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"Today, I have come to a point in my life where I need a stronger word than fuck."

Iustitia groans as she is in a sticky situation right now: stuck on a high pine tree and doesn't know where she is right now. A few minutes before all of this happen, she was teaching Dipper and Mabel about the ancient history of her world (well, Mabel isn't paying much attention because it was boring - according to her). The lesson was going well before some triangle demon came and decided to ruin the lessons. You may ask, How? Well, he thinks that sending her to a different dimension was a good idea because she keeps bothering Pine Tree, so now here she is. And what is worse is he send her right into the weakest branches as well!

Bastard.

The sound of creaking as she tries to find some different branch to land, once she found a perfect sturdy one and praying for herself to not messing up, the young girl quickly jump to the sturdy one and watch the weak one befalling to the ground with a loud crash.

"Fuck you, Cipher." Muttering a curse before sighing to herself, slowly climbing down the tree without getting murdered again.

The first thing Iustitia need to do first was figure out where is she now. So she follows the trail out of the woods as the layout of the forest is familiar to the original dimension, so in ten minutes, the young girl has already get out of the woods and heading to the busy streets, Iustitia can finally notice some differences between this world and the original world. While on her way to the mall, she found something interesting - a poster about a magician show, and on the bill, it was the familiar face that she saw before coming to this hell - Iustitia stares at the poster as her finger holding it so tight that makes it crumbles.

Is this a funny joke to him? Iustitia thought.

"I'm in Reverse Falls dimension."

Iustitia grumbles, her face scrunches up as she remembers Dipper once tell her about this dimension, why he doesn't want to dream the second time, as Iustitia can understand why based on his endless nightmares.

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"Dipper-Dipper, hey. It's just me, Iustitia." She whispers, hands holding a cup of warm milk as her mixed eyes look at him with concern as Mabel seems wide awake as well because of her brother's terrifying scream and flop over where Dipper is sitting, throw a hand over his shoulder.

"It's a bad dream, bro-bro. It's not real." She mumbles, half awake and half asleep. Iustitia looks at Dipper's state as she knows it isn't a common nightmare before gentle giving him the warm milk to calm himself down first.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asks after Dipper finished drinking the milk, placing the cup on the nearby table as she gentle helping him fixing the pillow and the bed for a night of better sleep.

Dipper only whispers out things sometimes that she can't understand at first, but once she gets closer to him, the hybrid girl understands why he was so afraid to go back to sleep.

"Have you ever dreamt of killing someone that it feels so real?"

Iustitia doesn't say anything and encourages him to go back to sleep, knowing he is too young to hear her answer.

Later on, she figures out it was another game from that darn triangle demon again- Dipper told her as she hugs him close to her side, whispering encourages that he needed the most.

Iustitia snaps out of daydream before looks at the crumble poster in her hand, checking for times when it starts and where to buy a ticket. Once finishes remembered the times and the location, no one wouldn't know or see anything about the poster of their beloved twin being burning down to ashes by her.

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Once Iustitia found her way to the mall, she can see many familiar faces and almost run up to them as usual, but she stops midway and reminds herself that they're not the same person she knows in the original world. It's hard not to go toward them and asks how are their life as it has become a habit of her now, but the young girl reminds herself and forces that bittersweet feeling down her throat, starts heading right to the book store, her favorites store of the mall.

Of course, those ideas have to throw out of the window as soon as she sees someone she doesn't want to see now - Dipper and Mabel, along with two girls who have to carry a bag, which she already knows based on the hairstyle and clothes.

"Can my life get any better? What's next? Some psychopath starts stalking me now?"

Iustitia groans in frustration as she turns her heel and starts heading to clothes stores opposite the book store as it will have to wait for now. Meanwhile, the young boy has caught a glimpse of the new girl and can't help but be curious about her and his latest dream. In those weird dreams, he always sees her sit beside him with a cup of milk, waiting for him. Those gentle fingers wipe away his sweat as she speaks his name with so much kindness in it - Who are you? he wondered. What kind of spell did you cast on me? - A question that he won't dare to ask out loud.

"Brother. Are you listening to me?" The young girl asks in annoyance tones as she takes a glance over where her brother is looking. Once her sky blue eyes land right on the new girl, she can't help but smirk at her brother.

"Oh, what will our poor Pacifica find out that my brother dear have an eye on a new girl?"

She doesn't care how Pacifica would find out and be heartbroken, oh she would love to see her crying expression; how amusing was that. Dipper only scoffs as he glares at his sister before picking up another book and heading to the cashier.

" She appears in my dream, and that is all. I have asked the cry baby demon about how did this happen, and he only says that someone was messing with my dream by switching my dream state with someone else."

His answer was short and plain, but it isn't good enough to entertain his sister's curious mind as he places his book on the counter, as his twin sister's smile only grew wider at the thought, her hands resting on the counter as she presses more about this issue.

"Oh? What did you see? How does her voice sound? Does it sound nice?"

Dipper grumbles as he pays for the book before heading out, ignoring his sister and her endless questions behind his ears. Mabel pouts as she glances over Candy, asking her if she can get the information about the new girl before catching along with her twin brother.

After she finished buy some new clothes, her next stop was the stationery store since all her stuff has stayed at the regular dimension. Iustitia hums as she starts heading toward where it was, each store she would stop by and looking around, feeling there is someone is watching her. Sigh in annoyance as the young girl decides to quickly head right to her next stop, as Iustitia starts mapping out where art and craft were and grabs everything that she needs. Few journals, pens, lots of notes and cute stickers, and finally a backpack. Carry all of this while running would be annoying, and if she wants to annoy those twins, this is necessary.

“Are you new around here, kiddo? I saw you around here.” The casher asks while checking her stuff, seem to be happy to see a new face around here.

“ Yes. I need a new start, and my friends told me how beautiful this place in the night was, so here I am. ” Iustitia smile at the cashier before glancing over the machine to see how much all of this cost.

“ Do you want to keep the bill? ” The cashier asks again as Iustitia gives him the same amount of money before a small ideas light up in her mind.

“ Can I borrow the bill for a bit? Later, there will be a girl in a green shirt and black skirt who would come up here and asks about me, and I want you to give her this bill.” Iustitia hums as she writes down a note behind the bill before giving them back. As the cashier read what it says, he quickly covers his mouth as the cashier stiffing a laugh.

"Please, don't tell me you also are a magician as well."

They lean on the counter as her smile widens as she whispers in his ear before take her left, leaving his face dust pink at her final words. It takes him few minutes to stop zoning at the new girl with bright emerald eyes before glancing down at the next customer who fits with the describes he has been giving as his eyes gawk at the tiny child, stumbling with the bill and handed it to her quickly.

"Nothing out of ordinary, basic stuff." Candy grumbles as she checks the back of the bill and sees the neat words, with a smiley cat face sign on it.

"Now you see me. - I." Realize the familiar words as Candy quickly calls for Grenda to see if she still keeps an eye on her. Silently waiting for Grenda to pick up the phone was annoying to idling as the bill in her hand starts to crumbles. Candy feels like all of this game she did plainly to tease them, a bold and daring claim that they will never catch her. A few minutes later, Grenda finally picks up her phone, panting heavily in the phone as she grumbles out an answer.

"What do you want?"

"Do you still keep an eye on her?!" Candy was yelling through her phone, annoying and pissed at this little game now.

"I have on one moment, but she merely - " Before Grenda can finish those words, Candy ends the call as she already knows the answer - Disappear in the thin air like she didn't exist in this world.

What should she tell Mabel now?!

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Mabel holds the crumbling bill as the words irritate her more before glancing at her brother and ask what to do now. He only shrugs his shoulder, as all he wants is to leave this place and getting ready for their show now, yet the weather isn't supporting them much.

"Rain. Great."

Dipper mutters under his breath as he has waits for few hours to catch a simple girl but didn't catch her because she disappears in thin air. Like he would believe that excuse, and now it's raining, and he maybe has to stick here for a while. A loud shout of their name can be heard behind them as a security guard runs up to them with an umbrella in their hand, and once the security guard comes closer, they can see a note in his hand as well.

"A girl who came up to me and said that mister Geeful has forgotten his umbrella and asks me to return it, along with this picture as well."

The guard said and handing them the umbrella with a note before running back to his station. Mabel snicker as she thought it would be another love letter as Dipper looks at the picture, he doesn't know where it did take as all he can see was the blue sky - reminding him of his eyes. Once he didn't notice anything strange, Dipper decided to check the back, and on the back of had the same handwriting and the smiley cat signature on it.

"Now you don't.

Better luck next time, Dipper Gleeful and Mabel Gleeful. Hope that you two like my first gift.

Ps: Look at the street across the mall, it's my second gift for playing this cat and mouse game with me. - I."

As they both look across the street, they can see one person standing near the bus stop with the same umbrella they have in their hand. When their attention is finally on them, they remove the baseball hat off and letting their hair falling freely and that's when they realize they have seen her walking past them but didn't notice it until now. She mouthed a few words with a smirk on her face before a car run past, once again she disappears in the thin air again.