prompt: the [x number] of times Henry silently freaked out over noticing Dipper casually doing hella creepy shit (picking human bone out of his fangs, absentmindedly cleaning blood from under his nails, etc) and the one time Henry not-so-silently freaked out
Three Times Henry Saw Dipper DoingSomething Freaky and Managed to Be Okay With it Barely and the One Time HeFreaked the Fuck Out
He had been living at the Shack for agrand total of two days, when he managed to catch Dipper in a period ofcorporeality. Mabel’s brother was sitting on the couch, eating pork rinds thathe was dipping in a cup of chocolate syrup mixed with pickle juice and watchingBaby Fights.
Dipper saw Henry come in and scooted hiswing out of the way so Henry could sit down. He said nothing, but went back toeating. A pork rind came almost close to his mouth, when Dipper noticedsomething on his hands and frowned.
Henry, who was trying to sneak thecontrol away from Dipper, noticed him frowning as he put the pork rind back inthe bag.
Dipper sighed heavily, and began to pickat his fingernails.
“Nothing much. I just didn’t get all the blood out from under them. I mean Ilicked my hands clean so I thought I got it all-“
Henry’s mind had gone carefully blank,unable to comprehend entirely what he had heard.
He saw Dipper’s hand go to his mouthagain and-
Dipper looked at him and Henry smiled weaklyat him.
“Let me get you a pair of nail clippers.”
There were pitchblack clouds hanging over the Shack and only the Shack as Henry pulled in afterwork.
He sighed as heturned his truck off and did a quick count in his head. The kids were still atschool for another hour, Mabel was investigating a haunting in Eugene, andStan’s car wasn’t in the yard, so it was up to him then to deal with…whateverwas going on.
He stepped insideand it felt like he was walking into a cave. Everything was dark, and the airwas wet and thick. A wind whistled back and forth, the walls moving in timewith the breeze, almost as if the Shack was breathing in and out, over and overagain.
By memory, and onlytripping over the furniture and the kids’ toys that they had left out on thefloor five or six times, Henry finally managed to make it into the kitchen.
To his complete lackof surprise, he found Dipper there.
His brother wassitting on the floor, the sleeves of his coat and shirt rolled up. Every one oftheir forks had been thrust with great force into both of Dipper’s arms, thetines of each fork sunk deep into his skin. Golden blood ran in rivuletsdown his limbs and puddled onto the floor.
Dipper looked up atHenry as he came in and Henry felt his blood run cold. That wasn’t Dipper thereon the floor. That was someone…something else.
“Do͡ ͡y͞o͠u̷ wan̵t̵t̴o͡ kn̶ow w͝he̵n ̴yo͏u d̡ie?̡” Alcor asked and Henry felt a shiver run up anddown the length of his body.
He managed toswallow even though his mouth had gone as dry as his throat.
“Are ͠y̴ou ̷sur͝e?̵̧I̵ ̶j̡ust͡ ̀fo̶und̢ o̴u̵t ̴an̛d̕ ́i̢t͜'̷s͡ a͞l͞l I'v͝e b̀ée̷n̷ a͘b͏l͜e̛ ̕t͞o͏thínk ́a͏bou͞t.” He pulled out another fork that Henry must have missed in hisearlier count and slammed it deep into his thigh. The tines pushed cloth intothe skin of Dipper’s leg, and blood immediately burst from the wound.
“W͟h̨at̕ ̡a̶bǫutMab́e͜l t̕h͞en?̛ I'͟l̀l͞ g͡i͏ve͜ yoư t̛h̀a̢t̵ ̸on̡e̶ ͡as a fr͢eebię!”
Henry leaned down toput his head near Dipper’s ear, ignoring the pounding of his heart, everyinstinct screaming at him to run and get the hell away from Dipper as fast ashe could.
“Would you wantMabel seeing you like this?” he gently asked.
Alcor looked up at himwith blank eyes streaming with blue fire.
Then he closed hiseyes, and Dipper sobbed once, twice.
The forks and theblood and the darkness disappeared, and the Shack returned to normal, or asnormal as it could ever be.
Henry sat all theway down on the floor with Dipper and wrapped his long arms around him as hisbrother began to softly cry.
Henry came home from work tofind Dipper buried in a small pile of children on the lawn. It was Mabel andDipper’s 65th birthday that weekend and everyone had come home to celebrate.His small herd of grandchildren had only been together for one day and alreadythere had been one near fist fight (Myrtle and Linden), Nito and Jojo hadcrashed the golf cart, and Annie had accidentally gotten four of her siblingslost in the forest during hide and seek.It was chaotic and stressful, but Henry wouldn’ttrade it for the world.Auriga sensed him, because her head shot up.“PopPop!”It was his turn to be rescued as eight or ninekids ran and tackled him. He hit the ground hard as his grandchildren scrambledall over him, covering him in slobbery kisses.He looked over to see black patent shoes next tohis head.“Need a hand?” Dipper asked.“Sure,” he replied.Dipper pulled Henry up, dislodging kids in the process.A chorus of “aw’s” and sad, horrificallydisappointed puppy eyes greeted this.
Henry noticed Dipper’s jawmoving even though his mouth was closed.
He sighed, and leaned in closeto his brother-in-law’s ear.
“What do you mean?” Dipperasked innocently.
Henry sighed. Forty years agohe would have been puking or freaking out at this, and a small part of him stillquailed at the thought but-
“That piece of soul, or fleshin your mouth-you know what Dip. Not around the kids, remember?”
“They won’t notice,” he said,mouth full.
“They won’t, but I will and sowill Willow. Swallow it..”
He frowned at Henry but did ashe was asked.
How was Dipper sixty fiveyears old again?
Henry walked into his new home(well, he’d been living with Mabel for six months now but still-) and sawDipper on the couch, caught in a brief moment of corporeality.
He waved at his soon to bebrother-in-law.
Dipper’s body remainedstationary on the couch, in front of the TV, but his head twisted 180 degreesto look at Henry.
“Hey Henry!” Dipper said, headfacing him and body facing the complete opposite way.
Henry proceeded to pass out onthe floor.