OPEN } i'm gonna set things straight again, i'm gonna prove them wrong

[krmvgivv]

Who: Dipper Pines and YOU
Where: Out and around the hot springs
When: at night when the GHOSTS are out
Rating: G for GHOSTS
Summary: Dipper can't relax like a normal person, so he's out hunting GHOSTS!
The Story:

[The hot springs are all very nice (if a little more naked than Dipper is comfortable with in his swimming), but he's way more interested in the rumors that this place is haunted. His last ghost encounter didn't go so well, but he knows a lot more about ghosts now. He knows a lot more about everything.

Well, possibly not about the yukata. He's definitely wearing it wrong, and he's got his shorts on underneath. It feels weird otherwise. Well, weirder. He'd really prefer a shirt.

But it doesn't matter. He's ready for any ghosts that come his way. He's got anointed water, he's got a sensor to try and catch ghostly readings, and he's got his journal. Time to set a few traps and hope he can catch the ghost by the time the event ends. Sure, it means not sleeping much, since obviously nighttime is when ghosts are most common, and it means not enjoying the relaxing vacation but, well, vacations aren't nearly as interesting as ghosts are, and it's not like he was sleeping anyway. Slumber parties are the worst, even when it's boys, not girls.]

Comments

[halfwinchester]

_{[... Nope, still not following you.]}

Right, okay...

_{[His eyes remain narrow in thinly veiled doubt. He's getting this kid likes ghosts and fancies himself some kind of supernatural sleuth.]}

Having any luck with that?

[krmvgivv]

Not yet. But the night's still young. [He shrugs a shoulder, smiling a little. This is a little better than doubting him.] If there is a ghost, I'll find it.

[halfwinchester]

_{[His eyebrows lift. He'd been ready to write this kid off as just doing what kids do--be reckless, ignore common sense--but wanting to pursue monsters strikes a personal chord for him.]}

Why would you want to?

_{[It's dangerous, obviously.]}

[krmvgivv]

[That actually gets him to stop because, well, he's not sure if there's a why. He's always wanted to. He's really into this kind of thing. He wants to find the ghost because it's cool.]

....why wouldn't I? I can't figure out what it wants if I don't find it.

[halfwinchester]

_{[Right, well, this is going absolutely nowhere. Adam raises his eyebrows higher.]}

All right. And how's a water bottle supposed to help you if you do find a ghost and all it wants is to hang boys up by their intestines again, exactly?

_{[He nods at the vial of water.]}

You know, you could always leave the ghost hunting to the Ghostbusters. There's plenty of weird stuff to go around Wonderland already.

_{[Just saying.]}

[krmvgivv]

What's a ghostbuster? [He's heard of Ghost Harrassers, but this busters thing just sounds weird. He shakes his head.]

I can handle it. This isn't just any water. It's anointed. Good for getting rid of or slowing down ghosts of level 1 - 9. If it's a level 10 ghost.... well, there's not much preparing you can do for one of those anyway. Buuut it's probably a level 1 ghost anyway. If it was one of the higher tier ghosts we'd have found it by now whether we wanted to or not.

[halfwinchester]

Where are you from?

_{[He returns a question with a question, because if the kid says somewhere other than Earth, this is going to go from a headache to a migraine. Talking Supernatural Creatures 101 with a kid that hasn't even hit puberty yet is strange enough without factoring other worlds in.]}

I meant Ghostbusters like the movie. As in professionals doing the hunting. _{[He looks Dipper over.]} Maybe you're a little young for the 80s.

<sub>[The explanation doesn't ring a single bell for him, but it does make him wonder if he's got some kind of mini-hunter on his hands.

This place seriously needs some babysitters or something.]</sub>

Where'd you learn that?

[krmvgivv]

Yeah, The eighties were like, 20 years before I was born. Sure you don't mean Ghost Harassers? I've seen all of those. [He is a tiny child.]

And I'm from California. But I was spending the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon before I found my way here somehow. That's where I learned about ghosts and everything. It's a very, very weird town.

[halfwinchester]

Pretty sure I don't.

_{[Adam responds in kind with the epitome of deadpan. He'd been that age what felt like two thousand years ago, but he still he knows how tempting it is to think you know everything about everything.]}

So two different versions of the same place, yours got the knock-offs. You got monsters and hunters still?

[krmvgivv]

Hey, maybe you got the knock-offs. What's a buster anyway? That doesn't even make sense.

[It's important to keep focused on the important parts of this conversation.]

[halfwinchester]

_{[He's older, he gets to decide what's a knock off and what isn't. When Dipper's his age and lives a few centuries in a Hell dimension, then he can take the reins.]}

You, I guess.

_{[This earns an amused twitch of his lips.]}

Ghost Harassers just sounds like you're pissing them off without knowing what you're doing.

_{[Sound at all familiar, kid?]}

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper knows EXACTLY what he's doing, excuse you.]

And what do busters do? Throw statues of just heads and shoulders at them? That's just dumb.

[halfwinchester]

_{[Adam avoids giving a straight answer to that question. Explaining the plot of the movie won't make it sound any less dumb, honestly.]}

Look, I'll loan you a copy if it makes you happy.

<sub>[Said a little wryly, not a serious suggestion. Once this inn memory is over, he doubts he and this kid will have much reason to cross paths again.

His eyebrow quirks up.]</sub>

You never said how you became such a know-it-all. Don't tell me you got it all from the movies.

[krmvgivv]

No thanks, I'm happy with Ghost Harassers. It's classic.

[Grumble grumble. He doesn't want your stupid busters.]

I've dealt with ghosts before, back in Gravity Falls. I've dealt with a lot of stuff this summer.

[halfwinchester]

_[Knock-off.]

So you just run into weird things and teach yourself how to deal with them from the back of the cereal box?

<sub>[Well, look at you, Scooby-Doo. Adam sounds more genuinely interested in the answer than patronizing. Somehow Sam and Dean had survived being a hunter's kid, after all, probably because they'd had someone like John to show them the ropes.

Though maybe Dipper's just from a world where reality isn't a factor and the good guys always get their ghost.]</sub>

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper rolls his eyes.] Yeah, the secret to fighting ghosts is a healthy balance of fiber and calcium.

[Sarcasm is as always, his first defense, especially since he's a little too paranoid to whip out the journal around adults. Or... anyone, really. Trust No One, it said, and Dipper's taken those words to heart.]

[halfwinchester]

_{[It's like talking to his much younger self when his mom hadn't been within earshot. It's reminds him strangely of better times.]}

Cuckoo for cocoa puffs kind of goes with the territory, doesn't it?

_{[He fights a smile.]}