Y/N's POV

The moment we reach the Shack we find that it's 3:03 a.m. on November 1st. Dipper wakes up when the car is put in park and gently picks up his sister to carry her inside. Katelyn rushes out of the driver's side and makes her way around the car to my side to help me up. "Thanks, K.C., but it's fine. I can take it from here." She gives me a sad smile before taking a step back as I hobble over to the front door.

"H-Hey, maybe we'll be lucky. They could've come home from the meeting and passed out from exhaustion." Katelyn says trying to lighten up the mood. The front door opens, "Fat chance, Kitten." We all look up and stare wide-eyed as Bill opens the door wider and crosses his arms, Ford, Stan, and Markus standing behind him.

"Care to explain what you three were doing out of the Shack?" Bill hissed as we all entered inside. I crossed my arms in the giant sweatshirt and looked at the floor, trying to think of something to say. "Well? Hey, I can stand here for as long as I need to get an answer out of one of you."

"We don't have to say anything to you, y'know." Dipper said as the golden demon growled at us. "Shut up, Pinetree. I told you and Katelyn to stay here and keep an eye on her and what do you do? You take her out there where she could've gotten hurt or worse." I could see Katie rub her arm nervously as the two boys were at each other's throats.

"Bill, I-I'm fine, really. We just went to Dusk2Dawn, had a food fight, a-and left." Bill seemed to ignore me before his eye widened and darted towards me. I guess he took notice of my stuttering and covering myself in Dipper's sweatshirt suspiciously as both actions were very odd for me to do. He walked over and uncrossed my arms. "B-Bill?" I ask a bit confused of what he was doing. He unzips the sweatshirt and freezes when he sees the burn on my chest.

Ford walked over and gasped, "Child, what happened?" Stan and Markus got a clear view of the burn as well as they tried to look at the three of us for an answer of some sort. I could see the brunette with glasses about to spill what happened but...I decided to take the blame.

"It was my fault, my phone fell out of my pocket and the song 96,000 began to play. I guess the ghosts of the old place don't do so kindly to rap music." Ford placed a hand on my shoulder as he tried to examine the burn. "Does it hurt? How do you feel? Maybe you need to lie do-"

"You're all idiots!" Bill shouted as his eye began to turn crimson, cutting Ford off. He looked over at the two brunettes standing beside me, stalking closer over to them. "This is all your fault she got hurt! I told both of you to watch her, to keep her safe, and look at her! I swear you better watch your backs because-"

"Cipher!" I scream to cut him off as I begin to shake in fear. He looked over at me and growled lowly. "I told you to stay home; I told you it was too dangerous out there and yet you found a way to get the bracelet off and leave."

"I'm not some kid you can tell what to do. I told Dipper to take the bracelet off, he tried to convince me not to go because I'd be disobeying Ford and you but I didn't care. I'm not a prisoner that you can keep locked up from the outside world. You act as if I can't take care of myself but guess what, I killed Kaden Psyche. I saved the world. I don't need you to watch over me like I'm some fragile China doll you're afraid will break! I have a mind of my own too!" I screamed at him.

Silence filled the room as I wrapped my arms around myself. Markus had taken Mabel from her brother to lay her on the yellow chair in the living room while Ford only cared about my wound at the moment as he went to get the first aid kit. Stan turned to Dipper and Katelyn and hand gestured the two to leave the room with him. All that was left was Bill and I as he stared me down, the fire in his eye not going away. I wasn't backing out now though because I don't regret what I did, I don't regret leaving and going against him.

"All of this, all that I'm doing is to protect you." Bill said slowly and coldly as an attempt to get me to understand.

"You don't have to do it this way though, you and I can work together, be a team. You don't have to leave me in the shadows."

"All I want is to keep you safe, Star, why can't you see that? Why can't you see that I'm doing the best of my ability to protect you?"

"Because I've seen your best, I've seen you give it all you have and this doesn't come close. This is torture for me, Bill. Stop protecting me, I'm fine. I can handle myself out there in the real world." I retorted back.

He chuckled slightly as he began to pace in front of me. The crimson color was slowly taking over his golden form as he stood before me. "You think you don't need me? That you can protect yourself? You're an idiot, you're naive. You don't know a thing about what you're going up against. If you want me to back off then fine, I'll back off and you can go be another stubborn meatsack who thinks she has everything under control. I don't care, why should I care? I don't care if you get yourself into trouble out there, I don't care if you get yourself hurt, I don't care if you get yourself killed because a death wish is apparently what you really want!"

I stiffened at his words; I'm speechless, what do I say to someone who says they don't care that I die? I wanted freedom and he was giving it to me, not caring what happened to me because I'm just another meatsack out there, another human that isn't special to him. I just wanted him to realize that I'm not weak, that I'm not powerless. I guess freedom came with a cost...that was learning the truth.

I shoved him out of my way as I ran towards the gift shop and went down the elevator. Once the doors opened I sprinted to my room not caring that Katelyn and Dipper had been on the couch watching me run off. I heard their voices call after me but I ignore them as I slam my door shut tight. Locking the door, I knew that wasn't enough to keep all of them out. I muttered a spell under my breath as I formed a barrier around my room so no human or demon could enter.

I slid to the ground with my back pressed against the door as I cried, my head buried in my arms which were wrapped around my legs. I clutched onto them tighter and tighter every time I felt someone bang against my door. I drowned their voices out, leaving me to my own thoughts.

I can agree I was getting stubborn with wanting freedom, wanting space, but I felt as though I was going insane inside my own mind. Everyone was treating me as some kid that needed to be under surveillance 24/7. When they thought Bill was the one after me they weren't this overprotective. They let me go out into town, as far as I wanted into the woods, even out of Gravity Falls if I had chose to do so. They knew Bill and how dangerous he was and they still weren't like this towards me.

I'm not asking for a death wish, I'm not saying I can take down this demon as I did Kaden. All I'm saying is that I can handle myself if needed. This one person who terrified me in a nightmare hasn't once made themselves known to me since. Maybe it's because they haven't bothered me that I think there isn't any harm with going out...maybe I am being a stubborn idiot...just another human in the world who thinks she can do it all...

I open my eyes and take my phone out to realize I had passed out for an hour getting lost in thought. Sighing, I stand up and walk over to my bed, clutching onto my necklace as I try to collect my thoughts, get myself together. I'm exhausted...maybe I just need to get some rest, sleep now and think later.

The moment my phone hits my nightstand it begins to ring. I already assume it's Bill or one of the others as I roll my eyes. Picking it up I found that it was a number that wasn't in my contacts. Better yet, I didn't see a number at the top but instead it read "Xqnqrzq". I cock my eyebrows before hitting the decline button. I turn the lights off and lay down in bed covering my head with my covers wishing to never come out.

The phone rings again.