Thread: The New Falls: A Gravity Falls RP between freckled_beauty and east

10 long trying years have passed since that fated summer. It had all been so magical and wonderful, or that's what Mabel Pines had believed so long ago. Summer had even their birthday came and went, and they returned home, forever changed and now entering 8th grade. The spastic tween had come home glowing brighter than ever before. Mabel had always been this intense ball of energy that shined brighter than sun. Loved like there was no tomorrow, and such passion it was difficult for her parents to keep up with everything she wanted to try in life. One thing was for sure though crafting was her one true love, and even after everything that happened that love never went away. In fact it was the one thing that helped to keep her grounded. When the Pines twins returned home to Piedmont, California at the end of the summer Mabel had oodles and oodles of stories to share with her parents and friends, but no proof. Only her memories of how her summer unfolded. When Bill Cipher had worked his magic on the town much of it was destroyed including her summer scrapbook that she had worked on. It had documented everything that happened on all their adventures, from her winning Waddles, to Gideon's obsession, and going into Stan's head to save the shack, even the fun times she had with Grenda and Candy. And so Mabel shared her stories, after single one of them. At first her parents would laugh, and be surprised at how wonderful her adventures were. They took her wild imaginative stories as their daughter having had a good summer vacation. That is until the nightmares began. Dark awful dreams she had of all that she had gone through. It was PTSD but no one saw it as such. Her parents understood that something happened to their daughter, something so awful that her mind had completely blocked it. First they confronted Dipper, asked if he could explain what was going on with his sister, why she was having these nightmares, and insisting her outrageous stories were true. When Dipper could provide no answer they placed Mabel in therapy. For a short while it helped, but the nightmares continued, and she still insisted what she said was true. With all people they reach a breaking point. That point was christmas eve after their 16th birthday. Mabel had gone through a stressful week, and a particularly bad dream that caused her to sleep walk right into the middle of lake. Had someone not gotten to Mabel when they did she most likely would have died from exposure to the elements. She had fallen through the thin ice of the lake. When she woke she had been committed to a mental institution told she would stay for treatment until the doctors had decided she was no longer a threat to herself or the people around her. That stay lasted one year and six months. When she was released all her relationships were broken. She rarely spoke to her parents, and Dipper...well she hadn't spoken to him since the day she had been placed in the hospital. She didn't want to see him. He had abandoned her when she need him the most. He had convinced everyone around them that she was a lair, and something in her had broken and needed fixing. Eventually she became to believe that too. After being released Mabel decided to go to the local community college. She obtained her associates of arts degree and took up a job at Michael's. She became normal, she had a job and a small apartment near downtown, and even had an Etsy store online where she sold all sorts of things from pillows, to blankets, to sweaters, even clothes and plushies. She even had a cat whom she named Carlos. About a week ago Mabel had received a letter in the mail from Grunkle Stan begging her to come to Gravity Falls, something had happened and he needed to see her. It only took her a day to decided what she was going to do. Mabel had decided to go, it must be some family something. She packed her bags, put in for some PTO, bought her bus ticket and headed to Oregon. Thank you for choosing Greyhound. We hope your ride was comfortable, and Welcome to Gravity Falls, Oregon. We hope you enjoy your stay. Mabel grabbed her backpack and headed off the bus, she then got her other two suitcases from underneath. With her luggage gathered Mabel got and Uber and asked to be taken to the Mystery Shack. Mystery Shack?! You sure about that Miss? That place has been closed for some time now. What? Really? She asked surprised and pushed her long brown hair out of her face. Yeah. Please take me. She said and leaned back in the seat and buckled up. The ride was short about 20 minutes, and soon enough she was standing outside the shack with her luggage. Thank you. She said and paid the man before he quickly drove off. With a heavy sigh she pulled her luggage through the leaf covered ground and up on to the damaged porch. She bit her lower lip seeing the door was already cracked open. Cautiously she pushed it open and left her luggage on the porch. She pulled out her cellphone and pepper spray from her backpack. Mabel turned on the flashlight and held the pepper spray at arm's length and carefully slowly went inside the shack. H.Hello? If anyone's in here they better say so or else get an eyeball full of pepper spray! She called out loud enough to be heard and began to move into the shack.