“Grunkle Stan has a girlfriend!” Mable squealed shaking her brother around. She was defiantly not spying on Stan and the girl from the other day.
“Mable quit it!” Dipper shoved her away. “I wonder what they’re doing here”
“Maybe they’re going to run away together!” Mable jumped up and down but stopped when Stan turned and noticed her watching him.
Stan came inside holding the door for Julie “Mable what did I say about watching people like that”
“It’s creepy if you get caught!”
Julie chuckled a bit “Cute kid”
“Great Niece and Nephew. Mable and Dipper” He says gesturing to them
“I need to know everything about you! What’s your favorite color? Do you have siblings? Thoughts on capybaras?”
Julie tilted her head “I like pink today, I suppose my favorite sibling would be my twin sister, and they’re adorable”
Mable grins “You have a twin too?”
“Oh yeah, and my younger brothers are twins too. My mother and uncle are twins as well” Julie says wiggling her fingers like she’s telling a spooky story “Total Twin Take over”
“What are you doing here?” Dipper asked before stuttering out “I-I mean we’re closed… so no tours”
“Julie is going to be working here,” Stan said simply.
“I told you he liked her” Mable whispers to Dipper. Stan heard her but said nothing.
Julie and Stan work together at the Mystery Shack during the day and work together on the portal at night. Stan found it much easier to get things going using her magic.
“I think we might have an actual chance to get that thing running,” Stan says. They were sitting outside on the porch enjoying the cool air.
“Hell yeah, you really know what you’re doing with all that advanced physics and math stuff,” She says waving her hand.
“What?” He looks over at her
“I mean it took Ford a while and some help to get that stuff going. You’ve got it down and you did that alone” She grins “You’re real smart”
Stan just stared at her. He had never once thought of himself as smart. Never once was made to believe that it was even a possibility that he could be smart. “Well uh… You’re saying you, as a witch don ‘t understand that kinda stuff?”
“Oh I do, I’ve been around a long time so I’ve had plenty of time to learn things” Julie leans back against the couch “Doesn’t take away from your achievement. You, Stanley Pines, need to give yourself more credit.”
He sat with it for a second and just stared at her. She wasn’t looking at him so he didn’t feel bad taking in her features. Her words made it sound like she could actually see him, so now he took his time to actually see her.
Her skin had a warm caramel glow, her eyes were a deep, dark brown, almost black, something about them had drawn him towards her that day he met her. Her hair was full of tight, bouncy curls that seemed to spring right up from her head.
She was striking.
“Y’know I saw your commercials” She turned and looked at him right as he looked away from her. She noticed the red on his face.
“W-what?”
She chuckled “Oh yeah. Thought you were real daring with all those inventions and fake names” She kept looking at him “You rocked that mullet too”
Stan found himself flustered. He cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck “You know the kids…”
“No worries, your secret is safe with me” She promises him while standing up. “I should probably get home”
Stan nodded realizing it would be daylight soon and he would need to be up to run the Shack. “Uh Thanks, for your help. All of it, y’know?” He stood up.
“No need to thank me, Stanley, really,” she tells him. Her eyes lingered on his face for a while before she cracked a smile “You made a real bad choice bringing me around, I’m going to be such a bad influence on those kids” She turned and starts to walk away.
Stan laughs “Just not on the clock! This place runs on child labor!”
She turns and looks at him “You said bring a bunch of junk food and get them on a sugar high? Got it!” She gave him another smile before disappearing, the red light trailing around where she once stood.
Stan stared at where she just was, a small smile on his face. “Oh crap” he mumbled “Mable was right”
// Stan Pines is crazy smart and I will die on this hill.
