GF AU
TAU AU
DRIFT AU
Mizar trusted
him.
He told himself
that that was enough, that he didn’t need anything else, that he didn’t even
need that.
But the way the
babies hung around him expectatnly, without any prominent fear, the way they
trusted him.
That was just
too precious not to abuse.
He played nice.
He gave stuff
free of charge.
They weren’t
around him without Mabel or Henry to supervise.
Alcor laughed as
he was finally alone with them.
His sister’s
precious, little triplets.
He looked at
Willow and sneered.
She could’ve
been his.
He saw many
alternate universes in his mind stretching in front of him and he saw one where
this didn’t happen. Where the Transcendence didn’t happen.
Willow was his
child.
H I S
Alcor held the
baby in his arms gently and rocked her to sleep, lulling her with his calming
voice. He hummed and she relaxed.
He could drop
her right now.
He would drop
her right now if she wasn’t his.
But she wasn’t.
However, Mabel
was.
Mabel was his
twin, his twin star, his Mizar.
And this child
was hers now.
He didn’t drop
Willow that night.
Alcor observed
her and when she gurgled in her sleep, he gave her a jagged grin.
He set her down
next to Acacia and Hank.
It was a shame
he made a promise to Mizar.
They’d make
beautiful pawns once grown.
He zipped out of
existence, and teleported into the living room.
Mabel and Henry
walked through the main door just at that moment.
He saw horror
wash over Henry before he shcooled his emotions into neutrality. At least he
was quick about it.
Mabel wasn’t as
open with her fear. She trusted him, but she still feared him.
Smart, genius
Mizar.
His gleeful twin
star.
“Were you around
the triplets?”
“Yes.”
“Are they
harmed?” Mabel pressed on, her hands clenched and her body tense.
He looked at her
with mock digust, placed a hand over his chest, and laughed. “You wound me, Mizar. O, how you wound
me!”
“Answer the
question, Dipper!”
“No, I did not harm them. They’re perfectly safe.”
Mabel relaxed.
“Well all right then, was that so hard, Dip?”
“Not at all, Mizar.” He grinned at her.
“Too tired to
play your games.”
‘’Thus we will not play.’’ He leisurely floated to her and placed a
cold, hard claw on her shoulder, pulling her closer. She wrapped her arms
around his body and hugged him.
Henry slowly
walked over to the stairs and climbed up to tend to their children. All he
wanted was for his family to be safe. It was hard with a demon around. A demon
that, luckily, had taken a liking to him.
He thanked his
wife’s ability to talk down the most powerful being in current existence every
day. It had become a mantra.
Henry saw the
triplets safe and sound, checked, rechecked, checked again on top of that, was
satisfied, and climbed back down the creaky stairs of the shack. He spotted his
brother-in-law hugging Mabel and swaying her gently in the air, it looked like
they were dancing, drifting in space and not caring for lost time. She had her
feet on top of his.
‘’Mizar, I care for them, you know.’’ Alcor mused aloud, ‘’I care for you. I would never deliberately harm them. Or you.’’
‘’It’s all
right, Dip-dop. As long as ALL my babies are safe, it’s OK.’’
The demon
snorted.
Mabel tilted her
head as she watched him snicker.
‘’You call
everything fluffy your baby.’’ He rested his head on her head and they drifted
together aimlessly in the living room, gliding past furniture, turning
intangible as not to ruin their spontaneous dance due to said furniture.
Mabel smiled.
This was Dipper.
‘’Do you think
giving your precious blood babies an inside-out pet is appropriate?’’
‘’No, no it’s
not appropriate, Dipping sauce.’’
‘’Boo.’’ He
laughed, it sounded like her brother, not the bloodthirsty demon. ‘’I’m still
going to give them one. It’s bad luck to say no to a demon gift, Mabel. It’s
bad luck, in-deed.’’
Mabel chocked
back a sob.
Alcor continued
dancing with her, his eyes on the human in his arms, a hazy coat of
indecisiveness and confusion cast over them.
‘’Are there two
of you in there?’’ Mabel asked, flinging her head back and staring up at her
taller sibling. Damn him, she wasn’t the Alpha Twin anymore.
‘’No. There is only me.’’
Mabel chuckled. It was sad.
Alcor laughed. He
didn’t know why.
They danced.
Bitter.
Resentful.
Trusting.
‘’You’re putting all of your weight on my toes, I
see, Mizar.’’
‘’You’re a
supernatural being, Dip-dop, you can handle little ol me on your toes as we
dance in air.’’ Mabel clung to him and he’d never drop her. Not even if offered
a better deal. Not even if offered the world nearly finished with its descent
into madness and anarchy.
Alcor and Mizar.
They trusted
each other.
It was the only
thing both were certain of.
‘’Hm…Lil ol
me…I knew I forgot someone on my list.’’
Mabel stopped
dancing, her eyes wide and her body rigid with fear. Henry rose to his feet but
didn’t step closer. He knew his wife’s tells, she didn’t need his help.
‘’Are you going to tell me not to do it? To spare
him, like the good human you are, M I Z A R?’’
‘’No, I am not,
Alcor.’’
‘’Even my Mizar the Gleeful wants him dead.’’ Alcor laughed and it was harsh on her
ears, it reverberated off the walls and chilled the room, freezing their
happiness and slowly trying to replace it with horror. Mabel wouldn’t have
that. She stepped hard on his toes and he nearly flung her off of him. He
didn’t, though. He just growled.
‘’I don’t want
him dead, but after what he did, I won’t stand in your way.’’
‘’Hm…yes…We were 14 when he did that, I was
still too weak to do anything on my own.’’
‘’You know my
opinion of him, Alcor.’’
‘’I thought you liked the lobster.’’
‘’It was my
baby.’’
‘’You and your
babies.’’ The powerful demon snorted.
Mable gave him a
grin and he returned it tenfold more menacing.
She got on her
toes and gently head butted him.
‘’Come on,
Dip-dop, let’s dance.’’
She jumped off
his feet and onto the floor which was about half a metre bellow them. She
turned on the music.
It was BABBA.
Dipper narrowed
his eyes.
‘’This will cost
you.’’
Mabel knew he
could’ve just blipped off of the continent if he didn’t want to dance. There
was nothing keeping him in the shack.
This was of his
volition
Mabel winked at
Dipper and crossed her arms, her face taking on an expression of deep thought.
She snapped her fingers.
‘’I know! Free
dinner for the rest of the week.’’
‘’This comes
with conditions of me behaving properly, correct?’’
‘’Nope. Just
behave like you are now, come after the triplets are asleep.’’
‘’Hmm…You got yourself a deal, Mizar!’’
They shook on
it, and it was blue like Cipher’s fire. Mabel didn’t allow any of those
horrendous memories to seep through her facade with Dipper.
He was her
brother, he was her twin, she loved him, she trusted him, but he was also a
demon.
And demons
couldn’t be trusted with everything.
Especially not a
soul.
Which she gave
him without a moment’s hesitation.
She remembered
blue then.
Blue had been
her personal horror, but it became her salvation.
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BABBA’s newest
hits blared as Dipper swung his hips in circular motions with Mabel swirling
glowsitcks and offering up mabel juice. Dipper surprisingly had enough common
sense not to drink it.
Henry never saw
Alcor this relaxed before.
He saw the smile
on his brilliant face, the happiness gleaming in his inverted eyes.
Henry saw Mabel
looking like she finally had her brother back from Hell.
‘’BABBA has lost
all my respect for them, Mabel!’’ This was Dipper. Mabel laughed and asked why.
‘’They’re not true to themselves anymore. Put on the
old stuff I listened to before.’’ Alcor laughed as he heard disco girl come on.
‘’DISCO GIRL!
This brings back memories, Mizar, doesn’t it?’’ His jagged teeth that scared
even the strongest of cultists made Mabel shrug.
‘’Yeah, it sure
does, Dip-dop. It sure does.’’
‘’Do you want to
dance with your flesh bag?’’ Alcor eyed Henry from the corner of his eye.
Mabel looked at
Henry and saw him reluctantly offer up his hand to her.
‘’You don’t want
to dance, Dip?’’ She asked before she took Henry’s hand.
‘’How considerate of you, Mizar. After you insult
me, after you infer that I would harm you and your children, my niblings! – You
ask if I mind if you leave me all alone while you dance with some measly human.
But fine! If this is how you’re going to be I’ll just take all the CDs and
leave the continent.’’
‘’You wanna
dance with us both?’’
‘’No.’’
Mabel grabbed
Dipper’s wrist and he just looked at her hand with complete indifference. He’d
have killed people for less physical touch than this.
‘’We good?’’
Alcor huffed and
swatted her arm off of him.
‘’We’re not b a d.’’
‘’That’s all I’m
asking.’’ She cracked him a smile.
‘’No, you are asking for Dipper back. That’s
a deal I can’t deliver.’’
Mabel nodded solemnly
and gave him a small smile.
These didn’t
suit her. She grinned, she laughed, her smiles were wide, she was the brightest
beacon in a room.
She was
Happiness.
This didn’t suit
her.
Alcor, Dipper
Pines, The Dreambender sneered and took Mabel’s arm. He dug his claws into her
flesh and drew blood. Henry moved. He covered him in flames, they were just
warm enough to warrant a warning, but not enough to hurt.
‘’Henry!’’ Mabel
wriggled in his grasp and he shouted, his yell reverberating off the walls in
demon wrath.
‘’WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING
THIS TO YOURSELF?!’’
There were golden streaks trailing down Alcor’s
cheeks, the grip on her arm turned into a lifeline clung to by someone that
desperately needed it. Mabel noticed the vast, yet undetectable difference. She
grabbed a hold of his other arm.
‘’Because I love
you, Dipper.’’
Her eyes were
full of tears. Both of theirs were.
Human and demon.
Twin stars.
Mabel saw her
brother in that crescendo his inner battle was raging about, and she reached to
touch his face, to mush it with her palms, and demand he tell her the price,
because everything had a price.
Everything did.
This had to. She’d pay for it.
‘’You’re too precious, Mizar.’’
It sounded like
Bill.
It sounded like
Alcor.
Mabel turned
away as her brother laughed and laughed and laughed. Blue flames manifested all
around them and the walls bled. Screeching cries of innocent children began and
Alcor just went silent.
‘’It’s too late
for me, Mizar. It’s in my demon nature to give you false sense of hope, it’s
too delectable not too. Mabel is nothing more than lapsus linguae. Goodbye for
now. See you at dinner. I’m taking my music with me.’’
He blipped out
of existence and all the cds came with him.
‘’He took the philosophy
major vinyl too.’’ Henry pointed out in a sad, broken whisper.
Mabel looked at
her husband, furrowed her brow with creases that shouldn’t be on someone like
her, and then she laughed. He held her and her laughter turned into sobbing.
‘’Mabel, honey,
Mabes, please….What’s wrong? No, wait, that’s a stupid question-‘’
‘’-I don’t know
if I can trust him anymore.’’
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