The town of Gravity Falls was torn when Mabel finished her story of what had happened so far that day.
There was sympathy that Dipper was suffering, but there was anger,
too, that he was dragging them into it, even if he was apparently
unwilling and unconscious of doing it.
And beneath the anger, ran worry, for themselves and for Dipper, that only made everyone more anxious, angrier and more afraid.
They were arguing amongst each other about what to do and what was
going on as soon as Mabel had finished, getting louder by the minute and
ignoring the Pines.
One of the Flock butted against Mabel’s side, and she stumbled into her daughter’s side with an ‘oomph’.
Most of the Flock (and there were a lot of them now, more than Bill
had ever had, and it was looking like he was going to have more than any
demon before, according to a mostly proud, slightly worried Dipper)
were moving to line the walls and cluster around the weakest points of
the building, while a smaller cluster stood nearby and watched the Pines
family (and adopted family) with worrying intensity.
Mabel was the first to struggle to her feet, as her husband and
grunkles were still tangled up with each other on the floor, slowly
fighting their way free as she scrambled up.
She could hear the kids downstairs, Willow and Hank and Vivi crowding
around the bottom of the stairs and calling. Counting on having a
minute before they came upstairs, she tried to feel out for Dipper. The
bond from her to him was weaker than him to her, but usually she could
feel him, and pull on it to get him to come home.
She felt out and…nothing. She couldn’t feel anything from her
brother, at all, not the faintest hint of where he was or what he was
feeling, and that never happened, not unless…
Hoping he was just shielding from her, she started downstairs,
brushing past her Grunkles, who were now on their feet and glaring at
each other, though thankfully not fighting yet.
Usually she’d try and do something about that, but Henry gave her a
sigh and a nod as she looked at him, letting her know he’d take over
this time. She gave a half smile and hurried downstairs, knowing if she
stayed upstairs she’d get distracted trying to help.
“Your uncle’s having a freak out, your great-great-uncle threw holy
water at him and he disappeared, normal day in the Pines house,” she
called to her kids as she hurried past them into the kitchen.
Mary was the youngest of three but that never stopped her from getting into trouble. She was quick to anger and even quicker to get revenge and boy could she hit hard. The sad thing is that it was a learned behavior and she learned it from her older brother Hansel.
Not to say that Hansel was truly, one hundred percent to blame, but it was mostly his fault. The rest of the fault laid on Gretyl.
Gretyl, for lack of a better word, babied her brother. Hansel wasn’t all there the whole time. He was developmentally delayed and acted and thought like a child, despite being well into his lower-twenties. Gretyl acted as a foil for his behavior, being his guide and his voice of reason. Unfortunately this led to her treating him as one would a small child and she never really got past that stage. That meant that when Mary acted out as well, the only one she got scolded by were her Ma and Vati. Since Gretyl did most of the babysitting–as she already took care of Hansel–that meant hat she got away with a lot.
That landed her in detention on this very day, right next to the kid she punched out.
When she was eleven, Grenda found out she had ovarian cysts. It was harsh news and it hit hard but at least she was notified early on. She cried for hours.
This is my contribution to the TAU Anniversary Ficathon! I picked a prompt on what Grenda and Marius were doing after the Transcendence and expounded on that. Now, while it’s not much of a fanfiction and more of a world-building thing, I think I did the characters justice, yanno?
Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy.
Grenda’s wedding
was everything she had ever dreamed about as a young girl: a lavish reception,
a gorgeous gown, all her friends and family were there, and she had a
soon-to-be-husband who loved her with all his heart. She was ecstatic. She was
terrified. She was in love.
Mabel raised her
eyebrows at her boyfriend of two months. Lazy Susan had closed up the diner to
throw a Halloween party, and half the town had somehow crammed themselves into
the tiny log shaped building.
She wrapped her arms
around his waist, her head butting into his lower chest.
“No one else can
either,” she pointed out.
This was true. Uncle
Dan and Uncle Tyler were attempting to two-step and instead spent the majority
of the dance stepping on each other’s toes instead. Stan and Soos’ Abuela were
doing a weird sway walk across the floor, and Grenda and her fiancé Marius were
doing…something. Henry wasn’t sure what but it involved lots of chest bumping.
He looked down at Mabel’s
head.
“I’ve….I’ve never
danced before,” he admitted shyly.
Mabel did not loudly
exclaim at this, or immediately start reeling off dance steps or asking
questions he wasn’t sure he wanted to answer at ten pm at the pancake shop.
All she did was put one
of his hands on her shoulder and the other around her waist, before placing
both of hers on his hips.
“Just follow my lead
and remember-“
She beamed up at him
and it was perfect, she was perfect
and he was reminded once again how there was no one else in the world he wanted
to be with than her.
“You can’t be any worse
than Toby and that weird cardboard cutout he’s macking on.”
Henry snorted, and they
began to slowly sway as the Monster Mack came on the jukebox.
EDIT: I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT WORKED ON THIS. I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT FINISHED THIS IN TIME. I KNOW I SAID THAT I WOULD GET THIS DONE BEFORE THE WEEKEND AND I DID NOT. SO, IN EXCHANGE FOR MY FUCKUP, HAVE A FEW PICTURES OF ME DURING THIS LAST WEEK FOREVER:
For the holidays I asked for prompts. Not only did y’all deliver, but y’all gave me the best ones ever. So I decided, instead of a whole bunch of stories for each individual prompt, I would make one big story out of all your prompts. Here you go. Sorry for the delay…hope you enjoy it.
Ah yes, Marius! So the original question was, do we have any HC’s for Marius?
Well, we know from the book that “Grenda marries rich” so first off, Grenda/Marius aka Grendius amirite?
I can see Grenda still having her pet shop in Gravity Falls, and Marius moving his epaulet and cravat factory to a near by town, like, say, Bend, and together the two of them get into delightful shenanigans.
Of course, y’all should feel free to let us know how Marius fits into the AU!
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