seiya234:

Happy Birthday TAU; thanks for making grad school bearable and introducing me to some of my bestest friends. 

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Henry looked up to see four highly expectant sets of eyes on him.

“You’re not feeling funny are you?” Dipper asked.

Henry thought about it.

“My teeth hurt and I’d really rather not finish this bag.”

“BUT YOU GOT TO,” Grenda pointed out.

Candy nodded. “We need to know for science.”

Henry sighed, then leaned his head back and dumped the rest of the bag into his mouth before he could talk himself out of it.

Everyone waited with bated breath for a long minute, except for Henry, who was trying not to puke from shoving sugar powder into his throat without any water.

Finally, Mabel asked, “Are you seeing the dogs?”

Henry shook his head. 

“What about the Rainbow Kingdom?”

“Afraid not.”

Mabel grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him in a way that she thought was gentle but just jostled his abused stomach more. “WHERE IS AOSHIMA?”

“Mabel, honey, I’m going to throw up if you don’t stop.”

Dipper gently pulled his sister back. “We gotta face the facts Mabel. Henry is Smile Dip-proof.”

“I’m… Henry, I’m so sorry.”

“I think I’ll be okay Mabel.” But still she looked utterly dejected so he went on. “But perhaps Stan isn’t?”

Mabel’s face broke into a wicked grin, to match the one that her brother, the literal demon, also wore. 

“Oh that’s an excellent idea. Grenda, can you and Candy hold Stan down?”

“YES BECAUSE I DON’T SKIP ARM DAY.”

Candy glared at Grenda. “We’ve talked about this before; different gym routines work for different people-”

The four of them hurried out of the room, leaving Henry alone in peace and quiet. Since there was no way he’d be getting up for the next hour without puking, he might as well take the rare opportunity to steal the TV for himself. Now where was that remote…?

“I’m over here!” said the remote from inside the couch cushions.

“Thank you.”

(he didn’t remember the Food Network ever being so…. technicolor. And none of the food looked even remotely able to be eaten by humans. Weird.)