Manny woke up in the middle night to use the bathroom. On his way back he walked by Frida's room and heard her whimpering. Concerned, he quietly opened her door and found her tossing and turning in bed. Her face was sweating and tears were streaming down her cheeks. He went to her bedside and gently began shaking her.

"Frida. Frida wake up. It's just a nightmare! Wake up!"

"I'm not crazy!" She cried as her eyes snapped open. She sat up and tried to run away. He grabbed her shoulders and tried to keep her calm. "Let go! Don't lock me in there! I'm not crazy! Do you hear me I'm not crazy!" She cried hysterically.

"Frida! Calm down!" She fought him, she started hitting his chest and kicking him determined to get away. "Frida stop! Snap out of it!"

"No! No! Please!"

"Frida! It's me! Look! It's me!"

She blinked and realized she was back in her room.

"Manny?"

"Yeah and ow! Man you can punch!" She looked at his bruised chest. "I...I...Oh God...I'm so sorry." She burst into tears and buried her face into his chest.

"Frida what are you-"

"I'm just scared!" She sobbed. "I'm scared! I'm so scared they'll take me back!"

Manny realized she must've been having another nightmare about being in that asylum. He wrapped his arms around her back and hugged her close.

"It was a nightmare." He said. "It's alright. You're safe now. I'm here, I won't let anyone lock you back in that asylum again I promise."

Her cries began to soften a bit.

"I'm sorry." She sniffed. "Pretty stupid of me to freak out over this. I've been having these nightmares since I was twelve, you'd think I'd be used to them by now."

"Here I know something that might help, wait here." He left her room and came back with a wax candlestick. "When I was a kid and I had bad dreams my mother would light a candle on my bedside, she told me that the candle's flame kept the nightmares away."

"Did it work?"

"I think so." He made a small flame in his hand and used it to light the candle which he then placed on her nightstand. "There we go. Now just sleep by here and you should..."

But he trailed off when his eyes met hers. Ever since they met, they had never once shared eye contact with each other until now and seeing those two, sad, beautiful blue eyes looking at his made him feel a strong pang in his heart. Her gaze made his heart hurt but at the same time it made him feel warm.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Uh...Yeah I'm fine." He looked away from her. "Well I...I think I've disturbed you enough. So I'll just go now."

"Manny."

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." He said still not meeting her gaze. He left her room and went back to his. The next day Manny hardly spoke to Frida at all and didn't even look at her.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Listen I'm going out, while I'm gone don't leave the manor til I get back."

"Why?"

"Because with Zoe still out there you're not safe and I have now placed a barrier around the house. No one can enter without my say so."

"Do I have to stay here?"

"It's just for a couple of hours. Please for my sake, just stay put. I won't be long."

"Fine. But quick question."

"What?"

"Are you sure you're okay? You look kind of flushed."

"I'm fine." He said. "I'll be back."

"Hey."

"What?"

"If there's something wrong don't be scared to tell me because I care about you and I wouldn't want you to get hurt. Okay?"

"Don't waist your time worrying over my life. I'm half devil remember?"

"But you're also half human and devil or not, every life is important. I couldn't call myself a nun if I didn't try to save lives and yours happens to mean a lot to me."

She smiled, he felt another pang in his chest then watched her go back upstairs to her room.

"She is persistent, self sacrificing, and beautiful. So much like she was." He looked to see Father Gardner or rather a projection of him standing the main hall. "Your Analia I mean. They're very much alike."

"What are you doing here?"

"If I remember correctly you wanted to speak with me about something."

"Yeah...Well Dipper more so then I do. Let me give him a call."

"You looked her in the eyes didn't you?"

"Huh?"

"Frida. You looked Frida in the eyes."

"Wha- What are you-"

"I can see it in your face, you're flushed and warm but nervous and scared."

"What are you? A doctor?"

"Sort of. Interesting fact, devils have been warned to never look a maiden of the church in the eyes because her gaze is so beautiful, innocent, and holy that it would soften his heart and maybe even steal it."

"What are you implying?"

"I just thought you might want to know a reason for why you feel this way."

Manny opened his mouth to say something but then closed it and went to grab the phone. He called Dipper and told him to come to the manor then he went out to get some things.

"How do you know Gideon?" Dipper asked him.

"I beg your pardon?"

Dipper pulled out the photograph that showed him shaking hands with Gideon followed by other pictures of him at different time periods.

"How do you know him?"

"What were you doing going through my stuff?"

"I want to know who you are. Are you accomplish of that monster?"

"Of course not. Gideon was a former Reverend of the church I worked at. At first he seemed like any other trust worthy priest until I found out about his sick religion and rituals. Once I exposed him to the council he was removed from our church."

"And you swear that you never once helped him with his worship?"

"Never. Is that all?"

"Well another thing I would like to know is you've been alive for God knows how long. How? How have you been alive for that long?"

"I'm afraid I can't answer that."

"Why?"

"Because it's no concern of yours."

"You sure do have a lot of secrets."

"I'm sure you do too now I can only project myself for so long so I must go now. Good bye."

The without another word the projection faded from sight. Two hours later the five teens were called in by Solomon for a discussion.

"All I'm saying is I don't trust the guy." Dipper complained.

"Will you drop it already?" Steven asked. "He's trust worthy to me."

"Then why won't he tell us how he's been alive all this time? Maybe he made a deal with a demon."

"Maybe you need to give it a rest."

"Both of you shut up about it." Manny said. "I don't want you talking about this in front of Frida, this man was basically her second father and I don't want you guys upsetting her with this."

"Ah gentlemen glad you could make it." Solomon said. "Come in the girls are waiting."

"So what's this about?" Steven asked.

"Well Sister Nora and I have been talking and we've noticed you kids have been doing pretty good in the business so we thought that maybe you all deserved a little reward."

"What kind of reward?"

"We're giving you two weeks off."

"Really?"

"Awesome!" Manny cried. "We could use a break."

"And there's a local carnival opening up tonight and I thought maybe you all would be interested in going."

"What's a carnival?" Steven asked.

"You don't know what a carnival is?" Connie said.

"Nope."

"Neither do I." Manny said.

"Never heard if it." Dipper said.

"That's right you boys used to live in the 1800's. Carnivals weren't invented in America yet." Solomon said.

"So you guys have never been to a carnival?" Frida said. "Then you guys haven't lived. We're going tonight."

"Well hang on what is a carnival?" Steven asked.

"Sounds like a rare type of meat to me." Manny said.

"No. It's a place in town where they have games and rides and music and dancing and lots of food." Connie said.

"And you've been to one of these?" Dipper asked.

"Yeah my parents used to take to the carnival every year when I was kid."

"Me too. My sisters and I loved the rides." Frida said. "At least we did until Nikita threw up. She had motion sickness real bad."

"I don't know sounds weird." Manny said.

"I agree." Dipper said.

"Come on guys it'll be fun. Give it a chance." Frida said.

"You'll love it." Connie added.

"Okay I guess I could see what it is." Manny said.

"Sounds fun t o me." Steven said.

"Could be interesting." Dipper said.

So around five o'clock they go into the auto mobile and went to the local carnival. Along the way they saw Pacifica in one of the window shops.

"Hey why don't we invite her?" Dipper suggested.

"No she's mean." Frida said.

"Doesn't hurt to ask. Hey Pacifica!" He called gaining her attention. "Hey we're going to the carnival wanna come?"

"No I have to go to my parent's banquet tonight."

"You go to those every Friday and it's just a bunch of old snobs bragging about their money. Come on do something fun for once!"

"But...I don't like carnivals."

"I doubt you've ever even been to one!" Frida said.

"Well they're dirty and loud!"

"Come on you know you want to." Dipper said.

He could tell that she wanted to go. The only thing standing in her way was her rich girl ego and status.

"Fine I'll stay for ten minutes."

She got in the vehicle and they continued on until they arrived at the carnival. The entire place was lit up with colorful lights and fun rides, food stands, games, and other exciting things were set up.

"So what should we do first?" Connie asked.

"I don't know there's so much." Steven said. "What's that over there?"

"That's the hall of mirrors. They're really fun come on let's check it out."

Connie took his hand and led him inside where they began looking into mirrors that made them look funny.

"Well looks like they're busy." Frida giggled. "So where should we go?"

"What's that?" Manny asked.

"What's what?"

"I think I hear people screaming in agony."

"Screaming in agony? Oh that's probably the people riding the roller coasters."

"Roller coaster? What's that?"

Frida led Manny, Dipper, and Pacifica to the large roller coaster ride that had people going up and down tracks at super speed.

"That doesn't look safe." Dipper said.

"Looks like fun to me." Manny said. "Let's give it a try."

They got into the empty cart and it took off at great speed.

"This is awesome!" Manny laughed. "We totally should've had these a hundred years ago!"

"I know right! If you ask me there the best part of the whole carnival!" Frida laughed.

"This is terrible!" Dipper said looking scared out of his wits. "You people call this fun?! It's a nightmare! Get me off this contraption!"

"Oh lighten up wolf boy!" Manny teased. "Whoo-hoo!"

"Oh God I'm gonna be sick." Dipper groaned.

When the ride stopped Dipper rushed to the nearest trash can and threw up.

"Looks like he's going to be there for awhile." Manny said.

"Yeah, I know Pacifica you stay with him while Manny and I go get a snack." Frida suggested.

"No way! I'm not staying here with vomit guy." Pacifica protested but the two had already left. Pacifica sighed and went to stand next to the puking boy and waited for him to finish.

Meanwhile Connie and Steven had gone to the local petting zoo. There were horses, sheep, goats, and pigs.

"Isn't he cute?" Connie said stroking a baby goat.

"Yeah he is. You know this petting zoo kinda reminds me of home."

"It does?"

"Yeah you know I grew up on a farm."

"You never struck me as the farmer type."

"Well I was and I loved farm life. My dad used to own this huge amount of land where we raised pigs, cows, sheep, and goats. I remember when I was a kid my favorite thing in the world was to run out in the barn and feed the animals."

"Were they nice."

"Some of them. Our cow was pretty nice and so was the sheep but the pigs and goats weren't like these cuties, they were mean."

"Really?"

"Yeah the pigs would always try to bite me and the goats would always headbutt me. If we didn't need them for money I would've chased them away."

"Sometimes I wish I could've grown up on a farm. Farm life always seemed so quiet and peaceful."

"It was when I was young but as I got older so did the animals. Soon our cow couldn't give any milk, our sheep's wool was no longer soft and fine, and our pigs and goats had passed away. Before we knew it there were people threatening to take away our land and sell it. I was desperate to keep our land from being sold, so much that I joined the war."

"You were in a war?"

"Yeah. Unknown to most people, Muslim Turks had secretly invaded America and were planning to dictate it just as they did to Constantinople. It was called the Secret War because a certain amount of men were in it."

"And what kind of men?"

"Mostly ones loyal to the church and men living in poverty were also targeted. They offered me my weight in gold if I fought in the war."

"Were you scared?"

"Terrified but I couldn't risk losing our farm, it was our only means of living."

"What was it like?"

"Sometimes it was scary, sometimes it was boring, and in very rare cases it was fun. Joining the war was where I met Manny and Dipper."

"How did you meet those two anyway?"

"Well I met Manny on the battlefield. We were in battle with a group Turks when one of them shot me in my foot with an arrow. He was just about to decapitate me when Manny shot him the back of his head. He then carried me off the field and to the nearest infirmary, he had been shot in the arm and was bleeding immensely but he still saved me. I met Dipper just a few weeks after that, he got caught in one of the Turk's traps. It was a deep pit with slick mud and oil so it was impossible to climb out but I had a rope on me so he was covered. I got him out of there just as they were coming to kill him. We ran like the devil was at our heals and I ended up getting shot in my shoulder but we made it."

"Were you scared?"

"Out of my mind."

"Your father must've been so happy when you came home."

"He was and I finally had the money. It looked like life was finally going our way. But then...Then came that night...That horrible night."

"What happened?"

"We had gone out to celebrate my return and our success with saving our farm when we were jumped by a man who had been meaning to buy our land and his goons. They demanded that my father give him the land, when he refused they held me down and forced me to watch as they beat him to death. I stood there and begged them to stop, I cried and pleaded but they just laughed and laughed and continued beating him. Then...Then...Then.."

"Steven are you okay?"

Steven's mind began to flashback to the terrible night that took place a hundred years ago.

"Father! Father!" His younger self shouted as he watched his father getting beaten without mercy. "Stop! Please! Leave him alone! Stop! Father! No!"

Tears began stream down his cheeks, Connie gently put his hand to the side of his face and brushed away his tears.

"If it's okay Connie I don't...I don't want to talk about it anymore."

"I understand. Come on let's go get some ice cream. Whenever I was sad my father would always buy me an ice cream to cheer me up. Would you like one?"

"Sure."

They joined Manny and Frida at the ice cream stand where they ordered four chocoloate and vanilla ice cream cones. They were so sweet and creamy, there was nothing more tasty than an ice cream cone on a warm Summer night. As they enjoyed their treat they noticed a group of people gathering around and dancing.

"Wow they're pretty good." Connie commented.

"I've seen better." Pacifica said.

"Hey what happened to Dipper?" Steven said.

"After he finished puking he went to play some games but he stinks at them and I got bored so I wandered off here."

"Excuse me Miss." A young man said to Pacifica. "Would you like to dance?"

He was a very handsome fellow and he seemed well mannered so Pacifica was happy to oblige.

"I'd love to."

He took her hand and led her to the stand where all the dancers were. As the music played, she danced elegantly and with style.

"Wow she's really good." Connie said.

"I guess she's okay." Frida said.

"Hey why don't you dance Frida?" Connie suggested.

"Me? Oh I don't know if I-"

"Don't waste your time, you probably can't dance an inch." Pacifica teased.

Frida's cheeks turned red with anger.

"Hmmph! I'll show you! Come on Manny!" She grabbed his hand and pulled up on the stand with her.

"Hey wait a minute! Why do I have to get dragged into this?" He asked.

"Just do it!"

She made him face her then took his hands in hers making him a little nervous.

"Okay now move your feet." She said.

"Move them where?"

"No just take a few steps like this. One, two, three." She began to move her feet in motion with the music.

"This is impossible!" Manny complained.

"Lay off will ya? I haven't danced since I was eleven and- ow!" He had stepped on her foot.

"Sorry! Were we waltzing? Because I- ow!" She had stepped on his foot.

"There now were even." She said.

"Even? It was an accident!"

"Well you're my protector so if I get hurt so do you."

"Why you-"

Before they knew it they were both trying to step on each others toes much to the confusion of the other dancers. But then as if by a twist a fate the two of them found each other dancing together in a fast waltz. Their ridiculous argument was quickly forgotten and they found themselves laughing and smiling as they danced. Manny twirled Frida, lifted her up, and spun her around then pulled her into a dip, causing their eyes to meet.

"You're....Not so bad." She said flustered.

"Thanks."

"You guys done?" Steven asked. "Because we're going to play some games."

"Uh you guys go on ahead." Manny said pulling Frida back up to her feet.

"Yeah we'll catch up." Frida said.

"Okay." Steven said as he and Connie went over to where the game tables and stands were set up. They found Dipper at one where you had to knock over bottles with a ball and he was failing miserably.

"Come on fall over already you stupid bottles!" He growled throwing another ball only for it to miss.

"Oh Dipper you always did have a bad aim. Even back in war." Steven joked.

"Shut up! I'll win this!"

"Uh-huh. Hey buddy how long has he been playing?" He asked the guy running the stand.

"An hour and he hasn't knocked over one."

"Okay dude you're not gonna win this so try something else?"

"Like that one over there."

Connie went over to a game where you would hit the weight with a hammer and if you could ring the bell you would win a stuffed animal.

"I don't know if you wanna try this honey." The guy running the game said.

"Hey i'm a lot stronger than I look."

She grabbed the hammer but it was very heavy and she had a hard time lifting it up off the ground.

"Here let me help you before you hurt someone." Steven said.

He slid his arms around hers as both of their hands gripped around the hammer. Connie blushed and felt herself get nervous, same with Steven.

"Okay now give it all you've got." He said.

The lifted the hammer up together and slammed it so hard onto the weight that it sent the bell flying.

"Kid are you part giant?" The man asked Steven in shock.

"Oops. Sorry." Steven said.

"Well here. I guess you win. Take your pick."

Steven chose the stuffed pink lion as his prize and gave it to Connie. She hugged it and then planted a kiss on Steven's cheek to say thank you which gave him a tomato face. When it got late, the carnival started shooting off fireworks. The night sky was soon bursting with bright and beautiful colors and lights. Dipper watched them from the game stand, Pacifica watched them from a bench, Steven and Connie sat together on a blanket and watched them from the ground, and Manny and Frida watched them from on top of a peek.

"Wow." Frida said looking down. "You can see all of Maine from up here."

"Yeah you can, that's why this was my favorite spot to just sit at and watch things."

"So did you have a good time today?"

"Well..."

"Come on I saw you laughing! Admit it! You had fun!"

"Okay, okay. Yeah I have to admit today was the most fun I've had in a long time."

"I'm glad."

She smiled and turned her gaze back to the fireworks. Manny couldn't help but feel both happy and sad at the moment. He remembered how he would sit up here with his parents and Analia and how they would watch the stars together.

"You know what's funny?" Frida said interrupting his thoughts.

"What?"

"I feel like that I've been here before."

"Here?"

"Yes at this peek but it's not just here. I've felt like this for awhile, at the manor, in town, in my bedroom. It all seems so familiar to me and you....I don't know why but ever since I met you I've had the strangest feeling that I already knew you, that we had met once before."

"Really?"

"Yeah and I know it's crazy because until that day in New York we had never met but I still can't shake the feeling."

"You feel it too huh?"

"You feel the same way?"

"Kind of."

"What do you mean?"

"Well I...I..Never mind. It's not important."

"Okay."

"Frida."

"Yes?"

"I...Listen I wanted to apologize for being a jerk when we first met even though I was being held hostage but we can discuss that later anyway I wanted to make up for it so I got you...Something."

"You got me a gift?"

"Yeah. I found it the other day in the attic, it's no use to me but I thought maybe you'd like it."

He stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a bundle of rags which he handed to her.

"Oh a rag." She said upset. "How nice."

"It's in the rags stupid! Unwrap it!"

"Hey don't start being mean now."

She unwrapped the rags to find Analia's silver, heart shaped music box inside.

"Oh my God." She said in awe. "It's beautiful."

She opened the music box and music began to play, she hummed along with the tune.

"Funny I know the song." She said in realization.

"Do you like it?"

"I love it! This is the most wonderful gift I've ever been given. Thank you."

She hugged him and he hugged back. When they pulled apart their eyes met again and their faces were inches apart. Without thinking he leaned in closer to her as did she, their lips were just about to touch when...

"Hey Manny! Frida!" Dipper called. "Come on! We're leaving!"

"Oh...Okay! We'll...We'll be right there!" Manny said nervously. "Uh...We should go right?"

"Yes." She said. "Yes of course. Um...Come on."

They left the peek feeling very confused and unsure, also unaware that from shadows Zoe had seen the whole thing and was now seething with jealousy and envy.