+Morning: Forest+

Bill held Dipper's warm body close to him. His breathing coming out in pants while Dipper's breathing was slow.

"Bill-"

"Shush *pant* PineTree please *pant*" Bill whispers and embraced the teen closer.

Dipper kept him mouth shut and leaned back against the yellow dream demon. He closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

Let's rewind a bit shall we.

+Early Morning+

Bill had been eating breakfast with Mabel and Ford in the kitchen while Dipper was still upstairs sleeping. Ford and Mabel were going over some folders with some pictures of ladies and some males.

"What's with the folders Sixer?" Bill asked picking one up after he finished eating.

"Oh these, they're just marriage interview profiles." Ford tells the demon with a sigh.

Mabel giggled looking them over. "I wonder who Dipper would chose?" She wondered aloud, her tone full of curiosity. Now that caught the dream demon's attention with his ears fully functioning to listen.

She hummed and picked up a profile. "Maybe this one, Dip does have a thing for red heads." She shows it to Bill smiling while he was internally going nuts.

"W-Why would you think that Shoothing Star?" Bill asked with a little stutter.

"Well~ He did have a crush on Wendy when we were younger, remember?"

Bill didn't notice he was holding the table a little to tightly that it was cracking under pressure. "Ah so...."

Ford and Mabel could clearly tell now the blond was really have problems with their talk now. Although, these weren't marriage interviews for them, but for Pacifica Northwest. She came over yesterday, while the two guys were study or sleeping, to hide those profiles from her parents.

Then they thought, Bill didn't have to know that.

"Mabel, don't you think this blond guy would be better? He seems like that Northwest girl, so I'm sure they can get along if things work out." Ford says in a annoying tone that riled up Bill.

The blond demon couldn't stand it anymore just listening. First of all, PineTree was his, just to make that clear to everyone. Second, there is no way his PineTree would hook up with anyone in these profiles. Third, PineTree can love anyone else, but... That made Bill think a moment. 'But who...'

"Well DipDot is gonna get together with someone someday Great Uncle Ford. They'll get married, be lovey dovey with each other, and possibly have or adopt kids." Mabel drawls while she glances at Bill.

Bill stands up quickly and childishly shouts as he runs up the stairs. "PineTree's Mine!"

Ford and Mabel held in their laughter as they pound their fist against the kitchen table.

"Step forward right?" Ford asked.

"More like a push in the right direction." Mabel grinned as she heard mumbled talking and shouting upstairs.

Later Bill comes running down with Dipper in his arms to only carry out the front door. They could hear Dipper struggling and demanding answers out of Bill on why he was taking him outside.

"I feel like those two have already gotten closer in just a few mere days." Mabel says with a soft smile gracing her face.

+Back to the Present+

Dipper reopened his eyes and looked at Bill. He could hear the rapid beating of the blond heart due to the demon pressing his head close to his chest.

"PineTree..." Bill says in a whispered tone.

The brunet fixed himself on Bill's lap to face him. "Bill? What's going on with you?"

The demon pressed his face against Dipper's shoulder and groaned. "I hate everyone." He whined as he wrapped his arms around the human's waist. "I don't like emotions... I don't like not knowing things..."

Dipper hummed as he comforted Bill for reasons he did not know because he couldn't really understand the blond at the moment. "Well then, at least tell me why you literally carried me out of the Shack."

Bill continued to avoid eye contact with the brunet. "I was just feeling something after talking with Shooting Star and Sixer..." He told him.

"What where you guys talking about?"

"They were looking through marriage proposals and talking about them. Then some how you ended up in the conversation about them and so on... I didn't like it."

Dipper rolled his eyes at that and hauled him and Bill back on their feet to stand. He placed his hands on the demon's shoulders, "Really Bill, even if I do come up in their conversation and you don't like what they're talking about, you should just ignore them."

Bill decided to finally make eye contact with the teen. "It's not something I can ignore PineTree. They're practically thinking about giving you to someone who you have no knowledge of, to be with that doesn't know you." He says with concern and worry on his face. "I doesn't sit well with me. It's practically like they're planning to take you away from me." The demon thought about it over and over again. Why didn't he like that idea of them taking PineTree away from him?

The brunet took Bill's hand in his own. "They're just messing with you dude, don't worry about it. Without me I think you'd just fall all over again."

The dream demon gave Dipper a confused expression that made the teen laugh. Bill, sometime after hanging out with Dipper had grown found of the sound of joy within him. He gently placed his hands to cup the sides of Dipper's neck while said teen felt relaxed as he closed his eyes.

"I trust you Bill." Dipper says in a gentle voice.

Bill eyes widened. "What- I don't understand PineTree..."

"Just don't be sacred okay, I know a few things about you now to understand why you act differently every so often." Dipper tells the blond demon as he smiled as his eyes were still closed. "I'll always be with you for as long as you like, only for you."

"Only for me?" Bill says slowly as if it were a question. It sent a warm feeling in his chest when he saw the brunet smiled. A soft smile form on his face as he placed his forehead against Dipper's and moved his arms to wrap around the teen's waist. "PineTree..."

Dipper opened his eyes just as he sees Bill tilt his head and kiss him fully on the lips. He eyes widened in surprise at the action, but he didn't push Bill away, it felt right at the moment.

Bill opened his eyes halfway to catch a glimpse of Dipper's closing eyes. When he heard Dipper moan a bit before he broke the kiss. The both of them were panting, Dipper blush red realizing what he just did while Bill grinned his usual smile. "PineTree I-"

"STOP!"

The human and demon turned towards the source of the shout to find two people clad in white robes with hoods up to cover their identity. A symbol on the hood is a pair of rapiers crossed over with a star in the middle of them. The taller of the two figures waved his hand over at Dipper.

Dipper felt like a wave of tiredness just washed over him. "B-Bill..." He says lastly before falling unconscious. Thankfully Bill caught him before he could fall to the ground.

The demon growled at the two robed figures. "What do you think you're doing?!" His fist covered in blue flames.

"Just what we were ordered to do Cipher." The other figure replied calmly.

In a blink of an eye Bill was met face to face closely with one of the beings. Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain from behind him knocking him over, his vision getting hazy. "What-" He lost his balance and fell to the ground hugging Dipper.

"Get the teen, I'll handle the demon." The first figure says in a authoritative tone.

Just like that Bill felt his PineTree was pulled away from him. 'No! No! Get him back!' A voice in the back of his mind was screaming. He reached a hand up and held onto Dipper's sleeve. Staggering he looked up, "Give h-him back-", getting cut off once more as the first figure kicked him back down.

"Don't even try. Get him back to base, I'll met you there later after distracting him for a bit." The second figure nodded and ran off with Dipper somewhere that Bill couldn't see in his line of sight since he was still down on the ground.

Bill snapped his fingers and flames were shot at the robed figure holding him down. His expression of anger could be measured by making even the most stone face man turn fearful. His growls deeper than they were before. "You've made a big mistake clown."

The figure wasn't even fazed by the flames as it just danced out of the way. "Don't even try with me Cipher. Anyways, I think I gave enough time to distract you from what direction they went in."

The dream demon screamed just like the little voice in his head as he ran towards the robed figure. Snapping his fingers in the process to summon his cane. He unsheathed the hidden sword by the handle of his cane and slashed at it. Again the figure was one step ahead and quickly stood behind Bill who paused by the surprise of speed.

"Pathetic." It said as it threw a hard punch from the left side of Bill's head. Bill stumbled and ended on the ground numb, his vision complete wiped.

"P-PineTree-" He croaked, but blacked out once he felt last bit of pain coming from the back of his head.

+Time skip: Mystery Shack+

Bill instantly sat up and looked around his surroundings. "The Shack?" He says confused, he hold his head feeling it pound in pain. He groaned as someone walked in.

"Bill! Thank goodness you're awake!" Mabel's voice filtered through his ears.

"Shooting Star... What am I doing here?" Bill asked as his memories were a little fuzzy.

Mabel handed him a glass of water. "Grunkle Ford and I went searching for guys after an hour. We found you in the woods beaten and bloody!"

That made Bill realize what happened. "PINETREE!" He yelled loudly which caused Mabel to step back a bit. "Shooting Star! PineTree was taken!"

"What?! Omg what happened?!"

"PineTree and I were talking for awhile and stuff- We- I- Argh! They just showed up out of nowhere and did something to PineTree. Then one of them knocked me out after distracting me from the other figure that took PineTree away!" Bill tried to explain the best he could.

Mabel tried her best to calm down the panicking demon as Ford came in just a moment later. She explained what apparently happened as to why they found Bill beaten and bloody while The yellow demon covered his face with his hands.

"PineTree- Dominic... I need to find him..."

Ford and Mabel could hear two sets of tones in Bill's voice. Unmistakably William was also talking as Bill spoke, but the demon didn't seem to notice. When Bill looked up at them, uncovering his face, his eyes were different. One was surely one of Bill's heterochromatic eye color, while the other changed into William's silver eye color.

"I'll save you PineTree-Dominic..."

+Area Unknown+

"Let me out! LET ME OUT!"

One of the robed figures hit the cell, scaring the teen back. "Shut up! You've been screaming for hours now. It's getting annoying!"

The other one rolled its eyes under its hood. "Come now, the master wishes to see us again." It turned its back and walked out of the door. The other hit the cell door once more before leaving like the first robbed figure.

Dipper hugged his legs close to his body as he looked down at his lap. "B-Bill...", he says tiredly. The brunet looked around his dark cell the best he could, but gave up when it just seemed to get darker.

Time just seemed longer and longer, eventually lulling Dipper to the comfort of sleep. Though his eyes opened once more to look around. He became hopeful since he was in the mindscape, that Bill could talk to him and save him.

"Bill!" He called out. There was only silence.

"Bill please give me a sign you're here! I don't like it here in this cell! I want to go home! To be with Mabel, Ford, Stan, Soos, and Wendy- I want to go back to everyone! I really want-", Dipper took a deep breath, "to be with you again!"

The teen fell to his knees crying, a moment later did he feel arms wrap around him. He looked up for a moment to find someone in similar appearance to him. "Who?"

The other him with bluish brown eyes smiled softly as he hugged Dipper. "Don't worry too much Dipper... They will defiantly come for us."

"They?"

"Our knights in shining armor." The other him whispered in his ear. He let go of Dipper and sat down in front of him. "Dipper, it's finally nice to meet you personally. I'm Dominic Oak, your past self."

Dipper thought process was trying to the information processing through his head. "What happened between you two?" He asked.

"Many things Dipper, but we can not dwell too much on the past. As the situation we are in now, I'd say it has something to do with us. Forgive me for letting my past come back to you." Dominic apologized.

Dipper shook his head as he leaned against Dominic for comfort. "Don't worry about it dude. Once we found out Bill's past we kinda had to butt in you know. We thought we could fix things."

Dominic sighed, "I know, it kinda runs in the family.", he patted Dipper on the head a few times before relaxing. He hummed a tune as Dipper sang along to it to calm their mind to rid of the darkness within it.

The dark scene before them changed into a open meadow with a tree here and there. The two of them had their back against a tree as they continued harmonizing with one another.

"Hey Dominic?"

"What Dipper?"

The teen glanced at the blue sky above them. "Do you love William or Bill?"

Dominic looked at the teen with a confused expression. "What do you mean?"

"It's just William or Bill just changed over time, so I thought you'd prefer choosing one or the other. I think you would have chosen William though."

His past self chuckled and shook his head. "Listen Dipper, I can't choose one of them because I love the both of them equally." Now he got a confused look from Dipper. "I mean you can't just specifically love one part of a person. You should love the person for who they are, what makes them up, past and present. That person is still the same inside and out."

Dipper hummed, "Accept them for who they are, both in the past and in the present.", Dominic nodded. The teen thought a moment more before groaning with a bright blush on his cheeks.

"Finally figured it out Dipper?" Dominic asked with a innocent smile.

"Y-Yeah", the brunet stuttered out glancing towards his past self. "I love Bill."