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Favian begins to wake up, remembering making a deal with Time Baby but not much more. What exactly was it that he agreed to... He notices his vision is a bit blurred and it is very cold for some reason, he seems to be being held by someone.

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After another year and a half, Mallory is now three and four months, and has just finished what Bill required to bring back Elanor as a cat person.

During that year you've found the portrait of Elanore in the library, right now your in the basement with what you need, right now your in the basement of the mansion, the summoning circle to summon spirits has been completed, all that is left is saying the words to summon her which Bill hasn't told you just yet.
 
"Kiddo, I might've left out a few tinsy tiny details." Bill tells you after you finished the spirit offering and drew the summoning circle

"Such as?" She can say simple words out loud now, finally.

Bill hesitates, looking over the summoning circle to make sure everything is there, it's a pentigram, with lit candles at each end, there are mirrors all around the room that Bill helped you set up, apparentlly Mirrors can be used to summon witches, there was actually a lot of mirrors around the house, he made sure that each hand-mirror it was facing the summoning circle, there's a dead cat that Bill summoned, a snow white cat with amber eyes, it died of starvation as there is no cut on it's body and the dead body of Elanore which he summoned from Elanore's grave, it's still burnt and cut up and the black victorian style dress is still messed up but he told you before that the body should be fixed when they start the ritual, both of the dead bodys are facing away from eachother in the middle of the circle, a gold hand-held mirror between them, the pentagram was drawn in melted candle max mixed with a tiny bit of your blood and chalk dust.

"Could you give me a minute kiddo? What you need to do is say some words to summon her spirit but i'm not sure what the best words to say is sooo hold on a minute will ya?"

"I don' has long..." still three, can't say too much correctly

"You don't have long? Just speak to me inside your mind, when I get the words ready you'll have to pronounce them the correct way or something bad could happen but if you let me speak through you, have control of your vocal cords for a few minutes I can get the ritual down correctly." Bill tells you inside your mind

She sighs and thinks to him, "go ahead, just get it done quickly, I dont want to worry mom" they've taken a liking to their new mother.

Suddounly you can't talk anymore and Bill's voice is coming from your mouth "Admittenda sit inaudita vocem est in tenebris? Si ego dabo vobis essentia voluntas et fac vester vox audiri?" It sounds like latin, the candle light flickers as he says this and you think you can see Elanore in the mirrors, just in your line of sight but quickly dissapearing, the shadows in the room seem to darken and move, Bill puases but it's clear that he isn't done

"Continue" she thinks to him.

"Ego invocato De pythonissam Sira Elanore praecantrix dei quod mortuus." Bill says next, Elanore's dead body twitches and seems to be healing before your eyes, the dress fixing itself as well

Mallory watches, waiting patiently but still on a time constraint to not worry her mom.

"Sino quod corpus mutatio ex cattus ut hominum ad voluntatem." Bill continues lazily, not really checking to see if he's saying it right, no matter how he says it it should still have the same affect "A cattus, et est homo. Sunt unus. Ego invocato De pythonissam Sira Elanore praecantrix dei quod mortuus." As he says those words, Elanore's body twitches again, the mirror in the middle of the cat and Elanore fogs up and fog drifts out of the mirror covering both the dead cat and Elanore, the candles flame flickers once more before going out and the fog dissappears, now in the middle of the pentigram is only Elanore, the cat is no where to be found and the mirror next to her is cracked, her body isn't moving, lieing completely still for the time being, Bill stops controlling your voice, letting you have your ability to speak back.

 "It's done kiddo." Bill tells you inside your head with a sigh.

"The body looks fine, but is she in it?" Mallory asks in her head after a moment.

"She should be, she'll be waking up some time soon. Might need someone to wake her up though." Bill tells you, without much concern if he did it right or not.

Mallory chooses to walk up and lightly shake Elanor.

Elanore's body flinchs and starts to breath shakily, her eyes open after a moment and she smile at you, "Sir Favian - Ms. Mallory, it's a pleasure to see you and my Cipher again."

Mallory smiles at her, "Nice to see you too" she says that a bit slowly to not fumble her words.

Elanore relaxs and breaths deeply, closing her eyes, you notice that he dress and skin while fixed are still stained with blood in some places, her show white hair also has clumps of blood staining it in some places. Her skin is deathly pale.

 "I'm glad to be alive again. Life is such a wonder, could I get some water perhaps? I am terribly thirsty and hungry as well. Though I suppose I should change shape first, you'll need to introduce me to your mother soon." Elanore quietly and slowly comments.

"Cat" Mallory decides after a moment, wanting it to be done in cat form.

Elanore coughs and giggles breathlessly, her body while older then yours is very skinny, she hasn't been introduced to life in quite a while, if anything her body should of been decayed by now, Cipher told you before the ritual started that if someone has powerful enough magic in their body, the decaying process can be held back for thousands of years.

 "Is that so? Good idea Ms. Mallory." Elanore seems to understand what you mean and her body changes painfully into a cat, a snow white cat with amber eyes, a very skinny cat that lays down on the floor without any energy to move, all the blood is gone and the clothes seem to have been absorbed into Elanore's skin as she changed shape, she lays still, too exausted to move

Bill snorts, "C'mon kid, we should bring her upstairs now. Get her some food and water, tell your mom about the cat you found wandering around in the basement." Bill advises you after a moment, you can tell that he doesn't quite like the fact that Elanore is now in his life again but he's also already planing how to use her to get what he wants, funny enough, he doesn't know what year it is.

Mallory attempts to pick Elanor up and bring her upstairs to show her mom.

Elanore curls up in your arms when you pick her up, allowing you to bring her upstairs

It's a bit difficult since Mallory is three, but she gets Elanor up and searches for her mother

The basement  door leading there is in the room under the stairs leading to the second floor, your mother, Ellie seems to have been looking for you, her blond hair is knotted and she's pale, it seems she hasn't been taking very good care of herself lately, she's currently in the living room and smiles when she see's you before frowning again when she spots the cat in your arms.

 "Where on earth did you find that cat Mallory? You really shouldn't be touching strange animals." Ellie says worried.

"Can have kitty?" Mallory asks Ellie, hugging cat Elanor.

Elanore struggles slightly before relaxing again and cuddleing to you in your hold, Bill laughs at this, Ellie bites her lip before smiling again and nodding after a moment of silence, "Of course, we may have to ask your father first but i'm sure that having a pet will be good for you. Go on and find him dear, he should be in his office, knock first before you enter his office as always." Ellie tells you as she gently ruffles your hair, she also briefly pets the cat in your arms, it looks safe so Ellie is willling to allow you a pet.

Mallory gives Ellie a happy giggle, bouncing on the balls of her feet in excitement while going to see her dad. She's quite good at playing the roll of a child by now, though the need to act for it is slowly going away.

The door for Roger's office is on the first floor and is connected to the library, the office door is locked at the moment but you can hear him cursing from inside the room, he must be really frustrated, Bill groans, "This isn't a good idea, visiting him when he's in this kind of mood."

"It'll be okay" she thinks to bill, giving the benefit of the doubt. She lightly knocks on his door, not at all concerned.

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Roger slams open the door, glareing down at you, you can see a few empty wine bottles on the floor and his desk from the doorway, "Go to your mother girl. Can't you see i'm busy?" Abrubtly Roger notices the cat in your arms, "Where'd you get that damn cat Mallory? Better yet who let it in the house."

"Mommy said t' ask you if we can keep da kitty!" Mallory still keeps up a happy tone, not too loud though.

Roger scowls, "Keep the kitty see if I care. Just leave me alone." Roger slams the door in your face.

Bill laughs "That was easy wasn't it kid?"

Mallory nods, now hurrying back to Ellie to share the news.

Ellie is still in the living room, she seems nervous and keeps looking back at the television which wasn't on a few minutes ago. Sshe smiles at you "What did he say dear?"

"Keep da kitty!" She says, sounding happier than earlier. Now she can try to feed and water Elanor.

Ellie ruffles your hair again, smiling warmly at you, she looks tired, "Thats wonderful, what are you going to name her?"

"El... Elan... Lan..." she's having trouble with the name she wants, so she cut out part of it. "Elan!" Good enough.

Elanore briefly glares at you before snorting slightly and calming down again, she seems to be amused.

Bill cackles, "Perfect!" Bill comments.

Ellie smiles at you and pets Elanore, scratching her behind the ears, making Elanore purr happily, "Alright then, go on and get Elan some water and something to eat, I'll go out later to get her some proper cat food."

Mallory nods, now waddling off to the kitchen to feed Elan the cat.

Elanore as soon as your in the kitchen jumps out of your arms and nudges the door shut before trasforming back into a human, the blood splattered on her is still there, she looks around curiously.

 "It seems this was indeed my home once. I'm glad to be back Ms. Mallory." Elanore's body seems to be about 13 or 14 years old, she's also taller then you. She turns on the sink and gets herself a glass, after filling the glass with water she turns it back off and takes a sip of water. She isn't afraid of being caught in her human form, she did close the door afterall.

Mallory nods a bit. "An' you big" a whole lot taller than Mallory is.

Elanore blinks, "I'm not that big actually, quite short for my... 'age'." Elanore tells you as she drinks her glass of water slowly

"Das, okie" Mallory can't exactly tell at this angle.

Elanore smiles slightly as she finishes her glass of water and puts it in the sink "Cipher, could you prehaps link me and Mallory- Favians mind together? So that we can speak even when i'm a cat? I forgot to ask before." Elanore asks politely.

Bill groans before speaking through you, his voice coming out of your mouth "Yeah sure, I know a spell or two." Bill answers before letting you talk again, he didn't break the deal either, you never said he couldn't speak to others through you, he isn't controlling your body without your permission just broadcasting his voice useing a clever spell so he can't get in trouble for it either.

Mallory doesn't mind that idea. "I need t' pwactis talkin'..." the more she talks, the more she can make sense.

Bill snorts and says in your head, "So your ok with me speaking for you sometimes? I guess it's a good way to get used to talking again." 

Elanore smiles and responds to Bill's eariler comment "I'd love if you can get the spell ready soon Mr. Cipher." 

Bill broadcasts his voice in reality again: "Yeah, yeah. It'll be ready eventually. Be patient little deer." Apparently Bill's nickname for Elanore is "Little deer" good to know.

"Don' talk thwough me too much..."

Bill says in your head, "Until I get that spell ready your going to have to get used to it Favian. Sorry bud but Elanore might start getting impatient if I stop answering her. I'll try not to do it too often, not when your parents are around or anyone else, only Elanore." Bill tells you before falling silent.

She sighs and nods, looking up at Elanor.

Elanore notices you looking at her "Whatevers the matter Ms. Mallory?"

"Awe you betta?"

"I could use something to eat I suppose but i'm not as thirsty anymore. I hope your mother has the foresight to get a few cat bowls." Elanore answers your question calmly after a moment of thinking.

She nods, giving a smile to her. Mallory cares for her friends.

Elanore smiles back "I wonder what kind of food your parents have?" Elanore says after a moment, she opens the fridge and looks inside.

Given this is a manor, probably expensive food.

After a moment Elanore picks a can of tuna out of the fridge, it was probably being saved for making tuna fish sandwiches. Elanore closes the fridge and useing the can opener on the counter opens the container easily, she searchs through the kitchen for the spoons, finds where they were being kept and eats the tuna right out of the can.

Mallory doesn't stop her at all, just glad her friend got what she wanted.

The starving girl finishes the tuna after only a few seconds, eating it faster then she should have been, Elanore gently throws the now empty tuna can in the garbage can and smiles at you, "How have you been sir Favian since we last talked?"

"Good" she smiles at Elanor. "...you like tunas?"

"I find there's not many foods I dislike Ms. Mallory." Elanore tells you calmly, she's never actually disliked anything she's eaten before, not that she can remember at least.

She gives a nod. "Okie" she doesnt have much to say right now.

Elanore smiles slightly before her form twists, transforming back into a snow white cat with amber eyes, the cat winks at you before walking past you, her tail curling around your leg before she continues to the door and scratchs at it before stepping away to look at you. She still can't talk to you in this form yet as Bill hasn't cast a spell on her yet, she seems to be asking you to open the door though.

Mallory opens the door for Elanor, no reason she shouldn't.

Elanore runs out of the room, the house is silent. It seems that Ellie went out to get some stuff for the cat while you two were talking.

Mallory follows Elan out.

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2012, June 21st
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A few years later, it is the first day of summer in the year 2012, Mallory turns seven today.

Though her life isn't perfect, she does love her mother and aunt. She's just waking up in her room today, much of the things in her room reflecting her new self as Mallory more than her life as Favian, and she's quite okay with that. She gets out of bed to see what she should wear for her birthday.

There are many dresses that you and Auntie Avery picked out together in your closet, a blue long dress, pink short sleeved dress that goes down to your knees and more of many different colors and sizes, in your dresser there's a lot of clothes.

Auntie Avery loves to spoil you, you don't go out much, your homeschooled and your parents are scared to let you outside but Avery, whenever she comes over which is becoming more often as the years pass, would take you outside for a walk in the woods or take you to a store to buy new clothes, dresses, toys and whatever you seem interested in with the money her parents or your parents gave her.

As you get out of bed you startle Elanore who was having a nap in her cat form at the end of your bed, she greets you through the mind link that Bill opened for her, "Good morning Ms. Mallory!" Elanore jumps off the bed to follow you "Also Happy birthday." Elanore adds after a moment.

"Good morning Elan, thank you" She's kept the shortened nickname for Elanore, smiling at her cat. "What do you think I should wear today? I want to look nice for my day out..."

"Perhaps the pink dress. I think it would look lovely on you Ms. Mallory." Elanore comments as she catches up to you and her tails curls around your leg before her little cat self sits down near your feet and tilts her head "Don't you agree?"

"Which pink one though?" She is supposed to have a lot of dresses, no doubt there are many, many pink ones.

"The light pink one with the roses and pink flowers on the bottom and middle, the one that Ms. Avery got you last christmas." Elanore tells you after a moment. She nudges your closet door open and looks pointedly at the dress she's talking about.

Mallory gives a small smile and nods. "That is quite a nice dress, I like your idea" She gets the dress down and begins to change into it.

Elanore tilts her head and turns away, walking to the bedroom door and clawing lightly at it and meowing.

Avery who decided to visit for your birthday, opens the door slightly so Elanore could get out and then closed it again after Elanore runs out of the room.

Bill laughs, he happens to laugh a lot whenever this happens, "Kid, next time warn the poor girl."

"She's a cat right now, she should be used to this" She thinks to Bill. It definitely wasn't the first time no warning was given. "do you think Mother or Aunt Avery will do my hair for me?"

"Ask Avery, you know she loves doing other persons hair." Bill comments, answering your question right away. In the time that passed since you were born Bill has been a very good source of information and doesn't seem to be as bad as you first thought

She nods, humming a little tune while she leaves her room to find Aunty Avery.

Avery is currently cleaning up the kitchen, Elanore is sitting on the kitchen counter watching.

Mallory goes up and gives Avery a surprise hug.

Avery smiles and puts down the spray bottle she way holding on the counter next to Elanore and twists in your hold to hug you back, "Hia dear! Your getting so big little Mally, how was your sleep?" Avery asks you as she hugs you tightly. She finally pulls away, grining at you, her light blond hair is pulled back into a pony-tail and she's wearing a pink dress as well, but it's a darker pink with no designs, she's also wearing black leggings underneath it and knee high boots.

Mallory giggles happily when the hug is returned. "I slept well! Do you mind doing my hair Aunt Avery?" She seems very happy today, even if nothing super exciting is planned.

Avery nods "Sure! You go wait in the living room ok? I'm going to go ask your mother for a hair-brush i'm sure she has a collection hiding somewhere in her room." Avery tells you with a grin.

"thank you!" she says sweetly, hurrying off to wait. Mallory certainly didn't expect to end up like this.

Avery hurrys upstairs as you enter the living room and Bill bursts into laughter again, "Hey, sunshine, what year is it?" Bill abruptly asks you, it sounds like if he had a mouth he'd be grining.

"2012, why?" she thinks to Bill, used to the nickname. Besides, she tends to be a ball of sunshine.

"Watch out for a pair of twins. I think this summer is going to be the most fun we'll ever have, kiddo." Bill muses, he sounds amused and joyful, like he's expecting something to happen, good or bad is unknown but it will be..... something.

"what do you mean..?" she asks hesitantly, in her head of course.

"He means that something interesting is happening in Gravity Falls Ms. Mallory. A great evil is rising and those pair of twins might just the key." Elanore remarks as she enters the room like she wasn't spying on you, her cat tail swishs back and forth as she jumps onto the couch and lays down, curling up into a ball and closeing her eyes.

 Bill laughs, "She's right, though I wouldn't call it a great evil though. One things for sure, beware the Pines family, they aren't what they seem and if they find out who we are we could end up dead or even worse locked up in a cage and treated like a criminal, questioned and at the mercy of two old men and two children who don't know any better."

She says nothing. Way to kill her mood Bill.

"Sorry sunshine. you'll be okay just don't let them know too much about you and you'll be fine. Me, your mother, Avery and Elanore will be here to protect you. They won't go after you, we won't give them a chance, besides they'd be charged with manslaughter and child kidnapping if they even tried so if they do get you, I can scare them enough to let you go. I have plans to protect you Mallory. I won't let them hurt you." Bill tells you after a moment when he realizes he made you unhappy, "It's my job to warn you kid, besides if you befriend the twins, the kids, and they trust you? they'd be hesitant on betraying you, their nice people, just a little confused, but i'm sure you can straighten the problem out on your own even without our help."

"I'd rather them not be any trouble in the first place... not like they can do much with me inside all day though..." Mallory prefers the outdoors quite a bit. They live in a nice town.

Bill is silent for a moment, "You know the saying... keep friends close but enemy's closer? You don't have many friends your age... why don't you hang out with them a little? Gain their trust, you'd know if their planning anything that could potentialy harm you." Bill muses, he sounds like he's thinking very hard about this "Besides, you still need to get out every once in a while, keeps you healthy. You could always just ignore and avoid them, easy as that."

"I... ...I do need some friends..." She admits. Given her only possible friends so far in life are the Northwests, she has very few.

"So what do you say sunshine?" Bill asks after a moment, he sounds joyful again, he trys not to push your decision either, "Yay or Nay?"

Elanore briefly looks up at you with a secretive little kitty smirk before closing her eyes again to rest.

Mallory sighs a bit. "You might be right for once, getting some friends is a good idea."

"Haha! Just looking out for ya kid, and aren't I always right?" Bill says amused, lightly teasing you, it's obvious that if he could smirk at you he would

Mallory ignores that statement and just waits for Avery to return for the time being.

It doesn't take long for Avery to return with a cyan hairbrush, she smiles at you as she approachs you "I'm back, took a while to find her hairbrush though."

"That's okay" Mallory smiles, allowing Avery to do her hair.

Avery grins at you as she brushs through your hair, trying to get out all the knots

There arent too many knots, Mallory's hair, like the rest of her, is well cared for.

It doesn't take long at all for Avery to finish brushing your hair, "I'll go get mom and Roger ok? He actually set aside his work for your birthday so we'll be able to go out as an entire family this time." Avery tells you with a smile.

"Really?" Mallory is obviously surprised about her father being here for this, given how absent he typically is. She's actually thankful he's absent, Roger would be an awful parent as far as she can tell.

"Yeah, it seems he's grown fond of you Mallory." Avery says, unlike your parents she's willing to tell you whats going on,
"Now i've gotta go make sure your parents are ready, wait here ok?" Avery asks you, she doesn't wait for an answer before she leaves the room and heads upstairs.

Mallory waits as she was instructed, she doesn't really break the rules and tends to do as told. She wants to make things easy on her parents just as much as she does on herself.

Avery comes back after a moment with Ellie and Roger after a few minutes "Are you ready dear?" Ellie asks you as she goes through her pocketbook/handbag to make sure she has her credit card, incase she needs it.

"Yes Mother!" Mallory says, almost jumping out of the chair. She's excited to be allowed out again, so much more interesting than the same old manor every day.

Ellie giggles and pats your head lightly "Lets all get going then." Ellie heads for the door, opening it for you, Roger and Avery, smiling nervously at Roger as he walks out the door.

Mallory doesn't have any issues with him coming along, being quiet but clearly happy for the fresh air.

Avery puts her arm around your shoulder to make sure you don't get left behind as they walk through the woods to the road, the mansion IS deep in the woods afterall with only a small path guiding them back to the rest of the town

That's fine with Mallory, she likes these walks through the woods into town. She has a bit of a skip in her step.

"So Mal, are you excited? We're going to be taking you to the mystery shack later today." Avery tells you, grining.

You hear Bill either groan or laugh it's kind of hard to tell, he was clearly planing on doing both.

Ignoring Bill, she gives a very sure nod. "I've not been there before, I'm excited to see what's there" even if Mallory is a child, she's part of an affluent family, so simple words are less common.

Avery smirks as she, your mom and father walk out of the woods and onto the road at last, there's a sign pointing towards a certain direction saying "Mystery Shack this way", so with Avery running ahead of Ellie and Roger in the direction the sign pointed, she leaves you to either run after her or walk with your parents instead.

Mallory chooses to run with Avery. Why not? It's her birthday, it's the outdoors, she's young and full of energy. Plus it's way more fun to run after Avery.

Avery is too fast for you to catch up with but eventually she stops right in front of an old two floor house with a sign above the door saying "Mystery  hack" a large S is hanging off of the sign, Avery sits on the front steps to catch her breath

Mallory needs to catch her breath a bit too when she gets there, but isn't nearly as tired since she has quite a lot of pent up energy. She chooses to sit next to Avery to catch her breath with her, leaning on her a bit.

Avery giggles and lets you lean on her as she waits for your parents to catch up, sometimes Avery seems to act more like a sister then an aunt sometimes "So Mal, the owner of this place, Stanford Pines has a great nephew and neice. Be nice to them ok? They only just got into town this morning." Avery tells you, the last name "pines" sounds familier to you, Bill mentioned it this morning didn't he?

Bill starts laughing as soon as Avery mentions the name "Stanford Pines". He knows something.

Bill is still ignored. "I can do that Aunt Avery, I don't like to be a bother to anyone" That much is certainly true, Mallory rarely talks to strangers.

Avery nods and hugs you briefly before your parents finally catch up.

Your father, Roger frowns "Girl, don't run off like that, understand me?" Roger mutters, without seeing if your nodding he pushes past you and Avery, knocking you over onto Avery's lap as he opens the door and heads inside.

Avery frowns at him as she helps you back up.

Ellie hurrys over to you "Are you alright?" she asks as she smiles gently at you.

Mallory gives a small nod. "Aunt Avery's lap caught me" Laps tend to be good at not hurting people, and Mallory doesn't seem any less happy because of her less than kind father.

Ellie smiles sadly, she sighs relieved "I'm glad he didn't... i'm glad your ok. I swear he didn't mean it. He's just worried." Ellie tells you, avoiding looking you in the eyes, she seems nervous again.

Avery notices this and smiles at you as she stands up, pulling you to your feet as she stands "We should go inside now, what do you say birthday girl?"

"okay!" Mallory agrees, a big smile on her face. She's looking ready to take on the world.

Avery opens the door to the mystery shack for you, intending to let you enter the building first "Birthday girls first Mallory!"

Mallory happily walks inside, looking around to see what the old shack is like.

As you walk through the door, entering the gift shop you see a desk/counter with a cash register, a teenager girl with red hair a grey hat and wearing a green blue shirt and jeans is sitting at the counter reading a magazeen and not paying any attention to whats going on around her, there is a lot of stuff for sale, hats and puzzles and other stuff. There is two doors leading somewhere else in the building and a snack machine pushed up against the wall. As you walk inside Ellie and Avery follow you, Roger seems to be talking to an old man in the corner, a man with grey hair, wearing an expensive suit and a wierd red hat with some symbol on it.

"Go on Mal, check out the stuff and come back to the register with what you want."

Mallory nods, taking a look around, some of the stuff here seems like actual junk, other bits of it look like something that really shouldn't be in this store, or this world. She takes a moment to look at the eyes in the jar that are on the counter.

Bill seems interested as well "Huh, I never really noticed those last time." He comments without really explaining what he means "She said you can have anything. So take anything that interests you sunshine."

"I know, Bill" Mallory thinks, going over to a less interdimensional section of the store. She eventually decides on a few things, a shirt, some general knickknacks, and so on

Bill makes little comments on every thing you decide on wanting to get but goes quiet when the old man approachs you, smirking at you "Hey kid, planing on buying some stuff?" The man tells you, having forgotten to introduce himself

Mallory is a bit surprised by him being so forward. She rarely gets to go out, so her social skills aren't really the best. "Oh.... um... Yes sir..." She tries to remain at least a little polite, even if hesitant

"Whats your name kid?" The man asks you as he sneakily adds a few random kids toys he hid in his suit jacket earlier into your pile of things you wanted to buy

"My name is Mallory..." She notices him add things to the pile. "...I think you dropped a few things." Mallory still was Favian at one point, she can tell an attempt at getting an extra buck.

"Huh?" The old man seems surprised you even noticed in the first place "Don't know what your talking about kiddo." The old man winks as he grins at you "Well Mallory, my names Stan-Stanford Pines." Stan tells you, tripping over his name as he says it

She gives a small smile and nods. "It's nice to meet you Mister Pines" She'll take the toys back to where they belong before checkout.

"Call me Stan. Mr. Pines makes me feel like i'm an old man. Keep the toys ok kiddo? It's on the house." Stan winks again as he pats you on the head with a fond smile, he's a little creepy and acts a little wierd but he's nice and seems to mean well

Mallory accepts that offer, why not. Stan isn't particularly malicious as far as she can see. "Okay Stan" She replies, returning to her look around. If she doesn't find anything else she'll head to the register

"Hey! Wendy!" Stan yells with one last smile towards you before heading towards the register to talk to the red haired lady who's name is apparently "Wendy", Wendy doesn't seem surprised to be yelled at and looks up from her magazeen, the rest of the conversation is whispered with Stan briefly pointing in your direction, Wendy raises an eyebrow, looking at you before nodding to Stan "Got it boss."

Mallory isn't sure if she trusts the whispering between the two of them, but has no intentions to fuss over it. It's not like her paying a few dollars extra is hurting her parents at all. Of course, Stan did say it's on the house, Stan might not seem like someone to give stuff away but everyone has a soft side and Stan isn't as bad as he seems. Mallory doesn't know that for sure yet though. 

Eventually she gets to Check Out and gets to see Wendy, as Stan called her.

Stan by now is no longer at the register having left the room a few minutes earilier, Wendy smiles at you as you approach "Hey dude. Put the stuff on the desk and i'll ring them up for you."

Mallory nods and says, "Thank you" quietly. She puts things up one at a time

After Wendy rings them all up except the toys that Stan sneaked into your piles which she happens to put to the side she reads out the total pay.

Avery who joined you at the check out during this takes out her wallet from inside her purse and pays for your things.

Wendy puts everything into a bag including the toys which she didn't ring up and waves you away "You can go now, have a good rest of your day kiddo." 

"And Remember! No refunds!" You briefly hear Stan yell out from the next room over

Mallory offers Wendy a small smile and waves goodbye to her. "Thank you miss."

Wendy smiles back and waves at you as Avery whos holding the bags and your hand guides you outside the building

Mallory happily sticks close to Avery, seeming to have enjoyed this first part of the outing.

Avery smiles back, outside Ellie and Roger are waiting for you

Mallory is quite happy about today thus far.

Chapter Text

It doesn't take a very long time of walking to get to the main part of town, Avery, Ellie and Roger guide you into the dinner where Roger bribed the owner of the diner with money to reserve the entire resturant for you, to bake you a cake and even buy you presents, it wasn't very obvious that the woman was bribed untill Bill mentioned it to you during the walk, Avery holds open the door of the diner for you to let you in.

Bill remains ignored, because Mallory wants to enjoy her birthday and he's a detriment to that. She's more than happy to believe it was rented out normally and all of that sort.

Bill groans, upset that you keep ignoring him as Avery brings you inside the diner

Mallory looks inside curiously, granted, she looks at almost everything with a curious expression. She isn't outside much

The diner isn't much but there's a bunch of tables and seets, the seets look really comforable and there's a long counter with a cash register and stools nearby as well, a couple of the workers are behind the counter cleaning, there's a banner abover the counter saying "Happy Birthday Mallory!"

Mallory seems to like the sight, smiling at the view. As she enters, she is greeted by Lazy Susan yelling, "Happy birthday Mallory!" In her usual somewhat nasally voice.

Avery smiles at Susan as Ellie and Roger go to pick out a table "Susan, do you have the cake ready?"

"Of course!" She says, "Let me go get it for you all!" Okay, maybe she always shouts. Mallory doesn't mind that though, just sitting with her family.

Avery sits at the table too after having a quick chat with one of the workers, she smiles at you as she sits next to you "So! Hows your birthday so far Mallory?"

"It's been great" She smiles at Avery happily. "I like being able to go outside."

"I'm glad you like it, i'll try to bring you outside more often ok?" Avery tells you with a bright smile, Roger mutters something under his breath and Ellie shifts nervously but neither of them protest.

"Thank you!" Mallory says excitedly, though doesn't raise her voice.

"No problem Mal." Avery hugs you briefly with one arm before letting go of you

Mallory returns that hug of course, and Lazy Susan returns with the cake for them.

Roger smiles at Susan, a rare sight to see, his smile charming but very fake, "Thank you Susan, I do appreciate your service. I'll be sure to include you the next time I have a party. I'm sure you'd be the best woman there." Roger purrs, flirting with Susan with a smug charming grin, making Ellie frown and look at the table, shifting nervously yet again but not calling him out for it.

"Oh ho ho, you're too kind" Susan chuckles. "Enjoy your birthday Mallory" She says to Mal
Mallory doesn't particularly condone her father's behavior, but similarly says nothing

Despite Roger's bad behavour, no one in the family stands up for themselves, at least thats the case for Ellie and Avery. They don't like him but they deal with him anyways

thats good at least. the party goes on. the happy birthday song sung and whatnot

At some point the cake was handed out, you got two more slices then everybody else, Roger despite everything even sings happy birthday to you with the others with a forced smile, at least he's trying.
Bill sings Happy Birthday extra louder to drown out his voice.

That's more than Mallory can really ask for from Roger, as for Bill, well, the thought counts at least.

The party continues on, presents are handed to you after the cake is all eaten, presents from your family, the workers, Susan and even a mystery gift, a sapphire necklace and a silver ring with symbols carved into it and different colored jems attached to it, the gift was signed from "Sira" so obviously Elanore must of figured out a way to sneak the gift inside the building at some point, the necklace and ring are pretty, Bill whistles when he sees it, "Protection ring, neat! Thats rare kid, for someone to write the correct protection symbols down. Gotta thank Elanore for that later!" Bill comments, impressed with the gift Elanore made herself, "Wonder how she snuck that into the pile, she isn't even here!"

"Interesting little cat she is..." Mallory thinks to Bill putting both the ring and necklace on shortly after opening them, along with thanking those there for what gifts they got her. She looks to enjoy her gifts regardless of what they are.

"Hah! Of course she's interesting kid! She's clever too, real clever. She's a little enchantress, what can you expect from a witch practicly raised by a demon?" Bill cackles, it seems he's also enjoying the birthday. Interesting bit of information he gave you without even realizing it, huh? "Happy birthday sunshine. I've got a gift for ya too but it's gonna have to wait."

"Oh really?" She thinks curiously while enjoying her little party outside of that

"Hah! Course kid, what do you take me for? Of course i'd get a gift ready for you sunshine. A little upgrade that i'm sure you'd enjoy, Mallory." Bill tells you, chuckling, it isn't often that Bill gives someone a gift

"If you say so. Is it at home?" She thinks to him. Lets say the little party is beginning to wrap up so things can get a move on.

"Not really kiddo. We'd need to take a detour through the woods, it's hidden in a cave somewhere. Two jems or well, amulets that grant the wearer magic abilitys, one of the amulets were stolen a month or maybe a year ago but the other one should still be there though, sooooo sunshine, if your up for a little adventure..." Bill tells you, his sentence trailing off, if he could grin he would be grinning, he sounds excited.

As they begin packing up to head back to the manor, Mallory is very tempted by the idea, but a bit nervous at the idea of just walking off into the woods.

"Don't worry kiddo. I know the way back to the manner. You won't get lost with me by your side." Bill reasures you when you don't answer him, after a few minutes your family exit the building, waiting for you to follow them

Mallory follows her family out quite happily. "I'm not sure Bill..." She admits in her mind, though still clearly liking the idea of a small adventure.

"It'll be ok Mallory. Only two other people know about the amulets sunshine, Stanford and some kid named Gideon. It's safe, both of them are harmless and wouldn't go back there anyways. It's easy to find and the amulets are a BIG help. Imagine the kind of fun you could have with magic, it'll be a simple safe adventure with a big reward. A magical Amulet that'll make life a ton easier and give you cool powers. It's worth it really." Bill continues after a few minutes, at this time you and your family are already starting to enter the woods "What do ya say Mallory?"

"...I'll go..." she agrees hesitantly. "Are there drawbacks to using it?"

"Eh, makes your hair turn snow white but I can easily prevent it from changing your hair color, not even a drawback really." Bill tells you, he sounds sure and well.... he isn't lieing

"I'd rather keep my hair how it is, if it turned white I'd give my parents a heart attack..." she thinks

"I said I could prevent your hair from turning white didn't I sunshine? It's easy, I could do it in my sleep even." Bill brags/boasts to you "C'mon sunshine. It's your birthday and I have to give ya something. You deserve to have something special and that's the first thing I thought of."

She sighs silently. "Okay, but only if you're keeping my hair safe" Safe from turning white? Technically that'd be in Bill's job description if you stretch it.

Bill snickers "Of course sunshine. Time to get seperated from your family for five minutes at the most! Ready kid?" Bill asks you, during your talk with Bill your family has gotten a little ways ahead of you, if you walked any slower you might lose track of them

"Lead the way" Mallory agrees

Bill laughs "Wait for your parents to get ahead of you first, we're going to have to ditch 'em, then your going to have to go left kiddo, keep heading in that direction till the treeline thins out and you see the school building. I'll tell you where to go from there." Bill directs you

"School building..?" She doesn't know even remotely where that is relative to her house other than left right now.

"Just keep going left untill the trees thin out and you see a big brick building with a bunch of windows, stop there and then I'll tell you what direction to go in next." Bill tells you

She gives a small nod, once her family is out of site she goes where instructed. Though, as time passes she seems more and more weary. She hasn't done anything like this in almost a decade now and now she's in a much more fragile body. Not to mention she's unfamiliar with the area and has to deal with the emotionality of a pampered child.

Once you reach the school building Bill instructs you to go deeper into the forest, from where you are you can vaguely see a cave but it's far enough away that you can't be sure

Mallory keeps going where she's told, but is starting to outwardly look uneasy about her surroundings.

Bill notices this once you finally reach the cave "Don't worry kid, we're here! It'll be worth it and I can easily guide you back home, so don't worry sunshine. Sorry you had to walk so far though, probably wasn't that fair just to get some cool magic object huh? We're already here so turning around now would just be a waste of time. Go inside sunshine, your gift should be embedded right into the rock wall, it's easy to pull out though, it should be glowing a green-blue color." Bill tells you

Mallory gives a weak nod, even if she is excited her nerves are killing her. She goes to get the little amulet or whatever it is.

The amulet isn't glowing and wasn't blue at all but black but Bill says it is indeed the amulet he wanted to give you, it's easy to tug out of the rock wall of the cave and once you touch it it seems to slowly turn to a dark blue and glows slightly. Bill cackles as you get the feeling that the magic of the amulet seems to be reaching out to you "This is it! Try it out kiddo, it may take a few minutes to get used to it but you'll get it easily. Your a smart kid sunshine." Bill tells you excitedly.

"What does it do?" Mallory asks, uneasy in general by now. She misses her parents and Avery.

"All sorts of things, can't really name them right now though, I think telekinesis is one of the ability's it gives you. There's a bunch more though." Bill tells you quickly "Now if you would please just test it out already sunshine I'd be very thankful. It's your gift so you can do whatever you want with it but I'd really like to see if it still works kiddo."

She gives a small nod, looking toward a small rock to start and seeing if she can make it float a bit

The small rock starts to glow light blue, the amulet glows blue as well as the rock starts to shake in place and rise into the air a few inches before falling back to the ground, Bill whistles "It works! Yes!"

Mallory smiles a little at that, enjoying the little bit of magic she can now access

Each time you use the amulet it gets easier and you feel more powerful, Bill cackles "Good job sunshine! Most people don't get this at their first try."

She unintentionally smiles more at the praise, clearly liking it. "thank you..."

Bill snorts "Your welcome kiddo, don't expect it to happen often." Bill warns you, though it's clear he likes people thanking him and certainly isn't used to it either

Bill honestly just has to give her praise every so often ad she'll more or less like him. "so....which way is home?"

"Uh, it's gonna take a while, if you want I could possess you and bring you home? You need a break kid, your legs must hurt from how long you've been walking today, I'll give you back control as soon as we get home." Bill proposes to you.

She shakes her head no. "I'll be okay walking if I have directions"

"Well tell me if you change your mind." Bill says before giving you the directions

well, she takes those directions and starts slowly walking. She slowly gets nervous about walking alone again though.

Bill stays eerily silent as you walk

that doesn't help at all

Eventually instead of reaching the mansion you end up basically in the middle of nowhere, you can hear voices a girl screaming and a boy screaming after her "HALLO!" 

"AHH!" 

"What'cha readin', some nerd thing?" The girl asks, she has a peppy voice and you can already tell just from her tone that she's a naturally silly person.

 "Uh, uh, it’s nothing!" the boy claims quickly.

"Uh, uh, it’s nothing!" The girl laughs mocking him, "What? Are you actually not gonna show me?" She asks, the voices seem to be nearby and heading your way 

"Uhhh...Let's go somewhere private." The boy says right as he finally steps into view from behind the cluster of trees, he's wearing a blue vest with a orange short sleeved shirt underneath and blue shorts, he also has a blue and white hat on with a pine tree symbol on it

The girl has brown hair and brown eyes like the boy and is wearing a pink sweater with a shooting star on it and a skirt, she has braces.

Mallory, being a nosy little girl, chooses to watch them, hiding behind a tree. If either of the two have even a glance around they'd notice her though, she's wearing pink and didn't choose a good tree to hid behind. At least it hides her when they aren't focusing

"Ugh, c'mon Dipper! Whats with the weird book!" The girl says as she trys to tug a red book with a golden hand symbol on the front from her twins hands.

Dipper struggles to keep the book away from her, "Mabel! It isn't safe to look at it here! Patience Mabel patience. I'll show you when we get back to the mystery shack!" Dipper tells her as she finally lets it go, pouting.

 "Aw. Fine, i'll wait but you gotta show me right when we get home ok bro?" 

"Yeah, yeah, I get it Mabel." Dipper rolls his eyes.

Mabbel only giggles at his attitude, "Don't be such a grumpy-butt Dip-dop!" Mabel smirks as she runs ahead of him, she walks past you but doesn't seem to notice you.

Dipper smirks slightly and tugs his hat down to hide his embarresment.

Mallory attempts to stifle a giggle at Mable's silliness, she seems like quite a kind soul in her eyes. Though the giggle is slightly audible if Dipper is listening.

Dipper frowns and hugs the journal tightly, he runs slightly after Mabel, tripping over his own feet to catch up to her.... except you don't know where she went to and neither does Dipper who looks around a bit but doesn't look in your direction he just rolls his eyes "Mabel! Stop trying to scare me!"

Mallory pokes her head out slightly more to not lose sight of Dipper, she wants to see where he heads to

Just then you feel someone poke your shoulder "HI!" Mabel screams causing Dipper to turn around quickly and see you

Mallory lets out a surprised squeal, Mable you scared the poor girl. And Mallory scared away any birds that Mable didn't scare off with how loud she is.

Other than that, Dipper and Mable both get to see Mallory, who for all intensive purposes is a small girl in a pink flowery dress with a little jewelry.

"Who are you?! I'm Mabel!" Mabel doesn't seem to notice your scared, she just grins at you.

 Dipper frowns and looks suspiciously at you as he hides his journal behind his back. He sends a glare his twin sister, "Mabel! Don't talk to it! It could be a... I don't know, a demon or something! Who knows what lives in the woods!" 

Mabel rolls her eyes, looking away from you and putting her hands on her hips with a disapproving frown, "No, no mister. She's human and I can prove it!" Mabel suddenly grins before turning to you again, "Are you human?!" Mabel squeels, "Oh! Are you a vampire? That'd be so cool!" 

Now it's Dipper's turn to roll his eyes "Mabel focus. Your scareing her." 

"Hm? Oh! Sorry!" Mabel smiles nervously, backing away from you, "I didn't mean to scare you, um, whats your name?"

Mallory definitely wasn't ready for this much interaction with strangers. She looks quite scared and timid, especially from Mable shouting at her. "U-Um... ...my name is Mallory..." She says weakly, her nerves making her stutter a bit. "...I-It's nice to meet you miss....." She mumbles as a side note, talking to Mabel.

"Just call me Mabel! Thats my brother Dipper! He doesn't like people either." Mabel tells you with a grin, she's still a little loud but it's obvious she doesn't mean any harm.

 Dipper frowns and approachs you hesitantly, it's obvious he doesn't trust you, "Why were you spying on us?" Wow, right to the point Dipper, wonderful conversation.

"...I'm not very good with people... I'm sorry..." Mallory replies to Dipper quietly, then continues without thinking, "...I don't usually get to go outside for so long...."

Mabel blinks "Oh, really? Thats too bad!"

 Dipper rolls his eyes again, hugging his journal to his chest again "Why were you even in the woods in the first place?" Dipper asks you curiously, it seems that he's choosen to trust you but it's hard to tell besides the fact that he's starting to relax now that he knows that your not a threat.

".....I lost my parents......" That isn't wrong in the slightest, though she intentionally skips the part where that was intentional to look for a silly rock.

"You got lost?" Dipper mutters.

 Mabel frowns before smiling again and throwing her arm across your shoulders "We're taking you home then!" Mabel declares even though she has no idea where your home is, she doesn't even know that it's actually deep in the middle of the woods.

Dipper rolls his eyes "Mabel, we have to get home ourselves. We don't even know where she lives." Dipper tells her is a matter-of-fact tone.

Mabel tilts her head frowning again before grinning yet again "Then we bring her to our house, have Grunkle Stan call her parents and hang out untill her parents pick her up!"

Mallory has nothing to add to the conversation right now, she's nearly six years younger than the two of them and she's a bit socially inept, so this isn't really her cup of tea. At the very least she can follow instructions.

Dipper sighs and looks at you, it seems that this is normal for the two of them "Want to hang out at our house untill your parents come pick you up?"

"If you'd like..." she mumbles, holding her hands in front of herself. She should probably get the stranger danger talk.

"YES! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!" Mabel squeels, hugging you tightly before running off.

 Dipper snorts and shakes his head "Sorry about that, Mabel can be a little... energetic. You said your names Mallory right?"

Mallory nods shyly in response to Dipper, not noticing her cheeks starting to heat up while looking at him. 'He seems nice....' she thinks to herself, not to Bill or Sira.

Dipper smiles back "C'mon, lets not keep Mabel waiting." Dipper grabs your hand and runs after Mabel, bringing you with him.

Her cheeks start to heat up more, a small blush visible on her face for a short time as she fumbles after him since he's running and much bigger than she is. If Dipper isn't careful he could accidentally hurt her.

Dipper slows down once he catchs up with Mabel who also slowed down into a walk, she catchs sight of you and Dipper holding hands and grabs your other one with a smile.

Bill cackles, "Looks like you met the twins i've warned ya about. Sorry that you got lost sunshine, one of us must've got our left and rights wrong."

"It's okay" Mallory thinks to Bill. Outside of her head, even if she was only running for a short time she seems a little worn out. Mallory had been walking around all day so far, has only been fed sweets today, and has about as much exercise in a day as an elderly person. Needless to say, she's having trouble keeping up with a regular walking speed, even if she isn't sweating a lot or anything.

After a few minutes you arive at the Mystery Shack, Dipper lets go of your hand as Mabel drags you inside, running once more. Dipper follows and closes the door behind you.

 Mabel brings you to the living room where Stan Pines is watching tv, "Grunkle Stan! We have a visitor! She got lost, can you call her parents?!" Mabel asks, jumping up and down.

Stan looks over, it's obvious he reconizes you but he pretends he doesn't, "Sure sweetie. I'll tell her parents, go on upstairs munchkin." 

Mabel grins and drags you upstairs into the attic, which seems to be her and Dippers bedroom, Dipper who dissappeared when Mabel dragged you to see Stan, is currently sitting on his bed, "This is our bedroom!" Mabel tells you as she lets go of your hands, a goat is in the room and approachs Mabel, nibbling on her sweatshirt, "And this is Gompers! Our goat!"

Mallory is a bit disorientated from being dragged around, then confused more my the goat in the room. "Um... ...you have a nice goat..?" She's having trouble following.

Mabel grins, hugging the goat tightly, Gompers licks her face, "I know! He's a nice little Gompers! Yes you are! Aren't you a nice little Gompers?" Mabel sings, the goat makes a noise and licks her again. She lets the goat go and it runs past you out of the room. Mabel wipes off the goat spit and runs over to you hugging you tightly before running off and jumping onto Dipper's bed where Dipper was reading the journal he found in the woods. 

Dipper covers it with his arms as Mabel jumps up and down on the bed, "Mabel!" He whines, startled, Mabel giggles before she stops jumping and sits down next to him.

Mallory smiles a bit at their family bond, she would have liked a twin if she knew it'd be like this to have one. Though, she also isn't the best with people, so she'd probably end up as the Dipper of the two of them.

"Come here Mallory! Sit with us girl!" Mabel tells you with a smile, it seems your already apart of the family.

She isn't really one to say no too often, so Mallory gives a small nod and sits with Mable and Dipper on the bed.

Dipper rolls his eyes, and ignoreing the both of you continues to read the pages from his journal.

Mabel pouts "Bro Bro." She whines. 

Dipper sighs smirks a bit and closes the book "I know Mabel. No reading when we have a visitor." Dipper mutters.

Mabel grins and hugs him tightly, "Uhuh! Now, what do your two want to do while Grunkle Stan is calling Mal's parents?" Mabel asks, 

Dipper shrugs and Mabel pouts again before looking at you.

Mallory thinks for a moment, before deflecting the question a bit and asking Mabel, "...where did you get your sweater? It looks nice..." Mallory hasn't exactly been able to play games with any kids her age or otherwise being locked inside all day every day. Her life has been in the house and she didn't plan for this turn of events.

Mabel grins at you, "I made it myself! I love knitting and sewing, it's self-taught actually! If you want I can teach you how to make stuff!" Mabel says, she seem very excited.

Bill snickers "Classic ShootingStar." Bill mutters.

"I like that idea..." She gives a small smile to Mabel. Maybe this won't be so bad for Mallory.

"Mhm." Mabel nods exictedly, smiling widely before jumping off the bed and heading to her side of the room. She takes out a bag from underneath her bed, the bag is filled with knitting and sewing supplies. Yarn and fabric spill out of the bag as she skips back to Dippers bed and sits down next to you, setting the bag on her lap as she looks through it to make sure everything she needs for knitting and sewing is in there.

Mallory is very quiet for a kid, even compared to Dipper, but she seems at least a little happy right now. Mallory watches Mabel curiously.

Mabel takes out a thing of yellow yarn and a knitting needle, she hands it to you "Do you know how to make a slipknot or cast on stitch?" Mabel asks you as she takes out pink yarn and another knitting needle for herself

She shakes her head no, accepting the items. She has no experience in knitting or sewing

"Um, so first Loop the yarn around your index and middle finger 2 times. Then, pull the first loop over the second loop. Tug on the tail of the yarn to tighten the knot around the base of the loop. Then, slip the loop onto a knitting needle and tug the tail more to secure the knot." Mabel tells you as she does the same with her own knitting needle and yarn, she does it slowly to make sure you see before looking back at you and smiling.

 Dipper watches curiously before opening his journal again, Mabel doesn't seem to notice.

Mallory follows Mabel's instructions carefully, Mabel has her full attention now. She gets the first step done slowly compared to Mabel

"Good job Mal!" Mabel seems to brighten as you complete the first step "Next loop the yarn around your hand like this." Mabel tells you as she loops some of the yarn around her hand once before putting the needle through the loop as she gets it off her hand, she continues to run you through the steps as much as she can untill she eventually, after an hour, has something strongly resembling a pink shirt/sweater, she smiles at you before looking at your creation to observe it and see how well you did.

Something that both Mabel and Dipper should notice, if they're paying attention, is Mallory's mood improves quickly after being told she did well. Mallory goes through all the steps as she is instructed, completely oblivious to time, and eventually having her own yellow sweater. It may be a bit off on size for her, but that's just something to tweak for the next try.

Mabel squeels as she looks at your creation and grins at you before pulling you into a hug "Ahh! It's perfect! I LOVE it! You did such a nice job Mallory!" Mabel seems proud of you as she hugs you tightly before letting you go.

Even with the sudden high volume and the hug, Mallory actually giggles from the compliments, she even hugs Mabel back.

Dipper doesn't comment on whats happening, he does smile slightly even as he's pretending not to pay attention, Mabel grins at you before offering you the pink sweater she made "Here, if you want you can have it. Keep your own too Mallory."

"Thank you Mabel..." She says, no longer being shy around her, and to an extent Dipper too. "This was really fun"

Mabel blushes "Awww, it really was. Sooooo, are you going to take the sweater?" Mabel giggles, she's still holding the pink sweater she just made out to you.

She nods, accepting the sweater with a cute little smile. "Thank you again"

"Aw, your welcome Mallory." Mabel gushes with a grin, the same way she gushed when she introduced you to her pet goat "Make sure to come over often ok? I'd LOVE to teach you more about knitting and sewing and Oh! So do you know how to put on makeup?"

She nods, still smiling a lot. "I know a little bit about makeup, I have to wear it sometimes."

"Thats perfect! I'd love to do your makeup sometime if you'd let me!" Mabel gushes with a grin, obviously she's planning on doing your makeup and dressing you up like a doll.

Bill cackles, "Careful Sunshine, shootingstar is an ambitious kid with a heart of gold. While fun you'll most likely be tangled up in her little web by the time she's done with ya." Bill cackles, he believes what he's saying though honestly Mabel seems too kind to cause any harm or manipulate anyone like he's suggesting but who knows, you did only just meet her

Mallory gives Mabel her trust for this. "You can do my makeup now if you'd like" she says to Mabel, smiling happily with no end to that in sight.

Mabel squeels, gives you a brief hug before running outside of the room, Dipper has been surprisenly quiet this entire time, quiet enough that most people would even forget he's in the room in the first place.

Once Mabel is out of the room, Mallory looks to Dipper. He's her entertainment until she returns. "What are you reading?" She asks.

"Nothing!" Dipper jumps and slams his journal shut, smiling nervously

That visibly startles her. "...That book looks really old"

"Does it? I found it in the woods." Dipper reluctantly tells you, hopeing that you won't press the issue.

"Really? Who would leave such a nice book outside?" Mallory asks. "That isnt proper care for a book"

Dipper hesitates on answering, "It was hidden in the woods, right in a tree. No one signed it so I don't know who left it there."

"In a tree? How would someone get a book there?" Dipper is making her more curious, and it shows.

"It was a fake tree, metal actually. There was a secret hatch that I had to push to get the book." Dipper tells you, he doesn't want to tell you too much, he doesn't quite trust you, afterall he only met you today because you were spying on him but he's also excited to tell someone about it at the same time, besides Mabel likes you so that's ok enough for him.

"That's a lot of effort to hide a book. What is it about?" Mallory asks now, enjoying the conversation it seems.

"Well, uh, here." Dipper opens the book and shows you one of the pages "It's about the mystery's of Gravity Falls." The page Dipper showed you says "It's hard to believe it's been six years since I began studying the strange and wondrous secrets of Gravity Falls, Oregon.", Dipper scootches closer to you so that you can see the page.

Mallory takes a moment to read the page. "A research journal...?" Now she looks more curious than before.

"Yeah, I think the author was in some kind of trouble though." Dipper tells you as he flips through the pages and stops at a page that says "TRUST NO ONE" and "Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed. I'm being watched. I must hide this book before he finds it. Remember: in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust." "Weird right?"

Mallory frowns at that message at the end. "That isnt very nice..." a little bit of Favian is showing through, she's being over serious for her age.

Dipper looks up from the book to look at you "Hm? What isn't?"

She shakes her head a little. "Can I look through the book, please?" She asks, still interested it seems.

Dipper blinks "Sure." He says as he hands the journal over to you.

Bill, having been unnaturely quiet most of today, finally speaks up, "Favian, there's something I haven't been telling you." Bill speaks to you gravely as soon as Dipper hands you the journal, it seems important. All the time you've known him he hasn't sounded nearly as serious.

'What is it Bill?' She thinks to him, looking through the journal a bit.

"Mallory... I knew the author, I used to be his muse, he used to be a good friend of mine. We were planing on freeing me from the nightmare realm and exploreing the multiverse together but something went wrong. We had an arguement and there was this big misunderstanding. I thought he--" Bill pauses and breaths in deeply as if to calm himself down, "Basically what happened is a big misunderstanding like most of my life. I thought he liked me but he was just useing me so that he could be the smartest man alive, I gave him everything he wanted. I did so much for him and he threw it all away just because his partner said I wasn't trustworthy and that i'd bring about the end of the world. Quite rude. I wasn't even planing on anything like that either sunshine. That guy was nuts, more crazy then I am and thats saying something." Bill complains, he sounds upset and he isn't faking it either, for a while he actually liked the author, perhaps more then he should of.

'Bill, you know I like you, but I still don't trust you, which you should also know. I'll take what you're saying, but I'll have to find the other side of things before I believe your whole story' Mallory thinks to him. Meanwhile, she sets the book down, already knowing many of the strange creatures from her last life as Favian.

Bill sighs, "I know Favian, you don't have to trust me. I'm not lieing though. I used to like the guy and he freaked out the second his partner got jealous and told him crap. Just keep in mind that I didn't originaly mean any harm. I actually liked the guy before he started blaming me for all the sins of humanity! You don't have to believe me, I just wanted to tell you, to explain myself. Look through the book again, near the first few pages. The author wrote about me and I think it's best you know his various changing opinions of me. I don't want to hide stuff from you." Bill tells you, this isn't quite like him, telling you (or showing you) something that could make you hate him.

She goes along with it, taking a look, maybe Dipper will too?

The page has Bill's name "Bill Cipher" written down in cursive at the top of the page and a drawing of Bill as well, there's dried drops of blood staining the page and the sentence "Bill has proven himself to be one of the friendliest and most trustworthy individuals that I've ever encountered in my life. What a guy! I honestly can't trust him more. Not evil in any way, Bill is a true gentleman." has been crossed out and below it written in red ink is "BILL CAN'T BE TRUSTED!" written in black ink below that is "Beware Bill. The most powerful and dangerous creature I've ever encountered. Whatever you do, never let him into your mind."

"...well that's comforting advice..." she thinks, well, accidentally mumbling. Dipper would have to be listening extremely carefully to hear any of that though.

"What did you say?" Dipper asks, he thought he heard you say something, he reads the page quickly.

 Bill sighs "That guy was delusional. Don't trust everything he wrote in that journal ok? I've never hurt you Favian and there's a reason I wanted you to see this page." Bill tells you, if he meant you any harm then he wouldn't of told you to look for this page, thats obvious, the fact that he told you to look for it says a lot, it shows that he trusts you enough to not immediately freak out or try to break the deal even though he knows that you don't trust him.

She shakes her head. "Nothing important" Mallory says to Dipper

Dipper raises an eye-brow but doesn't ask again, he reaches for the book and closes it, pulling it back onto his lap, "Mabel could be here any second." He warns you.

"That's okay, your sister is really nice" her current standard for nice is better than her excuse for a father.

Dipper smiles before looking away and opening the journal back up again.

Just as soon as he does so, Mabel bursts into the room with a bag of makeup stuff, "Did someone say my name?! The magnificant Mabel is back in business! Wootwoot."

Mallory, once again, is visibly startled by Mabel. She will need to get used to her.

Mabel is very high energy, in just a few seconds she's already sitting down next to you and taking all sorts of stuff out of her makeup bag with a terrifying grin as she does this Dipper exits the room slowly not even trying to hide his attempt to excape

Mallory decides to have some 'innocent' fun, asking Dipper, "where are you going?"

"To the bathroom." Dipper casually answers as Mabel looks up from the makeup bag to glare at him, Dipper bolts for the door. 

Mabel tackles him to the ground.

"Oh- C'mon I actually need to go to the bathroom Mabel!" 

Mabel glares at him before letting him back up with a pout. Dipper bolts once again, slamming the door behind him as Mabel starts giggling, she sits back next to you

Mallory giggles too, enjoying that scene.

Mabel picks up the eye-shadow stuff and a eyeshadow brush with a grin, suddonly she seems almost terrifying "Are you ready?"

Mallory nods, possibly out of fear. Mabel has free reign over her helpless guest.

It doesn't take long for Mabel to start putting makeup on you but it takes even longer for her to finish and approve the final result, having already put blue eye-shadow, blush and pink lip-stick on you, she goes through her makeup bag and takes out a mirror which she gives you, "What do you think?"

"It looks pretty..." Mallory answers, though it isn't her personal taste. To be fair to Mabel, Mallory has only been a girl for a few years.

Mabel grins and nods "It is pretty! Lets go see where Dipper went off to ok? He should be back by now." Mabel tells you before snorting, "Hah! He probably lied so that he wouldn't be forced to wear makeup, I bet he's downstairs with Grunkle Stan!" Mabel says as she starts putting the makeup back inside the bag before shoving it underneath Dippers bed.

Mallory nods a bit, smiling at Mabel. "Okay" She agrees.

Mabel grins before grabing your hand and pulling you off of the bed "Don't forget your sweaters." Mabel reminds you before letting you go and rushing out of the room, you can hear her stomping and running down the stairs and her yelling out Dippers name at the top of her lungs.

You hear a high pitched scream "AHH WHAT THE-" 

The sound of someone getting smacked on the head and Grunkle Stan yelling out, "Mabel! What I'd tell ya about hittin' your brother?" 

"NOT TO!" Mabel shouts out excitedly with no guilt whatsoever, after a moment everything goes quiet.

 "Thats my girl!" Stan praises, finally everything goes quiet except from Bill's laughter 

"You should follow her sunshine." Bill advises.

Mallory does follow, taking both sweaters she was given with her.

When you arrive to the living room you see Dipper and Mabel sitting next to each other on the couch, elbowing each other and whispering to eachother, Stan is in his chair watching tv, with a grin. 

When Mabel see's you she climbs over her brothers lap "Wha- Mabel!" 

She hurrys over to you with a grin, hugging you tightly, "Mallory! Come join us, Dipper's been watching tv with Grunkle Stan!"

Mallory giggles a bit and hugs Mabel back. "That sounds like fun"

Mabel giggles and squeezes you before letting you go and hurrying back over to the couch, climbing over her brothers lap once again so that she can sit closer to Stan, Dipper rolls his eyes though he isn't mad and smiles at you "You can sit next to me if you want?"

Mallory nods a bit, sitting next to Dipper quietly. She still has a bit of a crush on him, even if she doesn't know that yet.

Dipper smiles slightly again before looking back at the tv, Stan looks over to you and raises an eye-brow "Uh, Mallory right? Do you know what your parents number is?" Stan asks you with a small frown.

She nods a little, "I know mommy's number"

Stan nods and smiles slightly before getting up from his chair and stretching "Need to talk to you in the other room for a bit kiddo." Stan says with a little smirk before walking out of the room, patting your shoulder as he passes you.

She somewhat reluctantly goes with Stan. She liked being with Dipper and Mabel.

Dipper and Mabel glance at each other with a frown as this happens, once your in the next room Stan turns around, placing his hand on your shoulder with a smile "Think you could write down your mum's number for me kiddo? Gonna need it if you want to go home kid." Stan says before searching in his pockets with his other hand, he hands you a spare piece of paper and a short worn stubby pencil.

Mallory nods, writing the number very neatly.

After you do that Stan takes the pencil and paper away from you before  ruffleing your hair, "Go watch some tv with Dipper and Mabel kid." He says with a smile before going upstairs slowly.

She gives a small smile and nods, quickly heading back to her new friends.

Mabel and Dipper ended up picking a horror movie, at some point Stan came back in the room and sat down, watching the movie as well. Half-way through the movie you heard the sound of someone knocking on the door. Stan gets up from his chair, streches and taps your shoulder as he walks by, pointing at the door intending for you to follow him as he leaves the room, Dipper pauses the show and pats your arm, "Looks like  your parents are here." 

"NO!" Mabel crys out, launching herself from her seat and knocking you off of the couch, hugging you tightly "I don't want you to go! Can't you stay for longer?" Mabel whines.

Mallory bruises easily, careful Mabel. She still hugs back, but shakes her head no. "I don't think I can stay much longer..."

Mabel doesn't respond, she just pouts and hugs you tighter, refusing to let you go or let you stand up. Dipper rolls his eyes and stands up before pulling Mabel off of you and holding her against him with an awkward smile as Mabel struggles, trying to get him to let go of her "Sorry about that, you better go. I don't think I can hold Mabel off for much longer." Dipper says, causing Mabel to huff and go limp, Dipper simply holds her up to prevent her from faceplanting onto the floor.

Mallory nods, quietly saying, "Sorry..." she goes to the door now.

Dipper lets go of Mabel as she begins struggleing again, she rushes over to you hugging you tightly, "You didn't do anything wrong! Come by tomorrow Mallory, ok?" Mabel tells you with a grin before letting you go and going back to the couch, she picks up the sweaters you made and hurrys back shoving them into your hands before grabing Dipper and rushing upstairs. Dipper smiles and waves at you as he's forced upstairs by his sister, you hear the attic door slam closed.

Mallory returns to trying to go to the front door then.

At the front door you see Stan talking to Avery outside but his voice is too low and quiet for you to hear.

Mallory starts more or less running towards Avery, happy to see her.

Avery smiles as she see's you and when your close enough for her to touch you she envelopes you in a hug, hugging you gently, "Hey Mal."

Mallory hugs back as tightly as she can, leaning into Avery. "I'm sorry...." You didn't do anything Mal...

Avery frowns before pulling away, she gently grabs your arms "You didn't do anything wrong Mal, you just got lost thats all. There's nothing wrong with being lost every once in a while Mallory." Avery tells you.

Bill snickers "She's right ya know." Bill tells you.

Stan briefly ruffles your hair and winks saying: "Ya did nothing wrong kiddo, now I gotta get back inside, my niece and nephew shouldn't be left alone for too long." before going back inside

Mallory goes back to hugging Avery as soon as she can, not properly replying to any of the three that said anything to her. Despite being stuck inside so often, she misses her house, if feels safe there.

Avery smiles sadly, hugging you back briefly before pulling away again "It's time to go home Mal, your mother's been worried sick." She comments before grabing your hand and leading you into the forest to take you back home.

Mallory nods a bit, sticking very close to Avery the whole walk.

During the walk Avery is silent and so is Bill after a while you finally see the mansion, Avery opens the front door with her key and goes inside, your mother Ellie and your father Roger aren't anywhere to be found, they must be sleeping, it is getting pretty late "Go on up to bed Mal, i'll tell your mom your back."

Mallory nods a little, quietly asking, "are you staying the night?"

Avery hesiatates as she closes the door behind you "I.... I'm not sure.... I have school tomorrow and I can't afford to miss it." Avery tells you with a small frown, it's obvious that she wants to stay.

Mallory gives a small nod again. "Okay....." She's only slightly disappointed.

Avery smiles a bit and kneels down in front of you "I'll be sure to come back the second I have time ok sweetheart?"

"Okay..." She says again, hugging Avery tightly.

Avery hugs you back just as tightly before pulling away and standing up with a smile, "It's about time you go to bed Mallory ok?"

She nods slightly. She wants Avery to stay still.

Avery ruffles your hair with a sigh and a small frown "Go to your room Mal." She trys again, saying it in a serious tone of voice when you don't move.

Mallory pouts slightly at the more stern tone, but does as asked. Even if she looks sad about it.

Avery smiles, glad that your listening to her "Goodnight Mal! I love you, sweet dreams!" Avery calls out before opening the front door and going back outside, closing the door behind her.

Mallory gets her nightly things done by herself, a bath, brushing her teeth, getting pajamas and all that.

"Soooo, what did ya think of shooting star and pinetree? Er- Mabel and Dipper I mean." Bill asks before correcting himself, Elanore sleeps soundly on the bottom of your bed in cat form.

Mallory sits next to Elanor, petting her lightly. 'they're really nice... I hope I can see them again soon"

Bill snorts "Of course you will. It's impossible not to run into those kids. Be careful though, they aren't what they seem or at least Stanely- Er, Stanford isn't. Beware that guy, he has no idea what he's doing. Shooting Star- Mabel and Dipper are good friends to hang out with. If Ellie and Roger don't let us out tomorrow we can always sneak out with Elanore to those twins. Always an option kiddo." Bill tells you, he corrects himself a few times but hopes that you won't notice.

Mallory notices very much. "Whats with all the names for them you use?"

Bill stays silent for a moment before speaking up "I give nicknames to important people, usually only my Zodiac. Mabel is Shooting Star, Dipper is Pinetree, Stan is Cresent, Gideon is Pentagram, Wendy is Ice or red, Pacifica is Llama, Ford is Sixer, Stitched Heart is Robbie, Question Mark is Soos and Glasses is McGucket. Just so you know." Bill tells you, he's trusting you here to not ask why these people are important and what he means by Zodiac.

Mallory just seems confused by all that, giving up for the night. She gets in bed finally

Bill snorts "Tired Sunshine?"

"No..." Yes.

"Don't lie to me kiddo. Your obviously tired and you need the sleep." Bill remarks immediatly senseing the lie.

She's getting a bit grumpy from being tired.

Bill sighs "Go to sleep kiddo."

"No" She protests for the sake of saying no.

"Mallory. Your tired." Bill says seriously, "Didn't Auntie Avery tell you to go to sleep?"

"Hmph..."

"So? Are you going to do what she said or are you going to disapoint her?" Bill asks you, no trace of humor to be found "Besides you've had a long excideing day! Don't you deserve a nice good rest? It's good for you sunshine." Bill continues with a different more casual tone of voice.

She doesn't reply this time, just kinda sad and cranky from being tired. Great day overall though

Bill snorts, "Sweet dreams kid." Giving up but knowing that he's already won, he falls silent.

It doesn't take long for her to fall asleep.

Bill falls asleep too, falling into the subconscious of your mind until morning, watching over your dreams and preventing any nightmares.