himself for the situation that was going to unfold, and thought about anything he could do to stop this from happening, but came up with nothing. He saw the flap of the box raise ever so slowly, revealing the golden glow of Bill, who was clearly awake. His eye peaked out a small bit, and instead of the rampage Dipper had expected, Bill seemed to jump in surprise a small bit, and retreat back into the box.

There was a minute of silence between them, Dipper slightly perplexed with this turn of events. Instead of being mad to the point where he would've gladly tortured him and his whole family, he seemed... afraid..? But that was impossible! Bill never showed any signs of fear, even when all his powers were taken away he hadn't shown that. Curiosity getting the better of him once again, Dipper slowly moved towards the box, not making any sudden movements for fear of alarming the demon. He opened it slowly, and Bill pressed himself up to the opposite side of the box, his pupil shrinking in fear. Dipper huffed a small bit, not unkindly, but more of a sympathizing kind of huff. About a week ago Dipper had 'accidentally' stumbled across Ford's notes on the Nightmare Realm, Bill's technical home, and they said it was *slowly decaying and that the only thing that could slow it's decay was linking it to a separate dimension. That still didn't justify him turning people to stone and his doing other things like that, but now that Dipper knew about that, he could see why Bill would cause Weirdmaggedon.

"Dipper! Get down here, I need your help with something!" Ford called from downstairs, snapping him out of his daze. Guess he'd have to deal with Bill later.

"Be right there Ford!" Dipper replied, quickly closing the box Bill was in, looking for somewhere to put it. After a second or two of hesitation, he quickly shoved it under his bed, hoping Bill wouldn't find someway to cause chaos in the amount of time he had to leave. He quickly ran down the stairs, leaving Bill to do what he would.

Awkward ending are the worst endings... The reason I randomly had Ford need Dipper for something is because this chapter was getting stretched on to long. =I Anyway, The reason I had Bill not try to murder Dipper first and be afraid later is because i'm pretty bad at writing things like that and because I kinda think Bill wouldn't be so angry at first..? Don't question my reasoning.
*Is that how you spell it? I dunno if i'm spelling it right, plz tell me this XD
*I didn't want to say box anymore because it was getting repetitive XD
*I for one like the head cannon that that's the true reason why Bill caused Weirdmaggedon. Dun judge meh opinion x'c
Anyway, Reality is a illusion, The Universe is a hologram, bye gold, BUYYYYY