Button Kids Part 8
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“We should get moving” Dipper said rising to his feet. “We, we need to find the others.”
Goggles nodded, ignoring the little bit of bile in his throat.
Dipper sluggishly moved forward.
Goggles bit his lip. Maybe we should-
No. he doesn’t want to hear that from you. You’re too weak.
The younger boy pushed himself up.
‘Why is he still following me?’ Is probably what he is thinking.
He pushed himself faster.
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I can do this. I just need to move faster.
Just need to push myself.
I can do-
Goggles fell against the floor. His head pounding as the world rung around him. Swaying slightly.
“Goggles?” Dipper paused, before walking over.
“I just need a minute.”
Dipper bit his lip. “I’m sorry” The boy reached out a hand to him.
Goggles stared at it, before grabbing it.
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“Do you think you can walk?”
Goggles nodded. “L-let’s get out of here”
Goggles pushed himself up using Dipper’s hand, pretending not to notice the boy’s frown.
A disappointment.
“Right... right I think we were going this way?” Dipper stated walking into the darkness.
Goggles pushed himself forward, his head throbbing with each step. He could do this. They would eventually get out of the darkness anyways. He just had to hold on until then. He could do that. He could do that.
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Everything will be fine.
Dipper glanced back at him.
We can do this.
The older boy paled.
Everything will work out.
Dipper opened his mouth, lunging toward Goggles.
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Coraline hit the ground, rolling over the hard floor.
The girl screamed, turning over. The Beldam’s leg impaling into the floor a centimeter away from her nose.
“Let us go you old hag!” Coraline yelled, grabbing the hedge clippers. She thrust upward, trying to drive the sharp metal into the Beldam’s chest.
A needle hand grabbed hers. The sharp points poking into the skin.
“My Dear. I only want what’s best for you”
“No, you don’t! You only want us to be your-“
The Beldam reached up, tracing Coraline’s buttoned eyed. “Do you really thing the other world is any better?”
Coraline growled kicking herself away. “Of course, it is!”
“Really? Tell me my dear what is your plan? To go to your parents. They didn’t even want you in the first place. Why would they want more kids?”
She got up again, looking around for another weapon.
“And what will you do about the buttons? Removing them might work… but how will Whisper ever see the sun?”
“It doesn’t matter” Coraline growled.
“You’re not thinking.” The Beldam turned to her, smiling. “Even if you don’t remove them. Someone will.”
Coraline clenched her fists.
“And all those wonderful sights? All those colors. Will be gone”
“It’s better than being eaten!” She ran forward, swinging her fists.
The Beldam hummed, grabbing her. Dragging the girl closer.
“No!” Coraline dug her heels into the ground.
“So much like a child. Always throwing a tantrum when you don’t get what you want”
“Let me go!”
“But don’t worry.” The Beldam’s legs curled around Coraline. “Mother will make it all better”
Coraline struggled as the witch pulled out a needle and thread.
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Dipper groan, pulling himself to his feet. Looking around at the endless void.
“Goggles!” He cried. “Goggles!”
He bit his lip. Where. Where is he?
Did… Did Goggles leave?
I know I haven’t been…
“Goggles! Goggles where are you!”
I know I’m not the best of friends but…
He shouldn’t blame Goggles. He would have run off too.
But… “Goggles Please!”
“Why would he come back?” A voice echoed.
“Wh-“
“You weren’t very nice after all”
“Goggles?”
“Why if I were them, I wouldn’t even be looking for you”
“Please this isn’t funny”
“When is being like this ever funny”
Dipper hugged himself, taking a step forward. This is a trick. This is just another trick.
“After all, as the future Beldam”
A hand of needles grabbed Dipper’s arm, yanking him around.
“We have to be mean”
Dipper gulped, staring at his own face. “Y-you aren’t real”
The Dipper Beldam laughed, tossing the boy aside. “Not real?”
“Please I’m your future Dipper. You’re just too weak to admit it”
“What?”
“Why do you think Mother left us in the room?”
“I… I don’t know!”
“Well I do. She was testing us. Seeing who should take her place. Don’t you see Dipper. The world is full of cruelties. It’s our job to help”
“By eating children!”
“They want to be here. You were the same a long time ago. Don’t you remember”
“I.”
“And look what you did to Goggles?”
“I d-didn’t mean-“
“Yes, you did. You wanted him gone. You wanted him out of your life. He was going to replace you after all”
”What?”
“Don’t be stupid. We both saw it. How he treated Mabel. He was trying to replace us”
“Goggles-”
“Wouldn’t do that? Please. We saw the same thing. Mabel even called him brother”
Dipper looked at the ground.
“And what are you? Hm? The boy who she refused to open up to? The boy who put her in that state?”
“I-“ Dipper gritted his teeth.
“Face it. He’s gone and deep down you are happy about it. Now you can have Mabel all to yourself”
Dipper swung. Hitting the fake version of him. “I don’t know what you are, but I am so done with being the Beldam’s puppet!”
“Don’t you-“
“No! You aren’t real! None of this is! You are just trying to distract me!”
“Do you really want to find him though?”
“… Yes. I do. And you can tell Mother that we are going to see the sun together”
The fake Dipper growled. His skin changing. Becoming sharper. More like Mother’s.
Dipper paled backing up.
“You want to see the sun?” The fake Dipper changed into a mutant version of him and the Beldam. “Well you’re going to have to get through me”
Dipper bolted.
“Get back here!” Beldam Dipper screamed. His feet scraping against the floorboards.
Dipper put on a burst of speed.
“You think you can run from me, you little freak!”
Dipper glanced around, looking for something, anything to help him.
A lone door stood out in the darkness.
He didn’t hesitate. Changing directions.
The screech of claws on wood came from behind him as Beldam Dipper turned.
“You cannot escape your destiny!”
He grabbed the knob and twisted it. Throwing his weight into the wood. The door crashing into the plaster with a loud bang as he hit the ground.
A hand wrapping around his ankle.
“You cannot run from Mother”
“No!” Dipper sobbed, feeling the splinters catch on his clothes. Another hand grabbed his leg.
“So, you might as well enjoy it Dipper”
He grabbed on to the door frame. Curling around it with one last ditched effort.
“And give into what you really want”
“No!”
He yanked his leg back, hearing his pants leg ripping away.
“Stop resisting!”
Dipper pulled his leg up to his chest.
“They’re never going to like you”
His toes catching the wood.
“You’re only going to hurt them!”
And he pushed.
The other him’s claws scratching down his ankle as Dipper drug him forward past the doorway.
“You can’t escape destiny!” Beldam Dipper cried landing on his belly.
Dipper grabbed the edge of the door kicking it closed with all his might.
“You’ll always be-“
Metal creaked, bending.
Dipper kicked the door again. Pushing against it with both legs.
“I’m nothing like you!”
Fabric tore against jagged edges.
“And I’ll never be!”
A button fell to the ground. Cracked in two.
“I’ll find Goggles! And we’ll get out of this hell!”
The door slammed shut.
Dipper panted. Tears running down his cheeks.
“I’m not… and I will never be like you” He said to the puppets decapitated head.
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I will finish this! It may take a long time but I will finish this!
