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Chapter 40: Perfect Angels Orphanage

The kids slowly entered the dark building as Dipper shined a light around. The main room looked like a regular facility entrance with a main desk to the right, some chairs at the left, and the main staircase at the end of the room.

Shining the light around four hallway entrances on the first floor, Dipper would have thought that an orphanage would have been more welcoming than a dentist office, but they must have took their most attractive decoration when the place closed down.

Why was it closed down? They may know soon enough.

“Alright, team. We have just entered an abandoned house.” Dipper turned to the others. “Can anyone tell me what is the first thing we should do?”

“See if Kimmy changed her mind?” Mabel asked as she opened the door, spooking Kimmy to hide before Mabel could look out.

“No.” Dipper a flashlight to each kid. “We must stay together and not split up like in cartoons. That way we can avoid anything picking us off one by one.”

Mabel ignored that last part while ‘split up’ rang in her head as she glanced at Dyami. “Are you sure? I mean me and Dyami can check upstairs while Jessica goes down that hall and you and Beethoven go straight to the kitchen and end up finding the costume wearing villain.”

Dipper rolled his eyes as he points his flashlight down one hall. “That should be a good spot.”

They entered a hallway on the left where several dorm rooms on the right side and windows to the left.

Dyami opened each door and found it somewhat furnished with beds, dressers, and a desk. On the first turn, Dyami decided to thermally check one of the rooms and was quite surprised to see folded, dust covered children clothes tuck away in the dresser. “Wow, I thought they just left the furniture here for being too old.” Dyami took out a t-shirt with a dragon on it. “I want this.”

The kids checked around the last rooms to find more clothing, but nothing else.

“This is weird.” Dipper checked around the bed, and realized they still have sheets on them. “It’s as if a nuclear leakage happened.”

“But no mutants.” Beethoven spoke as he found an old baseball mat, but dropped it as he gasped. “Are we contaminated!?”

“Don’t get too work up.” Dipper calmed him down. “There would be plenty of warning signs and a huge guarded fence of this place is contaminated with nuclear waste.”

“That’s a relief.” Beethoven sighed. “But, then why are these clothes here?”

Mabel checked the size of the clothes. “And all these are kids sized. If they just leave these here, why not toys and books or something. Or a vampire romance novel.”

“Well the last one is because they didn’t exist back then.” Jessica tapped her head. “Since you know; more brain than phone.”

Dipper let out a small laugh as Mabel felt somewhat offended.

“Hey, I have you know that I ain’t got no phone. Thank you very much.”

“Me neither.” Jessica folded her arms. “They annoy me.”

After checking the rooms out, they made mental notes that all the clothes belonged to boys. Dipper suggested that they’ve split up the genders from either the left or right side, or the bottom and upper floors of the building.

“So that means we’ll eventually come across old girls clothes!” Mabel glee from the thought of throwing a dress-up party. “But wait, why were they left behind?”

Recalling Mabel’s question from before, Dipper thought of something disturbing. “Well ….. maybe something horrible happened.”

“I should return this shirt.” Dyami said to himself.

“Horrible?” Mabel felt her heart beating fast as she walked out the room. “Like what?” Mabel asked as she looked outside at the abandoned playground.

“I think Kimmy had a good idea.” Beethoven felt a bit jumpy. “Like maybe there are ghosts here?”

Dyami looked around. He wanted to be excited by this fact, but the thought of spirits of children made him saddened. “I say we check around some more before we jump to conclusion.”

“Dyami’s right.” Dipper said as he points the flashlight down the hallway. “We can’t just go with wherever pops into our minds first. I know that from first hand with ‘Norman’.” Dipper glanced at Mabel, making the girl remember how Dipper thought her first date was with a zombie.

“Well we don’t have all day.” Jessica pushed Dipper’s lumberjack hat down playfully. “We’re burning daylight.”

Dipper pulled the hat up and smiled at Jessica walking down the hallway, for longer than a second.

“Pay attention to the mission, Dipper.” Mabel grinned at her brother as she pulled him down the hall with her.

“There’s no such thing as ghosts. There’s no such thing as ghosts.” Beethoven chanted to himself. “But that’s what I used to think about fairies!” Beethoven shivered as he looked at Dyami. He wanted to feel a bit safer with his brave friend/rival, but he looks a bit off too. “D-Dyami.”

“Huh?” Dyami jumped up a bit. “Sorry, were you saying something?”

“…… I ….. we need to catch up with the others.” Beethoven pointed down the hall as Jessica called them over.

“Oh, O.K.” Dyami smiled as Beethoven walked ahead, but Dyami gave one nervous look around the sun lit hallway before reaching the others.

After exploring more dorms, they stumbled across the food court that looks more like a school cafeteria.

“Ugh, I would have hated living here.” Mabel checked out the tables. “It’s like going to school right after school. And eew, chewed gum.”

Jessica and Beethoven opened the door leading into the kitchen itself. With no windows around, they aimed their lights to find the place quite neat. Still had that layer of dust like everywhere else, but definitely looks nothing like it came from a slasher film.

“Oh thank gosh.” Beethoven sighed.

Jessica looked around the kitchen with curiosity as she examined the old knives in their stand and all the pots and pans neatly stacked into each other. “Yep, this is without a doubt creepy.” She examined the untouched pan to find no dents or holes. “They could have still been good all the way back ….. are those copper pipes?” Jessica aimed her light at some pipes on the walls and felt them. “They are, and they haven’t been torn out yet? Oh yeah, creep alert.”

Dipper, Dyami, and Mabel heard Jessica as they entered the kitchen.

“I don’t get it.” Mabel asked as Dyami explained how much copper is worth. “Woah …… so would it be disrespectful if weeeeeee.”

“Unless the gas’s still working, then no.” Dipper answered her, and that’s when Beethoven checked out the burners.

“They still work!”

“Seriously?” Dipper looked at a fridge next to him. “So that must mean ….” Dipper opened the fridge, only to instantly regret it. “NOPE NOPE!” Dipper covered his mouth as he shuts the door closed. “That one’s definitely doesn’t work, and wasn’t cleaned out after they closed this place down.

“We’re avoiding the bathrooms.” They all stated at the same time.

“Jinks!” shouted Mabel. “You all owe me sodas.”

“I would have gotten you one anyway.” Beethoven said quietly to himself.

“So we have clothes left over.” Dyami counted with his fingers. “Gas is still on, but not the electricity and no one actually cleaned up that much.”

Dipper shined the light around the kitchen and found something startling. “Woah.” Everyone jumped up a bit from Dipper’s sudden words, but quickly see that Dipper only found a huge mirror on the wall. He walked up to it and removed it from the wall. “A silver mirror.” Knowing this could come in handing, he tuck the mirror in his backpack.

“Looks like we have a little criminal.” Jessica turned her head at Dipper.

“Oh you caught me.” Dipper smiled. “I always enjoy robbing from mice and cockroaches who work their entire short lifespans to get one of these.”

Jessica chuckled and playfully punched Dipper’s shoulder.

Seeing that there was nothing left, and thankfully there was no walk-in freezers, the kids exit the kitchen and explored the right side of the house.

There they found more empty rooms with furniture and clothing, but they did however come across a door which looks like an office.

Dipper tried opening it, but the door was locked. He examined the old keyhole and asked Mabel for a hairclip.

“Oh just because I’m a girl, automatically means I have a hairclip in my hair that’s not actually doing anything.” Mabel placed her fists on her hips and pout. “I have them in my pockets.” She smiled brightly and took out a huge pile of hairclips.

“I’m not even gonna ask.” Dipper took one and used it to unlock the door.

Upon opening it, they discovered a normal looking office with a few decorative paintings and some filing cabinets, but those were just the normal things, what stranded out the most in that office, was the completely smashed desk right in the center.

“Coooooool!” shouted the excited Jessica as she walked around the desk. “It looks like someone karate chopped it!”

“Heeeeyah!” Mabel shouted as she demonstrated her own karate chop. “Someone must have won the lottery big time!”

Dipper and Dyami examined the desk. There was no way a normal human being could do this, unless if they were anything like Manley Dan, but Dipper did point out that the center was crushed with something that wouldn’t be as big as a giant fist.

“So maybe someone used a power tool?” Dyami suggested.

“But what could do that in this room?” Dipper asked. “This desk wasn’t anything cheap.” Dipper felt the craftsmanship of the desk. “Mahogany? Why would they use this much money?”

Mabel looked at the desk with disproval. “I think I know what kind of story this has.”

“You mean like ‘Andy’?” asked Beethoven. “I love that movie.”

“Me too!” Mabel smiled. “Oooooooh!”

The two began to sing together. “There’s always, some other day, some other day! Bet your behind.”

Jessica checked the file cabinets. “I can see that happening, but just this desk? Everywhere else looks like meh.”

“Maybe it was a donation or an antique back then.” Dipper felt the desk examined the empty draws. “Does look older than this building.” Dipper stood up and looked at Jessica searching the cabinets. “Find anything good.”

“They’re empty.” Jessica pointed out. “At least they brought the orphans’ records with them.”

“That’s good.” Mabel smiled. “I would be curious to see who’s an orphan or not, but that’s so sad.” Mabel placed her hands together. “I should make Mom and Dad a super special breakfast tomorrow.”

Seeing that there was nothing left, the kids left the office and explored around some more, they came all the way back to the main entrance.

“O.K., that’s the entire first floor covered.” Dipper said. “So far we found dorms for boys, the office, the kitchen area, and avoided all bathrooms.”

“And we also found a boiler room.” Beethoven added. “Thankfully nothing was found in there.”

“And the door to the basement was left closed.” Mabel said. “Don’t want to explore there just yet.”

“We’ll save that for another day.” Dipper checked his watch to see that it was going to 5. “And we don’t have much time on our hand. I say we explore the second floor and call it a day.”

“Before that.” Mabel turned to the door. “I want to check on Kimmy.”

“Eeeeh …. Hi?”

They looked at the front door to see Kimmy poking her head in. “Is …. Is it O.K. if I join now?”

‘There There, Bear Bear.’

They looked at one another and gave her compassionate smiles.

“Of course.” Dipper answered.

Kimmy smiled sheepishly as she walked in, with the bear in hand. “Well ….. let’s go.”

Together they walked up the main steps and checked the hallway to their right.

“So, did you find anything?” Kimmy asked Dipper as she walked closely to him.

“Well apparently when they abandoned the place, they left behind children clothes and some furniture.”

“R-Really?” Kimmy asked. “Were they ugly?”

“Not that dragon shirt.” Dyami answered. “But I put it back just in case I might anger a spirit.”

“Yep!” Kimmy lunged at Dipper’s arm. “D-D-Did you guys see any?!”

“Relax, not at all.” Dipper informed her. “But for some reason the gas line is still on, and they didn’t clean the fridge out.”

“Also the office desk was karate chopped in half.” Mabel said; which surprised Kimmy.

“Whaaaa? By what?”

Jessica shrugged. “Not an actual karate chop. Unless if it was by me.” Jessica placed her arms behind her head. “So they must have got some machine in there.”

“And who will go to the trouble of doing that?” Kimmy asked.

“Not sure.” Dipper said. “But that’s what’s an expedition is for.”

“Bringing complicating machines inside buildings to smash desk?” asked Beethoven.

Kimmy held onto Dipper’s arm tighter. “I wish I was a brave as you.”

Dipper blushed from the compliment. “Well yes. I am! Paranormal Expert, right here.”

Mabel raised her eyebrows up and down as Beethoven and gave him a thumb up, and then Mabel index finger up and gesture to Kimmy and Jessica with a stern face.

“I heard you the first time.” Dipper sighed looked at Kimmy. “But trust me, the worst I’ve seen on these kinds of trips are ……. nevermind.” Dipper kept quiet on the last part. “But with only a few odd things, this place doesn’t ….. look …… that …….”

Dipper’s heart nearly stopped when he gazed at an open room which looks like a T.V. room, well what’s left of it.

Kimmy looked into the room and her face turned so pale she could have easily looked like what she was about to shout. “D-D-D-D”

“Dipper, Kimmy.” Mabel asked as the group noticed the two behind them. “What are you two looking at OH MY GOSH!”

Dyami, Beethoven, and Jessica jumped towards them and saw the room they just missed. And just like them, their eyes bulged and their heart slow down as they saw the most horrifying site they have ever laid eyes on.

There, the room that houses a broken T.V., had nearly all its walls stained with something red. They didn’t want to believe what came to mind, not by a longshot; but no, something else was in there that confirmed their greatest fear.

All around the room, there were chalk marks, depicting dead bodies.

“Deeeeaaaad! Deeeeeaaaad!” Kimmy dug her head into Dipper’s chest. Dipper stood back and held onto her head. He looked back into the room. The chalk marks reminded him of the abandoned convenient store in Gravity Falls, but this was much worse.

“Eh-Kimmy?” Dipper let Kimmy sit next to him besides the doorway. “Just take it easy.” He rubbed her shoulder as Kimmy took slow, deep, breaths. “Feeling better?”

“Oh my gosh, there’s chalk marks of limbs!” shouted Beethoven which caused Kimmy to hold onto Dipper like a scared cat.

“Ow ow!” Dipper slowly removed his backpack and took out the silver mirror. “Look, I know seeing that was horrifying.”

“I think one of them was a kid!”

Dipper scowled at Beethoven, but quickly turned his attention to Kimmy. “But if you still are afraid of spirit, you can hold onto this mirror.” Kimmy looked at the silver mirror. “Ghosts can get trapped in here if they float into it.”

“How young do you think I am?” Kimmy asked about Dipper’s childish sounding words with a stern voice, making Dipper feel sheepish.

“Alright, how about if I just hold onto you for this moment.”

“Hm.” Kimmy blushed as she looked straight into Dipper’s eyes.

Dipper looked into those deep purple eyes as his face gave off heat and his heart started beating faster.

“D-Dipper.” Kimmy closed her eyes. “T-T-Thanks.” She turned to Dipper’s cheek and gave him a quick peck that felt like a jolt of electricity running through Dipper’s body.

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

“MABEL!” The deep red faced Dipper shouted to his overly happy sister as Kimmy just covered her eyes in embarrassment.

“Believe me, if Weirdmageddon didn’t happen, I would still be petrified by that.” Mabel pointed to the blood stained room. “But really …… that’s a thing.”

Kimmy turned away as everyone gazed back into the room.

“So then……” Jessica then clapped her hands together. “I say we do a séance!”

Everyone was a bit surprised by Jessica’s sudden command.

“Nnnnnnnn-OPE!” Kimmy practically jumped into Dipper’s lap and hugged him tighter.

“I….can’t ……. Breath…..”

Kimmy’s eyes widen and realized where she’s sitting. She jumped right up and felt her right arm in embarrassment. “Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!”

‘There There, Bear Bear.’

Dipper stood up and took a deep breath. “Kimmy. You do not want to be here anymore, right?”

Kimmy noded her head.

“How about I walk you outside to the playground. I’ll come back to do a quick séance, and then we can all go home together. Sounds good?” Dipper held his hand out.

Kimmy looked away and grabbed his hand. “O.K.”

Together Dipper and Kimmy slowly walked away hand in hand as Mabel just grinned till her heart content. “OMG! I can’t believe this is happening!”

“I know.” Dyami smiled. “We’re doing an actual séance at an actual murder scene …….” Dyami’s smile slowly faded. “Maybe we should check to see if Dipper packed holy water.”

“I’m on it!” Beethoven quickly dug through Dipper’s backpack and took out the journal volume.

“No, I meant what you see there!” Mabel held onto Dyami’s face and turned him to Dipper and Kimmy walking away hand in hand. “I’m going to call it Dimmy. No wai, Kipper!” Or Ipperimmy! ….IMMYIPPER!”

Jessica chuckled at the scene, but noticed the journal volume right next to her feet. “What do we have here?” Jessica picked up the journal and opened it. Curiosity caught her eye as she skimmed though the reports and well-drawn pictures of Gravity Falls’ fantastic (and some stupid) creatures and relics. “Where did Dipper get this?” Jessica looked through the Journal #1 section and found goblins, land sharks, a hockey player with a weed hacker, terrible rip-offs of bigfoot, some deer monster eating a human, flesh eating electric bills, and instructions on how to do a séance.

“Sweet.” Jessica grinned as she saved the page and looked through more pages.

Mabel turned around and noticed Jessica looking through the volumes. “Oh, be careful with that.” Mabel said. “That there is 100% Pines’ property.”

“Lucky you!” Jessica grinned as she showed everyone the séance section. “And lookie what I found.”

The kids looked at the séance instructions and Dyami was quite impressed. “Stanford Pines you are a genius.” Dyami turned to Beethoven. “Find any holy water?”

“I found a squirt gun filled with holy water.” Beethoven held onto the water toy. “Any ghosts come and threaten us, they have another thing coming.”

Mabel looked at the silver mirror and smiled. “I call shield!” Mabel picked up the mirror as if she was knight.

Dyami reached for his whip, but just remembered he left that at home. “And …… I have my quick wits!”

Jessica grinned at everyone’s determination, yet noticed the slight fear in Beethoven. “Alright, all we need now is Dipper.”

“I-I’m here.” Dipper slowly waved at them. “Sooooo, let’s get this-”

“How was it?!” Mabel instantly jumped towards her brother and bombarded him with questions. “Did you kiss? Did you set up a date? Can I plan it?”

Dipper’s face returned to that deep red shade as he backed and waved his hands. “Wait, wait! I-I!”

Jessica nearly fell over from laughter. “You’re-You’re face!”

Dipper just pouted there for a good moment before Jessica calmed down.

“O.K., O.K., I’m good.” Jessica held up the journal volumes. “Hope you don’t mind me checking this out.”

“Uhhhhh.” Dipper looked at the volume. “Not at all. So then, shall we get this started, guys?”

In truth, they were both excited and nervous about all this, well Jessica is excited only, the rest already had experience with the paranormal.

Dyami, Mabel, Beethoven, and Jessica sat together as Dipper closed the door. Using a flashlight, he carefully made his way between Mabel and Jessica.

“Wow, you’re hand has a good grip.” Mabel smiled at Dyami.

“Good to have finger strength, ow ow ow!” Dyami looked at Beethoven. “Even Beethoven’s strong.”

“I should be holding her hand.” Beethoven whispered to himself.

“Well Dipper, do the honors.” Jessica smiled at Dipper, who took noticed.

“Oh, alright. Here we go.”

Dipper turned the flashlight off and closed his eyes.

“Oh spirits from beyond the grave, speak to us.”

The room was silent.

“We call you here. What happened here? Why did these people die? Who did this?”

Everyone was getting excited. Mabel grinned as she felt Dyami’s grip getting tighter, Dyami feeling both excitement and sorrow for what these people may have gone through, Beethoven panicked, and Jessica just relaxed.

“Departed ones.” Dipper spoke quietly. “Please come to us, we seek answers.”

“Me too you darn kids.” Spoke an unknown voice.

Everyone gasped and remained silent.

“It worked!?” Dipper asked. “Uuuuuuuhh…….. what do I do! What do I do?!

“Why are you asking me?” Mabel asked. “You’re the one that took care of those two old people ghosts and the one haunting Pacifica’s mansion.”

“Oh oh, right.” Dipper took a deep, uneased breath. “S-S-Spirit. Who are you?”

“My name, is that what you want to ask?” The voice appeared male, with a calm tone. “But first, where am I?”

“You’re in Piedmont, California.” Dyami answered, keeping calm as they communicate with a ghost, a live ghost …. Well an actual ghost. “I am Dyami Grey, these are my friends.”

“I-I-I-I’M BEETHOVEN!” Beethoven shouted as if his heart will give in any moment. “DON’T HAUNT US!”

“This is so cool!” shouted Jessica. “I thought this was going to be some weird game; but look at us, we’re talking to an actual ghost!”

“I’m a ghost?” the male spirit asked. “Well I be darned.”

“Awww, he thinks he’s still alive.” Mabel felt pity for the ghost. “My name is Mabel Pines. My brother Dipper and I want to help you.”

“Mabel and Dipper Pines?” asked the spirit. “Why if it isn’t the two kids that stopped Bill Cipher.”

Mabel gasped loudly. “We’re famous in the spirit world!”

Dyami and Beethoven were also intrigued, they heard stories from the twins about Bill Cipher and how he was defeated, and felt they deserved a huge reward from the world.

Beethoven took this as an opportunity. “Say, when you get back, tell all those ghost boys that Mabel is taken.”

Mabel gave the biggest grin the darkness could hide. “He ships me with Dyami.” She quietly whispered.

“Bill who now?” Jessica asked.

“Yes, Bill Cipher’s end of life.” The spirit spoke more. “I was traumatized when I was a part of his thrown.

“…….Wait a minute.” Mabel turned her flashlight on and aimed right behind Beethoven.

“Aaaaaah!” Beethoven covered his eyes to shield himself from the look of the murdered spirit.

Mabel’s jaw dropped as she saw the face of their visitor. “Tad Strange!?”

Standing right with them, was none other than Tad Strange, the most normal person in Gravity Falls who turned out wasn’t a ghost at all, or a dream demon.

“Yes, I do have a pulse.” Tad checked his neck. “Last thing I remember was walking into a port-a-potty and randomly ended up here.” He placed his hands on his hips and smiled. “Well I should go find a bathroom then, is there one nearby?”

“I wouldn’t risk it.” Mabel answered him as they showed him out of the dark room.

“……….. I give, what was all that about?” Jessica asked everyone else, who all just shrugged.

Jessica looked out the window to see the sun beginning to setting. “Well despite how many questions I have, I need to leave. Don’t want to walk around here in the dark.” Jessica walked ahead and waved. “I’ll see you around. Especially you, Mr. Dipper Mystery.”

Dipper eyes lit up. “Oh, well I’ll-”

“Hey wait!” Mabel shouted at Jessica. “You still have the journal.”

Jessica turned around and looked at her hand. “Oh …. Forgot about this.” After looking at it for a few seconds, she handed it back to Dipper. “I actually really liked what’s written here, whether it’s full of baloney or not.” She nudged the boy playfully. “If you’re not going to be kissing Kimmy too much, we should hang out.”

Dipper’s face turned red again as he was lost of words.

“See ya.” She winked at him and made her way to the stairs.

Dipper continued to stare as Mabel checked his eyesight. “Yep, somebody’s in loooooooooove!” Mabel gave herself a hug. “But who will win Dipper’s heart at the end? Jessica the cool girl, or Kimmy the shy one who likes Homework the Game? ……… Pacifica?”

Dipper snapped out of it. “Yeah. Sooooooooo we should head back. We don’t want to make our p-parents worried.”

“Actually we still have like thirty minutes of daylight.” Dyami pointed out. “I just texted my parents, they’ll pick us up after our ‘nature walk’.”

“Is that a bad boy side I see?” Mabel quickly asked.

Dipper scratched the back of his head. “I’m not really feeling it right now. You know, being traumatized and all.”

“I’m with you, buddy!” Beethoven held onto Dipper with his arm. “Wait, we’re buddies now, right?”

“Eeeeeeee-Yes?” Dipper said; which gave a teardrop in Beethoven’s eyes.

“Buddy…..” Beethoven gave Dipper a brotherly hug which could easily suffocate anyone.

“Awwwwww.” Mabel said. “Isn’t this great. First he was a bully, but now he’s friends with Dipper.” She leaned close to Dyami. “Not technically a real bully.”

Dyami did not respond.

“Dyami?”

Dyami jumped at Mabel’s question. “Y-Yes?”

With her Mabel senses tingling, she knew there was something up. She looked into Dyami’s unsettling eyes. “Are you O.K.?”

Dyami looked directly into Mabel’s eyes. For the short amount of time he’d known her, he knew far too well that there was nothing to hide from her, and she is quite persistent.

“Truthfully, I’ve been having this horrible feeling the second we walked into this building.”

“What do you mean?” Mabel asked, before gasping at the first thing to pop into her head. “Are you psychic?! Who do I marry?”

“…….Actually, ever since I was 5, I always wondered that. I get déjà vu a lot and-” Dyami smile faded. “I mean, I felt like we’ve were being watched.”

“Really?” to make sure, Mabel called out. “Anybody watching? Hello, …… Lightning? Are you and your fairy gals here? …. Tad, still here?”

“I am lost.” Tad voice could be heard from somewhere.

Dyami rubbed the back of his neck. “Like Dipper said, I didn’t want to jump to conclusion, but I think that room just spells it out.” He looked at Beethoven still hugging Dipper as the poor boy was squirming out. “I think this place really is haunted.”

Mabel looked back towards the blood covered room. “Yeah, I mean Dipper told me that anyone who died tragically or has huge unfinished business usually stay around, like that ghost that wanted the Northwest to let the common folk into their fancy party.”

Dyami nodded his head. “And you said no one mentioned anything that happened here before, right?”

“Yep, but we’re still kids. Why tell us about a huge murder?” Mabel asked. “I bet this didn’t get solved.”

“Or avenged.” Dyami pointed out. He looked down at the blood stain on the floor. “And all those chalk marks. So many people died, who or what could …. Do ….. such a …..” Dyami looked at the bloodstain and saw it leading down the hall farther.

Mabel also noticed this and her eyes widened. “Dipper, Beethoven.”

“Yes my love, I mean Mabel?” Beethoven dropped Dipper on the floor.

“Look!” Mabel pointed at the blood trail leading down the hall.

“……. Yeah, I think we really should call this a day.” Beethoven started to sweat as Dipper stood up and felt his head.

“What did I miss?”

Dyami looked at the blood trail, he didn’t know where it would stop or what was dragged there, but his spirit of curiosity overthrew his negative emotions.

“Friends, come. I think part of our destiny lies at the end of this trail!”

“Oh Dyami.” Mabel sigh dreamily as the two ran ahead.

“I really need to attend speech classes.” Beethoven jogged down the hallway to catch up with the more energetic kids

Dipper stood up and saw the other kids running ahead. “H-Hey, where are you guys going?” Dipper made a left turn down the hall and caught up to see all three kids standing still. “What’s going ….. w-w-what?”

Dipper and the others just stood there too see the blood trail end at another chalk drawing, of a child.

Mabel’s stomach began to sink as she held onto the arms of both Dyami and Beethoven. “I …. I think we should go home.”

Dyami was having second thoughts about all this, but noticed the door next to them on their left. It was another dorm, but the door to this one was vandalized.

Dyami held onto Mabel’s hand tightly as he slowly made his way to the door. It looked like it was done by bullies, but the words on this door wasn’t anything simple and childish like what Beethoven might think up.

“I ….. I think whoever this was…” Dyami looked at the chalk mark. “This was their room.”

Dipper looked at the door and back to the others. “….. we should just ……”

Dyami quickly grabbed the handle and took a deep breath. “Everyone …….” He turned to the others. “I don’t think we’ll like what we’ll find in here.”

“Then …. Then shouldn’t we just leave it alone?!” Dipper asked in a harsh tone.

Mabel turned to her brother with confusion. “Dipper, you’re usually the one on top of things.” She looked at her brother. “In your own dorky way. Are you feeling alright?”

Dipper felt his head. “Not really.”

Mabel felt his forehead. “You don’t have a fever, but you do feel cold.” Mabel felt worried for her brother. “Come on, Dyami and Beethoven, we should take Dipper home.” She gave her brother a hearty smile. “And I’ll make you my famous Mabel Chicken Noodle Soup you love so much.”

Before Dipper could say anything else, Dyami just threw the door right open.

The sudden event shocked the kids as Beethoven covered his eyes.

“Find happy place, find happy place.”

Dyami closed his eyes as he nervously aimed his flashlight into the room, feeling a new lever of fear in his soul.

Dipper and Mabel were the first to look into this room. “Guys……”

Dyami and Beethoven opened their eyes and looked where the light revealed. There was no blood, no bodies, no chalk marks, not even some ritual shrine.

Instead it was another room, but not as common as the others.

Dyami felt his fear lighten up as he aimed his light around and found it to be decorated with posters of different movies. There were even some super hero models around a shelf. Dyami aimed the light around the ground to see that the dorm has two beds instead of one, with many boardgames underneath. Seeing nothing else, he took a deep breath and calmed himself.

“……..Heh…….. I expected something …….”

“Traumatizing beyond imagination?” Beethoven answered.

“Yes.” Dyami chuckled as the kids looked around the room.

“Woooooooow!” Mabel smiled as her fear plummeted. “This is all the nerd stuff you like, Dipper! Minus the paranormal.” Mabel walked around the short room. “Hey, candles!”

Mabel took out a match and lit some decorative candles around the shelves to help bright up the room some more.

It was indeed what Mabel will call a ‘Dork Room’. Whoever had this room clearly likes movies, super heroes, and even some monsters. “I’m not that big into these kind of things, but they still look good after all these years.” Dyami said as he checked out some figures on a shelf behind a bed.

“Hey, Mothgad!” Mabel pointed out a poster as Dyami found a sheet of paper on the bed. “I love that movie and the two singing small ladies.”

“I actually remember that song sort of.” Beethoven said.

And the two started singing together again as Dyami paid close attention to the sheet. “Mooooo-thg-aaaaad! Moooa-thg-aaaaad! ….. Unknown Language we don’t know how to look up!”

Mabel stopped her singing with Beethoven when she noticed Dipper shivering. “Bro, you don’t look so good.”

Dipper closed his eyes and felt his head again. “Sorry, it’s just, I-we should really get out …. uuuuuurrrrh.” Dipper sat down and felt his stomach.

“Dipper!” Mabel jolted to her brother and checked his head. She gasped when she felt his temperature rising. “That’s it! We’re leaving now!” Mabel said as Beethoven began to worry. “Dyami, call your mom. We need to get Dipper some chicken soup now.”

Dyami did not respond.

“Hey, Dyami! I said now!” Mabel glared at Dyami, but noticed the sheet was looking at. She walked over to him to get his attention, but was surprised by the frozen state of his face.

“Dyami, what are you ….” Beethoven looked at the sheet. After short moment, his eyes widened and his jaw slowly dropped.

“Guys?” Mabel was curious and looked at the sheet itself. She was quite astonished by how well designed it was. She looked at the images closes to see they were all done with paint. But the words written on what caught her attention the most. She slowly read through the letter out loud.

‘In memory of my only real friend.’

‘I can’t believe I lost you and now stuck with these horrible people. Each day they’re becoming more and more terrible. I’ve seen beatings, yelling, blood. I was no exception.’

‘I cannot even think of what else to say, but I have a feeling that …. That something more terrible than your death will happen. I just know it.’

‘To the one that actually truly cares about a weakling like me, I hope to see you in that better place.’

Mabel covered her mouth. “Someone lost their friend, and this place…..” Mabel recalled the vandalized room and the very name of this building.

“This isn’t perfect at all!” Mabel said, before remembering her current dilemma. “Oh my gosh, Dipper. Are you-” Suddenly Dyami grabbed her face.

“Ugh, seriously? You want to kiss me now!?” Mabel asked angrily. “My brother is sick and I just read a sad memorial? Nothing about this looks romantic in the-”

Dyami face remained still as he tilted head to the bottom of the words.

There was a photo of the supposed dead friend with a death date of about 40 years ago.

“Wow, I didn’t even notice this photo.” Mabel’s looked at it with puppy dog eyes. “Awww. Sooo adorable! Why do good people have to …..”

Behind the kids, Dipper was sitting next to the door, feeling his head. “Oooooh, I hope we leave before …”

“D-D-D-D-Dipper?” Dipper slowly looked at his sister. Usually in the dire of situations, she held her anxiety in check. But by the look of her constant shaking body and her trembling mouth, she looked as if she’ll go crazy at any second.

“W-W-We found this photo of a kid who died in the 70s. I-I think you need to look at this.”

Mabel slowly handed the photo to Dipper. As he gazed into the child’s face, his hands began to tremble.

.

.

.

She looked exactly like Kimmy.

Dipper’s dropped the page as his breath was taken away. Despite his state, he slowly picked himself up with the door handle as support. “You ….. You……”

Dyami nodded his head. “I had a feeling we were being watched. And Kimmy’s behavior all day …..”

“SHE WAS A GHOST THE ENTIRE TIME!” screamed Beethoven. “She went to school since day one! And she was dead! Dead!” Beethoven held his head. “Happy place! Happy place!”

Dyami felt his beating heart. “She was a phantom. I failed to notice.”

This was a huge shock for Mabel, not nearly as close to Stanley’s secret, but still a huge shock. “Dipper, do you think she went back to school and hung out with us because …..” Before she finished that sentence, she remembered that cute moment she shared with Dipper. “Ghost Girlfriend!” Mabel randomly shouted. “Dipper, we need to find Kimmy and have you two make out!”

“WHAT!?” shouted Beethoven and Dyami.

“Come on, bro!” Mabel grabbed Dipper’s hand, but the boy pulled it back.

“Huh?” Mabel tilted her head as Dipper slowly lowered his. “Are you ….. right. You’re still sick.”

“I am sick.” Dipper took a deep breath. “Sick of this again?”

“Again?” Mabel asked.

“What did happen at Gravity Falls?” Beethoven asked, completely confused and shocked.

“What are you …..” A lightbulb sprang up in Mabel’s head. “Oh I get it. She died in the 70s, those making her far older than Wendy.”

Dipper tightened his grip on the doorknob.

“If she was still alive, she would be like 50, but she’s still young in heart.” Mabel held her cheeks. “And you have so much in common! You like these movies, and you both like Boring, Boring, and More Boring! Ooooooooh, she said she hadn’t played in years! I get it now! And how sarcastic she was when I tried to scare her by saying ‘boo’! I love foreshadowing!”

“Mabel …..”

The two other boys stare at Mabel’s weirdest behavior yet. “And after you get ice cream, you can sing a song in the rain and get a cold, and I’ll give you both chicken noodle soup and you’ll be together forever and-”

SLAM!

Mabel, Beethoven, and Dyami all jumped when Dipper shut the door behind him and sat down. “You don’t understand at all. This will never work like that!”

“Oh sure it will.” Mabel grinned at her hopelessly in love brother. “You just need to say ‘Hey ghost babe. I’m a paranormal investigator. Wanna kiss.’ That’s line’s perfect!”

“Mabel, how crazy are you?” both Beethoven and Dyami asked.

“Fun crazy!”

“I said it will never work!” Dipper said in a harsher town. “Ahhhhh.” Dipper felt his head.

“Dipper!” Mabel kneeled and felt Dipper’s head. She pulled right back in fear. “You’re burning up!”

“It won’t work…..”

“Calm down. We’ll get you come right.”

“I’ll never be loved.”

Mabel gasped. “Dipper, where is this all coming from. Of course you will.”

“No, it would never work ……….. Dipper will never accept me.”

The three’s eyes widened. “….Dipper. I think you had a little type-o there. You were supposed to say Ki-”

Without warning, Dipper grabbed into Mabel’s arm and started squeezing it.

“Ow, Dipper! What are you doing!?”

Dipper didn’t respond. He only cracked his neck and frowned. “You should have kept your eyes on the both of us before I came back for that séance.” His body flashed as he twitched. “He cannot know what I am!”

Dipper face looked up and the three kids screamed, at a dead face of Kimmy.

End of Chapter

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Chapter 40: Perfect Angels Orphanage

The kids slowly entered the dark building as Dipper shined a light around. The main room looked like a regular facility entrance with a main desk to the right, some chairs at the left, and the main staircase at the end of the room.

Shining the light around four hallway entrances on the first floor, Dipper would have thought that an orphanage would have been more welcoming than a dentist office, but they must have took their most attractive decoration when the place closed down.

Why was it closed down? They may know soon enough.

“Alright, team. We have just entered an abandoned house.” Dipper turned to the others. “Can anyone tell me what is the first thing we should do?”

“See if Kimmy changed her mind?” Mabel asked as she opened the door, spooking Kimmy to hide before Mabel could look out.

“No.” Dipper a flashlight to each kid. “We must stay together and not split up like in cartoons. That way we can avoid anything picking us off one by one.”

Mabel ignored that last part while ‘split up’ rang in her head as she glanced at Dyami. “Are you sure? I mean me and Dyami can check upstairs while Jessica goes down that hall and you and Beethoven go straight to the kitchen and end up finding the costume wearing villain.”

Dipper rolled his eyes as he points his flashlight down one hall. “That should be a good spot.”

They entered a hallway on the left where several dorm rooms on the right side and windows to the left.

Dyami opened each door and found it somewhat furnished with beds, dressers, and a desk. On the first turn, Dyami decided to thermally check one of the rooms and was quite surprised to see folded, dust covered children clothes tuck away in the dresser. “Wow, I thought they just left the furniture here for being too old.” Dyami took out a t-shirt with a dragon on it. “I want this.”

The kids checked around the last rooms to find more clothing, but nothing else.

“This is weird.” Dipper checked around the bed, and realized they still have sheets on them. “It’s as if a nuclear leakage happened.”

“But no mutants.” Beethoven spoke as he found an old baseball mat, but dropped it as he gasped. “Are we contaminated!?”

“Don’t get too work up.” Dipper calmed him down. “There would be plenty of warning signs and a huge guarded fence of this place is contaminated with nuclear waste.”

“That’s a relief.” Beethoven sighed. “But, then why are these clothes here?”

Mabel checked the size of the clothes. “And all these are kids sized. If they just leave these here, why not toys and books or something. Or a vampire romance novel.”

“Well the last one is because they didn’t exist back then.” Jessica tapped her head. “Since you know; more brain than phone.”

Dipper let out a small laugh as Mabel felt somewhat offended.

“Hey, I have you know that I ain’t got no phone. Thank you very much.”

“Me neither.” Jessica folded her arms. “They annoy me.”

After checking the rooms out, they made mental notes that all the clothes belonged to boys. Dipper suggested that they’ve split up the genders from either the left or right side, or the bottom and upper floors of the building.

“So that means we’ll eventually come across old girls clothes!” Mabel glee from the thought of throwing a dress-up party. “But wait, why were they left behind?”

Recalling Mabel’s question from before, Dipper thought of something disturbing. “Well ….. maybe something horrible happened.”

“I should return this shirt.” Dyami said to himself.

“Horrible?” Mabel felt her heart beating fast as she walked out the room. “Like what?” Mabel asked as she looked outside at the abandoned playground.

“I think Kimmy had a good idea.” Beethoven felt a bit jumpy. “Like maybe there are ghosts here?”

Dyami looked around. He wanted to be excited by this fact, but the thought of spirits of children made him saddened. “I say we check around some more before we jump to conclusion.”

“Dyami’s right.” Dipper said as he points the flashlight down the hallway. “We can’t just go with wherever pops into our minds first. I know that from first hand with ‘Norman’.” Dipper glanced at Mabel, making the girl remember how Dipper thought her first date was with a zombie.

“Well we don’t have all day.” Jessica pushed Dipper’s lumberjack hat down playfully. “We’re burning daylight.”

Dipper pulled the hat up and smiled at Jessica walking down the hallway, for longer than a second.

“Pay attention to the mission, Dipper.” Mabel grinned at her brother as she pulled him down the hall with her.

“There’s no such thing as ghosts. There’s no such thing as ghosts.” Beethoven chanted to himself. “But that’s what I used to think about fairies!” Beethoven shivered as he looked at Dyami. He wanted to feel a bit safer with his brave friend/rival, but he looks a bit off too. “D-Dyami.”

“Huh?” Dyami jumped up a bit. “Sorry, were you saying something?”

“…… I ….. we need to catch up with the others.” Beethoven pointed down the hall as Jessica called them over.

“Oh, O.K.” Dyami smiled as Beethoven walked ahead, but Dyami gave one nervous look around the sun lit hallway before reaching the others.

After exploring more dorms, they stumbled across the food court that looks more like a school cafeteria.

“Ugh, I would have hated living here.” Mabel checked out the tables. “It’s like going to school right after school. And eew, chewed gum.”

Jessica and Beethoven opened the door leading into the kitchen itself. With no windows around, they aimed their lights to find the place quite neat. Still had that layer of dust like everywhere else, but definitely looks nothing like it came from a slasher film.

“Oh thank gosh.” Beethoven sighed.

Jessica looked around the kitchen with curiosity as she examined the old knives in their stand and all the pots and pans neatly stacked into each other. “Yep, this is without a doubt creepy.” She examined the untouched pan to find no dents or holes. “They could have still been good all the way back ….. are those copper pipes?” Jessica aimed her light at some pipes on the walls and felt them. “They are, and they haven’t been torn out yet? Oh yeah, creep alert.”

Dipper, Dyami, and Mabel heard Jessica as they entered the kitchen.

“I don’t get it.” Mabel asked as Dyami explained how much copper is worth. “Woah …… so would it be disrespectful if weeeeeee.”

“Unless the gas’s still working, then no.” Dipper answered her, and that’s when Beethoven checked out the burners.

“They still work!”

“Seriously?” Dipper looked at a fridge next to him. “So that must mean ….” Dipper opened the fridge, only to instantly regret it. “NOPE NOPE!” Dipper covered his mouth as he shuts the door closed. “That one’s definitely doesn’t work, and wasn’t cleaned out after they closed this place down.

“We’re avoiding the bathrooms.” They all stated at the same time.

“Jinks!” shouted Mabel. “You all owe me sodas.”

“I would have gotten you one anyway.” Beethoven said quietly to himself.

“So we have clothes left over.” Dyami counted with his fingers. “Gas is still on, but not the electricity and no one actually cleaned up that much.”

Dipper shined the light around the kitchen and found something startling. “Woah.” Everyone jumped up a bit from Dipper’s sudden words, but quickly see that Dipper only found a huge mirror on the wall. He walked up to it and removed it from the wall. “A silver mirror.” Knowing this could come in handing, he tuck the mirror in his backpack.

“Looks like we have a little criminal.” Jessica turned her head at Dipper.

“Oh you caught me.” Dipper smiled. “I always enjoy robbing from mice and cockroaches who work their entire short lifespans to get one of these.”

Jessica chuckled and playfully punched Dipper’s shoulder.

Seeing that there was nothing left, and thankfully there was no walk-in freezers, the kids exit the kitchen and explored the right side of the house.

There they found more empty rooms with furniture and clothing, but they did however come across a door which looks like an office.

Dipper tried opening it, but the door was locked. He examined the old keyhole and asked Mabel for a hairclip.

“Oh just because I’m a girl, automatically means I have a hairclip in my hair that’s not actually doing anything.” Mabel placed her fists on her hips and pout. “I have them in my pockets.” She smiled brightly and took out a huge pile of hairclips.

“I’m not even gonna ask.” Dipper took one and used it to unlock the door.

Upon opening it, they discovered a normal looking office with a few decorative paintings and some filing cabinets, but those were just the normal things, what stranded out the most in that office, was the completely smashed desk right in the center.

“Coooooool!” shouted the excited Jessica as she walked around the desk. “It looks like someone karate chopped it!”

“Heeeeyah!” Mabel shouted as she demonstrated her own karate chop. “Someone must have won the lottery big time!”

Dipper and Dyami examined the desk. There was no way a normal human being could do this, unless if they were anything like Manley Dan, but Dipper did point out that the center was crushed with something that wouldn’t be as big as a giant fist.

“So maybe someone used a power tool?” Dyami suggested.

“But what could do that in this room?” Dipper asked. “This desk wasn’t anything cheap.” Dipper felt the craftsmanship of the desk. “Mahogany? Why would they use this much money?”

Mabel looked at the desk with disproval. “I think I know what kind of story this has.”

“You mean like ‘Andy’?” asked Beethoven. “I love that movie.”

“Me too!” Mabel smiled. “Oooooooh!”

The two began to sing together. “There’s always, some other day, some other day! Bet your behind.”

Jessica checked the file cabinets. “I can see that happening, but just this desk? Everywhere else looks like meh.”

“Maybe it was a donation or an antique back then.” Dipper felt the desk examined the empty draws. “Does look older than this building.” Dipper stood up and looked at Jessica searching the cabinets. “Find anything good.”

“They’re empty.” Jessica pointed out. “At least they brought the orphans’ records with them.”

“That’s good.” Mabel smiled. “I would be curious to see who’s an orphan or not, but that’s so sad.” Mabel placed her hands together. “I should make Mom and Dad a super special breakfast tomorrow.”

Seeing that there was nothing left, the kids left the office and explored around some more, they came all the way back to the main entrance.

“O.K., that’s the entire first floor covered.” Dipper said. “So far we found dorms for boys, the office, the kitchen area, and avoided all bathrooms.”

“And we also found a boiler room.” Beethoven added. “Thankfully nothing was found in there.”

“And the door to the basement was left closed.” Mabel said. “Don’t want to explore there just yet.”

“We’ll save that for another day.” Dipper checked his watch to see that it was going to 5. “And we don’t have much time on our hand. I say we explore the second floor and call it a day.”

“Before that.” Mabel turned to the door. “I want to check on Kimmy.”

“Eeeeh …. Hi?”

They looked at the front door to see Kimmy poking her head in. “Is …. Is it O.K. if I join now?”

‘There There, Bear Bear.’

They looked at one another and gave her compassionate smiles.

“Of course.” Dipper answered.

Kimmy smiled sheepishly as she walked in, with the bear in hand. “Well ….. let’s go.”

Together they walked up the main steps and checked the hallway to their right.

“So, did you find anything?” Kimmy asked Dipper as she walked closely to him.

“Well apparently when they abandoned the place, they left behind children clothes and some furniture.”

“R-Really?” Kimmy asked. “Were they ugly?”

“Not that dragon shirt.” Dyami answered. “But I put it back just in case I might anger a spirit.”

“Yep!” Kimmy lunged at Dipper’s arm. “D-D-Did you guys see any?!”

“Relax, not at all.” Dipper informed her. “But for some reason the gas line is still on, and they didn’t clean the fridge out.”

“Also the office desk was karate chopped in half.” Mabel said; which surprised Kimmy.

“Whaaaa? By what?”

Jessica shrugged. “Not an actual karate chop. Unless if it was by me.” Jessica placed her arms behind her head. “So they must have got some machine in there.”

“And who will go to the trouble of doing that?” Kimmy asked.

“Not sure.” Dipper said. “But that’s what’s an expedition is for.”

“Bringing complicating machines inside buildings to smash desk?” asked Beethoven.

Kimmy held onto Dipper’s arm tighter. “I wish I was a brave as you.”

Dipper blushed from the compliment. “Well yes. I am! Paranormal Expert, right here.”

Mabel raised her eyebrows up and down as Beethoven and gave him a thumb up, and then Mabel index finger up and gesture to Kimmy and Jessica with a stern face.

“I heard you the first time.” Dipper sighed looked at Kimmy. “But trust me, the worst I’ve seen on these kinds of trips are ……. nevermind.” Dipper kept quiet on the last part. “But with only a few odd things, this place doesn’t ….. look …… that …….”

Dipper’s heart nearly stopped when he gazed at an open room which looks like a T.V. room, well what’s left of it.

Kimmy looked into the room and her face turned so pale she could have easily looked like what she was about to shout. “D-D-D-D”

“Dipper, Kimmy.” Mabel asked as the group noticed the two behind them. “What are you two looking at OH MY GOSH!”

Dyami, Beethoven, and Jessica jumped towards them and saw the room they just missed. And just like them, their eyes bulged and their heart slow down as they saw the most horrifying site they have ever laid eyes on.

There, the room that houses a broken T.V., had nearly all its walls stained with something red. They didn’t want to believe what came to mind, not by a longshot; but no, something else was in there that confirmed their greatest fear.

All around the room, there were chalk marks, depicting dead bodies.

“Deeeeaaaad! Deeeeeaaaad!” Kimmy dug her head into Dipper’s chest. Dipper stood back and held onto her head. He looked back into the room. The chalk marks reminded him of the abandoned convenient store in Gravity Falls, but this was much worse.

“Eh-Kimmy?” Dipper let Kimmy sit next to him besides the doorway. “Just take it easy.” He rubbed her shoulder as Kimmy took slow, deep, breaths. “Feeling better?”

“Oh my gosh, there’s chalk marks of limbs!” shouted Beethoven which caused Kimmy to hold onto Dipper like a scared cat.

“Ow ow!” Dipper slowly removed his backpack and took out the silver mirror. “Look, I know seeing that was horrifying.”

“I think one of them was a kid!”

Dipper scowled at Beethoven, but quickly turned his attention to Kimmy. “But if you still are afraid of spirit, you can hold onto this mirror.” Kimmy looked at the silver mirror. “Ghosts can get trapped in here if they float into it.”

“How young do you think I am?” Kimmy asked about Dipper’s childish sounding words with a stern voice, making Dipper feel sheepish.

“Alright, how about if I just hold onto you for this moment.”

“Hm.” Kimmy blushed as she looked straight into Dipper’s eyes.

Dipper looked into those deep purple eyes as his face gave off heat and his heart started beating faster.

“D-Dipper.” Kimmy closed her eyes. “T-T-Thanks.” She turned to Dipper’s cheek and gave him a quick peck that felt like a jolt of electricity running through Dipper’s body.

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

“MABEL!” The deep red faced Dipper shouted to his overly happy sister as Kimmy just covered her eyes in embarrassment.

“Believe me, if Weirdmageddon didn’t happen, I would still be petrified by that.” Mabel pointed to the blood stained room. “But really …… that’s a thing.”

Kimmy turned away as everyone gazed back into the room.

“So then……” Jessica then clapped her hands together. “I say we do a séance!”

Everyone was a bit surprised by Jessica’s sudden command.

“Nnnnnnnn-OPE!” Kimmy practically jumped into Dipper’s lap and hugged him tighter.

“I….can’t ……. Breath…..”

Kimmy’s eyes widen and realized where she’s sitting. She jumped right up and felt her right arm in embarrassment. “Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!”

‘There There, Bear Bear.’

Dipper stood up and took a deep breath. “Kimmy. You do not want to be here anymore, right?”

Kimmy noded her head.

“How about I walk you outside to the playground. I’ll come back to do a quick séance, and then we can all go home together. Sounds good?” Dipper held his hand out.

Kimmy looked away and grabbed his hand. “O.K.”

Together Dipper and Kimmy slowly walked away hand in hand as Mabel just grinned till her heart content. “OMG! I can’t believe this is happening!”

“I know.” Dyami smiled. “We’re doing an actual séance at an actual murder scene …….” Dyami’s smile slowly faded. “Maybe we should check to see if Dipper packed holy water.”

“I’m on it!” Beethoven quickly dug through Dipper’s backpack and took out the journal volume.

“No, I meant what you see there!” Mabel held onto Dyami’s face and turned him to Dipper and Kimmy walking away hand in hand. “I’m going to call it Dimmy. No wai, Kipper!” Or Ipperimmy! ….IMMYIPPER!”

Jessica chuckled at the scene, but noticed the journal volume right next to her feet. “What do we have here?” Jessica picked up the journal and opened it. Curiosity caught her eye as she skimmed though the reports and well-drawn pictures of Gravity Falls’ fantastic (and some stupid) creatures and relics. “Where did Dipper get this?” Jessica looked through the Journal #1 section and found goblins, land sharks, a hockey player with a weed hacker, terrible rip-offs of bigfoot, some deer monster eating a human, flesh eating electric bills, and instructions on how to do a séance.

“Sweet.” Jessica grinned as she saved the page and looked through more pages.

Mabel turned around and noticed Jessica looking through the volumes. “Oh, be careful with that.” Mabel said. “That there is 100% Pines’ property.”

“Lucky you!” Jessica grinned as she showed everyone the séance section. “And lookie what I found.”

The kids looked at the séance instructions and Dyami was quite impressed. “Stanford Pines you are a genius.” Dyami turned to Beethoven. “Find any holy water?”

“I found a squirt gun filled with holy water.” Beethoven held onto the water toy. “Any ghosts come and threaten us, they have another thing coming.”

Mabel looked at the silver mirror and smiled. “I call shield!” Mabel picked up the mirror as if she was knight.

Dyami reached for his whip, but just remembered he left that at home. “And …… I have my quick wits!”

Jessica grinned at everyone’s determination, yet noticed the slight fear in Beethoven. “Alright, all we need now is Dipper.”

“I-I’m here.” Dipper slowly waved at them. “Sooooo, let’s get this-”

“How was it?!” Mabel instantly jumped towards her brother and bombarded him with questions. “Did you kiss? Did you set up a date? Can I plan it?”

Dipper’s face returned to that deep red shade as he backed and waved his hands. “Wait, wait! I-I!”

Jessica nearly fell over from laughter. “You’re-You’re face!”

Dipper just pouted there for a good moment before Jessica calmed down.

“O.K., O.K., I’m good.” Jessica held up the journal volumes. “Hope you don’t mind me checking this out.”

“Uhhhhh.” Dipper looked at the volume. “Not at all. So then, shall we get this started, guys?”

In truth, they were both excited and nervous about all this, well Jessica is excited only, the rest already had experience with the paranormal.

Dyami, Mabel, Beethoven, and Jessica sat together as Dipper closed the door. Using a flashlight, he carefully made his way between Mabel and Jessica.

“Wow, you’re hand has a good grip.” Mabel smiled at Dyami.

“Good to have finger strength, ow ow ow!” Dyami looked at Beethoven. “Even Beethoven’s strong.”

“I should be holding her hand.” Beethoven whispered to himself.

“Well Dipper, do the honors.” Jessica smiled at Dipper, who took noticed.

“Oh, alright. Here we go.”

Dipper turned the flashlight off and closed his eyes.

“Oh spirits from beyond the grave, speak to us.”

The room was silent.

“We call you here. What happened here? Why did these people die? Who did this?”

Everyone was getting excited. Mabel grinned as she felt Dyami’s grip getting tighter, Dyami feeling both excitement and sorrow for what these people may have gone through, Beethoven panicked, and Jessica just relaxed.

“Departed ones.” Dipper spoke quietly. “Please come to us, we seek answers.”

“Me too you darn kids.” Spoke an unknown voice.

Everyone gasped and remained silent.

“It worked!?” Dipper asked. “Uuuuuuuhh…….. what do I do! What do I do?!

“Why are you asking me?” Mabel asked. “You’re the one that took care of those two old people ghosts and the one haunting Pacifica’s mansion.”

“Oh oh, right.” Dipper took a deep, uneased breath. “S-S-Spirit. Who are you?”

“My name, is that what you want to ask?” The voice appeared male, with a calm tone. “But first, where am I?”

“You’re in Piedmont, California.” Dyami answered, keeping calm as they communicate with a ghost, a live ghost …. Well an actual ghost. “I am Dyami Grey, these are my friends.”

“I-I-I-I’M BEETHOVEN!” Beethoven shouted as if his heart will give in any moment. “DON’T HAUNT US!”

“This is so cool!” shouted Jessica. “I thought this was going to be some weird game; but look at us, we’re talking to an actual ghost!”

“I’m a ghost?” the male spirit asked. “Well I be darned.”

“Awww, he thinks he’s still alive.” Mabel felt pity for the ghost. “My name is Mabel Pines. My brother Dipper and I want to help you.”

“Mabel and Dipper Pines?” asked the spirit. “Why if it isn’t the two kids that stopped Bill Cipher.”

Mabel gasped loudly. “We’re famous in the spirit world!”

Dyami and Beethoven were also intrigued, they heard stories from the twins about Bill Cipher and how he was defeated, and felt they deserved a huge reward from the world.

Beethoven took this as an opportunity. “Say, when you get back, tell all those ghost boys that Mabel is taken.”

Mabel gave the biggest grin the darkness could hide. “He ships me with Dyami.” She quietly whispered.

“Bill who now?” Jessica asked.

“Yes, Bill Cipher’s end of life.” The spirit spoke more. “I was traumatized when I was a part of his thrown.

“…….Wait a minute.” Mabel turned her flashlight on and aimed right behind Beethoven.

“Aaaaaah!” Beethoven covered his eyes to shield himself from the look of the murdered spirit.

Mabel’s jaw dropped as she saw the face of their visitor. “Tad Strange!?”

Standing right with them, was none other than Tad Strange, the most normal person in Gravity Falls who turned out wasn’t a ghost at all, or a dream demon.

“Yes, I do have a pulse.” Tad checked his neck. “Last thing I remember was walking into a port-a-potty and randomly ended up here.” He placed his hands on his hips and smiled. “Well I should go find a bathroom then, is there one nearby?”

“I wouldn’t risk it.” Mabel answered him as they showed him out of the dark room.

“……….. I give, what was all that about?” Jessica asked everyone else, who all just shrugged.

Jessica looked out the window to see the sun beginning to setting. “Well despite how many questions I have, I need to leave. Don’t want to walk around here in the dark.” Jessica walked ahead and waved. “I’ll see you around. Especially you, Mr. Dipper Mystery.”

Dipper eyes lit up. “Oh, well I’ll-”

“Hey wait!” Mabel shouted at Jessica. “You still have the journal.”

Jessica turned around and looked at her hand. “Oh …. Forgot about this.” After looking at it for a few seconds, she handed it back to Dipper. “I actually really liked what’s written here, whether it’s full of baloney or not.” She nudged the boy playfully. “If you’re not going to be kissing Kimmy too much, we should hang out.”

Dipper’s face turned red again as he was lost of words.

“See ya.” She winked at him and made her way to the stairs.

Dipper continued to stare as Mabel checked his eyesight. “Yep, somebody’s in loooooooooove!” Mabel gave herself a hug. “But who will win Dipper’s heart at the end? Jessica the cool girl, or Kimmy the shy one who likes Homework the Game? ……… Pacifica?”

Dipper snapped out of it. “Yeah. Sooooooooo we should head back. We don’t want to make our p-parents worried.”

“Actually we still have like thirty minutes of daylight.” Dyami pointed out. “I just texted my parents, they’ll pick us up after our ‘nature walk’.”

“Is that a bad boy side I see?” Mabel quickly asked.

Dipper scratched the back of his head. “I’m not really feeling it right now. You know, being traumatized and all.”

“I’m with you, buddy!” Beethoven held onto Dipper with his arm. “Wait, we’re buddies now, right?”

“Eeeeeeee-Yes?” Dipper said; which gave a teardrop in Beethoven’s eyes.

“Buddy…..” Beethoven gave Dipper a brotherly hug which could easily suffocate anyone.

“Awwwwww.” Mabel said. “Isn’t this great. First he was a bully, but now he’s friends with Dipper.” She leaned close to Dyami. “Not technically a real bully.”

Dyami did not respond.

“Dyami?”

Dyami jumped at Mabel’s question. “Y-Yes?”

With her Mabel senses tingling, she knew there was something up. She looked into Dyami’s unsettling eyes. “Are you O.K.?”

Dyami looked directly into Mabel’s eyes. For the short amount of time he’d known her, he knew far too well that there was nothing to hide from her, and she is quite persistent.

“Truthfully, I’ve been having this horrible feeling the second we walked into this building.”

“What do you mean?” Mabel asked, before gasping at the first thing to pop into her head. “Are you psychic?! Who do I marry?”

“…….Actually, ever since I was 5, I always wondered that. I get déjà vu a lot and-” Dyami smile faded. “I mean, I felt like we’ve were being watched.”

“Really?” to make sure, Mabel called out. “Anybody watching? Hello, …… Lightning? Are you and your fairy gals here? …. Tad, still here?”

“I am lost.” Tad voice could be heard from somewhere.

Dyami rubbed the back of his neck. “Like Dipper said, I didn’t want to jump to conclusion, but I think that room just spells it out.” He looked at Beethoven still hugging Dipper as the poor boy was squirming out. “I think this place really is haunted.”

Mabel looked back towards the blood covered room. “Yeah, I mean Dipper told me that anyone who died tragically or has huge unfinished business usually stay around, like that ghost that wanted the Northwest to let the common folk into their fancy party.”

Dyami nodded his head. “And you said no one mentioned anything that happened here before, right?”

“Yep, but we’re still kids. Why tell us about a huge murder?” Mabel asked. “I bet this didn’t get solved.”

“Or avenged.” Dyami pointed out. He looked down at the blood stain on the floor. “And all those chalk marks. So many people died, who or what could …. Do ….. such a …..” Dyami looked at the bloodstain and saw it leading down the hall farther.

Mabel also noticed this and her eyes widened. “Dipper, Beethoven.”

“Yes my love, I mean Mabel?” Beethoven dropped Dipper on the floor.

“Look!” Mabel pointed at the blood trail leading down the hall.

“……. Yeah, I think we really should call this a day.” Beethoven started to sweat as Dipper stood up and felt his head.

“What did I miss?”

Dyami looked at the blood trail, he didn’t know where it would stop or what was dragged there, but his spirit of curiosity overthrew his negative emotions.

“Friends, come. I think part of our destiny lies at the end of this trail!”

“Oh Dyami.” Mabel sigh dreamily as the two ran ahead.

“I really need to attend speech classes.” Beethoven jogged down the hallway to catch up with the more energetic kids

Dipper stood up and saw the other kids running ahead. “H-Hey, where are you guys going?” Dipper made a left turn down the hall and caught up to see all three kids standing still. “What’s going ….. w-w-what?”

Dipper and the others just stood there too see the blood trail end at another chalk drawing, of a child.

Mabel’s stomach began to sink as she held onto the arms of both Dyami and Beethoven. “I …. I think we should go home.”

Dyami was having second thoughts about all this, but noticed the door next to them on their left. It was another dorm, but the door to this one was vandalized.

Dyami held onto Mabel’s hand tightly as he slowly made his way to the door. It looked like it was done by bullies, but the words on this door wasn’t anything simple and childish like what Beethoven might think up.

“I ….. I think whoever this was…” Dyami looked at the chalk mark. “This was their room.”

Dipper looked at the door and back to the others. “….. we should just ……”

Dyami quickly grabbed the handle and took a deep breath. “Everyone …….” He turned to the others. “I don’t think we’ll like what we’ll find in here.”

“Then …. Then shouldn’t we just leave it alone?!” Dipper asked in a harsh tone.

Mabel turned to her brother with confusion. “Dipper, you’re usually the one on top of things.” She looked at her brother. “In your own dorky way. Are you feeling alright?”

Dipper felt his head. “Not really.”

Mabel felt his forehead. “You don’t have a fever, but you do feel cold.” Mabel felt worried for her brother. “Come on, Dyami and Beethoven, we should take Dipper home.” She gave her brother a hearty smile. “And I’ll make you my famous Mabel Chicken Noodle Soup you love so much.”

Before Dipper could say anything else, Dyami just threw the door right open.

The sudden event shocked the kids as Beethoven covered his eyes.

“Find happy place, find happy place.”

Dyami closed his eyes as he nervously aimed his flashlight into the room, feeling a new lever of fear in his soul.

Dipper and Mabel were the first to look into this room. “Guys……”

Dyami and Beethoven opened their eyes and looked where the light revealed. There was no blood, no bodies, no chalk marks, not even some ritual shrine.

Instead it was another room, but not as common as the others.

Dyami felt his fear lighten up as he aimed his light around and found it to be decorated with posters of different movies. There were even some super hero models around a shelf. Dyami aimed the light around the ground to see that the dorm has two beds instead of one, with many boardgames underneath. Seeing nothing else, he took a deep breath and calmed himself.

“……..Heh…….. I expected something …….”

“Traumatizing beyond imagination?” Beethoven answered.

“Yes.” Dyami chuckled as the kids looked around the room.

“Woooooooow!” Mabel smiled as her fear plummeted. “This is all the nerd stuff you like, Dipper! Minus the paranormal.” Mabel walked around the short room. “Hey, candles!”

Mabel took out a match and lit some decorative candles around the shelves to help bright up the room some more.

It was indeed what Mabel will call a ‘Dork Room’. Whoever had this room clearly likes movies, super heroes, and even some monsters. “I’m not that big into these kind of things, but they still look good after all these years.” Dyami said as he checked out some figures on a shelf behind a bed.

“Hey, Mothgad!” Mabel pointed out a poster as Dyami found a sheet of paper on the bed. “I love that movie and the two singing small ladies.”

“I actually remember that song sort of.” Beethoven said.

And the two started singing together again as Dyami paid close attention to the sheet. “Mooooo-thg-aaaaad! Moooa-thg-aaaaad! ….. Unknown Language we don’t know how to look up!”

Mabel stopped her singing with Beethoven when she noticed Dipper shivering. “Bro, you don’t look so good.”

Dipper closed his eyes and felt his head again. “Sorry, it’s just, I-we should really get out …. uuuuuurrrrh.” Dipper sat down and felt his stomach.

“Dipper!” Mabel jolted to her brother and checked his head. She gasped when she felt his temperature rising. “That’s it! We’re leaving now!” Mabel said as Beethoven began to worry. “Dyami, call your mom. We need to get Dipper some chicken soup now.”

Dyami did not respond.

“Hey, Dyami! I said now!” Mabel glared at Dyami, but noticed the sheet was looking at. She walked over to him to get his attention, but was surprised by the frozen state of his face.

“Dyami, what are you ….” Beethoven looked at the sheet. After short moment, his eyes widened and his jaw slowly dropped.

“Guys?” Mabel was curious and looked at the sheet itself. She was quite astonished by how well designed it was. She looked at the images closes to see they were all done with paint. But the words written on what caught her attention the most. She slowly read through the letter out loud.

‘In memory of my only real friend.’

‘I can’t believe I lost you and now stuck with these horrible people. Each day they’re becoming more and more terrible. I’ve seen beatings, yelling, blood. I was no exception.’

‘I cannot even think of what else to say, but I have a feeling that …. That something more terrible than your death will happen. I just know it.’

‘To the one that actually truly cares about a weakling like me, I hope to see you in that better place.’

Mabel covered her mouth. “Someone lost their friend, and this place…..” Mabel recalled the vandalized room and the very name of this building.

“This isn’t perfect at all!” Mabel said, before remembering her current dilemma. “Oh my gosh, Dipper. Are you-” Suddenly Dyami grabbed her face.

“Ugh, seriously? You want to kiss me now!?” Mabel asked angrily. “My brother is sick and I just read a sad memorial? Nothing about this looks romantic in the-”

Dyami face remained still as he tilted head to the bottom of the words.

There was a photo of the supposed dead friend with a death date of about 40 years ago.

“Wow, I didn’t even notice this photo.” Mabel’s looked at it with puppy dog eyes. “Awww. Sooo adorable! Why do good people have to …..”

Behind the kids, Dipper was sitting next to the door, feeling his head. “Oooooh, I hope we leave before …”

“D-D-D-D-Dipper?” Dipper slowly looked at his sister. Usually in the dire of situations, she held her anxiety in check. But by the look of her constant shaking body and her trembling mouth, she looked as if she’ll go crazy at any second.

“W-W-We found this photo of a kid who died in the 70s. I-I think you need to look at this.”

Mabel slowly handed the photo to Dipper. As he gazed into the child’s face, his hands began to tremble.

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.

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She looked exactly like Kimmy.

Dipper’s dropped the page as his breath was taken away. Despite his state, he slowly picked himself up with the door handle as support. “You ….. You……”

Dyami nodded his head. “I had a feeling we were being watched. And Kimmy’s behavior all day …..”

“SHE WAS A GHOST THE ENTIRE TIME!” screamed Beethoven. “She went to school since day one! And she was dead! Dead!” Beethoven held his head. “Happy place! Happy place!”

Dyami felt his beating heart. “She was a phantom. I failed to notice.”

This was a huge shock for Mabel, not nearly as close to Stanley’s secret, but still a huge shock. “Dipper, do you think she went back to school and hung out with us because …..” Before she finished that sentence, she remembered that cute moment she shared with Dipper. “Ghost Girlfriend!” Mabel randomly shouted. “Dipper, we need to find Kimmy and have you two make out!”

“WHAT!?” shouted Beethoven and Dyami.

“Come on, bro!” Mabel grabbed Dipper’s hand, but the boy pulled it back.

“Huh?” Mabel tilted her head as Dipper slowly lowered his. “Are you ….. right. You’re still sick.”

“I am sick.” Dipper took a deep breath. “Sick of this again?”

“Again?” Mabel asked.

“What did happen at Gravity Falls?” Beethoven asked, completely confused and shocked.

“What are you …..” A lightbulb sprang up in Mabel’s head. “Oh I get it. She died in the 70s, those making her far older than Wendy.”

Dipper tightened his grip on the doorknob.

“If she was still alive, she would be like 50, but she’s still young in heart.” Mabel held her cheeks. “And you have so much in common! You like these movies, and you both like Boring, Boring, and More Boring! Ooooooooh, she said she hadn’t played in years! I get it now! And how sarcastic she was when I tried to scare her by saying ‘boo’! I love foreshadowing!”

“Mabel …..”

The two other boys stare at Mabel’s weirdest behavior yet. “And after you get ice cream, you can sing a song in the rain and get a cold, and I’ll give you both chicken noodle soup and you’ll be together forever and-”

SLAM!

Mabel, Beethoven, and Dyami all jumped when Dipper shut the door behind him and sat down. “You don’t understand at all. This will never work like that!”

“Oh sure it will.” Mabel grinned at her hopelessly in love brother. “You just need to say ‘Hey ghost babe. I’m a paranormal investigator. Wanna kiss.’ That’s line’s perfect!”

“Mabel, how crazy are you?” both Beethoven and Dyami asked.

“Fun crazy!”

“I said it will never work!” Dipper said in a harsher town. “Ahhhhh.” Dipper felt his head.

“Dipper!” Mabel kneeled and felt Dipper’s head. She pulled right back in fear. “You’re burning up!”

“It won’t work…..”

“Calm down. We’ll get you come right.”

“I’ll never be loved.”

Mabel gasped. “Dipper, where is this all coming from. Of course you will.”

“No, it would never work ……….. Dipper will never accept me.”

The three’s eyes widened. “….Dipper. I think you had a little type-o there. You were supposed to say Ki-”

Without warning, Dipper grabbed into Mabel’s arm and started squeezing it.

“Ow, Dipper! What are you doing!?”

Dipper didn’t respond. He only cracked his neck and frowned. “You should have kept your eyes on the both of us before I came back for that séance.” His body flashed as he twitched. “He cannot know what I am!”

Dipper face looked up and the three kids screamed, at a dead face of Kimmy.

End of Chapter

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A/N: And so here we are. Soon it will be a full year since Gravity Falls had ended, and the beginning of my most popular fanfiction of all ‘Until Next Summer’

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