A warning for self harm in this chapter. I didn’t get very descriptive, but if you want to avoid it, the notes on AO3 and FF.net say where to stop/start reading. Also a warning for voices urging on the harm – the voices in italics. I’ll put a summary at the bottom of the chapter for anyone who
needs/wants to skip sections.
Stan groaned as he came to, sprawled out on what felt like grass. He was getting too damn old for this.
Something warm and wet slopped over his face, and he cursed as he batted at whatever was licking him.
He managed to crack open an eye to glare at the nightmare who’d
licked him. Baaazelbub didn’t even have the good grace to look ashamed,
blinking three red eyes one after the other at Stan innocently.
Groknar the Destroyer shoved his head under Stan’s back, urging the old man to his feet as he grumbled.
“Ugh, fine, I’m up. What even was that?” Stan demanded, stretching as he stood.
“We ̷do͟ not̶ k͝n͏ow,̧ bu̴t ̷wę c̷aņ se̵nse͡ par͟t of͏ th͞e ̧Ma̢s̸tȩr n̢e͞arby͟,͏ ” the oldest nightmare replied, giving Stan another little push, “an͢d̡ h̡e needs u̡s. Hu͘rry!̛ ”
“Fine, fine. Still creepy to hear you call the kid that,” Stan muttered, hiding his worry as he usually did under grumbling.
Frowning, he stared at the house that he knew for a fact wasn’t in
Gravity Falls, but still in Piedmont, California, far away from all this
craziness.
It was obviously Mark and Anna’s house – he’d visited a few times
while the twins were still little, so he remembered the rather ordinary
looking house – except it wasn’t the house he remembered, not quite.
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