I decided to write it as a relativity falls au (what better way to see the twin growing old than to have them actually be old?)
So please, enjoy some sibling bonding!
Dipper was pouring himself a cup of coffee when his sister burst into the kitchen. She had her Madam Mystery suit on, light blue blazer and maroon skirt. Her fez sat askew on her head as she walked passed Dipper to the fridge.
“Finally ready to face the day sleeping beauty?” She teased. She reached for a can of pitt Cola.
“I was up late doing important research,” Dipper whined. He rubbed his eyes from beneath his glasses.
“And you were definitely not practising poetry at all night?” Mabel teased. She downed half her can in one gulp before taking a seat opposite her brother.
“Getting a new hobby is research,” Dipper defended.
“Hobby, sure,” Mabel smirked, her voice thick with sarcasm.
“Don’t you have tours or something to be holding?”
“Just finished my last one for the morning. Next set of suckers doesn’t arrive for another 2 hours.”
“You’re not planning on leaving me alone during that time are you?”
“You’ve only been back for a week bro-bro. We have 30 years of catching up to do.”
“In that case help me out here. I have not properly cooked in 30 years and some pancakes would really fit the bill right about now.”
Mabel rolled her eyes while muttering something about lazy bones. She walked over to the cupboard and pulled out the sugar flour and pancake mix. “You want chocolate chips in yours?”
“Like when we had them as kids?” Dipper asked.
“‘Cept with less burnt pans and upsetting Ma and Pa.” Mabel grinned. She hard poured the ingredients into the bowl and started mixing. “Dipper be a good little brother and get me the milk.”
Dipper rolled his eyes at the false ‘old-ladyness’ in her voice. He opened the fridge and took out the milk and eggs for her. “You were going to ask for these too weren’t you?” he said. He placed the carton of eggs on the counter next to her bowl.
“I was hoping to ask you to get it later. Get some more practise out of my old-lady voice,” Mabel said. She opened the carton with one hand and cracked an egg on the edge of her bowl.
“I’d rather not,” Dipper rolled his eyes.
“God you’re still as much of a buzz kill as ever huh?” Mabel poured some batter into a pan.
“Your schtick works on tourist because they don’t know any better. I’d rather pretend that I didn’t miss thirty years of watching you embarrass yourself.” Dipper said smugly.
“You say that like I haven’t matured,” Mabel pouted. She cracked another egg against the bowl and added it to the mix.
“Just yesterday the twins and I had to pull you away from getting in a fist fight with an eight-year-old,” Dipper said. He walked over to the cupboard and took out two bottles of syrup.
“She was reaching for the last packet of smile dip!” Mabel whined. “I haven't had any since we were teens!”
“For good reason,” Dipper said. He chuckled at the memory of a preteen Mabel, with what could only be described as a sugar-hangover, sitting over the toilet and puking for an hour after having a binge of smile dip after their announced cancellation.
“I’m a responsible and sensible older woman now Dipper. I don’t let myself get overdosed on silly things like sugar packets.” Mabel said.
“Yeah sure, when you start acting like that I’ll believe it.” Dipper pushed his glasses up his nose while rolling his eyes.
“My own brother? Lacking faith in me? Times are getting so hard on girls like me. Why, back in my day-”
“Back in your day as in ‘40 years ago’ or ‘back in my day’ as in fifteen minutes ago where you convinced a family of four that buying every shirt you had in stock was a good investment despite how moth bitten they were?” Dipper cut her off.
“I’ll have you know that it was only half my stock, and how dare you call me out on my favorite joke before I told it?” Mabel said. She turned on the stove to preheat before adding chocolate chips to the pancakes mix.
“You’re in your 60’s and you’re still pulling that?” Dipper asked, his jaw slack.
“It’s a classic for a reason nerd,” Mabel smirked.
“Please tell me you had some level of mercy on the kids,” Dipper said. Mabel gave him a knowing smirk. “Of course you wouldn’t.”
“60 years and my flame of sass is still roaring!” Mabel boasted. She laughed maliciously as she poured the batter into the pan.
There was a quiet lull as the pair waited for the pancakes to cook. The sound of the sizzling batter filled the air and the sweet smell of too-sugary goods filled their noses. Dipper could remember the way Mabel would stand on a footstool that reached her knees to reach the stove, wearing their father’s apron that easily reached the floor. Her declarations of every newly meal being her best work yet, despite the unhealthily high sugar content making them all taste the same. Dipper couldn’t help the somber laugh that built up in his chest.
“What’s the matter?” Mabel asked. She set two plates of pancakes on the table before sitting opposite her brother. “You look more down than Soos does when he forgets his lunch at home.”
“I was just remembering how much I miss this,” Dipper said. “30 years ago I was lost in the expanse of the multiverse and didn’t think I’d be able to get home. Hell I thought I’d never be able to settle down after all of that. But here it is. Here’s you, the twins, the house. It-it’s a bit hard to believe it.”
“Well you better get used to it soon,” Mabel said. “The anklebiters outside are gonna latch onto you real fast.” SHe offered her brother a gentle smirk before picking up a bottle of syrup for herself.
“I think one already has,” Dipper spied Ford through the kitchen window. The young boy’s nose buried in tattered and torn blue journal that Dipper knew all too well. He could still remember placing the golden pine tree symbol on the front.
“Well hurry up and eat,” Mabel said. She popped the cap of her syrup bottle before thinking for a moment. “Hey Dipper, wanna do a syrup race? For old time’s sake?”
Yep. I finished Gravity Falls. I can't accept it. I'm- I'm in denial. So I thought "hey, if they are not gonna give me more, I'll stop whining and make my own!" and so, my AU happened. Well, it's not even an AU, it's more like... an Alternative Future of my own, (that isn't cannon, obviously) made just for fun cause... I'm too attached to let go orz So in this AU basically all the characters are grown up and have made their lives as better as they managed to. I'll be telling the story with little illustrations now and then... so, I decided to start by introducing you to a 39 year old Dipper with... his little redhead kiddo?? I'll let you guess who her mom is, heheh! The little duckling's name is Ava Pines! I've imagined that Dipper would turn a really really busy science man when he'd get older, so he wouldn't have much time for himself - but those little days when work would give him a break, he'd use them to spend time with his family - and usually, on the afternoons, he'd take Ava to discover the secrets of Gravity Falls by his side! Even if these don't happen as often as they'd like to, the days Ava gets to be with her father would always remain as her best memories c:
