I don't own Gravity Falls. Alex Hirsch does, and I'm not even jealous because he's cool as hell.
Ford knows.
Ford knows, and every breath Dipper takes is not enough.
Ford knows, and he's choking on the one thing meant to keep him alive.
Ford knows, and Dipper's scared.
Ford knows, and every fibre of his being wants to stop existing.
Ford knows, and because Ford knows all time has stopped.
They affectionately called it the 'Sock Opera' Incident.
It's the reason why Dipper always flinches when he sees the rows of little dot scars on his arm from the forks, it's the reason why Mabel set a trash can full of socks on fire and almost burnt down the shack.
It's the reason why Dipper can't sleep anymore because he knows he'll wake up screaming eventually anyway, it's the reason why Mabel always double checks her brother's and her own eyes every morning like clockwork.
But Ford knows now, and everything's changed.
Dipper doesn't want to talk about it. Ford wants to. It's a bad situation either way.
So when Ford asks Dipper to come down to the basement with him, Dipper turns on his heel and runs the other way.
Dipper runs until he finds himself in a part of the forest he doesn't venture to that often; as in, never. The guilt and the anxiety and all of the feelings hit him like a train, and he lies on the grass and stares at the ants until he can breathe again.
Mabel wants to help. She really does. But Ford doesn't understand how much she knows. It's not the worst situation, but it's not the best.
So she fights, and tells him everything she knows. Bill, possession, the fight, and considers leaving out the note. She doesn't.
Ford leaves to follow Dipper and she collapses into the living room, where Grunkle Stan's watching some kind of sappy 70's romance movie. Emotionally exhausted, she doesn't care how incompetent the female lead is in detecting the male lead's emotions, she just relishes in the comfortable silence.
This won't be solved today, or even tomorrow. Dipper has to accept that. Mabel already has accepted it, but a bit too much.
When Ford finds Dipper, unconscious, surrounded by small, homeless brownies, his first instinct is to carry him home.
That he does.
They talk. It's not the best talk, but it makes the situation better than it was.
But Ford still knows, and Ford wasn't supposed to know.
Dipper was supposed to be better than this, Mabel was supposed to protect her family.
All of them ended up doing or being the opposite of what they were meant to.
But it's probably better that Ford knows, now.
Thanks for reading! Reviews appreciated!
(please look up brownies if you don't understand, he's not surrounded by food, don't worry)